Hello and we've gone all international this week.

I'm with Spike's deputy editor Tom Slater in New York.

Hello hello.

Also joining us down the line from Holland is spiked editor Brendan O'Neill.

Hello. Today on the podcast we discuss the allegations against Supreme Court nominee Brett

Kavanaugh. I speak to journalist Michael Tracy about the Democrats and the Trump

administration. And finally we ask

what's the point of the Lib Dems but first Brendan's got a brand new podcast

coming out this Sunday Brendan could you tell us a bit about it?

Yeah so my new podcast is launched this Sunday, 23rd of September.

It's called the Brendan O'Neill show,

and it's going to be every month,

and every month I'll be joined by someone who I think is interesting or important or who in some way is taking a stand against the bad drift of politics that's taken place in recent years.

And I'll sit down with them, we'll have a conversation, we'll talk about big ideas, the bad ideas,

try to come up with some solutions to the problems that Western society is facing today.

And the first guest who goes out this Sunday, 23rd of September is Lionel Shriver, obviously

super famous novelist, and she has emerged as something of a cultural

and political rebel in recent years.

And we have a really good conversation about identity politics and how it threatens artistic freedom, about the politics of race, the politics of transgenderism, the evils of censorship.

So I think spite

readers and spite podcast listeners will really like it.

So I hope they tune in on Sunday and then also subscribe to the podcast

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