98: David Starkey and the tyranny of the thought police

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🗓️ 16 October 2020

⏱️ 34 minutes

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Hate speech, the Great Barrington Declaration and Twitter’s war on satire. Andrew Doyle, Ella Whelan, Fraser Myers and special guest Martin Kulldorff discuss. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/ Listen to Culture Wars – with Andrew Doyle: https://podfollow.com/1522857920 Sponsored by: The Great Courses Plus: http://thegreatcoursesplus.com/spiked Harry’s: http://harrys.com/spiked Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:26.0	I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week we have Spiked columnist Ella Wheelen.
1:30.0	Hi.
1:31.0	And filling in for Tom Slater this week we have stand-up comedian satirist and spiked columnist
1:36.7	Andrew Doyle.
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