Christopher Caldwell: The battle to secure the West’s borders

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 18 December 2025

⏱️ 50 minutes

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Christopher Caldwell – author of Reflections on the Revolution in Europe: Immigration, Islam and the West – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Christopher and Brendan discuss the death rattle of woke, Trump’s fury with the EU, and how the West lost control of its borders. New episodes every Thursday. Get a signed copy of Vibe Shift, Brendan O’Neill’s new book: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/12/09/introducing-vibe-shift-by-brendan-oneill/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s After the Pogrom now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/After-Pogrom-October-Israel-Civilisation/dp/1068719303/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked’s newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:55.0	You know, our ideas of good and bad and our ideas of what a productive life is, are very dependent on things we've learned from Europe.
1:02.0	It's very disorienting to the United States to have a Europe that has lost sight of those things.
1:08.0	The treaties that are constraining Britain from, you know, sending refugees home can be withdrawn from in an afternoon, if Parliament so decides. So, I would say that Britain has before it a big decision about whether it is actually going to pull up the drawbridge.
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