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The Brendan O'Neill Show

Graham Linehan: Is Britain a lost cause?

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.81.3K Ratings

🗓️ 14 August 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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The Brendan O’Neill Show is now available to watch on video. To make sure you never miss any of spiked’s videos, subscribe to our YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@spiked  Graham Linehan – creator of Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Graham and Brendan discuss the intolerance of Britain's cultural elite, how trans ideology staggers on, and the classist witch-hunting of Sandie Peggie. 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0

You were welcome kind of with open arms as a funny figure with something profoundly important to offer our culture.

0:06.6

And then, with no gratitude whatsoever, the door was slammed in your face.

0:10.2

I mean, it was a pretty cruel experience.

0:12.0

There was never any solidarity, never any kind of empathy for what I was going through.

0:17.2

I was never in it for the feminism entirely.

0:19.8

I was also standing up for my rights,

0:22.9

you know, and my ability to speak the truth. The country is almost impossible for someone like me to

0:28.2

live in. You cannot tell the truth without the police come into your door. It's not a place I came to in the

0:33.9

90s. It's not a creative place. It's not a happy place.

0:39.0

I feel like the various tensions that

0:41.0

exist at the moment are sure

0:43.4

to explode. From the very start

0:45.4

we were saying that this was going to be a problem.

0:47.7

It's like it's obvious. If you have female

0:49.2

only spaces and the man is in it, that's going to be a

0:51.3

problem. No one believes you and

0:53.2

you end up being shouted out on news night.

0:55.7

It's like insane.

1:05.2

Those of you who follow me will know just how much online content is being restricted right now if you live in the UK.

1:11.8

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1:18.8

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1:24.8

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