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spiked-online.com forward slash support. Enjoy the show. Hello everyone and welcome to this extra special live edition of the Spike

podcast extended and with even more fabulous guests. I'm so excited, so glad to see so many of you

here today. Before I start, I should just say to the viewers at home, which applies to them

under you of course, you're only going to get a snippet of this unless you are a Spike

supporter then you can get some of the exclusive juicy content that we're

going to get into I'm absolutely delighted to introduce my panel today of course

we will as ever we always have Spike's editor, Tom Slater.

Yay!

Yay!

Thrill to be welcoming Alison Pearson, columnist.

I didn't even need to introduce you, but for those who don't know, she's a columnist at the Telegraph and host or co-host of the brilliant podcast Planet Normal.

And to my left, the wonderful Andrew Doyle.

Andrew is a writer and comedian, and his latest brilliant book is called The End of Woke.

So if you haven't checked that out, make sure you buy a copy at some point.

And you're working on screenplay and things like that, which you might come into, go on to as well.

And we need a massive, massive round of applause for Connie Shaw,

because she's stepped in as a superstar substitute today.

So please give her a massive welcome.

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