Lionel Shriver: Charlie Kirk, free speech and the new barbarism on the left

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.8 • 1.3K Ratings

🗓️ 24 September 2025

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Lionel Shriver – novelist, journalist and author of Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the violence of the American left, the Trumpian threat to free speech and the rage of trans activists. 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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1:55.0	Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill,
1:57.2	and my special guest this week, Lionel Shriver.
1:58.4	Lionel, welcome to the show.
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