Lionel Shriver: The revenge of the woke

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 10 July 2025

⏱️ 51 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 Lionel Shriver – novelist, journalist and author of Mania – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Lionel and Brendan discuss the insanity of the Democrats, the fall of New York and why Starmer’s Britain is a tinderbox. 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	Lionel, welcome to the show.
0:01.6	Love to be back.
0:02.6	I want to start off by talking to you about America.
0:05.9	Look at whom the Democrats are nominating for mayor of New York.
0:12.2	An unabashed, self-dequared socialist whose policies are lunatic.
0:18.1	Big, beautiful bill.
0:20.8	The Trump administration could seriously go to hell.
0:24.3	Purposes are good, but the execution is sloppy.
0:28.4	How do you see events in the UK at the moment?
0:31.6	Is it depressing to you?
0:33.5	It's very depressing.
0:34.9	All you have to do is walk past these asylum hotels,
0:37.1	and it's all these electric bikes because everyone's working for delivery companies.
0:42.0	Why wouldn't you come to Britain?
0:43.9	It's great.
0:44.8	You never get kicked out.
0:46.4	The government gives you a place to live.
0:48.4	It's almost too good to be true.
0:50.5	It shouldn't be true.
0:53.0	Kirstama seems to me such an incredibly weak
0:55.5	leader
0:56.5	I'm sorry Kira if you're listening
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