‘The Greens are lunatic, deranged and evil’ | Melanie Phillips

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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🗓️ 12 May 2026

⏱️ 55 minutes

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Sign up today for your £1-a-month trial with Shopify and start selling today: https://shopify.co.uk/brendan Melanie Phillips – Times columnist and author of the new book, Fighting the Hate: A Handbook for Jews Under Siege – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Melanie and Brendan discuss the rise of the Islamo-left, Britain’s descent into anti-Semitism and why the Labour Party fell apart. Buy Melanie’s latest book here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Fighting-Hate-Handbook-Under-Siege/dp/B0GR8XBFWR/ Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster featuring Konstantin Kisin, Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets here. Order your copy of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, Vibe Shift: The Revolt Against Wokeness, Greenism and Technocracy, on Amazon now. Join us for the spiked summit, our biggest ever live event, on Saturday 27 June in Westminster featuring Konstantin Kisin, Lionel Shriver, Katharine Birbalsingh, Toby Young, Allison Pearson, Brendan O’Neill, Tom Slater and more speakers to be announced. Get tickets here: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/ Become a spiked supporter to access all of spiked’s exclusive content, and get unlimited, ad-free reading and other perks: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Order Brendan O’Neill’s Vibe Shift now from: 🇬🇧 📕 Amazon UK: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ 🇺🇸 📕 Amazon US: https://www.amazon.com/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ 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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0:37.7	Have I got my lessons planned? I write that on before the store. Spending can be too much stress. One big. Is this worth it? Just want to think less about money. New government policies are making every day easier, like freezing train fares, which could save some commuters over £300 per year. This is just one of the ways the UK government is tackling the cost of living.
0:57.5	See more at gov.com. which could save some commuters over £300 per year. This is just one of the ways the UK government is tackling the cost of living.
0:57.5	See more at gov.uk.uk slash cost of living help.
1:00.0	The Greens, they are a combination of the lunatic, the deranged and the evil.
1:07.9	When we're talking Nazi level, Jew hatred,
1:13.7	and others who celebrated 7th of October and so on.
1:20.1	The adoption by virtually every progressive person of the Palestine cause,
1:26.0	cause which has come to define and embody morality itself.
1:36.7	It has been led by Islamists, by people who are using the Palestinian cause to advance an agenda which actually has the West itself in its sight.
1:40.3	I just have described the Palestinian cause as a Trojan horse.
1:44.9	Conscience in the West has simply been hijacked, hijacked and turned into its opposite.
1:54.0	And this is, it's like a spiritual plague that has descended upon us.
2:08.6	Yeah. spiritual plague that has descended upon us. Hello, welcome back to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill, and my special guest today, Melanie Phillips. Melanie, welcome to the show.
2:16.2	Hello, Brendan. Good to the video again. It's great to have you back on. There is always so much I want to ask you about
2:22.9	and get your wisdom on. And the list of things grows longer every day because crazy things happen
2:28.3	every day. And I often find myself thinking, what's Melanie going to say about this? What is
2:33.2	Melanie going to write about this? So is Melanie going to write about this?
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