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The Brendan O'Neill Show

The new dark age, with Nigel Biggar

The Brendan O'Neill Show

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News, Society & Culture, Government, Politics

4.71.3K Ratings

🗓️ 19 February 2026

⏱️ 46 minutes

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Nigel Biggar is the latest guest on The Brendan O’Neill Show. Nigel and Brendan discuss the rot in Western universities, the woke rewriting of history and why the culture war matters more than ever. 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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0:31.7

anyone propounding the kind of views I propound is regarded as diseased and poisonous. There's a prevailing

0:37.4

view that's reinforced by ignorance and the fear of punishment of

0:42.3

you dissent.

0:43.3

Universities have produced and promoted people who are exhibiting behaviors and habits of behavior

0:50.9

vices that distort and destroy liberal culture.

0:55.0

The truth about the past was of no interest to these students.

0:58.0

And let me just observe here.

1:00.0

We're talking about Oxford University students who don't care about the truth.

1:03.0

The thing is, this is not about the oppressed, it's not about the poet, it's about what.

1:07.0

It is a concern about social status and about profession and about

1:13.9

having some sense of meaning in life. But they need to understand what's at

1:18.0

stake here and what's at stake is whether we have a liberal culture where we

1:24.5

can say what we believe to be the truth and then test each other's views so we can get nearer to the truth.

1:30.3

The alternative is we have repression and we have war.

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