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Whilst we can get kind of sucked into the personality, it's hard not to, especially

on the daylight today.

I think that what we're seeing here is the electoral kind of tectonic plates continue to shift.

Amongst progressives in particular, there is such a palpable sense of caution and cowardice in relation to saying anything positive about this.

You can really feel that they don't know what to say.

They feel uncomfortable with what's happening.

The kind of periodic panics that establishments have about free speech and democracy,

this is just the kind of digitise 21st century version of it.

Hello and welcome to the Spike podcast. I'm Fraser Me. Thrilled as ever to be joined in the studio by Spike's editor, Tom Slater. And we're joined down the line by an extra special guest, Spike's chief political commentator and host of the Brendan O'Neill show, Brendan O'Neill. Welcome, Brendan. Hi, how's again? Before we get into the topics, Tom, do you want to let people know about a special offer and an exciting event? Absolutely. So it's January sale time on Spight. So if you're not one of the people who was signed up to become a Spite supporter, giving you unlimited access to the website, as well as all kinds of other perks. Now is the time to do it. Until the end of January,

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And also, as Fraser says, it's a very exciting event coming up, organised by our friends at the

Free Speech Union. It's called In Defence of Trial by Jury. It's taking place on Thursday the 29th of January at Inner Temple in London. And if you're a Spike supporter, you get a discount for your ticket. So to find that more, go over to the Free Speech Union website. You can book your tickets there. Also, if you're a Free Speech Union member, as I'm sure many of you are, you can get a discount there as well. So sign up to become a spiked supporter for £1 a month, for three months if you're not signed up already, and do go and check out that very interesting discussion, which our friends at the FSU are going to be holding at the end of the month. Thank you, Tom. And coming up on this show, we'll be discussing the Robert Genrick defection to reform

the Iranian uprisings and Starmers ban on X.

Robert Jenrick has defected from the Conservative Party to reform.

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