Les meilleurs podcasts The Spectator Australia (2024)

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BONUS: Landslide incoming, with Sean Spicer 16:00

6d ago16:00

16:00

We are 10 days out from the most important US election of our lifetimes. Of course that’s what they always say, but this time it feels like it may just be true. In this special bonus episode, Will chatted to Former White House Press Secretary, and now host of The Sean Spicer Show, Sean Spicer. Sean reflected on the campaign, and gave his prediction…

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Starmer's 100-day report card, with Lord David Frost 48:53

7d ago48:53

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The start of a new government sets a tone that is often difficult to change. And the tone of Keir Starmer’s first 100 days has been dire, reinforcing a feeling of malaise across the United Kingdom. To help with his first report card, Will is joined by David Frost, a Conservative member of the House of Lords and previously the Europe adviser to Bori…

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The war on the past, with Frank Furedi 40:29

14d ago40:29

40:29

There are many things that are depressing about the modern culture wars, but none more so than the war on the past. There is a concerted, fierce and increasingly successful effort to not just make us ashamed of our history, but to disconnect us from it entirely. How did this war start, and more importantly, how can it be won by defenders of Western…

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After the Pogrom, with Brendan O'Neill 58:04

22d ago58:04

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In some respects, October 7 and the events that have followed is the continuation of a story that is almost as old as time itself. But in many others, the conflict, and the response to it, has been a reflection of our times. Identity politics, the loss of confidence in western civilisation, the ideological capture of our institutions, the corruptio…

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Why I left the UK, with Calvin Robinson 49:51

28d ago49:51

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There is a feeling of pessimism in the UK at present, and it seems to be getting worse each day under the Starmer regime. A sense that the country has forgotten who it is. A feeling of helplessness that things are getting worse. And a rage that leaders on both sides of politics just don’t seem to care. Calvin Robinson has, sadly, said enough is eno…

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Who will save America? - Alex Castellanos 49:53

1M ago49:53

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For many voters, the upcoming US election isn’t really about the border, or the deficit, or guns, or healthcare, or abortion. As many pundits have now suggested, it’s about the vibes. It raises an unsettling question: does policy even matter anymore? Is the spin more important than the substance? There’s no one better to answer that question than t…

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Turning the tables on Will Kingston 1:11:48

1M ago1:11:48

1:11:48

Comic and GB News Host Nick Dixon was on the show a few weeks ago. He returned the favour by inviting Will on his podcast, "The Current Thing," last week. This podcasting pyramid scheme turned out rather well – it was a fun conversation covering the US election, the latest Churchill controversy, and the Starmergeddon facing Britain. Follow Will Kin…

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The grim rise of Islamic sectarianism, with Darren Grimes 49:01

2M ago49:01

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Talking about Islam is a dangerous business, but talk about it we must. The West is facing a civilisational moment, and tensions between Islamism and Western liberal democracy may well determine its future. Joining Will in these murky waters is GB News Presenter and the founder of the online video platform Reasoned, Darren Grimes. Follow Will Kings…

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The plan to silence Britain, with Toby Young 50:10

2M ago50:10

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Free speech is under attack all over the Western world, but the assault may be the most sinister in the United Kingdom. Keir Starmer's authoritarian regime seems intent on chipping away at civil liberties until very few remain standing. To discuss the state of free speech in the UK today, Will is joined by journalist, commentator, and the Founder o…

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How to defeat wokeism, with Helen Pluckrose 50:40

2M ago50:40

50:40

It's easy to say that "woke ideology" is a nonsense. It's much harder to say that when your job, your social status, or your friendships may be put at risk by doing so. We need a practical, principled approach to fighting back against wokeism. Enter Helen Pluckrose. Helen is a political and cultural author and speaker. She is the co-author of ‘Cyni…

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The horror of Starmer's Britain, with Nick Dixon 49:25

2M ago49:25

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The United Kingdom is a great country. It’s arguably contributed more to the flourishing of Western civilization than any other. Which is why recent events have left many people heartbroken. Racially and culturally motivated riots have erupted on British streets, met with a two-tiered policing and judicial response, a crackdown on free speech, and …

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The unstoppable rise of the nanny state, with Christopher Snowdon 56:44

3M ago56:44

56:44

Across the Anglosphere, governments on both sides of politics have never been more interested in the personal lives of their citizens. The nanny state thrives from Australia to the United Kingdom, and even in that traditional bastion of freedom, the USA. Christopher Snowdon is the UK’s leading warrior against the excesses of the nanny state. He is …

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Going all-in, with Liv Boeree 42:47

3M ago42:47

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What the mainstream media calls a “conspiracy theory” is often nothing more than an amalgam of incentives hiding in plain sight. Once you see that, the rest becomes pretty obvious. Misaligned incentives are everywhere, and are the root cause of some of our thorniest global challenges. So how can we fix them? There is no one better qualified to answ…

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Inside Israel's information war, with Eylon Levy 53:45

3M ago53:45

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When it comes to conflict in the Middle East, there’s the war, and then there’s the war about the war. Of course, this isn’t new. Caesar was penning war reports in Gaul and sending them back to Rome to win hearts and minds over 2000 years ago. But, back then Caesar could control the narrative. Today that is almost impossible. Social media, an activ…

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America's forever war, with Nick Bryant 48:28

3M ago48:28

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The American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now the country's defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol, the prosecution of Donald Trump and battles over gun rights and abortion raise the spectre of further political violence. We often hear that these events are unprecedented. On the contrary, author an…

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We're all Soviets now, with Sir Niall Ferguson 50:30

4M ago50:30

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Sir Niall Ferguson is arguably the world's greatest living historian. He first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II back in 2018. In articles for The New York Times and National Review, Sir Niall tried to show how China now occupies the space vacated by the Soviet Union when it collapsed in 1991. This view is less controversial now than it was the…

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Lies my liberal teacher told me, with Wilfred Reilly 1:01:45

4M ago1:01:45

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Education was once the search for truth. Sadly, this is no longer the case in many universities across the Western world. Instead of promoting debate, disagreement, and viewpoint diversity, too many institutions peddle a series of ideological narratives that seek to engrain a black armband view of history, an assertion of the importance of identity…

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Decoding the modern bloke, with Geoff Norcott 49:41

4M ago49:41

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It wasn’t so long ago that one phrase sat above any other in the hierarchy of endorsements for a British or Australian male: “He’s a good bloke.” You don’t hear it as much in 2024 because blokehood is under attack across the Western world. Historically positive masculine virtues are now shamed as toxically masculine. At a minimum, blokeishness is d…

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"Machines are the children of humanity" - Agnieszka Pilat 43:02

4M ago43:02

43:02

It feels like AI can now write anything for us and create anything for us. In some respects it’s exciting, but it’s also scary, and it raises a depressing question: will technology kill creativity? There are few people better placed to answer that question than Polish-American artist Agnieszka Pilat. Agnieszka is the Silicon Valley elite’s favourit…

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How the elites betrayed America's working class, with Batya Ungar-Sargon 55:56

4M ago55:56

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There has long been a curious sub-genre in liberal journalism. It can best be described as “examining working class Americans in their natural habitat.” It goes something like this. Journalists from New York or California will bravely venture into a red state, observe the local inhabitants from afar, and come back with a series of superficial insig…

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Gay Shame, with Gareth Roberts 50:34

5M ago50:34

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The most peculiar aspect of 'Pride' is how it has lumped together the gay population, with the most extreme proponents of gender ideology, when the latter have arguably done more than any other group to harm the former. Gareth Roberts has witnessed this firsthand. Gareth has fallen into commentary on gender ideology, but like previous guests of the…

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Imagining nuclear armageddon, with Annie Jacobsen 43:54

5M ago43:54

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The world could end before you finish listening to this podcast. That's the reality of a nuclear-armed world. If a sense of complacency had crept in about the threat of nuclear weapons, Annie Jacobsen's stunning new book is a wake up call. 'Nuclear War: A Scenario' imagines the 72 minutes after the 'button is pushed', and it doesn't end well. It's …

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A heretical conversation with Andrew Gold 57:52

5M ago57:52

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Heresy is defined as opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted. It has rarely been more dangerous to be a heretic, which is why it's rarely been more important to champion them. There is no bigger heretic than Andrew Gold. Andrew is a journalist, author, and TV presenter who produces documentaries on bizarre and controversial subcu…

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The rebirth of the West, with Victor Davis Hanson 57:15

5M ago57:15

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Note: We had some minor sound issues in the first 10 minutes, but we couldn’t bring ourselves to edit out anything that Victor said. Stick with it. It’s worth it! In some respects, the West is exhibiting similar symptoms to past civilizations that decayed, declined, or were completely wiped off the map. At the same time, there are green shoots that…

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The REAL reason for African poverty, with Magatte Wade 52:58

6M ago52:58

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Why is Africa poor? There’s a series of trendy answers to that question, that are almost taken as read amongst the progressive elite that dominate our institutions. Racism, slavery, and colonialism. Magatte Wade has called BS on this narrative, and she is uniquely qualif…

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Fighting cultural socialism, with Eric Kaufmann 1:00:44

6M ago1:00:44

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Across the western world, cosplay protests are ongoing in some of the most elite academic institutions. They point to a deeper malaise in places of higher education. That's a real problem. The illiberal dogmas that have infiltrated our social institutions have their root…

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Ready... Aim... Fire at Will. 1:52

6M ago1:52

1:52

Introducing your safe space for dangerous conversations. Follow Will Kingston and Fire at Will on social media here. Subscribe to The Spectator Australia here.Par Will Kingston

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"Conservatism is gratitude" – Jonah Goldberg 1:09:30

6M ago1:09:30

1:09:30

Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Western liberal democratic capitalism has created more prosperity, and enabled more human flourishing, than any other social system. It is something we should be proud of. And yet, Jonah Goldberg argues it is under attack, both from illiberal progressive identity politic…

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Debunking Australia's housing crisis myth, with Cameron Murray 48:53

6M ago48:53

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. There’s a common refrain when it comes to housing in Australia today: ‘it’s never been harder to enter the housing market’. Housing affordability has been labelled by politicians, the media, and aspiring homeowners as a historic crisis. What if that’s just not the case? …

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In defense of journalism, with Anthony De Ceglie 51:10

7M ago51:10

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. It’s easy to forget that journalists were once invested with immense trust by citizens. This is no longer the case. Journalists are amongst the least trusted members of society, and it has been largely self-inflicted. The rise of activist journalism over objective journa…

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"Gen Z is the most conservative generation since WW2" - Isabel Brown 54:07

7M ago54:07

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Gen Z has developed quite a reputation. Lazy. Difficult to work with. Technology-addicted. And of course, insufferably woke. What if that reputation is ill-founded? What if, in fact, Gen Z is the most culturally conservative generation since World War Two? What if Gen Z …

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The short march through the institutions, with Yascha Mounk 56:05

7M ago56:05

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Sometimes it feels like the tidal wave of ‘wokeness’ (or identity politics) washed over the western world almost overnight. It has captured more or less every societal institution in a remarkably short period of time. However, the intellectual roots of the movement can b…

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Tales of a Hollywood dissident, with Matthew Marsden 53:43

7M ago53:43

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Politics is downstream from culture. To change politics, one must first change culture. The left intrinsically understands this in a way that the right simply does not. The arts have been captured by a toxic mixture of identity politics, social justice ideology, and canc…

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The real State of the Union, with Charles C.W. Cooke 53:12

7M ago53:12

53:12

Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. There are two ways to look at American politics in 2024. There’s the prevailing pessimistic view. Many people think democracy is under threat, the economy is structurally vulnerable, the military is stretched, and for many, the looming election represents a choice betwee…

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In conversation with Douglas Murray 41:24

8M ago41:24

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Many well-meaning people have been fooled by hypocritical and inconsistent anti-West rhetoric. It’s not just dishonest scholars who benefit from this intellectual fraud but hostile nations a…

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Lessons for the silenced majority, with Katherine Brodsky 49:52

8M ago49:52

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. We as a society are self-censoring at record rates. Say the wrong thing at the wrong moment to the wrong person and the consequences can be dire. When the truth is no defense and nuance is seen as an attack, self-censorship is a rational choice. Yet, our silence comes wi…

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"The Teals are an existential threat to the Liberals" - Joe Hildebrand 43:14

8M ago43:14

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Australia is facing serious domestic and international challenges, all at a time when the political class has arguably never been so ill-equipped to address them. In fact, perhaps the only thing that nearly all Australians can agree on is that our leaders are not a patch…

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"It's the culture, stupid" - Matt Goodwin 55:33

8M ago55:33

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Bill Clinton's strategist James Carville memorably said, "It's the economy, stupid". Times have changed. The great political battles of our time are not waged over economics, but cultural issues. Today, "It's the culture, stupid". No one understands this better than Matt…

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"Reality is now subject to ideology" - Lionel Shriver 50:16

9M ago50:16

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. Journalist. Contrarian. Iconoclast. Intellectual. Provocateur... And one of the most successful novelists of the 21st century. Lionel Shriver has, in her own words, spent a career courting self-destruction. But she's still standing. In this no-holds barred conversation w…

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Why you don't have free will, with Brian Klaas 49:48

9M ago49:48

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. We all comfort ourselves by believing in cause and effect. According to Dr Brian Klaas, we wilfully ignore a bewildering truth: but for a few small changes, our lives and our societies could be profoundly different. When given the choice between complex uncertainty and c…

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How to rig an election, with Nic Cheeseman 58:13

9M ago58:13

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. 2024 is the biggest election year in history. Countries with more than half the world’s population – over four billion people – will go to the polls. You’d think the more elections the better, right? Dr Nic Cheeseman would urge caution. In fact, he argues that the greate…

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"Appeasement guarantees war" - Victor Davis Hanson 57:00

9M ago57:00

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The most astute social commentators on the present are the people who have the deepest understanding of the past. As Mark Twain famously said, “History doesn’t repeat itself, but it often rhymes.” Historians are best placed to hear the rhymes of history in the news of the day. There are few historians who have demonstrated such an aptitude and insi…

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A real talk, with Zuby 51:48

10M ago51:48

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It’s perhaps never been harder to speak the truth than it is in the West today. In fact, many people now implicitly question the value of the truth itself. That’s why it’s so important to recognise and champion people with the intellectual capacity and moral courage to speak the truth, no matter how uncomfortable it may be. Few people in the public…

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"If another pandemic hits, we will lockdown again" - Jay Bhattacharya 49:16

10M ago49:16

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Few people called for sanity as the world lost its collective mind during the COVID pandemic, but Jay Bhattacharya was certainly one of them. Jay is a Professor of Health Policy at Stanford University, a Senior Fellow at the Stanford Institute for Economic Policy Research, and one of the three authors of The Great Barrington Declaration. In this wi…

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The case for colonialism, with Bruce Gilley 52:16

10M ago52:16

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The overwhelming majority of academic articles come and go with little fanfare. There may be the odd admiring nod from a professor, or a few lively debates in university tutorial rooms. But that’s normally about it. Unless you are Professor Bruce Gilley. In 2017, Bruce authored a watershed paper titled, ‘The Case for Colonialism.’ It sparked a glob…

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The sniper bullet of surprise, with Jeffery Deaver 50:39

10M ago50:39

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It’s that time of the year when many of us will sit down and write. It could be resolutions. It could be reflections. It could be that book that everyone has inside them. There's just one problem. It's really hard. To crack the code of writing, Will is joined by one of the most successful crime fiction authors of all time, Jeffery Deaver. Jeffery h…

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Draining the swamp, with Sebastian Gorka 52:52

11M ago52:52

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It's hard not to see America as a country in decline. Foreign policy attention is stretched, political debate is toxic, the national debt is eye-watering, and the institutions have been ideologically captured. However, America has been written off before. It's geographic, demographic, economic and military advantages remain the envy of the world. T…

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"Isn't politics magical" - Tom Switzer 49:32

11M ago49:32

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As we approach the end of 2023, it’s easy to become despondent about the fate of the West. War rages in Ukraine and the Middle East, as China eyes off Taiwan. The cost of living crisis is becoming unbearable for average families. Illiberal ‘wokeism’ continues to infect our institutions. And the Anglosphere leaders elected to guide us out of this me…

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"Australia was a lab of tyranny" - Naomi Wolf 51:58

11M ago51:58

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Australiana is now Fire at Will - your safe space for dangerous conversations. For over 30 years, Naomi Wolf was lauded as a feminist icon, a bestselling author and a darling of liberal America. Her investigative journalism during the COVID pandemic led to those labels being replaced overnight with pejoratives like 'conspiracy theorist' and 'anti-v…

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The power of satire, with The Babylon Bee's Joel Berry 48:28

11M ago48:28

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Satire is one of the most important ingredients of a healthy public discourse. But it is under threat across the west. Comedy, once the most subversive of artforms, has caved to the woke mob. Misinformation laws threaten to curtail free speech even further. And perhaps some of us have lost the ability to laugh at the irreverent and the politically …

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