Iran: can the Islamic Republic be toppled?, with Andrew Fox

Stephen J Shaw – producer and director of Birthgap – joined Brendan O’Neill for the latest episode of The Brendan O’Neill Show. Stephen and Brendan discuss the tragedy of unintended childlessness, the hollowing out of ageing societies, and why immigration is no solution to the fertility crisis. 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: https://www.spiked-online.com/event/spiked-summit/  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/  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/  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

Julie Bindel – journalist and founder of Justice for Women – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss how political correctness and elite disdain for the working classes have allowed the grooming gangs to run riot. Plus, they discuss the twilight of trans insanity. Sign up today for your £1-a-month trial with Shopify and start selling today: shopify.co.uk/brendan 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Andrew Fox – former British Army officer and an associate fellow at the Henry Jackson Society – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show. Andrew and Brendan discuss the American and Israeli strikes on Iran, the risks of a ‘regime change’ war, and the Western left’s apologism for Iran’s brutal theocracy. 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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

To celebrate the release of Brendan O’Neill’s new book, Vibe Shift: The Revolt Against Wokeness, Greenism and Technocracy, Brendan was interviewed by spiked editor Tom Slater for this special live event and podcast. They discussed how the elites' mad ideologies are colliding with reality, common sense and public fury. spiked supporters can watch the second half of the discussion here: https://www.spiked-online.com/podcast-episode/vibe-shift-live-part-two-the-qa/ If you’re not a spiked supporter, you can get unlimited access to spiked, including exclusive podcast episodes and live events, by signing up here: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/  📕 Order Brendan O’Neill’s _Vibe Shift_ now from Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Vibe-Shift-Wokeness-Greenism-Technocracy/dp/106871932X/ref=tmm_pap_swatch_0  Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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 megaphone.fm/adchoices

Journalist Michael Tracey returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss what everyone gets wrong about the Epstein Files, the dangers of abandoning due process and how the media embraced a conspiracy theory. 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 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

Marie Kawthar Daouda – author and lecturer at Oriel College, Oxford – joins Brendan O’Neill on The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss decolonisation, white guilt and the destruction of Western heritage. Sign up today for your £1-a-month trial with Shopify and start selling today: shopify.co.uk/brendan Get a discounted copy of Not Your Victim using the promo code MDV26 here: https://www.politybooks.com/bookdetail?book_slug=not-your-victim-how-our-obsession-with-race-entraps-and-divides-us--9781509571697  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 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

EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Bridget Phetasy – host of Dumpster Fire and Walk-Ins Welcome – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the low-level civil war in Minneapolis, the radicalisation of America’s ‘wine moms’, and why ‘feminists’ can’t bring themselves to condemn Islamism, Iran or Hamas. 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 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

EXCLUSIVE JANUARY OFFER: Get unlimited access to spiked for just £1 a month for the next three months: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Ayaan Hirsi Ali – founder of the AHA Foundation and the Restoration Bulletin – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the Iranian revolt against the ayatollahs, how Islamism enabled Britain’s grooming-gangs scandal, and how multiculturalism has institutionalised misogyny, sectarianism and anti-Semitism. EVENT: spiked is partnering with the Free Speech Union for ‘In Defence of Trial by Jury’, a live discussion on Thursday 29 January in London. spiked supporters and Free Speech Union members can get discounted tickets: https://www.tickettailor.com/events/freespeechunion/2002087  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 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

Frank Furedi – author of the upcoming book, In Defence of Populism – returns to The Brendan O’Neill Show to discuss the unravelling of the US-led world order, the ‘Don-roe’ doctrine, and why states need to rediscover the national interest. 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 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