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The Critical Drinker and Nerdrotic join spiked’s Fraser Myers to talk about ‘prestige TV’ fatigue, race-swapping in Harry Potter, wokeness in the new Narnia and why even Tom Cruise’s star power can’t persuade us to watch a lecture on climate change. Plus, they discuss the AI threat to Hollywood, how the videogame industry turned on its own customers, and whether GTA VI can save popular culture.

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Ameer Kotecha joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss John Healey’s disastrous first budget, why the government will be to blame for the next emergency, and why Britain must not pay a penny in slavery reparations.

On the full, extended episode, they discuss what the world gets wrong about Israel’s elections and the carnage of Sadiq Khan’s pedestrianised Oxford Street.

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Phil Craig – filmmaker, TV producer and host of the Scandal Mongers podcast – joins spiked’s Fraser Myers to discuss the BBC’s crisis of impartiality, how it got the Gaza war so wrong, and whether public-service broadcasting can ever work in the age of the culture war.

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Tom Slater, Fraser Myers and Hugo Timms discuss why French civilisation is on the brink, how the left is fanning the flames of lawlessness, the uselessness and aloofness of President Macron, and why the rest of Europe could be next.

On the full, extended episode, they discuss the national-security adviser’s Hamas-defending wife, Labour’s civil war over immigration and the folly of neglecting the North Sea.

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French journalist Anne-Élisabeth Moutet joins spiked’s Fraser Myers to talk about the riots engulfing France. They discuss France’s abandonment of law and order, the ‘insurrection’ strategy of La France Insoumise, and how Emmanuel Macron’s centrist technocracy brought France to economic ruin.

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