I have Spiked a chance and listened to it for over a year. While it occasionally provided an interesting perspective for the most part the commentary was just knee jerk reactionary "if the left says something we'll say the opposite" with little in the way of actual argument. it's a shame really. something like thus could be valuable but this isn't it

I was listening to a podcast about the protests for “Palestine” and it was all going well (a bit of random logic though), only to discover at the very end they they think Brexit was good! Like someone else said it’s the British Fox channel. No wonder the hard republican Americans love this podcast. So that’s that.

I was very hopeful about this podcast but after one episode came away very disappointed Will give it another ago and re review

Three inarticulate people agree with each other about current events. Wishy-washy libertarianism and inconsistent views on market freedom.

By far one of the most consistently interesting and thoughtful podcasts. Love Frazier.

Excellent episode on the authoritarianism of the ‘Resistance’, the truth about grooming gangs, and the meaning of woke.

Negative: sometimes one has a pretty good idea going in what each of the hosts will say. Maintaining one’s capacity to surprise is exceedingly rare though, so I cut them some slack. Positive: interesting, fantastic, fair minded people of integrity. Don’t always agree, but necessary voices in the debate today. A friendly tip: hosts should read a bit of Aristotle, so that they might (just slightly) temper their faith in “the people” to make good decisions.

I’m a retired American who really enjoys listening to Spike (which I’m happy to be a paid supporter of), but I especially appreciated Tom’s evaluation of the situation with Americans and our love of guns (not me; I don’t own one and don’t want to). Regular Americans have seen, especially over the past two years, the failure of the police to stop—or even address—the urban violence in dozens of U.S. cities while woke politicians like vice presidential nominee Camilla Harris helped raise bail money for the lawbreakers but later held dozens of January 6 protesters without bail for 18 months for trespassing. Ella once asked why Kyle Rittenhouse was even in Kenosha the night he shot three violent attackers, killing two of them. Because it was the third night of looting and burning and the local government had done nothing to protect what was the town’s poorest area and a small dealership asked for his help. This same government sicced the police on anti-maskers and anti-vaccine protesters while they allowed more than one million immigrants to cross the southern border without any meaningful pandemic measures being conducted, flying many of them to various towns and cities around the country in the dead of night without testing or quarantine. Also, there were many more guns around earlier in the twentieth century with far less violence among the citizenry, I suspect because wrong-doers were much more afraid of getting shot and knew the authorities would not just let them go if the amount they stole was less than $900, as has been done in San Francisco. Frankly, given the abject government failure in Uvalde and the lack of violent protest against same, I’d say Americans have good reasons for wanting to protect ourselves, with knives even, should it come to that.

So not killing a baby with a heart beat is a crazy attack on women's bodily autonomy? I think your moral compass is F*cked up when a baby with a heart beat doesn’t have equal rights to bodily autonomy

The level of conversation is unfortunately pretty low - a lot of bad faith interpretations, hysteria and catastrophizing - Fox News-ish and shallow.

Woklerian, wokish, wokatarian, wokalicious, Wokacratic, .... so many new words.

I’m American and I love Spiked. The website is fantastic and the podcast is tremendous.

I listen to spiked from California and appreciate the incisive and witty Analysis of what is going on in Britain

Intelligent independent journalism

Whatever

Refreshing discussion of fact by intelligent, educated, and articulate people. I'm a USA Christian Republican; they're British and describe themselves as leftist, but there's so much common sense spoken here that a polite and frank conversation on idealogy would actually be possible. I'm a fan.

Spiked's course is straight up rational, be it left, right, or other. Proving that politics should be fluid; never mind gender

Spiked is particularly delightful in having speakers from both the left and the right, all agreeing on what I thought were absolutely basic values -- democracy, freedom, free speech. This is the best of us. I absolutely love this podcast. Its speakers are so clear-eyed, so logical, and so strongly uphold democracy, including the importance of implementing Brexit, as we voted for in the 2016 referendum. Even when I disagree with something someone says on it, it is still a total delight to listen to. A breath of fresh air in a sea of political slime that is the main media news channels.

Great stuff.

Thoughtful, yet clever commentary in easily digestible episodes. Amusing as well as enlightening.