Tom Slater: Anti-Woke in Britain

0:00 – Intro: spiked editor Tom Slater
1:31 – A 7 a.m. recording and morning routines
3:10 – Editing spiked in interesting times
4:00 – The tyranny of takes and Will Smith's Oscars slap
7:28 – Lou's TikTok on defending your wife
9:41 – What was going on with Will Smith?
12:01 – Has anything like this happened at the BAFTAs?
12:34 – The state of comedy in the UK vs. the US
15:21 – Comedians who explain why they should be able to joke
17:56 – Are comedians really truth-tellers?
21:56 – Jerry Sadowitz and offensive humor for its own sake
24:10 – Endless podcast material and politician-level scrutiny
27:00 – Jimmy Carr, Frankie Boyle, and the UK government
29:02 – State censorship in Britain and Scotland
30:31 – What spiked has to worry about: Big Tech
32:17 – Nadine Dorries and the Online Safety Bill
34:23 – Conservatives, censorship, and campus free speech
36:43 – Spiked's take on heterosexual queers
39:00 – Identity labels and young people having less sex
41:48 – "What is a woman?" and political cowardice
47:20 – Tom's upcoming projects and covering Hungary
48:23 – Responses to the war in Ukraine
53:36 – "Putin had no choice" and remembering the people
56:07 – Wrap-up