Our top-five videos of 2024

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Here are our top-five, most-viewed videos of 2024. If you enjoyed our interviews, documentaries, podcasts and polemics, please consider donating to our festive appeal. We may have a few sponsors now, but it is still your donations that fund most of our work.

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5) Ireland, immigration and the fury of the masses

Revisit Ella Whelan’s incisive, eye-opening video on the unrest over immigration in Ireland. This is part of our ‘polemics’ series, in which our writers bring arguments and receipts to some of the biggest controversies of the day. Stay tuned for many more of these beautifully edited, stirring video monologues in 2025.

4) Did wokeness cost the Democrats the election?

The spiked podcast has been going from strength to strength this year, but this post-US-election segment with Joel Kotkin was a real highlight. If you’re wondering, our answer to the question the title poses is a firm ‘yes’. But do watch anyway for a great discussion.

3) Lionel Shriver: why I loathe Kamala

We’re honoured to call Lionel Shriver – not only a best-selling novelist, but also one of the most insightful columnists around – a spiked contributor. If you somehow missed it at the time, watch her searing indictment of Kamala Harris, taken from Fraser Myers’s brilliant new interview show, which we launched this year. (Also, don’t miss Lionel’s wonderful end-of-year essay, about whether wokeness is on the way out.)

2) David Starkey on Starmer’s one-party state

Keir Starmer, our woeful new prime minister, has hardly been spared a good shoeing in the media. But this trenchant, bombastic takedown by David Starkey is hard to top. Starkey even let Fraser in on a scoop: that Starmer allegedly pushed to have him prosecuted over a podcast interview he did. Truly not to be missed.

1) The fall of the woke tyrants

With an inept authoritarian in Downing Street, it might not always feel like it, but 2024 really was a devastating year for some of the worst people in politics. From Joe Biden to Leo Varadkar to Humza Yousaf, one phoney, illiberal ‘progressive’ after another was dispatched by voters. Justin Trudeau currently teeters on the brink, too. Watch my polemic from earlier this year to find out why.

Thank you again for watching, sharing and supporting us in 2024. Please donate if you can.