Belfast: how asylum turned the UK into a tinderbox

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12th June 2026
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Brendan O’Neill and Rakib Ehsan join Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the anti-migrant riots in Belfast, the battle on the right in Makerfield, and Labour’s looming threat to free speech online.

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