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24th April 2026
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James Dreyfus joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers for the latest episode of the spiked podcast. They discuss the fallout from the Olly Robbins scandal, Zack Polanski’s gaslighting over anti-Semitism, and the trans activists’ smear campaign against the Harry Potter author.

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