105. Question Time: Foreign ownership in football, the BBC vs. Modi, and conspiracy theories
The Rest Is Politics
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🗓️ 23 February 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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| 0:07.6 | Your crisps, Madam. Years went by, but then crisps stopped doing it for her. They got a thrown out of cinemas. |
| 0:15.9 | And were forever in the bedsheets. |
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| 1:09.5 | Welcome to the Restless Politics question time with me, Rory Stewart. |
| 1:13.5 | And me, Alastair Campbell. Very good. And Alastair. Look, we've got a lot of lovely stuff to get |
| 1:18.9 | going on. And there's a lovely question from Richie Creighton on Congressman Santos |
| 1:23.8 | from the United States, which I'd love to get on to. But the first question I'd like to hit you with |
| 1:28.6 | is about global ownership of British football before we get on to gritty American politics. |
| 1:33.7 | Two questions from Andrew. Is it naive to think we can prevent our most venerable football clubs |
| 1:39.6 | from becoming vehicles for vampiric capitalists and dubious potentates? Are we forced to accept |
| 1:46.7 | that the people's game could be chiseled away from us like our public utilities, |
| 1:51.3 | a consequence of open markets? So will you tell us a little bit about what's going on in football? |
| 1:55.6 | Well, well, I'm imagining the question is driven. |
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