122: POWER, CORRUPTION AND LIES with Brian Klaas, author of How To Rig An Election

Oh God, What Now?

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

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🗓️ 28 June 2019

⏱️ 58 minutes

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As the Tory leadership race is buried under an avalanche of dead cats, we’re joined by political analyst Brian Klaas – assistant professor of global politics at UCL, expert on authoritarianism, electoral malpractice and how democracies die, author of How To Rig An Election, and host of the Power Corrupts podcast. What can the truth-lite, nonsense-heavy Trump nightmare tell us about the future of British democracy in the Age of Johnson? Plus… Why DID Johnson claim he makes toy buses for fun? Ian tells you how to destroy the GATT 24 argument in less than 30 seconds. How Boris Johnson’s June 26 2016 column was the ur-text of Brexit lies. The truth about our upcoming BIGLY trade deal with Trump. The perils of ‘novelty bias’. Is Anne Widdecombe coming to get Ian in the night? And how Johnson’s inevitable humiliation could actually be Britain’s route back to self-respect. “We all think these guys on the right are super-smart and one step ahead. But if they were that smart, we wouldn’t still be in the EU…” Presented by Naomi Smith with Ros Taylor and Ian Dunt. Produced by Andrew Harrison. Audio production by Soho Radio, London. Remainiacs is a Podmasters production. Get every new episode of Remainiacs a whole day early when you back us on the Patreon crowdfunding platform. You’ll also get our monthly Ask Remainiacs special episode plus smart merchandise, an exclusive weekly column by our panel, and discounts on #RemainiacsLive tickets too. #OwnTheRemoan http://www.REMAINIACS.com Get your free download of our theme tune ‘Demon Is A Monster’ by Cornershop. See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:00.0	will interest rates change again.
0:02.0	What's new where I live?
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0:25.0	Hello, please turn up the volume and listen carefully.
0:28.0	We're recording this podcast in the flat next door.
0:31.0	But with luck, it'll be loud enough for you to hear it and send it to the Guardian if you so wish.
0:36.0	And don't let anyone tell you to get off their laptop.
0:40.0	I'm name Smith and like a pound shop left-wing starsy, I'm spying on a couple of our regulars who are sitting at a picnic table in a lovely garden in a beautifully and completely spontaneous display of you and see Rosteiler.
0:55.0	And it's the excellent LSE Brexit blog where you can get all sorts of scholarly articles about the unfolding Brexit story.
1:01.0	Hi Ros.
1:02.0	Hello.
1:03.0	How are you?
1:04.0	Oh, not too bad.
1:05.0	Bit growly because I've got a throat.
1:07.0	Excuse the listeners if I sound a bit deeper than usual.
1:10.0	Sure, it'll sound even better than usual.
1:13.0	You cover all sorts of things, obviously, with your blog, but also technology and digital disinformation.
1:19.0	And this week Nick, we pledged not to raise tuition fees, Clegg, who of course now works for Facebook.
1:26.0	So there was absolutely no evidence whatsoever that Russia had used Facebook to manipulate the referendum result.
1:33.0	What's your take on it?
1:34.0	I can's differ on this one.
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