157. Question Time: Knocking over Liz Truss, Oxbridge dominance, and life under the Taliban
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🗓️ 27 July 2023
⏱️ 31 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | Welcome to the rest of this politics question time with me, Boris Stewart. |
| 0:11.6 | And me, Aleister Campbell. And Aleister, how are you? Where are you? |
| 0:14.9 | I'm alright, I'm in France. I had a very nice time in Buckston at the book festival. |
| 0:20.2 | Oh yes! I looked everywhere, I looked everywhere for your wedding ring. |
| 0:24.2 | It was pouring with rain rather depressingly because it meant the cricket didn't finish |
| 0:28.9 | because I was kind of hoping to get from Buckston over a bit of the test match. |
| 0:32.4 | But no, I couldn't see anywhere, absolutely nowhere. But they're all looking, they're all still looking, Roy. |
| 0:36.4 | Right, question time, question time. Right, let me ask the first one because I think you will be |
| 0:39.7 | interested in this. Kelvin Zhang, Rory, based on your experience in Afghanistan, what do you think |
| 0:44.1 | about Tobias L Woods media campaign to establish diplomatic ties with the Taliban run Afghan government |
| 0:50.0 | where his videos portray Afghanistan as running things rather well? What are the implications for |
| 0:55.2 | women's rights and other major points of contention with the Taliban? |
| 0:58.4 | I mean, I think very few people will have missed this story in the UK. |
| 1:02.0 | Tobias L Woods, who's the chair of the Defence Select Committee, returned from a visit with the |
| 1:07.4 | Halo Trust, which is a great British mine clearing charity. And he was in Afghanistan and came back |
| 1:13.9 | and posted a video talking about how things in Afghanistan were better than he had feared and |
| 1:20.4 | encouraging people to reopen diplomatic relationships with the Taliban government. And he found himself |
| 1:27.0 | under a barrage of abuse and attack that you cannot believe. And at the end of a week, I think he |
| 1:32.9 | retracted his video message, delicited it and apologised. Some of it was incredibly unfair. |
| 1:40.4 | So people like Mark Francois and other sort of right-wing Brexitiers and the Defence Select Committee |
| 1:46.8 | turned against him and basically tried to accuse him of being a sort of traitor or not patriotic |
| 1:52.4 | enough for what he said, which is outrageous. I mean, Tobias L Woods was a serving British |
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