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🗓️ 27 January 2023
⏱️ 40 minutes
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0:00.0 | Hello and it's been a while |
0:03.6 | we have spike's editor Tom Slater |
0:06.2 | and it's been a while but she's finally back |
0:08.3 | spike columnist Ella Wielen |
0:11.0 | coming up on today's show, the Madness of the World Economic Forum, the |
0:14.9 | trans rapist in a woman's prison. I talk to Timandra Harkness about the UK's |
0:19.5 | online safety bill and finally we discuss Facebook's unbanning of Donald Trump. |
0:24.4 | So the World Economic Forum's annual get together in Davos came to an end at the |
0:32.1 | weekend this is the shindig where the global |
0:35.6 | superclass gets together to discuss all the big issues to demonstrate what excellent thought leaders they are and things like that. |
0:42.5 | We should come on to talk about some of the low lights of the actual forum in a minute, |
0:46.2 | but to start off, let's watch a clip of Kiastama, where he's asked, |
0:50.8 | where does he prefer Westminster or Davos? |
0:54.3 | Davos. |
0:55.3 | West Westminster is a tribal shouting place. |
1:00.7 | Tom, what do you think that says about Kiestama and what do you think that says about Kiestama, and what do you think it says about Davos and the kind of what he's getting into? |
1:08.5 | What it says about Kiestama immediately is he's got dreadful judgment. |
1:11.5 | You know, I know this was a kind of snap question |
1:13.0 | situation, but that clip has already been played over and over and over again. |
1:16.4 | And if you don't want to look like an out of touch, you know, North London |
1:21.4 | Labour politician, then talking about how you'd much rather be in the Swiss Alps, hanging out with the global super elite, because it's just so much less tribal and ugly than democratic Westminster politics, and that was exactly the right |
1:33.7 | answer to give. More broadly though it does speak to the fact that not just Kia Starmer |
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