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The men beat on their drums. Thank you. I'm sorry. I'm going to Hello and welcome to another episode of Politics Theory Other.

My name is Alex Doherty and today I'm joined by Aaron Davis.

We'll be talking about his recent book,

Reckless Opportunists, Elite at the end of the establishment. You can listen to the podcast via

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Aaron Davis is Professor of Political Communication and Co-Director of the Political Economy Research

Centre at Goldsmith.

He's the author of six books, including Reckless opportunists, which was the topic of our discussion,

and political communication, a new introduction for crisis times, which is forthcoming from

Politbu Press.

Aaron has spent more than 20 years interviewing more than 350 elite figures across politics, business,

finance, the civil service and the media.

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