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🗓️ 17 April 2024
⏱️ 60 minutes
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0:00.0 | The elites have gone insane and ordinary people remain incredibly common sensical. |
0:04.8 | That's the kind of story of our times. |
0:06.2 | It's obvious that Islamist extremism is a serious threat in this country is |
0:11.6 | overwhelmingly the main terror threat that we face. |
0:14.9 | This was not going to end well. |
0:16.4 | This unholy alliance was not something that was going to work out for the values that they |
0:19.7 | claimed to believe in. |
0:20.7 | These groups, there was nothing progressive about them and they weren't so much anti-imperialists as they were kind of anti-Western and anti- Enlightenment and anti-The values that the left used to claim to be in favour of. I think there's a kind of profound bigotry of low expectations. |
0:36.5 | Maybe it's ignorance or maybe it's willful ignorance, but don't understand the nature of what |
0:40.0 | Hamas is. I mean this is a genocidal cult. They've been saying what they're about for some time and yet |
0:46.7 | you've just got idiots sat in their flats and safe North London looking at it and saying now what they really mean is this I just |
0:54.3 | find that grotesque. |
0:57.0 | Today's episode is with Tom Slater who is the editor of Spiked Online, which is a newspaper that I think defies political persuasion, perhaps? |
1:09.4 | I don't know, but they talk about a lot of intriguing elements and I think you should check that out that's |
1:13.8 | spiked online you can look up Tom Slater on Twitter and give him a follow and he's |
1:18.8 | just brilliant at describing all sorts of different things in the culture wars, but particularly the fondness |
1:26.2 | among the left for militant Islamism. |
1:31.2 | And so I don't feel, I don't feel like I have to go too far into it because he's going to explain |
1:35.6 | Where it comes from the French or something this unholy alliance and and and what it is and why it's happening and we'll talk about Israel and |
1:46.0 | Palestine obviously very topical right now and I hope it is informative and |
1:50.7 | interesting please let me know if it is or isn't well tell someone else |
1:54.4 | tell Tom that don't need to tell me so give him a follow get out of my book I'm still |
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