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The Rest Is Politics

413. Question Time: Reform, Russian Cyber Gangs, and Battling BBC Bias

The Rest Is Politics

Goalhanger

Politics, Government, News

4.4 • 9.5K Ratings

šŸ—“ļø 11 June 2025

ā±ļø 59 minutes

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Why does the BBC give Reform so much air time? Should there be a global refugee coalition? And, should we be surprised that AI might gaslight us? Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all these questions and more. The Rest Is Politics Plus: Become a member for exclusive bonus content, early access to Question Time episodes to live show tickets, ad-free listening for both TRIP and Leading, our exclusive newsletter, discount book prices on titles mentioned on the pod, and our members’ chatroom on Discord. Just head to ⁠⁠therestispolitics.com⁠⁠ to sign up, or start a free trial today on Apple Podcasts: ⁠⁠apple.co/therestispolitics⁠⁠. The Rest Is Politics is powered by Fuse Energy. Fuse are giving away FREE TRIP+ membership for all of 2025 to new sign ups šŸŽ‰ TRIP+ gets you ad-free listening, discounts, and early access to episodes and pre-sale tickets for live shows! To sign up and for terms and conditions, visit ⁠⁠GetFuse.com/Politics⁠⁠ ⚔ Get our exclusive NordVPN deal here āž¼ ⁠⁠nordvpn.com/restispolitics⁠⁠ It's risk-free with Nord's 30 day money back guarantee āœ… For more Goalhanger Podcasts, head to ⁠⁠www.goalhanger.com⁠⁠ Instagram: ⁠⁠@restispolitics⁠⁠ Twitter: ⁠⁠@RestIsPolitics⁠⁠ Email: ⁠⁠[email protected]⁠⁠ Assistant Producers: India Dunkley, Evan GreenĀ  Video Editor: Josh SmithĀ  Producers: Nicole Maslen, Fiona Douglas Social Producer: Celine Charles Senior Producer: Dom Johnson Head of Content: Tom Whiter Exec Producers: Tony Pastor, Jack Davenport Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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Thank you. installation, no white papers, green papers or red tape required. Welcome to the rest of this politics question time with me, Rory Stewart.

1:21.0

And with me, Alastair Campbell. And Rory, you've insisted that we start with this question. I assume it's because you're brimming

1:29.0

with ideas. Adam Hensel, as professional armchair critics, I might rebut that, actually.

1:35.9

Well, we do have arms on our chair. We do have arms, but are we armchair critics? Anyway,

1:39.8

offer us some potential solutions to the UK migration issue.

1:45.9

At least Adam doesn't call it a crisis.

1:47.0

He calls it an issue.

1:51.8

That's going to be unfair, but let's imagine that I was stereotyping you.

1:57.6

I would say you're somebody who is very comfortable with multicultural Britain,

2:03.6

probably feels the anxieties about immigration overdone, certainly has said on the podcast in the past, that talking about it too much, hands stuff to Nigel Farage,

2:10.7

and that you don't really want to be associated with Rwanda-style politics, stop the votes, stop immigration.

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