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My name is Alex Doherty, and my guest today is Savarmahan Valuven.

We spoke about his new book, The Clammer of

Nationalism, Race and Nation in 21st Century Britain. Over the coming weeks and months, the show will

of course be looking at the 2019 UK general election, the state of the Labour Party and how it is

that Boris Johnson succeeded in achieving such a comprehensive victory over Labour

and the Colbynite left. There's already an avalanche of commentary from across the political

spectrum, diagnosing the reasons for Labour's failure. Much of it's useful and insightful, some of it

less so, but it seems to me that it might be best to take stock once we have a better understanding

of just what happened on Thursday, December 12th.

Although today's interviews recorded weeks before the election, Sivamahan's thesis that we are

not living in an era of populism, but rather of reactionary nationalism, looks all the more relevant

and plausible in the context of the electoral victory of Boris Johnson and an increasingly right-wing conservative party.

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