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71: Beware the oligarchs

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Politics, Government, News, Society & Culture

4.61K Ratings

🗓️ 16 February 2018

⏱️ 32 minutes

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Summary

On this week’s spiked podcast: Frank Furedi on Brexit, anti-Semitism and George Soros, Emily Hill on her new book, Bad Romance, and an extract from the spiked review’s interview with Joan C Williams.

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0:00.0

Hello and

0:03.4

the assistant editor at Spiked and this week I talk to Frank Farady about George Soros and other oligarchs

0:09.7

I catch up with Emily Hill about her new book Bad Romance and Joan Williams talks about the American

0:16.6

white working class in an extract from the Spiked Review. Last week the Telegraph ran a piece on George Soros, a billionaire who is

0:34.4

funded Best for Britain, an organisation that, put simply, is for people who don't

0:39.1

like Brexit and want it stopped. The Telegraph's piece declared that Soros was funding a secret

0:44.7

plot to Thwart Brexit and this was criticized as anti-Semitic.

0:49.9

Soros is often himself on the receiving end of anti-Semitism, but the Telegraph was right.

0:55.6

He is openly funding a now not-so-secret plot to thought Brexit.

1:00.1

So what's going on here?

1:01.8

Why is it okay that Soros gets involved in splashing cash and meddling in politics?

1:06.4

Should we be concerned about the growing influence of oligarchs in democracy?

1:11.0

To find out, I spoke to Professor and author Frank Farrady. So Frank George Soros, a very very

1:18.4

rich man, a billionaire, gives money to Best for Britain, Gina Miller's organisation, which is ostensibly seeking to stop Brexit.

1:28.0

And George Soros actually even tweeted to explain himself, he said Brexit was a tragic mistake and the telegraph writes about

1:34.7

this and people lose their minds over it I mean what do you think is happening here?

1:38.8

Well I think there's a very interesting situation because many of the peoples that are standing up for sorrows

1:46.0

would have very strong views about the Koch brothers in the United States and they would say

1:49.7

how dare they finance political parties even though they're doing it in their own country.

1:53.4

But when it comes to their own hero they're being very very selective about it and

1:58.9

what they are really

2:03.3

wrong when an oligarch, a billionaire oligarch plays God

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