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If people need to have their own space, they need to have their own boundaries, they need to have

their own sovereignty. The sovereignty isn't a simply lengthy rhetorical principle. Sovereignty is

something that people live. It's integral to their lives. And we can learn from that.

And no matter what happens in the weeks and the months ahead,

the very fact that Ukraine demonstrated that these issues are of tremendous importance.

They are essential to our future. Provides us with a very important lesson that's been

forgotten by the people that run our societies here in the West. And it's about time that they

woke up to reality.

Hello and welcome to the Brendan O'Neill show with me, Brendan O'Neill.

This is a podcast in which an esteemed guest joins me to talk about the big ideas,

the bad ideas, the problems and the controversies of life in the early 21st century.

In this episode, I am delighted to be joined by Frank Faradie.

Frank is a frequent contributor to spiked. He is the emeritus professor of sociology at the

University of Kent. He is a prolific author with a particular focus on the culture of fear and

the sociology of knowledge. His recent books include First World War, still no end in sight,

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