I'm joined now by Angus Hanton, who was kind enough to join me for a downstream a few years ago to discuss his book, Vassal State.

I think it was a real agenda setter, may I say.

Still very much worth reading, Vassal State, How America Runs Britain.

I would say even more worth your time now than it was two, three years ago.

Angus, thanks for coming back.

Thank you very much.

A fabulous book.

I do often blow smoke up people's backsides about their book, but this one really is very good.

And I read it and I thought this is great, very good. And I read it, and I thought

this is great, very useful, and it's one of those that really outperformed expectations. It's got

hundreds of thousands of views. Really worth your time. We've got you back on to really talk

about Britain and its relationship to America in the context of what's going on in the Middle East,

West Asia.

Before we do talk about the questions relevant to current affairs in early 2026, quickly,

just relay the conversation you were trying to catalyze with publication in this book, Vassal State.

Well, what I was saying was people don't realize how much of the UK is owned by American corporations.

And it's not just that they own a lot, but they employ a lot of Brits.

They employ 2 million Brits, not 1 million.

So a lot of us work for Americans.

And I was also trying to show how difficult it is to get information

about this. So I really struggled at the beginning of the research, and eventually I found

that the best information was held by American government, which they shared. But it wasn't

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