Hello, I'm Jens Wolfakis, I'm at Novara Media and I have a message for you, the best way

of underpinning any kind of potential resistance to a very toxic establishment

without being populist anti-establishment and by supporting good, irrational,

humanist causes is to support left wing media like Novara Media. Novara Media and all such media

need your support because they certainly not have the support of the establishment.

The really great thing about doing this job is that sometimes I get to talk to someone who is

literally one of the reasons why I'm doing this job at all. Gary Young, the journalist and

academic is one of those people and I hope you'll get to see all the reasons why he's been

such an inspiring and influential figure in my own journalistic work during this interview.

We talk about life in Soviet Russia, what Diane Abbott should have said to Jeremy Corbyn,

and why the idea of skiing bugs him so much.

Did you feel that way when you started writing because of the standard when you're not way

and you're not posh and you're not right-wing? It's going to be different for you that it becomes

very inhibiting. When I started writing columns particularly, I would spend like 300 words and I'm

not saying this and I'm not saying this and I'm not saying this. I'm trying to

shadow box with all of the predictable kind of demons. At a certain point, it wasn't

an epithelial point, but at a certain point I just thought you only got 1,200 words and you're

going to need to say what you've got to say and this is taking up space and it makes it sound

equivocal and you're not equivocal. I do think every good column, every good piece of writing has

to deal with the best argument that confronts it and has to be an argument and that's why I do it.

Nobody writes like in defense of against a murder because nobody really defends murder unless it's

war in which case they do. So you have to take on the best arguments, but I wasn't taking on

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