How Conspiracies Poisoned Politics
Politics Unpacked
Anna Covell
4.1 • 1.4K Ratings
🗓️ 23 November 2023
⏱️ 48 minutes
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Summary
Conspiracy theories aren't new, bu they're becoming harder for politicians to ignore. Patrick Maguire explores how they've crept into mainstream discourse, and how they're dominating the Republican primaries in the US.
Plus: Columnists Manveen Rana and Matthew Syed debate how to solve the crisis in the asylum system and what to expect from the new "minister for common sense".
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| 1:01.0 | We've got a great podcast for you in Mat surely's absence today. |
| 1:04.8 | We're talking conspiracy theories and how they've come to poison British and American |
| 1:10.0 | politics. Really interesting discussion on that coming up. |
| 1:13.0 | But before then, time for the columnist panel. |
| 1:19.0 | Manveen Rana and someone called Matthew on Times Radio. |
| 1:26.6 | Yes, to dig into the day's biggest issues |
| 1:29.2 | I'm now joined by Mamveen Rana, |
| 1:31.3 | host of the Stories of Our Times Podcast. |
| 1:33.0 | How Lam, Manveen. |
| 1:34.5 | Hello. |
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| 1:37.3 | And Matthew today is the Times and Sunday Times column |
| 1:40.2 | is Matthew Sired. |
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