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Three minutes after 10, so at risk of sounding pompous, let me rephrase that,

at risk of sounding unintentionally pompous, I see our program, the program that we make together

every day, I see it in part, and only in a very small way,

as pushing back against some of the dominant and very dishonest narratives.

Wherever you choose to begin, whether it's in the obvious place,

10 years ago, almost of the day,

or whether it is in less obvious positions,

my personal discovery that the industry I had dreamt of joining since being in short trousers was riven with

sycophancy, moral corruption and shills. But I'd see our role. Oh, not our role, that's too

pompous even for me. I'd see our program, and, not our role. That's too pompous even for me.

I'd see our program, and it is our program, as pushing back a little bit against the very dominant narratives that our media is dominated by because the people that own our media want it

to be dominated by those narratives. Just a quick and very recent example,

there is going to be a shift from attacking migrants to attacking welfare claimants,

people on benefits, including sickness and disability benefits.

There was a hideous story in the news yesterday.

I didn't get around to sharing with you about an increase in the abuse being directed

at people using

bonafide users of blue badges to denote a disability when they park their vehicle. Because

the same people that sold you Brexit and racism are now selling you the idea that everybody

who has got a blue badge in the back of their car is either a fraudster

or a liar or both. So those are the things that we push back against. Those are examples

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