Laura Dodsworth (State of Fear)

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🗓️ 26 May 2023

⏱️ 45 minutes

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Today I’m speaking to Laura Dodsworth, author of the ‘A State of Fear: How the UK government weaponised fear during the Covid-19 pandemic.’ We discussed how fear was used during the pandemic to influence decision-making in government and manipulate us! She breaks down exactly how they did it…this is an interview you don’t want to miss! Laura's book 'A State of Fear': https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/57504035-a-state-of-fear For a bit more from us join our Stay Free Community here: https://russellbrand.locals.com/ Come to my festival COMMUNITY - https://www.russellbrand.com/community-2023/ NEW MERCH! https://stuff.russellbrand.com/

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0:00.0	Joining me now is Laura Dodsworth, journalist, photographer and filmmaker, author of A State of Fear,
0:04.9	how the UK government weaponised fear during the COVID-19 pandemic. Thanks very much for joining
0:11.1	us to talk about this book, A State of Fear, which is a best-selling book, I understand, Laura.
0:15.9	It was. It was on the Sunday Times best-sell list for four weeks. Was it favourably reviewed
0:20.2	by the mainstream media?
0:21.6	That's funny you should ask. Well actually it's had really great reviews. Before I launched
0:27.4	into some of the bad reviews, I shouldn't just start off with doing my own book down. Should I
0:30.6	had great reviews? You know, Lord Sumption called an important book. It had reviews in
0:36.8	Telegraph and the European Journal of Psychotherapy, some great reviews.
0:42.5	But the Sunday Times bestseller list didn't actually protect it from one of the worst book
0:47.6	reviews known to Man in the Times.
0:50.6	Objectively, one of the last ever ones.
0:52.8	Well, maybe I'm not very objective as the author but
0:55.2	it wasn't a great with you that much much mention was made of my previous work um there's one
1:00.6	book where i photographed and interviewed a hundred women about their vulvas their vaginas for an
1:05.5	expiration of womanhood and you might have read the review and think that in real life i'm
1:10.2	followed around by a chorus of high-kicking vaginas.
1:12.9	I'm never without my vaginas.
1:14.2	It was a very kind of obvious attempt to demean me to delegitimize my new book.
1:21.3	Mate, look here.
1:22.8	We've got a, this is a quote from the advisor on SPIB.
1:26.7	Do you know what that is, advisor on SPIB?
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