Martin Wolf on democracy’s year of peril
FT News Briefing
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🗓️ 30 June 2024
⏱️ 37 minutes
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Summary
Martin Wolf is worried about the threat autocrats pose to liberal democracies. Across the world, billions of citizens are being asked to cast their vote in elections taking place in more than 50 countries, but in many places, populist, illiberal and far-right parties are either growing in support or consolidating gains they have already made. In this episode, Martin spells out his concerns to the FT’s executive opinion editor, Jonathan Derbyshire, and they discuss what Martin has gleaned from his conversations with Robert Kagan, Fiona Hill, Anne Applebaum and Raghuram Rajan. Did they ease his concerns in any way?
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Martin Wolf column: Fascism has changed, but it is not dead
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This episode is presented by Martin Wolf. The producer is Sandra Kanthal. Production help from Sonja Hutson. The executive producer is Manuela Saragosa and the sound engineer is Nigel Appleton. The FT's global head of audio is Cheryl Brumley.
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| 0:00.0 | The UK's energy partner. |
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| 0:09.8 | Good morning from the Financial Times. |
| 0:11.5 | It's Mark Filipino here. |
| 0:12.8 | Regular listeners will know that for every Sunday this month, |
| 0:16.4 | the news briefing is going to do something a little bit different. |
| 0:18.9 | We're running a series about the outlook for democracy, |
| 0:22.0 | hosted by the F.T.'s chief economics |
| 0:24.0 | commentator Martin Wolf. He's been talking to leading political thinkers about |
| 0:28.0 | what this year, a pivotal year for democracy, has in store for the liberal democratic system. |
| 0:34.0 | So here goes, Martin Wolf, democracy's year of peril. |
| 0:38.0 | I know you've gotten too little space. |
| 0:44.0 | The one line of course we could run an infinite number of cars. |
| 0:47.0 | This is true. |
| 0:48.0 | There is not an infinite amount of editing capacity. |
| 0:51.0 | That's why we... |
| 0:52.0 | AI can replace that job. |
| 0:54.0 | We have an AI bot and it zips through, does the editing and up it gaps. |
| 1:00.0 | No, I'm not recommending this as a strategy anymore that I'm going to ask Chappet GPT to write my next column. |
| 1:10.0 | I'm Jonathan Derbyshire, the F.T's executive opinion editor, |
| 1:13.7 | and this is a special final edition of Martin Wolf's series, Democracy's Year of Peril. |
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