Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline
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🗓️ 30 January 2025
⏱️ 45 minutes
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Summary
Warning: this episode contains strong language and a term of racist abuse.
Nish and Coco dig into some scary data about Gen Z. A poll of 13-27 year olds this week suggested nearly half of them favour authoritarian government. And nearly half of young men think women have been given too many rights. Youtuber JimmyTheGiant joins the pod to tell us about this mindset and how he disappeared into the right wing wormhole, and came out the other side.
And newts v planes: Nish and Coco check out Rachel Reeves plans for growth. Is she pinning her hopes on the tech bros and Heathrow while sticking two fingers up to net Zero?
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https://www.youtube.com/@JimmyTheGiant/videos
Guests
JimmytheGiant
Clare Farrell
Audio Credits
Today Programme, BBC Radio 4
Clare Farrell
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| 0:00.0 | Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Coco Khan. And I'm Nish Kumar. Today, it seems our young people have lost faith in democracy. A poll this week found that 52% of them would favour an authoritarian government. It's scary stuff. |
| 0:14.6 | It really is, but it's not surprising and I'm not just saying that to continue my mission to make people think I'm younger than I am. |
| 0:23.6 | Well, look, we thought it was prime time to get inside the heads of these people. |
| 0:27.2 | We're joined by a very special guest who found himself sucked into the all right wormhole that came out the other side. |
| 0:32.3 | We'll be speaking with YouTuber Jimmy the Giant. |
| 0:34.0 | And the government is sending out the bulldozers in pursuit of its growth agenda. |
| 0:38.8 | But what's at risk? Let's hear from the Chancellor. This is a government on the side of working people, |
| 0:45.3 | taking the right decisions to secure their future, to secure our future, stepping up to the challenges |
| 0:52.3 | that we face, ending the era of low expectations, putting Britain on a |
| 0:58.3 | different path, delivering for the British people. And I am determined, this government is |
| 1:04.0 | determined to do just that. That's the Chancellor of Rachel Reeves laying out her latest |
| 1:08.9 | plans for cutting down on government spending and kickstarting growth. |
| 1:11.9 | So how are they going to do it? In an op-ed in the Times on Tuesday, Kier-Sama wrote, |
| 1:16.3 | We'll cut the weeds of regulation and let growth bloom, which is very poetic. But what does it mean? |
| 1:23.2 | Reeves has announced subsequently that she plans to streamline environmental obligations, |
| 1:27.5 | calling the example of the HS2 Bat Tunnel that cost £100 million, an example of regulation going wrong. |
| 1:34.0 | They're going to limit legal challenges and the number of people who can veto projects, |
| 1:37.9 | and particularly infrastructure projects, and streamline consultation that would otherwise drown builders. |
| 1:44.2 | Elsewhere, she has announced investments in new transport links in the north of England. |
| 1:48.9 | They're talking about creating Europe's Silicon Valley in between Oxford and Cambridge. |
| 1:53.2 | It's aimed at driving new investments in science and technology. |
| 1:56.8 | They also want to go hard on building new homes, particularly around those travel hubs. |
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