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other podcast sources. Hello and welcome to another London Review of Books podcast. I'm Tom Crewe.

I'm joined today by William Davis,

who's a reader in political economy at Goldsmith, University of London. We're here to talk

today about Will's piece about Corbyn, called Reasons for Corbyn, was published two issues ago,

which takes as its subject, the influence of the internet on

modern politics. And I think what's useful about Will's piece is that it actually allows us

to explore a series of issues and themes that have been brought up in the LRB over the last year

or so as we as a sort of paper tried to get to grips with our current moment. My latest

contribution to this is a piece in the new issue of the LRB about politics and the press

and the possibility of a post-press politics. So we'll be talking about that as well. But I think

we'll just start by talking about Will's first essay for the LRB, which was

about Theresa May. It was a rather chilling piece about the sort of home office mentality

and the way in which Brexit could enable a politics which discriminated between different

sorts of people and different sorts of economic sectors. Maybe you could just, you know, you can say better than I, what that involved.

And how far I think we've come since then.

I mean, does it stand up?

Sure.

This article was written shortly after the speech that she gave at Conservative Party conference in October 2016.

And I was commenting really on the fact that she was bringing to Downing Street a set of principles, techniques of policy,

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