Hello and welcome to Brokonomics. Now, dear viewer, if you are anything like me, you have spent a lot of time wondering if the left are evil or stupid.

Now, I've made my mind up on this subject and then changed it very many times.

So I thought to myself, right, who can we ask to get to the bottom of this important question?

And it has to be Charles Hayward. Charles, thank you for joining us.

Very pleased to be here.

Now, Charles, this is the point of the show where I should give an introduction to your good self.

Now, I thought I had a pretty clear grip on who you were.

You were a chap who had made his money in mergers and acquisitions, a bit like Patrick

Bateman, although presumably a number of important distinctions. You'd then become a gentleman

of leisure and you become a political commentator, all round good chap on our side. You wrote for

things like the Islander magazine, so thank you very much for that. And you do book reviews,

which are incredibly helpful because they're all books that I know that I really should read, although I never get

around to, so your channel is incredibly helpful with that. So I thought I had it pinned down

who Charles Hayward is. And then I started reading a bit of James Lindsay, and I discovered that you

are in fact an arch warlock who is in

league with a Zoroastrian demon and the Archangel Michael, and that you are secretly

controlling the Maga movement. Now, I've got to say, when I heard that, I was both impressed and

slightly confused. So perhaps you could clear it up. Who is Charles Hayward?

Yeah, well, Charles Hayward may have something to do hopefully with Archangel Michael, but has nothing to do with Zoroastrian gods or all the other Lindsay.

I will say just a minor correction. I did not make my money in Mergers and acquisitions because that would imply I made my money through financialization.

I may I used to be Emergent Acquisitions lawyer, but then I became a shampoo manufacturer.

Hence my occasional moniker on Twitter, the shampoo warlord. So you'll see that occasionally as a

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