S8 Ep1131: Joseph Sternberg addresses the assassination of former MP Ann Widdecombe, which is being investigated as a possible act of political violence. Sternberg notes that existential political rhetoric on social media often inspires such attacks. These tensions
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John Batchelor
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🗓️ 15 July 2026
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| 0:25.6 | This is a high risk investment and you should not expect to be protected if something goes wrong. I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Joseph Sternberg, who helps me to understand the British culture. |
| 0:52.7 | It is two people separated by a common language. Sometimes I do not understand the British culture. It is two people separated by a common language. Sometimes I do not |
| 0:57.3 | understand the emphasis that goes on in the politics. But this time, the murder of a woman who was |
| 1:03.4 | an esteemed member of parliament when she was a conservative MP, her name is Whitacom, |
| 1:09.3 | and joining the Reform Party, which is led by Nigel Farage, very small. |
| 1:14.5 | She's been much on the media, as she always has been. The investigation is underway. I have no |
| 1:20.2 | conclusions other than the fact that the counterterrorism people have taken over the investigation, |
| 1:25.8 | suggesting this was a political act and not an act of a burglar or a random act. |
| 1:32.0 | There is someone detained. |
| 1:33.6 | He's innocent till proven guilty. |
| 1:35.8 | I leave that alone because what I want to understand is violence against members of parliament and whether this is coming our way. |
| 1:42.9 | Joe, is it qualitatively different the way |
| 1:45.4 | Parliament is presented on the radio that there's someone out there who would think that you |
| 1:51.5 | need to do violence against you? This is the third one I can remember. There was a woman killed, |
| 1:58.0 | murdered during Brexit. There was a man murdered by his constituent at a gathering. |
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