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Hello and welcome to the Political Party. This one features Professor Angela Wilson, Professor

of Politics at the University of Manchester and Chair of the Political Studies Association.

Well, this is an absolute corka. I've met Angela a couple of times and she is funny,

obviously exceptionally intelligent. And we talk about her current work on the strategies

of the Christian right, trying to predict the future I often do with her academic guests

and we talk about a million and one things in between. And on top of that, I noticed

that particularly when talking to academics and particularly talking to people who are

basically not white men, I immediately get, and I think I'm overthinking it, I immediately

sort of want to check what the right words are, even though I'm obviously not an idiot,

but you're just immediately consumed by a fear that I'm going to offend someone by not

using the correct term. So I've gotten into that habit. I think it's always best to ask

even if it feels obvious. But I'm going to listen back to this and go, yeah, should

have just used the word lesbian, I was wrong with you. But, and she's very gracious and

is superb. And as you can tell, one of the, you know, not just the countries, but she's

a leading global academic on a variety of social science and political areas. So this is

just a great, I mean, Jan Halper Hayes on a few episodes ago, who was pro Trump. I think

it's no exaggeration to say, Professor Wilson isn't, isn't pro Trump, but it talks about

our own politics in a very tactful way. And we don't really drill down into our own politics

in the sense of who she would support an election or where it on the political compasses.

But we certainly talk about her extensive work, really analyzing the, particularly the

Christian right in America. So this is, I mean, it's, I think we did slightly more than

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