The Good Fight Club: Populism in the UK, Threats to Free Speech, and the Future of the Middle East

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

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4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2025

⏱️ 52 minutes

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A live recording of The Good Fight Club in London! In this week’s episode of The Good Fight Club, Yascha Mounk is joined by Fraser Nelson, Helen Joyce, and Shashank Joshi to discuss the global fallout from the assassination of Charlie Kirk, the different ways free speech is under attack in the United Kingdom and the United States, and the future of Israel’s war in Gaza. Fraser Nelson is a British political journalist who was editor of The Spectator from 2009 to 2024. Nelson is also a columnist for The Times. Helen Joyce is an Irish journalist and the Director of Advocacy at Sex Matters. She is the author of Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality. Shashank Joshi is Defence Editor at The Economist, where he writes on a wide range of national security, defence and intelligence issues. Email: [email protected] Podcast production by Jack Shields and Leonora Barclay. Connect with us! ⁠Spotify⁠ | ⁠Apple⁠ | ⁠Google⁠ X: ⁠@Yascha_Mounk⁠ & ⁠@JoinPersuasion⁠ YouTube: ⁠Yascha Mounk⁠, ⁠Persuasion⁠ LinkedIn: ⁠Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:31.1	So right now, we've got a system, Britain is a fairly liberal country. You can say what
0:35.8	you want to them, it is not anywhere near the police state of mega caricature.
0:39.5	We have just got messy laws, which our lawyer prime minister could clean up at any moment of his choosing.
0:47.1	And now the good fight with Yasha Monk.
0:59.5	I'm coming to you live from London.
1:06.6	In this episode of the Good Fight Club, we talk in front of not a live studio audience,
1:08.3	a live pub audience as it happens.
1:11.6	We're talking about the global fallout from the assassination of Charlie Kirk. Here in the UK we had a huge unite the kingdom march. The Reform Party,
1:21.6	led by Nigel Farage, is now up to 10 points ahead in some polls, perhaps set to form the next government.
1:29.3	Why is it that right-wing populists have been rising across Europe and beyond?
1:35.3	We talk about the state of free speech in the United Kingdom and the United States.
1:40.3	Why so many people, including apparently two of our panelists, have had criminal
1:45.6	cases lodged against them because of things that they have said in public and how it is that
1:51.1	the Trump administration is attacking free speech in the United States? And finally, in the
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