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"The Left Used to Believe in Winning People Over" - Mark Steel

TRIGGERnometry

Konstantin Kisin & Francis Foster

News, Politics, Society & Culture

4.62.6K Ratings

🗓️ 6 August 2023

⏱️ 77 minutes

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Mark Steel is an English author, broadcaster, stand-up comedian and newspaper columnist. He is a regular on British TV and radio, appearing on such shows as Mock the Week, Have I Got New for You and QI. He has also written for The Guardian, The Independent and Daily Mirror. He presents BBC Radio programmes The Mark Steel Lectures, The Mark Steel Solution, Mark Steel's in Town and the podcast What the fuck is going on?

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Stand-up comedians Konstantin Kisin (@konstantinkisin) and Francis Foster (@francisjfoster) make sense of politics, economics, free speech, AI, drug policy and WW3 with the help of presidential advisors, renowned economists, award-winning journalists, controversial writers, leading scientists and notorious comedians.

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0:00.0

At TFL, we're making journeys safer for everyone, and that includes improving safety on London's roads.

0:07.4

That's why we and London boroughs are lowering more speed limits to 20 miles per hour,

0:12.3

because 20 miles per hour roads have already reduced collisions resulting in deaths

0:16.6

or serious injuries by 24 percent. That is how we're making journeys in London safer and brighter

0:23.6

for everyone. Search TFL Improvement Plan to the Mayor of London and TFL every journey matters.

0:30.8

You should be excited as a lefty that Labour are going to get back in surely. We've had a conservative

0:35.7

government for nine, what, 13, 14 years. This should be a galvanising one. Yeah, I don't feel it.

0:42.0

Style is great genius, is he says nothing and then a week later goes back on it.

0:48.9

The Corbyn Projects attitude towards the media, for example, I do not think was helpful.

0:55.8

I think you have to try and win people round. I think if someone's Oswald Mosley, or Hitler,

1:02.0

there's no point in trying to win them round, but most people aren't that. Try to sort of engage

1:08.4

with people and look for the positive. Not just go, ah, fuck it down, look at the fuck that part

1:13.6

and just try to just shut the argument down and see everybody who says something that might

1:21.2

possibly be interpreted as bigoted as they, they shouldn't be allowed to say that. I think that

1:28.0

that doesn't help.

1:39.2

Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.

1:43.0

I'm Constantine Christian. And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with

1:47.8

fascinating people. Our brilliant guest today is a well-known British comedian Mark Steele.

1:52.0

Welcome to Trigonometry. Oh God, I probably fascinating. We'll find out. We'll find out.

1:56.8

We'll see if you are. Because when you're introducing it as a comic, you think,

2:01.4

ah, let's be jokes work. I'm all right, but fascinating.

2:06.2

That by the way is the most British comedian thing to say. A lot of Americans are thinking,

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