Hello, my name is David Runsman and this is Talking Politics. We are going to be talking

this week about how different the world might be if one or two small things had come out

slightly differently from the way they did. Corbin, Brexit, Trump, we're going to think

about what the world would be like if some of those things hadn't happened.

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something fascinating for you. This week Hillary Clinton has been in the United Kingdom,

promoting her book, giving interviews, getting an honorary degree from Swansea University, I think,

reconnecting with her wealth roots and pretty much telling every audience she speaks to that she

could have would have should have been the president of the United States. So in honor of Hillary,

we don't have an interview with her, but we're going to talk about some could have would have

got Helen Thompson who is an expert on political economy. I went for non-archeolict drink with one

of the very first students I taught in Cambridge, he's written a book called Islanders. Not Jimmy

Car. Very Patrick Barcom. Jimmy Car is the very first student. He was the very single first

student I taught. Chris Brooke who is an expert on political theory, but they both know about lots of

other things too. We went to the cinema to see the party and it's a sort of black comedy about

the lives of various people falling apart. No, we enjoyed it very much indeed.

And I thought we'd do this in reverse order. We'll work back to Brexit, but start with the general

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