Why the hard right hate London
The News Agents
Global
4.2 • 4.3K Ratings
🗓️ 14 August 2025
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Barely a day goes by without a right-wing influencer proclaiming that London has fallen. Crime in the capital, it is said, is rampant, police nowhere to be seen - it's a grim picture painted by those who decry 'Sadiq Khan's London'.
But is any of this actually borne out in reality? Do the facts back up this portrait of the city? And if not, why are there so many on the hard right so determined to trash London's image?
Later, a report from Vegas about a jaw-dropping new AI product, which raises questions about life, death, and the commercialisation of grief.
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| 0:00.0 | The Newsagents podcast is brought to you by HSBC UK, opening up a world of opportunity. |
| 0:08.1 | This is a global player original podcast. |
| 0:13.5 | I didn't think it was possible to hate London anymore than I did already, |
| 0:20.5 | because it's such an unbelievable foothole of a place. |
| 0:25.6 | I'm here today on Oxford Street where this is the state of Salique Khan's London. |
| 0:29.6 | We've got a private business warning its customers and other shoppers here |
| 0:32.6 | to keep the phones hidden because they're getting stolen all the time. |
| 0:35.6 | Why is London such a hellhole at the moment? Let's be honest. |
| 0:40.8 | The social contract in London is under strain like never before. |
| 0:44.2 | Now we know that knife crime has exploded in London. |
| 0:47.1 | I think we're living in lawless London. |
| 0:48.9 | London's just fallen to the point now where if you have money, you have to hide it. |
| 0:51.9 | It's crazy. London's completely lawless now. |
| 0:55.3 | Among others you heard there were Lawrence Fox, Nigel Farage, and Andrew Tate, |
| 1:01.5 | trying to paint London as this dystopian hellhole where if you walk out of your front door, |
| 1:09.0 | that is, if you haven't already been burgled, you're going to be |
| 1:12.0 | mugged, you're going to be raped, you're going to be assaulted, and you're going to have your phone |
| 1:16.2 | stolen. London has problems, but why is the right trying to turn London into a metaphor for |
| 1:26.1 | everything that is wrong? Has it anything to do with the city having a Muslim |
| 1:33.1 | mayor? Welcome to the newsagents. The newsagents. It's John. And it's Lewis in San Francisco. Lucky you. So you're no longer in Vegas. You've abandoned Vegas. Unfortunately, the authorities made me leave, John. For reasons that are undisclosed, they made me leave. You know, I've come to San Francisco instead, the heart of the digital universe to do more in this AI story, but the hotel's Wi-Fi is down and there's no power. So, you know, maybe actually, maybe actually, maybe the future is not all it's cracked |
| 2:05.8 | up to me, do you know what I mean? The future is bright. No, it's not. Look, we spoke about London |
| 2:11.9 | on the podcast the other day and dare to suggest that London may be an okay place to live, complicated, |
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