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🗓️ 12 January 2026
⏱️ 19 minutes
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| 0:00.0 | This is The Guardian. |
| 0:09.7 | And let me be really clear about X. |
| 0:11.9 | X is not doing enough to keep its customers safe online. |
| 0:15.6 | Good morning, everyone. |
| 0:16.7 | I'm here today to tell you all. |
| 0:18.7 | Britain needs Nigel Farage as Prime Minister. |
| 0:22.0 | We want to bring in age limits. |
| 0:23.7 | The internet is a wild west, social media in particular. |
| 0:26.9 | So Iran's in big trouble. |
| 0:28.5 | If they start killing people like to have in the past, we will get involved. |
| 0:32.1 | We'll be hitting them very hard where it hurts. |
| 0:34.7 | I'm Pippa Carrera. |
| 0:35.8 | And I'm Kieran,acey. You're listening to Politics |
| 0:38.4 | Weekly for The Guardian. Hello, well, we're back after a very busy week. We seem to have |
| 0:43.8 | crammed a year's worth of news into the first week of January, Kieran. This time last Monday, we were |
| 0:49.1 | talking about Donald Trump's kidnapping of Venezuelan President Nicholas Maduro. And so much has |
| 0:54.1 | happened then, some of which we'll get into. But we've had lots of emails from you in the last week. So we wanted to quickly read some out. We've had some excellent responses. Lots of them after last week's podcast, which, as you say, Pippa was mainly covering Venezuela. This one's from Robert. Robert says, by Stama's lack of backbone and outright condemnation |
| 1:12.3 | of Trump, he just looks weak. Just as Chamberlain's conciliatory tone emboldened Hitler in 1938, |
| 1:19.2 | so Stama's appeasement of Trump could yet throw Greenland and Colombia under the proverbial bus. |
| 1:24.7 | We are still one of the richest and most powerful nations on earth, |
| 1:31.0 | and it should be incumbent on any occupier of number 10 to defend the free world, |
| 1:33.0 | not engage in the dilution of freedom itself. |
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