I would agree with an a dadan that the financial crisis exasperated a lot of the divides that we're now grappling with. Anybody who's been looking at europe knows that this really began in the late 19 seventies, early 19 eighties. And i think there's a lot of truth to the claim that what we are witnessing partly is a back clash to the great liberal revolutions of the 19 sixties. I think liberalism has ob obviously has achieved a lot of wonderful things. But every liberal in the room would probably accept, and if they don't, i'd be keen to hear why,. That their ideology is increasingly being high jacked by a strain of thought that has
A delve into the archive and back to 2019 when we debated a motion asking whether the left’s policies of high immigration and multiculturalism caused the disaffection which has given rise to populism? Or was it the right, with its tabloid scare stories about foreigners eroding national identity? We were joined by Matthew Goodwin, Professor of Politics at Kent University; politician Daniel Hannan; Elif Shafak, award-winning novelist; and John Simpson, BBC World Affairs Editor, columnist and author. The discussion was chaired by BBC journalist and broadcaster Ritula Shah.
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