John le go ith, you first. Thank you for the healthy debate around liberal and populice within a nation state. I think one thing i'd like to get your viewpoint on is an external viewpoint. When you look at the rise of popularism across the nation state. And perhaps to frame it into a question, do you think you would rely on the thinking the ideology of liberalism to help ease the tensions of arising populaism across nation states? Oand there was, i know there was one more hand up here. My mind's quite quick one. So do you think we're at the risk of over complicating the debate by turning into this kind of ideological thing, an
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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