Quiet Riot The Windsor Knot: How to tie up a strongman without him noticing
Trump gets the full Windsor treatment and turns to Royal Jelly.
PLUS: How to defeat the far right.
Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and special guest, boss of Hope Not Hate, Nick Lowles, discuss the Presidential visit and Nick's new book on lessons learned from decades fighting the fash.
Including regualr features 'Wokey Dokey' and 'Grin And Share It'.
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“Ultimately we are not going to be able to address or reduce people’s anger around immigration, without being able to address the economic pessimism that is driving it.”
“There’s very little common space - especially free common space. Much to do with political decisions, but also changing lifestyles. The large workplaces of the 70s are gone. 10,500 playing fields were sold off under austerity. There’s far less interaction between people from different communities.”
“We are looking for top-down solutions, but - particularly with current levels of lack of trust in authority - we need to do more peer-to-peer stuff. You can’t legislate away youth radicalisation. You are just pushing more young people to rebel against the system.”
“The Royals looked utterly miserable. They all looked completely bored. Melania looked bored. And all for what? To appease a man who has criticised our democracy, insulted our Prime Minister, tried to humiliate our capital’s mayor. It is grotesque.”
“We are trying to hang on, in the back seat of a car, being driven at speed by a maniac. Maybe jumping out or antagonising him is not the right choice. Maybe playing soothing music and engaging him in conversation, until we can get out alive is better. I don’t envy the choice for any politician.”
CALLS TO ACTION:
Buy Nick's new book How to Defeat the Far Right here.
Find out more about Hope Not Hate here.
Read Alex's substack piece for free here.
Naomi's hack for calculating crowd sizes.
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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell.
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