Enjoying this episode thanks. I still think the public has not had a proper explanation along the lines of - we think you don’t want this (correct us if we are wrong) but we either put up taxes/continue austerity or we join the customs union and get 2% GDP boost. I mean Farage is ahead anyway 🤷‍♀️

Theory of knowledge is excellent in the IB Diploma. UK state schools should have something similar in the Sixth Form.

Hard not to despair. They are just fighting on farage’s turf. So depressing. Also the international student levy. They don’t even need to be seen as immigrants and it will hurt the HE sector enormously.

I know it’s a different point but I feel it’s related- law, both national and international- especially when it derives from natural law and human rights can help with a line - I’m struck by how few people turn to the concept of law now (which is at its purest a series of codified societal lines).

Totally agree, he was totally underwhelming. The UK always likes someone who is Labour but somehow feels like he could even be a Tory.

Yes 100% this- far right all come for this eventually. I do wonder who really wants to live in a world like this it’s so dystopian and miserable. It’s also the inevitable end point of the hard brexit project but we aren’t allowed to say that.

But if dark internet ads can flip small numbers of people in a small number of important constituencies and you can get a parliamentary landslide with under 40% of the voting public, belief in the public at large is irrelevant.

I do believe in the British public the problem is first past the post & tech companies- dark political ads on the internet will target and persuade a tiny slither of people in a tiny number of constituencies and the rest of us are irrelevant. Plus the left has ceded ground to the right over Brexit.

It’s getting really real. Totally agree we need everyone to stand against this- Labour, old style Tories, Lib Dems, Greens. Even if people think this movement is about “just immigration” it’s not, it’s coming for everyone- eg in US trying to undermine women’s use of painkillers during pregnancy.

This is good. I presume from what happened at Windsor Castle that the government has decided not to regulate AI in line with the EU but I haven’t seen anything about that yet.

Ok but what about doing so on the same day? Is that too much to ask when something is so blatantly wrong?

My kids are at a British international school and parents say the UK has also become too expensive for them- not just international tuition fees compared to European fees but accommodation costs are very high.

Not sure about that. Mine wouldn’t. (Anecdotal I realise). Maybe there’s data on it.

The devastating consequences of not complying with international law will be with us for decades. This is the Iraq war on steroids. That undermined many political systems and voter trust. There is some amnesia and some group think going on. You cannot order the disorder without international law.