He seemed a bit better over the last couple of seasons, and he was (audibly) more circumspect when they did topics he knew nothing about (e.g. phenomenology and the science-y stuff).

My PhD supervisor used to talk about top-down fears of 'mass politics'. After listening to that episode, I _finally_ got it ...

Bragg was much more circumspect when he was obviously out-of-his depth -- e.g. 'Phenomenology' and the more science-y topics -- and also over the last couple of seasons.

Bragg did indeed interrupt and talk over his guests (especially women), probably when IOT was doing topics he thought he knew something about.

I thought the episode you did on The Chartists was exemplary ..

spanish people and especially basque people do NOT play about Palestine

And you've mentioned only one of the sorts of diatribe I spotted during a brief scroll ..

.. as others have noted, the Dems/Harris-backers went from saying that Arab-American/Muslim-American votes didn't really matter -- to blaming them for November 2024.

I just put 'Dearborn' into BSky, and noted multiple types of aggro ...

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"Look on my works, ye Mighty, and despair!"

But the issues of planning reform and land ownership/control are likely too much for a structurally impoverished HMG to address ...

John Waterbury (1983) THE EGYPT OF NASSER AND SADAT; still the best single-volume treatment, albeit probably a bit dated in its approach