233. From peerages to Putin: the fight against corruption in politics
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Keir Starmer has gone out of his way to break with his party's antisemitic past and to reshape the Labour parliamentary party.
But this weekend, shadow ministers found themselves in the unenviable position of having to defend the Labour candidate for Rochdale for 'mistakenly believing a conspiracy theory' instead of calling him out for his antisemitic remarks about whether Israel had turned a blind eye to the Hamas atrocities as 'a green light for a full on Gaza invasion'.
Azhar Ali is standing against George Galloway which is perhaps why Labour is nervous. What should happen to all those other MPs suspended by the party leader for antisemitic remarks?
And where does this leave Keir Starmer on his Middle East foreign policy more widely?
Also, Trump has encouraged Russia to invade NATO countries that dont pay their bills. Well of course he has. Why is Europe surprised? And has it figured out America under Trump is not going to care about our security? We discuss why we've been so slow to listen to what he's saying.
**This episode was recorded before Labour withdrew their support for Rochdale candidate Azhar Ali**
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Farmer protests in Germany point to greater political and economic discontent within the European powerhouse. Get the facts first on Morning Wire.
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(1) Chancellor Jeremy Hunt will provide a £21 billion stimulus to the UK economy in the run-up to the next election, threatening to fuel inflation and prompt the Bank of England to keep interest rates in painfully high territory.
(2) Far-right lawmaker Geert Wilders won the Dutch elections and said he plans to lead the country's next government, in a shock result that will resound across Europe.
(3) Israel and Hamas's talks over a deal for a short-term truce continued overnight, with Israeli officials signaling that the release of hostages from Gaza would be delayed for a day until Friday.
(4) Warren Buffett said that the donation of his fortune to charitable causes after his death will be open to public scrutiny, though the 93-year-old billionaire said he's still doing fine for now.
(5) A special report on Viktor Orban's $1 Billion School for Tomorrow's Nationalists. The Budapest-based college has turned into a powerful tool for the populist Hungarian leader to export his world view.
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In last November's midterm elections, voters placed the Republican Party in charge of the House of Representatives. In 2024, it’s very possible that Republicans will take over the Senate as well and voters will elect Donald Trump — or someone like him — as president.
But the United States isn’t alone in this regard. Over the course of 2022, Italy elected a far-right prime minister from a party with Fascist roots; a party founded by neo-Nazis and skinheads won the second-highest number of seats in Sweden’s Parliament; Viktor Orban’s Fidesz party in Hungary won its fourth consecutive election by a landslide; Marine Le Pen won 41 percent of the vote in the final round of France’s presidential elections; and Jair Bolsonaro came dangerously close to winning re-election in Brazil.
Why are these populist uprisings happening simultaneously, in countries with such diverse cultures, economies and political systems?
Pippa Norris is a political scientist at Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government, where she has taught for three decades. In that time, she’s written dozens of books on topics ranging from comparative political institutions to right-wing parties and the decline of religion. And in 2019 she and Ronald Inglehart published “Cultural Backlash: Trump, Brexit and Authoritarian Populism,” which gives the best explanation of the far right’s rise that I’ve read.
In this conversation, taped in November 2022, we discuss what Norris calls the “silent revolution in cultural values” that has occurred across advanced democracies in recent decades, why the best predictor of support for populist parties is the generation people were born into, why the “transgressive aesthetic” of leaders like Donald Trump and Jair Bolsonaro is so central to their appeal, how demographic and cultural “tipping points” have produced conservative backlashes across the globe, the difference between “demand-side” and “supply-side” theories of populist uprising, the role that economic anxiety and insecurity play in fueling right-wing backlashes, why delivering economic benefits might not be enough for mainstream leaders to stave off populist challenges and more.
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Sacred and Secular by Pippa Norris and Ronald Inglehart
“Exploring drivers of vote choice and policy positions among the American electorate”
Book Recommendations:
Popular Dictatorships by Aleksandar Matovski
Spin Dictators by Sergei Guriev and Daniel Treisman
The Origins of Totalitarianism by Hannah Arendt
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In part two of this week’s podcast, Georgie Frost, Rich Browning and Simon Lambert discuss the inevitability of another global financial meltdown and how we’re going to fix it this time round.
Meanwhile, what’s in store in Europe now a former investment banker, Emmanual Macron, is president of France and looking to reinvigorate the European project?
Perhaps this an opportunity for investors to make a quick buck or euro away from the uncertainty of the outcome of any Brexit negotiations.
Is putting bankers in charge of anything within a decade of them bringing the world financial system to its knees a bit foolhardy? Or is this a case of this time it’s different?
World War II was the solution to the Great Depression.
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