Alastair Campbell
speaker
805 appearances
1 recordings
1 series
first heard Jul 2026
last heard 15 Jul
Alastair Campbell’s voice in public audio — every appearance, attributed to the second.
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They call you woke if you sort of campaign for gay rights.
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Yes, they do.
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There's loads of gay people who use this phrase woke.
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I'll come back to the police.
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Right.
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Honestly, this stuff, it's just, it's demented.
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It's absolutely demented.
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No, okay, and it may be, and it may be because you found one document where some guy is writing some guidance for police.
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The idea... College of Police and Guidance.
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Okay, okay, wait a minute.
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What the weaponizers have done is... Oh, come on.
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Well, it depends what you define populism as.
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I define populism as a form of politics that seeks to exploit rather than solve.
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That's my view of populism.
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I know that the traditional view of populism is, well, it's the people against the elite.
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I think that's a post-facto rationalisation to make the populists feel better about the way they do politics.
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But at heart, populism means to me a form of politics that is not about solving problems, it's exploiting them, and that's not about meeting challenges together, it's about driving people apart.
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That's my take on populism, that's why I don't like it.
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There's so many reasons.
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I think, look, I think people, there are some very effective political operators who have worked out that their route to power with the views that they hold and the characters that they have is this form of populism that I've defined, okay?
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