Alastair Campbell

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805 appearances 1 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 15 Jul

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TRIGGERnometry · Alastair Campbell vs. TRIGGERnometry: Grooming Gangs, Immigration and Iraq · 15 Jul 2026 podcast

I think we're seeing it in relation to the trans debate. matched

I think we're seeing it in relation to maybe less the kind of gay rights debate. matched

But I think particularly if you're talking about race, I think there have been times when the fear... matched

of the consequence of ventilating the debate stops you having the debate in the first place. matched

And I agree, and I think that's wrong. matched

That's what happened. matched

Right. matched

What I'm saying is that if your political debate generally has become more toxic matched

And we can blame whoever we want, right? matched

And you probably might think it's more people on the left. matched

Okay, it may be. matched

But that's another issue we haven't really confronted. matched

Okay, so focus on this. matched

I would say that because the debate generally has become more toxic, because we do have a branch of politician that when something really bad happens... matched

doesn't think that's really bad what can i do to help actually thinks what can i do to exploit that is why partly i think why we got into the mess recently the southampton and belfast stuff you know where technology played a big part but that was a classic example where politicians and political figures who knew absolutely nothing about beyond a small set of facts matched

But they just wanted the one or two facts within that cohort of facts, then to go out and create riots. matched

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That is a creature of the toxic, to my mind, of the toxicity of populism. matched

And so that we don't, and this is, look, we've all got to own up to our responsibility in this. matched

Social media has played a massive part. matched

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