Alastair Campbell
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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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Trump, most obviously, Nigel Farage here,
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you know, we know who they are and they're all over the world.
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I think they're much better organised than the centre-left.
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I mean, one of the things I find is comical about the populist right, where nationalism is so much what they're for, is actually they fight it on a global level.
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They're a globalist organisation fighting against globalism.
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But I think you've got to go back
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Probably as far as definitely the crash.
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I think the crash was, you know, 2008, et cetera, was a massive driver of populism.
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And I'll come back to that.
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But I think you probably even go back further than that.
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And I can remember me thinking, do you remember the Seattle protests when China came into the World Trade Organization?
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Massive, massive protests.
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And it was the trade unions.
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It was ordinary people.
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It was workers.
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and they were massively protesting against the Americans letting China into the WTO.
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And I remember we were thinking, because we thought at the time, globalisation was going to be part of our economic success story as well.
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But I think that was a big driver within the American populism, because that was what then opened the door to Trump to say, these people have given your jobs away to China.
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So I think that, followed by the crash,
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Followed by, I think, a sense in politics, democratic politics, that it wasn't producing the kind of leaders that made people feel, that's my leader.
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