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

You may have some right on your side, but I think you way oversimplify quite a lot of these issues to make it feel. matched

No, because history is complicated. matched

Yeah, exactly. matched

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So anyway, talk to them about it. matched

It's better. matched

You're the one who keeps saying you don't want to hog the bike. matched

No, no, I want to hog the bike. matched

yeah exactly no but it's a lot of people yeah it is yeah no we have to so what i would what i would say we have to accept that large swathes of the british public and the european public and the american public are losing faith in the ability of politics to deliver the improvements in their lives that politicians keep promising right and we had a long period of labor government matched

We had a long period of Tory government, we've now had a Labour government again, and they both have been caught up in that. matched

Alongside that, we have a less tribal population that just as it shops around for which TV programmes to watch and who to date and all this other stuff that technology has brought, matched

we've also we're seeing an erosion or certainly a slow but accelerating breakdown in political tribalism as well says that people no longer think i am labor i am tory i am lived them they think well i'm going to just you know take a look we also have i think as a consequence of the nature of our the media in this country i think we have a matched

a really well-developed cynicism. matched

And I think it's gone from skepticism to cynicism about the ability of anybody to do anything good for them. matched

Political parties have got to address that. matched

They've got to deal with that. matched

My point is, populism is not the answer. matched

Right-wing populism is not the answer. matched

Left-wing populism is not the answer. matched

But the London Schools Initiative that we did was in part about addressing that. matched

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