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Alistair Campbell

๐Ÿ‘ค Speaker
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The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

Is this what you just said, 50?

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

But one of the sections of the book...

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

where he's just going through, because Russia gets involved in it at a certain point, just going through all the people who kind of fell out of windows.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

And I'm reading at the moment, I'm now reading the book Nord Stream Conspiracy.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

And again, Putin and his ability to, I mean, honestly, Angela Merkel has not come well out of this book because basically you get the sense that Russia is

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

playing her and keeping her in the Nord Stream thing.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

Anyway, it's a bit like London Falling.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

It's a non-fiction book written as an absolute thriller.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

So Putin sort of weaves in and out all these terrible stories.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

But I think the reason why he's only my runner-up is because the winner was

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

of the most evil hand I ever shook was actually somebody who really killed a lot of his own people and just totally ruined his own country, and that was Mugabe.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

I really had a sense meeting, did you ever meet Mugabe?

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

And he just emanated.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

You just didn't enjoy being in the same space.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

He had this horrible manner about him.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

He was surrounded like a lot of authoritarian leaders are by sycophants sort of, you know, bowing and scraping as he walked.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

He had the most ridiculously expensive suits.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

I think even Xi Jinping would struggle to match Mugabe on the suit front.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

And his little โ€“ his handmade shoes with his little โ€“ with his initials on the inside, but all this sort of horrible stuff.

The Rest Is Politics
537. Indicting Trump, Israeli Prisons, and Rory vs. Ed Miliband

But I just think in terms of what he did to his own country, absolutely evil.