Alistair Campbell

Welcome to the Restless Politics Question Time with me, Alistair Campbell.

And with me, Rory Stewart.

First half of question time, we're going to cover two big issues that relate to some of the things we're always talking about.

Collapse of laws and collapse of norms.

And we're talking about Cuba and we're also talking about Israel.

And then we're going to talk a little bit about reform and also who, I hope you've thought about it, Rory, who is the most evil handshake?

Yeah, where to start?

I guess a lot of this is about oil.

Cuba, since the revolution, has always had a big oil-producing international sponsor.

So for a long time through the Cold War, it was the Soviet Union.

Soviet Union collapses.

They had an economic crisis then.

Venezuela, more recently and since, the Americans took out Maduro and installed Delce Rodriguez as president.

there has been a blockade.

And Andy's question, is this doing to Cuba or Israel did to Gaza?

I can see the parallels, but I think the difference here, I think this more relates to what we've already seen with Trump's administration, where they signal intent very, very strongly.

They did it in Venezuela, did it in Iran.

What I worry about, what's going on with Cuba is,

Which is basically running out of fuel.

People are living day to day, hand to mouth, and it's just underlining how we all need energy.