Helen

And that's what people are voting for.

They want something to happen.

And they feel that there are all these ways in which nothing ever changes, nothing ever happens.

And I do think that does capture some of what you were saying.

There was an analysis of the recent council elections which said essentially you can break down Britain to four blocks.

If you're older and financially precarious, you're voting Reform.

If you're younger and financially precarious, you're voting Green.

If you're older and financially secure, you're voting Conservative.

And if you're younger and financially secure, you're voting Labour.

And that's a huge oversimplification.

But there is an alliance there between people who feel that their lives are not secure in some way, and then they have the, like, well, burn it all down then.

Like, you know, I've got no stake in this system anyway.

You know, that, I think, is a very powerful force in British politics right now.

Tough on banter, tough on the causes of banter.

I do think it's hard if you don't consume a lot of this content just to realize how incredibly heightened emotionally it is.

So if you're watching short-form video, you know you're just getting stuff pumped at you.

There is an established problem on X, formerly Twitter, of creators sitting in other countries.

Basically, people who are sitting alone at their computer in somewhere like Malaysia, creating clips about the kind of Islamic takeover of London.

And you have this very odd situation.

I spend a lot of time writing about America, where you have Americans who live in cities with unbelievably high homicide rates, kind of going, is everything okay in London?