John Kampfner
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first heard May 2026
last heard 30 May
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is to show political courage, which is incredibly rare to find, and imagination.
And you need to bring people along with you.
That's long-termism.
It's also being candid with populations about the trade-off.
And in multi-party democracies, I would suggest that for these really intractable long-term problems, you set up ongoing commissions, not the kind of commissions that are designed to kick
you know, kick things into the long grass.
But you say, right, you've got a report in six months and it's going to have three representatives from this party, this party, this party, various experts, these people from the different regions, and we're all going to agree and we're all going to decide.
And if they don't, then you name them and you shame them and you go into the next general election saying, we wanted to create a national consensus on this.
We have it from this group and that group, but not from the other group.
And I think that that would have traction.
And look at it from the other end of the telescope, Pat.
If we don't do this, and if parties don't do that, if you look at the abject performance of Starmer, the great difficulties that Mount is having in Germany, the imperiled and fragile government in France, if they don't think imaginatively, they've got no future.
Yeah, I mean, in Estonia, you can do your tax return in seven minutes.
All 3,000 government services, state services, can be delivered online if you wish to take them online, and more than 90% of people do.
It saves about 2% of GDP, but more importantly, it completely changes the relationship between state and individual.
The individual controls their data.
And in India, what is remarkable is
is that you have some very easy to handle apps on your cheap and cheerful cast off
smartphone, which farmers use to find out what the best price they will get for their crops, to arrange deliveries of their crops.
Disadvantaged rural women in India who used to be beholden to their husbands or to other men for finances can now self-bank on these apps.
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