Nish Kumar
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Podcast Appearances
There's a lot of interesting critical writing around that book and how it kind of propagates an idea that it sort of fits nicely in our kind of Darwinian understanding of the world.
There is something interesting about Lord of the Flies right now, just in terms of the way politics has been conducted and the kind of strongman coming back to the fore in European politics.
In terms of TV shows and films that I've enjoyed recently, like I obviously really love the sort of
doubleheader of One Battle After Another and Sinners.
Both of those movies have really interesting things to say about where we are right now.
I think there's a line in Sinners where Delroy Lindo says something like, white people like the blues, they just don't like the people who make it.
That is a really interesting way of digesting, I think, the way people are capable of processing culture that's made by the black community.
but also holding space in their heart to manage to have racism towards the black community.
I think it's such an interesting and pithy digestion of that quite complicated idea.
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
The only thing I would say about that is everyone loves the studio and that is just purely backstage.
And it is a very funny show.
This is a question from Dan in Neath.
I was wondering if you knew how the proportional voting system would work in the Welsh elections in May.
For example, could I end up with a reformed Senate member even if the Greens received the most votes for my constituency?
And then Dan has added, thank you for being amazing.
Listen, there has been a lot of legwork done on this question in the week.
And this is what we found.
So the Senate system is changing in the upcoming elections in May.
And this is the seventh election since devolution, which happened in 1999.