Waleed Aly
speaker
156 appearances
2 recordings
1 series
first heard Aug 2026
last heard 9 Aug
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Look, it's a massive question and we could talk for weeks about how we got here.
I mean, I suppose the most efficient way to answer that would just be to say the
Look at this century.
I mean, it's been a hell of a century.
We start with September 11, the war on terror, wars in Afghanistan and Iraq.
Then you go into homegrown terrorism and the London bombings.
It's not very long after that that you have climate change really emerging as an issue in the public imagination when Al Gore releases his film.
have the global financial crisis.
And after the global financial crisis, you have the start, really, which we ignore, I think, but the start of capitalism.
a lot of populist right politics, beginning with Viktor Orban's election in Hungary in 2010, Golden Dawn emerged in Greece.
You've got the AFD in Germany, basically an inheritor of, let's call them neo-Nazi adjacent.
We've got the whole tech thing.
So you've got social media starting to develop.
The algorithm starts to dominate these apps as well.
Artificial intelligence hasn't really started at that point, but that's okay because COVID's on the horizon.
So we have COVID.
And then in the aftermath of that, that's when we enter the Ukraine-Russia war.
You have Israel-Gaza, you have inflation exploding all around the world, partly because of COVID and the
The money that government's pumped into economies, but then also what happened in Russia and Ukraine and what that does to energy markets, then AI takes off.
I mean, I don't know if you need me to go on, Daniel, but there's been
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