Zanny Minton Beddoes

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654 appearances 3 recordings 1 series first heard Jul 2026 last heard 30 Jul

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The Intelligence from The Economist · The Elon game: Musk’s vision of the future · 24 Jul 2026 podcast

And I think actually bigoted view of the here and now.

And particularly of Europe.

And I asked him a lot about Europe because I've been very struck just how often he

comments on or posts things about Europe and Europe in his

perspective is undergoing civilizational erasure because there's just been an influx of Muslim migrants and it's a dangerous place as a result.

And it's all of the talking points that you hear from the Magarite.

I think it's genuinely irresponsible because he is

Inciting and encouraging

not just the populist right, but the far right in a way that is much more likely to lead to terrible outcomes in Europe.

And he denied it.

He said really all he's in favour of is secure borders.

limited public spending and safe places.

And I said, Well on two of those counts, actually Europe does much better than the US does.

So it was a sort of frustrating conversation 'cause I think he's just wrong on the facts.

But more than that

I think he is unwilling to acknowledge that

What he is doing is irresponsible.

Are you anti Muslim?

That part of the conversation was quite heated, quite tense, but broadly it was a kind of conversation of two halves, and I think he is a man of two halves.

There are many people many, many people who are sort of musk haters.

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