Masculinity and Misinformation: How JimmyTheGiant Escaped The Alt-Right Pipeline
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Hi, this is Pod Save the UK. I'm Coco Kahn.
And I'm Nish Kumar. Today, it seems our young people have lost faith in democracy. A poll this week found that 52% of them would favour an authoritarian government. It's scary stuff.
It really is. But it's not surprising. And I'm not just saying that to continue my mission to make people think I'm younger than I am.
Well, look, we thought it was prime time to get inside the heads of these people. We're joined by a very special guest who found himself sucked into the alt-right wormhole that came out the other side. We'll be speaking with YouTuber Jimmy the Giant.
And the government is sending out the bulldozers in pursuit of its growth agenda. But what's at risk? Let's hear from the Chancellor.
This is a government on the side of working people, taking the right decisions to secure their future, to secure our future, stepping up to the challenges that we face. ending the era of low expectations, putting Britain on a different path, delivering for the British people. And I am determined, this government is determined to do just that.
That's the Chancellor, Rachel Reeves, laying out her latest plans for cutting down on government spending and kickstarting growth. So how are they going to do it? In an op-ed in The Times on Tuesday, Keir Starmer wrote, we'll cut the weeds of regulation and let growth bloom, which is very poetic. But what does it mean? Reeves has announced subsequently that she plans to streamline environmental obligations, calling the example of the HS2 BAT tunnel, that cost £100 million, an example of regulation going wrong. They're going to limit legal challenges and the number of people who can veto projects and particularly infrastructure projects and streamline consultation that would otherwise drown builders.
Elsewhere, she has announced investments in new transport links in the north of England. They're talking about creating Europe's Silicon Valley in between Oxford and Cambridge. It's aimed at driving new investments in science and technology. They also want to go hard on building new homes, particularly around those travel hubs. And they say that they will curb regulator overreach.
So the government is already putting its rhetoric on that last point into action. So last week, Rachel Reeves forced out the chairman of the UK's competition watchdog, the Competition and Markets Authority.
Reeves's justification for the removal of CMA chairman Marcus Bockering was that they didn't see eye to eye on how the UK can achieve growth. That's the magic word. So she's appointed Amazon's former UK boss, Doug Gurr, as interim chair. And we all know how concerned, that's the right word, isn't it, Amazon has been in regards to healthy competition.
In her speech, Reeves paid particular attention to our economic links with the US following a reportedly positive conversation between Keir Starmer and Donald Trump. But when it comes to slightly less mad trading partners, when asked on Sunday whether the UK would consider joining the Pan-Euro Mediterranean Convention, which is a tariff-free zone with Europe, Reeves didn't rule it out, saying that she would consider anything that might attract growth so long as it didn't cross any of her Brexit red lines.
Don't call it a Brentree. I mean, really, don't. It's a terrible word, isn't it? Don't. It's an awful poor mantra. And the G word, growth, is on everyone's lips in Westminster. So Starmer told business leaders at a Bloomberg event on Tuesday that what Rachel and I have done is to make it clear to our cabinet colleagues. that in each of their briefs, growth is the number one mission. So it's not just a mission for the Chancellor, a mission for me or for trade and education, but every single group has to go through the question, is this pro-growth? Did you ever used to watch The Day Today? Yeah. There's like a really famous segment in that where Steve Coogan, playing a kind of early Alan Partridge character, is doing a skit about driving fast and causing accidents.
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