Ep#206 - Lucy Brown - Hate Club

This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight @GSpellchecker) welcomes author Lucy Brown. Lucy will be talking about her new book ‘Hate Club’ which chronicles here turbulent experience working with Tommy Robinson

0:00 Intro
1:29 Cultural shift
3:06 Have your politics changed?
5:31 A failure of the left and the right to understand each other.
8:08 Meeting Tommy Robinson and the decision to write the book
12:20 Do you have some residual loyalty to Robinson
14:39 Employers and political activism.
17:22 First meeting Tommy Robinson
21:41 Tommy Robinson’s public persona
25:00 Ali Dawah and Luc’s falling out with Tommy Robinson
31:52 Lauren Southern’s claims about Andrew Tate and Tommy Robinson
34:38 The behaviour of some of Robinson’s fans
38:50 Does Robinson deserve the credit for exposing grooming gangs?
42:59 Does Robinson use his ‘activism’ to fund his lifestyle?
51:06 The John Sweeney and Panorama controversy.
56:14 Will Lucy be getting more politically active again?

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