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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This week on Taking The Myth, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) and Iram Ramzan (@Iram_Ramzan) discuss all the big topics.

0:00 Intro
0:29 Iram’s travels to Israel
6:08 Iram’s reporting on the Druze
13:13 The assignation of American conservative Charlie Kirk
25:15 The Jimmy Kimmel suspension
28:24 What do we know about Tyler Robinson?
31:18 Islamic knife attacker spared jail.
41:39 Tommy Robinson’s ‘Unite the Kingdom’ march.
49:33 The bizarre claims about Sadiq Khan
59:05 Reform conference, Lucy Connolly and other cranks.
01:07:45 Disagreement on Israel and claims of “genocide”.
01:18:55 The UK recognising a Palestinian state

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This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@GSpellchecker) welcomes author Harry Saul Markham to talk about his new book ‘The Melted Pot: Diversity, Antisemitism, and the Limits of Tolerance’

0:00 Intro
1:24 Why write about these issues?
2:56 Having the book cancelled by the publisher
5:30 Getting endorsed by Stephen Fry
7:20 What do we mean by ‘Islamism’?
10:31 Changing your Jewish surname and assimilating.
18:15 Is Jeremy Corbyn antisemitic?
23:53 Can we learn a lot about a society by how well it treats its Jews?
26:36 The impact of immigration on culture and nation
30:05 Can liberalism still save us?
34:09 ‘The Muslim vote’.
37:14 How has ‘multiculturalism’ failed.
42:20 Jewish safety in Europe
47:45 Israel
52:50 Greta Thunberg’s pro-Palestine activism.

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