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"It's so refreshing to be able to talk honestly about these things now that everybody [here has] left politics ..."
#RoryStewart, 2025
Well, isn't that a revealing statement?
Yes, I did unsub from The Rest is Politics in protests at their shameless shilling for HP. But I stumbled on this 2-part interview with former SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, which intrigues my Scottish diaspora roots, and it's well worth a listen.
Oh the irony. An interview with TimBL about the difference between the "good internet" and the "bad internet", preceded by an ad for HP. One of leading proponents of the cancerous cartel style of corporate growth that led to the "bad internet";
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/09/153-the-man-who-invented-the-internet-tim-berners-lee/
Frustrating too that all TimBL seems to want to criticise about the DataFarmers is the addictiveness of their platform. Not surveillance advertising, or anticompetitive tactics, etc.
I'm not a huge fan of Jacinda Ardern, and in fact I've criticised her government with absolute candour over things like the Christchurch Call. So I was expecting to do a lot of scoffing, snorting and rolling my eyes when I listening to her interview with The Rest is Politics;
I was rather surprised when it brought me to tears. More than once.
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Anthony Albanese waxes lyrical about the imminent prohibition on young Australians using social media;
... without giving a shred of detail about how it's supposed to work. Let alone addressing any of the criticisms of the age verification approach, even those made by anti-corporate, pro-regulation tech activists.
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Ezra Klein makes some insightful comments in this interview on the Leading podcast;
https://alastaircampbell.org/2025/04/129-trumps-america-fear-polarisation-and-the-future-ezra-klein/
For example, he points out that the Democrats' reaction to Orange Stalin 1.0 was to become the party of the early 21st century status quo. Alienating a huge number of allies, and a big chunk of the electorate, motivated by a post-Occupy goal of dismantling that status quo. This backfired on them big time in 2024.
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