Following Claire Fox's appearance on The Popular Show last year, James was invited to 'The Battle of Ideas', the Spiked-connected event for political and cultural debate promising 'free speech allowed'. The event has an aura of notoriety on the left, and back in 2010, Jenny Turner described something of its oddness and agenda in the pages of the London Review of Books. Meeting TPS-favourite, Conter.Scot's David Jamieson there, James found quite a different event in 2023, one which clarified a lot of the realignment going on the left, right and reactionary centrist parts of the political spectrum today. For the full (long!) discussion, become a subscriber now at Patreon.com/ThePopularPod.
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