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Economist Podcasts — TRAILER: Shire folk. Machine-transcribed; use the interactive transcript above to jump the player to any line.
Last September, I was in central London. I came out of the Cheap into a crowd of 150,000 people. With Elon Musk, the world's richest man, on the screen above them, talking about appending civil war. When you choose violence on the advanced is coming to you, you either fight back or you die. That's the truth. The man he was talking to, Tommy Robinson, a former football hero again with a string of criminal convictions. Today Elon, I think we're, I think the British public are telling the world that they're ready to fight back. Good. Yes. Come on, Ray Green.
For 15 years, Tommy Robinson has conjured a vision of Britain, a failing country. His culture has been destroyed by radical Islam. All that time, he's been blacklisted by the British media. Largely kept off screens confined to distant corners of the internet. Everything you know about Tommy Robinson is wrong. For the last six months, I've been investigating how, for some of the most powerful people in America, Robinson has become a prophet and Britain accursionally tail in a battle to save the West. I'm Georgia Banjo. This is Shiafake, coming this weekend.
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