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Alex talks to TIME Magazine's correspondent and QR regular Yasmeen Serhan, about Biden pardoning his son, Trump's latest picks, their impact on geopolitics - especially Gaza, and what went wrong with the election. A gorgeous free-roaming chat.
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“It’s our election, but it’s everyone’s spectacle. I get the privilege of voting in it, but we are all affected - just in different ways.”
“Democrats would do well to have a bit of introspection, and say: ‘we clearly didn’t reach these swathes of people that, a couple of elections ago, we thought were our demographic destiny to carry.’ They didn’t. Maybe they should start figuring out why.”
“Fundamentally, you have to earn people’s votes. You can’t just explain to them how they don’t really have a choice. That’s just going to turn people away. The more likely outcome isn’t that they concede the point. It’s that they stay at home.”
Yasmeen Serhan's substack newsletter (mainly for her mum): Foreign Correspondence.
FT round-up of Trump's pick for FBI boss: Kash Patel faces rocky path to US Senate approval
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With Naomi Smith, Alex Andreou and Kenny Campbell – in cahoots with Sandstone Global.
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