Fraser Nelson on Great Britain

The Good Fight

Yascha Mounk

News

4.6 • 907 Ratings

🗓️ 11 January 2025

⏱️ 73 minutes

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Summary

Yascha Mounk and Fraser Nelson discuss the Labour government’s shrinking popularity and the challenges facing a post-Brexit Britain. Fraser Nelson is a British political journalist who was editor of The Spectator from 2009 to 2024. Nelson is also a columnist for The Times. In this week’s conversation, Yascha Mounk and Fraser Nelson discuss social dysfunction in the UK; how and why Britain should pursue welfare reform; and Fraser's fight to keep the United Arab Emirates from purchasing British newspapers including The Spectator and The Telegraph. This transcript has been condensed and lightly edited for clarity. Please do listen and spread the word about The Good Fight. If you have not yet signed up for our podcast, please do so now by following this link on your phone. Email: [email protected] Website: http://www.persuasion.community Podcast production by Jack Shields, and Brendan Ruberry Connect with us! Spotify | Apple | Google Twitter: @Yascha_Mounk & @joinpersuasion Youtube: Yascha Mounk LinkedIn: Persuasion Community Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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0:30.0	I would say I'm a radical. I wish there to be radical change. I think the government machine
0:35.8	needs to be torn up and started again. I wish Elon Musk every
0:39.3	success when he wants to try to completely change the way these things are done. So in some levels
0:44.9	I'm conservative, some levels I'm radical. But in all of these things, I would say they come from a
0:50.5	fundamentally liberal perspective and a belief that left of their own devices,
0:56.7	people will make better, more compassionate and wiser decisions for themselves than anybody can
1:01.8	make on their behalf.
1:03.9	And now the Good Fight with Yasha Monk.
1:15.4	My guest today is Frazier Nelson.
1:26.6	Frazier was the editor of The Spectator, a major British magazine, from 2009 until earlier this year.
1:31.7	We talked about the state of the United Kingdom, why it is that the countries both in many ways the most impressive country in Europe and why it seems to be
1:38.0	particularly struggling economically and in some ways politically right now. We talked about the role of the welfare state
1:47.1	and what it would take for institutions like unemployment benefits to actually help people in need
1:55.8	rather than to create a separate sphere of dependence for them.
2:01.6	And finally, in the part reserved for our paying subscribers,
2:05.6	we talked about the ways in which dictatorships around the world
2:09.6	are trying to buy political and cultural influence in the West.
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