Sweden's immigrant gangs & the backlash against Beyoncé - The Week in 60 Minutes | SpectatorTV

According to polls, Keir Starmer is track for a super-majority in the general election. Blair advisor John McTernan explains how a Labour party operating as government and opposition could work; Beyoncé has become the first black woman to have a No.1 song on the country charts. Rod Liddle and lead singer of Deacon Blue Ricky Ross discuss why race is still controversial issue in country music; what’s led to the disturbing rise in child gang crime in Sweden? And can Richard Dawkins call himself a cultural Christian? All to be discussed on Spectator TV.
00:12 Welcome from Fraser Nelson
01:36 What would a Labour super-majority look like? With John McTernan
15:13 What's behind Sweden's horrifying gang crime? With Fredrik Kärrholm
25:18 Can Richard Dawkins call himself a cultural Christian? With Revd Sally Hitchiner & Esmé Partridge
40:21 Can Beyoncé reclaim country music? With Rod Liddle & Ricky Ross
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[@KJ-js7pi]

I have a lot of sympathy towards Sweden. These people came in as refugees with everything provided to them by the state, but instead of teaching their children to be grateful and actually parenting them (most do not even work so don't blame this on lack of parenting), they have raised criminals who abuse and take advantage of the kindness offered to them. Sweden has never had a history of colonising these African/Muslim-majority countries, yet these people still act like the Swedes committed an original sin so they take no accountability for the high crime rates and blame the Swedes for not offering more integration programmes/welfare. Except whatever offered to them will never be enough. They believe they are entitled to everything whilst contributing absolutely nothing. There is never any sense of personal responsibility with these type of people. It's always somebody else's fault, the system's fault, it's never the actions and decisions of my choosing which have led to my life outcomes.

[@theoilandgasresourceportal2132]

They voted for it. Weak people get screwed, they became weak people

[@lawLess-fs1qx]

indigenous swede has an IQ of 101 VS 76 -80 FOR immigrant Swedes. Intelligence is 70% inherited,30 % environment. 1400 years of Marrying within your own family has consequences that nobody wants to discuss. Idiocracy was a documentary.

[@impopquiz]

Same skin color by association but no one wants to admit it.

[@richardmarriott1381]

The original sin these days, is simply being white.

[@harrying882]

If he was any good he would have asked where the criminals originated from.

[@IMAC1776]

A 10 minute discussion on the horrendous crime culture in Sweden and it took until the final question to get to the heart of what is actually going on. Absolute madness.

[@goa9034]

Is the religion of peace Say it, coward Sweden is and Europe is lost

[@mogznwaz]

The cowardice on display by our ‘betters’ is astounding

[@daisyhobbs7500]

And the RAPE of white girls. This really is the huge elephant in our countries. Africa😅ns & islam togather are predominantly raping their way through the northern Europeans white female population. Yes I exaggerate because this huge topic is not talked about - anywhere.

[@daisyhobbs7500]

The emoji was a slip of the finger- please ignore

[@God-dt7om]

Sweden should be a lesson to the west. Shocking

[@tustak]

Yes! my country is lost and I am lost as well, for life ...

[@aurockscastillo5460]

@@tustak lol

[@phily8093]

@tustak it cant be worse than the UK, specifically England. We are being pull apart, trampled on, overrun and overwhelmed from every possible angle, from without and within. Just in terms of immigration, there are nearly a million people a year, and that's just legal migration. And I'm told to like it, love it , never to criticise it, and even though there's hardly a thing as being English anymore, let alone being proud of it, as an English person what is left for me and people like me?

[@brianwolthers2762]

​@@phily8093All over the western world. In Australia we have very tough border security but this January Immigration was the highest on record. Governments are using a short term boost for the economy that is being generated by immigration ignoring all the long term consequences. Housing shortage, medical systems under pressure, congestion etc.

[@phily8093]

@@brianwolthers2762 I'm sorry, I thought you were one of the better nations at controlling immigration, even though you are often used as some right wing extremists by wanting to control your borders by those wishing to silence anybody who says we should have more/any control over ours. I wish you all the best, and hope you stay strong. We've had our differences, but nations like the UK, Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the USA, we used to have a shared heritage, centred around free speech and fair play. It took centuries for us to get there, but the tolerance we develop made us ripe to be walked all over, whilst stronger voices with an axe to grind, and a license to be unwaveringly proud of themselves, but intensely critical of us, sadly spells our doom.

[@georgesdelatour]

Since 1997 the population of London has grown by 50%. And it seems most of the New Britons we've added since 1997 intend to vote Labour. What a lucky coincidence.

[@theoutsider6191]

That situation is going to be a lot worse under the Labour Gov....

[@richard1342]

Good point

[@mogznwaz]

I object to those people getting citizenship at all. Shouldn’t be eligible til 3 generations in with no welfare claims and criminal record or the whole family gets repatriated. Now THAT would be an incentive to parent properly!!

[@Camille_Anderson]

​@@mogznwaz💯🎯👏👏

[@Madoldcatlady]

Hence why socialist are so keen on mass immigration.

[@nickgame3115]

Incredible dance around the tulips discussion of crime gangs in Sweden.

[@jasminealixandranorth]

"The Strange Death of Europe" by Douglas Murray

[@Libertariun]

While England Slept.

[@mogznwaz]

‘Infidel’ by Ayaan Hirsi Ali and ‘Princess’ by Jean Sasson also very informative about the Islamic mindset

[@garygallagher3428]

Parliamentary democracy is dead. Get ready for the revolution 🇬🇧🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿🇮🇪

[@DailyCorvid]

Oh great, that will definitely improve things! :/

[@harrying882]

I will.

[@cfc1907]

If only. "Revolution is the festival of the oppressed".

[@DailyCorvid]

A festival of delusional stupidity more like. Revolution is all about destruction of today, it cares nothing of tomorrow.

[@summerlake356]

The Swedish situation is 100% related to immigгatioп from the Middle East and Africa. Swedish society also lost all connection to Christian values. Swedes now worship the State, woke values and materialism, as a sort of idol. Strange as it may sound, the UK does a betterbjobbof integrating people. That gives you an idea, how poor Sweden is at true integration - as opposed to just giving them money.

[@maggan82]

Sweden now has a right wing government incl the Christian Democrats. But it will take decades to clean up the mess after the mess created by earlier misstakes from both left/green and woke-conservatives. Im not sure its possible even if Sweden Democrats (National conservative) gets 51% in the next election (today they are the 2nd largest party).

[@RR-sp3ey]

@@maggan82 "Christian values" are not the answer. The church is responsible for some of the biggest sexual abuse cases of the last century and the countries with the highest rape rates are Christian countries. Religion is a poison on the world.

[@jefskijeff.7729]

Swedens problem is much greater than this watered down version.

[@goa9034]

The problem is i.s.l.a.m.

[@mogznwaz]

@@goa9034The problem is also establishment cowardice allowing it to happen

[@wallybingbang4350]

Peaceful Neutral Sweden is one of the biggest arms dealers in the world. Now there's a joke in there

[@jamesmc1272]

Did I here that right, The BBC scotland said lets do Black history month. There are less than 5 thousand black people in scotland that's 0.01% of the listeners. what about the other 99.99%

[@DailyCorvid]

They're already on board seemingly

[@dicem8977]

There are a lot more black people in Scotland now, there's been an influx of people from Nigeria and Ghana in recent years, and I have to say they're fitting well and building businesses in Scotland.

[@briananderson2675]

Yes sure.africa kept lots of records.thus is usually making shit up.like black generals in the Roman army

[@andysmith967]

There's no virtue in pleasing the majority!

[@DailyCorvid]

Well Mr Palestine over here Humza useless is plenty virtuous then! Because I can't say I know a single Scot that likes what he's doing. I mean Palestine loves what he does but just nobody FROM here seems to. Lol.

[@davidbewick9208]

MeTernan is miles away. The whole world is moving to the right and this but a blip. For the next 5 years Labour could have the opportunity to turn the UK into something that looks not dissimilar to Trudeau's Canada which the Canadians are about to throw out having come to their senses.

[@anonnemo2504]

Indeed so, and Mr. McTernan is another of those "talking heads" who misuse the word, "progressive". Labour's policies will be just the opposite and take us back to being the basket case economy (even more so than today) we were in the seventies.

[@TimComley]

Spot on

[@EnglishTMTB]

Yep... The country is crying out for genuine conservatism. It's just that voting for Tories who aren't conservative or remotely competent is somehow completely unappealing... Can't think why.

[@windsong2875]

Watching from New Zealand. Aren’t you all worried about a labour government with a huge majority? They appear to have very extreme views. Beware!

[@baltasarnoreno5973]

The alternative to Labour is a fifth Tory term and that is completely unpalatable.

[@adrianjohnson7920]

Since most know that Tory and Labour are "tweedle dumb & tweedle dee" Lotsa people who are never interviewed will vote "Reform Party."

[@TimComley]

@@baltasarnoreno5973careful what you wish for

[@TimComley]

@@adrianjohnson7920not as many as you think

[@mogznwaz]

Labour won’t ‘win’ - the Tories will lose

[@carltaylor6452]

It's interesting having the segment on a Labour government side-by-side with a segment on gang crime and the failure of multiculturalism in Sweden. In listening to the latter, I'm increasingly concerned about similar consequences arising from the former, here in the UK.

[@carltaylor6452]

... as for cultural Xianity, I'm an atheist, too, and I'd certainly rather live in a culturally Xian country - which is tolerant of a plurality of personal beliefs - than an Islamic country where the religion determines every aspect of life and atheists and believers of other faiths are persecuted at worst and marginalised at best. The UK is a culturally Xian country - even without the dominance of the Church - and I hope that politicians wake up and realise that mass immigration and the pernicious influence of Islamism pose a real threat to our way of life.

[@HarryBuxley]

Increasingly concerned? It should be full on alarm bells ringing for countries following the Sweden model.

[@shawnaweesner3759]

@@carltaylor6452. Well, get ready to live in an Islamic U.K., because you pretty much are almost there!

[@seakayak4425]

Trouble is for me the things I dislike about the Conservatives at the moment, Labour are going to be even worse on them

[@tiiimmmaaayyyy3616]

As had been said, it's not that Labour are popular, it's the fact that the Tories are so unpopular. People aren't moving left, unless you're young and bleating that someone else has more than you, people want to move right but there's no one filling that space with any seriousness. The UK of old is dead and buried and its hugely depressing.

[@peterstephenson9538]

Not so that two thirds of us want to vote left of centre. If there were an actual centre right party, then the left would not be so secure. The people want to destroy the Tories for good reasons, not because they are moving left.

[@markmallinder7618]

There is, it’s called REFORM UK.

[@mogznwaz]

The Tories are being destroyed because THEY’VE moved too far to the Left

[@iconicon5642]

Why interview a Blair advisor? i.e. an advisor to the disreputable and most venal PM ever endured by Britain.

[@anonnemo2504]

Well, at least it wasn't Alastair Campbell. However, Mr. McTernan is another of those "talking heads" who misuse the word, "progressive". Labour's policies will be just the opposite and take us back to being the basket case economy (even more so than today) we were in the seventies.

[@baltasarnoreno5973]

Really? I didn't realise that McTernan had worked for BoJo...

[@christinerussell113]

​@@baltasarnoreno5973In terms of milking his position for all its worth, BoJo has a long way to go before reaching Tony Blair standards. Further, rather like another former Labour leader, one N Kinnock, he got the whole family on board the gravy train. Plus, like Kinnock, he sold his country out to the EU.

[@baltasarnoreno5973]

@@christinerussell113 Boris Johnson: man of principle. Don-t make me f-u-c-k-i-n-g laugh. Do cast your mind back to the assorted mediocrities and deadbeat chums that he got appointed to the House of Lords, all of them in roles way above their expertise and pay grades for decades to come, and all of them no doubt using the opportunity to feather their nests. And you also seem to have forgotten the two letters that he penned during the referendum campaign that weighed up the pros and cons of Leave and Remain -- the determining factor being what was good for BoJo and his career. And you are still on the hook for the 400bn in public debt that he ran up during his fortunately brief. That's quite a pile of shit to leave for your successors to clean up, isn't it? But don't worry. The party that put him there will pay the price for its stupidity. The clock is running and Armageddon is fast approaching in the form of complete and utter obliteration of the Tories in the general election this autumn. Tick tock tick tock tick tock...

[@Camille_Anderson]

​@@christinerussell113only because bojo wasn't in power long enough. He would have been worse if left in charge

[@perikleshistory]

Ah a wealth tax, so when you've finally paid for your home, you can be taxed for it. 👍

[@adrianjohnson7920]

What do you think the Council Tax is?! --Paying rent on the house you own.

[@perikleshistory]

@@adrianjohnson7920 you also pay council tax if you rent...

[@adrianjohnson7920]

@@perikleshistory Too right.

[@MattyR472]

I don’t know why The Spectator has this guy on so frequently. I’m not averse to hearing from left leaning guests but he doesn’t bring the candour you can find in some Blair era politicians. He never concedes any vulnerabilities on the left and is just a Labour cheerleader.

[@markstrevett1284]

I'm an Atheist and I suppose I am a cultural Christian. Although Christianity was fairly unpleasant at times, for the last 300 years it has allowed the Enlightenment and people's ability to explore other faiths and none. Christmas is still a special time and within some of my earliest memories. Growing up, I certainly don't remember any teachers having to go into hiding for offending Christians, or autistic schoolboys getting death threats for scuffing bibles.

[@chrisa5631]

I think people are scared, so they support something they disagree with in a time of aggressive progressivism and growing islamism. Lesser of the devil, so to speak. 'That church looks nice', but couldn't care less if it falls into disrepair.

[@DailyCorvid]

A decent human being.

[@dorthonian]

Islam is where Christianity was 500 years ago. Not that surprising, because as a religion, they were 600 years late to the party, founded around 600 AD. Whether they will ever catch up I don’t know but we have medieval beliefs in our enlightened culture in the 21st Century, and no one is pushing for change.

[@christinerussell113]

​@dorthonian The difference being we were not happily taking everything which enlightened nations have on offer, from of course science, technology, medicine, indeed a whole better standard of life, plus being tolerant of other faiths, while often seeking to impose backwards, medieval beliefs onto those who have been so generous towards us.

[@corndogius5706]

Being a passive observer doesn’t transmit and perpetuate the practices, identity and beliefs of a culture on. Being culturally Christian means being Christian. Once you stray from that path the culture as a whole begins to disintegrate eventually leading to the present situation.

[@percival74898]

I wish that these people doing these interviews would READ the comments that their interviews result in. LISTEN TO THE PEOPLE OUT HERE.!!!!!!!

[@AnnDale-ie3jn]

Labour if it wins the general election and forms the next government even if it has a super majority will have won by default there is no huge support for.the labour party in Britain despite what this man says

[@David-hl6mr]

Whatever happens I'm sure it will be one of the lowest turnout. The English character has changed from healthy scepticism to cynicism.

[@richard1342]

And the Lord help us if his views on 'green' come to fruition. We will all be getting much much more poorer

[@anonnemo2504]

Indeed so, and Mr. McTernan is another of those "talking heads" who misuse the word, "progressive". Labour's policies will be just the opposite and take us back to being the basket case economy (even more so than today) we were in the seventies.

[@stevesmith3990]

Yep, think about what's happened over the last 5 years under a 'Tory' government, I can only fear at what could happen under Labour for the next 5. Then the fight really begins.

[@vicicooper4720]

We mustn't forget the younger generations will vote Labour anyway.

[@maynardgent6708]

The Beyonce album is so so bad. The fact that there are so many songs on it shows you how bad it is. It's just cliched riff after clichéd riff ripped off one after the other, and ruined in the same way that netflix take serious subjects and destroy them in a made-for-people-holding-their-phones-whilst-watching-tv manner

[@shawnaweesner3759]

Exactly. Beyoncé never was any good at singing as evidenced by her performances -a lot of scantily dressed women (including herself) and men, and all gyrating and prancing around on stage.

[@Camille_Anderson]

It's cultural appropriation. She is a hypocrite. Her fans never call out her BS, but they criticise white people for stealing their music and style.

[@joannekitts4483]

What terrible things have Labour got planned for older homeowners? I feel very worried about this. Why wasn't this questioned in more detail? I am not voting Labour now!

[@michaelarchangel1163]

If Labour had their way, there'd be an endless line of immigrants to help populate the loft of your house. I looked after my ma for 25 years but she's 101 and in a care home now. I could sense the way things were going many years back, so sold my other house, for fear of it being 'commandeered' for a more welcome stance to those who've pissed their money away for years or come to the UK with empty pockets, barring of course the smartphone they're given immediately on touching dry ground. Vote Reform UK, both the Tories and Labour suck more arse than a horsefly.

[@ExileGilby64]

These two guys should be wearing "We Heart Labour" T-shirts

[@NigelThompson-hb5jg]

Labour is going to make the huge mistake of thinking the huge majority is a vote FOR them, not the huge rejection of the Tories. A huge reaction means Corbyn, Momentum et al will re-surface as they think they are untouchable.

[@DailyCorvid]

The media are the ones blowing smoke up the backsides of labour, there is no red wave - it's more of a blue apathy. When it comes to polling day it will be exactly the same as always.

[@anonnemo2504]

Indeed so, and Mr. McTernan is another of those "talking heads" who misuse the word, "progressive". Labour's policies will be just the opposite and take us back to being the basket case economy (even more so than today) we were in the seventies.

[@DaboooogA]

15:17 149 bombings in Sweden last year?

[@HansLennros-ry5iz]

Fredrik Kärrholm is not just a police officer (15:55). He is the policeman at the top of the top. He has extensive experience from the street to the top police administration and in addition a bachelor's degree in criminology from Stockholm University and a master's degree in criminology from Cambridge University. He wrote the Police handbook that is used at all police academies in Sweden. After he left the police, he was the co-owner of a security company and is now a full-time Member of Parliament.

[@dobs862]

So he benefits from mass crime in other words.

[@markbateman9222]

So "everyone" is talking about the new Beyonce album? No they are not! I couldn't care less - an attitude, I believe, shared by the majority of those who watch this channel. I will continue to listen to the good music produced in the 1970s by talented musicians. Artists, over hyped and under talented who we are supposed to admire purely because of their gender and ethnicity? No thanks!

[@lena-Ramone]

Yeah. We do not care. Shes a satanist btw

[@RichardEnglander]

Dawkins has said that he has an affinity for Christianity for at least fifteen years. There are videos of him saying so much on KZbin. He has spoken about the hymns and carols, the architecture before and his fondness for them. There is no volte face.

[@littleboots9800]

It's not, but it is rather pointless to bemoan the loss of a Christian culture when you wrote a book that encourages ppl to abandon the idea of God. A Christian culture can only exist where Christians exist. As they go, their influence goes and rather than be supplanted with a nice, benevolent, liberal secularity it is Islam that will fill much of the gap. So it's little wonder ppl scoff, what did he expect?

[@lena-Ramone]

He helped bring this all in. He is a traitor

[@offshoretomorrow3346]

The BBC said "we're doing black history month, can you get aboard?" ('If you want to keep your job')

[@DailyCorvid]

What exactly is black history? Most of what black history is taught as, is basically bad things white people did once upon a time. It features more white people than anybody else lol. May as well call it what it is - anti whites month.

[@richard1342]

Re the election, I'm not sure the country is that gullible. The conservatives have let their supporters down badly by becoming a quasi - socialist government, so why would everyone move to vote for a socialist party? Second, Labour will suffer from the same problem the Conservatives have had - a party so large that it represents everything from Left, to Right MP's, impossible to successfully manage from a strategy point of view. With regard to wealth tax, well we all know about Labour taxation and 'other peoples money'. I would give it no more than 3 months before everyone is regretting Labour being in power.

[@anonnemo2504]

Three days, perhaps. Mr. McTernan is another of those "talking heads" who misuse the word, "progressive". Labour's policies will be just the opposite and take us back to being the basket case economy (even more so than today) we were in the seventies.

[@catesby4788]

I wish we had such clear minded leadership in our own Police Service.

[@jdg9999]

Labour will finish this country off if they get the power this guest predicts they will.

[@NPC-st7zv]

If the tories get one seat it will be too many. Zero seats

[@advocate1563]

Indeed, which is why we're just finalising our exit Blighty plans. We're done with the mediocrity of ambition and the death of a thousand cuts. Stultifying.

[@jimbo-yv5jh]

Tell me the difference between any of the 3 main parties?

[@NPC-st7zv]

@@jimbo-yv5jh colour of the rosette.

[@Libertariun]

@@jimbo-yv5jhPoverty, extreme poverty and civil war.

[@christinalayzelle832]

Well, if you think things are bad now, wait until Labour get in. We will get everything we hate about the Tories on stetoids.

[@teriekwilliams2828]

Which so many don't understand the full gravity of.

[@christinalayzelle832]

@@teriekwilliams2828 You!re so right. They really don't, unfortunately.

[@DailyCorvid]

"The London Mentality" = I don't know what I want, but dammit I want it now!

[@Digibeatle09]

Many in the media/political circles speak of a “climate crisis” - many in those sectors also speak of “net zero” - many ordinary people speak, on the other hand, of a “migrant crisis” and, also, of something close to “net zero immigration” - quite a “disconnect” - and I’m not sure this video acknowledges the “widening chasm” … 🧐

[@kynismos]

It will be a catastrophy for the country.

[@bustinchops5909]

Who the hell thinks Keir Stamer is a leader?

[@monsieurgrigny]

Nobody

[@willfletch5871]

He’s a BONUS HOLE

[@percival74898]

Well apparently plenty 😮if you listen to these forcasts.

[@thegoat11111]

When compared to any Tory EVERYBODY!

[@adrianjohnson7920]

Kier Stamer "follows faster" than his compatriots; he's out ahead of the herd 🐑, so he's mistaken for a leader. 😁

[@pollyester6639]

If labour can say a man can be a woman they will gas light anything. Working on my family members all NOT to vote labour. Everybody loved Boris when he paid them to stay at home. Starter is keep his cards to his chest, just you watch the madness decend. Yes fella a home owner with a garden will be penalised. It’s not levelling up it’s levelling down.

[@waxer32123]

Country fans are critical of Beyonce because she and her fans seem to think they’re coming in to save country and bring it back and they don’t think it needs saving. It’s literally just the Alan Jackson song “Gone Country”

[@kadigarajih9260]

Country music became boring so it needed to be save by a black artist.

[@waxer32123]

@@kadigarajih9260 country music (which was already quite popular) is exploding in popularity in the US and has been for the past several years. Beyonce is responsible for literally none of that

[@lena-Ramone]

Shes a satanist btw

[@wallybingbang4350]

@@kadigarajih9260 Charlie Pride

[@jacksonmiked]

The problem with going after taxing wealth first over work is that those with wealth already would rather do anything than give it to a government that they perceive will just waste it. So if you have a tax on wealth at say over £10m they’d rather buy a new Ferrari on the last day of the financial year and drive it a mile out of the garage so that it loses half its value than give it to the government.

[@AnnDale-ie3jn]

Fraser nelson is correct if you go to Sweden's of France's sensitive zones they are very unlike Britain's poorer areas where the decay is very apparent

[@georgesdelatour]

Have you been to Clichy-sous-Bois or Sarcelles?

[@Camille_Anderson]

​@@georgesdelatourMarseille.

[@williamvorkosigan5151]

Female singer, sings a song. Richard Dawkins, states the obvious. Clearly very little of note happened this week.

[@barrylongstaff2816]

Incredible you could have such a huge majority with absolutely zero policies or idea on how to save the country . We’re absolutely doomed

[@mb3503-o4e]

Richard Dawkins described himself as a cultural Christian many years ago. I heard him say that about 15 years ago. Bless him by the way. He is a wonderful man.

[@FordPrefect-Earth]

46:00 - is Rod wearing a leather jacket while he comments on music there?!... He hasn't recently bought a motorbike, has he?... Just keep an eye on him... If he shows signs of any kind of ponytail, call a medical professional.

[@christopherdew2355]

Do we have to bring 'race' into music? All music outside of tribal cultures betrays aspects of different area characteristics. What is the point of valuing 'diversity' if it starts arguments about ownership and appropriation?

[@bill8784]

Went to Sweden including Stockholm in the 80s as a young Thatcherite banker and, social democracy notwithstanding, was amazed what a beautiful place it was and how the people were. Formed the same impression of all the other Nordic countries I went to but did wonder how long the model could last. Long it seems.

[@paulpenfold2352]

There's an elephant in the room regarding Richard Dawkins. In that article he did in the Spectator in January he cited the case of an ally in the atheism push succumbing to Christianity because she thought it preferable to Islam and a buffer to it. I hate to mention Christopher Hitchens, but it was only really him that was brave enough to criticise Islam, and I wonder if he would have today given its current political influence?

[@kiwitoffee]

'Progressive'. What on earth does that mean?

[@edschultz9551]

Left-wing mentalist

[@theoutsider6191]

How well it has gone for Canada with Trudeau..... people should be very wary of what will happen under a massive majority Labour Gov this time round. If they think voting Labour in is going to solve some of the main concerns like immigration, or sorting the UK finances, they are going to be wrong. The idea of taxing wealth is going to be highly controversial. Particularly if it is not limited to the very wealthy, so more than 1 million in assets/cash holdings. Simply windfall taxing people's homes would be extraordinarily unpopular.

[@rinkadink66]

the last election, people voted against Corbyn, rather than for Boris.. this election apathy will win.. I see a modest Labour majority..

[@George-vf7ss]

Swedes voted for this, and now they're getting it good and hard.

[@AnitaM-h3t]

The mistake is when you let in a crowd of muslims, who do not at all respect Swedish values. When some politicians or media people warned about this they were called racists, and they were effectively silenced by left wing public service. In the fifties Sweden had a prime minister who warned about mixing people from absolute different cultures. After him Olof Palme became prime minister and then it all started.

[@cfc1907]

I was in Malmö in 2011 and all the Swedes I talked to warned about this, and bemoaned the fact that the issue wasn't even allowed to be published in the media. These despairing Swedes also pointed to Denmark as an example of how to deal with the problem. So a very similar country, their nearest neighbour, had a completely different approach to creeping gangster Islamification. Respect to the Danes I say.

[@RichardEnglander]

I'll be skipping Beyonce 🙄 Panem et circenses 🤡🌍

[@advocate1563]

I thought that was the Johnson government.

[@martinthomson5324]

Rod - I enjoy listening to you, but please sit back a bit from your camera - the close position really does no favour to your appearance.. Kind suggestion,

[@andrewmoodie5751]

At 40.30 - why have people taken to pronouncing the word women as "woman", as in "there have been only eight black woman"? It's incredibly irritating.

[@arfurascii2232]

Seems to me that Mr Nelson said "women". Try listening again. He has a Scots accent.

[@maiq5228]

Don't miss Mcternan saying Labour will push for wealth taxes, taxes on pensioners, taxes on home ownership, to pay for an ever more bloated public sector

[@d0ubtingThom4s]

Same culture of older gang members encouraging younger ones to take on criminal debt because they are below a certain age in Oakland, CA

[@michaelgibson7466]

It's always amazed me how music can be transformed into scientific and social theory. Maybe somebody can enlighten me.

[@DailyCorvid]

Well racism got turned into history for a month, women can become men in under a month. Sensible times are over, queers for palestine and George galloway for PM :D

[@Ken_oh545]

It has amazed you, really? At University we learned that music, politics and economics are inextricably linked. Here are some examples : music in mediaeval Bruges flourishing due to major wealth generated by trading especially the wool trade: this also applied in Antwerp in the 16th century; this port city became a centre of printing, leading to music publishers being able to disseminate music internationally. Rome and Venice were successful city-states where architecture, art and music flourished (also science) with the overwhelming influence of the Catholic Church driving much of this development. Vienna, the epicentre of the Austo-Hungarian empire, became the world centre of 'Classical' music with Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn, Schubert the 4 titans of the style all originating from there. Flourishing economic situation in Paris at end of 19th into 20th centuries led to rise not only of visual arts but also music with Debussy, Fauré, Ravel and 'Les Six'. In the USA look at the distinction between West and East Coasts of America in jazz in the 1950s and 1960s; broadly speaking East Coast being tied to a dynamic political sense of Black Consciousness with the West Coast more relaxed and more related to entertainment not social revolution. 'Hard bop' vs 'cool jazz'. In UK the funding available to niche modernist music in the 60s, 70s and 80s has tailed off to the situation now where there is almost no funding, so instead of avant-garde modernists we now see that Karl Jenkins is the UK's No.1 composer - as popularity is now the single overwhelming factor in artistic success in the UK due to profit generation. The likes of Birtwistle would not have been able to earn a living as composers had they been born 30 years after they were. This is the tip of the iceberg and I have omitted several dozen other examples I could cite. One hopes you will be less amazed in years to come.

[@Ken_oh545]

Music (and architecture, art, literature, science etc) is inextricably linked to economically and politically flourishing times. Consider mediaeval Bruges, 16th-century Antwerp, the Spanish Netherlands and the Habsburgs, 17th century Rome and Venice with Monteverdi and Palestrina, 18th century Vienna. How did one city give us 4 titans of Classical music ? Mozart, Beethoven, Haydn and Schubert are those to whom I refer. The history of Jazz in USA is deeply enmeshed with social and political developments. One might cite dozens of other examples. All the niche avant-garde music of the 50s flourished due to cultural promotion budgets, think of Stockhausen, Boulez inheriting the modernist baton from Varèse and Stravinsky. And now in UK the principal valued factors are popularity and profitability - and so we learned last week that Karl Jenkins (bless him) is UK's No.1 classical composer. One hopes you are now a little less amazed and a touch more enlightened.

[@michaelgibson7466]

@@Ken_oh545 Thank you.

[@Ken_oh545]

My pleasure. I could go on....​@@michaelgibson7466

[@des1029]

I and many of my Irish friends (especially those of us in England) have described ourselves as culturally Christian or Roman Catholic for the last 30 years. I’ve been an atheist since my early 29’s. However, I acknowledge the society, norms and cultural references around me have historically been Christian and greatly influenced by that faith.

[@cynthiaguest4509]

The church has thrown faith away

[@kynismos]

What is wrong with Sweden and Western Europe? Compared to Eastern Europe and Japan?

[@nellymoo635]

I wish peoples ego's would leave the classics alone. This is the biggest problem.

[@paulwooton4390]

Sorry Dawkins, you can't have your "christian culture" without Christianity.

[@catesby4788]

The Eagles were great songwriters and there are many styles within all music genres. So reductive to sneer about what is pure jazz, pure country, et al.

[@shawnaweesner3759]

Fun fact: the Eagles sang back-up for Linda Ronstadt. She helped them financially go on their first tour (I think-don’t quote me on that). I still love the Eagles, and listen to their music. Linda Ronstadt, too. If people want to know how a woman should conduct herself while singing take a good look (no pun intended) at Linda Ronstadt. Her concert in Germany was just amazing. She looked amazing, too!

[@IANBryant-eb9bw]

A massive majority for Labour?? This seems highly unlikely as I dont detect any great enthusiasm for Starmer and co and their poll lead is mostly down to the Tories being useless.

[@baltasarnoreno5973]

And what enthusiasm is there for a fifth Tory term?

[@IANBryant-eb9bw]

@baltasarnoreno5973 There isn't any- they're both useless

[@williamsnowden8186]

The more I hear Labour apparatchics, the more I fear for the country's future if Labour is elected. Stormy weather!

[@DarthQueefious]

36:22 Taking a look at the Islamic world (and parts of modern England) might help you out there... Her naive attitude sums up why, the way this country is being run, Christianity will be outmuscled by Islam given time

[@lena-Ramone]

No it wont

[@DarthQueefious]

@@lena-Ramone Christianity shrinking, Islam growing, aided by masses of more Muslims being imported. But I guess you're right, magic will put a stop to the trend

[@mogznwaz]

It already is because they have no problem with unhinged violence but Christians turn the other cheek

[@theoilandgasresourceportal2132]

What is "Progressive" about creating a violent and divided society. Why does mcternan always use that word

[@georgesdelatour]

In the 1930s in the USA, "progressive" was a coded way of saying you were a member of the Communist Party.

[@marieparker3822]

Opinion Polls have been wrong before.🤔

[@baltasarnoreno5973]

Labour has a 20-point lead and has been there for over a year now. The polls have been wrong but not THAT wrong.

[@Tewhill357]

"No one is born bad." Nah, everyone is born bad.

[@vicicooper4720]

Why do these pundits believe that, as tory voters don't believe the Conservative Government is conservative enough, why do they believe that these people will rush to Labour?

[@philipswich29]

Don't forget, fraser is/was very pro migration... He seems very puzzled by this increase in crime and youth crime 🤔

[@maiq5228]

The idea that Jesus was some nice teacher with nice teachings is *nonsense*. "Cultural Christianity" is a cut flower. Why is the only member of the clergy the weakest on the value of Christianity? Something worshipful in rejecting Christ's church? Lord help us

[@jasongauthier8544]

The point about Montesquieu should make us reflect a bit more, I think. Montesquieu isn't unique among writers, either. A lot of the enlightenment thinkers agreed with him. John Fortescue, centuries earlier, agreed with him. Napoleon made this a matter of government policy. Nor was this view unique among intellectuals. You'd complain it was something your wife made you do and all the priests were gay. Religion was always more popular with women than with men. Something else is happening now. I don't think Richard Dawkins deserves all - or even most - of the blame for the collapse in Christianity. Christianity can survive mockery. Meanwhile, there's a female vicar in this interview who I think might be closer to being part of the problem. No one wants to go to a church that doesn't believe in itself. Catholic church attendance has only declined after Vatican II. The collapse in church attendance is concentrated with the mainline protestant faiths and, to a lesser extent, the Catholics. Evangelicals are doing just fine in the US, the census says, while they're expanding dramatically in many developing countries. In orthodox countries, Christianity has actually been on the up for the past few decades, recovering from communism. If your church isn't counter-cultural, if its beliefs are generally accepted by a modern audience, you're doing it wrong.

[@williamsnowden8186]

Fraser Nelson is not a conservative. But then, nor is the Cabinet. Metropolitan, Social Democrats.

[@georgesdelatour]

New Britain Constitution, New Britain Constitution, New Britain Constitution.

[@DonBean-ej4ou]

Rod. It wasn't Scottish and Irish, it was Scotch-Irish, something completely different.

[@murphyorama]

The value of property is skyrocketing because of mass uncontrolled immigration; it's supply and demand.

[@dobs862]

Sweden will be majority muslim by 2060 hope the feminists who created this enjoy the sharia law when it comes.

[@sheilasmart6985]

Amazing, but not surprising! Two women talking about Christianity who aren't even believers! Christ wont have anything to do with you if you don't believe His word.

[@jakoflynn2560]

The book 📕 called the Kuuuuuurrran that defines how you live sees the infidel as prey ….you are able to kill an infidel as it has less value than a believer

[@worldofameiso5491]

I think that a lot of people who are going to vote Labour in order to get rid of the Conservatives are in for a big shock when they realise that Labour are even more authoritarian than the Tories. Climate change legislation will get turbo-charged and freedom of speech laws will curtail any public criticism of the government. Very little will get done as the different extreme factions within the Labour Party fight each other to get their way - it will be a total disaster. We need a viable alternative to the two main parties as both are defunct.

[@Cotictimmy]

Do you like the music? Who cares what colour the skin of the artist's skin is if you like the art? I heard 'Texas Hold 'Em recently and really liked it.

[@cherylnagy126]

the financial benefits of selling drugs has become idolized

[@bonniejordan8192]

We horse people are still howling over the Beyoncé album cover 😂

[@Roskim64]

Christianity is a personal decision that pertains to one's own journey - do not see the point in listening to people's views as they have zero purpose

[@woodwyrm]

Zero seats! Zero seats! Zero seats!

[@lmg7503]

No labour. Ever.

[@sisiphas]

Thanks for another great show, despite the worries I have about Starmer

[@MiddleAgedBrit]

RD has always appreciated the Chistian message and what it gave to him as a child, as do I. However that is not evidence of a GOD. The message of Christ is just common sense!

[@joedge6142]

Dawkins has always talked about cultural Christianity, just because you're moved by something doesn't mean you're moving towards belief. Lots of people think God removes the awe and wonder from the beauty of this world.

[@jakoflynn2560]

The big green elephant in the room - IZLOOM!

[@Clickie13]

Moving to the left haha. When the choice is Left or Far Left

[@VaucluseVanguard]

I’m voting for Betty Banana.

[@erpollock]

This discussion begins to clarify the British form of government for me. And in such plush, posh tones! The editor - is it Fraser Nelson - is quite clear and obviously as clever as any American! In fact, my favorite newspaper, the Wall Street Journal, has a British editor-in-chief.

[@ChrisVaughan-gj7ve]

A lovely hour

[@Apriluser]

Wonderful conversation on cultural Christianity. Your two guests were very well spoken.