From Trump to Corbyn: How Social Media Shapes Politics (Billy Bragg)

The singer, songwriter and political activist Billy Bragg thinks
there’s a crisis of accountability in politics (23:51). To fix
it, he says we need to reform the House of Lords (27:55) and
redefine what liberty means in the age of social media (25:17).


A socialist and anti-racism campaigner who grew up in a community
where the main employer was the local Ford car factory (3:35),
Billy talks to Amol about class in modern Britain (15:47) and
sets out the challenges facing democracy today (20:38).


He also argues that there’s a link between Donald Trump, Boris
Johnson, Jeremy Corbyn and Nigel Farage (31:37), warns that Keir
Starmer’s Labour Party is in danger of losing the working class
(31:14) and offers his advice to young musicians (39:12).


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Amol Rajan is a presenter of the Today programme on BBC Radio 4.
He is also the host of University Challenge on BBC One. Before
that, Amol was media editor at the BBC and editor at The
Independent.


Radical with Amol Rajan is a Today Podcast. It was made by Lewis
Vickers with Izzy Rowley. Digital production was by Gabriel
Purcell-Davis. Technical production was by Mike Regaard and Chris
Ablakwa. The editor is Sam Bonham. The executive producer is
Owenna Griffiths.