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13 November 2024

We need to start learning from Joe Rogan and co

The right is much better at exploiting the populist reach of podcasts and influencers.

By Alison Phillips

It’s the end of the (media) world as we know it. And I feel it’s finally time those on the left started thinking seriously about what that means.

Honestly, how much more can progressives be shocked by the blindingly obvious? Brexit and Trump in 2016, now Trump 2.0. (Not to mention Reform taking 14 per cent of the vote in July, which seems to have been quietly forgotten as they rev up to take as many as one-fifth of seats in the Welsh Senedd 18 months from now.)

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