Tony Gosling on his Nietzschen Accelerationist schoolfriend Nick Land - Richie Allen Tue29Nov22

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• 00:00:00

  My guest this hour is a former BBC journalist, a great guy, he is an author. I'm going to plug the bejesus out of his books during this hour, just before he does. I'll beat him to it. And he is also the presenter of Not the BCFM Politics Show, which airs out of Bristol every Friday at 5 o'clock and is a great listen…

• 00:06:16

  We've looked at the figures of how clean the air is. It's very clean. It's getting cleaner. And the idea here is to have these little cameras on every... corner following your car, tracking you. So really, this is about, I think it's not only about, you know, a toll, putting a toll on everybody who comes…

• 00:11:55

  Which sounds like only an absolute maniac would allow something like that to go on the market. So he's done very well out of that. But yeah, I mean, look, if he's going to allow more people more free speech on there, which I think he probably will, and maybe allow people like you and Donald Trump back on, I've never…

• 00:27:20

  Profiteering. The important thing about it is profiteering. Profiteering. Profiteering in this apartheid state, you know, putting down the local population, very much a sort of old style, you know, racist style colonialism still, really, in South Africa back in the 70s. Hang on to you. Hang on a second. Do you think…

• 00:32:31

  Well, I just think it was, you know, it's useful to just unload a bit of this because it's been kind of boiling up inside of me to talk about Nick, you know, because it's so bizarre that I should know something. We have to find we have to reach we have to reach. It's incumbent upon me to try and reach…

• 00:38:41

  I didn't, I didn't know this. Some gay men seek out work in the intelligence agencies for the very reason you just gave, because... I think most definitely. I mean, you look at the, for example, the Cambridge Spies, is it Burgess, McLean, Philby? I'm not sure which of them were gay, but certainly most of them were…

• 00:44:01

  It's extremely good for organised crime. The organised criminals have got a high rate of income. They've got a high rate of income. There's a whole load of, you know, workers for them. And it undermines your national integrity, of course, by having, you know, you not being able to control your borders. So I think…

• 00:51:17

  Mind yourself, Tony. Tony Gosling, former BBC journalist, the presenter, the man behind, the producer of thisweek.org.uk, excuse me, not the BCFM politics show. That is the name of the programme. It's live every Friday at five o'clock. And it's really a good listen. It's an important listen. Thanks to T for today.