Tony Gosling on his Nietzschen Accelerationist schoolfriend Nick Land - Richie Allen Tue29Nov22 (1)

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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…

• 00:07:38

  And I see these signs in Greater Manchester. I live in Salford near Media City, as you know, and I've noticed in the last few months driving around signs which have appeared on the footpaths, which you can see in your cars, saying that this area is under consideration. It's under consideration for clean air zone…

• 00:14:37

  Ultimately, the private sector will drive the censorship and will drive the paradigm into dystopia, is what he believes. And he's convinced of it. He makes a compelling argument. You may be right. Yeah, I think he may well be right. I think the government has been pretty much co-opted by these various lobbies. And…

• 00:22:15

  And then, roughly, anyway, well, it was a grammar school. In 75, Shirley Williams turned it comprehensive. And, of course, it went rather down. But we were – there's a few things about our school. It was next door to the Wellcome Trust, which is – I mean, you couldn't make this stuff up, could you, really? That…

• 00:29:35

  But, you know, the other aspect of this is the hallucinogenic drugs. Nick was really – I mean, you know, I wasn't adverse to, you know, taking an interest in things like magic mushrooms. But Nick was absolutely obsessed with it. In fact, one of the – One of the – One of his near roommates down at Sussex University…

• 00:36:51

  It was a kind of piece of stonework next to the bus stop on the edge of this big private estate, which had a satanic symbol written in the stones there. And if you look back on the Guardian website, some of the stuff they've put up from the old days, which is now online, from the 1930s, there's a letter…

• 00:43:44

  the benefits of empire and come back. But, I mean, you know, obviously there is this attempt at the moment to bring many, many economic migrants into the UK. What that does is it keeps house prices up, number one. Number two, it's a massive load of cheap labour. It's extremely good for organised crime. The organised…

• 00:51:17

  Mind yourself, Tony. Tony Gosling, former BBC journalist, the presenter, the man behind the producer of, thisweek.org. Excuse me. Not the BC FM 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.