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…

• 00:06:48

  So everybody that's driving around anywhere is being not only told, you know, charged there, whatever it is, £12.50. What's that? About £4,000 a year just to sort of go down to the shops back in a car. So it's a toll. It's just a way of raising money from everybody for just doing what you need to do just to kind…

• 00:12:55

  if they don't remove your content for you or remove your entire website effectively as well. Now, that being taken out of the act, the bill as it is, is really good news, I think. And, you know, anything that allows a bit more free speech on the Internet. Listen, we've had a golden age of the Internet like that…

• 00:19:31

  But we haven't had anyone blow up our power supply. As far as I know, they're just saying, oh, dear, oh, dear, I'm very sorry, but we haven't actually got enough electricity to go around. Well, I think what they're doing is they're choking off the supply a bit to jack the price up. So, you know, it's an excuse to just…

• 00:26:17

  You've known him when he was at Warwick, because he went off to, after school, Nick went off to Warwick University. Nick, you know, hasn't got back to him, hasn't got back to either of us, actually. But so he was at Warwick University, and he became one of the senior lecturers in philosophy after we left school. He…

• 00:32:41

  Well, we have to find, we have to reach, it's incumbent upon me to try and reach the guy now, to cover my arse and to say, listen, we've been discussing you unexpectedly on this programme. It'd be lovely to get right of reply. There's only two real journalists left in the UK. You're one and I'm the other. I'll…

• 00:39:25

  He's an Australian guy who worked in Fleet Street for a long time. He's now back, I think, he's at Sydney University teaching over there. But Roland, you know, so yes, a lot of the, there was a lot of that. And of course, the idea being that these people had been fighting against the ruling class in, you know, for, I…

• 00:51:17

  mind yourself tony tony gosling former bbc journalist the presenter the man behind the producer of thisweek.org.uk excuse me the not the bcfm politics show that is the name of the program 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