Belfast and the Far-Right – The Bottomless Buffet of Bullshit
6/12/20261 hr 3 min
What’s more revolting? The racist pogrom against innocent families in Belfast? Or the way the far-right is again using a violent attack to claim that every immigrant – legal or illegal – is a threat to the country? Our panel looks at how indulging the “legitimate concerns” mindset leads to kids being burned out of their homes. Plus we answer your questions in our new monthly-ish But Your Emails special. And in the Extra Bit for Patreon people: do progressive protestors need to up their banner game? • Questions for But Your Emails? Thoughts? Comments? Email us at ogwn@podmasters.co.uk. ESCAPE ROUTES • Jason has been reading A.I. by Belgian comedian Lieven Schiere • Seth saw Churchill’s Urinal starring friend of the pod Rosie Holt at the King’s Head Theatre, Islington. You’ve missed it, but it’s on in Edinburgh in August. • Zöe enjoyed Look What You Made Me Do by John Lanchester. • Andrew has been listening to Inferno by Boards Of Canada www.patreon.com/ohgodwhatnow Presented by Andrew Harrison with Zöe Grünewald, Seth Thévoz and Jason Hazeley. Audio Production by Tom Taylor. Art direction: James Parrett. Theme tune by Tom Taylor and Simon Williams. Managing Editor: Jacob Jarvis. Group Editor: Andrew Harrison. OH GOD, WHAT NOW? is a Podmasters production. www.podmasters.co.uk Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices
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Like the podcasts, but not the adverts? No problem. Just support us on Patreon. You'll get every episode without interruptions, and you'll be helping independent podcasts like Oh God, What Now? to thrive. Follow the link in the show notes to find out more. [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome back to Oh God, What Now?, the politics podcast whose blood pressure has just about come back to normal after watching the BBC's Brexit documentary this week. I'm Andrew Harrison. On this edition, a race-based pogrom, horrific scenes as children and families from ethnic minorities are burned out of their homes in Northern Ireland by gangs of masked men following a shocking knife attack in Belfast and months of far-right agitation against immigrants. By making concession after concession to the legitimate concerns crew, has Britain given the green light to out-and-out racism? Are our politicians too online to understand what Britain really thinks about this? And could it be too late to stop the poison from overwhelming us? Plus, as promised, a But Your Email special, where we catch up on all your probing questions that you've sent us over the past couple of weeks. And in the extra bit for Patreon people, why can't protesters up their game a bit and stop carrying such crappy banners? All these burning questions and more in Oh God, What Now? [upbeat music] Hello, and welcome back to the podcast. A very heavy and dispiriting week with the terrifying violence in Belfast triggered by a serious knife