How To Lose Your Country, with Ece Temelkuran (Part Two)
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Welcome to Intelligence Squared, where great minds meet. I'm producer Mia Serenti. For this episode, we're rejoining for part two of our recent live event with political thinker and writer Eceh Temelkurin. Temelkuren joined columnist and podcaster Coco Khan recently at the Kiln Theatre to discuss how the world's democracies are sleepwalking. into authoritarianism and how we might be able to defend democracy and learn the lessons of resistance from across the globe.
If you haven't heard part one, do just jump back an episode to get up to speed. But now let's rejoin the conversation live at the Kiln Theatre in London. Well I mean with my uh former arch journalist head on, like there is a reason why there's so much great art around moments of crises, you know. that that sense of human experience and sharing it and looking into the heart and soul of someone who is not like you and and and yearning to be together in that moment creates this incredible thing. I don't know if I'm if that's enough of a silver lining for the
pending doom to Britain for me personally. But we shall try and find some more. I wanted to talk to you about, and I and I'm sorry to keep returning to this question about like why the word fascism really scares people, but, you know, in the book you outline quite methodically the things that happen in the slide to a dictatorship. And as you said, you know, perhaps it will be a leader that is palatable but populist and then you know the next one comes in. And so right now in the UK there is a a raging conversation about like literally just today, Zach Polansky, who is the leader of the Green Party, perhaps it was yesterday, uh forgive me if I've got that wrong.
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