Burnham won’t confront Britain’s Blackshirts. Why?

Actual blackshirts are blockading ports, doxxing lifeboat volunteers and intimidating people across the South Coast, and the most senior political figure to come out against them is… Rishi Sunak? We ask why Andy Burnham won’t make a full-throated condemnation of the new wave of far-right street thugs – and whether his new National Centre for Information Defence will work. Plus: With £72m of donations in the bank, are Reform UK now the political wing of the crypto industry? Special guest Peter Geoghegan of Democracy for Sale joins us to explore what happens if angry Britain votes for an anti-immigration party but gets a crypto government. 

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ESCAPE ROUTES

• Jason raved about Felled: The Killing at Sycamore Gap by Andrew Hankinson. (Available to pre-order) 

• Marie flew through Guilty Pleasure: The Pornification of the Internet, the Economy, and Everything Else by Patricia Nilsson. (Also available to pre-order) 

• Peter enjoyed The Palm House by Gwendoline Riley. 

• Andrew loved counterfactual murder mystery Pagans by James Alistair Henry.

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