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The Life and Philosophy of Alastair Campbell | Interview
Alastair Campbell ruminates on Labour, Brexit, and the death of political culture.
But does he ever want to go back to the beating heart of government?
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Alastair Campbell came to public prominence as Tony Blair's Director of Communications. Seen by friends and critics as hugely influential, he was a successful journalist before joining the team at No 10. Since retiring from front-line politics, Campbell has become editor-at-large at The New European, launched with Rory Stewart the most successful political podcast in the UK, 'The Rest Is Politics', and authored the acclaimed book, 'But What Can I Do?'. But what has really driven his life and his beliefs? Find out in this compelling exploration of his extraordinary life and philosophy. Hosted by Philip Collins.
#ukpolitics #labour #labourparty
00:00 Introduction
00:07 The power of politics
01:50 Forecast for British politics
04:07 US politics
06:34 Destruction of political culture
07:39 Boris Johnson
09:44 What should accountability look like?
10:45 Brexit
13:19 Return to politics?
14:14 The power of fame
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Can physics ever get to the truth? | Eric Weinstein & Hilary Lawson clash over the nature of reality
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Philosopher Hilary Lawson goes head to head with mathematical physicist Eric Weinstein over the nature of reality. Is metaphysics still relevant? This excerpt was taken from the debate 'The matrix, myths and metaphysics,' which took place at the HowTheLightGetsIn festival in Hay-on-Wye, Wales in May of 2023. Watch the full debate at iai.tv/video/the-matrix-myths-and-metaphysics?UA-cam& Not so l...
We need capitalism to save the planet | Rebecca Henderson on the reasons why #capitalism
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Rebecca Henderson argues that the reason why capitalism and climate change are so interlinked is that we need the former to save us from the latter. Could reformed capitalism be our only hope? Watch the full debate at iai.tv/video/capitalism-and-the-climate?UA-cam& With the world's largest corporations responsible for 71% of global greenhouse gas emissions, many, particularly on the left, have ...
Fascist Passions | Judith Butler responds to questions
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Judith Butler responds to questions following a talk on the animosity towards gender. Should what it means to be a woman remain an open question? Watch the preceding talk at iai.tv/video/fascist-passions-judith-butler?UA-cam& Judith Butler, pioneering gender theorist whose changed the way we think about gender and sexuality, explores the topic of their most recent book, Who's Afraid of Gender? ...
On scientists and their demons | Jimena Canales [Full Interview]
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Science historian Jimena Canales talks about discovery vs invention, the importance of creativity and the role of the imaginary in science. Should scientists engage more in the history of science? Watch Jimena Canales debate the trouble with time in physics with Avshalom Elitzur and Michio Kaku at iai.tv/video/the-trouble-with-time?UA-cam& Join award-winning science historian Jimena Canales in ...
New Perspectives: Challenging philosophical trends | Penrose, Žižek, Singer, Noble, and many more!
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Do our theories of physics and the universe work? How do we relate to the world around us? What is our basis of morality? From physics to philosophy, watch the world’s leading thinkers debate today’s biggest ideas, including Roger Penrose, Slavoj Žižek, Peter Singer, Thangam Debbonaire, Priya Natarajan, Lisa Randall, Tim Maudlin, Marika Taylor, Denis Noble, Joscha Bach, Tommy Curry, Paul Bloom ...
Daniel Dennett: Arc of Life | Full interview
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We're sharing this full interview, recorded two years ago, to celebrate the extraordinary work and thought of Daniel Dennett. You can read his obituary here: iai.tv/articles/daniel-dennett-the-man-who-saw-realitys-patterns-auid-2816?_auid=2020 'Some people felt that his practical outlook blinded him to the magic of the world. But this couldn’t be further from the truth. He saw the world as full...
Things that are self-refuting are false | Tim Maudlin and Michael Della Rocca battle over reality
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Things that are self-refuting are false | Tim Maudlin and Michael Della Rocca battle over reality
The quantum age | Curt Jaimungal interviews Michio Kaku
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The quantum age | Curt Jaimungal interviews Michio Kaku
What is progress? | Rory Sutherland, Angus Deaton, Arlie Hochschild | The tears of the West
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What is progress? | Rory Sutherland, Angus Deaton, Arlie Hochschild | The tears of the West
Scientists disagree on the origin of #life | Addy Pross, Chrisantha Fernando, Kate Adamala
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Scientists disagree on the origin of #life | Addy Pross, Chrisantha Fernando, Kate Adamala
Physics at the limits of reality | Sabine Hossenfelder in conversation with Hilary Lawson | In full
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Physics at the limits of reality | Sabine Hossenfelder in conversation with Hilary Lawson | In full
Searching for sanity in a chaotic world | Ruby Wax in conversation with Myriam François
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Searching for sanity in a chaotic world | Ruby Wax in conversation with Myriam François
Consciousness and material reality | Avshalom Elitzur | Consciousness and material reality
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Consciousness and material reality | Avshalom Elitzur | Consciousness and material reality
Rethinking the future of conservatism | The life and philosophy of Rory Stewart
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Rethinking the future of conservatism | The life and philosophy of Rory Stewart
The AI Apocalypse | Leading thinkers Liv Boeree, Michael Wooldridge, Timothy Nguyen
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The AI Apocalypse | Leading thinkers Liv Boeree, Michael Wooldridge, Timothy Nguyen
How destructive is Big Tech? | Aaron Bastani and Kenneth Cukier go head to head
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How destructive is Big Tech? | Aaron Bastani and Kenneth Cukier go head to head
How to understand conspiracy theorists | Michael Shermer full interview
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How to understand conspiracy theorists | Michael Shermer full interview
Why you can't buy a house | Kristen Ghodsee, Anna Minton, Liam Halligan, Tom Copley
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Why you can't buy a house | Kristen Ghodsee, Anna Minton, Liam Halligan, Tom Copley
The future of physics | Suchitra Sebastian, Dominic Walliman
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The future of physics | Suchitra Sebastian, Dominic Walliman
Best of Slavoj Žižek | On cynicism, pleasure, philosophy, and more
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Best of Slavoj Žižek | On cynicism, pleasure, philosophy, and more
IN FULL Yanis Varoufakis welcomes us to the age of Technofeudalism | Full interview
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IN FULL Yanis Varoufakis welcomes us to the age of Technofeudalism | Full interview
Is bias intrinsic to how we percieve the world? | Daniel Kahneman battles Ellen Langer
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Is bias intrinsic to how we percieve the world? | Daniel Kahneman battles Ellen Langer
The unselfish gene | Denis Noble challenges Richard Dawkins
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The unselfish gene | Denis Noble challenges Richard Dawkins
Redrawing the global order | Bill Browder, Yuan Yang, Sergei Guriev
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Redrawing the global order | Bill Browder, Yuan Yang, Sergei Guriev
Roger Penrose on quantum mechanics and consciousness | Full interview
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Roger Penrose on quantum mechanics and consciousness | Full interview
Why we believe conspiracies | Dan Ariely and the secrets of irrationality
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Why we believe conspiracies | Dan Ariely and the secrets of irrationality
How spies think | from former director of GCHQ, David Omand
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How spies think | from former director of GCHQ, David Omand
Will the origin of life ever be uncovered? | Kate Adamala, Addy Pross and Chrisantha Fernando
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Will the origin of life ever be uncovered? | Kate Adamala, Addy Pross and Chrisantha Fernando
Why you've been saying "Amen" wrong | Rupert Sheldrake | Discovering the world beyond science
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Why you've been saying "Amen" wrong | Rupert Sheldrake | Discovering the world beyond science

КОМЕНТАРІ

  • @andregomesdasilva
    @andregomesdasilva 3 хвилини тому

    Looks smart until one tries to define the words being used.

  • @rodschmidt8952
    @rodschmidt8952 33 хвилини тому

    We have been on the verge of this particular revolution since about 1925

  • @nog7933
    @nog7933 47 хвилин тому

    So... What you're saying is, if we can figure out a particle drive, than we can basically get anywhere in the universe instantaneously? Cool! Someone should probably start working on that.

  • @THEDRIFTERMATT
    @THEDRIFTERMATT 58 хвилин тому

    Hop off the coke pal

  • @DEGENEBABA
    @DEGENEBABA Годину тому

    WOW, 😲. 😢😢😢 Blasphemy....

  • @kidohchi
    @kidohchi Годину тому

    Ye§ir!~

  • @akmmonirulislam3961
    @akmmonirulislam3961 Годину тому

    Why some great scientists think consciousness is not under physics? Brain is nothing but ordinary matter. Consciousness is nothing but the activities of our brain. If consciousness can't explain by physics then our brain has something other than ordinary matter like dark matter or dark energy or something totally different about which we have no idea. It's like God, we don't know or science can't explain, assume something is there. This method is not a good idea. Monirul Islam Dhaka, Bangladesh. 08 May 2024

  • @piotrs.127
    @piotrs.127 2 години тому

    Is it woman or man yet?

  • @shaunobrien6425
    @shaunobrien6425 2 години тому

    Higher dimensions.

  • @banditthedog6268
    @banditthedog6268 2 години тому

    Click bait. Unsubscribed

  • @stealthmonkey3G
    @stealthmonkey3G 2 години тому

    I mean no. The difference is that in quantum physics, you actually can go there. There is a logic to quantum physics, it’s just an unfamiliar logic. If we couldn’t understand quantum physics we never would have been able to make the photodiodes in your screen change color to perfectly represent this video. When things don’t make sense in a video game it’s just a bug, but when things don’t make sense in reality, you still have to grapple with reality… or die of course. You can always just die.

  • @pumpupthevolume4775
    @pumpupthevolume4775 4 години тому

    Even after the garbledegook answer and the scientific answer one can reasonably say that no one really understands it.

  • @invzmk
    @invzmk 4 години тому

    shorter life circles promote human progress more actually ;)

  • @nogodsnomasters.5935
    @nogodsnomasters.5935 4 години тому

    The only way for a profit driven market system is extreme regulation. No static system last forever in an emergent reality. The current system is gamed, corrupted and increasingly obsolete considering the abilities of technology. All current systems presented to us are forms of monarchies. Freedom technologies are able to eliminate the need for wealth accumulation and property ownership. True world peace in unobtainable under a world of capitalism. Most of the world’s violence is caused by money. Just the facts. If we don’t transition, we are dead species walking.

  • @adhamabdelwahab
    @adhamabdelwahab 4 години тому

    Saying ‘infinite’ because you can’t measure it is unfair

  • @TheThingoftheSky
    @TheThingoftheSky 5 годин тому

    I've been thinking about whether my "present" actions really affect my past, because it seems like it. Today I realised it's probably must be true. Then this vid comes up. Synchronicity?

  • @jomana1109
    @jomana1109 5 годин тому

    Humpty Dumpty 😂😂

  • @Isma3el
    @Isma3el 6 годин тому

    This is only partially true, insofar as one follows that line of interpretation of quantum mechanics. But there are many other interpretations besides the Copenhagen interpretation which is commonly taught as “quantum mechanics”.

  • @pixelfingers
    @pixelfingers 6 годин тому

    It’s turtles all the way down.

  • @handsfree1000
    @handsfree1000 6 годин тому

    This country is ran at random now we know why

  • @katejudson8907
    @katejudson8907 7 годин тому

    When a trans woman is welcomed in a women's only group and they behave in physically threatening ways towards other ( female) members of the group, I don't care if we call you she, your social behaviour is patterning as male entitlement and disrespectful in ways that no other woman in this group is doing, or willing to put up with. I just experienced this yesterday and it was quite shocking. If I want to invite a bloke into a women only space I should be able to vet trans women as blokes, based on their behaviour, not as equal belonging women based on their pronoun and chosen name. But if I raise this in the group I will likely be identified as ' transphobic ', even though what I am reporting is unwanted and innappropriately invasive touch from another member of the group. I'm seeing correlations here between Zionist impunity hiding beneath claims of antisemitism and trans women impunity hiding beneath transphobia. Policing language not actions is machine learning teaching society, not the other way around.

  • @brothermine2292
    @brothermine2292 7 годин тому

    The most important way to change politics is to switch to a voting method that counts all of the head-to-head majorities. Primitive voting methods count only one majority (or plurality), which is often a coalition of minorities on different issues. That undermines majority rule, destabilizes policies, and empowers extremists by making their supporters' votes needed by the rest of their coalition. Counting all the head-to-head majorities would create a strong incentive for politicians to support majority-preferred policies on many more issues.

  • @rareosts5752
    @rareosts5752 7 годин тому

    It's so funny how this man's revolting nature is just apparent from his revolting appearance and movements

  • @DonCorleoneQ8
    @DonCorleoneQ8 7 годин тому

    Well, for the past 40 years, no advancements have happened in the foundations of quantum physics. So, the "huge revolution" that he talking about may take a long long time.

  • @billarmstrong5568
    @billarmstrong5568 7 годин тому

    No. Just no.

  • @sarahsvacationandtheranch
    @sarahsvacationandtheranch 7 годин тому

    They became like a remote control if im right?!?

  • @tim40gabby25
    @tim40gabby25 7 годин тому

    Unpersuasive.

  • @mencken8
    @mencken8 8 годин тому

    This is, in fact, tampering with reality. The reality is in how science is conducted in the 21st century. Her view threatens the reality of science conducted in an academic setting, under a system of grants, those grants implying results. To fall back and question the underlying basis of how physics is currently conducted threatens a very large and influential establishment, and she is skating on thin ice.

  • @CedricHarris-ln3ks
    @CedricHarris-ln3ks 10 годин тому

    There is a loop hole for such Dilemmas science fiction! The world seems to be molded by such models Perhaps peer groups affection do win Nobel prizes. While science fiction authors become minor gods. Just call it a fiction?

  • @gravytraining4362
    @gravytraining4362 10 годин тому

    What is immoral is paywalling this type of content.

  • @cameronjones8641
    @cameronjones8641 10 годин тому

    Not sure of its connection to what they were actually talking about but fascinating as a stand alone story.

  • @tubegersh
    @tubegersh 10 годин тому

    Mechanistic materialism is completely daft.The Vast majority of the greatest scientific minds in history firmly believed in God:Newton, copernicus, galileo, Farraday, Maxwell, planck, Heisenberg, Einstein Pasteur, Mendel, Darwin Ernst Ruthrford

  • @williamkelly5567
    @williamkelly5567 10 годин тому

    A fool says in his heart that.there is no God. This world has foolish stupidity on lockdown.

  • @williamkelly5567
    @williamkelly5567 10 годин тому

    This guy is so smart that he became stupid beyond imagination

  • @williamkelly5567
    @williamkelly5567 10 годин тому

    This guy hates God Almighty.why? Can people say that they can live a 1000 yrs. No. Man can't control their own stupidity let alone life. There is a God.

  • @RWin-fp5jn
    @RWin-fp5jn 10 годин тому

    Physics is simple. In essence we only have 4 continuum functions (Grid, Clock, Potential, Inertia) and 4 measures (Space, Time, Energy, Mass). What we need to realize is that the relation between functions and measures is dual and inverse in order to keep an over-all zero change, while yet allowing change in either grid. Space and Energy are inversely related as are Time and Mass. Unless we understand this (and understand Einstein gave us incorrect fundamental equivalence relations) we will not understand the essence of physics. Physics is not hard. Eric is right; it is very easy to grasp all. We are just not looking under our feet.

  • @Paine137
    @Paine137 10 годин тому

    Barf.

  • @jillybe1873
    @jillybe1873 10 годин тому

    Dig the fro. Also the science. But especially the fro.

  • @asynchronicity
    @asynchronicity 10 годин тому

    Dress for success😅😅

  • @Noutelus
    @Noutelus 10 годин тому

    I always thought the multiverse theory was thought up to fix a problem with the big bang theory

  • @matt6250
    @matt6250 10 годин тому

    If you want to study the cosmos, just study the electric universe model.

  • @xe_no
    @xe_no 11 годин тому

    Rationality doesn't define evolution, not like hares are planning what features to evolve.

    • @richardjaffe9972
      @richardjaffe9972 5 годин тому

      Agree. Thought the same thing. This concept also happens in humans proven by experimentation where the examiner knew before he subject did in performing simple tasks like which hand was going to be raised using electrodes on the scalp. Benjamin Libet was the scientist. This has been reproduced using circuits directly on the brain. Still doesn’t prove that free will doesn’t exist. 😅

  • @chalazonclark6810
    @chalazonclark6810 11 годин тому

    A man hears what he wants to hear and disregards the rest . There’s no substitute for experience.

  • @ceejaywilson1671
    @ceejaywilson1671 12 годин тому

    Alastair Campbell: war criminal and career liar. Nope.

  • @johnrowell3583
    @johnrowell3583 12 годин тому

    What an absolute contradiction this guy is. He criticizes Bolsenaro, Trump, Boris, populism, but then has nothing to say about Biden, Trudeau, Merkel who have been absolute disasters. He vouches for devolution, but wants to be part of the EU. He wants compulsary voting, like a communist or fascist state, he wants politics to be taught in schools, what he means is indoctrination, clearly because teachers are by and large left wing. I can't listen to this guy without getting very angry. He says he's a control freak. Yes, he is right about that.

  • @Antony2790
    @Antony2790 12 годин тому

    Agreed, these people are whitewashing their crimes by promoting their brand

  • @templarroystonofvasey
    @templarroystonofvasey 12 годин тому

    This guy should be on trial for crimes against humanity.

  • @OscarPerez-ox8sq
    @OscarPerez-ox8sq 12 годин тому

    The measure I take from my dck today is different from yersterday, that depends on how entangled I am with porn, so weird and perhaps tomorrow will have different measure.

  • @lukemcadie6984
    @lukemcadie6984 13 годин тому

    How can I attend these talks?

  • @phillheth
    @phillheth 13 годин тому

    "I just feel he's (Boris Johnson) not been properly held to account" Alastair Campbell