Robert Oulds is the director of the Bruges Group – a think tank in the United Kingdom that has been promoting discussion on the European Union for 30 years as well as exploring political correctness and identity politics and the effect they are having on societies globally.
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1:04 What is the current feel of London?
1:44 A time of mass hysteria caused by their own government
3:15 Balance of power shifted from consumer to provider
4:27 Inaccuracy of Covid-19 tests
5:15 Disillusionment of London’s citizens
7:10 South Australia cases vs London’s cases
9:18 The Great Reset
12:14 What is the ambition behind the Great Reset?
15:10 Breaking down the bonds of ‘faith, family and flag’
16:18 Big Tech censoring voices
18:18 Narrowing the Overton Window
19:58 Fiction becomes reality
22:43 Affluenza and the war of moral currency
25:34 How authoritarian systems spread their ideas
28:44 Progressives want to weaponise ideologies
32:17 Where have the old school liberals gone?
32:39 Liberals, progressives and authoritarians
35:30 Authoritarians change their support according to popular opinion
38:19 Society naturally produces antibodies in the system – contrarians
40:00 What drives Robert to do what he does
42:08 The Delian League and centralisation of power
43:45 Naked Streets concept
45:40 The Great Reset - a morally superior tyrannical society
50:28 The fight for Brexit
53:27 Is Britain still in the EU?
57:25 Fighting for liberty anywhere is encouraging to people everywhere
58:22 Concern over extensive powers against freedom
59:10 Misleading approval ratings of leaders and government
1:01:18 The extreme policies in Victoria green lights other countries to do the same
1:03:18 Leftists have always wanted to remove people’s identity
1:04:04 Cultural Marxism and the removal of history
1:05:27 Culture wars in Victoria
1:06:50 How do you battle authoritarianism
1:11:28 Politics and Government is downstream of culture
1:14:16 The people need to push back
1:15:48 How do you win the culture wars?
1:20:15 The ‘Woke’ less likely to have progeny
1:21:53 The danger of importing extreme illiberal ideology
1:24:32 Future predictions
1:25:08 Dan Andrews re-election
1:26:13 US elections
