She is spot on about the hypocrisy of the US, about Ukraine and Israel. Netanyahu is taking advantage of Israel's "special relationship" with the US, and seriously threatens to dilute our assistance to Ukraine.

The collective failure of ALL the mainstream parties over Gaza has been utterly utterly SHAMEFUL.

Anyone else noticed YT’s massive cmment cnsrship upgrade?

Who looks at Keir Starmer’s response to Gaza and thinks ah , that’s some canny political manouvering there 😢

That was a great conversation very well conducted by Hugo Rifkind. While you can tell that Blakely and Rifkind come from different political worlds, Hugo gave Grace space to articulate the ideas in her book.

The reason Starmer gets criticised for his lack of morality on the Gaza issue is that nobody expects the Tories to have any morality on any subject. So the party that should be taking a moral position gets the blame.

Grace Blakeley went to one of the most expensive private schools in the UK... nothing worse than a rich socialist

I've never heard of Grace Blakeley before. Amazing communicator.

Ms. Blakeley, watch the October 7 footage. Ask yourself, how would I respond?

All those criticizing this woman cannot counter any of her claims.. because they can't.. thats why they personally insult her

If she wants to prove her point then she will debate with someone the calibre of Yaron Brook. Otherwise her argument will not convince.

‘I voted Remain then changed my mind.’ Not many people in Britain nowadays brave enough to say that. Respect.

Thank you HUGO for this conversation with GRACE ❤👍

All those who have joined the antisemitic movement over the horror of October 7th , those who accepted the Hamas rhetoric without question over what has happing in Gaza without any objectivity. Will in time be shamed forever for their behaviour

Constantly hearing people say, 'Starmer supports a ceasefire,' while sounds positive like all UK media ignoring the context. Where was he and the government for the previous five months? Most people were killed in the first 3 months and now that there is practically nothing left to bomb in Gaza, portraying him as some sort of saint now that he is calling for a ceasefire-the bare minimum-after 30,000+ are dead and over 70,000+ are injured, just isn't the political capital the interviewer thinks it is.

“I kind of go into this in the book”…… champagne socialist talking points not based in any facts or understanding of a world economy we’re now in.

And do you think that the Nazis didn't have their reasons for attacking Britain, where they felt they were perfectly justified for invading Europe and bombing England? If course they did, just as the Palestinians see the October 7th atrocities as fully justified. But civilization must win, and if this means conducting a war where there is collateral damage done to civilian populations, then so be it. Millions of civilians in Japan and Germany were killed by the Allied armies in WW2, and now these once fascist countries are democratic and civilized. Hopefully this will be a moment of truth for the Palestinians as well.

What about the argument that we actually don’t have a free market but rather an Oligopolistic market made up of only a handful of players and if we did have a truly free market, inequality etc., would be far less?

I worked in the Water Industry for 26 years both pre and post privatisation. There were many organisational changes in an attempt to reduce operating costs. These processes were painful for both blue and white collar workers in the industry. For example casual overtime wherever possible was reduced. Productivity payments were were revised. Voluntary and then compulsory alongside the cost savings over the 26 years I worked there. There were no easy solutions for this most essential of services. Competing factors included the need for massive capital investment in new assets, the impact of inflation on pay during the late 70s and early 80s, resistance to change, political doctrine in both government and the TU's, lack of trust between TU's and management and sometimes self interest. These problems are still ongoing with compliance, the ongoing needs for investment, openness and accountability issues and profits in a privatised industry.

She slept well through the nightmare of Syria for the last 13 years and WOKE up on Oct 8 skipping Oct 7 too