The Threat from Within

Comedy writer Armando Iannucci and journalist Helen Lewis decode the utterly baffling world of political language.

This week, JD Vance sent European leaders into a tailspin with an inflammatory speech at the Munich Security Conference, and Kemi Badenoch made an attention-grabbing speech at the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship. Looking at them side-by-side, what does it tell us about the language of the right on both sides of the Atlantic?

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