Tom Nicholas

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This is Slow News Day.

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It centres on a group called the Fabian Society, With them once having had a logo of a wolf in sheep's clothing, and boasts of every single Labour Prime Minister ever having been a member, is this group really where the true power behind the world's thrones lies? Or is it just an absolutely nuts conspiracy theory? Let's find out.

My name's Tom Nicholas, this is Slow News Day.

Is that too excited? One more in the middle.

My name's Tom Nicholas, this is Slow News Day.

I want to start this video with a clip from this interview between the far-right British politician Rupert Lowe and a small podcaster you might have heard of called Joe Rogan.

To catch you up, Rupert Lowe is the Member of Parliament for a town called Great Yarmouth, which is a coastal town in the southeast of England.

Today I want to look at why the kids aren't okay and where this could all be going next.

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C'est, c'est Slow News Day.

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C'est Slow News Day.

That wasn't even a French accent towards the end there, that was just accent.

Well, that is at least the hope of several well-heeled and or well-funded activists here in the UK.

This is something we've covered a touch before over on our Tom Nicholas documentary channel towards the end of the last year.

we looked at the rise of Christian nationalism in both the US and the UK as an attempt by figures on the right to inject some substance into an insurgent right-wing wave which was beginning to lose traction and direction.

But there's a more specific battle which I'd initially wanted to cover in that video but which didn't quite make it in.

Or at least it is in England, we'll get to that shortly.

So, let's dive into all of this.

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This is Slow News Day.

So what's going down here? Like, is there a ceasefire either in place or in progress at all? Is America starting to go somewhat easier on sanctions on Russia? And how does all of this kind of fold into Trump's electoral chances at home in the midterm elections in November? Let's take a look, I guess.

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This is Slow News Day.

[gentle music] You know, when we do an episode about an international topic, I usually do a kind of, uh, "My name is Tom Nicholas, this is Slow News Day," in that language.

Uh, does that mean that when we do American topics, I should be doing, uh, it in an American accent? Or, like, how...

[sighs] One for each state.

If Trump's willingness to open America's doors back up to Russian oil seems like it plays into some kind of narrative in which he's a Russian agent, there is also a much simpler explanation, and that is that he is being massively influenced by the upcoming US midterm elections.

See, when it comes to his war with Iran, Donald Trump has kind of slipped on the biggest banana skin imaginable.

You might also enjoy Modern Conflicts, where Real Life Lore dives into the nitty-gritty details of recent history's most consequential conflicts.

Or there's a great new feature length documentary by Tom Nicholas called Boomers, which is basically about why power and wealth has disproportionately flowed to, well, boomers, and the consequences of this phenomenon.

I could go on and on about different originals I love, but the thing to know is that they're great, higher budget than what you typically get on YouTube, and the best are yet to come.

Thanks to the success of the platform and all the recent new subscribers, Nebula's already working on the biggest schedule of originals releases yet in the coming year, including a couple projects that we at Wendover are working on that I'm super excited to release.

You should really watch it.

Or Boomers, a brand new doc by Tom Nicholas about how the baby boomer generation managed to amass so much wealth and power and the consequences of this phenomenon.

These are just a few of my favorites, but it's worth knowing that our 2025 Nebula original calendar is the busiest and highest budget it's ever been.

We're making lots of really cool stuff.

Under Keir Starmer's time, not only as MP for Hovhannes St Pancras and not only as leader of the Labour Party but also as Prime Minister, those voters roundly deserted Labour, giving a historic boost to the Greens and turning them from a fairly marginal fringe party into a meaningful electoral force.

But with the Labour Party now under the new leadership of Andy Burnham, who has both been making more left-wing noises of late and is at the very least a more charismatic figure than Keir Starmer, could things be about to go back in the other direction? Today is, rightly or wrongly, going to be seen as something of a bellwether for whether the Labour Party can reclaim its position as the default party of left-of-centre voters in the UK Or will Zach Polanski manage to claim the seat and work his way into Parliament? My name's Tom Nicholas.

This is Slow News Day.

And I feel like this particular battle has been taking place over the course of the time that Slow News Day has existed.