How a liberal thinks - Ian Dunt on asylum, immigration, democracy, and despair in Starmer's Britain

Harry Lambert and Ian Dunt – the Brexit critic, journalist and author – go back and forth in the studio on being an arch liberal in an ever less liberal world.

0:00:14 - Reversing the two-child benefit cap
0:04:38 - His despair over Starmer
0:10:28 - The irrelevance of demographic change
0:15:53 - How Twitter became a “Nazi” site
0:20:14 - The economic consequences of immigration
0:24:52 - Britain’s borders are under control
0:34:38 - The triumph of multicultural Britain
0:45:10 - How he got Starmer so wrong
0:46:34 - Isaiah Berlin, human nature and trans rights
1:02:00 - Economic stagnation as the root of populism

Recorded 28 November 2025. Ian writes at iandunt.substack.com