Solidarity in the face of hatred: how to unite after the Manchester attack

October 10, 2025

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“Shocking… but not surprising” – the words of Stephen Bush, Associate Editor at the Financial Times and Chair of the Commission on Racial Inclusivity in the Jewish Community for the Board of Deputies of British Jews in 2020. Stephen joins Nish and Coco to discuss the fallout from the shocking attack on a synagogue in Manchester last week.

The trio discuss solidarity and protest, and why the government’s response to the Manchester attack is not making all British Jews feel safer.

Stephen has also spent the weekend in an all-but empty exhibition hall, at Tory conference in Manchester. It’s a land of misspelt chocolate bars and retro racism – have the Tories given up the ghost?

Later – Coco and Nish try their hand at some data analysis – introducing Pod Save the UK’s brand-spanking-new diarrhoea index – before checking in on a bold new idea straight out of the Green’s conference – abolishing landlords.

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