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407: Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

407: Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

Update: 2025-10-27
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Daniel Finkelstein is an award-winning political commentator and journalist.  He’s a Times columnist, and author of his 2023 memoir, Hitler, Stalin, Mum and Dad. Previously he was a politician and political advisor to John Major and William Hague. He was appointed to the House of Lords as a life peer in 2013.  



He talks to Charlotte Metcalf about his book and his parents – his mother was sent to Bergen-Belsen, his father to a Siberian gulag – and shares his views on politics, Israel, multi-culturalism, the state of Britain and much, much more with openness and candour.




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407: Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

407: Daniel Finkelstein in conversation with Charlotte Metcalf

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