i'll restrain myself on that point. you mentioned trump, modi, and there are many others as well, indira gandhi here's what he says. he says that the media in india, mainstream media, "have become biased with their own agenda and ideology." i... he says, "..work hard to reach out to each household "of the poor." i'm glad you mentioned that figure, the total number of, i looked it up, users of x, formerly twitter, now, where does the rest come from? all abroad. i saw the figure, 101 million or something followers. a lot of it is bots. a lot of it is artificial. there's very few people have noted the incongruity of this. the numbers speak for themselves in this case. so his reach is far less than what they claim. that's part of the propaganda and you can say it's a brilliant achievement by their media machine. but then there is evidence that, particularly in the hindi—speaking states, this barrage of information proved to be counterproductive. because the propaganda got so... ..far too much for people to swallow. here's the words of an interesting young thinker of foreign policy magazine. "modi's

the careers of golda meir, indira gandhi and margaret thatcher came later. but these men all made a massive on their times. and they did so for a particular. they all lived at a time when it was for individual to make broader deeper differences on their times and, in their times than ever before since. and the reason is that this was the period of the two great world wars the great depression and decolonization. and cumulatively these epical events as a kind of cosmic bulldozer knocking down existing political and economic and provide the opportunity to build and in some cases radically different structures in their places. that is what each of these eight men did. they did it because of their personal characteristics. they were deterred and they were in some cases, charismatic. they had political ideas and were filled with a burning desire to implement them. but they could not have done. they did had they not in this particular a time of great upheaval, a time when were political and economic all over the world crises that were global, near global in scale

gandhi, indira gandhi in india. so thatcher became the fourth.or a woman to win the tory leadership in 1975 was unheard. nobody thought she had a chance. maggie thatcher, the milk snatcher. that's what she was known. yeah. and i was thrilled. she took away the children milk at school because it was horrible. >> well, let's have a listen to her. speaking at the conservative candidates conference in 1987 and have a little contemplation. how would sir keir starmer react to this today? >> the fact is, labour are still socialist and they deliberately set out to impose more government control over people's lives. that is why that is the reason why they increased taxation more powerful than over our money, less power for the citizen. >> she was all about, wasn't she? small estates let people keep their money as much as we can, whilst also still maintaining the social security of people who need it and let small businesses thrive. and she really thatcherism became this idea of competition, deregulation and the free market. >> well and she privatised brit