Baroness Beeban Kidron: “Democracy is no longer representative. It is bought.”

Full Disclosure with James O'Brien by Global

Jun 26, 202601:05:19News & Politics

Baroness Beeban Kidron has lived several lives in one. Award winning filmmaker, Hollywood director, crossbench peer and one of the earliest and most persistent critics of Big Tech, she has spent years sounding the alarm...

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