I know I shouldn’t just direct everyone to videos I’ve just watched on Youtube, but I certainly think this Channel Four interview between Krishnan Guru-Murthy and Mehdi Hasan is certainly worth watching. It’s rather a long, in-depth conversation, covering topics ranging from Brexit to Gaza, but I think it is particularly significant in that Hasan openly uses the word ‘fascism’ in relation to Donald Trump and what is currently unfolding in America. It is probably the first time I have heard that word being used so openly and on such a mainstream platform: As Hasan himself explains, he is openly liberal and left-of-centre, but tries to be as critical, balanced and objective as possible. Yet there is no getting away from the fact that what Trump is doing, in weaponising the US justice system and silencing his critics, equates to a form of fascism. We might not be seeing jack-boots on the streets there just yet – although ICE is drawing closer and closer to becoming an American gestapo – but the form of autocracy Trump is steering the country towards is no less chilling. Please watch the video for the details, but I have to say, watching it and videos like it is making me increasingly frightened about where the world is heading politically.