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New left-wing commentator unlocked!!
Tilly Middlehurst a.k.a. BlondePraxis shot to TikTok fame after her debate with Charlie Kirk at the Cambridge Union went viral.
Charlie Kirk made a name for himself by turning up on US college campuses to troll leftie students.
When he came up against Tilly, a competitive British debater currently in her 2nd year at uni, the chronically online US political scene went ballistic. Kirk had certainly met his match.
With over 300k followers on TikTok, Tilly has done what Robbie Williams failed to do – broken America. Her content focuses on the state of American democracy, insurgent populism in the UK and abroad and what that means for left wing politics.
In this podcast, we chatted about Cambridge, meritocracy and got the inside scoop on the pushbac ...