Lanre Bakare on the UK government’s decision to revoke Kanye West’s visa after Wireless festival booked him as a headliner
When Kanye West was announced as the headliner for Wireless festival in London this summer, the backlash was immediate.
“He’d been on a campaign of four or five years of antisemitic trolling,” Lanre Bakare, the Guardian’s arts and culture correspondent, tells Nosheen Iqbal. “Embracing neo-Nazi imagery, pushing out far-right conspiracy theories about Jewish people.”
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Source link : https://www.theguardian.com/news/audio/2026/apr/10/why-the-uk-banned-kanye-west-podcast
Author : Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Lanre Bakare; produced by Eleanor Biggs, Tom Glasser, George Francis Lee and Ross Burns; executive producer Elizabeth Cassin
Publish date : 2026-04-10 02:00:00
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