UK Government Revokes Kanye West's Visa, Banning Him from Wireless Festival

Why the UK banned Kanye West - podcast

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.” Conti...

By Presented by Nosheen Iqbal with Lanre Bakare; produced by Eleanor Biggs, Tom Glasser, George Francis Lee and Ross Burns; executive producer Elizabeth Cassin