Podcasts Are we falling for the myth of minority rule? Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Ash Sarkar By Ayeisha Thomas-Smith 26 February 2025 We are living in a time of contradictions. For the last forty years, our politics and media have been dominated by neoliberal, right-wing voices — yet pundits insist that the UK is dominated by a woke, left-wing elite. Our politicians claim to champion the voices of the forgotten working class — yet working-class people are not seeing better wages, housing or healthcare. And the majority of people in
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Are we falling for the myth of minority rule?
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Ash Sarkar
26 February 2025
We are living in a time of contradictions.
For the last forty years, our politics and media have been dominated by neoliberal, right-wing voices — yet pundits insist that the UK is dominated by a woke, left-wing elite.
Our politicians claim to champion the voices of the forgotten working class — yet working-class people are not seeing better wages, housing or healthcare.
And the majority of people in this country are being screwed by the economic system — yet for some reason we seem unable to secure a better future for ourselves.
So where did it all go wrong? Are we really ruled over by a censorious woke mob? Or is it all a convenient story, to distract us from the real villains?
Ayeisha Thomas-Smith is joined by Ash Sarkar, journalist and author of Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War.
Music by A.A Aalto (available: freemusicarchive.org)
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