“An unholy alliance between big tech and woke is destroying the middle class”. With wealth inequality soaring and the power of the elites growing, is society returning to the feudal era? The demographer and geographer Joel Kotkin joins Steven Edginton to discuss his theory of “neo-feudalism”. Watch this interview: https://youtu.be/3yXBHDyCx3o | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/a...
Nov 26, 2021•44 min
“Poland is a greater threat to the EU than Brexit”. Portugal’s former Europe minister and author Bruno Macaes speaks to Steven Edginton in this week’s Off Script podcast to discuss challenges the EU faces in France, Poland and Hungary, and why Joe Biden already lives in Facebook’s planned “metaverse”. Watch this episode with Bruno Maçães: https://youtu.be/JEIRbIcDd5I | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/ | For 30 days’ free access to The ...
Nov 19, 2021•37 min
“There is a danger of a moral panic over fake news”. American psychologist and author Steven Pinker joins Steven Edginton to discuss the irrationality of wokeism, the power of big tech and why conspiracy theories aren't merely a problem of the Right. Watch Steven Pinker's interview: https://youtu.be/RM-8lYJklgQ | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/ | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/audio | ...
Nov 12, 2021•34 min
In 1776 the American colonies declared their independence from England, however the two countries’ histories and cultures have remained intertwined. They share the same language, watch the same films and listen to the same music. With the rise of the "woke" movement in America, Sunday Telegraph columnist Janet Daley joins Steven Edginton to discuss fears Britain is heading down the same path. Watch Janet Daley's interview: https://youtu.be/jUlbpfkm7n0 | Read more from The Telegraph’s...
Oct 22, 2021•56 min
“Keir Starmer’s Labour Party has become the metropolitan elite it was always accused of being.” Journalist Suzanne Moore joins Steven Edginton to dissect why Labour seems so far from power, why language around the trans debate matters and her take on “Tory scum”. Watch Suzanne Moore's interview: https://youtu.be/l586S4zuzVo | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/ | For 30 days’ free access to The Telegraph: www.telegraph.co.uk/a...
Oct 15, 2021•52 min
“George III was neither oppressive nor to blame for the loss of the American colonies.” Andrew Roberts joins Steven Edginton to discuss his latest biography of England's “most misunderstood” king, why statues should be put into context rather than toppled and why history teachers must leave their own agendas at the door. Watch Andrew Roberts’ interview: https://youtu.be/cqm0G2ThW8U | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/ |...
Oct 08, 2021•41 min
"Without a challenge from the right, British conservatism’s decline will continue.” Is Conservatism dead? Founder of the Conservative Home website and former advisor to Boris Johnson, Tim Montgomerie, joins Steven Edginton to discuss how parties such as UKIP kept the Conservative Party closer to conservatism, and how this has waned in recent times. Watch Tim Montgomerie's interview: https://youtu.be/ZlzL8ZpV_II | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: ...
Oct 01, 2021•50 min
"When society forgets its moral values, nihilism and terror reign." The internationally best-selling author and clinical psychologist Dr Jordan Peterson joins Steven Edginton to discuss the moral crisis facing the West, how people become radicalised and what is filling the void religion once held within society. Watch Jordan Peterson's interview: https://youtu.be/q4zZ2ker1iI | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.uk/opinion/ | ...
Sep 24, 2021•54 min
“If Boris Johnson attempts to lock down Britain again there will be mass disobedience." The Marmite man, Nigel Farage, joins The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton with some disquieting words for the Prime Minister. Mr Johnson, he tells listeners, "isn’t a true conservative", while his Cabinet is a “completely talentless bunch”. But what does Mr Farage make of the state of the so-called Special Relationship with the US under Boris Johnson? Not much. In fact, he’s not even sure it still exists. But coul...
Sep 17, 2021•46 min
“The West can turn around its post-9/11 crisis of self-confidence and decline”. Twenty years on from the September 11th attacks The Telegraph’s Leader Writer Tim Stanley joins Steven Edginton to examine the true fallout of that fateful day. The pair discuss the war on terror, where exactly Global Britain goes from here and the difficult start to Joe Biden's presidency. Watch Tim Stanley's interview: https://youtu.be/E5WHdxEFs3s | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment t...
Sep 10, 2021•35 min
“The left-wing media has turned against Biden. How long before the rest of the world follows?” Pulitzer-Prize winning journalist Glenn Greenwald joins The Telegraph’s Steven Edginton to discuss President Biden’s wavering ability to lead the US through a time of crisis and an increasingly strained UK/US relationship. Greenwald, a long-time critic of America’s military establishment, tells Edginton why the Afghanistan withdrawal is only the latest in a long line of humiliations for Washington’s ru...
Sep 03, 2021•57 min
"I backed Biden. He has been a terrible disappointment." Author Lionel Shriver reflects on her vote for the American President following the chaotic withdrawal of troops from Afghanistan, the crisis on the US southern border, and Biden’s increasing radical rhetoric. Shriver joins Steven Edginton to discuss American decline and the rise of the woke movement. Watch Lionel Shriver's interview: https://youtu.be/RRG8yTYCrBQ | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co...
Aug 27, 2021•49 min
Porn, depression, addiction, hopelessness. This is what journalist Sohrab Ahmari associates with Western society. Ahmari was raised in Iran to Liberal parents and embarked on an extraordinary journey from being an atheist Marxist to a Catholic Conservative in New York. He sits down with Steven Edginton to discuss his latest book The Unbroken Thread, detailing the purported decline of the West. Watch Sohrab Ahmari's interview: https://youtu.be/ylDjmFlr6WU | Read more from Th...
Aug 20, 2021•51 min
Cowardly politicians, a “toxic” woke mob and a silent media have exacerbated the problems of the migration crisis in Europe, argues author and women's rights activist Ayaan Hirsi Ali. The campaigner says fear reigns among researchers, politicians and journalists when talking about the rise in sexual violence on the continent - and it's harming women and girls. Hirsi Ali joins Steven Edginton to explore the very real impact of mass migration and her own experience assimilating...
Aug 13, 2021•54 min
As France nears its Presidential election next year who are the runners and riders? Does Marine Le Pen have a shot? Is Macron failing? French journalist Anne-Elisabeth Moutet joins Steven Edginton to discuss France’s ongoing culture wars, the 2022 French election and the threat Macron might pose to post-Brexit Britain. Watch Anne-Elisabeth Moutet's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KVzUj2klFzQ&t=2s | Read more from The Telegraph’s award-winning comment team: www.telegraph.co.u...
Jul 30, 2021•51 min
The woke assault on Britain has already peaked, but is it too late to fight back? Former Telegraph Editor Charles Moore tells Steven Edginton why all is not lost, and why woke culture might even be helping the Right. Together they explore the infiltration of British institutions, the Left's attempts to "erase" history, the thorny topic of climate change and the very real threat posed by China. Watch Charles Moore's interview: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X8nZwjyQ0pY | Read more from The Teleg...
Jul 23, 2021•58 min
Yeonmi Park fled North Korea for freedom. Now she's a victim of the West's tyranny of “woke”. In this first episode of The Telegraph’s newest podcast, she tells Steven Edginton why the Western culture wars can be even more oppressive than life under Kim Jong-un. Cancel culture, guilt by association and censorship are all things she's experienced not under the dictatorship, she tells listeners, but in the West. Watch Yeonmi Park’s interview: https://youtu.be/dhFOW9RRckY | Read more from The...
Jul 16, 2021•58 min
