It feels like Britain’s politics and culture are shifting faster than ever before, as questions of immigration, identity and free speech come to dominate public life. Is this because we are finally coming to the end of the post war cultural settlement? Will our political parties even survive as the sheer numbers of incomers awaken the England’s dormant nationalists? Will the new citizens create their own?
In this episode of Footsteps in Utopia, Alex sits down with writer Ed West to explore how Britain got here, and where we may be headed. From the flag wars on Britain’s streets to the surge of radical right parties across Europe, West draws on his books The Diversity Illusion and Small Men on the Wrong Side of History to explain why the politics of identity can destabilise democracy itself.
You can subscribe to Ed’s Substack, The Wrong Side of History, here.
