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Ash Sarkar talks to Danny Dorling

Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War

Hay Festival 2025, 

She’s been called one of “the internet’s best left-wing thinkers” by the Spectator. Journalist and leading political commentator Ash Sarkar is a contributing editor of Novara Media, and regularly appears on panels including Question Time, The Moral Maze, Good Morning Britain and Jeremy Vine on 5.

In Minority Rule she exposes how a strategic misdirection of blame by real minority elites is keeping the majority divided, from how identity politics has been warped and weaponised, to how an epidemic of ‘microevent’ media coverage is poisoning our information environment and stoking fear and panic in society. She talks to author and Professor of Human Geography at the University of Oxford, Danny Dorling.