This Is Why The Right Are WINNING | Aaron Bastani meets Ash Sarkar

“I’m literally a communist, you idiot”. For almost a decade Ash Sarkar has been one of Britain’s most prominent left wing political journalists. She first met Aaron Bastani in 2010, and was later invited on to the NovaraFm podcast. It wasn’t long before she was calling Piers Morgan an idiot on morning TV. Now she has written her first book, ‘Minority Rule’. It chronicles the rise of identity politics - left and right - and how social attitudes changed as our economic model became ever more rigged over the 2010s. Has identity politics been damaging for progressive change? What does it get right? And what does left-wing politics look like in a moment when ‘woke capitalism’ has subsided? 00:00 Intro 05:35 The Problem With Identity Politics 25:58 When Did You Realise There Was a Problem? 34:45 The Role of the Media 38:29 Right-Wing Identity Politics & ‘The White Working Class’ 50:47 The Riots of 2011 & 2024 1:12:04 Why Is The Media So Trivial 1:26:58 Changing Your Mind Support our work: http://novara.media/support