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Ep#191 - Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans
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This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) is joined by author and comedian Andrew Doyle (@AndrewDoyle_com). Andrew discusses his latest books ‘The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured The Western World’. Andrew makes a strong case for treating the new ideology of social justice the same way we would any faith-based religion.
0:00 Intro 0:26 Andrew working for GB News 3:29 ‘The New Puritans’. What is this ideology? How can it be a religion without a god? 7:18 Titania McGrath and the challenge of satire in the current climate 11:42 Has Twitter spilled over into the real world? 15:39 The Salem witch trials hysteria 20:35 Jerry Sadowitz’s show being cancelled at Edinburgh fringe and the decline of mainstream comedy 30:14 Is everyone now being forced to engage in “the culture war”? 32:25 Does the issue of class and economic inequality get overlooked by ‘the new puritans’? 36:25 Does Andrew feel he has been let down by gay rights movements in the current day? And how much harm has gender ideology caused children? 41:55 The treatment and misrepresentation of JK Rowling
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP2wOf3SUkw&t=255s
Support the podcast at http://www.patreon.com/gspellchecker
Also available on iTunes, Stitcher, YouTube & Spotify.
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Manage episode 341784979 series 56962
This week on The Knight Tube, Stephen Knight (@Gspellchecker) is joined by author and comedian Andrew Doyle (@AndrewDoyle_com). Andrew discusses his latest books ‘The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured The Western World’. Andrew makes a strong case for treating the new ideology of social justice the same way we would any faith-based religion.
0:00 Intro 0:26 Andrew working for GB News 3:29 ‘The New Puritans’. What is this ideology? How can it be a religion without a god? 7:18 Titania McGrath and the challenge of satire in the current climate 11:42 Has Twitter spilled over into the real world? 15:39 The Salem witch trials hysteria 20:35 Jerry Sadowitz’s show being cancelled at Edinburgh fringe and the decline of mainstream comedy 30:14 Is everyone now being forced to engage in “the culture war”? 32:25 Does the issue of class and economic inequality get overlooked by ‘the new puritans’? 36:25 Does Andrew feel he has been let down by gay rights movements in the current day? And how much harm has gender ideology caused children? 41:55 The treatment and misrepresentation of JK Rowling
Watch the video version on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=AP2wOf3SUkw&t=255s
Support the podcast at http://www.patreon.com/gspellchecker
Also available on iTunes, Stitcher, YouTube & Spotify.
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