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Ep#191 - Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans

Ep#191 - Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans

FromThe Godless Spellchecker Podcast


Ep#191 - Andrew Doyle - The New Puritans

FromThe Godless Spellchecker Podcast

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Length:
53 minutes
Released:
Sep 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

Description

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.    
Released:
Sep 21, 2022
Format:
Podcast episode

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The Godless Spellchecker Podcast is an award winning weekly sceptical show in a conversational, interview format hosted by Stephen Knight. We hear from leading public figures as well as people without a public profile that have equally valuable experiences and ideas to share. The goal is to amplify good ideas and scrutinise bad ones. I think we've all learned something here today.