Author and broadcaster Matthew Syed joins me on The Winston Marshall Show for a sharp takedown of the post-colonial guilt underlying the decision making of Britain’s governing elite, Britain’s looming debt crisis, the case for diversity and the decline of reason in Western discourse.

Syed dismantles the lazy assumptions behind identity politics, arguing that equality of opportunity has been hijacked by a culture obsessed with group identity. He warns that diversity, when divorced from excellence, becomes a hollow virtue—and that critical thinking is being replaced by moral posturing.

Syed delves into Britain's racial discourse, the myth of systemic whiteness, and the dangers of importing American-style race politics into a very different British context.

All this—taboo truths, intellectual cowardice, the tyranny of groupthink, and the fight to restore reason in an age of ideological madness…

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Chapters

0:00 Introduction

2:20 Matthew Saeed's Career and Views on Elite Guilt

13:23 Historical Context and Moral Psychology

22:23 British Colonialism and Its Legacy

31:17 Challenges of Modern British Policy

55:54 The Role of Nationalism and the Nation State

1:00:10 The Impact of Post-Modernism and Critical Theory

1:13:59 The Consequences of Elite Failure and Guilt

1:16:43 Diversity and Unity in Sports and Society

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