Author and satirist Andrew Doyle joins The Winston Marshall Show to unpack the death throes of the woke movement—and why the culture war is entering a dangerous new phase.

Doyle makes the case that wokeness, as we’ve known it over the past 15 years, is collapsing—from the fall of DEI in major corporations to legal blows against gender ideology and the quiet retreat of activists once loud and proud. But he warns that authoritarianism never truly dies—it mutates.

The two dive into the roots of wokeness in postmodern theory and Marxist identity politics, the alliance between Islamists and progressives, and why institutions like the NHS, civil service, and comedy world became infected with ideology pushed by just 8% of the population.

Andrew also defends free speech by arguing that provocative art like Kneecap's performances and Kanye West's controversial song should be protected as essential expressions of artistic freedom.

All this—non-crime hate incidents, Islamophobia laws, comedy censorship, deep state subversion, and the long war between liberty and control…

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Chapters

0:00 Critique of Wokeness and Political Correctness

1:45 The End of Woke: A New Phase

5:31 The Decline of Wokeness

8:28 The Cultural Turn and Marxist Influence

19:00 The Role of Authoritarianism in Wokeness

34:50 The Impact of Wokeness on Democracy

40:22 The Defence of Liberalism

1:02:22 The Failure of Liberalism and the Rise of Post-Liberalism

1:05:02 Kanye West and Censorship

1:08:14 Kneecap Band and Their Controversial Statements

1:16:20 Artistic Expression and Incitement to Violence

1:22:07 Free Speech and Political Figures

1:25:18 Liberalism and Political Figures

1:30:09 Conclusion and Book Promotion

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