Minority Rule

The explosive debut from political commentator Ash Sarkar, Minority Rule breaks down how the power of ordinary people is under attack by an elite minority - and how we can redirect our energy to the real problem at hand.

The explosive debut from political commentator Ash Sarkar, Minority Rule reveals how the collective power of ordinary people is under attack We live under minority rule. But who is the ruling minority? Most of us are getting screwed over. Our world is defined by inequality, insecurity, lack of community and information overload. As the world burns, mega-corporations are reporting record profits. How are they getting away with it? ''Minority rule'' is the term Ash Sarkar uses to describe the irrational fear that minorities are trying to overturn and oppress majority populations. In her eye-opening debut, she reveals how minority elites rule majorities by creating the culture wars that have taken over our politics, stoking fear and panic in our media landscape. Because despite what they''ll have you believe, antiracist campaigners aren''t actually silencing the ''forgotten'' working class, immigrants aren''t eating your pets, trans-activists aren''t corrupting your children, and cancel culture isn''t crushing free speech. In Minority Rule , Sarkar exposes how a strategic misdirection of blame over who is really screwing everything up is keeping the majority divided, while the real ruling minority of hedge fund managers, press barons, landlords and corporations remain on top. And it''s facilitating one of the biggest power grabs in history. Most crucially, she shows us how what we really have in common is being concealed by a deafening culture of distraction - and that the first step towards a better future is understanding what is happening now, and how we got here.

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Ash Sarkar is a writer, lecturer, journalist and political commentator. A contributing editor of Novara Media, she has written for the Guardian, Independent and Huffington Post, with regular appearances on British television and radio, including 'Question Time', 'Good Morning Britain' and 'Jeremy Vine' on 5. She has been called one of 'the internet's best left-wing thinkers' by the Spectator, and was named Media Personality of the Year by the Asian Media Awards in 2019. Sarkar also lectures at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and has taught Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University. Minority Rule is her first book.

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How did the Conservative Party under Boris Johnson, and the Republicans under Trump, successfully reinvent themselves as the parties of the ?left behind' and advance ever-more establishment and authoritarian goals? For Ash Sarkar, the roots of this are to be found in the years since the 2007 financial crisis, a period of huge social and economic shift, which has been central to the right's dangerous political strategy of constructing reactionary electoral majorities. She has named this the Minority Rule project.

In this ground-breaking book, Ash Sarkar explores how the Minority Rule project has taken over our politics by stoking fear and panic in our media landscape: how liberal elites are silencing the ?forgotten' working class, how the urban young are waging war on the nation's cultural institutions, and how cancel culture is threatening free speech.

Powerful, insightful and ultimately hopeful, Minority Rule breaks down how the right has misrepresented true victimhood and aims to redirect outrage to those who deserve it.