How did the culture wars take over? Ft Jon Ronson

Rarely a week goes by without a fresh skirmish in the culture
wars between the right and the left. Whether it’s cancel culture,
wokeism, defining a woman or marking colonial history, battles
between the warring tribes are increasingly having an impact on
our lives.


With the row over Rishi Sunak’s joke at Prime Minister’s
Questions over defining a woman still reverberating around
Westminster, this week Amol and Nick look at the roots of culture
wars, why they matter and where they’re going.


They’re joined by Jon Ronson, the journalist, documentary-maker
and podcaster whose series ‘Things Fall Apart’ has catalogued and
defined culture wars on both sides of the Atlantic.


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presented the Today programme since 2015, he was the BBC’s
political editor for ten years before that and also previously
worked as ITV’s political editor.


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