Ash Sarkar | Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War
Sat 26 Apr 2025 | 2:00pm - 3:00pm
Join leading political commentator Ash Sarkar for a powerful discussion of her explosive debut Minority Rule. In this eye-opening book, Ash exposes the forces that disempower and divide us today—highlighting how elites like landlords, media barons, hedge fund managers, and CEOs profit from the chaos they create.
Ash delves into the concept of ‘minority rule,’ a term she uses to describe the irrational fear that minorities are out to oppress the majority. Through a detailed exploration, she reveals how the culture wars have been stoked by powerful interests to distract and divide society, keeping the majority in a state of fear and confusion.
Minority Rule offers a bold critique of the information overload and insecurity that define our world, showing how the manipulation of identity politics and media misdirection are keeping us from seeing what we truly have in common. Join Ash to discuss how understanding these dynamics is the first crucial step towards building a better future.
In conversation with Sian Kevill
Venue: Glasses Station Stage (Old Divinity School)
Duration: 1 hour
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Author Biography
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’, ‘The Moral Maze’, ’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.
Chair Biography
Sian Kevill has had a prestigious career as a topflight journalist, editor and programme maker at the BBC where she was Editor of BBC2’s award winning late night current affairs show, Newsnight; before running BBC World News, the BBC’s international news channel. Founder Director of Make Waves, an independent production company specialising in investigative films and international content which has worked with BBC, C4, C5, HBO, A&E, Bloomberg, Channel News Asia, Al Jazeera. During her career, Sian has overseen programmes and documentaries that have won awards from BAFTA, RTS, Monte Carlo, IDFA, ATA as well as a personal award from WITF for her services to UK current affairs. Make Waves is currently promoting their latest award-winning feature documentary on big solutions to climate change called Blue Carbon.
