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The Guilty Feminist

455. The Road to Gilead with Neil Datta

The Guilty Feminist

The Spontaneity Shop

Comedy

4.912.2K Ratings

🗓️ 3 November 2025

⏱️ 57 minutes

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The Guilty Feminist 455. The Road to Gilead Presented by Deborah Frances-White with special guest Neil Datta Recorded 9 April 2025 at The Bloomsbury Theatre. First released 21 April. The Guilty Feminist theme composed by Mark Hodge. Get Deborah’s new book with 30% off using the code SIXCONVERSATIONSPOD https://store.virago.co.uk/products/six-conversations-were-scared-to-have More about Deborah Frances-White https://deborahfrances-white.com https://www.instagram.com/dfdubz https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/deborah-frances-white/six-conversations-were-scared-to-have/9780349015811 https://www.virago.co.uk/titles/deborah-frances-white/the-guilty-feminist/9780349010120 More about Neil Datta https://www.epfweb.org/node/73 For more information about this and other episodes… visit https://www.guiltyfeminist.com tweet us https://www.twitter.com/guiltfempod like our Facebook page https://www.facebook.com/guiltyfeminist check out our Instagram https://www.instagram.com/theguiltyfeminist or join our mailing list http://www.eepurl.com/bRfSPT More Big Speeches workshops now available https://guiltyfeminist.com/big-speeches/ Come to a live show Museum of Comedy, 16 November https://www.museumofcomedy.com/the-guilty-feminist-live-podcast-recording/ Pleasance, 4 and 10 November https://www.pleasance.co.uk/event/guilty-feminist-live-deborah-frances-white Camden School for Girls, 6 November https://www.zeffy.com/en-GB/ticketing/podcast Bill Murray, 23 November https://link.dice.fm/F147b081b51d Russell T Davies at Soho Theatre https://sohotheatre.com/events/the-guilty-feminist-9/ Thank you to our amazing Patreon supporters. To support the podcast yourself, go to https://www.patreon.com/guiltyfeminist You can also get an ad-free version of the podcast via Apple Podcasts. The Guilty Feminist is part of The AudioPlus Network. If you’d like to work with us, please get in touch at hello@weareaudioplus.com. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:00.0

I'm going to tell you exactly what you need to do.

0:02.1

Dominate your finances.

0:04.4

Sunday morning, listening to questionable financial advice from the FinTech Bros on his social feed.

0:11.0

Drowning in green.

0:12.7

Scale, scale, scale, scale, scale.

0:14.8

This is the moment Isaac chose to search Barclay's life skills, get some better money intel, and save up for that new skateboard. We're helping young people become money confident. Search Barclay's life skills. Barclays, make money work for you. How's the business going? We're busier than ever, but struggling to get the staff we need. Recruiting can be such a distraction. We gave Job Centre Plus a try, and they've really helped us out. Really? Yeah. It was dead easy. We got our own employer advisor Julie who helped advertise our jobs, shortlisted candidates for us and letters interview at the Job Centre. We've hired some great people and Job Centre Plus really took the hassle out of it and there was no fee. Brilliant. That's straight on my to-do list.

0:55.3

Find out more at business.gov.uk.U.K. Slagrategor apply. Hello, guilty feminist. This is Deborah.

1:02.8

We're starting an exciting new venture called The Road to Gilead, because I think that's what we're on.

1:08.7

We're really seeing the rise of Christian nationalism

1:11.2

in the United States of America. This is not an attack on anybody's faith or faith-based

1:16.5

communities at all. This is about Christian nationalism, which is about the misuse of dogma

1:21.8

for reasons of grabbing power and dividing communities. Now, I only learned about this because I was researching

1:29.9

how we'd become so divided for my book, Six Conversations We're Scared to Have. But it really

1:36.3

alerted me that Christian nationalists had been in the United Kingdom, strategising, getting into

1:42.1

positions of influence, and creating divisions for about 10 or 12

1:48.2

years, they're only now becoming visible. You may have seen that Nigel Farage has now definite ties

1:55.4

to the ADF, the Alliance for Defending Freedom, who are a Christian conservative legal group, very

2:01.4

instrumental in the overturning of Roe versus Wade. You may have seen he's also just hired a

2:07.1

senior advisor who is a Christian nationalist who, you may have also seen he's just hired a senior

2:14.4

advisor who is anti-abortion and he specifically says for any reason, even the

2:21.1

worst possible reasons. This is becoming more visible in the form of there was a group called

2:27.0

the King's Army, who are homophobic, who went through Soho recently, intimidating gay people.

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