Hello and welcome to this discussion of brand new book against decolonization with its author Doug Stokes. Thanks very much for coming in today.

Thank you very much, Connor. I had a lovely be here.

Yeah, appreciate it. Well having read this, also your critic column having seen some of your prior interviews, I can tell that you've got a serious passion both about the cultural revolution that is currently cannibalizing our heritage at home and how this has a knock on

effect to Britain and broadly more America and the rest of the West on the world

stage but do you mind explaining your your background and what drew your

interest this particular topic? explaining your background and what drew your interest,

this particular topic.

Well, I can talk about my background

in an autobiographical sense,

or my academic background,

or I can talk about both, basically.

I'm happy to talk about whatever you want me to talk.

Go off, we have plenty of time.

Well, basically I was born and

bred in in London east London young kid grew up in a very ordinary very poor

working-class family of anything in hacking in east London right so I had a quite unconventional upbringing, you know, and kind of

of moved through that and then did my degree and then my masters. I'm skipping over a lot here, right?

But I'm going, you know, so, so I sort I sort of so but so I think the reason I'm saying that to you is because I think that that

background you do get working-class academics no doubt about that but working-class academics that come especially from like inner cities the

ghettos are quite rare and the reason I'm saying that she is because that does to some extent key into some of my passion and why I've written this book because I think that this so what made me write this book about decolonizing and and it's what I think

see is very much sort of illiberal and highly authoritarian trends in universities

and also pushing a kind of very poisonous and I think a very dangerous

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