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In this explosive Heretics interview, left-wing trade unionist Paul Embery delivers a scathing critique of Britain's political class, Keir Starmer, wokeness, multiculturalism, mass immigration and the modern Left. From Labour's abandonment of the working class to the Lebanon-isation of Britain, Embery unpacks the deep cultural and political crisis facing the UK. "No other country trashes its own history like Britain." "The Labour Party is now run by social activists and student radicals." "We promoted a hard multiculturalism that is now fracturing the country." #PaulEmbery #BritishPolitics #CultureWar Support my guest by going to http://paulembery.com Get his book, Despised: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Despised-Modern-Loathes-Working-Class/dp/1509539999 Follow him on X: https://x.com/PaulEmbery Join the 30k heretics on my mailing list: https://andrewgoldheretics.com Check out my new documentary channel: https://youtube.com/@andrewgoldinvestigates Andrew on X: https://twitter.com/andrewgold_ok Insta: https://www.instagram.com/andrewgold_ok Heretics YouTube channel: https://www.youtube.com/@andrewgoldheretics Chapters: 0:00 Paul Embery Highlights 0:55 Is the UK Just An Airport? 3:55 Elites & Liberal Progressivism 6:45 JD Vance - Elites vs Ordinary People 7:55 Conspiracy Theories About Kate Middleton 9:40 Epstein's Island & Hunter Biden's Laptop 12:25 What Happened to the Left? 15:25 The Best Example of Leftist Contempt 20:20 Will What Happened to Lebanon Happen to Us? 23:55 Cultural Enrichment 26:55 Tommy Robinson 30:55 Delivery Man Kicking Fella on the Floor 33:55 Japan Example 37:55 National Identity & Making Parliament Artists More Diverse 40:55 Prince Harry the Worst Example 43:55 Harry & Meghan Criticism 47:20 Owen Jones 48:55 Problem with Queers for Palestine 51:55 What We Can Learn From Trump 55:10 A Heretic Paul Admires Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Ella Whelan, Paul Embery and Fraser Myers discuss how Angela Rayner could silence criticism of Islam, why the UK is ripe for a Reform revolt and Trump's ban on men in women's sport. spiked supporters can get early-bird tickets to our 25th anniversary bash. Log in to the Supporters Hub here: https://www.spiked-online.com/hub/ Protect your emails with Proton Mail's end-to-end encryption. Claim your 38% discount: http://proton.me/spikedpodcast Take your business to the next level with Shopify. Sign up now and get a £1-per-month trial period: https://shopify.co.uk/spiked Apply for spiked's internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/2025/01/10/apply-now-to-become-a-spiked-intern-2/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Order Brendan O'Neill's After the Pogrom now from:
Ian Acheson, Paul Embery and Tom Slater discuss the attempt to turn Chris Kaba into Britain's George Floyd, the death of rioter Peter Lynch, and the ‘Trump is Hitler' smear. Check out Paul's Substack: https://www.paulembery.com/ And Ian's book, Screwed: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Screwed-Britains-Prison-Crisis-Escape/dp/178590471X Donate £50 or more to spiked and get a signed copy of Brendan O'Neill's new book, After the Pogrom: 7 October, Israel and the Crisis of Civilisation. We'll also throw in a year's membership to spiked supporters: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ You can also order a regular copy on Amazon: https://www.amazon.co.uk/dp/1068719303/
Paul Embery, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss another wild week in American politics, the riots in Leeds and Dublin, and the BBC's obsession with drag queens. This episode is sponsored by AG1. Sign up today and get a free one-year supply of Vitamin D with your first subscription: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
Paul Embery joins Tom Slater and Fraser Myers to discuss Tory defections, the local elections and the councillor who screamed ‘Allahu Akbar'. This episode is sponsored by the Munk Debates. Get a 10 per cent discount on a ‘supporter' membership package with the promo code: SPIKED10 https://munkdebates.com/ Find out more about spiked's internship programme: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked's shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss how parliament capitulated to Islamist intimidation, the trial of Julian Assange and Google's woke AI. Sponsored by AG1: https://drinkag1.com/spiked Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Work for spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked's shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the death of Tory populism, the tyranny of the Supreme Court and the two-tiered policing of protests. Sponsored by: ExpressVPN https://www.expressvpn.com/spiked Work for spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/jobs/ Support spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/support/ Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked's shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the shallowness of virtue-signalling, the crackdown on climate ‘criminals', and the cruel cancellation of Róisín Murphy. Order Brendan O'Neill's A Heretic's Manifesto from:
Paul Embery, Tom Slater and Fraser Myers discuss the ‘BBC presenter' scandal, the emptiness of Keir Starmer and the violent misogyny of the trans movement.
The BBC's impartiality crisis, the false accusations of Eleanor Williams, Jeremy Hunt's budget and San Francisco's mad plan for racial reparations… Paul Embery, Ella Whelan and Fraser Myers discuss. Read spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/ Check out spiked's shop: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Sponsored by Harry's: www.harrys.com/spiked Related articles: Tom Slater: So this is your free-speech martyr? Gary Lineker? https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/11/so-this-is-your-free-speech-martyr-gary-lineker/ Fraser Myers: Hunt is tinkering while Britain burns https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/15/hunt-is-tinkering-while-britain-burns/ Ella Whelan: Eleanor Williams: the perils of ‘believe all women' https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/15/eleanor-williams-the-perils-of-believe-all-women/ Brendan O'Neill: Why slavery reparations are a terrible idea https://www.spiked-online.com/2023/03/17/why-slavery-reparations-are-a-terrible-idea/
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This week's spiked podcast is going to be something really special. It will be our first-ever live edition. And we'll be recording it at the Battle of Ideas festival in London, this Saturday at 12.15pm. The Battle of Ideas is Britain's premier ideas festival, where free speech truly reigns. This weekend, in Church House in Westminster, hundreds of guest speakers and members of the public will gather to discuss all the burning issues of our time. Your favourite spiked writers will be appearing on panels across the weekend, but our live podcast on Saturday will be a particular treat. Joining Fraser Myers and Tom Slater on the pod will be special guests Andrew Doyle, Paul Embery and Inaya Folarin Iman. Plus, the audience will get a chance to ask questions. You really don't want to miss this. If you don't have a ticket yet for the Battle of Ideas, you can buy yours now at battleofideas.org.uk. If you're a spiked supporter, you can get up to 25 per cent off day or weekend tickets – grab your promo code now via the spiked supporters hub. See you there!
Today, my guest is Paul Embery, a British author, political commentator, firefighter, and trade union activist for the London Fire Brigade. Embery is a columnist for publications like Unherd, HuffPo, the BBC, and serves as a guest host for The Political Correction segment of GB News.In 2020, Embery published his best selling book, Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class. It was this illuminating and controversial book that inspired me to reach out and invite him on the show. Drawing on his background as a lifelong liberal who grew up in the blue collar town of Dagenham, Embery writes passionately about the disconnect between the traditional working-class values of his upbringing vs. globalization and the new wave of identity politics that now dominates the Labour Party. During our chat, we discussed the many parallels between Britain's Labour Party, and America's Democratic Party. The similarities are stunning, to say the least. I hope you enjoy Paul's insight and candor as much as I did.Watch Episode:True Thirty is a reader-supported publication. To receive new posts and support our work, consider becoming a free or paid subscriber. Get full access to True Thirty at truethirty.substack.com/subscribe
Paul Embery and Luke Gittos join Tom Slater to discuss the Rwanda policy, the Grenfell anniversary, Keir Starmer's boring leadership, and why Glastonbury is so white. Want to intern at spiked? Then apply now. The deadline is on Monday: https://www.spiked-online.com/interns Order your copy of ‘How Woke Won' by Joanna Williams: https://www.spiked-online.com/shop/ Donate to spiked: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/ Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/supporters/ Sign up to spiked's newsletters: https://www.spiked-online.com/newsletters/
In today's episode, firefighter Paul Embery writes about the Grenfell public inquiry and how it stitched up his colleagues in an exclusive opinion piece for UnHerd titled The scapegoating of the Grenfell firefighters.
In our Books worth Reading series, Ratnaguna talks to Advayacitta about Paul Embery's book: Despised. See video version
Publishing is one of the industries worst-affected by wokery. Staffed by young, left-leaning university graduates, most publishing houses have adopted draconian policies on who and what they will and won't publish. As a result, many top notch authors have found themselves essentially blacklisted, their worthy manuscripts rejected. Whilst international titans such as JK Rowling and Jordan Peterson are too big to cancel, many less well-known authors have struggled to get their works to the public. Until now. Our guest on this week's #SWYSI is George Owers, editorial director of Forum, an imprint of Swift Press that will focus on publishing books that question contemporary orthodoxies. Forum's first title is Woke Racism: How a New Religion has Betrayed Black America by the New York Times columnist John McWhorter. It will be followed in June by Reopening Muslim Minds: A Return to Freedom, Reason, and Tolerance by Mustafa Akyol. Books already acquired for 2023 include Mary Harrington's Feminism Against Progress, Rakib Ehsan's Beyond Grievance: What the Left Gets Wrong about Ethnic Minorities, and psychology professor Luke Conway's Liberal Bullies: Why the Left has an Authoritarianism Problem and How to Fix It. In his previous position at Polity Press, Mr. Owers commissioned and edited books including Despised by Paul Embery, The Case Against the Sexual Revolution by Louise Perry, and The Dignity of Labour by Jon Cruddas. He has a PhD in the history of political thought and was the youngest Cambridge city councillor ever elected. For more information about Forum & Swift Press please see here: https://swiftpress.com/swift-press-la... ---------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath the video and then Click on the Bell icon next to it to make sure you Receive All Notifications) AUDIO: If you prefer Audio you can subscribe on itunes or Soundcloud. Soundcloud: https://soundcloud.com/user-923838732 SUPPORT/DONATE / JOIN OUR MEMBERSHIP SCHEME The NCF Channel is still very new and to continue to produce quality programming we need your support. Your donations will help ensure the channel not only continues but can grow into a major online platform challenging the cultural orthodoxies dominant in our institutions, public life and media. You can join our membership scheme or donate in a variety of ways via our website: http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk It is set up to accept one time and monthly donations. JOIN US ON SOCIAL MEDIA: Web: http://www.newcultureforum.org.uk F: https://www.facebook.com/NCultureForum/ Y: http://www.youtube.com/c/NewCultureForum T: http://www.twitter.com/NewCultureForum (@NewCultureForum)
Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade union activist and prominent proponent of Blue Labour. He is a regular columnist for UnHerd.
Author Paul Embery discusses his book Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class. https://www.amazon.com/Despised-Modern-Loathes-Working-Class-ebook/dp/B08NWM4RFW/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=paul+embery&qid=1636480399&sr=8-2 Paul Embery Columnist | UnHerd Author | Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class Twitter | @PaulEmbery Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
Author Paul Embery discusses his book Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class. https://www.amazon.com/Despised-Modern-Loathes-Working-Class-ebook/dp/B08NWM4RFW/ref=sr_1_2?keywords=paul+embery&qid=1636480399&sr=8-2 Paul Embery Columnist | UnHerd Author | Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class Twitter | @PaulEmbery
Kate Andrews is joined by writer and political activist Paul Embery; journalist Ayesha Hazarika; Tory MP Iain Duncan Smith; security expert Elisabeth Braw, resident fellow at the American Enterprise Institute; Spectator contributor Matthew Lynn; and a team of Spectator journalists. We discuss Labour's weekend in Brighton and whether Keir Starmer is taking the party in the right direction, how Britain can be better prepared for crises and why Ursula von der Leyen was the real winner of the recent German elections.
Engelske Labour er i krise, og den krisa ser ikke ut til å avta med det første. En av hovedårsakene er at partiet har beveget seg bort fra det som var dets viktigste base: arbeiderklassen. Her er det uendelig mye å lære for våre egne politikere. England er ofte fremtiden vår. (Slagordene under pågående valgkamp tyder vel egentlig på et de har lært en del av England allerede.)Jeg ble veldig glad da fagforeningsmannen, brannmannen, forfatteren og kommentatorene Paul Embery sa ja til å ta en prat med meg om dette. Det er en fascinerende historie. Og Embery har fått rett i sine spådommer om det meste de siste årene. Slike bør man lytte til. Og jeg finner folk som Embery å være mer relevante og interessante på dette området enn både akademikere og politikere flest. Hans bok heter Despised. Ikke overraskende sikter tittelen til hvordan arbeiderklassen blir sett på av en sjokkerende stor del av sitt gamle parti. Vi fikk en time omtrent. Jeg skulle gjerne hatt to til, ettersom temaet er stort og vanskelig å tømme.Vi måtte snu oss fort rundt for å tidene våre til å passe. Så her er det hjemmestudio på begge to, med påfølgende lydkvalitet. Jeg beklager dette. Men det er jo noe podcastlyttere bør være vant til nå etter over et år med coronaopptak.
Listeners may recall Peter Mandelson, the veteran UK Cabinet Secretary appointed EU Commissioner for Trade in the late 2000s upon helping orchestrate Labour's social-liberal pivot as one of Tony Blair's “spin doctors”. Mandelson's incarnation of the party's notorious “Third Way” didn't just owe to his Europhile credentials and support for Blairite programs. By racking up a string of landslide victories in the northeastern constituency of Hartlepool, his career showcased Labour's potential to press ahead with market-based and socially progressive reforms whilst retaining its historic foothold in working-class communities. Fast forward to May 6th this year, and the party's gradual loss of its core electorate in the intervening decade was nowhere in better display than in the by-election that saw the Tories flip the Hartlepool seat with a voting share 23 points larger. The political realignment underway in British politics is often chalked up to Brexit and Jeremy Corbyn's radical neo-socialism. Yet its contours are in fact proving deeper and more lasting, as voters get to weigh Boris Johnson's promises to level up the North-South divide against Keir Starmer's declared reversion to centrist politics. Beyond local variations, the trajectory for the working-class vote is one of unprecedented disaffection with Labour. This week's episode gauges the causes, extent and nuances of this trend with Paul Embery and Nick Timothy. As always, rate and review Uncommon Decency on Apple Podcasts, and send us your comments or questions at @UnDecencyPod or uncommondecencypod@gmail.com.
Paul Embery, a British trade union activist, Labour Party member, and author of “Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class,” provides a perspective from across the pond that includes lessons for American politics.
Paul Embery, author of ‘Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class', talks to Brendan O'Neill about Labour's Hartlepool disaster, why wokeness alienates the working class, and the limits of the Tories' ‘levelling up' agenda.Become a spiked supporter: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate/
Paul Embery, a British trade union activist, Labour Party member, and author of “Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class,” provides a perspective from across the pond that includes lessons for American politics.
Paul Embery, a British trade union activist, Labour Party member, and author of “Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class,” provides a perspective from across the pond that includes lessons for American politics.
This is the audio only version of Jon Gaunt's Facebook Live and Youtube TV show from Monday March 29 2021. Jon Gaunt with special guest Paul Embery who wrote the brilliant book "Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class." Great debate also talking about Brexit and the Batley School demo. What's your view? Jon's TV show is on Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 7 pm on his Facebook page and on Jon Gaunt TV here https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCj8D6iM0mO27Wiz71ddNzHQ?view_as=subscriber Please subscribe @youtube to Jon Gaunt TV Please follow jongaunt on Facebook and Twitter.
Host: Larry Bernstein. Guests include Paul Embery, Eric Kaufmann, Dean Adler, Casey Mulligan, and David Weil.
Join us as we dip our toes into the budget, get our teeth into a potential nurses strike, and pick a bone with the Labour Party relationship with class. Buy our merch Second Row Socialists on Twitter Comradio on Twitter Declan Clune fund Carole Cadwalladr giving Farage money to say non-incriminating words BBC news website on the budget with just the positives!! Corbyn article on the budget Support for the Nurses Ford & Goodwin, Different Class? UKIP's Social Base and Political Impact (2015) June 2020 report by JRF Evans & Tolley, How Parties Shape Class Politics (2011) Blairism: The "Professionalisation of Labour" Sabrina Huck review of Paul Embery book Steven Beackon's paper, Labour Party Politics and the Working Class (2009) identifies Labour as starting to move away from its working class base in the 1960s
Listen now (58 min) | Paul Embery is a firefighter, trade unionist, journalist, national organiser of Trade Unionists Against the EU, supporter of Blue Labour and the author of Despised: Why the Modern Left Loathes the Working Class. In this episode, Embery talks with Julian Vigo about the chasm between the working class communities and the wider left to include the abandon of class considerations by the left in favour of a focus on identity politics. Get full access to Savage Minds at savageminds.substack.com/subscribe
The vaccine might be just around the corner, but can the country truly recover? (01:00) How can the Labour party win back the working class? (11:15) And finally, should we celebrate the new statue of Mary Wollstonecraft? (23:10)With The Spectator's political editor James Forsyth, chair of the Health Select Committee Jeremy Hunt, firefighter and writer Paul Embery, Times Radio presenter and former Labour MP Gloria de Piero, The Spectator's radio critic Kate Chisholm, and Spectator contributor and feminist writer Julie Bindel.Presented by Lara Prendergast.Produced by Cindy Yu, Max Jeffery, Matt Taylor and Sam Russell.
Trade unionist Paul Embery joins Tom, Ella and Fraser to discuss a historic week in Westminster. Support the show: https://www.spiked-online.com/donate-to-spiked/
On this week's spiked podcast: Paul Embery on the new threats to Brexit, Nathalie Rothschild on anti-Semitism in Sweden, and Emily Yoffe on why the #MeToo movement has gone too far. spiked-online.com