The Long March Through the Institutions: How the Left Won the Culture War & What To Do About It

The New Culture Forum's brand new publication "The Long March Through The Institutions: How the Left Won the Culture War" may be downloaded free of charge from our website: newcultureforum.org.uk/#publications . Hard copies may be purchased by making a £10 donation also via the website (further details please email: [e-mail])
On this week's "So What You're Saying Is...", Marc Sidwell, author of the above publication, sits down with Peter Whittle to discuss how so many British institutions (from media to academia, NGOs to the civil service) came to be dominated by the left.
How does culture shape political power? Many Conservatives now fear that victory at the ballot box is not enough. Despite Boris Johnson’s triumph in the 2019 election, they sense that a larger cultural battle has been lost. Some accuse the left of mounting a secret, slow-motion takeover, inspired by the ideas of the Italian communist Antonio Gramsci - the ‘long march through the institutions’.
The New Culture Forum's new book by Marc Sidwell uncovers the truth: a tangled history in which active subversion runs alongside unintended consequences and missed opportunities. Armed with a clearer understanding of the left’s long march, it also reveals new possibilities for fighting back.
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The New Culture Forum's brand new publication "The Long March Through The Institutions: How the Left Won the Culture War" may be downloaded free of charge from our website: www.newcultureforum.org.uk/#publications . Hard copies may be purchased by making a £10 donation also via the website (PayPal etc.). For further details please email: [e-mail]

[@geoded]

Is there any chance of providing the copy on your website in epub format? Makes it work nicely on kindles etc. Really great interview guys - please keep it up, you do fantastic work.

[@petebarnard123]

@@geoded😩🌐🕤🕕🌗 A! 😩🌅🚇🍏🍏🥬🍗🦊🐱🐭🦔🐟

[@vonryansexpress]

@@annette2653 I couldn't agree more - with the present majority in the house they should not be afraid to push the boat out.

[@margaretdent1312]

Geode I was able to download pdf and save to/send to kindle

[@vonryansexpress]

@Vera Bennett I think Boris is thinking long term and subtle perhaps . . . Not only that but with Covid, Brexit a new son, Cummings difficulty, near death with the virus, perhaps they are not firing on all cylinders . . . The appointment of Mirza to head up a new "Race relations" report is encouraging and a reform and a reorganisation of the Civil service - perhaps with sweeping personnel changes - is a good sign . . . Boris seems to have lost his major a bit but I'm hopeful he will return to form eventually . . . I'm still thanking God for delivering us from a Corbyn government - the thought of that man in Numbet 10 used to give me cold shivers

[@LambrettaFunk]

Japan has withdrawn all state funding of the Humanities, citing that they are not useful to the economy. They are right.

[@Crichjo32]

They've seen how the west has collapsed, and probably thinking "nope, don't need that shit here."

[@charlesmartel6570]

Japan refused the "refugees" back in 2105 (& since).

[@tintinhickey5869]

Australian govt has cut funding to humanities and increased funding to STEM courses.

[@charlesmartel6570]

It's a start. Should totally defund all bullshit courses eg gender studies, indigenous studies

[@teresahall8762]

What the Humanities need is the removal of Marxism from the teaching.

[@nw8000]

The "Uni's" should be closed until they can be staffed by normal people.

[@herewardtheoutlaw9378]

nw8000 simply defund “studies” such as media studies and only support subjects the country needs such as engineering.

[@rhobatbrynjones7374]

And, in a democracy, who decides who is normal?

[@rhobatbrynjones7374]

@@Cygnet2 Since when do children go to university?

[@rhobatbrynjones7374]

@@Cygnet2 So what you're saying is that the education system for primary and secondary school students is state-organised child abuse.

[@royrj5517]

The EU sponsors British universities, need i say more?

[@XOmk143]

This government is pathetic. This won't be forgotten. We already didn't trust politics, now we know they are incapable of defending our interests. The system seems broken.

[@stumccabe]

Jim Bo . We're going to have to shock the establishment again as we did with Brexit. The majority hate what has been going on, but we hear little from them because the media doesn't represent them and the (left wing) establishment has made it socially unacceptable to speak out. It is remarkable that decades of propaganda has been so unsuccessful. We can beat the b*stards - the next general election may be our best hope.

[@mesolithicman164]

As bad as this government is, how much worse would it have been if Corbyn, Benn, Butler and Abbot had got in? So it's the better of 2 bad options. I have a feeling that Nigel F is planning a comeback. The way he's been pushing certain issues on his YT channel looks like he's building something from the roots.

[@Michael-ns1ey]

It doesn't work having a political group in charge of absolutely everything, and never will. They just make promises, get in, then break their promises. We need to stop being chumps. There is an idea that's been around for 100 years now that says - separate society into its three spheres: economic, political (rights), and cultural (education, religion, art, science), and let them interact only through association. It's currently known as Social Threefolding. The wikipedia page is very good. What the Marxist types are trying to do is dominate economics and all aspects of culture with matters of rights.

[@hittitecharioteer]

I agree with you Jim Bo - and with Stu MacCabe, Michael and Alex M. To Mesolithic Man I'd ask: do you think for a moment any of this would have happened had a Labour government under Corbyn won the general election last November? This is being orchestrated regardless of the government incompetence. The Deep State is still trying to subvert Brexit and of necessity the government elected to deliver it. Evident from the moment Priti Patel dismissed Sir Philip Rutnam - who had no intention of enacting government policy and the will of the people (who had after all voted on the issue of BREXIT four times one way or another). That Rutnam expects a successful claim of unfair dismissal suggests he has the support of 'Establishment others' that think he can win and force Priti Patel's resignation.

[@mesolithicman164]

Jerry Can Brexit flushed out the 'remain establishment' and we saw how they were in all parties and the civil service. A lot of them were flushed down the toilet in the last election but I'm sure there are more to get rid of. That will be part of the new Long March. My point is that a second battle would have arisen as Corbyn's Labour pulled this country to the extreme Left. Undermining our nuclear defences, education and the existence of the traditional family. Thank God he was never elected. But clearly there is a battle ahead to uproot the Eurocentric/Marxist/Globalist elite from ALL the institutions and restore Britain as it should be.

[@aucourant9998]

I had an e-mail from the children's' charity Bernardo's saying how important it was to teach our children about 'racism and privilege'. So the poison has entered into even a beloved Christian charity like Bernardo's whose aim should be to respect and cherish all children without regard to race or skin colour.

[@tintinhickey5869]

I've stopped a lot of charity giving because they too are flogging climate change and gender equity guff.

[@fatimahsharpe9113]

I had a Barnardo's person turn up at my door asking for a direct debit to support them. I was very tempted....I like helping children....but something flashed through my mind and I told the person I need to check it out on their website and I can donate directly from there. I checked it out and found that they had gone all gender ideology. I didn't donate. it's sad.

[@c.smythe8905]

Quality viewing, totally trumps the hysterical woke mainstream media. A small corner of sanity. Keep up the good work.

[@freddieqmercury5961]

I think history will show how detrimental Blair was to Britain and how well he has done for himself after leaving. The working class have not had any party defending their issues.

[@marinedrive5484]

Thanks, Marc, very clearly put. "People should be preparing themselves for a long, kind of occupation" - that's very depressing Marc, it's tempting to wish for a purge of the institutions, or at least some real push-back from a Conservative government, which does have a mandate from the majority of the electorate.

[@ginigang]

'Destroy' is the right word. The culture onslaught has and continues to be all about destruction and deconstruction without offering an alternative of any worth.

[@chrisowen3111]

Mark is right about the Church of England, that has some good churches and vicars but the institution is not even Christian most of the time.

[@barriejackson3294]

The Church of England under Welby is, I regret to say, an absolute disgrace. They have dumped orthodox doctrine and the Word of God and totally bought into the secular narrative. As you say, there are some very hardworking priests on the ground being very effective in mission but most of the Bishops are a shambles. Don't look to the C of E or the traditional institutional churches for where Christianity is to be found, living and active. The C of E is simply a "corporation" which has sold it's soul to the Devil. I say that with great sadness since I'm a lay minister in C of E.

[@halestorm123]

@@barriejackson3294 Justin welby was once an oil baron so yes he sure follows Jesus same way the queen follows Jesus they are all evil!!! Down with the crown... imposters

[@legalvampire8136]

When I was at university there was a girl there doing a postgraduate theology course with a view to being ordained in the Church of England. Once some moral dilemma came up in conversation and someone asked 'What would Jesus have said?' and this girl replied 'I don't see why it should matter what one man would have said!' And she was intending to be ordained in the Church of England!

[@wodens-hitman1552]

I used to go to church regularly until all that happy clappy liberal rubbish infected everything

[@BarryB420]

The church is one of the institutions in their long March through institutions

[@MJHW-st7dt]

Boris could smash up the supreme court, bbc, civil service and more. Why isn't he doing it??

[@hasyourgulaggotplanningper2459]

Errrm. Because he's part of the problem perhaps...

[@tryordiegarage]

Because he is a lilly livered liberal lickspittle...he wouldn't know a conservative....

[@slimjimpui]

@Scooby McDooby There's no doubt that if he put his foot down, he'd be the most popular Prime Minister we've had in an age. The fact that he hasn't, even though the majority of the British public are sick of this woke shit really does set off some pretty large alarm bells

[@nowisthetime6093]

The English need to wake up. Look at the state of all the big cities. The last true Conservative was Enoch Powell. The Tories of today are more Liberal centre. Labour have abandoned their voter base in favour of the immigrant and gone far Left. A centre Right party needs to be pushed hard or its game over.

[@marcussparticus8380]

All in good time. Patients 👍😆

[@mbpinder]

The Tories are as 'woke' as anybody else. They haven't been conservative for a long time.

[@KRUGE67]

Jordan Peterson has been warning about this for years.

[@theyatsyspam]

Yuri Bezmenov has for around 4 decades, god rest his soul.

[@mattkierkegaard9403]

A little Austrian painter from about 90 years ago, warned everybody of the marxist threat to western civilisation ...

[@alexnk49]

@@mattkierkegaard9403 that’s a good one. No one saw that. But I did. Take your like and gtfo

[@hannannah1uk]

We must repeal the Human Rights Act and the Equalities Acts or leftist policies will prevail no matter what aims and ideas Boris and Patel might have.

[@nowisthetime6093]

The Conservatives have conserved nothing. If you are looking to the Tories to save the UK you are going to be deeply disappointed.

[@jeremyboughtono2]

Don't depend on Boris he is a career politician he doesn't really believe in anything.

[@user-qu8yx6nf5d]

Boris and Patel initiatives and ideas are there to keep up the myth that the Tories are conservative. It just voting fodder for useful idiots who keep them in power.

[@peterwright7025]

the working class will never vote this labour party to power they know they dont work for them anymore

[@hasyourgulaggotplanningper2459]

It doesn't matter, Tories are taking the knee anyway. If you don't realise the Tory party have been neutered then you aren't paying attention.

[@marcussparticus8380]

Your right, I've taken the pledge never to vote Lebour ever again or for any other left leaning party. TRAITORS

[@derf9465]

The working class is tiny in the UK, the middle class is the biggest lump.

[@greggus42]

@@hasyourgulaggotplanningper2459 Exactly!

[@wodens-hitman1552]

@@derf9465 come up to the black country and see then

[@rhobatbrynjones7374]

The phrase the Long March comes from the Chinese Civil War when the Communists broke through Nationalist lines in October 1934.

[@vonryansexpress]

The most significant edition from this vital channel by far . . . Buying this book and thoroughly digesting it's contents is one small step of resistance that is essential. . . A thorough knowledge of what has happened to us and our society is vitally important - knowledge is always power, however small that power may be.

[@JustineBrownsBookshelf]

This is why Mencius Moldbug’s concept of the progressive institutions as “the Cathedral” is crucial: it doesn’t rely on active conspiracy (though it doesn’t exclude it either).

[@iaindennis3321]

The country gave the Conservative Party a 80 seat majority because the majority are sick and tired of the left wing - the BBC, Education, media, the right wing have got to understand what is going on and fight it.

[@fidelisfaber4961]

Yes the CofE has let Britain down very badly.

[@psalm1197]

Fidelis Faber That "company" has let down their own Boss....there'll be Hell to pay!!!

[@charlesmartel6570]

As have all elites including the Royal family.

[@cap7277]

The single most important initiative: parental choice in schooling , including but not limited to, home schooling.

[@Mark761966]

We need to stop using the French terms "Left" and "Right" wing. They're far too loaded

[@stumccabe]

Mark Williams . I agree completely. It has always struck me as ridiculous to use a one dimensional scale to describe a multi-dimensional range of political opinions. That's why fascists and communists are described as being on the right and left respectively while in practice they're so similar - the left/right description says nothing about how authoritarian people are, for example.

[@bobelschlager6906]

Yes, we get carried away by words that have no definitions.

[@willosee]

Completely agree

[@borderlands6606]

Agreed. Boris was described as "far right" before the election, when his track record showed he was one of the most socially liberal Tories, ever. Loose language allows people to straw man and gaslight without redress. I want to know what people think, not what flag of convenience they fly under.

[@unitedwithin4004]

You are correct Sir!! The bureaucratic tyranny and its ally the MSM are supporting the destruction of Western Civilization and the reduction of its people to serfdom. There is no "left" or "right" only an avaricious, murderous and (with good reason) paranoid group of international gangsters intent on the destruction of Consciousness, Soul and Freedom. Unite or perish.

[@carolinenorman6141]

People talking truth and common sense are getting called far right

[@wurlitzer895]

A great interview. Thanks, Peter and Marc.

[@elizabethkajet5501]

The march has now accelerated to a quickstep.

[@marinedrive5484]

Or, a goose-step.

[@mootamoonta261]

My thought exactly.

[@chrisc7265]

time for phase two --- Segway through the institutions

[@sourcescience]

As someone doing teacher training right now I can tell and warn you that none of you have any idea how true this is. I am terrified.

[@alyswilliams9571]

Excellent as always Peter.

[@marydavies3392]

Very interesting and disturbingly feasible. Our hope must rest with Mr Boris Johnson PM to somehow energise people to resist this ‘long march’ and learn a quick march back to democracy, free speech and recognition of our commendable past. We must speak up against the distorted version of the world screamed by the uneducated, ignorant thugs responsible for public disorder and criminal damage of late. Begin with the BBC who do more than most to promote left bias in our great country.

[@falcon5467]

"Incrementalism" - bringing about change slowly so as to not rile the general public's opposition to radical ideas.

[@mavisemberson8737]

Have you ever read "The Abolition of Man" written by CS Lewis as a professor who saw the same attitudes growing among educationalists in the 1940's an1950's as has resulted in the current mass of ignorant graduate?. Universities need to be changed back from teaching institutions for students to places of research as they were intended to be.

[@peterallemano8098]

What a fine conversation; thank you! Mr. Sidwell's ability to express himself cogently is remarkable, and this interview constitutes a fine introduction to the issues presented -- especially for anyone who may not have thought about, or studied, the issues before. Well done, gents!

[@richardmortimer8147]

Brilliant! Such a good interview. Thank you so much.

[@dsmith4658]

we have got to push back

[@alanthorpe3640]

That would make us no different. We need to push back on the size of the state through the ballot box but there is no one to vote for to do this.

[@cecilefox9136]

It´s frightening what has happened in England since I left to live and teach in Spain in September 1986.

[@borderlands6606]

As a working class child, establishment figures were socially conservative on the whole. Revolutionary saviours, were the exception. By the time I left home for high education, the establishment were exclusively liberal left. The question whether they were right, was quelled by an unswerving conviction they were doing good. Thatcher was a lightning conductor for this conviction, dismantling industry piecemeal, delivering the coup de grace to socially conservative working class communities, and offering a choice between Gladstonian Liberalism and the Far Left. The biggest social change was breaking up working class communities, who largely inhabited close-knit Victorian housing, and atomising them to satellite communities where they were more susceptible to modernising influences.

[@Confusion.and.Delay...]

The proles were supposed to be the last bastion of hope, as Orwell wrote. Quote: "If there was hope, it must lie in the proles because only there, in those swarming disregarded masses, 85 percent of the population of Oceania, could the force to destroy the Party ever be generated." funny how very soon after the proles were cast out and scattered into the four winds. However, we did see a kind of prole uprising during the last UK election, The red wall came tumbling down. 6 months later, look at the beating they are getting.

[@rogeralsop3479]

This is excellent and it's happening all around us.

[@wasabimanic]

One of the very best discussions Thank you both VERY MUCH . So glad I clicked on this Absolutely necessary insight in these " Orwellian " times Shall definitely buy the book.

[@Matter_C]

Thank you - this looks like a timely publication

[@cloudybeforerain7134]

When Mr. Sidwell says “Germany”, he is referring to West Germany.

[@garyhiggins4850]

It might be difficult to attack, but it must be attacked otherwise we will be living under the jackboot of a Marxist tyranny with no way out! If th.e w,a R is oer, reignite it! We can see how the vermin did it, do it to them!

[@davidcockayne3381]

Universities are the key, I think. Political diversity in the courses and staffing of universities should be a condition of granting, or retaining, their royal charter - without which they cannot grant degrees.

[@gillps5130]

It needs only one man of strength to gather a team of allies. A trawl through KZbin would find them in many walks. There are true and good solicitors. Goodness and justice would be on his side and so too the majority of people.

[@johnnyboy1014]

Thanks for the vid much appreciated and enjoyable as all of yours are 😀👍

[@p00kaah]

I was training to be a teacher in the UK in the mid-70s. There were marches and occupations. What the organisers didn't realise is we had all been brought up in the 50s and 60s by a WW2 generation. We pulled back from the very extreme. I remember one firebrand lecturer who was outraged and screamed 'sell-outs' at us when we accepted a compromise.

[@juliekemp419]

Excellent show Peter. When i was in London in 1975, working as a 'nursing sister' and later up in Scotland as a barmaid with other expats in a luxury becastled salmon fishing retreat in Perthshire, i could sense what i liked and trusted. That sense has been rigorously clarified after nearly 50 yrs by your show and others over the past year. Back then I was barely onto the, fatuous, meaningless, bottomless pit that is the Marxist 'left' although i didn't really understand 'Marx' - who could, he was such an unpleasant person after all! His legacy's insinuation is a cancer that has weakened all around except its own en-toxic-ated comrades - high and low-borne types alike! It reminds me of that treacherous Cambridge group of spies in WWII and after. Our society sure has become tumbleweed. Even in my Nursing days, roughly 40 years with breaks for uni studies in the arts, law and nursing, i sensed a decline in values and graces and was perplexed about it. Nursing - well it became a mere clinical doing for doctors and a workplace for socialist immigration-agended peoples from far and wide. Barren, barren, barren trajectory for sure! I'm sad and angry in equal measure, but buoyed by so much good sense from you and your sterling guests on your shows. THANKS VERY MUCH.

[@Mark761966]

Yay! Back to face to face interviews :D

[@gillps5130]

Oh yes! I take it as a personal win that I didn't even notice. My heart has not been in social distancing nearly enough, clearly.

[@chrisruss9861]

Impressive guest.

[@d.marques4700]

A very clear explanation, really! Thanks, N.C.F., for your tireless Public Service!...

[@PrincipledUncertainty]

We need to bury hard drives containing our collective wisdom, so one day our descendents can rebuild.

[@PrincipledUncertainty]

@Scooby McDooby True. There is no stopping this train bar the buffers. I know too many people who foolishly think that they can somehow strike back, but that only fuels the engine. We need to sit tight and nurture the truth, until the fever passes.

[@sandracoombs2255]

Didn’t really give very much in the “what can be done about it”, department!! We know what’s happened. The key question is what can be done about it! Seems nobody has any clues.

[@mattkierkegaard9403]

Sandra Coombs . People have clues. Actually there are historical blueprints from Italy during the 1920s and Germany during the 1930s on how to free a society from Marxism. However, most contemporary thinkers still refuse to take heed to what lessons and insights history has to offer us now

[@hamalton]

Excellent content, as ever Peter.

[@glennconway3516]

Very useful - helped me to see the ‘long march’ in 3D !

[@frazerduncan356]

Just about the best political analysis on the internet. Superb.

[@valthirteen]

Thoroughly illuminating interview. Thank you. The more that the public get enfranchised with salient detail and an overall understanding of how pervasive the situation is, the sooner a plan of action may be construed. Unfortunately the melanoma has metastasised and is engaged at the lymph nodes of our organs of governance, Law, Policing, Media, Arts & Education, therefore quite time critical. Hopefully, Mr. Johnson et al have formulated a coherent riposte that we can all get behind.

[@mattfm101]

The most important episode you have done.

[@mmille10]

Sidwell's point that the Right tends to ignore the culture, because they think it's not important, is an important one. I'm in the U.S., and I've been of a mind for a while that our culture is our soft underbelly. We can ably defend ourselves militarily against Marxist states. We proved that against the Soviet Union, but when it comes to the "water" of our society, our culture, and its generators, our institutions, we haven't defended it well at all. It has not been a priority. There is not an organizing campaign to preserve it that passes itself forward from generation to generation. People have assumed that our institutions are that "campaign," but they're not. If anything, the campaign would really exist where De Tocqueville said it was when he came to America in the 19th century, in the churches, but as we know, the mainline churches have been subverted by this ideology, as well. Many churches focus on UN development goals, and don't even refer to the Bible anymore. Their church attendance is dismal, with it being common that their members only really attend for weddings and funerals. It's been projected that mainline denominations will likely be "out of business" in the near future, for lack of support. The goals of these churches don't inspire people. What's certainly needed is a religious revival.

[@DevonDandy]

Living in the UK is has a parallel with being a Soviet citizen in the 1970's,. The defining difference is that now the control is more insidious, more covert, enforced not by men on street corners with Kalashikovs and the KGB, but with an all encompassing culture, say things out of line and we can quickly ensure you loose your job for instance.

[@Hickalum]

Excellent insight. The implication is that for decades people have been appointed and promoted according to their political leaning. I have experienced this myself personally. And I work exclusively in the private sector.... The ‘innocent’ informal questions. The occasions when somebody gets the job who is totally inappropriate. Now we know why - isn’t this called discrimination?

[@misteroz]

I had the pleasure of working with Marc on an independent project some years ago, and he always was a thoroughly good egg.

[@DevonDandy]

The most influential quango in bringing the general public on side for leftist agenda is of course the BBC. I recall a friend of mine working in the BBC in London in the 1980's saying " If you work in the BBC and vote Conservative, it's not a good career move to admit it."

[@simonking2869]

Sidwell is brilliant. He ABSOLUTELY gets it. NCF viewers should watch his lectures and interviews on KZbin and read his books. They won't be disappointed.

[@davidkinnon952]

Very interesting piece.

[@MarkGardiner1976]

During the past few weeks Britain has died as a country of any kind of sense. We have committed mass suicide in this country and it`s only going to get much much worse.

[@stevenborg102]

Wow, never thought I'd hear a reference to Firefly on this channel or by a bloke like this lol respect

[@Spireites72]

Governments should have taken ex KGB defector Yuri Bezmenov warnings of political and cultural subversion seriously. He spelled it out in great detail, and he has been proven right

[@TRH8765]

Time to get Milo Yiannopoulos on the show for interview

[@goodyeoman4534]

Thanks for this video. It's nice to hear these ideas expressed so well, and is a reminder that plenty of opposition (however silent and passive) exists to the leftist monopoly of our society and government.

[@sabrinakelly7218]

very interesting thank you both

[@lokmanmerican6889]

What to do about it is the part I want to know.

[@clarkdavison4766]

I have looked all over and can't find a copy of the book mentioned "Rape of reason" by Keith Jacka anywhere. Not on Amazon, library search comes back "no results" and not even a pdf or torrent to be found. Anybody out there have a copy?

[@DBS6567]

great chat, one of the problems with british people is we have patience, in spades, and something has to really attack us or offend us for us to enmasse stand up and be counted. many people are so appreciative when individuals stand up and speak out, but don't stand up themselves. they demand some one do or say something, whilst staying seated themselves. Douglas Murray, Toby Young, David Starkey, Lawrence Fox, etc etc, the list goes on, we cheer them on, but sit quietly ourselves. we need to organise they say, yet do nothing, unfortunately this is historically been the same for generations, we are the silent majority, but by keeping quiet, we enable those whom we wish to depose. so yes we want to do something, but we want others to do it first so we can hitch a ride to some protest or other, yet as a whole we shy away from the hard work, so not to get noticed, and this is what the left rely on, the shout loud and proud , whilst we doth protest please be quiet, please pipe down, as we have seen so many times before, a relatively small band of people, making such a loud noise, that they in effect get what they want, just to shut them up, the squeaky wheel get the grease. etc. and our "anything for an easy life" enables them.

[@kward8996]

The person to blame for a lot of it is Julia Middleton, the lady behind Common Purpose.

[@d.marques4700]

..."Tony Blair was probably THE WORST P.M. in our History!" (Marc Sidwell - author)

[@michaelbagley7804]

Just been on Amazon to purchase the book to be told it is currently unavailable. Has Amazon Prime also 'taken the knee'?

[@NewCultureForum]

The book shall be available on Amazon but in the meantime may currently be purchased in hardcopy form by sending us an email with your details: [e-mail] and making a £10 donation on our website: www.newcultureforum.org.uk/#donate (PayPal etc.) Kind regards, NCF Team

[@gillps5130]

They have indeed taken the knee I think so Amazon is best avoided

[@tryordiegarage]

The Conservatives MUST codify / enshrine free speech in law remove hate speech laws and prohibit discrimination based on opinion...you cant be fired for an opinion. Normal people are silent because they are terrified of career/business impact

[@damianoconnor1]

I covered some of the issues here in 'A Short Guide to the History of South Africa 1652-1902' by Damian P.O'Connor

[@charlesmartel6570]

Depressing. Westerners were sold out. Even monarchs of old wouldn't have treated us as badly

[@andrewclapham6364]

Please check the pdf download of the book. Lines of text appear to be missing from the bottom/top of pages at least in the intro. Thanks.

[@NewCultureForum]

Hi Andrew, there are no missing lines of text. Kind regards, NCF team.

[@stepchicken3238]

Of course, the original 'Long March' refers to Mao Zedong's Red Army retreat during the chinese civil war. It was only a strategic retreat as they eventually won China, as we know. I remember (just into my teens) going up to London, in 1968, to see what the 'student demos' were all about - Red Lion Square, etc,. Myself and a school mate went to Hyde Park, and saw hundreds of 18 to 20's milling about; lots of megaphoned speeches; and collection tins for the Paris student revolt (was more serious over there!). My mate picked a metal badge off the ground, and asked me, "What does YS mean?" I answered, "Young Socialist." He threw it away. I thought, "We're dead, we're dead," but nothing happened. I recall thinking at the time: they are the future; they are the one's who will get degrees, who will eventually run society. So, Sidwell's book comes as no surprise to me, confirming what I've long believed.

[@bobelschlager6906]

Well, well, a motivating video.

[@ballball6832]

this was fascinating

[@SuperLatecomer]

As always on this channel very refreshing. But still important to keep in mind that the numbers in higher education rose from about 2 percent to nearly 50 percent in five decades. In the same period the immigrant community rose steeply. This naturally leads to a more left wing culture. Yet the electorate still firmly rejected a Corbyn style return to hard left politics despite the lures. And people still want to settle here precisely because we have an enterprise culture balanced by a string sense of social responsibility. Thenfuture is bright. I would say the best hope for the left is to keep up its drift right. Woke culture is ignored by most and loved only by our terrible broadcast media.

[@johnquixote1581]

I enjoyed this video so much the first time that I thought I would watch it again: I looked in my, strangely sparse, youtube history but couldn't find it; I did find it in my browser history; after watching again it still does not appear in my yt history. Some kind of shadow banning?

[@philipharris-smith5889]

They have to eventually go for the power grab which is occurring in the USA as I write. Two questions I think: 1. Once they show themselves and become overt, do they succeed or are they ‘purged’ and to answer this question it would seem that very wealthy people are backing it so it will play out for a longer time. 2. Children and young people have been lied to and even those that comply will find themselves inadequately rewarded and given false expectations eventually they will become angry. This I think will bring serious criminality and disorder which if we compare to current BLM stuff the current stuff will be considered trivial.

[@MrCameronian]

Peter did you see the C4 documentary about reversing unconscious racism in schoolchildren, shocking, Tavistock without the drugs or the knife, you need to see this and get a programme out soon.

[@StillAliveAndKicking_]

Not long ago I posted on a local forum as I wanted to find someone whose letter was sent to my address. It happened to be a Muslim name, and a phone card inside. Someone said criminals sent phone cards to wrong addresses, and collected them in person. Someone suggested I get a gun and some ammunition in case a criminal called. A few days later a knock at the door. It was a local police officer. He asked to take the letter. Someone had made a complaint about a post, not against me of course. He was embarrassed, said he’d rather be investigating a burglary, or an assault, but it was the law and he had to do his duty by law. He pointed out that one of the posts in the thread was from an ex copper. Clearly he had not been offended by the humour.

[@MrMjp58]

In every school and college throughout the west, there should be clear and vivid lessons in the ‘long march’. The student can then make more informed choices of how to proceed through life. I only just heard of it in late middle age. Once the concept and history is grasped, the more bizarre aspects of one’s life experiences begin to make more sense.

[@Avidcomp]

Where in the UK can a student go to study in depth Austrian economics? I think the answer is not in any university.

[@spazbates5142]

Individual freedom is always worth the fight. Think about the generations that had to give their lives early on to keep or attain it. I have to admit that I've had things great for my whole life. I'm VERY lucky.

[@platoscave911]

The U.K. needs a large tsunami event to cleanse the cesspool it has become to clear the filth and corruption from the planet.

[@patrickselden5747]

An important and timely discussion, gentlemen: thank you and good luck with the book. I'm not optimistic, though; I think the moment has indeed come to take the Benedict Option. Social-conservatives and classical liberals are going to have to circle the wagons and wait out the storm. Progressive utopianism will eventually break on the rocks of reality, because it denies them, but it'll take a long time for that to happen and, as Marc says, it's going to get a lot worse before it gets better...

[@andrewsim9180]

Thank you for this enlightening video on such a vital area of national (and international) concern. Some have described the vicious self-serving alliance of Big Business, Big Bureaucracies, & Big Banks by using a Fascist/ Communist portmanteau : "Fas-munism". I agree with Marc that it seems (in fact inevitable to me) that things are going to get worse before they improve. So extravagantly sordid has the moral decay of institutions become that, regrettably, I find it difficult to see how our society can escape extreme chaos and misery along the way. The organised infiltration of Institutions, and the empowerment of quangos, plus various other stratagems, are calculated to undermine & implode society............so as to pave the way for ushering-in totalitarian control.

[@hasyourgulaggotplanningper2459]

I think many of us probably know all about this anyway, but for those that are not, given the preference by many for audiobooks, can I suggest you publish the book in audio format?

[@andrewclapham6364]

Two words come to mind while reading this book: Common Purpose. (Matrix Courses. Leaders beyond Authority etc. - now what have THEY! been up to for the last decade or two?)

[@floydnotpink]

The only way to fight back against the woke cultural takeover is through your pocket. I no longer go to see Royal Shakespeare plays because they try to get as many colours of Beneton into each production. The problem probably lies with the arts council quango who I suspect make the availability of grants dependent on how many ethnic minorities they can force onto the stage. I am not a racist and will watch any production where the representation of ethnic minorities is appropriate and part of the point of the production as in the production of Othelo with Lenny Henry in the lead role, but in the main the RSC in particular just use ethnicity in an incongruous way to make a woke point. How do we stop it? Scrap the arts council and start again with new personell, with people who have a sense of the appropriate placing of actors in an historical setting. Opera fortunately does not suffer in the same way, perhaps because it is not a 'lefty' thing. Black singers are selected for their ability and not just to fill a quota stipulated by the arts council.

[@janeb1484]

agree keep your money and spend it wisely

[@kbeetles]

The truth of every word Marc says here is sorely correct. I would also agree with his statement that the war has been fought (???) and we lost! (Like the complete communist party's take-over of the state in socialist Eastern Europen countries after WW2.) All significant and public resistance is futile and dangerous! People can either join the victors or freeze or go underground, waiting for the system to collapse by itself - which it will do inevitably. The institutions lose touch with reality, competence having been weeded out, leadership and innovative thinkers are replaced by ideologues. Learn to grit your teeth, keep the good faith in your heart and wait......insanity breeds more insanity..... and little cracks appear!

[@rhedinrage1601]

I knew boris wouldn't be my prime minister when he said he was committing to the climate communism.

[@JohnSmith-rm5sf]

25:01 "You know what, that Derrida has got a lot to answer for!"

[@AnnabelleJARankin]

I trained as a teacher during the 1970s ('74 - '77) but did NOT come across any Marxist or Communist influence at all from any tutors or students...

[@MrDirtybear]

I agree that under Margaret Thatcher more people wanted to be self reliant. They were right to want that, but not because she told them to be, or because she wanted them to be, but because self reliance is about resisting being lectured to, or moulded by leaders with more money then sense, resisting being lectured by a leader who believed that there was no such thing as society. People were right to resist that.

[@astridgilberto]

The.main problem with all these state run organisations is that they all have legal protection. If they were just given guidelines to work with, everybody would have more room to manoeuvre and dissenters wouldn’t feel so threatened..There needs to be a thoroughgoing clear out of the quangocry, the BBC especially.

[@garwvalley6946]

This is the most important thing you need to pay attention to. Sexologist John Money introduced the terminological distinction between biological sex and gender as a role in 1955. Before his work, it was uncommon to use the word gender to refer to anything but grammatical categories. However, Money's meaning of the word did not become widespread until the 1970s, when feminist theory embraced the concept of a distinction between biological sex and the social construct of gender. Today, the distinction is followed in some contexts, especially the social sciences and documents written by the World Health Organization (WHO), and Government, and everyone these days. How did this happen?