Andrew Doyle is a writer, broadcaster and satirist whose commentary on political and cultural issues is regularly published in the national press. He is the author of Free Speech and Why It Matters and has also written two satirical books as Titania McGrath - Woke: A Guide to Social Justice and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism. He is the presenter of Free Speech Nation, a weekly television show on GB News, and was formerly a panellist on the BBC's Moral Maze. He has a doctorate in Renaissance Literature from the University of Oxford where he also worked as a stipendiary lecturer.
If future historians were to recommend only one book to help
readers understand the "Critical Social Justice" madness that
consumed the West in the early twenty-first century, it would be
The New Puritans. Written by one of the ideology's most articulate
and effective critics, Dr. Andrew Doyle's timeless perspective
detailing the ideological takeover of venerable institutions also
provides an impassioned defense of liberalism. A must read.
*Peter Boghossian*
A sober but devastating skewering of cancel culture and the moral
certainties it shares with religious fundamentalism
*Sunday Times*
Doyle writes exceptionally well and he backs up his j'accuse with
copious illustrations of ideological excess . . . University
no-platformers like to say that 'words are violence'. If so,
Doyle's are rapiers.
*Herald*
This is a serious book about a serious subject - the arrogation of
moral purity and cultural orthodoxy by a small but influential
posse, and Doyle's anger and disbelief come through on every
page.
*Mail on Sunday, Book of the Week*
In this lucid, important book, the satirist and commentator Andrew
Doyle zeroes in on the religiosity of these movements . . . He is
supremely erudite and writes beautifully. Anyone with an interest
in contemporary culture and politics should read this book.
*Tortoise Media*
This book is a call to arms in an existential battle . . . it's
thrilling to be led by such a brilliant commander
*Spectator*
Doyle isn't the first author to examine the methods and motivations
of woke fanatics, and he won't be the last. However, I doubt
whether anyone will do so with more style or generosity of spirit .
. .
*Conservative Woman*
The New Puritans is a passionate and erudite exposé of the
modern-day social-justice movement. With clarity and precision,
Doyle exposes its countless flaws and hypocrisies. His book is an
essential guide for anyone looking to understand why the culture
war has grown so hot.
*City Journal*
The New Puritans is a fusillade of uncompromising reason but reason
with compassion. Andrew Doyle has written a masterful broadside
against the woke that will also discomfit the anti-woke, proposing
to both the radical notion that rather than being identities, we
embrace our status as individuals.
*Critic*
This is a finely written, closely argued book on an alarming and
all-pervasive social development. Doyle hopes that it will soon
become obsolete - if it doesn't, say farewell to liberal
Britain
*The Times*
Doyle's study is sprinkled with humour and is analytical and
timely. One doesn't have to agree with it fully to recognise he
speaks plenty of sense.
*Irish Examiner*
Doyle succeeds in doing what few writers have managed: he gives
form to that nebulous movement known as woke . . . The New Puritans
is a sucker punch of truth rendered in a seductively rhythmic
prose
*Country Squire Magazine*
The first thing to be said about this book is that Andrew Doyle can
write. He writes fluently, with examples, with an amusing sense of
irony, and he writes convincingly . . . fine prose, razor sharp
wit, and insight
*European Conservative*
The New Puritans - thanks to Doyle's academic background - is
scholarly and rigorous. He knows a great deal more about the theory
he's criticising than most of his opponents
*Law & Liberty*
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