I found this to be a fascinating and determinedly objective analysis of the changing political alignments in Britain today. It examines the widening gulf between the ‘new elite (typically liberal progressive graduates with left leaning views)that runs the country and its institutions and the ‘Traditionalist’ majority (mostly non-graduate, patriotic, culturally conservative). It charts the rise of this new elite over the past 60 years as they supplanted the old land owning, aristocratic elite of the previous era.

Shouldn’t social scientists welcome this kind of critical interrogation and debate? Isn’t history a science to be rewritten in the light of new evidence and arguments? An excellent book for understanding the current state of play in British politics. Matthew Goodwin argues that the economic liberalism of Margaret Thatcher's Conservative government combined with the cultural liberalism of Tony Blair's New Labour regime has created a political culture in the United Kingdom that is now just as polarised as that of America or continental Europe. The divide is now mainly between the university-educated, socially liberal, and pro-mass immigration elite on the one hand and the culturally conservative national populists on the other. The latter group tend to be more right-wing on cultural issues, but more left-wing on economics.

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Goodwin, Matthew (3 August 2020). "How universities shut out conservative academics". UnHerd . Retrieved 21 August 2023.

Forceful ... The fundamental thrust of Goodwin's argument is right ... a new centre ground of British politics is being formed - even if both parties have yet to fully comprehend it' The Times Stacey Dooley and a Ukrainian recruit in Ready For War. Photograph: Blanca Munoz/BBC/True Vision East Shaw, Martin (2023-04-25). "Professors, Power and Projection: the Case of Matthew Goodwin – Byline Times". Byline Times . Retrieved 2023-08-22. He loves to use 'only' and 'just' to present survey data in a way that makes it APPEAR to more closely reflect his argument. Sometimes the data doesn't really show what he wants it to, and so he uses this to make you think that it does.

Hassan, Gerry (16 May 2023). "The UK populist right has to be defeated or democracy will be trashed". Bella Caledonia . Retrieved 18 August 2023.

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Liu’s portrait of the PMC is far more astringent and over-the-top than anything Goodwin has produced. Yet, it is also more realistic. Liu does not pretend that the virtue hoarders constitute a new ruling class. As a supporter of Bernie Sanders, what provokes her ire is that they stand in the way of real social change, having abandoned class politics for what she calls “performative transgression”. And where Goodwin argues that the “radical woke” capture of society lies at “the roots of today’s more turbulent politics”, Liu understands that the new elite is the product, not the cause, of political turbulence, the consequence of the evisceration of mass movements for social change. Clarke, Harold; Goodwin, Matthew; Whiteley, Paul (2017). Brexit: Why Britain Voted to Leave the European Union. Cambridge University Press. ISBN 9781316605042. In the last 20 years, as the gap between the group shorthanded as the 1% and everyone else has grown, academic studies of elites have grown with it. “It’s quite an old tradition,” said Mike Savage. “But it fell away in the 1980s. Recently, after Thomas Piketty and other economists starting talking about the 1%’s wealth, sociologists have started to look again for answers about who these people are.” Matt has published several other academic books with Oxford and Cambridge University Press, including the first major study of the Brexit vote and dozens of peer-reviewed papers in top-ranked journals such as the British Journal of Political Science,the European Journal of Political Researchand Electoral Studies.He has published highly cited research reports with think tanks such as the Joseph Rowntree Foundation, Chatham House, and the Legatum Institute.