Matt Goodwin is a professor of politics at School of Politics and International Relations at the University of Kent in Kent, UK. His writing and research primarily focuses on radical right-wing politics and Euroscepticism in the British context. Amongst others, his writing has appeared in publications such as The Daily Mail, The Telegraph, The Guardian, and the Evening Standard. He also serves on the Social Mobility Commission via the British Department of Education.
A very enlightening conversation about what is happening in the UK. What is happening there is very similar to what is happening in the U.S. The ideology is the same. I suggest reading my recent Substack article titled "The Ideology That Captured Our Culture" at https://2026.substack.com/p/the-ideology-that-captured-our-culture
They, leaders in various national governments, absolutely WANT their public to start something like rebellion so they have the excuse needed to use the military on citizens and to implement the authoritarian police state they have been discussing for years about trying to bring about. It's NOT as if they haven't been meeting multiple times annually to discuss with each other how to change all nations over to a more Chinese like governance where the political party in power is effectively Royalty and the rest of us are land peasants/serfs. I know most in academia including those who have had their eyes opened b/c of covid still refuse to believe it and are calling it a "Conspiracy theory"; the notion that wealthy people with power and resources will use that power and resources to fix what they believe is broken in the world.
Here in America they're doing everything they can to get either a race war going or a 2nd civil war (over political differences) up and running. Once the slightest bit of violence starts the media will market it as the next civil war, hyping it so the national government can say we must use the military to quell the mob.
The outlook doesn't appear hugely positive. Not a particularly uplifting interview. Time to go train for a bit of positive energy and ponder how and when this change comes. Any thoughts?
A very enlightening conversation about what is happening in the UK. What is happening there is very similar to what is happening in the U.S. The ideology is the same. I suggest reading my recent Substack article titled "The Ideology That Captured Our Culture" at https://2026.substack.com/p/the-ideology-that-captured-our-culture
Thank you, Elizabeth.
They, leaders in various national governments, absolutely WANT their public to start something like rebellion so they have the excuse needed to use the military on citizens and to implement the authoritarian police state they have been discussing for years about trying to bring about. It's NOT as if they haven't been meeting multiple times annually to discuss with each other how to change all nations over to a more Chinese like governance where the political party in power is effectively Royalty and the rest of us are land peasants/serfs. I know most in academia including those who have had their eyes opened b/c of covid still refuse to believe it and are calling it a "Conspiracy theory"; the notion that wealthy people with power and resources will use that power and resources to fix what they believe is broken in the world.
Here in America they're doing everything they can to get either a race war going or a 2nd civil war (over political differences) up and running. Once the slightest bit of violence starts the media will market it as the next civil war, hyping it so the national government can say we must use the military to quell the mob.
The outlook doesn't appear hugely positive. Not a particularly uplifting interview. Time to go train for a bit of positive energy and ponder how and when this change comes. Any thoughts?
Uplifting, no, but it was honest. And the only way to solve our problems is to be honest about them.