Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War – the instant Sunday Times bestseller

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Ash Sarkar

Minority Rule

Adventures in the Culture War – the instant Sunday Times bestseller

Ash Sarkar

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Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
01 July 2025

Social & political philosophy; Media studies; Political campaigning & advertising

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'One of the boldest and most exciting thinkers of her generation' NAOMI KLEIN 'Delivers its message with punch and panache ... A joy to read' GUARDIAN 'If leftists feel they have been stumbling around in the darkness, Minority Rule flicks on the light' STANDARD

We live under minority rule. But who is the ruling minority?

Most of us are getting screwed over. Our world is defined by inequality, insecurity, lack of community and information overload. As the world burns, mega-corporations are reporting record profits. How are they getting away with it?

‘Minority rule’ is the term Ash Sarkar uses to describe the irrational fear that minorities are trying to overturn and oppress majority populations. In her eye-opening debut, she reveals how minority elites rule majorities by creating the culture wars that have taken over our politics, stoking fear and panic in our media landscape. Because despite what they’ll have you believe, antiracist campaigners aren’t actually silencing the ‘forgotten’ working class, immigrants aren’t eating your pets, trans-activists aren’t corrupting your children, and cancel culture isn’t crushing free speech.

In Minority Rule, Sarkar exposes how a strategic misdirection of blame over who is really screwing everything up is keeping the majority divided, while the real ruling minority of hedge fund managers, press barons, landlords and corporations remain on top. And it’s facilitating one of the biggest power grabs in history. Most crucially, she shows us how what we really have in common is being concealed by a deafening culture of distraction – and that the first step towards a better future is understanding what is happening now, and how we got here.

An 2025 highlight for GQ, New Statesman and Irish Times

Minority Rule was no. 4 in the Sunday Times bestseller chart, 09/03/25

By: Ash Sarkar
Imprint: Bloomsbury Publishing PLC
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 236mm, Width: 162mm, Spine: 32mm
Weight: 481g
ISBN: 9781526648334
ISBN 10: 1526648334
Pages: 320
Publication Date: 01 July 2025
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Hardback
Publisher's Status: Forthcoming

Ash Sarkar is a writer, lecturer, journalist and political commentator. A contributing editor of Novara Media, she has written for the Guardian, Independent and Huffington Post, with regular appearances on British television and radio, including 'Question Time', 'Good Morning Britain' and 'Jeremy Vine' on 5. She has been called one of ‘the internet’s best left-wing thinkers’ by the Spectator, and was named Media Personality of the Year by the Asian Media Awards in 2019. Sarkar also lectures at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and has taught Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University. Minority Rule is her first book.

Reviews for Minority Rule: Adventures in the Culture War – the instant Sunday Times bestseller

The poster girl for the radical left * The Times * One of the internet’s best left-wing thinkers * Spectator * An examination of the way British Conservatives and American Republicans have stoked fears of a 'takeover by marginalised groups * Guardian * Look out for the story of ... the rise of the culture wars * Financial Times * The poster girl for the radical left * The Times * One of the internet’s best left-wing thinkers * Spectator * An examination of the way British Conservatives and American Republicans have stoked fears of a 'takeover by marginalised groups * Guardian * Look out for the story of ... the rise of the culture wars * Financial Times *