<![CDATA[Matt Goodwin: James Esses ]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/s/james-esseshttps://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!QYye!,w_256,c_limit,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F66ddece1-28de-4080-816e-7916cb6ef68c_256x256.pngMatt Goodwin: James Esses https://www.mattgoodwin.org/s/james-essesSubstackFri, 01 May 2026 19:17:54 GMT<![CDATA[The NHS has gone Woke]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-nhs-has-gone-wokehttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/the-nhs-has-gone-wokeTue, 25 Feb 2025 07:53:23 GMT Read more

]]><![CDATA[What Britain should do if it was serious about taking on gender ideology ]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/what-britain-should-do-if-it-washttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/what-britain-should-do-if-it-wasMon, 17 Feb 2025 08:50:57 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 72,200 subscribers from 176 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[Trump the 'misogynist' is doing more than liberals ever did to safeguard the rights of women and girls]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/trump-the-misogynist-is-doing-morehttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/trump-the-misogynist-is-doing-moreMon, 10 Feb 2025 07:42:35 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 72,200 subscribers from 176 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[Exclusive. I just exposed how the British Psychological Society has been captured by 'anti-racist' racists]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/exclusive-i-just-exposed-how-thehttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/exclusive-i-just-exposed-how-theMon, 03 Feb 2025 10:12:55 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 72,200 subscribers from 176 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[I was right --America's children are safer under Donald Trump ]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/i-was-right-americas-children-arehttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/i-was-right-americas-children-areMon, 27 Jan 2025 07:51:38 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 72,200 subscribers from 176 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[James Esses: Starmer’s hypocrisy on the rape gangs ]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/james-esses-starmers-hypocrisy-onhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/james-esses-starmers-hypocrisy-onThu, 23 Jan 2025 09:09:15 GMT Read more

]]><![CDATA[Why are British people being sacked for their political views?]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/why-are-british-people-being-sackedhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/why-are-british-people-being-sackedMon, 13 Jan 2025 08:29:51 GMT Read more

]]><![CDATA[Why I support the ban on puberty blockers - and think we could go further]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/why-i-support-the-ban-on-pubertyhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/why-i-support-the-ban-on-pubertyMon, 16 Dec 2024 08:12:38 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to 64,400 subscribers from 173 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make a difference wh…

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]]><![CDATA[Driven to Woke: How Enterprise Rent-A-Car’s been captured ]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/driven-to-woke-how-enterprise-renthttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/driven-to-woke-how-enterprise-rentMon, 09 Dec 2024 07:58:38 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 68,400 subscribers from 175 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[How Scouting went Woke]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/how-scouting-went-wokehttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/how-scouting-went-wokeMon, 02 Dec 2024 08:02:52 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 72,050 subscribers from 176 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[EXCLUSIVE. How the NHS Blood and Transplant authority is infected by Woke Ideologies]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/exclusive-how-the-nhs-blood-and-transplanthttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/exclusive-how-the-nhs-blood-and-transplantMon, 25 Nov 2024 07:38:00 GMTMatt Goodwin’s Substack goes to 62,600 subscribers from 171 countries and thousands of paying supporters who support our work. Like our stuff? Then become a paid supporter for the equivalent of buyin…

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]]><![CDATA[Our societies must not be ‘queered’: What I told the Battle of Ideas -James Esses ]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/our-societies-must-not-be-queeredhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/our-societies-must-not-be-queeredMon, 18 Nov 2024 08:02:29 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 68,400 subscribers from 175 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[America's children are safer with Trump]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/americas-children-are-safer-withhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/americas-children-are-safer-withMon, 11 Nov 2024 08:16:39 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 69,800 subscribers from 177 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[How the NSPCC let our kids down]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/how-the-nspcc-let-our-kids-downhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/how-the-nspcc-let-our-kids-downMon, 04 Nov 2024 07:40:31 GMTMatt Goodwin’s Substack goes to more than 59,000 subscribers from 169 countries and thousands of paying supporters who support our work. Like our stuff? Then become a paid supporter for the equivalen…

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]]><![CDATA[How charities impose radical gender ideology on our children. The SHOCKING case of Mermaids]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/how-charities-impose-radical-genderhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/how-charities-impose-radical-genderMon, 28 Oct 2024 07:51:28 GMTMatt Goodwin’s Substack goes to more than 58,200 subscribers from 168 countries and thousands of paying supporters who support our work. Like our stuff? Then become a paid supporter for the equivalen…

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]]><![CDATA[James Esses: Help me oppose Labour's conversion therapy ban]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/james-esses-help-me-oppose-labourshttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/james-esses-help-me-oppose-laboursMon, 21 Oct 2024 07:01:48 GMTMatt Goodwin’s Substack goes to more than 57,800 subscribers from 168 countries and thousands of paying supporters who support our work. Like our stuff? Then become a paid supporter for the equivalen…

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]]><![CDATA[How the Civil Service has been CAPTURED by radical ideology by James Esses ]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/how-the-civil-service-has-been-capturedhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/how-the-civil-service-has-been-capturedMon, 14 Oct 2024 06:29:26 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 72,050 subscribers from 176 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[Our schools are ideologically CAPTURED]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/our-schools-are-ideologically-capturedhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/our-schools-are-ideologically-capturedMon, 07 Oct 2024 05:41:16 GMTMatt Goodwin’s newsletter goes to a community of 69,800 subscribers from 177 countries. Like our stuff? Then for the equivalent of buying us a pint each month become a paying supporter. Help us make …

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]]><![CDATA[Which Tory leadership candidate will take on the woke MADNESS?]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/which-tory-leadership-candidate-willhttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/which-tory-leadership-candidate-willMon, 30 Sep 2024 06:50:15 GMTMatt Goodwin’s Substack goes to more than 56,200 subscribers from 167 countries around the world and thousands of paying supporters who support our work. Like our stuff? Then help us expand by becoming a paid supporter and access everything —the full archive, exclusive posts, polling, leave comments, join the debate, get discounts, advance notice about events, and the knowledge you’re supporting independent writers who are not afraid to push back against the grain. You can join us on YouTube, Instagram, TikTok, Twitter/X and Facebook.

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The Conservative Party is in the midst of one the most important leadership elections in its history. Having just been comprehensively demolished at the general election, and now facing a serious, long-term challenge from Nigel Farage and an increasingly professional-looking Reform, the Conservative Party’s future hangs in the balance.

As I write this, for example, there are only 4-points separating the Tories and Reform in the polls. So, if the party gets this decision right, then it has a chance of getting off life support, taking the fight to Reform, and returning to being a successful political force. But if it gets this wrong then it really could be lights out for one of the oldest and most successful political parties in the entire history of democracy.

The leadership contest, announced by Rishi Sunak back in July, is due to finish on November 2, after the final two candidates have been put to a vote among Conservative Party members. Already, two candidates, Priti Patel and Mel Stride, have been eliminated.

Which leaves Robert Jenrick, James Cleverly, Tom Tugendhat, and Kemi Badenoch, all of whom —as you read this— are busy wooing party members and activists at their party’s conference.

But while their views about immigration have been dominating the news —with Robert Jenrick widely seen as the toughest on this issue—in this piece I want to look at where the candidates stand on another issue that is crucial to the future of the Conservative Party and indeed all centre-right parties around the globe.

Woke ideology.

As Matt Goodwin has argued for years, while senior Tories deride the issue of ‘woke’ as a pointless ‘culture war’, the reality is that few things are more important to conservatives than defending the rights of women, the rights of children, and the preservation of our history, culture, and ways of life from this divisive, insidious and unBritish worldview.

By advocating things like gender identity theory, which argues that people’s self-identified ‘gender identity’ supersedes biological sex, and critical race theory, which contends that all Western nations are institutionally racist, woke ideology threatens free speech, free expression, objective reality, the values of the Enlightenment, and the cohesion and even survival of Western societies.

Which is why it is strongly opposed by the Reform party, which in its last election manifesto outlined a zero-tolerance approach to woke ideology. And which is why it is absolutely crucial that the Conservative Party formulate a serious response. So, where do the leadership candidates stand on this issue?

In my view—and I should stress this is my view—most of the remaining leadership candidates are deeply confused and inconsistent. While several of the candidates have come out with big statements, talking about the need to protect British culture, history, and heritage from this ideology, when you look a little closer there is little substance. In fact, when it comes to taking on this ideology only one of the candidates talks the talk and walks the walk …

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]]><![CDATA["Childbearing people" --how the NHS is ideologically CAPTURED. James Esses]]>https://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/childbearing-people-how-the-nhs-ishttps://www.mattgoodwin.org/p/childbearing-people-how-the-nhs-isMon, 23 Sep 2024 06:38:46 GMT

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Each Monday, our new columnist James Esses is fearlessly exposing how major institutions have been ideologically captured —including his trilogy on the Financial Times, John Lewis, and BBC. You can support his work by upgrading now. Today, he looks at an NHS Trust.

Despite the recent Cass Review demonstrating that there’s insufficient evidence for pushing children down dangerous medical “gender transition” pathways, despite official government guidance warning against doing so, and despite a mass of evidence now demonstrating the destructive impact radical gender ideology is having on the health and wellbeing of vulnerable people, the National Health Service (NHS) —as I reveal today—remains ideologically captured by this dogma.

And do you know the scariest thing of all?

It’s happening behind closed doors.

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