Iain Dale
Author and Broadcaster
Iain Dale is an accomplished broadcaster, presenting his own daily radio show on LBC, and several podcasts. He is a regular on Question Time, Newsnight, Good Morning Britain, Politics Live and a columnist for the Telegraph. He is the author/editor of more than 40 books, most recently The Presidents and The Prime Ministers.
Tomorrow Iain is returning to Triggernometry to talk about his new biography of Margaret Thatcher, who would have been 100 years old this year, and give a breakdown of her life, achievement’s, failures and legacy in British and global politics today.
Comment your questions for Iain below.
Can Iain understand why going to London is alienating for many British people?
In 2001 London was diverse but crucially a majority were white British and therefore the dominant culture of London was aligned with that of the wider country and was firmly rooted in a culturally contiguous history stretching back more than a thousand years.
Today only a third of Londoners are white British and places like Whitechapel feel completely alienated from British civilisation.
Will Nelson's Column or the statue of Boudica on a chariot have any emotional resonance or meaning to the majority of Londoners in a century?
Would Margate Thatcher be as tolerant to the seeming over appeasement of the Muslim community and call out the problems with extreme Islamists as politicians seem to be unable today as they don’t want to lose votes from that base.