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People have always fought back against \u201cThe elite\u201d, and until recently they were easily recognisable: rich, privileged and often born into money. Old Etonians, billionaires, oil barons, media tycoons ruled the roost, but there are claims things are changing, and the rise of a new elite is challenging the status quo.\nAuthor Matthew Goodwin calls them a group of \u201cradical woke middle-class liberals completely out of step with the public\u201d. University graduates working in creative industries, media and universities, who have an heavy influence over the national conversation about things like immigration, trans rights and sex education, but critics say they don\u2019t represent \u201cordinary folk\u201d, and as a result communities are feeling unrepresented and left behind.\nSo who is in charge, or is there an unlikely, and unknowing, coalition between the two \u2013 the new elite dominating social discourse and cultural discussion, whilst the traditional elite pull the strings of politics and economics?\nThis is the next chapter of the culture wars \u2013 but while the pair of them battle it out for supremacy, much of the country struggles on day-to-day watching from the side lines.

Presenter: Neil Maggs\nProducer: Jonathan IAnson\nEditor: Clare Fordham

Contributors \nMatt Goodwin, Professor of Politics, University of Kent and author "Values, Voice and Virtue".\nGeorge Monbiot, Author, journalist and environmental campaigner\nDr Lisa McKenzie, research fellow, University of Durham, writer and anarchist\nBob & Lee, builders\nDr Rakib Ehsan, Social policy analyst and author "Beyond Grievance"\nBaroness Tina Stowell of Beeston\nPaul Embery, Firefighter, trade unionist and writer\nTom, boxing club owner\nAaron Bastani, Broadcaster and founder of Novara Media