Oct 11, 2026 · 1 hr 2 min · 14 segments
Why do they keep rewriting our history? Can academia be saved? In this stream I shall discuss these and other points relating to my forthcoming book. Register your interest in the book at the link…
What's that about? Hmm? What's my book going to be about? Well, you must have noticed-- If you haven't been watching my videos on Survive the Jive over the years, where I've debunked all sorts of nonsense from the academy, then you might not-- you might have just noticed that over the years in media and in, like, reporting on academic findings relating to our past, there seems to be a lot of stuff being rewritten, and public trust in archeology and history keeps falling even as access to the facts increases.
It's, it's never been easier to get the facts, has it? It's not that all the scholarship is full of lies, like all the people in academia are liars.
There's some excellent work, some of the really important work in archeology and history happening these days.
But there is an ideological bias within academia that in-- and a few bad actors who are willing to, you know, go the extra mile with twisting facts, and plenty of journalists who will run with the story even though it's not really a f- a definite conclusion on a given subject.
It's like, it's explaining how we got to this stage from stage s-- like after the Second World War, and how we became like more PC over the 20th century in archeology, and then ultimately in the 2010s, how woke ideology like transferred off of places like Tumblr.com into the academy and just resulted in the most extraordinary things being claimed.
Uh, you know, such as the likes of Rebecca Redfern that I covered in the channel in 2023, claiming mo- more Black people died from plague or Black people were disproportionately affected by plague in London in the medieval times than white people were, which is nonsense because they didn't even have any Black- Actual black skeletons, all the ones she said were black were just not, she just made it up based on skull shape, which wasn't actually even an accurate method.
And that actually resulted in black politician Kemi Badenoch saying in Parliament in 2023 that this is a, there's a problem with woke archaeology.
The, the phrase woke archaeology was mentioned in the House of Commons in 2023.
And of course, this year we've had all this nonsense with Jason Arday, not a historian or archaeologist, but he deals with historical stuff, the history of oppression, and he was a fraud.
And the reason he got it, it to be a household name, or at least within academia, like an extremely highly celebrated figure within British academia, is entirely because of woke.
Lefties will deny it, but it's very clear, and the Arday thing blew it all open.
Jason Kofnas demonstrated that, and they're responding by trying to ruin J- uh, Kofnas' life and, um, you know, sue him and everything.
So I'm just gonna sort of break down some of the core things in the book that explain how we got to this stage as like a primer before you get the book, which you will enjoy reading.
What's that about? Hmm? What's my book going to be about? Well, you must have noticed-- If you haven't been watching my videos on Survive the Jive over the years, where I've debunked all sorts of nonsense from the academy, then you might not-- you might have just noticed that over the years in media and in, like, reporting on academic findings relating to our past, there seems to be a lot of stuff being rewritten, and public trust in archeology and history keeps falling even as access to the facts increases.
It's, it's never been easier to get the facts, has it? It's not that all the scholarship is full of lies, like all the people in academia are liars.
There's some excellent work, some of the really important work in archeology and history happening these days.
But there is an ideological bias within academia that in-- and a few bad actors who are willing to, you know, go the extra mile with twisting facts, and plenty of journalists who will run with the story even though it's not really a f- a definite conclusion on a given subject.
It's like, it's explaining how we got to this stage from stage s-- like after the Second World War, and how we became like more PC over the 20th century in archeology, and then ultimately in the 2010s, how woke ideology like transferred off of places like Tumblr.com into the academy and just resulted in the most extraordinary things being claimed.
Uh, you know, such as the likes of Rebecca Redfern that I covered in the channel in 2023, claiming mo- more Black people died from plague or Black people were disproportionately affected by plague in London in the medieval times than white people were, which is nonsense because they didn't even have any Black- Actual black skeletons, all the ones she said were black were just not, she just made it up based on skull shape, which wasn't actually even an accurate method.
And that actually resulted in black politician Kemi Badenoch saying in Parliament in 2023 that this is a, there's a problem with woke archaeology.
The, the phrase woke archaeology was mentioned in the House of Commons in 2023.
And of course, this year we've had all this nonsense with Jason Arday, not a historian or archaeologist, but he deals with historical stuff, the history of oppression, and he was a fraud.
And the reason he got it, it to be a household name, or at least within academia, like an extremely highly celebrated figure within British academia, is entirely because of woke.
Lefties will deny it, but it's very clear, and the Arday thing blew it all open.
Jason Kofnas demonstrated that, and they're responding by trying to ruin J- uh, Kofnas' life and, um, you know, sue him and everything.
So I'm just gonna sort of break down some of the core things in the book that explain how we got to this stage as like a primer before you get the book, which you will enjoy reading.
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