Fear of Change - Matt d'Ancona on fixing a broken politics

<p>Rafael Behr talks to Matt d'Ancona about his new book: 'Identity, Ignorance, Innovation: Why the Old Politics is Useless - and what to do about it.'</p> <p><a href="https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Identity-Ignorance-Innovation-by-Matthew-DAncona-author/9781529303995" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://blackwells.co.uk/bookshop/product/Identity-Ignorance-Innovation-by-Matthew-DAncona-author/9781529303995</a></p> <p>They discuss why the 'liberal left' needs to adapt to a new politics that is being shaped much more by digital networks and identity politics than the older institutional forces. </p> <p>Matt joined The Sunday Telegraph in 1996 as deputy comment editor and columnist, before becoming deputy editor. He wrote a weekly political column in The Sunday Telegraph for a decade.</p> <p>He succeeded Boris Johnson as editor of The Spectator. </p> <p>In January 2015, d'Ancona joined The Guardian as a weekly columnist.</p> <p>He left the paper in 2019 to become an editor and partner at <a href="https://www.tortoisemedia.com" rel="nofollow noreferrer noopener" target="_blank">https://www.tortoisemedia.com</a></p> <p>He also writes columns for the Evening Standard, GQ and The New York Times.</p> <p>He is chairman of the liberal Conservative think tank, Bright Blue, a trustee of the Science Museum and a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen Mary University of London.</p>