Minority Rule

ASH SARKAR is a writer, lecturer, journalist and political commentator. A contributing editor of Novara Media, she has written for The Guardian, Independent and Huffington Post, with regular appearances on British television and radio, including 'Question Time', ‘The Moral Maze’, ’Good Morning Britain' and 'Jeremy Vine' on 5.

She has been called one of ‘the internet’s best left-wing thinkers’ by the Spectator, and was named Media Personality of the Year by the Asian Media Awards in 2019. Sarkar also lectures at the Sandberg Instituut in Amsterdam, and has taught Global Politics at Anglia Ruskin University. Minority Rule is her first book.

Mark Kenny has been a panellist on the ABC's Insiders program for a dozen years. A widely read political columnist unafraid to turn his ire on journalism itself, he joined the Australian National University in 2019 after 6 years as chief political correspondent and national affairs editor of The Sydney Morning Herald, The Age, and The Canberra Times. Before that, Kenny was national political editor at The Advertiser. He has appeared in the New York Times, BBC, Al Jazeera and CNN and hosts the popular Democracy Sausage podcast.