heretics. | andrew gold

172. I became a gang member after suffering racist abuse

Lennox Rodgers co-founded along with his wife Bali the Refocus Project, where he mentors young kids who have fallen through the very gaps that are so familiar to him. He has also written a book called Breaking Better.

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What makes you a heretic? Journalist Andrew Gold believes that, in an age of group-think and tribes, we need heretics - those who use unconventional wisdom to speak out against their own groups, from cancelled comedians and radical feminists to cult defectors and vigilantes hunting deviants.

Learn from my guests how to rebel, think differently and resist social contagion. From Triggernometry's Francis Foster and the world's most cancelled man Graham Linehan to ex-Hasidic Jew Julia Haart and gender critical atheist Richard Dawkins. These are the people living with the weight of their own community's disappointment on their shoulders.