Andrew Doyle
writer and comedian; author, The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution and The New Puritans
Andrew Doyle is a writer, comedian and broadcaster. He is the author of The End of Woke: How the Culture War Went Too Far and What to Expect from the Counter-Revolution (2025), The New Puritans: How the Religion of Social Justice Captured the Western World (2022) and Free Speech and Why It Matters (2021). He is the creator of the satirical character Titania McGrath who has published two books – Woke: A Guide to Social Justice (2019) and My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism (2020). Titania’s live show Mxnifesto was staged at the Duchess Theatre in London’s West End in 2021.
Andrew created and presented Free Speech Nation on GB News (2021-2024), and was also the creator, presenter and Executive Producer of Headliners, the channel’s nightly paper preview show. Andrew was previously a columnist for spiked, a panellist on the BBC’s Moral Maze and regularly reviewed the papers on Sky News. He is currently a columnist for UnHerd.
As a stand-up, Andrew has written and performed seven live shows at the Edinburgh Festival Fringe, four of which transferred to the Soho Theatre in London. He is the co-founder of Comedy Unleashed, a regular night in London that promotes free-thinking comedians. Andrew’s work for BBC television includes Jonathan Pie: Back to the Studio (co-writer), Jonathan Pie’s American Pie (co-writer) and the documentary Nazi Pug: Joke or Hate? (producer). He is currently working on a number of film and television projects for Friendly Fire Studios in the USA.
He has a D.Phil. from the University of Oxford, where he also worked as a lecturer. He has also been a Visiting Research Fellow at Queen’s University Belfast and a Presidential Scholar at the New College of Florida.
Follow Andrew on X: @andrewdoyle_com
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