US Elections: An Evening with BBC Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse

Name: US Elections: An Evening with BBC Journalist Gabriel Gatehouse
Start: 2024-10-22T19:30:00+01:00
End: 2024-10-22T20:30:00+01:00
Location: The Royal Scots Club

Schedule

Tue Oct 22 2024 at 07:30 pm to 08:30 pm

UTC+01:00

Location

The Royal Scots Club | Edinburgh, SC

Publishing at a perilous moment for democracy - in the run-up to the 2024 US presidential election - The Coming Storm explores the wild rise of conspiracy culture in the US, and the radical new politics it is helping create. Join BBC journalist Gabriel Gatehouse for an informative evening down the rabbit holes of American political culture.
The Coming Storm
Is this how democracy dies?
The Coming Storm is Gabriel Gatehouse's brilliant exploration of how conspiracy theories are tearing America apart. It's a story that takes you down a rabbit hole - one that both the US as a nation and he as a journalist fell through - to unpack an epochal shift in political culture that starts in the earliest years of the Clinton administration and reached a crescendo on 6 January 2021 with the storming of the US Capitol.
A compelling mix of research and reportage, The Coming Storm gets under the skin of these conspiracy theories to show us a radical new kind of politics emerging, a movement that has coalesced around a loose alliance of tech bros, internet trolls and white supremacists. At a perilous moment in the history of American democracy, Gatehouse tells us some dark truths about our present, and provides clues about our future. The Coming Storm marks the debut of a major new voice in political journalism.
About Gabriel Gatehouse
Gabriel Gatehouse is a journalist and broadcaster. The former International Editor of Newsnight and co-host of Ukrainecast on BBC Sounds, he has reported from many conflicts around the world, from Ukraine to Syria, Libya to Iraq. He has won numerous awards for his journalism, most recently the 2023 Broadcasting Press Guild award for best podcast for The Coming Storm. He has reported extensively from the United States on the rise and fall of Donald Trump. The Coming Storm, which launched in January 2022 to critical acclaim, was shortlisted for the Orwell Prize for Journalism.