The View from 22 — Gove the revolutionary, a society without religion and will the EU referendum split the Tories apart?

How much love is there for Michael Gove on the opposition benches? In this week’s Spectator cover feature, Toby Young argues, quite a lot. The Education Secretary has the policies Labour wish they’d thought of, and is greatly admired for his ‘Trotskyite’ zeal and tireless efforts to create the ‘permanent revolution’. On the latest View from 22 podcast, Toby goes head to head with Francis Gilbert, a teacher and activist with the Local Schools Network, to discuss the Gove agenda. Is the Education Secretary genuinely concerned for pupils’ welfare, or just an ideologue as his opponents claim? And what would a Labour government do to reverse, or even maintain, his sweeping reforms?

If the world were, as John Lennon helpfully requested forty years ago, without religion, what would happen to society as we know it? Douglas Murray and Fraser Nelson also join to debate the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks’ article on the role of religion plays in society, and whether religion needs to ‘lose’ in order for the atheism to ‘win’.