Who is mumford and sons lead singer

Why put effort into visually re-creating a time when white men were thriving at the expense of everyone else? Why is this your golden age? But in , they were brought right back to those questions again: There was a small internet furor over a photo featuring three of the four members with none other than Jordan Peterson, a once-obscure psychology professor who has become a sort of spokesperson of traditional masculinity Marcus Mumford was not in the photo. Peterson rose to fame after refusing to use the correct pronouns to refer to a student and has since transformed into a right-wing celebrity.

It could be everywhere! Once more into the breach! Marshall may have left the band to shield his former bandmates from criticism, but in doing so he only highlighted questions that had been there from the start about whether the schtick was just for show.

This is a lazy argument, to say the least. To be critical of how masculinity is changing does not mean to be specifically anti-men.

It is not brave to provoke internet outrage by grandstanding. It is far braver for men to do the gritty, personal work of investigating where their ideas of what it means to be a man come from, and look beyond the cosmetic.

Tremble, little lion man, indeed. Contact Elamin Abdelmahmoud at elamin. Winston says he regrets the distress to his bandmates caused by his tweet. He blamed a "viral mob" for his decision to leave the band permanently. During the coronavirus pandemic, Winston, 33, had used his social media accounts to comment on the books he was reading. Much of the backlash from his tweet about Andy Ngo's book was aimed at the band's frontman, Marcus Mumford.

That name was being dragged through some pretty ugly accusations, as a result of my tweet," Winston wrote. I remain sincerely sorry for that. We wish you all the best for the future, Win, and we love you man. But when he decided to step back from the band "another viral mob came after me, this time for the sin of apologising". Previously: Winston Marshall of Mumford and Sons 'taking time away from the band' after book controversy.

Marshall said he plans to undertake new creative projects, "as well as speaking and writing on a variety of issues. Earlier this year Marshall co-founded Hong Kong Link Up, a charity that works to integrate Hong Kongers settling in Britain because of increasing political repression in the semi-autonomous Chinese city state. Facebook Twitter Email.