In praise of the ‘very online right’, with Connor Tomlinson
The UK conservative political class have not led the public discourse. Instead, they have been dragged, sometimes kicking and screaming,…
Considering calculated risks, with Andrew Hastie
Right-wing political parties are facing identity crises across the Anglosphere. Reform is pushing the Conservatives to the brink of extinction,…
Being trans is so last year, with Eric Kaufmann
A surprising shift is taking place in the gender and sexual identities of young people. Since 2023 both trans and…
How to save Britain, with David Starkey
Most historical revolutions are sudden and violent. Since 1997, the UK has experienced a ‘slow-burn revolution’, which has completely changed…
Multiculturalism is a delusion, with Harry Markham
The war in Gaza has revealed some ugly realities of life in modern Britain: antisemitism, the failures of multiculturalism, and…
What Americans really think of Britain, with Ben Leo
The UK and US have long cherished a ‘special relationship’. However, the countries appear to be diverging down different paths;…
What Charlie Kirk’s death means for America, with Dave Rubin
Charlie Kirk’s assassination has sparked a global conversation. We have been forced to grapple with issues of free speech, political…
Another heretical conversation with Andrew Gold
Heresy is any belief or theory that is strongly at variance with established beliefs or customs. It has never been…
The truth about the war in Gaza
As October 7 has faded in the public consciousness, a pervasive narrative has taken hold that Israel are the real…
The end of woke, with Andrew Doyle
On the one hand, the worst excesses of the woke era appear to be behind us. On the other, the…
Smashing gangs and stopping boats, with Patrick Christys
Many UK politicians think illegal immigration is an unsolvable problem. It’s easier to put illegal migrants in fancy hotels and…
Who is the real Nigel Farage? – Alex Phillips
The UK is arguably at its lowest ebb. It is beset by a series of existential economic, cultural and social…
The case for fossil fuels, with Alex Epstein
The UK government is “going for growth” whilst pursuing an aggressive net zero energy policy. Are the two goals compatible?…
All aboard the far-right bandwagon, with Tom Slater
Keir Starmer’s latest U-turn may be his most consequential. Last Saturday, he announced a national inquiry into the grooming gangs…
Raging against the nanny state, with Chris Snowdon
The nanny state is on the march across the West, propped up by weak leaders taking their cues from a…
The decline and fall of Australia(?), with Joe Hildebrand
Greg Sheridan wrote recently that Australia is a nation in decline. Across every indicator you can imagine – economy, living…
The rise of the woke right, with James Lindsay
When classical liberals and conservatives took the fight to the ‘woke left’, many made the mistake of thinking that victory…
The (not so) lucky country, with Adam Creighton
Australia has often been called the ‘lucky country’. Today, it faces a series of economic, cultural, and geopolitical challenges, seemingly…
Pondering the big questions, with Sebastian Junger
One of the tragedies of modernity is how it has stripped away the time (or if we’re being honest, the…
Relaxed and comfortable, with John Howard
Before he became Australia’s second-longest serving Prime Minister, then Opposition Leader John Howard famously stated that his ambition was for…
Trans women are not women (except in Australia), with Sall Grover
It says something about the surreal times in which we live that the Supreme Court of the United Kingdom found…
Please explain, with Pauline Hanson
If there’s one theme that cuts across Western politics in 2025, it is the rise of right-wing populist parties and…
Free minds and free markets, with Nick Gillespie
Freedom is under assault across the West. The US is reverting to 18th century economic protectionism, the UK are jailing…
The coming British civil war, with David Betz
The UK is in a dark place, but surely it couldn’t reach the point of civil war? Don’t be so…
The shameless cross-promotion episode, with Alex Armstrong
If you turn on the news in the UK, the chances are the stories will be negative. Mass migration, two-tier…
The Eurasian Century, with Hal Brands
We often think of the modern era as the age of American power. In reality, we’re living in a long,…
The fight for Western civilisation, with Tony Abbott
Will recently attended the ARC conference in London, which was basically Coachella for conservatives. During the conference, he sat down…
Ukraine: Three years on, with Francis Dearnley
The conversation that surrounds the conflict in Ukraine has become, for the most part, a political Rorschach Test. That’s a…
How tribalism ruined politics, with Andrew Heaton
Politics shouldn’t be a team sport, but it has become one. Far too many of us blindly support politicians or…
The definitive German election preview, with Ralph Schoellhammer
The Economist recently described Germany as “the hole at the heart of Europe”. That’s a reasonable description, particularly given it…
The myth of free speech in Britain, with Winston Marshall
Whilst illiberal progressivism (or woke for short) appears to be in retreat, what will take its place is an open…
The Reform revolution, with Rupert Lowe
There’s an interesting historical pattern in British politics, and you can see it in various shapes and forms since the…
We cannot tax and spend our way to growth, with Jon Moynihan
The UK economy is structurally buggered (to use a technical term). Decades of economic mismanagement have caused growth to grind…
Why police ignored the grooming gangs, with Maggie Oliver
In the last month, the grooming gangs scandal has gone from being the UK’s worst-kept secret to its greatest source…
Why we get boozed, with Edward Slingerland
After a merry festive season, this is the time of the year when some of us decide to cut back…
Australia is uniquely susceptible to the woke mind virus, with Andrew Gold on Heretics
Regular listeners may remember that last year Will interviewed the wonderful documentarian, podcaster and YouTuber Andrew Gold. Andrew recently returned…
How the music industry went woke, with Hayley Mary
Music used to be about “sticking it to the man.” It’s now the most conformist industry there is. Hayley Mary…
The fall of the Big Guy, with Miranda Devine
As friend of the show Charles C.W. Cooke has said, “To the honest eye, Joe Biden was a mid-wit career…
The boys are not alright, with Miriam Cates
In recent years, Western society has conducted a perverse experiment. We have indulged the grievances of almost every identity group,…
“Multiculturalism is a rotten ideology” – Ayaan Hirsi Ali
As Western values continue to come under assault, it is hard not to feel like there is a courage deficit…
What Trump’s win means for the world, with Joe Hockey
The American President remains the most powerful person in the world. The collective choice made by a relatively small group…
Make Britain Great Again, with Leo Kearse
London’s famously gloomy weather reflects the national mood. Farmers are marching on Westminster to protest crippling changes to inheritance tax…
Pfizer’s crimes against humanity, with Naomi Wolf
There has been no real, society-wide reflection on the way we responded to the COVID-19 pandemic. We need to reflect…
Why Trump won, with Melissa Chen
Donald Trump will be the 47th President of the United States. He will be the second President in history to…
The top 10 greatest British history questions, with Dominic Sandbrook
In a recent episode with Lord Frost, Will asked him if he was hopeful for the future of the United…
Landslide incoming, with Sean Spicer
We are 10 days out from the most important US election of our lifetimes. Of course that’s what they always…
Starmer’s 100-day report card, with Lord David Frost
The start of a new government sets a tone that is often difficult to change. And the tone of Keir…
The war on the past, with Frank Furedi
There are many things that are depressing about the modern culture wars, but none more so than the war on…
After the Pogrom, with Brendan O’Neill
In some respects, October 7 and the events that have followed is the continuation of a story that is almost…
Why I left the UK, with Calvin Robinson
There is a deep pessimism in the UK in 2024; a mood that has only got worse since the arrival…
America’s vibes election, with Alex Castellanos
For many voters, the upcoming US election isn’t really about the border, or the deficit, or guns, or healthcare, or…
Turning the tables on Will Kingston
Comic and GB News Host Nick Dixon was on the show a few weeks ago. He returned the favour by…
The grim rise of Islamic sectarianism, with Darren Grimes
Talking about Islam is a dangerous business, but talk about it we must. The West is facing a civilisational moment,…
The plan to silence Britain, with Toby Young
Free speech is under attack all over the Western world, but the assault may be the most sinister in the…
How to defeat wokeism, with Helen Pluckrose
It’s easy to say that “woke ideology” is a nonsense. It’s much harder to say that when your job, your…
The horror of Starmer’s Britain, with Nick Dixon
The United Kingdom is a great country. It’s arguably contributed more to the flourishing of Western civilization than any other.…
The unstoppable rise of the nanny state, with Christopher Snowdon
Across the Anglosphere, governments on both sides of politics have never been more interested in the personal lives of their…
Going all-in, with Liv Boeree
What the mainstream media calls a “conspiracy theory” is often nothing more than an amalgam of incentives hiding in plain…
Inside Israel’s information war, with Eylon Levy
When it comes to conflict in the Middle East, there’s the war, and then there’s the war about the war.…
America’s forever war, with Nick Bryant
The American experiment is failing. Division, mistrust and misinformation are now the country’s defining characteristics. The storming of the Capitol,…
We’re all Soviets now, with Sir Niall Ferguson
Sir Niall Ferguson is arguably the world’s greatest living historian. He first pointed out that we’re in Cold War II…
Lies my liberal teacher told me, with Wilfred Reilly
Education was once the search for truth. Sadly, this is no longer the case in many universities across the Western…
Decoding the modern bloke, with Geoff Norcott
It wasn’t so long ago that one phrase sat above any other in the hierarchy of endorsements for a British…
“Machines are the children of humanity” – Agnieszka Pilat
It feels like AI can now write anything for us and create anything for us. In some respects it’s exciting,…
How the elites betrayed America’s working class, with Batya-Ungar Sargon
There has long been a curious sub-genre in liberal journalism. It can best be described as “examining working class Americans…
Gay Shame, with Gareth Roberts
Perhaps the most peculiar aspect of ‘Pride’ is how it has lumped together the gay population, with the most extreme…
Imagining nuclear armageddon, with Annie Jacobsen
The world could end before you finish listening to this podcast. That’s the reality of a nuclear-armed world. If a…
A heretical conversation with Andrew Gold
Heresy is defined as opinion profoundly at odds with what is generally accepted. It has rarely been more dangerous to…
The rebirth of the West, with Victor Davis Hanson
In some respects, the West is exhibiting similar symptoms to past civilizations that decayed, declined, or were completely wiped off…
The real reason for African poverty, with Magatte Wade
Why is Africa poor? There’s a series of trendy answers to that question, that are almost taken as read amongst…
Fighting cultural socialism, with Eric Kaufmann
Across the western world, cosplay protests are ongoing in some of the most elite academic institutions. They point to a…
Conservatism is gratitude, with Jonah Goldberg
Western liberal democratic capitalism has created more prosperity, and enabled more human flourishing, than any other social system. It is…
Debunking Australia’s housing crisis myth, with Cameron Murray
There’s a common refrain when it comes to housing in Australia today: ‘it’s never been harder to enter the housing…
In defense of journalism, with Anthony De Ceglie
It’s easy to forget that journalists were once invested with immense trust by citizens. This is no longer the case.…
“Gen Z is the most conservative generation since WW2” – Isabel Brown
Gen Z has developed quite a reputation. Lazy. Difficult to work with. Technology-addicted. And of course, insufferably woke. What if…
The short march through the institutions, with Yascha Mounk
Sometimes it feels like the tidal wave of ‘wokeness’ (or identity politics) washed over the western world almost overnight. It…
Tales of a Hollywood dissident, with Matthew Marsden
Politics is downstream from culture. To change politics, one must first change culture. The left intrinsically understands this in a…
The real State of the Union, with Charles C.W. Cooke
There are two ways to look at American politics in 2024. There’s the prevailing pessimistic view. Many people think democracy…
In conversation with Douglas Murray
It is now in vogue to celebrate non-Western cultures and disparage Western ones. Many well-meaning people have been fooled by…
Lessons for the silenced majority, with Katherine Brodsky
We as a society are self-censoring at record rates. Say the wrong thing at the wrong moment to the wrong…
