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…
“The Teals are an existential threat to the Liberals” – Joe Hildebrand
Australia is facing serious domestic and international challenges, all at a time when the political class has arguably never been…
“It’s the culture, stupid” – Matt Goodwin
Bill Clinton’s strategist James Carville memorably said, “It’s the economy, stupid”. Times have changed. The great political battles of our…
“Reality is now subject to ideology” – Lionel Shriver
Journalist. Contrarian. Iconoclast. Intellectual. Provocateur… And one of the most successful novelists of the 21st century. Lionel Shriver has, in…
Why you don’t have free will, with Brian Klaas
We all comfort ourselves by believing in cause and effect. According to Dr Brian Klaas, we wilfully ignore a bewildering…
How to rig an election, with Nic Cheeseman
2024 is the biggest election year in history. Countries with more than half the world’s population – over four billion…
“Appeasement guarantees war” – Victor Davis Hanson
The most astute social commentators on the present are the people who have the deepest understanding of the past. As…
A real talk, with Zuby
It’s perhaps never been harder to speak the truth than it is in the West today. In fact, many people…
“If another pandemic hits, we will lockdown again” – Jay Bhattacharya
Few people called for sanity as the world lost its collective mind during the COVID pandemic, but Jay Bhattacharya was…
The case for colonialism, with Bruce Gilley
The overwhelming majority of academic articles come and go with little fanfare. There may be the odd admiring nod from…
The sniper bullet of surprise, with Jeffery Deaver
It’s that time of the year when many of us will sit down and write. It could be resolutions. It…
Draining the swamp, with Sebastian Gorka
It’s hard not to see America as a country in decline. Foreign policy attention is stretched, political debate is toxic,…
“Isn’t politics magical” – Tom Switzer
As we approach the end of 2023, it’s easy to become despondent about the fate of the West. War rages…
“Australia was a lab of tyranny” – Naomi Wolf
For over 30 years, Naomi Wolf was lauded as a feminist icon, a bestselling author and a darling of liberal…
The power of satire, with The Babylon Bee’s Joel Berry
Satire is one of the most important ingredients of a healthy public discourse. But it is under threat across the…
It’s Hardcore History, with Dan Carlin
Who was the most influential person in history? Why do empires fall? What is the biggest misconception about WWI? Napoleon…
An honest conversation about colonialism, with Nigel Biggar
Today, colonialism is viewed by many as the original sin of British history. The truth is far more complex. Theologian,…
“London has fallen” – Laurence Fox
For the second time in his life, Laurence Fox is engulfed in a cancellation storm. It has taken a heavy…
Why is this lying bastard lying to me, with Rob Burley
The forensic, long-form political interview remains possibly the best, and certainly the most entertaining, mechanism for political accountability. Can it…
Un-cancelling Graham Linehan
Graham Linehan created some of the most beloved British sitcoms of all-time, including Father Ted, Black Books and The IT…
Off to war, with James Holland
What if Hitler was killed in 1923? Was Germany’s defeat in WWII inevitable? How should we assess Churchill’s legacy? And…
In conversation with Jeffrey Archer
Jeffrey Archer is one of the most successful authors of all time. He has been published in 115 countries and…
“This is the medical scandal of the 21st century” – Helen Joyce
Helen Joyce is a journalist, author and feminist campaigner. Her first book, ‘Trans: When Ideology Meets Reality’, was an immediate…
The Saad Truth about Happiness, with Gad Saad
Has western society ever been more unhappy? Deaths of despair are at historically high levels. Antidepressant use is through the…
“The government is the enemy” – Hannah Cox
Capitalism was the driving force behind extraordinary advances in prosperity throughout the 20th century. But isolationist policies, stagnant wages and…
10 questions for Dominic Sandbrook
Who was the greatest-ever military general? What was history’s most disastrous party? Is identity politics ruining the study of history?…
“It doesn’t matter who tells the story, it matters how it’s told” – Helen Dale
It may seem odd to describe a book that was published almost 30 years ago as highly topical. But the…
“Let’s do the best things first” – Bjorn Lomborg
International best-selling author Bjorn Lomborg has spent a career infuriating people by being sensible. He brought much-needed pragmatism to the…
“We emote so much, and yet feel so little” – John Anderson
John Anderson AC is a sixth-generation farmer and grazier from New South Wales, who spent 19 years from 1989 in…
An epistemic avalanche of madness, with Peter Boghossian
One of the most important academic papers of modern times was published in 2017. It was titled, ‘The Conceptual Penis…
Our world through Roman eyes, with Tom Holland
In some respects, the Romans feel strangely familiar. In the great men (and yes, they were almost always men) of…
“Trump is a canvas for Americans” – Michael Berry
Drugs in the White House… Presidential court cases… Geriatric party leaders… Eight hour hunger strikes… And the odd attempted ‘insurrection.’…
“Silliness always wins” – Monty Franklin
We live in an age where the lines between entertainment and political activism are so blurred as to be almost…
Australia on the psychiatrist’s couch, with Dr Tanveer Ahmed
Society’s approach to mental health is, well, healthier than it was in the past. The stiff upper lip, suck it…
Left is not woke, with Susan Neiman
It isn’t hard to find a right-wing critique of woke ideology. It is much more difficult to find left-leaning thinkers…
“The west has become more like China” – Adam Creighton
Adam Creighton is an Australian economist and journalist. He is currently the Washington correspondent for The Australian newspaper. In this…
A heretic’s manifesto, with Brendan O’Neill
Brendan O’Neill is the chief political writer for Spiked and a regular contributor to The Spectator. His new book, ‘A…
“I’ll never stop fighting for women” – Sall Grover
Sall Grover was a Hollywood screenwriter for a decade before returning to Australia to start ‘Giggle’ – a social media…
