British Thought Leaders

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Robert Bates, research director at the Centre for Migration Control, to talk about research recently published about the arrests of foreign nationals. The centre’s data show that foreign nationals are twice as likely as British citizens to be arrested and more than three times as likely to be arrested for sexual offences. Bates talks about the lack of immigration prot...

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Edward Paice, author and the director of the Africa Research Institute. Paice says that by 2050, 40 per cent of global births and 33 per cent of global workers will be African. These demographic shifts, coupled with the declining birth rates of the developed world, will see massive changes in the lives of everyone and force a rethinking of Africa’s place on the global...

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Ben Jones, director of case management at The Free Speech Union, to discuss what he sees as a relentless war against free speech in Britain. Jones talks about the connection between authoritarianism and multiculturalism, the importance of social media when it comes to free speech, and the freedom violations that are already in the pipeline for 2025.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with veteran China journalist Ian Williams for the second half of their interview about the Chinese economy. Williams talks about China’s billionaires and why they keep disappearing, what we should learn from the Evergrande collapse, and how Chinese dissidents use humor to combat the Chinese Communist Party.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with veteran China journalist Ian Williams for the first half of their interview about China and its economy. Williams talks about the false financial figures the Chinese Communist Party presents to the world, Western companies moving their operations out of China, the Chinese criminal enclaves being set up in neighboring countries, and why China’s electric vehicles are a...

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Together Association co-founder Alan Miller to talk about challenges to our freedom, the importance of technological and entrepreneurial progress, and making Britain better.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with journalist, author, and sociologist Ashley Frawley for the second half of this interview. Frawley talks about falling birth rates, how modern life and institutions attack the family, and the dangers of a society that doesn’t live for the next generation.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with journalist, author and sociologist Ashley Frawley in the first of this two-part interview. Ashley talks about people she knows from her home nation of Canada who have resisted pressure to choose assisted death, what the UK can learn from the Canadian situation, and why treasuring life is what makes human beings great.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with author and theologian Jacob Phillips to talk about Englishness, British values, the culture wars, and why he believes obedience is the path to freedom.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with James Bartholomew, author, journalist and director of the Museum of Communist Terror. Bartholomew says Britain’s education system is failing children by not teaching them the horrors of communism, which has taken more than 80 million lives.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Dominic Wightman, editor of Country Squire, for the second half of this interview. Wightman talks about the massive differences between the lives of rural folk and urbanites, and why those who live in cities should try to understand how important the countryside is to their own existence.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Dominic Wightman, editor of Country Squire, to talk about the recent farmer protests, why the success of farming is crucial to everyone in Britain, and the pressures affecting the people who produce our food.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with James Woudhuysen, visiting professor of forecasting and innovation at London South Bank University, to talk about supermarket technology enforcing nanny state propaganda, whether modern forecasting has a bad reputation, and why he sees the green movement as messianic.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Chloe Lo, a former Bloomberg reporter in Hong Kong, to talk about the loss of freedoms and the unjust imprisonment of supporters of democracy after Hong Kong returned to Chinese rule. In speaking out against Chinese Communist Party (CCP) tyranny, Lo said she has lost her family, her life savings, and the city she loved.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with professor David Paton to discuss the End of Life bill and why he opposes the legalization of assisted suicide and euthanasia. Paton talks about his research into the effects of legalizing killing on suicide rates and what we can learn from other countries that have normalized euthanasia.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Professor Abhishek Saha, founding member of London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom, who explains why the currently paused Higher Education Act is crucial for academic freedom and our wider society.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with geriatric & palliative care Doctor Cajetan Skowronski to talk about assisted suicide and euthanasia. Dr. Skowronski warns that assisted death will not remain only for the terminally ill. He says the experience of other countries shows the slippery slope toward assisted death for groups such as the elderly and disabled is inevitable.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Geoff Hill, Zimbabwean author and the chief Africa correspondent at The Washington Times and The Spectator. Hill talks about elections in Africa moving in a positive direction and why the West turns a blind eye to election rigging in some states but not others.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Sam Bidwell, director of the Next Generation Centre at the Adam Smith Institute think tank. Bidwell says the idea that Britain’s youth are all woke and Left-leaning is a myth, that the broken social contract is a radicalizing force, and that young people of different political beliefs are united on many key policy issues.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Jon Moynihan, businessman, author, and member of the House of Lords. Moynihan says a return to economic growth is crucial for Britain’s future and that our move toward a social democracy has put massive obstacles in the way.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Michael Dnes, head of transport policy at Stonehaven consultancy and a former civil servant at the Department for Transport. Michael talks about the challenges of Britain’s aging infrastructure, the ever-growing red tape culture, spurious legal objections, and NIMBYism.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with energy expert David Turver to talk about how renewables pushed energy prices so high, the damage Net Zero is doing to our industry and lives, and why he’s so concerned about government powers granted in the Energy Act 2023. David writes on Substack: davidturver.substack.com

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Nick Measham, the CEO of conservation charity WildFish, to talk about industrial salmon farming, how it’s pushing wild salmon and trout toward extinction, and the damage it does to the marine environment.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Michelle Shipworth, associate professor of energy and social sciences at University College London, to talk about how the Chinese Communist Party is chipping away at academic freedom in Britain.

NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Christopher Snowdon, head of lifestyle economics at the free market think tank Institute of Economic Affairs, to talk about why he opposes government intervention in alcohol, smoking, and obesity issues, and how these public health measures affect our freedoms.