New Culture Forum

Our guest on this week's #SWYSI is author & Unherd columnist Mary Harrington, author of the new book: Feminism Against Progress. Harrington argues that the industrial-era faith in progress is turning against all but a tiny elite of women. Women’s liberation was less the result of human moral progress than an effect of the material consequences of the Industrial Revolution. We’ve now left the indus...

Prof. Matthew Goodwin returns to the #SWYSI sofa to discuss his new book, "Values, Voice and Virtue: The New British Politics", a theory for the origins of our ongoing political instability: "What has caused the recent seismic changes in British politics, including Brexit and a series of populist revolts against the elite? Why did so many people want to overturn the status quo? Where have the Left...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak, NCF Director Peter Whittle and Senior Fellows Philip Kiszely and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo discuss: * Four Wakefield schools are suspended and faced police investigation and consultation with Muslim so-called "community leaders" after a copy of the Quran was damaged "without malicious intent". * Sex education classes in the Isle of Man are suspended after reports that a drag...

On this week's #SWYSI we are joined by Tom & Hayley Bowen, founders of the new King Alfred School in Dudley, Britain's first modern Christian classical school. The King Alfred School offers a classical British education that celebrates Britain's history, heritage & heroes, as well as its Christian values. The school rejects the "progressive" teaching that is ubiquitous in contemporary education, o...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak, host Emma Webb is joined by NCF Senior Fellows Philip Kiszely and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo to discuss: * Roald Dahl's classic books are sanitized by "sensitivity readers" to "protect" today's children. * The Metropolitan Police give credence to the spurious claims of the far left as they dub the Cenotaph and statues of heroes such as Sir Winston Churchill "contentious" in a...

On this second episode of our new show DEPROGRAMMED, hosts Rollo Pinhol, Poppy Coburn and Harrison Pitt discuss: * An ancient law used to convict Britain's criminal gang members is now being monitored by the CPS for racial bias. * Anti-white bigotry is the last permissible racism. It's now embedded in British society and is regarded by many as a display of social virtue and status. ---------------...

On this week's #SWYSI we are joined, once again, by Prof. Nigel Biggar, Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and canon of Christ Church Cathedral. Prof. Biggar's new book, "Colonialism: A Moral Reckoning", provides a new assessment of the West’s colonial record Prof. Biggar argues that, especially in the Anglosphere, the ‘decolonisation’ movement corrodes the...

The British government has embarked on an ambitious and legally-binding climate change target: reduce the country’s greenhouse gas emissions to Net Zero by 2050. The Net Zero policy was subject to almost no parliamentary or public scrutiny, and is universally approved by our political class. But what will its consequences be? Our guest today is Ross Clark, author of "NOT ZERO: How an Irrational Ta...

Joining us on the #SWYSI sofa this week is Lee Anderson, the outspoken Conservative MP for Ashfield since 2019. Known for his forthright views on controversial subjects ("I say what people think"), Lee discusses modern unions ("union leaders don't care about their members"), the infiltration of woke ideology into our institutions and education system, and the unacceptable levels of both legal and...

This time on #SWYSI, we are once again joined by John O'Sullivan, President of The Danube Institute, a Budapest-based think tank, and Editor-at-Large at National Review. John was previously vice president of Radio Free Europe and was also a senior policy adviser and speech writer for PM Margaret Thatcher. In a wide-ranging discussion, John discusses his book "The Woke vs. The West: Awkward Questio...

Our guest on this week's #SWYSI is Dr. Jerome Booth, Chairman of Anglia Ruskin University as well as a British economist, author & emerging markets investor. In his new book "Have We All Gone Mad? Why Groupthink is Rising and How to Stop it", Dr. Booth investigates why some of us have abandoned reason in favour of trite memes, intolerance and hatred. Have we all gone mad? Or can we identify the pa...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak host Emma Webb and panelists Peter Whittle, Founder & Director of the NCF, and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, historian and NCF Senior Fellow, discuss: * A final analysis of Prince Harry's full-scale war on his family and country: what does it mean for him and for the Royal Family? What next? * The assault on British culture and Icons continues as a primary school changes its name...

On this week's #SWYSI, Prof. Eric Kaufmann discusses the alarming and disturbing findings of his investigation into the left-wing political culture of young people in the UK. He has found that our children are being taught radical left ideas and theories as if they are truth, with little to no attempt to provide balance or counter-arguments to these ideas. There can be no surprise, therefore, that...

For our final show of 2022, the #NCFNewspeak panel assemble in Windsor for a special end of year review, in which they sum up the highs and lows of the past year and look forward to 2023. Featuring host Emma Webb, NCF Director Peter Whittle and Senior Fellows Dr. Philip Kiszely & Rafe Heydel-Mankoo. ------------------ SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouT...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak host Emma Webb is joined by NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and special guest Mark Littlewood, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs. Topics discussed: * 1 in 10 youth aged 18-25 say they never intend to work. Why is this? * Britain is beset by strikes this Christmas. Are industrial relations going back to the 1970s? * NHS is...

The latest YouGov poll shows the Reform Party surging in the polls. It is now tied with the Liberal Democrats at 9%, a mere 13% behind the Conservative Party at 22%. What does this mean? At the next General Election, could the Reform Party pose an existential threat to the Conservative Party and replace it as the natural party of true, small 'c', conservatives? Richard Tice, Leader of the Reform P...

To mark the launch of our new book "Fighting Back: Defending Britain & The West in the Culture War", we present a special edition of #SWYSI that brings together 3 inspiring people who refused to bow down to the institutions that tried to penalise, suppress or fire them for expressing their views. We hope their tales serve to give hope and inspiration to others out there who may encounter similar e...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak, host Emma Webb, NCF Director Peter Whittle and Senior Fellows Dr. Philip Kiszely and Rafe Heydel-Mankoo discuss: * "Fighting Back: Defending Britain & The West in the Culture War": the New Culture Forum's new publication. * "The Quality Assurance Agency for Higher Education" watchdog has told universities to teach colonialism & white supremacy in courses including comp...

Peter Hitchens returns to our #SWYSI sofa to discuss his new book: "A Revolution Betrayed: How Egalitarians Wrecked the British Education System", which also provides an in-depth look at what will happen if things don't change radically. There are few subjects that cause parents more stress than the education of their children. Peter Hitchens describes the misjudgements made by politicians over th...

Tickets for The 2022 Smith Lecture with Rod Liddle on "The Story of Woke: How the West Went Mad": https://www.eventbrite.co.uk/e/rod-li... On today's #NCFNewspeak, host Emma Webb, NCF director Peter Whittle and Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo and Dr. Philip Kiszely discuss: * The new call for climate reparations. Is this the thin edge of the wedge? * The World Cup in Qatar has exposed the hypocri...

The survival of Western democracy requires a revival of the centuries-old legal, religious, and cultural traditions that made Britain and America models of national freedom for the entire world. Liberalism, devoured by its own “woke” offspring, is at the end of its long reign. But just when the West needs a vigorous conservative revival, the political and intellectual movement that was once so sur...

Student Samantha Smith is a survivor of long-term child sexual abuse in Telford. She has waived her anonymity to speak out on behalf of the victims of grooming and sexual abuse and hopefully, by doing so, encourage and empower other victims to also come forward. She joins us to reveal the horrific treatment she received not only at the hands of her abusers but also from the institutions that were...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak, host Emma Webb is joined by NCF Director Peter Whittle, Senior Fellow Philip Kiszely and special guests Samantha Smith and Stephen Balogh. Topics discussed: * The release of the 2021 Census. What the census results reveal -- and what they don't reveal about the state of immigration in the UK today. Are we being told the full story? * An article in the Atlantic magazine...

On this week's #SWYSI we are again joined by journalist and commentator Alex Kaschuta, host of the popular "Subversive" podcast. Speaking from her home in Romania (having previously lived in London), Alex reviews modern Britain from the viewpoint of a traditional east-European conservative. She also discusses the "The New Right" -- or, more correctly, the latest incarnation of the New Right. In it...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak host Emma Webb is joined by NCF Director Peter Whittle and Senior Fellow Rafe Heydel-Mankoo to discuss: * The migrant crisis. Some residents of Dover are scared of home invasions by cross channel migrants. Meanwhile, it's been reported that official discussions took place to house migrants in tents in London's royal parks. At the same time, Albanian men now constitute t...