New Culture Forum

On this week's #SWYSI​, we examine the continuing scandal of muslim grooming gangs. Our guest is Maggie Oliver, the detective-turned-whistleblower who resigned from Greater Manchester Police in late 2012 in order to expose the now infamous Rochdale Grooming Scandal. Maggie's relationship with the victims of child rape continues to this day, still fighting for justice for survivors of sexual abuse....

A recent report from OFCOM suggested that comedy was an endangered species on the BBC. Over the past decade the BBC's comedy output has declined by 40%. What does this mean for the future of comedy? And, indeed, given the degree to which comedy has been affected by issues of free speech and woke attitudes, what consequences do these have for comedy? The #NCFCounterCulture​ panel: * Simon Evans (BB...

Approx. 5 billion people can access the Internet and 25% of Internet searches are for pornography. If one was to watch the entire content of a site such as Porn Hub, it would take 173 years. The vast majority of adults have watched porn, but in recent years one of the fastest-growing groups who regularly consume it are minors, including very young children. Is porn now accepted as mainstream? Is t...

Known for his appearances on the Joe Rogan Experience, Rubin Report and, most recently, Jordan Peterson's podcast, Prof. Gad Saad is a world-renowned Canadian evolutionary psychologist at Montreal's Concordia University. He also hosts ‘The Saad Truth’ YouTube channel. In this episode of "So What You're Saying Is..." (#SWYSI​), Prof. Saad discusses his best-selling new book, "The Parasitic Mind: Ho...

This time on "So What You're Saying Is...", Peter Whittle is joined by long-time Fleet Street journalist Mike Graham, better known today as one of the most popular broadcasters on the Talk Radio channel. Mike discusses his long and varied career in journalism and the changes that he has witnessed over the decades, both in the UK and the USA. He also comments on the current condition of the mainstr...

This time on "So What You're Saying is...", Peter Whittle is joined by Helen Pluckrose, co-author of the best-selling "Cynical Theories: How Activist Scholars Made Everything about Race, Gender and Identity" and a leading figure in the fight back against Critical Race Theory and Critical Social Justice. Helen is the founder of 'Counterweight', the newly launched "Citizens Advice" service for "cult...

Dave Rubin, host of The Rubin Report & author of "Don't Burn This Book", returns to "So What You're Saying Is..." to discuss identity politics in the West and what lies ahead for America under a woke Biden presidency. In Biden's first few weeks in office we have seen cabinet appointments and executive orders steeped in identity politics, such as insisting that womens' sport be open to trans compet...

Universities should, almost by definition, be "safe spaces" for free speech, open discourse and wide-ranging debate on all manner of subjects. Yet over the past couple of decades this cherished status has been steadily eroded, with university campuses now more known for deplatforming and cancelling those who hold views deemed unacceptable by vocal woke students and faculty. Joining Peter Whittle o...

This time on "So What You're Saying Is..." Peter Whittle is joined by Andy Ngo, an American journalist best known for covering the extremist Antifa ("Anti-fascist") movement. While the term "Antifa" has become well known in recent years, most people know little about this far-left movement of anarchists, communists and other radicals. When Ngo was attacked in the streets by Antifa in the summer of...

Following the encouraging statement on the protection of statues by Communities Secretary Robert Jenrick, the "Save Our Statues" team reunite on the #NCFCounterCulture​ sofa to discuss recent developments in the onslaught on our cultural heritage. Panel: * Richard Bingley * Robert Poll * Emma Webb --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (...

This time on #NCFCounterCulture we discuss the extraordinary power of Big Tech & the social media giants and the implications this has for free speech and political balance. Joining Peter Whittle are: * Konstantin Kisin, comedian, commentator and co-host of the Triggernometry podcast * Tom Slater, writer & deputy editor at Spiked Online * Bradley Strotten, student commentator --------------- SUBSC...

This time on "So What You're Saying Is...", Peter Whittle chats with Jonathan Myles-Lea, Britain's pre-eminent painter of country houses and a champion of traditional Britain, its arts, culture & heritage. A favourite of HRH The Prince of Wales, Jonathan is the only artist to have had a painting featured as the cover of Country Life magazine. Jonathan is a long-time opponent of identity politics a...

Britain doesn’t feel very free at the moment. And that’s bad news for Britain, certainly, but also for the world. Because – uniquely – British identity and our long heritage is rooted in the ideal of individual liberty. But what does this mean in the age of Covid? In the first of a new documentary series from the New Culture Forum, author and journalist Marc Sidwell takes on this very question. Fe...

This time on "So What You're Saying Is....", Peter Whittle is joined once again by Brendan O'Neill, editor of Spiked Online and a columnist for various national and international publications. A lockdown sceptic, Brendan believes the tier system is horrendously damaging. He also finds the phrase "the new normal" unbelievably scary, believing it should worry us all. When people assume almost total...

What is "The Great Reset"? An initiative of the World Economic Forum, the WEF describes it as follows: "There is an urgent need for global stakeholders to cooperate in simultaneously managing the direct consequences of the COVID-19 crisis. To improve the state of the world, the World Economic Forum is starting The Great Reset initiative." But what does this really mean and how might it affect nati...

In the earliest stages of Covid-19, Peter Hitchens was one of the few public voices who was opposed to the lockdown and the tactics that were being employed. As time has proved him correct, he regrets but is not surprised that he has not been afforded greater media exposure during this crisis. He thinks it absurd that there has been so little proper criticism or opposition to the government's meas...

On this week's #NCFCounterCulture we provide an update on the "Save Our Statues" campaign, which was launched during the summer of Black Lives Matter attacks on historic British statues. Topics discussed include various official "audits" of collections in order to identify individuals with alleged links to slavery and the slave trade, however tenuous or risible these might be. These range from the...

On this week's "So What You're Saying Is..." (#SWYSI), journalist & broadcaster Julia Hartley-Brewer joins Peter Whittle to discuss the lockdown & the Government's response to Covid, the curtailment of civil liberties, media bias, free speech, the Met Police investigation into David Starkey & Darren Grimes, the proposed expansion of hate speech laws to private residences, and Boris Johnson's weak...

On this week's "So What You're Saying is..." #SWYSI, Peter Whittle has a wide-ranging discussion with The Rt Hon Ann Widdecombe, covering everything from Brexit & Nigel Farage's Reform Party to the culture wars & the Law Commission's terrifying proposal to expand anti-hate speech laws to private residences. Brexit: Ms. Widdecombe's fear since 2016 has been a "half Brexit", with the UK officially o...

What impact will the defeat of Donald Trump & the resignation of Dominic Cummings have in the so-called "culture wars"? Both individuals were seen as the torchbearers for their nations' conservative pushback and the attempt to reverse the Left's "long march through the institutions". Does the election of Joe Biden in the USA and the growing influence in the Conservative Party of progressive figure...

Masculinity has reached a moment of crisis. From the erosion of unifying institutions such as marriage to a rise in male suicide rates, these are particularly turbulent times to be a man. Increasing numbers of men are finding themselves anchorless, uprooted from the conventions and certainties of their forefathers. Today masculinity itself has come under attack, relentlessly maligned in the media....

On this week's #SWYSI, Peter Whittle is joined by Paul Embery a firefighter, trade union activist, pro-Brexit campaigner. columnist and 'Blue Labour' thinker from Dagengham. Paul may be followed on Twitter: @PaulEmbery --------------- SUBSCRIBE: If you are enjoying the show, please subscribe to our channel on YouTube (click the Subscribe Button underneath the video and then Click on the Bell icon...

On this week's #SWYSI, Prof. Matthew Goodwin joins Peter Whittle to discuss topics including: * academic freedom & free speech / cancel culture * "White Privilege" v the poor educational outcomes of "left behind" white working-class Britons * populism as a reaction to "liberal over-reach" * the culture wars & the UK's new, values-based political divide * potential paths to finding a political sett...

On the eve of the 2020 US Presidential Election, #NCFCounterCulture brings together 4 experts to discuss the significance of the election and what a Trump or Biden victory might mean for the USA and the rest of the world -- including the culture wars currently engulfing the Anglosphere. The panel: * Tim Stanley, historian, columnist and leader writer for The Telegraph * Sarah Elliott, Chairman of...

The erosion of civil liberties such as freedom of speech was a great concern to some prior to the Covid-19 pandemic -- however the actions of governments since the outbreak, including curtailing freedom of movement and freedom of assembly, have caused a much wider swathe of society to express extreme concern about Britain's direction of travel. Are people right to be concerned or is this an over-r...