New Culture Forum

On this week's #SWYSI, Peter Whittle is joined by his London Assembly colleague David Kurten, leader of the newly launched Heritage Party (https://www.heritageparty.org/). They discuss the London police's selective approach to policing protests -- apparently turning a blind eye to Black Lives Matter & Extinction Rebellion whilst coming down hard on anti-Lockdown protestors. For David, it seems as...

Joining Peter Whittle on this week's #NCFCounterCulture Panel: * Austin Williams, Associate Professor of Architecture at Xi'an Jiaotong-Liverpool University in China and Director of the Future Cities Project * Rafe Heydel-Mankoo, Historian, Broadcaster & Author of the best-selling book "A London Peculiar" * Rob Poll, architect, property developer and committee member of the Save Our Statues campai...

On this week's SWYSI we speak with an eminent expert on the morality of empire and nationalism who has personal experience of cancel culture and public denunciation, after both students and other professors condemned his "Ethics & Empire" project at the University of Oxford. Prof. Nigel Biggar is Regius Professor of Moral and Pastoral Theology at the University of Oxford and canon of Christ Church...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak, Benjamin Loughnane, communications consultant and theologian, argues that England's sacred choral music is also a victim of the long march through the institutions and needs to be defended/protected. To quote: "Our culture is under attack. And not just from the vandals who pull down our statues There is a quiet, pernicious threat throughout our institutions – every are...

Overshadowed by Covid-19 and BLM, another issue has been causing great concern in many quarters for some time: sex education. As of Sept 2020, sex education is now compulsory in our state schools [while parents can withdraw their children, in practice this is meaningless as most parents are unaware they have such a right and, indeed, unaware of what is being taught]. From trans rights to Muslim pa...

Dr. Philip Kiszely, lecturer in cultural history at the University of Leeds, is this week's guest on "So What You're Saying Is..." (#SWYSI). In a recent article for Spiked Online Dr. Kiszely argued that we are now at a tipping point in our cultural history which requires us to stand up against the dangerous identitarian narrative we have seen most visibly during the BLM protests of recent months b...

Dr. Niall McCrae is a senior mental health lecturer at King's College London and co-author of "Year of the Bat: Globalisation, China & the Coronavirus". Dr. McCrae argues that the Covid-19 pandemic has given rise to an illiberal and authoritarian global social hygiene regime. To quote: "I remember in January watching news clips from Wuhan in China, where the coronavirus outbreak began. At a police...

Andrew Klavan, host of The Daily Wire's "The Andrew Klavan Show", returns to #SWYSI to chat about America's intensifying culture wars and what might happen if Donald Trump loses the upcoming election. Speaking from L.A, Andrew explains how Covid, BLM & woke virtue signalling have made the city almost intolerable to live in. He laments that across the US -- but particularly in increasingly lawless...

On this week's #NCFNewspeak, student writer & commentator Freya Laidlow-Petersen argues for an end to the politicisation of our schools and the degeneration of our education system -- where teachers too often see themselves as "agents of social change". The "decolonise the curriculum" movement is not simply a spontaneous off-shoot of this year’s events. For example, “Global Education for All” is o...

On this week's #SWYSI we interview Inaya Folarin Iman, Director of The Equiano Project, Board member of the Free Speech Union and outspoken critic of Black Lives Matter and identity politics. Inaya is a columnist with Spiked Online and appears frequently in print (Telegraph, Spectator, Daily Mail etc) and as a media commentator. The Equiano Project seeks to facilitate conversations about and promo...

On this week's #NCFCounterCulture, the authors of "Moralitis: A Cultural Virus" discuss their book, which they describe as an "antidote" to the illiberal and authoritarian ideology they argue is spreading through our society and its institutions like a mental infection. Treatment and protection against this groupthink "virus" is crucial to reviving the Enlightenment values of liberty, reason and t...

This week on #SWYSI, Peter Whittle speaks with Nick Buckley MBE, the award-winning founder of the ground-breaking charity Mancunian Way, who was sacked from his position in June after criticising the far-Left political agenda of the Black Lives Matter campaign. Mr Buckley was dismissed by the trustees of the charity he founded nine years ago, after an online mob accused him of ‘inappropriate’ and...

This week's #NCFCounterCulture panel discuss the concept of "decolonising education". Panel: Katharaine Birbalsingh Calvin Robinson Alice Grant Rafe Heydel-Mankoo --------------- 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 next to it to make sure you Receive All Notifications) A...

Andrew Doyle, creator of "Titania McGrath" (a parody of a militant social justice warrior) and co-creator of "Jonathan Pie", returns to the "So What You're Saying Is..." (#SWYSI) sofa to discuss "Titania's" hilarious new book: "My First Little Book of Intersectional Activism" Doyle wrote the book as a parody of the many heavily-politicised woke childrens' books that are currently being published i...

With the release of the paperback version of his best-selling book "The Madness of Crowds", Douglas Murray returns to the #SWYSI sofa to chat with Peter Whittle about the current state of the culture wars in Britain and the West. Murray believes the heart of the current #BLM problem we see in the USA is that America's youth are taught that their country has committed more harm than any other. As w...

On this week's #NCFCounterCulture, the founding members of "Save Our Statues (S.O.S.)", an organisation established in response to this summer's attacks on historic statues, discuss the wider agenda motivating many of the leading forces behind the recent protests (from BLM to the Socialist Workers Party). Joining Peter Whittle (founder & Chairman of S.O.S.) are: * Richard Bingley, General Secretar...

On this week's #SWYSI, our guest is Michael Collins, author of "Likes of Us: A Biography of the White Working Class" (in which he argues that in the wake of the Stephen Lawrence inquiry, the white working class were cast as wholesale racist cattle by the liberal press whilst the rightwing press mocked their tastes and attitudes). Brought up in London's Elephant and Castle, where his family had liv...

In response to the #BLM protests, The Archbishop of Canterbury has called for a review of statues in Anglican churches and cathedrals. He also called on the Church of England (of which he is principal leader) to reconsider its artistic portrayal of Jesus as white (even though other cultures depict Jesus as black, Chinese etc. etc. ). Shortly after, an ancient cathedral choir was reported to be dis...

Laurence Fox first appeared on "So What You're Saying Is..." a few weeks before his celebrated -- to some, controversial -- appearance on BBC Question Time. He now returns to the #SWYSI sofa to tell us what impact the subsequent storm of controversy has had on his life, his family & career and, indeed, on his own outlook on life & society. Disturbed by both Black Lives Matter & Extinction Rebellio...

John O'Sullivan CBE is a renowned British conservative commentator & journalist and was a senior policywriter & speechwriter for PM Margaret Thatcher. He is the editor-at-large of the leading US conservaitve publication National Review, served as vice-president of Radio Free Europe/Radio Liberty, is a former senior fellow at the Hudson Institute, was editor of the Australian monthly magazine Quadr...

On this week's #NCFCounterCulture we announce the launch of "Save Our Statues (SOS)" (https://saveourstatues.org.uk), a not-for-profit coalition formed to protect Great Britain’s exceptional and irreplaceable historical and cultural heritage. Following unlawful riots in June 2020, SOS was established by concerned academics, think-tanks, lawyers, politicians and students. SOS is an independent non-...

Britain's arts, theatrical & creative industries have faced unprecedented pressure during the Covid-19 lockdown, with most of them facing oblivion. As a result, to the consternation of free marketeers, the Government has announced a bailout of £1.57 billion. Meanwhile, the Black Lives Matter cultural crisis has materialised. What effect will these developments have on the future of the arts and, i...

On this episode of "So What You're Saying Is..." our guest is Kevin Hurley, the former police & crime commissioner & ex- Met Police chief who recently made headlines after Sky News's Adam Boulton seemed to cut him off for saying that officers have 'given up' trying to stop young black men carrying weapons and accusing #BLM of aiming to destabilise society. Hugely disturbed by recent scenes of poli...

Could anything better sum up the state of current affairs than the attempt to "cancel" George Orwell? On this week's #NCFNewspeak, Emma Webb of Civitas speaks about the dangers of "Cancel Culture" and the ignorance of its elitist campaigners & extremist activists. Emma Webb is Director of the Forum on Integration, Democracy and Extremism (FIDE) at the Civitas think tank. Formerly a research fellow...

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