Thinking Class

Britain's economy is a demographic Ponzi scheme. The models don't work. The Treasury knows it. And nobody will say it out loud. Paul Morland and Philip Pilkington are the authors of Bust: The Economics of Population Decline. In this conversation, we think out loud about: • Why the economic growth models we depend on were built for a world of rising populations — and break down in a world...

David McGrogan is a legal scholar at Northumbria University and the author of the Substack News from Uncibal. In this conversation, we think out loud about: • Why the intelligentsia wanted to show mercy to the most treasonous man in British history • Rebecca West and the moral vocabulary Britain abandoned • Policing by consent becoming policing by negotiation — and why nobody trusts the police • T...

Bella d'Abrera is the former Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Programme at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia and the author of Mindless. In this conversation, we think out loud about: • How Paulo Freire conquered every teachers' college in the Anglosphere • The deliberate destruction of the humanities — Shakespeare removed, grievance installed • Geoffrey Bla...

Dr Marie Kawthar Daouda is a French-Moroccan scholar at the University of Oxford and the author of Not Your Victim. In this conversation we think out loud about: Why a French-Moroccan Oxford scholar wrote a love letter to British civilisation MacIntyre and the question of story — what happens when a civilisation loses its narrative The French Revolution as spiritual catastrophe and its influence o...

Bernard Hibbs is a member of the Bruderhof ; an intentional Christian community of three hundred people living in East Sussex without money, without mortgages, and without personal possessions. Everything is held in common and if someone needs something, they ask and they receive it. The Bruderhof have lived this way for over a hundred years. In this conversation we think out loud about: How three...

Father Luke Dysinger is a Benedictine monk of Saint Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo, California. He trained as a physician, practised family medicine, and at the age of 27 walked away from it all because he fell in love with a way of life centred on prayer. He studied at the Benedictine House of Studies at Oxford, holds a doctorate in patristic theology, and is now a professor of theology and a bioethi...

Dr Lola Salem is a musicologist, cultural critic, and Catholic convert. She is the author of the forthcoming Artless (Polity Press) and writes for The Critic and the Catholic Herald. In this conversation we think out loud about: • The boycott crisis in the arts and how it works in the shadows  • Why the right keeps winning elections and losing the civilisation  • The left as high-functioning alcoh...

Oliver Bennett and Morgan Watkins are the co-founders of The Base and RADA-trained actors with nearly twenty years of experience in British film, television, and theatre. In this conversation, we think out loud about: What The Base is and why it exists  The campification of British theatre and the shame around the Western canon The Edinburgh Fringe as a monument to progressive capture and why the...

Dr Ben Jones is the Director of Case Management at the Free Speech Union and author of Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline & Free Speech In Crisis In this conversation, we think out loud about: When saying “it’s a free country” died in Britain and what replaced it 6,000 people punished for speaking in five years, and what the Free Speech Union’s caseload reveals about modern Britain How hy...

Auron MacIntyre is the host of The Auron MacIntyre Show on Blaze TV and the author of The Total State . Auron previously taught high school before leaving education to build his media platform, writes the Substack The Total State , and appears across conservative and heterodox media. In this conversation, we think out loud about: Why every Western state is becoming total and why the HR department...

Nathan Pinkoski is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute , the translator of Eric Zemmour’s The Suicide of France, and author of the forthcoming Silent Revolution: The End of the Liberal West. He writes for First Things and Compact and publishes the Substack Lament for the Nations . In this conversation, we think out loud about: — Why Zemmour’s Suicide of France sold half a million copies and...

R.R. Reno is the editor of First Things , the most important journal of religion and public life in America. He is the author of Return of the Strong Gods , I n the Ruins of the Church , and a forthcoming rock climbing memoir. He has taught theology at Creighton University and has written for the Wall Street Journal, the Washington Post, and Commentary. In this conversation, we think out loud abou...

Stephen Blackwood is President and Founder of Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia . The Chancellor is Dr Iain McGilchrist . He is on the advisory board for the Alliance for Responsible Citizenship (ARC) .  This episode is supported by Aquinas Tuition , which provides bespoke academic tutoring for children who deserve to be stretched, not managed. In this conversation, we think out loud about: — W...

Tom Ough is Senior Editor at UnHerd and author of The Anti-Catastrophe League. Calum Drysdale is an engineer and writer. Together they host Anglofuturism — a podcast exploring ambitious, outlandish, and remarkably achievable ideas to revitalise Britain from their thatched space station. Robert Jenrick declared himself an Anglofuturist at a 2025 conference. Curtis Yarvin has appeared on their show....

Ricardo Duchesne is a Puerto Rican-born Canadian historical sociologist. He studied history at McGill University, received his PhD in Social and Political Thought from York University (awarded the Doctoral Prize for best dissertation of the year), and served as professor of sociology at the University of New Brunswick until his retirement in 2019. His major works include The Uniqueness of Western...

Clement Knox is a writer and historian. He is the author of The Scramble for America: How the United States Conquered a Continent (William Collins, 2026), and writes at Past Notes on Substack. Two hundred and fifty years ago, the United States was thirteen coastal colonies clinging to the Atlantic seaboard. Within a single lifetime, it became a continental empire stretching from the Atlantic to th...

Katharine Birbalsingh is the headmistress and founder of Michaela Community School in Wembley, and a former UK Social Mobility Commissioner. She built the most successful school in Britain from nothing — in one of London's poorest boroughs — by insisting on the things the educational establishment now treats as radical: discipline, gratitude, knowledge, and the belief that every child is capa...

Pierre d’Alancaisez is a writer, curator, and researcher working with the multiple politics of the arts. He is the resident art critic for the English magazine The Critic , and his writing has appeared in outlets such as ArtReview , The Spectator , and Compact .  *NOTE: If you downloaded this before 11th July, there are sync issues on the audio, therefore please re-download for a better listening...

Frank is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent and the author of twenty-eight books on the cultural forces shaping Western societies, including his most recent, In Defence of Populism. Frank is also a Senior Fellow at the Mathias Corvinus Collegium in Brussels. In this conversation Frank and I think out loud about:  the spirit of populism, why the credentialized class fears it...

Max Klinger is a lawyer and political analyst. He writes at Max Klinger's Newsletter on Substack and his work has appeared in The Spectator . Britain's progressive establishment spent a decade re-racialising public life. It racialised Brexit, policing, and every institution in the name of anti-racism. Now the wider British public has adopted the same lens and applied it in the opposite d...

Professor Andrew Hussey OBE is Dean of the University of London Institute in Paris and Director of the Centre for Post-Colonial Studies at the University of London's School of Advanced Study . Born in Liverpool, educated at the University of Manchester and Jean Moulin University Lyon 3 , he is the author of The French Intifada (Faber, 2014), Paris: The Secret History (Penguin, 2006), The Game...

Professor Gregory Clark is a British-born economic historian at the University of California, Davis and holds a DNRF Chair at the Danish National Research Foundation and a professor at the Historical Economics and Development Group (HEDG) at the Department of Economics, SDU. Furthermore, he is a Visiting Professor at London School of Economics (LSE) and a Distinguished Professor Emeritus at UC Dav...

Dr Iain McGilchrist is a former Fellow of All Souls College, Oxford , an associate Fellow of Green Templeton College, Oxford , a Fellow of the Royal College of Psychiatrists , a Consultant Emeritus of the Bethlem and Maudsley Hospital , London, a former research Fellow in neuroimaging at Johns Hopkins University Medical School, and since September 2025 the Chancellor of Ralston College . He lives...

William Clouston is the leader of the Social Democratic Party (SDP) in the United Kingdom and a member of the advisory board for Restore Britain .  Firas Modad is an analyst and political economist focused on the Middle East and global geopolitics. He runs his own consultancy, Modad Geopolitics , helping companies and investors understand the commercial impact of political, economic, and security...

Lord Tony Sewell CBE is a British educational consultant, author, and life peer. Born in Brixton to Jamaican parents, he trained as a teacher and worked in some of London's most challenging schools, during which time he completed his PhD on black masculinities and schooling at the University of Nottingham . He helped transform education in Hackney as part of the team that established the Lear...