Britain has lost its optimism. We are becoming less well-off, less influential, and less able to build even the most basic quantities of housing and infrastruct...
In 1768, Captain Cook set sail with secret instructions: to find the last unknown continent, theorised to lie at the globe's most southern extreme.More than 250 years later, that continent remains protected by an international treaty. Britain's slice is about eight times as big as Britain itself – and its exposed rock makes it the best part of Antarctica for mining. The British Antarctica Territory (BAT), in short, could make Britain fabulously wealthy. The treaty is up for discussion in 2048. But other countries want that slice...Tom and Calum discuss the BAT's history, current state, and future – a Anglofuturist's dream.Tom's Telegraph article on the topic: https://www.telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/01/23/the-antarctic-oil-bonanza-that-could-save-britain/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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First we came for the dogs – now the Nimbys and criminals
The thatch has been combed... the pint glasses are squeaky-clean... and the Anglofuturism podcast is back! Tom and Calum are once again broadcasting from the King Charles III orbital thatched pub. Today we welcome Lawrence Newport, darling of the British progress movement and bane of vicious dogs.Lawrence got the government to ban the XL bully – a savage breed of dog with a horrific record of violence. Having dispatched the dogs, he is now coming for the Nimbys and the criminals via two new campaigns: Looking for Growth and Crush Crime. Lawrence and his colleagues are, in our view, some of the country's most important practitioners of practical Anglofuturism.Lawrence, Tom and Calum talk about the most effective ways to bring down crime, whack up infrastructure, and force the government to do things it doesn't want to do. We also hear the inside story of the XL bully campaign.LFG: https://lookingforgrowth.uk/Crush Crime: https://crushcrime.org/Audio editing by Calum Drysdale and Aeron Laffere. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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1:06:32
Make Britain the compute capital of the world!
In this series finale, Calum and Tom welcome Samo Burja to the King Charles III Space Station. Samo is an analyst whose highly-regarded San Francisco-based consultancy views history as being shaped by 'live players'. When was Britain last a live player? What kind of activity would be required to wrench us off our course towards oblivion?Samo also discussed his plan for making Britain the wealthiest country in the world: seek energy abundance, prospect Antarctica, and become the compute capital of the world. Oh, and spend the entire NHS budget on drug discovery. Read Bismarck Brief here:https://brief.bismarckanalysis.com/And read Palladium, the magazine Samo runs here: https://www.palladiummag.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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1:28:05
Bring back the captains of industry!
Rarely is it argued that there are not enough fat cats in British industry. But Rian Chad Whitton, an industrial policy specialist at Bismarck, argues that we are not doing enough to support big players. As it stands, Britain has a puny industrial base that is ill-suited for manufacturing at scale, developing 21st-century robotics, and providing the materials we need to defend our shores.Rian has a plan, though – involving nuclear energy, captains of industry, and Welsh gold.Read Rian's work at riancwhitton.substack.com Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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How the Earth's superheated innards can transform Britain (and the world)
You are currently directly above an energy source that is clean, available all day long, and – at least at our current Kardashev level – all but limitless. Naturally, the British government has approximately zero interest in it. But they will soon, because transformational geothermal energy is getting closer.The main obstacle, currently, is the difficulty of harnessing the extreme heat that one finds several miles below the Earth's surface. It melts electronics and resists the creation of pipework, meaning that it's very difficult to sustainably pump fluid in and out.Our latest guest is John Clegg, a technologist and geothermal expert who is making progress in developing high-heat electronics. John joins us in our orbital space pub to tell us about the new frontiers in geothermal, the best way of making it work for Britain, and the most mind-boggling engineering feat in the history of Dorset.Learn more about Hephae Energy Technology, of which John is CTO, via their website, or subscribe to their monthly newsletter here.https://www.linkedin.com/newsletters/hephae-energy-technology-7076836521588207616/https://www.hephaeet.com/ Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
Britain has lost its optimism. We are becoming less well-off, less influential, and less able to build even the most basic quantities of housing and infrastructure.But what if it didn't have to be that way? What if the future were something that we could look forward to? Somewhere that Britons could feel at home in?This is not an impossible dream. From the thatched space station that is home to their studio, Tom Ough and Calum Drysdale present Anglofuturism. In each episode, the hosts beam up a guest with an ambitious but achievable idea that could help pull Britain from her morass. If enacted together, these ideas will set Britain back on her way to becoming the greatest country in the galaxy.Cheap, beautiful housing... HS2, 3, 4, 5 and onward to HS99+... The first lunar Wetherspoons... Old maids bicycling to church through the mists of a newly-terraformed Mars... Such is the world we should be striving to build, on our green and pleasant land and beyond.This podcast will self-destruct when the UK has the highest GDP-per-capita in the Milky Way. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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