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...
Tom and Calum welcome Tom Jones to the KCIII. Jones is a councillor and essayist, and here emphasises the need for a radical reprioritisation of state spending, focusing on infrastructure and automation. He discusses the Boriswave, noting it has lowered living standards, and will cost taxpayers tens (or hundreds) of billions. Jones advocates for selective immigration, raising the salary threshold to £40,000, and promoting automation to boost productivity. He proposes a Royal Robotics Society and annual awards to elevate the status of robotics, aiming for a Britain capable of global influence.Jones' ASI paper: https://www.adamsmith.org/research/selecting-the-best-building-a-future-focused-immigration-systemJones' Substack: https://www.potemkinvillageidiot.com/Jones' X profile: https://x.com/93vintagejonesAnd a correction: on 44:30, Jones says dependents are mostly economically inactive. He clarifies that it's a significant portion, but not more than half. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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The last hope for the Chagos Islands: Calum Drysdale
The government is attempting to seal its giveaway of the Chagos Islands: a crucial archipelago in the Indian Ocean that was uninhabited when the Portuguese found them, but to which Mauritius – thousands of miles away – has made a specious claim. Extraordinarily, the British government is trying to indulge that claim – and to pay billions to continue to use the island that hosts a military base.The public has still not been given a satisfactory explanation for the giveaway, but the prime minister and the attorney general are thought to be of the view that Britain should obey a non-binding judgment by a partisan international court. That court is stacked with enemies of Britain... but the wallet inspector must be obeyed!Starmer and co are inches away from sealing the giveaway. But they reckoned without a ruddy young Anglofurist...Our very own Calum Drysdale!Calum and Lord Kempsell are together launching a judicial review into the putative giveaway. As news breaks of the judicial review, Tom and Calum discuss:The history of the Chagos IslandsThe bizarre logic of the governmentBritain's slender hopes of keeping the islandsHMG now has 14 days to respond to Calum and Lord Kempsell.Co-presenters: Tom Ough and Calum DrysdaleProducer: Æron Laffere Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.
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Britain's manifest Antarctic destiny
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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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.
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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