Joe Hill is Director of Policy at Reform and founder of the Greater London Project, a community initiative focused on London's future. A former Treasury civil servant with experience across government departments, Joe has become a leading critic of what he calls "everythingism"—the dysfunctional tendency to make every policy about every other policy, everywhere, all at once. His influential essay on this concept has gained significant traction in policy circles, offering a framework for understa...
May 14, 2025•1 hr 43 min
Marc Warner is CEO and co-founder of Faculty, a British AI company that partners with organisations to deploy artificial intelligence in the real world. After beginning his career in quantum physics research at UCL and Harvard, Marc shifted his focus to AI, believing it would be the most important science of the 21st century. Faculty first gained prominence for its fellowship program that helps PhD graduates transition into commercial data science, and later for its critical work with the NHS du...
Apr 30, 2025•1 hr 46 min
Josef Chen is the founder of KAIKAKU, a London-based company developing automation technology for restaurants. A former Imperial College student, Chen created his first Bitcoin faucet at age 13 and previously worked as the first intern at Bitpanda (Austria's first unicorn startup). After growing up working in his parents' Chinese restaurant from age six, Chen has now returned to the industry with a mission to transform it through robotics and technology. Calum and Tom talk to Josef Chen about: J...
Apr 16, 2025•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 14
Douglas Carswell is a British politician who served as a Member of Parliament from 2005 to 2017, first as a Conservative before defecting to UKIP in 2014. A prominent Brexit campaigner and co-founder of Vote Leave, he now runs the Mississippi Center for Public Policy , a free-market think tank in the United States. Carswell is known for his advocacy of democratic reform, limited government, and economic freedom. Calum and Tom talk to Douglas Carswell about: Douglas's experience in Mississippi wh...
Apr 02, 2025•1 hr 49 min•Ep. 13
We welcome Cllr Tom Jones to the KCIII. Tom serves as the Councillor for Scotton & Lower Wensleydale on North Yorkshire Council and is also an accomplished essayist . Cllr Jones joins Calum and Tom to discuss Anglofuturism, immigration reform, and how Britain can build a more productive, high-wage future: The origins and appeal of Anglofuturism as both an aesthetic and political movement responding to economic stagnation and declining living standards for young Britons Tom Jones' immigration...
Mar 19, 2025•1 hr 27 min
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 ministe...
Mar 11, 2025•1 hr 5 min
Calum and Tom on: - The history of British Antarctic exploration, from Captain Cook's mission to find Terra Australis to Shackleton's heroic survival after the Endurance was trapped in ice, - The geopolitical status of Antarctica, including Britain's territorial claims, the 1959 Antarctic Treaty that prohibits mining and militarisation, and how this could change after 2048, - The potential economic value of the British Antarctic Territory with its vast untapped resources (oil, gas, gold, and oth...
Feb 20, 2025•1 hr 5 min•Ep. 10
Today we welcome Lawrence Newport, darling of the British progress movement and bane of vicious dogs. Lawrence discusses: - His successful campaign to ban XL Bully dogs after identifying their disproportionate role in fatal attacks and overcoming resistance from animal welfare organisations, - His Looking For Growth initiative to streamline infrastructure development through legislation that bypasses regulatory hurdles for nuclear power, electricity cables, and data centres, - His Crush Crime ca...
Jan 28, 2025•1 hr 7 min
Samo Burja is the founder and president of Bismarck Analysis , an industrial analysis and consulting firm studying failing organizations, and the author of "Great Founder Theory" which explores how exceptional individuals shape history by creating innovative institutions rather than merely steering events. He also chairs the editorial board of Palladium Magazine . Samo discusses: - How organisations decline when they shift goals to match diminished capabilities instead of pursuing bold visions, ...
Nov 28, 2024•1 hr 28 min•Ep. 8
Rian Chad Whitton is a research analyst specialising in automation, industrial policy, and energy markets at Bismarck Analysis who writes on Substack under the name Doctor Syn and won the TXP Progress Prize for his essay on British energy policy . Rian discusses: How British industry declined from being the first Promethean nation to losing competitiveness due to loss of empire, high wages, and poor policy decisions like industrial deglomeration Why manufacturing remains crucial for national sec...
Nov 20, 2024•1 hr 1 min•Ep. 7
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 pipew...
Oct 29, 2024•59 min•Ep. 6
Aria Babu is a researcher who has turned her attention to falling birth rates and pronatalism, offering fresh perspectives on how technological innovations like artificial wombs might address demographic challenges facing developed nations. She is @Aria_Babu on X. Aria discusses: - Why falling birth rates threaten many developed nations (especially South Korea at 0.7 TFR) and how this creates demographic challenges with an aging population and diminishing workforce, - Cultural and economic facto...
Oct 10, 2024•1 hr 14 min•Ep. 5
The Victorians carpeted Britain in rail, went on majestic sprees of housebuilding, pioneered underground rail and coal power stations, and built magnificent subterranean sewerage. Their ancestors cancelled most of HS2, haven't built a reservoir for thirty years, lets Nimbyism run amok, and can't even electrify all our trains, let alone swap them for maglev. How can we redress this generational embarrassment? Sam Dumitriu, of the think-tank Britain Remade , believes it's possible to revive the Vi...
Sep 16, 2024•1 hr 29 min•Ep. 4
It's widely felt that the British buildings and townscapes have, since the Second World War, become uglier and of lower quality. From their tasteful half-timbered space station, Tom and Calum ask Samuel Hughes , an academic and aestheticist, about the causes of those complaints. We discuss the inherent characteristics of architectural beauty, the divergence of taste between architecture students and the rest of us, and the future of the British built environment. Are natural materials making a c...
Aug 13, 2024•1 hr 7 min•Ep. 3
The cost of getting mass into space is tumbling. The economic opportunities of being in space are multiplying. Where does this leave Britain? Alas, our country holds the ignominious record of being the only country to get rid of a vertical-launch space programme. But we're turning the situation around – and could take advantage of the changing circumstance by embarking on an exciting megaproject. Our second guest, Peter Hague, is a leading space blogger. His idea? Building a super spaceport – on...
Jun 11, 2024•53 min•Ep. 2
In this episode, we are visited in our thatched space station by a wunderkind economist who wants to turn a portion of the North Sea into a Wales-sized island. Duncan McClements is that economist, and you can find his blog, co-authored with Jason Hausenloy, below. https://modelthinking.substack.com/p/a-new-atlantis Editing by Calum Drysdale and Aeron Laffere. Our thanks to Cherie Chun for her help with the cover art. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information. This is a public e...
May 08, 2024•33 min•Ep. 1
