NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Professor Abhishek Saha, founding member of London Universities' Council for Academic Freedom, who explains why the currently paused Higher Education Act is crucial for academic freedom and our wider society.
Nov 19, 2024•36 min•Ep. 152
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with geriatric & palliative care Doctor Cajetan Skowronski to talk about assisted suicide and euthanasia. Dr. Skowronski warns that assisted death will not remain only for the terminally ill. He says the experience of other countries shows the slippery slope toward assisted death for groups such as the elderly and disabled is inevitable.
Nov 14, 2024•46 min•Ep. 151
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Geoff Hill, Zimbabwean author and the chief Africa correspondent at The Washington Times and The Spectator. Hill talks about elections in Africa moving in a positive direction and why the West turns a blind eye to election rigging in some states but not others.
Nov 12, 2024•23 min•Ep. 150
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Sam Bidwell, director of the Next Generation Centre at the Adam Smith Institute think tank. Bidwell says the idea that Britain’s youth are all woke and Left-leaning is a myth, that the broken social contract is a radicalizing force, and that young people of different political beliefs are united on many key policy issues.
Nov 07, 2024•36 min•Ep. 149
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Jon Moynihan, businessman, author, and member of the House of Lords. Moynihan says a return to economic growth is crucial for Britain’s future and that our move toward a social democracy has put massive obstacles in the way.
Nov 05, 2024•42 min•Ep. 148
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Michael Dnes, head of transport policy at Stonehaven consultancy and a former civil servant at the Department for Transport. Michael talks about the challenges of Britain’s aging infrastructure, the ever-growing red tape culture, spurious legal objections, and NIMBYism.
Oct 31, 2024•52 min•Ep. 147
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with energy expert David Turver to talk about how renewables pushed energy prices so high, the damage Net Zero is doing to our industry and lives, and why he’s so concerned about government powers granted in the Energy Act 2023. David writes on Substack: davidturver.substack.com
Oct 29, 2024•45 min•Ep. 146
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Nick Measham, the CEO of conservation charity WildFish, to talk about industrial salmon farming, how it’s pushing wild salmon and trout toward extinction, and the damage it does to the marine environment.
Oct 24, 2024•34 min•Ep. 145
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Michelle Shipworth, associate professor of energy and social sciences at University College London, to talk about how the Chinese Communist Party is chipping away at academic freedom in Britain.
Oct 22, 2024•33 min•Ep. 144
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Christopher Snowdon, head of lifestyle economics at the free market think tank Institute of Economic Affairs, to talk about why he opposes government intervention in alcohol, smoking, and obesity issues, and how these public health measures affect our freedoms.
Oct 17, 2024•56 min•Ep. 143
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Zewditu Gebreyohanes, senior researcher at the Legatum Institute, to discuss the importance of treasuring Britain’s heritage—and what happens when identity politics replaces historical truth and balance.
Oct 15, 2024•23 min•Ep. 142
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Kath Sansom, who campaigns for people suffering complications from mesh implanted during surgery. Kath talks about the difficulties they face with often unremovable mesh in their bodies, the legal action taken against manufacturers, and how this scandal affects trust in our medical system.
Oct 03, 2024•28 min•Ep. 141
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with professors Martin Neil and Norman Fenton to talk about their new book, which explores the science and data used to make decisions during the COVID-19 pandemic.
Sep 26, 2024•44 min•Ep. 140
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with economist and entrepreneur Angus Hanton to discuss how Britain’s businesses are being taken over by U.S. interests, the scale of the takeover, what’s behind it, and why no one is talking about it.
Sep 19, 2024•56 min•Ep. 139
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Tam Fry, chairman of the National Obesity Forum, to talk about the impact of the nationwide obesity crisis and what can be done to turn things around.
Sep 12, 2024•44 min•Ep. 138
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Edmund Adamus, from the Commission of Inquiry into Discrimination Against Christians, to talk about the challenges facing Christians in the UK, how a growing number of young people are turning to a more traditional lifestyle, and why we need to oppose attempts to divide us.
Sep 05, 2024•41 min•Ep. 137
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with gambling reform campaigner Matt Zarb-Cousin to talk about overcoming gambling addiction, and how changes in technology and the law have seen a hyper-normalisation of gambling in the UK.
Sep 05, 2024•25 min•Ep. 131
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Dr. Rebecca Foljambe, general practitioner and founder of Health Professionals for Safer Screens. Dr. Foljambe talks about the impact of too much screen time on young people’s health and development.
Aug 29, 2024•47 min•Ep. 136
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Krishna Thapa, also known as Warrior Monk, to talk about summiting Everest, serving in the legendary Gurkhas, passing the notorious SAS selection process, and taking disabled veterans to the world’s highest peaks.
Aug 22, 2024•40 min•Ep. 135
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with author and China expert Benedict Rogers to talk about religious freedom in the world’s biggest communist nation. Benedict shares his wide knowledge of how different faiths are struggling at the hands of the Chinese Communist Party.
Aug 15, 2024•32 min•Ep. 134
In the second half of this interview, author and journalist Charlie Cornish-Dale—also known as Raw Egg Nationalist—says the globalist reset of our food supply is fast approaching. He talks about alternative solutions to the Planetary Health Diet, and the importance of eating like our ancestors. He also explains why this isn’t the first great reset of our food system.
Aug 13, 2024•27 min•Ep. 133
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with author and journalist Charlie Cornish-Dale—also known as Raw Egg Nationalist—to talk about why we should eat like our ancestors, the damage processed foods have done to the human race, and in what ways we are already well down the road toward a globalist reset of our food supply.
Aug 08, 2024•44 min•Ep. 132
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Victoria White, spokesperson for the UK Falun Dafa Association, to talk about 25 years of persecution against the spiritual practice and how practitioners have peacefully resisted.
Aug 01, 2024•26 min•Ep. 130
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Josie Appleton, founding director of the Manifesto Club, a civil liberties group that defends freedom in everyday life. Ms. Appleton talks about the growing control over public spaces and everyday life by state officials and private management companies.
Jul 25, 2024•27 min•Ep. 129
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Scottish entrepreneur Simon Miln to talk about building a better society, the prospect of an independent Scotland, and the impact of corporate lobbying.
Jul 18, 2024•36 min•Ep. 128
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Jung Chang CBE, whose best-selling novel "Wild Swans" is said to have opened the world’s eyes to the horrors committed by the Chinese Communist Party during the Cultural Revolution. Ms. Chang talks about the persecution her family suffered in communist China, what life was like as one of Britain's first Chinese students, and why she spent 12 years working on a biography of communist dictator Mao Zedong.
Jul 11, 2024•31 min•Ep. 127
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with author Jared Whitaker to talk about surviving domestic abuse, and the taboo subject of domestic abuse against men.
Jul 09, 2024•25 min•Ep. 126
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with John O'Connell, CEO of the Taxpayers’ Alliance, to discuss how our economy could flourish with lower, simpler taxes, and the risks of increasing the wealth tax.
Jul 04, 2024•25 min•Ep. 125
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with Mike Jones, director of think tank Migration Watch. Mr. Jones talks about why government policy doesn’t reflect public opinion on immigration, and whether the situation is as out of control as the media often portrays.
Jul 02, 2024•23 min•Ep. 124
NTD’s Lee Hall sits down with investigative filmmaker Richard Jeffs to talk about his documentary, "Stakeholder Communism." He says we are in a transition to a new political system we didn’t vote for—and that technology is opening the door to new forms of tyranny.
Jun 25, 2024•29 min•Ep. 123