Anglofuturism

By: Tom Ough and Calum Drysdale
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  • 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.


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Episodes
  • Britain's manifest Antarctic destiny

    Britain's manifest Antarctic destiny
    Feb 20 2025

    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/


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    1 hr and 5 mins
  • First we came for the dogs – now the Nimbys and criminals

    First we came for the dogs – now the Nimbys and criminals
    Jan 28 2025

    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.


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    1 hr and 7 mins
  • Make Britain the compute capital of the world!

    Make Britain the compute capital of the world!
    Nov 28 2024

    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/



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    1 hr and 28 mins

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