Thinking Class
door John Gillam
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#150 - David McGrogan - The British State Is Not Broken And The…
#150 - David McGrogan - The British State Is Not Broken And The…
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Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast and documentary series exploring the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping Britain, the Anglosphere, and the wider West. 20,000 subscribers and 2 million plays across all platforms.
Hosted by John Gillam, founder of the Albion Institute (Lord Nigel Biggar CBE serves as Advisory Board Chair) and creator of The Call of England and the forthcoming Call of America documentary series.
Each episode brings together historians, philosophers, theologians, economists, and public intellectuals for conversations that go beyond the news cycle.
Guests have included David Starkey, Lord Jonathan Sumption, Lord Nigel Biggar, Iain McGilchrist, Peter Hitchens, R.R. Reno, Auron MacIntyre, Patrick Deneen, Lionel Shriver, David Goodhart, Carl Trueman, Eric Kaufmann, Carrie Gress, Katharine Birbalsingh, Kathleen Stock, Frank Furedi, Rob Henderson, Robert Tombs, and many more.
If you value serious conversation about England, Britain, the Anglosphere, and the forces shaping our civilisation, this is the show for you.
New episodes every Thursday.
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- #150 - David McGrogan - The British State Is Not Broken And The System Is Working Exactly As It Was Designed · 1 u 6 minDavid McGrogan is a legal scholar at Northumbria University and the author of the Substack News from Uncibal. In this conversation, we think out loud about: • Why the…
- #149 - Bella d'Abrera - How Australia Became A Warning For Every Western Democracy · 1 u 0 minBella d'Abrera is the former Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Programme at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia and the author of Mindless. In this…
- #148 - Marie Kawthar Daouda - They Told Her She Was A Victim Of The West. She Became Its Greatest Defender. · 1 u 2 minDr Marie Kawthar Daouda is a French-Moroccan scholar at the University of Oxford and the author of Not Your Victim. In this conversation we think out loud about: Why a…
- #147 - Bernard Hibbs - No Wealth, No Career & No Phone: Inside The Radical Christian Community Hiding In The English Countryside · 57 minBernard Hibbs is a member of the Bruderhof; an intentional Christian community of three hundred people living in East Sussex without money, without mortgages, and without…
- #146 - Father Luke Dysinger OSB - The Last Time Western Civilisation Collapsed One Institution Accidentally Saved Everything · 1 u 3 minFather Luke Dysinger is a Benedictine monk of Saint Andrew’s Abbey in Valyermo, California. He trained as a physician, practised family medicine, and at the age of 27 walked away…
- #145 - Oliver Bennett & Morgan Watkins - They Were Trained To Perform The Greatest Works In Western Civilisation And They Say The Whole Thing Has Now Been Captured By Cowards And Liars · 1 u 11 minOliver Bennett and Morgan Watkins are the co-founders of The Base and RADA-trained actors with nearly twenty years of experience in British film, television, and theatre. In this…
- #144 - Ben Jones - Britain Has Become An Island Of Strangers And You’re Not Allowed To Say So · 55 minDr Ben Jones is the Director of Case Management at the Free Speech Union and author of Island of Strangers: Diversity, Decline & Free Speech In Crisis In this conversation, we…
- #143 - Auron MacIntyre - The West Has Already Become A Total State And Most People Inside It Have No Idea · 1 u 0 minAuron MacIntyre is the host of The Auron MacIntyre Show on Blaze TV and the author of The Total State. Auron previously taught high school before leaving education to build his…
- #142 - Nathan Pinkoski - France Sacrificed Free Speech To Keep The Peace, Britain Did The Same And Now Neither Has Either · 56 minNathan Pinkoski is a Senior Fellow at the Claremont Institute, the translator of Eric Zemmour’s The Suicide of France, and author of the forthcoming Silent Revolution: The End of…
- #141 - R.R. Reno - What Happens When The West’s Strong Gods Return And Find Nobody Home · 1 u 2 minR.R. Reno is the editor of First Things, the most important journal of religion and public life in America. He is the author of Return of the Strong Gods, In the Ruins of the…
- #140 - Stephen Blackwood - The Universities Forgot What Education Is For So This Man Built One From Scratch & Here Is What He Learned · 1 u 2 minStephen Blackwood is President and Founder of Ralston College in Savannah, Georgia. The Chancellor is Dr Iain McGilchrist. He is on the advisory board for the Alliance for…
- #139 - Tom Ough & Calum Drysdale - How Britain Forgot How To Build And Why The Consequences Are Coming · 1 u 8 minTom Ough is Senior Editor at UnHerd and author of The Anti-Catastrophe League. Calum Drysdale is an engineer and writer. Together they host Anglofuturism — a podcast exploring…
- #138 - Ricardo Duchesne - The Greatness And Ruin Of Western Civilisation · 1 u 27 minRicardo Duchesne is a Puerto Rican-born Canadian historical sociologist. He studied history at McGill University, received his PhD in Social and Political Thought from York…
- #137 - Clement Knox - Why The American Revolution Was Not A Revolution But Englishmen Defending English Rights Against An English King · 1 u 6 minClement Knox is a writer and historian. He is the author of The Scramble for America: How the United States Conquered a Continent (William Collins, 2026), and writes at Past…
- #136 - Katharine Birbalsingh - Why Britain Stopped Believing Children Need Discipline · 1 u 6 minKatharine Birbalsingh is the headmistress and founder of Michaela Community School in Wembley, and a former UK Social Mobility Commissioner. She built the most successful school…
- #135 - Pierre d'Alancaisez - 'I Helped Build The Cult Of Contemporary Art And Then I Walked Away' · 1 u 5 minPierre d’Alancaisez is a writer, curator, and researcher working with the multiple politics of the arts. He is the resident art critic for the English magazine The Critic, and…
- #134 - Frank Furedi - The West Is Crushing Democracy In The Name Of Defending It · 1 u 2 minFrank is Emeritus Professor of Sociology at the University of Kent and the author of twenty-eight books on the cultural forces shaping Western societies, including his most…
- #133 - Max Klinger - The British Establishment Re-Racialised Britain And Now It Can't Control What It Created · 1 u 2 minMax Klinger is a lawyer and political analyst. He writes at Max Klinger's Newsletter on Substack and his work has appeared in The Spectator. Britain's progressive establishment…
- #132 - Andrew Hussey - France Is Fracturing Along Ethnic And Religious Lines · 58 minProfessor Andrew Hussey OBE is Dean of the University of London Institute in Paris and Director of the Centre for Post-Colonial Studies at the University of London's School of…
- #131 - Gregory Clark - Why Everything The West Believes About Social Mobility Is Wrong · 58 minProfessor Gregory Clark is a British-born economic historian at the University of California, Davis and holds a DNRF Chair at the Danish National Research Foundation and a…
