‘The manufacturing interest of this country is really the foundation of our national prosperity.’
— Benjamin Disraeli, 1846
Britain has lost its optimism, becoming less prosperous, influential, and capable of building essential infrastructure.
But what if the future could inspire hope? From their thatched space station, Tom Ough and Calum Drysdale present Anglofuturism.
Each episode dives deep on ambitious, outlandish, and yet remarkably achievable ideas to revitalise Britain. These ideas—crushing crime and building beautiful homes, spaceports in Cornwall and the North Sea, and British mining colonies in Antarctica—envision a future where Britain takes control of its destiny and reaches out into the galaxy.
This podcast is produced by Aeron Laffere. It will self-destruct when the UK achieves the highest GDP-per-capita in the Milky Way.
Endorsements
Alexander Fitzgerald, Isembard Founder and CEO: “Anglofuturism is doing wonders for our recruitment. We just hired someone we found through it!”
“It’s a movement for the young, the talented, the disenchanted, anyone who refuses to accept living in the dreary, stagnant modernity passed down by our forebears…[it] isn’t yet much much more than a podcast hosted by a couple of geeks,” Juliet Samuel told readers of The Times.
Josiah Gogarty, writing for GQ, put us on the “slightly more optimistic end of the spectrum” of emerging forces in British politics.
David Goodhart wrote in The Critic that his “very partial view of the magazine scene is that the energy and interest is coming overwhelmingly from the right, or at least the non-left, as in politics itself. There are the best Substacks: the engaging Ed West, the optimistic Anglofuturists…”
Peter Franklin told Conservative Home readers that “one can begin to sketch out a high tech, progressively patriotic agenda that might just cut through. In this regard the Anglofuturism podcast by Tom Ough and Calum Drysdale is well worth a listen.”
Writing in the New Stateman, Luke O’Reilly describes us as “harmless, nerdy” podcasters.
The Anglofuturism Podcast is published on Spotify, Apple Podcasts, YouTube and here on Substack. It is recorded on the King Charles III Space Station.
