Archive - Anglofuturism

056. Nicholas Boys Smith: How to build a city on the moon

Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith on building for the Moon, the £39 billion Westminster fiasco, and why the path to more homes should run…

May 24 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:10:00

The age of saying "that's mine" is back

Does the King have designs on the Moon?

May 5 • Tom Ough

055. Hyperculture, hypermnesia, and the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

Charles charms Trump, the frontier returns at the bottom of the Pacific, and Singapore shows how to build a nation from nothing

May 4 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:14:51

054. Louis Elton: Anglofuturist aesthetics beyond podcræft

Boxer shorts as political project, critical regionalism, and whether Britain can ever agree on what looks good

May 1 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

52:12

April 2026

Is cræft the antidote to slop?

Louis Elton on the Anglo Saxon conception of virtue at the heart of his £60,000 Cræft Prize

Apr 29 • Aeron Laffere

053. Louis Elton: Cræft, the English antidote to slop

A £60,000 prize for maverick cræftsmen, the death of the handmade cricket ball, and whether new tools can forge a new aesthetic

Apr 28 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:01:53

052. Louise Perry: Artemis II and populating the solar system

On NASA's mission to a new frontier, the demographic bottleneck, and why the fertile will inherit the Earth

Apr 9 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:29:47

051. Josh Lavorini: The new aristocrats building drones in an Oxford kitchen

New aristocracies, the defence of Pump.fun, and why Britain needs to build the automated cavalry before it's too late

Apr 2 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

50:43

#050 - Britain's growth obsession is delusional

Why degrowth is the only serious response to the polycrisis, and what it means for the future of this podcast

Apr 1 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

2:09

March 2026

#049 - Josh Lavorini | Inside HomeDAO, Oxford's monastery for unicorn founders

Josh, cofounder of HomeDAO, explains why putting founders under one roof in Oxford is producing some of the most interesting companies in Britain

Mar 26 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

51:02

048. Katie Lam: Everything has to change for anything to stay the same

A rising Tory on nuclear baseload, mass immigration as economic sabotage, and why conservatism means changing everything to preserve what matters

Mar 22 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:01:36

047. Ben Judah: Britain is squandering an empire

The insider account of how Britain nearly lost Diego Garcia, what the overseas territories are for, and why degrowth is idiotic

Mar 13 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:10:20

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