Aesthetics

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

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

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

032. PVC castle windows, ARIA's golden age, and Matt Clifford for PM?

Listen now (88 mins) | Tom and Calum respond to their second hit piece in three weeks, discuss why ARIA is thriving whilst NASA rots, and reveal how…

Nov 9, 2025 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:28:01

028. Dark abundance and the caning question

Tom and Calum debate whether Britain needs more flogging and fewer planning consultants to achieve true prosperity—plus why our ceremonial pomp reveals…

Sep 22, 2025 • Calum Drysdale, Tom Ough, and Aeron Laffere

1:22:26

003. Samuel Hughes: Hobbiton, Númenor and the riddle of architectural aesthetics

Softly, softly catchy Nimby

Aug 13, 2024 • Calum Drysdale and Tom Ough

1:07:00

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