Anglofuturism
Tom Ough and Calum Drysdale
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057. Mat Dryhurst: Speculative aesthetics in the algorithmic age
We are not in the King Charles III Space Station this week. We are in Harriet Green’s sister station, which is a less reliable bit of lore but a more useful studio. Into it comes Mat Dryhurst:…
056. Nicholas Boys Smith: How to build a city on the moon
From the thatched-roofed orbital pub of the King Charles III Space Station — a structure Nicholas Boys Smith gamely declines to call a pastiche — Tom and Calum welcome the campaigner for…
055. Hyperculture, hypermnesia, and the Clarion-Clipperton Zone
The US has broken with decades of international consensus by issuing its own mining permits for the Clarion-Clipperton Zone, a potato field of metallic nodules the size of Western Europe at the…
054. Louis Elton: Anglofuturist aesthetics beyond podcræft
Part two begins, as promised, with Louis pulling down his trousers. The underpants in question — a toile de joie printed with pastoral scenes labelled Seductio, Commiditas, Protectio — turn out to be…
053. Louis Elton: Cræft, the English antidote to slop
From the King Charles III Space Station — whose thatch is in a worrying state of disrepair — Tom and Calum welcome Louis Elton, founder of the Cræft Prize, a new £60,000 national award for maverick…
052. Louise Perry: Artemis II and populating the solar system
From the King Charles III Space Station, Tom and Calum welcome Louise Perry — reactionary feminist, space romantic, and descendant of Second Fleet convicts — to discuss Artemis II, the furthest…
051. Josh Lavorini: The new aristocrats building drones in an Oxford kitchen
Back from the break and fuelled by Diet Coke, Tom and Calum push Josh on the harder questions. If HomeDAO is selecting for a new elite — relentless, agentic, indifferent to the rules of polite…
050. Britain's growth obsession is delusional
From a hand-dug allotment in Stroud, Tom and Calum announce a fundamental change of direction for the podcast. After eighteen months of speaking to founders, technologists, and policy thinkers, they…
049. Josh Lavorini: Inside HomeDAO, Oxford's monastery for unicorn founders
From the King Charles III Space Station, Tom and Calum descend into a drone-filled kitchen in West Oxford — the home of HomeDAO, a startup programme that’s part incubator, part monastery, and part…
048. Katie Lam: Everything has to change for anything to stay the same
Katie Lam came to Westminster via Goldman Sachs, Number 10, the AI company Faculty, and the Home Office. She has seen the British state from the outside and the inside and her verdict is the same…
047. Ben Judah: Britain is squandering an empire
Ben Judah spent time as a special adviser to David Lammy at the Foreign Office, which means he worked on the Chagos deal, knows what Diego Garcia actually does, and cannot tell you. What he can tell…
046. Will Orr-Ewing: Tutoring the next generation of elite talent
Part two of our conversation with Will Orr-Ewing gets into the harder questions: whether a genuinely meritocratic elite is more dangerous than an aristocratic one, why AI tutoring has solved the…
045. Will Orr-Ewing: Why British education has failed
Will Orr-Ewing has spent 20 years tutoring and founded Keystone Tutors, but he’s not here to tell you to hire a maths tutor for your nine-year-old. His argument is bigger: that Britain once had a…
044. Meri Beckwith: Fully automated luxury NHS
In part one, we explored why drug development costs are exploding and how better software could fix it. In part two, we get practical: what’s actually stopping Britain from becoming a biotech…
043. Orbex collapsed, Ratcliffe got cancelled, and Rupert Lowe is restoring Britain
It’s Valentine’s Day morning and Calum woke up with Rupert Lowe promising to restore Britain. Tom made bacon sandwiches and tea with plenty of sugar. And Britain’s vertical launch dreams just…
042. Meri Beckwith: Eroom's law is killing drug development
The pharmaceutical industry has a dirty secret: it takes $2 billion and a decade to approve the average drug, and these numbers are getting exponentially worse. While computing power doubles every…
041. Home counties baby girls, chinese peptides, and the coming war
In our first episode of 2026, we’re back aboard the King Charles III Space Station to review the year that was and set our ambitions for the year ahead. What follows is two hours of sprawling…
040. Benedict Springbett & Aeron Laffere: Coasean Christmas
In the second half of our Christmas special aboard Theatreship, Tom and Calum welcome Benedict Springbett (the railway man working to give London a better network than Paris) and Aeron Laffere (our…
039. Andrew Kramer & Rebecca Wray: A very Anglofuturist Christmas
Tom and Calum recorded this Christmas special aboard Theatre Ship on the Thames with two guests whose bosses have already graced the podcast: Andrew Kramer from Isembard (the manufacturer…
038. James Phillips and Laura Ryan: The scientific mission of Lovelace Labs
In part two of our conversation with James W. Phillips and Laura Ryan, things get weirder and more ambitious. We move from the structural problems of academia into the actual scientific missions…
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