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Thinking Class is a society podcast hosted by John Gillam. It has 121 episodes, with the latest published April 2026.

Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast exploring the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping England, Britain, and the Western world.Hosted by John Gillam, the show brings together historians, philosophers, theologians, economists, and public intellectuals for conversations that go beyond the news cycle by examining the deep roots of the West's present predicament and asking what genuine recovery might require.Guests have included David Starkey, Lord Jonathan Sumption, Lord Nigel Biggar, Robert Tombs, Peter Hitchens, Lionel Shriver, Roy Baumeister, Kathleen Stock, Carl Trueman, and many others.If you value serious conversation about Britain, the West, and the forces shaping our future, then this is the show for you.New episodes every week.

society ·en-gb ·121 episodes

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#122 - Richard IV - The Invisible Order That Once Made Men: Initiation, Tradition And What Britain Lost

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#121 - Kathleen Stock - On Assisted Dying, Human Dignity, And The Post-Christian West

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#120 - Lord Nigel Biggar & Professor Tirthankar Roy - What The British Empire Actually Did To India

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#119 - John Waters - Ireland's Moral Revolution And The Crisis Of Authority

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#118 - Michael Reiners - The Laws That Quietly Abolished England: Blair's Constitutional Settlement And What Can Be Done About It

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#117 - Lord Nigel Biggar - The New Dark Age: How Britain's Institutions Became Afraid Of The Truth

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#116 - Lionel Shriver - A Better Life? Immigration, Demography, and Belonging In The West

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#115 - Lord Jonathan Sumption - Can Democracy Survive the Britain We’re Becoming?

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#114 - Dr Carrie Gress - How Feminism Became the West’s New Moral Authority

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#113 - Bijan Omrani & Alka Sehgal-Cuthbert - Britain’s Cultural Inheritance Is Being Squandered And We’re Living With the Consequences

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#112 - Firas Modad - Britain Is Losing Control At Home and Abroad: Demographics, Sovereignty, And Power

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#111 - Prof. Azar Gat - Why Ethnicity Is Inescapably Political And Nationalism Endures: Lessons For Britain & The West

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#110 - Renaud Camus - “The Disaster”: The Great Replacement, Elite Failure, And The Crisis Of The West

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#109 - William Clouston - Why British Politics Is A Case Study In Governing Against The National Interest

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#108 - Prof. Eric Kaufmann & Dr Paul Morland - Demographic Timebomb 2060: The English & British Are Headed For Minority Status & Why It Matters

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#107 - Stephen Balogh - The State Of Democracy: Why Voters In Britain & Western Europe Are So Unhappy With Politics

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#106 - Driss Ghali - France’s Identity Crisis: Violence, Islamism & The Risk Of Social Fracture

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#105 - Neema Parvini - Why Politics Is Like Pro-Wrestling And Democracy Is An Illusion

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#104 - Alexander Chula - What A Small African Country & Its Dictator Can Teach Us About Western Civilisation

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#103 - Martin Sellner - Remigration & European Identity

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#102 - David Betz - Tribes At War: The Sectarian Battle For Britain's Future & Its Grim Reality

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#101 - Nina Power - Beyond Deportations: The Restoration Of Britain's Soul

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#100 - Philip Cunliffe - Britain After Globalism: Demographics, Identity And The National Interest

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#099 - Paul Embery - Why Diversity Is Britain's Greatest Challenge

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#98 - Lord Nigel Biggar - The Case Against Britain Paying Reparations For Its Role In The Transatlantic Slave Trade

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#97 - Andreas Svanlund - Why The 'Energy Transition' Is Dead

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#096 - Dominic Frisby - Gold, Power, And The State: What Honest Money Reveals About Civilisation

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#095 - David Shipley - Why Britain’s Justice System Has Lost Its Moral Compass

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#094 - Lorenzo Warby - Crushing Dissent: How The Rise Of The 'Unaccountable Class' Ruined Everything

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#093 - George Owers - Britain's 350-Year Culture War: The Birth Of Party Politics

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#092 - Mark Vernon - Living Life More Deeply: Why William Blake Matters Now More Than Ever

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#091 - Reverend Fergus Butler-Gallie - Christianity’s Contradictions: Faith, Power and the Survival of the Church

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#090 - Nathan Pinkoski - On The Moral Fragmentation Of The West & What Comes Next

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#089 - Compilation - Saving Britain's Boys, Families And Its Nations

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#088 - Momus Najmi - Britain After Decline: Reformation, Restoration, And The Long Road Back

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#087 - Fr. Benedict Kiely - Why The Media Is Silent On The Global Persecution Of Christians

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#086 - Tom Jones - The 'Yookay': We Are Witnessing The Birth Of A New Country

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#085 - Ryszard Legutko - The Strange Alliance: How Western Liberals United With Communists After The Cold War

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#084 - Mark Walsh - Why Western Man Is Under Attack: On Nature, Masculinity And Nation

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#083 - Ed Davies - Britain's Crises: Lost Boys, Broken Families & A Nation Out Of Work

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#082 - Philip Pilkington - A Post-Mortem: The Death Of Liberalism (& The Rise Of A New World Order)

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#081 - Lois McLatchie Miller - The Unspoken Truth About Abortion

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#080- Prof. Alan Macfarlane - England's Rise, Anglo-America's Fall And An Ascendant China

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#079 - Ben Cobley - The Right Side Of History: How Progressives Try To Replace God

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#078 - Adam Williams - Why Would A British Zoomer Go Into Politics?

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#077 - Driss Ghali - On Reverse Colonialism: How France Was Colonised

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#076 - Compilation - Beyond Repair? The Making And Breaking Of England, Britain And Their Peoples

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#075 - Bijan Omrani - Why God Is An Englishman: England Is A Christian Nation Or No Nation At All

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#074 - Prof. Tim Lang - How Bad British Food Policy Risks Starving The Nation

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#073 - Dr. Mario Trabucco - Decolonisation: How Modern Museums Are Destroying The Cultural Fabric

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