In episode fourteen, I am joined by a former police officer who posts on Twitter as Sherlock Comms.

We discuss the institutional incompetence of the Metropolitan Police; child abuse investigations; the perverse incentives of policing; the laws that stop the police just solving crime; and the man who spent thirty years a prisoner in his home.

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In episode thirteen, I am joined by Anglo-Japanese commentator Eggroll Shogun.

Listen to learn:

* How has the LDP kept its grip on Japanese politics?

* Why are the Japanese opposition parties so weird?

* What is a Burakumin? Do the Koreans secretly control Japan?

* What does the world owe Taiwan?

* What lessons does Asian history have for Europe and America?

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In episode twelve, I am joined by “anonymous propagandist of the internet Right”, Brewgaloo. We discuss:

* Has “Anglofuturism” run its course?

* Short video: the most important media format today

* Aesthetics’ role in politics

* Brewgaloo: Crypto-Tory?

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In episode eleven, I am joined by Wylfċen, who posts about Old English and the Anglo-Saxon world.

We discuss:

* The surprising cuteness of the Anglo-Saxons

* How to learn Old English

* Why 2025 Twitter resembles John Carpenter’s The Thing (1982)

* What would the Anglo-Saxons think of Elon Musk?

* How the ancient history of England shapes the country today

Find his substack here, and his recommended reading here

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In episode ten (!), I am joined by Marlowe, Britain’s best anonymous demographer. We break down the economy’s mesh of hidden subsidies which keep failing cities afloat. Marlowe declares war on the city of Middlesborough. We discuss whether Reform are now unstoppable.

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In episode of nine, I am joined by Joseph, who posted on twitter as MingAutocrat until he got himself hacked.

We talk American politics, and Joseph draws out the parallels and differences of Trump and Roosevelt and Nixon and Vance; the myth of FDR; media and historical imagination; the prospects for the American left

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In episode eight of “Anon and I”, I am joined by Theodoric to discuss the Netherlands, in which he explains his theory that Holland is Europe’s most futuristic country: any trend that emerges there will appear in your country a decade later.

Listen to learn: why some Dutchmen refuse to speak Dutch; about microfactionalism in Dutch politics; who is the black Eva Vlaardingerbroek; why every Dutch politician is secretly planning to escape; why the system cannot reform itself; how to pray in Gothic.

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In episode seven, I am joined by CJ, one of the most enlightening commentators on the realities facing British local government. Listen to learn how to get a council house; why trying to create Affordable housing makes housing unaffordable; How claimants are shopping between local authorities; Why politicians can’t grasp second-order effects; And why your council is doomed.

CJ’s article on the funding of social housing can be found here

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In episode six, I am joined by “Jew and a Half Men” on the day of a terror attack that left three dead at a synagogue in Manchester.

In the first half of the podcast, my guest tries to describe what life is like in Israel beyond the frame of the Arab-Israeli conflict, and he does his best to explain domestic politics and the iron grip of Netenyahu.

In the second half, we talk about the life of Jews in Britain, and how Jewish self-perception has changed since 2023.

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Episode five takes a new format: rather than interview an “anon”, I interview a man who usually writes under his own name, anonymously.

In this conversation, an anonymous Hong Konger talks about about their city, their nation, and their search for identity. Listen to find out what makes Hong Kong distinctive; how nationalism awakens in the human heart; the difference between mainlanders and Hongkongers; about linguistic beautification; and how to insult a mainlander in Cantonese

Almost everyone I asked for feedback told me that there should be intro/outro music: so enjoy some public domain Tchaikovsky.

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