The National Conservatism Institute of Australia Podcast

My guest today is Poppy Coburn who is a journalist with UK The Daily Telegraph and has written and worked for a variety of publications including The Critic, Unherd, and GBNews.

She graduated from the University of Cambridge with a B.A. (Hons) in History and Politics, with a particular focus on the work of political philosopher Thomas Hobbes and was a Publius Fellow at the Claremont Institute last year.

Today we discuss:

• How she describes her politics these days and how it differs from the bipartisan consensus in Westminster
• Whether there has been any real change within the British Conservative Party since its defeat in 2024
• Why Brexit was misinterpreted and how the political class across the Anglo Commonwealth, unlike in America, has not yet done the necessary thinking required to implement proper nationalist policy agenda
• Whether she has much hope for the UK in the years ahead

https://x.com/kafkaswife

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/p/pk-po/poppy-coburn/

My guest today is Joseph Pearce who is chatting to us on the eve of his first speaking tour of Australia sponsored by Hartford College in Sydney.

Joseph Pearce is the internationally acclaimed author of many books, which include bestsellers such as The Quest for Shakespeare, Tolkien: Man and Myth, The Unmasking of Oscar Wilde, C. S. Lewis and The Catholic Church, Literary Converts, Wisdom and Innocence: A Life of G.K. Chesterton, Solzhenitsyn: A Soul in Exile and Old Thunder: A Life of Hilaire Belloc.

Today we discuss:

• His journey from far right politics with the National Front in Britain in the 1970s and his conversion to Catholicism
• What he makes of the current nationalist parties that have emerged in Europe over the last few years and how they compare to those he was associated with in his early life
• His thoughts on Nietzschean vitalism which has become popular among sections of the online right
• Whether evangelisation alone is sufficient to repair the West

https://jpearce.co/about/

https://www2.hartfordcollege.nsw.edu.au/joseph-pearce/

My guest today is "The Black Horse" the anonymous X handle for one most interesting and perceptive commentators on Canadian politics and culture to have emerged in recent years.

In this episode we a do a deep dive on Canada and discuss:

• The underlying competition in that country between various power blocs
• The importance of trade and immigration policies on creating and maintaining Canadian nationhood and how this has been forgotten in recent years with detrimental consequences
• Many of the parallels between the Canadian political situation and that of Australia
• Who is going to win the upcoming Canadian election and whyAnd much more

https://x.com/TheBlackHorse65

https://theredensign.substack.com/

My guest today is Michael J Murphy who writes for the UK Daily Telegraph and Canada's National Post.

In the last couple of years he has covered extensively the problems in Ireland in relation to mass immigration and the growing political backlash.

In this episode we discuss:

• The scale of the problem in Ireland and some of its unique characteristics
• Why the progressive culture of the Irish political establishment has openly encouraged mass immigration and ignored the lessons from other European countries
• Whether Conor McGregor or other nationalist figure or parties are likely to emerge to bring change
• Towards the end we also discuss some of current issues in the UK including the recent refusal of the British Home Office to grant a visa to French intellectual Renaud Camus

And much more

@michaelmurph_y

https://www.telegraph.co.uk/authors/m/mf-mj/michael-murphy/

Hans Mahncke is a lawyer and legal scholar who holds a Ph.D in law and has over 20 years of experience teaching at tertiary institutions across the globe.

For almost the last 10 years Hans has also conducted independent journalism on the Russiagate hoax and related matters. He has broken numerous stories and has close to 180K followers on his X account. He is the author of "Swiftboating of America" which provides a comprehensive overview of Russiagate and other legal proceedings against President Trump.

Hans is a friend who I have known since our time in Hong Kong together over 10 years ago.

Today we discuss:

- The long term impact of the Russiagate hoax on American democracy and the damage it has caused

- An overview of concerns regarding the commercial dealing of Joe Biden and his family

- What he sees are the prospect of reform of the "deep state" in the new Trump administration And much more

He can be followed on X @hansmahncke.

https://swiftboatingamerica.com/

My guest today is Lucinda Holdforth who is a former speechwriter to Australian Labour leader Kim Beazley, Qantas CEO Alan Joyce, among others as well as author of several books including most recently "21st Century Virtues, How They Are Failing Our Democracy" which we reviewed for The Australian: https://nationalconservatism.org.au/culture/550/

Today we discuss:

- Whether there has been any change to modern corporate values which she was so critical of since the publication of her book

- What is the cause of these the changes to our virtues and manners - social media, self-help gurus like Brene Brown, or something else

- Her thoughts more generally about baby boomer liberalism and whether there was any great thought given to the social and economic structures which were so dramatically pulled down

And much much more.

https://www.lucindaholdforth.com/

https://x.com/LAHoldforth

My guest today is Phillip Blond author most famously of "Red Tory: How Left and Right Have Broken Britain and How We Can Fix It". Today we discuss:

• Why it has been so difficult to change the British Conservative Party since the release of his book
• Whether elected representatives of the British Conservative Party really understands conservatism
• His views on "Blue Labour", "National Conservatism", and whether Donald Trump is a "Red Tory".

And much more

https://x.com/phillip_blond

https://www.respublica.org.uk/our-people/the-team/phillip-blond/

https://www.amazon.com.au/Red-Tory-Right-Broken-Britain-ebook/dp/B003O2SCVK

My guest today is French political activist, Romain Bacri, who is involved in politics on the nationalist right in that country. We discuss:

• Why the old French political establishment has broken down and new parties that have emerged on the right and the left
• The latest on Marine Le Pen, Jordan Bardella, Eric Zemmour, Marion Maréchal, Emmanuel Macron and other identities of the French political scene
• The impact of Donald Trump on the French right
• What the future holds for the next Presidential election and for France's future more generally

And much more Some links to new nationalist politics discussed on the show:

https://x.com/Romain_bkr

Marine Le Pen : https://x.com/mlp_officiel?s=21

Jordan Bardella : https://x.com/j_bardella?s=21

Éric Ciotti : https://x.com/eciotti?s=21

Collectif Nemesis (feminist collective) : https://x.com/coll_nemesis?s=21

Frontières (right-wing media) : https://x.com/frontieresmedia?s=21

FDeSouche (press review media): https://x.com/f_desouche?s=21

La Cocarde Étudiante (right wing student union) : https://x.com/cocardeetud?s=21

My guest today is Matt Cranston - Economics Correspondent for The Australian newspaper and for the last 4 years was the Washington DC-based correspondent with the Australian Financial Review.

Today we discuss:

- His impressions gained from living in Washington DC during one of the most momentous times in history

- Whether Australians really get the MAGA movement and who might be looking out for us in the Trump administration

- Tariffs and today's market meltdown

And much more

https://x.com/mcranston1 https://www.theaustralian.com.au/author/matthew-cranston https://www.afr.com/by/matthew-cranston-j7gax

My guest today is an Australia social media influencer who posts under the name "AusPill".

Today we discuss:

• How he became interested in immigration and how the new edgy style of discussing this issue on social media works better than more traditional means
• The restrictions on freedom of speech in Australia and elsewhere and how the concern over "Adolescence" and red pilled young men is misguided
• Why it is so hard for Australian politicians to discuss "mass immigration" forthrightly
• Where youth politics is heading in Australia and elsewhere in the west

And much more

https://x.com/aus_pill

https://www.tiktok.com/@auspill