Thinking Class is a weekly long-form interview podcast and documentary series exploring the cultural, historical, and civilisational forces shaping Britain, …
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"Our presence is an impediment to the attainment of utopia." That's how Bella d'Abrera describes the position of anyone who refuses to buy into the new orthodoxy. Bella d'Abrera is the author of Mindless and the former Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Programme at the Institute of Public Affairs, Australia.
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Thomas Hobbes said the state exists to resolve the conflicts that arise from competing desires. In a homogeneous society, those conflicts are fewer — the state governs with a lighter touch. In a heterogeneous society, conflicts multiply — and the state must become more authoritarian to manage them. David McGrogan calls it the Empire of Diversity — and explains why it only turns in one direction.
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A retired British engineer destroyed a traffic camera with a homemade bomb and got fifteen years in prison while an asylum seeker abducted and assaulted a twelve-year-old girl and got the same sentence. David McGrogan is a legal scholar at Northumbria University and the author of the Substack "News from Uncibal".
Topics: Has Britain's Criminal Justice System Lost Its Moral Compass? · Why Britain's Justice System Produces Two-Tier Outcomes · What Has Happened to Public Morality in Britain? · Why the Establishment Makes Excuses for Criminals · Lord Haw-Haw and the Decline of Moral Responsibility · What Happens When Crime Goes Unpunished?
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Lord Jonathan Sumption on the fundamental confusion at the heart of modern democracy. Democracy is a procedural system for decision making. It is not justice. It is not equality. It is not human rights. We confused democracy with every good thing we could think of.
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A Brazilian Marxist named Paulo Freire rejected teaching children to read, write, and think. He called it the "banking model" — as if knowledge were something shameful to deposit in a child's mind. What he wanted instead was transformation: turn every classroom into a vehicle for political awakening, every child into an agent of change.
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Geoffrey Blainey was the Dean of Arts at the University of Melbourne. He'd been there twenty-three years. In 1984 he gave a speech at a country Rotary Club where he said what the Australian working class already knew: that immigration was too fast, during high unemployment, and there wasn't enough time for assimilation. The repercussions were chilling.
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"I have come to the conclusion that we should leave the European Convention on Human Rights" and "something is seriously malfunctioning" in British Democracy. Full conversation Register your interest for Albion Institute
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A million newcomers imported in a single year. Towns renamed “Little India” by the state governments themselves. And then the Prime Minister said it out loud: the Australian passport means nothing because everyone can be Australian. The Australian identity has destroyed.
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Bella d'Abrera is the former Director of the Foundations of Western Civilisation Programme at the Institute of Public Affairs in Australia and the author of Mindless. She traces the capture to Paulo Freire, a Brazilian Marxist whose Pedagogy of the Oppressed is now the most cited text in education globally. This is a man most parents have never heard of whose ideas now shape what their children are taught every day.
Topics: How Schools Turn Children Against Their Own Civilization · How Education Turned Students Into Activists · Why Political Bigotry Has Taken Over Universities · How Ideology Spreads From Schools Into Society · Why Teachers Are Becoming Agents of Social Change · How Cambridge and Other Universities Have Changed
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C.S. Lewis recorded a conversation with Tolkien. The passage is devastating: a family that had fed on the produce of the same few miles for six generations saw nymphs in the fountains and dryads in the wood — and they were not mistaken. "We are synthetic men, uprooted. The strength of the hills is not ours."
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Jean-Jacques Rousseau believed that if someone does something bad, it's never their fault. It's always the circumstances. Strip away civilisation and people are naturally good — the noble savage. But what does this really mean when you apply it to entire groups? Permanent infancy. They can never be held accountable. They will never reach moral maturity.
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“Please stop decolonising yourselves.” Marie Kawthar Daouda is a French-Moroccan scholar at Oxford and that's what she says to the British students she teaches. She wrote a book called Not Your Victim telling young people in the West that the civilisation they’ve been taught to be ashamed of is the most extraordinary inheritance any generation has ever received. And that the people trying to make them hate it are crippling, rather than liberating them.
Topics: “Please stop decolonising yourselves” · A French-Moroccan woman defending England · The civilisation that abolished slavery — and forgot it did · What shame does to a people · Victimhood as a moral category · Rousseau and the invention of the noble savage
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