Archive - Anglofuturism

Treasures of the Clarion-Clipperton Zone

How Britain’s exploration contracts in the Clarion-Clipperton Zone put it on the path to becoming an electrostate.

Sep 1 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

55:57

July 2026

The King Charles III Space Station Summer Reading List

A summer syllabus from the King Charles III Space Station library, spanning Sheffield foundries, Arthurian legend, and the dark forest of deep space.

Jul 24 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

A postmortem of Britain's housing crisis

Jamie Rumbelow and Henry Dashwood, formerly of proptech startup Tract, sit down with Anglofuturism to explain why Britain's allergy to building remains…

Jul 17 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:32:45

South Atlantic Superclásico

Why Britain's principal adversary this century could well be Argentina, and the Acemoglu paper that vindicates a long-running thesis.

Jul 15 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

58:12

King, country, and a sword called Arondite

Will Blyth had twelve years in the Army, then Palantir, then Helsing. Now he's the cofounder and CEO of Arondite, the London company building Cobalt…

Jul 14 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:15:34

June 2026

Jilly Cooper's Rivals, Cosine's sovereign AI, and Shabana Mahmood's spaceport gambit

Sovereign AI and the model you must own or become a vassal, why conservatism is the wrong word for a country whose status quo is already radical, and…

Jun 30 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:08:56

James Wise: This is how Britain wins the AI race

James Wise on what Sovereign AI is actually for, why a single GPT token needs 35 countries, and why Britain has a unique advantage in the race to AI…

Jun 26 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:24:13

059. Dominic Cummings: Whitehall's war against the future

Dominic Cummings on Brexit, the Cabinet Office, personal responsibility, and why science and technology have to become the Prime Minister's job

Jun 20 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:38:43

058. Halcyon Robotics: Building the world's most dextrous hand

Oli and Ivor of Halcyon Robotics on why the hand is robotics' hardest problem, what happens to capitalism when the cost of labour falls to zero, and why…

Jun 17 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:11:21

057. Mat Dryhurst: Speculative aesthetics in the algorithmic age

Mat Dryhurst on Strange Rules, infinite feeds, Spawning AI, and why the next aesthetic movement will be institutional before it is visual.

Jun 6 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:31:06

May 2026

056. Nicholas Boys Smith: How to build a city on the moon

Create Streets founder Nicholas Boys Smith on building for the Moon, the £39 billion Westminster fiasco, and why the path to more homes should run…

May 24 • Tom Ough, Calum Drysdale, and Aeron Laffere

1:10:00

The age of saying "that's mine" is back

Does the King have designs on the Moon?

May 5 • Tom Ough

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