Marshall Matters

Oct 04 2023 46 ep. 49 mins 426
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What is the state of the arts? Winston Marshall, musician and co-founder of the band Mumford & Sons, explores the taboo and totemic issues within the creative industries in a series of interviews with artists, musicians, actors, comedians, and more…

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'It can be done!': David Goodhart on how to stop illegal immigration

Oct 04 2023 57 mins  
This week Winston speaks to David Goodhart, author of The British Dream: Successes And Failures Of Post-War Immigration, which celebrates its 10 year anniversary this year. On the podcast they discuss the state of immigration in the UK. Is home secretary Suella Braverman right to suggest that immigration an existential threat to the West? Has multiculturalism failed?

'I don't believe in progress': Mary Harrington on how modern feminism has harmed women

Sep 20 2023 62 mins  
This week Winston speaks to journalist Mary Harrington about her new book, Feminism Against Progress.

Silkie Carlo: Is the UK the next surveillance state?

Sep 13 2023 56 mins  
Winston speaks to Silkie Carlo, director of Big Brother Watch, about the Online Safety Bill, the Digital Services Act and whether Britain will be the next surveillance state.

Laura Dodsworth: How to protect yourself from government propaganda

Aug 08 2023 53 mins  
Laura Dodsworth is a photographer, artist and author. In her most recent book Free Your Mind: The New World of Manipulation and How to Resist it, Laura draws on the Nudge Unit, behavioural psychology and fact checking services to analyse the range of ways in which our minds are manipulated. On the podcast, Laura talks about the government propaganda machine and how this all relates

Book bans, boomers & censorship – Nick Gillespie

Jul 31 2023 60 mins  
Nick Gillespie is an American libertarian journalist and the editor-at-large for Reason magazine. He is also the author of The Declaration of Independence. On the show, Nick talks about censorship in America in the age of information; the recent trend of book banning and why he believes the debates around demographic collapse are actually a sign of improved quality of life.

Yeonmi Park: Escaping North Korea, surviving China and finding freedom in America

Jul 18 2023 67 mins  
Yeonmi Park is a North Korean defector who from fled home country through China where she was saved by Christian missionaries. She is the author of two books, In Order to Live: A North Korean Girl's Journey to Freedom and While Time Remains: A North Korean Defector's Search for Freedom in America. Yeonmi now lives in the US, where she writes and campaigns for freedom of speech. She

Yoram Hazony: National conservatism, overpopulation and the future of America

Jul 12 2023 70 mins  
Yoram Hazony is an Israeli-American philosopher, Bible scholar, political theorist and leader of the national conservatism movement. He discusses with Winston the differences between conservatism and liberalism, the future of America and the need for religion in politics.

Francis Fukuyama: Can liberalism and nationalism coexist?

Jul 04 2023 31 mins  
Francis Fukuyama is an American political scientist and international relations scholar known for his seminal book The End of History and The Last Man. Francis and Winston discuss the state of liberal democracy, whether nationalism and liberalism can be reconciled and the case for liberalism.

Lee Fang: Forced to apologise for reporting on BLM

Jun 27 2023 58 mins  
Lee Fang is an independent journalist formally at the Intercept. He discusses his forced apology for how he covered the 2020 BLM protests, how and why media and journalists collude as part of the censorship industrial complex, what he discovered during the Twitter Files investigations and FBI surveillance.

Michael Shellenberger: Exposing the censorship industrial complex

Jun 20 2023 75 mins  
Michael Shellenberger, Twitter Files journalist and founder of Public is in London to discuss the international censorship industrial complex. He explains to Winston how the complex web of government, big tech, intelligence and media collude to suppress speech in the UK, America and beyond. Michael will be continuing the debate on the censorship industrial complex with Russell Bra