ABOUT THIS PODCAST 🔗
I’m Roland Smith and I am interested in the UK culture wars that started in 2016 - the year of the Brexit referendum. I’m specifically interested in what historic, political and cultural factors are driving it and how politics is developing as a result. Setting aside all the noise, I ultimately hope to look for whether the warring sides can find any common ground between their differing ‘truths’ - those elusive 'soft landing' zones - something we singularly failed to achieve on Brexit.
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https://rolandmcs.substack.com/
Update frequency:
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Average audio length:
43 minutes
English
United Kingdom
7 episodes
since April 30, 2026
episodic
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LATEST EPISODE 🔗
A dip into The Spectator Magazine’s face-to-face debate on free speech. The motion: ‘This house believes Britain no longer has free speech'.
What came out of it was that the proposers and opponents of the motion were, at some level, talking past each other.
Unpick that and you unpick why many have…
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A discussion with widely respected Professor Jonathan Portes, on the big areas of welfare, pensions and immigration and what the data tells us is really going on.
Is welfare spending running out of control? Does immigration benefit the economy? Do the Right have a point with some of their complaint…
A session with journalist, author, blogger, podcaster and top liberal thinker Ian Dunt. Ian’s output is huge across multiple channels/media, including the i newspaper, the Origin Story podcast, Substack and other social media, and he also sometimes pops up on TV screens, especially Sky News.
In a …
Roland Smith meets German historian Dr Helene von Bismarck, author of 'Fantastic Kingdom - A Stranger’s Notes on a Contrary Country'.
We discuss Helene's observations (captured in the book) of Britain from an outsider's perspective. Topics include Britain's 'Island Story', Northern Ireland, The Sec…
Roland Smith meets Lewis Baston, author of 'Borderlines - A History of Europe in 29 Borders'.
The discussion is all about borders and their effects on societies, identities and psychologies, covering: the Germanic/Romance linguistic divide and its related national and sub-national borders (up to ab…
Roland Smith meets Professor Chris Grey, author of the much acclaimed book 'Brexit Unfolded' and the equally acclaimed & respected 'Brexit & Brexitism' blog. A wide-ranging discussion on where we are with Brexit, ten years after the 2016 vote. Also: Brexitism defined; the prospects for Rejo…
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