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Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Will Burnham’s new National Centre for Information Defence protect Britain from hostile disinformation, or give government another way to dismiss legitimate criticism?Harry Richer is joined by Harry Wilkinson, Anna Ridgway and Ted Granger to ask where the line lies between fraud, harmful falsehoods and free speech, and why answering bad ideas with evidence may be better than policing “truth”.📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more. David Starkey joins Steve Baker and Harry Richer to ask why Britain is being urged to pay reparations, how American race politics was imported into British public life, and why a new ideology now shapes the country’s universities, public bodies and law. They examine the struggle over language, history, justice and free dissent, and what it would take to challenge the ideas now embedded in Britain’s institutions.📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more. Read the Prosperity Institute reports discussed in this episode: 📄 Making Space for Justice: A Plan to Solve the Prison Capacity Crisis by Alexander Baker: prosperity.com/media-publications/making-space-for-justice 📄 Broken Windows Britain: A Plan for Policing Low-Level Crime and Disorder by Matthew Bowles: prosperity.com/media-publications/broken-windows-britain Steve Baker is joined by Alexander Baker and Matthew Bowles of the Prosperity Institute for a special discussion on prisons, policing and public confidence in the justice system. They discuss Britain’s prison-capacity crisis and early releases, repeat offending and shoplifting, low-level crime and anti-social behaviour, why policing can feel less visible, and what reforms could make communities safer. 📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com 🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com 📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more. Historian David Starkey joins Steve Baker and Harry Richer to argue that Tony Blair’s constitutional reforms shifted power away from elected politicians - and why he believes that still shapes immigration, policing, human-rights law and the ability of governments to deliver change. They discuss judges, experts, the Equality Act, two-tier policing, public safety and what a future government would need to do to restore democratic accountability. 📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com 🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com 📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more. In this panel discussion from our latest event, Prospects For Liberty Under This New Government, Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA is joined by Fred de Fossard, Director of Strategy at the Prosperity Institute; Jasper Ostle, Head of Research and Education at the Adam Smith Institute; Maeve Halligan of the Institute of Economic Affairs; Albie Amankona of Fighting for a Free Future; and William Yarwood, Campaigns Director at the TaxPayers’ Alliance. Together, they examine how far Britain could go in restricting what people are allowed to say, exploring the erosion of free speech, the pressure to treat words as violence, the limits of tolerance, and why open debate remains essential to a free society. 📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com 🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com 📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Lord Dan Hannan, Director General of the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), explains why Britain must defend its inheritance of freedom. He examines free speech, free markets, limited government and the rule of law, and why these achievements cannot be taken for granted. Drawing on Hannah Arendt, Roger Scruton, Jonah Goldberg and Sir Henry Maine, Hannan argues that Britain must preserve its inheritance of liberty for the next generation.We are grateful to Lord Dan Hannan for closing our latest briefing event.📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected] image: “Daniel Hannan (2)” by Christian Ursilva, via Wikimedia Commons. Original photograph: https://www.flickr.com/photos/202294133@N02/54349877852/Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Daniel_Hannan_(2)_(54349877852).jpgLicensed under CC BY-SA 2.0: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/2.0/The image was cropped, edited and adapted for this thumbnail. The adapted thumbnail is shared under the same licence. No endorsement by the photographer is implied.

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Former Prime Minister Liz Truss joins Steve and Harry to argue that the Bank of England’s decision to announce quantitative tightening on the eve of her mini‑budget - without telling her - was the real trigger for the mini‑budget chaos. In this episode, she sets out why she believes Britain’s unelected institutions now wield power without democratic accountability, makes the case for unwinding New Labour’s “constitutional vandalism”, and reveals whether she would stand for parliament again.📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Reform UK's party conference in Birmingham promised £80 billion in public sector cuts, a new housing "Teal Paper," and a plan to cut energy bills within its first 100 days, but does any of it add up? Steve Baker and Harry Richer are joined by Joanna Marchong, Maxwell Marlow, and Ted Newson to go inside the Reform conference and break down the party's welfare reform plans, its brownfield housing proposals, and its energy policy pledges on net zero and the capacity market. From the £80bn welfare and fiscal cuts to the housing crisis facing young people, this episode of The Free Future Review unpacks what Reform UK actually announced in Birmingham, how it compares to Labour's welfare reform under Andy Burnham, and whether Britain's spending, tax and energy problems can really be fixed within 100 days of government.📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.To learn more about Dr Lawrence Newport and support Looking for Growth, please visit lookingforgrowth.uk/kickstartbritainParliament could take 68 years and cost up to £40bn to repair, and officials are still calling that "on time." Dr Lawrence Newport, co-founder of Looking for Growth, joins Steve Baker and Harry Richer to explain why Britain's flagship building has become a symbol of national dysfunction.📰 Exclusive post-show: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

👉 Listen to the full episode on Substack: voices.fightingforafreefuture.comSponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com.This week: FFF Director Harry Richer, broadcaster and political commentator Albie Amankona, and FFF Network Manager Ted Grainger go head-to-head on the Iran war, sparked by recent congressional testimony on its ballooning cost. Thumbnail image: "Operation Roaring Lion, 2026" by IDF Spokesperson's Unit, licensed under CC BY-SA 3.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/3.0/). Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Operation-Roaring-Lion-0013.jpg. This image has been modified for use in this video's thumbnail.

👉 Listen to the full episode on Substack: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com. Subscribe and follow Mani on Substack: https://substack.com/@manibasharzad?r=5pey14&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blur and X: https://x.com/ManiBasharzad Steve Baker is joined by Laura Emily Dunn and Mani Basharzad to unpack Nigel Farage’s “back‑me‑or‑sack‑me” Clacton by‑election and ask whether a Farage vs Count Binface contest is anything more than a pointless stunt. Thumbnail image: “Count Binface” by Count Binface, used and adapted under the Creative Commons Attribution‑ShareAlike 4.0 International (CC BY‑SA 4.0) licence. This thumbnail is an adaptation of that work and is itself distributed under CC BY‑SA 4.0. Changes may have been made. See https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/ for full licence terms, including attribution, non‑endorsement and share‑alike requirements.

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.You can buy Lord Elliott's excellent new book, 'Ten Years On: The Untold Story of Brexit – Reflections on a Life of Campaigning', here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Ten-Years-Untold-Reflections-Campaigning/dp/1837360758.Steve Baker and Harry Richer sit down with Lord Matthew Elliott, the strategist behind the TaxPayers’ Alliance, Big Brother Watch, NOtoAV and Vote Leave, to ask how the right really wins – and why its victories so rarely shrink the state or entrench prosperity. Together they trace Elliott’s journey from Milton Friedman and Hayek to Westminster power, unpack his three‑M playbook of messages, messengers and media, and explore what a serious, pro‑market right must build next if Britain is to become freer, richer, and less complacent.📰 Exclusive post-show: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Subscribe to Rob's substack today: https://ofwealth.substack.com/Argentina hit annual inflation of over 200%, multiple exchange rates and soaring poverty before voters handed Javier Milei a mandate for radical free‑market shock therapy. Rob Marstrand breaks down what his government has actually done so far, from slashing the state and deregulating at chainsaw speed to forcing inflation sharply down and narrowing Argentina’s risk premia, and then compares it to Britain’s cautious drift into higher taxes, heavier regulation and long‑term decline.📰 Exclusive post-show: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected] image: “Javier Milei VIVA 24” by Vox España. Original: https://www.flickr.com/photos/voxespana/53732400023/ – via Wikimedia Commons: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Javier_Milei_VIVA_24.jpgLicensed under the Creative Commons CC0 1.0 Universal Public Domain Dedication (public domain): https://creativecommons.org/publicdomain/zero/1.0/

👉 Listen to the full episode on Substack: voices.fightingforafreefuture.comSponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com.Steve Baker, Laura Emily Dunn and Harry Richer unpack Andy Burnham’s Labour, Ed Miliband’s next job and the rise of “degrowth” ideologies among Labour backbenchers.Thumbnail image: “Andy Burnham visits Human Appeal’s UK winter coat collection campaign” – © Human Appeal (staff member), used under the Creative Commons Attribution–ShareAlike 4.0 International licence. Image may have been cropped and colour‑adjusted for this thumbnail.Source: Human Appeal / Wikimedia Commons.Licence: https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0/.

Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Buy The Brexit Effect, 2016–2026: https://www.amazon.co.uk/Brexit-Effect-2016-2026-Anthony-Seldon/dp/1009749625You can find Prof. Paul Dolan's books here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Paul-Dolan/author/B001HON1OU?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true.On the 10th anniversary of the Brexit vote, Steve Baker sits down with his unlikely friend and co-author Professor Paul Dolan of the LSE to explore why Britain is still so divided over the decision to leave the EU, and whether behavioural science can help us agree to disagree more gracefully. Together they unpack "beliefism," the psychology of affective polarisation, and their EMBRACE framework for embedding tolerance by design into our institutions, workplaces, and public debate.📰 Exclusive post-show: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: [email protected]