The Free Future Podcast
The Free Future Podcast is produced by Fighting for a Free Future. Every two weeks, hosts Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA and Harry Richer, the organisation's director, speak with leading figures from politics, journalism, and academia. Together they interrogate public debate and explore the issues that matter most. The show also offers bonus episodes and extended interviews to paid supporters.
Episodes
Craig Mackinlay on Sepsis, Recovery and Returning to Parliament
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Lord Craig Mackinlay joins Steve Baker to discuss his experience of sepsis, a condition which can develop with frightening speed.Craig reflects on his recovery, rehabilitation and return to Parliament, and on the importance of recognising when something is seriously wrong.📰 Mor
Can Britain Actually Reverse Net Zero? | Craig Mackinlay
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Craig Mackinlay joins Steve Baker to ask whether Britain can reverse Net Zero, and what that would mean for energy prices, industry and economic growth.Craig argues that cheap, reliable power is essential if Britain is to make things, compete internationally and avoid further i
Will Burnham’s ‘Ministry of Truth’ Silence Critics?
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 frau
The New Religion That Has Taken Over Britain’s Institutions | David Starkey
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 strugg
Prison Crisis Is Putting Criminals Back on the Street | Prosperity Institute Research
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
How Blair’s Constitutional Reforms Broke Britain | David Starkey
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 cha
How Far Will Britain Go to Restrict What We Can Say?
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; Mae
Daniel Hannan: Britain’s Inheritance of Freedom Is at Risk
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. Draw
Liz Truss: The Bank of England Sparked Mini-Budget Chaos
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 bel
Inside Reform Conference: Housing, Welfare and £80bn of Cuts
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, Maxw
"My Toddler Will Retire Before Parliament Gets Fixed" | Dr Lawrence Newport
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 L
Is the Iran War Worth It? Our Panel Splits Down the Middle | The Counter-Insurgency
👉 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 balloonin
Farage vs Count Binface: Britain’s Pointless By‑Election | The Counter‑Insurgency
👉 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.Subscribe and follow Mani on Substack: https://substack.com/@manibasharzad?r=5pey14&utm_medium=ios&utm_source=stories&shareImageVariant=blurand X: https://x.com/ManiBasharzadSteve Baker is joined by Laura Emi
How the Right Really Wins | Lord Matthew Elliott
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 Ma
Argentina’s Warning: Is the UK Sleepwalking to Collapse?
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 go
Labour's 'Degrowth' Delusion and Miliband's Next Job | The Counter-Insurgency
👉 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
10 Years On: Why Britain Still Can't Get Over Brexit | Prof. Paul Dolan
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 anni
Is There a Ceiling for Christians in Politics? | Tim Farron MP
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Former Liberal Democrat leader Tim Farron joins Steve Baker to explore what real freedom means in practice. The discussion ranged from the Christian conviction that every person has equal worth, to whether there is a “ceiling” for people of faith in British politics. They dive
Healey Walks: Is Labour Failing Britain’s Defence? | The Counter‑Insurgency
👉 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 is joined by Harry Richer (Director of Fighting for a Free Future), Laura Dunn, and Eve Lugg to unpack John Healey’s shock resignation as Defence Secretary, what it reveals about Labour’s priorities on defenc
Family, Community, Country: Why the Right Should Back Reform | Danny Kruger
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Shortly after his defection to Reform UK, Danny Kruger came on the podcast to describe why the British right should rally behind Reform. He argued that family, community and country must come before technocratic managerialism. He sets out how Reform could turn from protest part
Blair Gets It Right: Will Labour Listen? | The Counter-Insurgency
👉 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 is joined by Harry Richer (Director of Fighting for a Free Future), Laura Dunn, and Albie Amankona to discuss Tony Blair’s latest essay on Labour in government, the impact of rising energy prices, and the dee
Does Any Party Still Stand For Freedom? | Steve Baker
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.This week on The Insurgency, Steve Baker and Harry Richer walk through every mainstream UK political party and ask a simple but uncomfortable question: does anyone still stand for freedom?📰 Exclusive post-show: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefutu
The Circus is Here: Labour Implodes | The Counter-Insurgency
👉 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 is joined by Harry Richer (Director of Fighting for a Free Future), Laura Dunn, and Eve Lug to discuss Labour's chaotic leadership crisis and whether Keir Starmer's premiership is finally coming to an
Have Politicians Left Britain Broke and Defenceless? | Kate McCann
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Steve Baker sits down with Times Radio’s Kate McCann to ask whether politicians have left Britain broke and defenceless. The discussion ranges from Trump, Iran and the Strait of Hormuz to age‑related spending, the triple lock and why no one in Westminster wants to tell voters t
It’s No Longer Safe to Be Visibly Jewish in Britain | The Counter‑Insurgency
👉 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.In this preview, Steve Baker, Harry Richer, Laura Emily Dunn and Albie Amankona discuss the recent terrorist attack in Golders Green and what it reveals about the growing threat of anti‑Semitism in Britain, the failure o
Scrap Net Zero, Privatise the NHS, Fix Britain | Harry Wilkinson & Mitchell Palmer
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Steve Baker and Harry Richer are this week joined by Harry Wilkinson of the Global Warming Policy Foundation and Mitchell Palmer of the Adam Smith Institute. They discuss the true cost of Britain’s Net Zero commitments, why our energy policy, NHS and pensions system have become
Covid, SAGE and ‘the West’s Chernobyl’ | Roger Koppl on Expert Failure
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.You can purchase Prof. Koppl’s books, including Expert Failure and Big Players and the Economic Theory of Expectations, here: https://www.amazon.co.uk/stores/Roger-Koppl/author/B001HP32Z2?ref=ap_rdr&shoppingPortalEnabled=true.In this clip from a Substack-exclusive edition o
Zero Tolerance: Why I'd Run for Mayor | Festus Akinbusoye
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Festus Akinbusoye sets out why London needs a zero‑tolerance approach to crime, how weak leadership in City Hall and the Met has demoralised officers and allowed repeat offenders to thrive, and why he’d be prepared to run for London Mayor to change it.Drawing on his record as B
Unite the Right or Face Disaster | Sir Jacob Rees‑Mogg
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.When Jacob Rees‑Mogg was on the podcast, he joined Steve Baker and Harry Richer to argue that Britain now faces a stark choice between a united Conservative-Reform right and a hard‑left coalition, setting out why he believes a pact with Nigel Farage and Reform UK is now a moral
The Panel Discussion | Britain Unleashed: Returning to Growth
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.After addresses from Lord Moynihan and Lord Frost, Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA sat down with Dr Emmanuel Igwe (Prosperity Institute), Eve Lugg, and William Yarwood (TaxPayers’ Alliance).You can read more about the event for free on Substack. Visit voices.fightingforafreefuture.com.
Should the West police the world? | The Counter-Insurgency
👉 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 In this preview, Steve Baker, Harry Richer, Laura Emily Dunn and Albie Amankona discuss the ongoing war in Iran, Trump’s threats to leave NATO, and whether the West should be the policeman of the world. Thumbnail image
Lord Jon Moynihan | Britain Unleashed: Returning to Growth
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.We were grateful to Lord Jon Moynihan for opening our latest briefing event, Britain Unleashed: Returning to Growth.You can read more about the event for free on Substack. Visit voices.fightingforafreefuture.com.
Lord David Frost | Britain Unleashed: Returning to Growth
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.It was a pleasure to welcome Lord David Frost to our latest briefing event, Britain Unleashed: Returning to Growth, presented in association with Glint.You can read the full text of Lord Frost’s speech for free on Substack. Visit voices.fightingforafreefuture.com.
Can Reform UK Save London? | Laila Cunningham
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Reform UK’s candidate for London Mayor Laila Cunningham joins Steve Baker and Harry Richer to set out her plan to “fix a broken London” on crime, housing, unions, immigration and culture, and to challenge what she calls the cosy consensus between Labour and the Conservatives.📰
Brexit Betrayed? Govt Wants Us Back in the EU | The Counter‑Insurgency
👉 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.comIn this preview, Steve Baker reacts to the Chancellor’s push for closer alignment with the European Union, explains why he still sees Brexit as a settled decision on sovereignty, and sets out why claims that Brexit caused
Why British Politics So Often Lets Voters Down | Kevin Schofield
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Veteran Westminster lobby journalist and HuffPost UK political editor Kevin Schofield joins Steve Baker and Harry Richer to explain why British politics so often seems to go wrong, and why voters feel so let down.📰 Extended cut & write‑up: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒
Is Keir Starmer Hiding Behind ‘International Law’ on Iran? | The Counter‑Insurgency
👉 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.👉 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.Is Keir Starmer taking a principled stan
How ‘Vibe‑Based’ Politics Ends in Collapse | The Insurgency
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Vibe‑based policymaking is suddenly in vogue, but can it really fix a broken country, or does it end in collapse for your savings and your kids’ future? In this remote edition of The Insurgency, Steve Baker and Harry Richer dig into Britain’s looming monetary bust, the arrest o
Reform UK’s New ‘Shadow Cabinet’ Explained: Nigel Farage’s Strategy | The Counter‑Insurgency
👉 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 is a preview of The Counter‑Insurgency, our Substack‑exclusive politics podcast where Steve Baker, Harry Richer and political strategist Laura Emily Dunn break down the week’s news through the principles of a free s
What It Takes to Dismantle the State | Peter McCormack
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save, send and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more.Can you really dismantle the modern British state, and who pays if you don’t? Peter McCormack joins Steve Baker and Harry Richer to explore whether any so‑called anti‑establishment party in UK politics will actually shrink the state, tackle debt and inflation, or just sen
Mandelson: Can Starmer Survive? | The Counter-Insurgency
Find the full episode on Substack: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com. Sponsored by Glint: visit glintpay.com. This is a preview of The Counter‑Insurgency, our Substack‑exclusive podcast where Steve Baker, Harry Richer, and political strategist Laura Emily Dunn break down the week’s news through the principles of a free society.This week, Eve Lugg joins to discuss the Mandelson affair, Starmer’s tr
Think Tanks, Public Finances & Britain’s Future
Sponsored by Glint - buy, save, send and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard®. Visit glintpay.com to find out more. Maxwell Marlow (Adam Smith Institute), William Yarwood (TaxPayers’ Alliance), and Emma Revell (Centre for Policy Studies) explain what their think tanks do, how ideas become policy, and whether the UK’s public finances are sustainable. They discuss which policies matter
Jenrick Joins Reform, Trump Targets Greenland | The Counter-Insurgency
Find the full episode on Substack: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com. Sponsored by Glint: visit glintpay.com. This week: Jenrick joins Reform, Trump targets Greenland, and what both stories reveal about power in 2026. A preview of The Counter-Insurgency, our Substack-exclusive podcast where Steve Baker, Harry Richer, and political strategist Laura Emily Dunn break down the week's news through the
Has the British State Crushed Enterprise? | Andrew Griffith MP
Buy, save, send and spend real physical gold with a Glint Mastercard® today.Visit glintpay.com to find out more. Andrew Griffith MP is the Member of Parliament for Arundel and South Downs, currently serving as the Shadow Secretary of State for Business and Trade. Prior to his election in December 2019, he spent twenty years at Sky, serving as its youngest-ever FTSE 100 CFO (2008–2016) and COO (201
Who Really Governs Britain? | Sir Jacob Rees‑Mogg
Subscribe to Letters from an Englishman today: https://letters.jacobreesmogg.com/Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg is a former Member of Parliament who served as Secretary of State for Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy, Leader of the House of Commons, and Minister for Brexit Opportunities, and is the co-founder of the investment firm Somerset Capital Management.📄 Subscribe to Voices for a Free Future fo
Mark Littlewood
Mark Littlewood is a British libertarian political commentator and campaigner, former director-general of the free market think tank the Institute of Economic Affairs (IEA), and current director of the Conservative Party organisation Popular Conservatism (PopCon). 📄 Subscribe to Voices for a Free Future for articles, insight, and extended episodes of The Insurgency and the Substack exclusive podc
One Month Until The Budget: Why the UK is in such a bad state - and how we can fix it
On Tuesday 28 October 2025, Fighting for a Free Future hosted our first briefing event. Titled One Month Until The Budget, we heard from some of the UK’s most eminent free market thinkers on why the UK is in such a bad state, and what can be done about. Speakers included:Rt Hon Steve Baker FRSA, Fighting for a Free Future; Robert Colvile, The Centre for Policy Studies; Maxwell Marlow, The Adam Smi
James Graham on Debanking
James Graham is a Senior Researcher for Financial Freedoms at the Prosperity Institute. The PI's latest campaign, attempting to address the injustice of debanking, is currently looking for the stories of those who have faced it personally.Find out how to tell your story at https://www.prosperity.com/media-publications/have-you-been-debanked/.📄 Subscribe to Voices for a Free Future for article
Albie Amankona
Albie Amankona is a broadcaster and financial analyst. A regular feature across the BBC, Times Radio, LBC, Channel 5, and ITV, Albie is the co-founder of Conservatives Against Racism For Equality (CARFE) and sits on the General Council of LGBT+ Conservatives.📄 Subscribe to Voices for a Free Future for articles, insight, and extended episodes of The Insurgency and the Substack exclusive podcast: v
Saqib Bhatti MP
🔥 To watch the extended cut of our interview with Saqib Bhatti, in which the three go into more detail about the the state of community tensions in the UK as well as the economic issues that face the country, please visit voices.fightingforafreefuture.com.🎙️In this episode of The Insurgency, Steve and Harry sit down with Saqib Bhatti MP, the Conservative MP for Meriden and Solihull East and Shadow
James Heale
🔥 To watch the extended cut of our interview with James Heale, in which the three go into more detail about the work of a journalist and the problems the UK presently faces, subscribe today at voices.fightingforafreefuture.com.🎙️ In this episode of The Insurgency, Steve and Harry sit down with James Heale, Deputy Political Editor at The Spectator.📄 Subscribe to Voices for a Free Future for articl
Reem Ibrahim
🔥 To watch the extended cut of our interview with Reem Ibrahim, in which the three go into more detail about the work of think tanks like the Institute of Economic Affairs, the state of the country and what can be done about it, subscribe today at voices.fightingforafreefuture.com.🎙️ In this episode of The Insurgency, Steve and Harry sit down with Reem Ibrahim, the Head of Media at the Institute o
Danny Kruger MP
🔥 To watch the extended cut of our interview with Danny Kruger, in which the three discuss Danny’s now-famous adjournment debate urging Christian Restoration, Great Britain’s Christian heritage, and the issue of assisted dying, subscribe today at voices.fightingforafreefuture.com.🎙️ In this episode of The Insurgency, Steve and Harry sit down with Danny Kruger, the Member of Parliament for East Wil
Tom Harwood
🔥 To watch the extended cut of our interview with Tom Harwood with 20 minutes of extra content, subscribe today at voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🎙️ In this inaugural episode of The Insurgency, Steve and Harry sit down with rising star in journalism Tom Harwood. The three discuss Tom’s journey from revolutionising student politics to becoming the Deputy Political Editor at Britain’s biggest news
Welcome to The Insurgency
In this welcome video, Steve & Harry sit down to explain The Insurgency podcast.
