The Insurgency with Steve Baker

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.📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

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 industrial decline. They discuss the political choices behind Net Zero, the pressure on household bills, and whether Parliament can change course.📰 More articles and video: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

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: liam@stevebaker.info

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: liam@stevebaker.info

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:…

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: liam@stevebaker.info

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: liam@stevebaker.info

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: liam@stevebaker.infoThumbnail image: “Daniel Hannan (2)” by Christian Ursilva, via Wikimedia Commons. Original photograph: https://www.flickr.com/photos/202294133@N02/54349877852/Wikimedia Commons:…

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: liam@stevebaker.info

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:…

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: liam@stevebaker.info

👉 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: liam@stevebaker.info

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: liam@stevebaker.infoThumbnail image: “Javier Milei VIVA 24” by Vox España. Original: https://www.flickr.com/photos/voxespana/53732400023/ – via Wikimedia Commons:…

👉 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: liam@stevebaker.info

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 into social media’s coarsening of debate, the limits of free speech in an age of incitement, and why secure, affordable housing and meaningful work are, in Farron’s view, the true foundations of a free society.📰 Extended cut: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

👉 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 defence and security, the coming by‑election, and whether Sir Keir Starmer can keep control of his party and government.Thumbnail Image: "Secretary of Defense Lloyd J. Austin III meets with UK Secretary of State for Defence John Healey and Australian Deputy Prime Minister and Defense Minister Richard Marles at the 3rd AUKUS Defense Ministerial Meeting at the Old Royal Naval College, London, Sept. 26, 2024.” Photo by Chad J. McNeeley / U.S. Department of Defense, licensed under CC BY 2.0 (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/). Changes have been made (cropping and graphic overlay).

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 party to government‑in‑waiting, take on the Whitehall ‘blob’, and rebuild a broken state around conservative values.Watch more of our interview with Danny Kruger: https://youtu.be/uLoe1T4ayAU📰 Extended cut: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

👉 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 deepening crisis of the SNP in light of the Peter Murrell case.Thumbnail Image: “Presidente Bernardo Arévalo se reúne con Tony Blair, ex primer ministro del Reino Unido” by Presidencia de Guatemala, public domain, via Wikimedia Commons (https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Presidente_Bernardo_Ar%C3%A9valo_se_re%C3%BAne_con_Tony_Blair,ex_primer_ministro_del_Reino_Unido-_54168021777.jpg)

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.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

👉 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. 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 end. The panel examines why Britain appears ungovernable, debating whether the problem lies with Labour's incompetence and exposed flanks or with the failing model of the managerial state itself. Thumbnail image: Thumbnail image contains public sector information licensed under the Open Government Licence v3.0. Photo: Lauren Hurley / No 10 Downing Street, used under the Open Government Licence v3.0 (nationalarchives.gov.uk/doc/open-government-licence/version/3). Link: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Prime_Minister_Keir_Starmer_hosts_first_Cabinet.jpg.

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 the truth.📰 Exclusive post-show: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

👉 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 recent terrorist attack in Golders Green and what it reveals about the growing threat of anti‑Semitism in Britain, the failure of political leaders to respond robustly, and the chilling reality that many Jews no longer feel safe being visibly Jewish in the UK. Thumbnail image: “Finchley Road close to Golders Green tube station in the Golders Green neighbourhood of the London Borough of Barnet” (20 November 2025) by Sjenghai, licensed under Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 International. Source: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:London_-_Barnet_-_Golders_Green_-_Finchley_Road_-_2025-11-20.jpg.

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 unaffordable, and what reforms could actually fix Britain.📰 Exclusive post-show: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

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 of The Insurgency, Professor Roger Koppl explains how ad‑hoc Covid committees like SAGE were designed to preserve political discretion rather than discover the truth - and why Sweden’s very different path led to a better outcome. He argues the Covid response may prove to be “the West’s Chernobyl moment”, permanently damaging public trust in the expert state.📰 Extended cut: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

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 Bedfordshire Police and Crime Commissioner - increasing officer numbers, fixing retention and driving down burglary by targeting prolific offenders - he explains why culture, leadership and making London a “no‑go area for criminals” matter more than any new Whitehall initiative. 📰 Exclusive post-show: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com 🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com 📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

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 duty, what such a deal could look like in practice, and how years of technocracy, judicial overreach and failed Conservative leadership have brought the country to this moment.📰 Extended cut: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

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.

👉 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 courtesy of the Executive Office of the President of the United States (public domain US federal government work): https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Donald_Trump_2018-07-23.png

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.

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.

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.📰 Extended cut & write‑up: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

👉 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 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 the UK’s economic problems do not hold up.

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🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

👉 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.👉 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 stand on Iran, or hiding behind “international law” to avoid a real moral decision? In this episode of The Counter‑Insurgency, Steve Baker, Harry Richer, Laura Emily Dunn and Eve Lugg break down Trump and Netanyahu’s strike on Iran, whether war with Tehran was inevitable, and if removing the supreme leader has actually made the world safer.

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 of Peter Mandelson, and what the rise of “vibes‑based” politics means for justice, the welfare state and the rule of law in the UK.📰 Extended cut & write‑up: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com📧 Advertise or partner: liam@stevebaker.info

👉 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 society.This week, Albie Amankona joins the team to discuss Reform UK’s new ‘shadow cabinet’ and the passing of civil rights leader Jesse Jackson.Thumbnail image is Nigel Farage Trago Mills June 2024 (cropped) by Owain Davies, licensed under CC BY‑SA 4.0 (creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0), via Wikimedia Commons. Thumbnail cropped and edited for this video.

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 send the bill to Britain’s young.

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 trip to China, and the latest announcement of Resident Doctor strikes.

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 most and whether any party looks likely to deliver serious reform. 📰 Extended cut for Substack subscribers: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com 🛒 Merch: shop.fightingforafreefuture.com 📧 Advertise: podcast@stevebaker.info

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 principles of a free society.

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 (2016–2019). An extended cut of our interview is available to our Substack subscribers. Find out more at voices.fightingforafreefuture.com. Shop official Fighting for a Free Future merchandise, at shop.fightingforafreefuture.com. Find out more about Fighting for a Free Future at www.fightingforafreefuture.com. To advertise on The Insurgency with Steve Baker, please email podcast@stevebaker.info.

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 for articles, insight, and extended episodes of The Insurgency and the Substack exclusive podcast: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🧢 Shop official Fighting for a Free Future merchandise, at shop.fightingforafreefuture.com.🗽 Find out more about Fighting for a Free Future at www.fightingforafreefuture.com.To advertise on The Insurgency with Steve Baker, please email podcast@stevebaker.info.

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 podcast: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com. 🧢 Shop official Fighting for a Free Future merchandise, at shop.fightingforafreefuture.com. 🗽 Find out more about Fighting for a Free Future at www.fightingforafreefuture.com. To advertise on The Insurgency with Steve Baker, please email podcast@stevebaker.info.

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 Smith Institute; Fred de Fossard, The Prosperity Institute; John O’Connell, The TaxPayers’ Alliance; Harry Wilkinson, The Global Warming Policy Foundation.

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 articles, insight, and extended episodes of The Insurgency and the Substack exclusive podcast: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com 🧢 Shop official Fighting for a Free Future merchandise, at shop.fightingforafreefuture.com. 🗽 Find out more about Fighting for a Free Future at www.fightingforafreefuture.com. To advertise on The Insurgency with Steve Baker, please email podcast@stevebaker.info.

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: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🧢 Shop official Fighting for a Free Future merchandise, at shop.fightingforafreefuture.com.🗽 Find out more about Fighting for a Free Future at www.fightingforafreefuture.com.To advertise on The Insurgency with Steve Baker, please email podcast@stevebaker.info.

🔥 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 Minister for Education. The three discussed Saqib’s journey to Parliament, his views & philosophy, the grooming gangs scandal, and how the conflict in Gaza has affected community relations in the UK.📄​ Subscribe to Voices for a Free Future for articles, insight, and extended episodes of The Insurgency and the Substack exclusive podcast: voices.fightingforafreefuture.com🧢 Shop official Fighting for a Free Future merchandise, at shop.fightingforafreefuture.com.🗽 Find out more about Fighting for a Free Future at www.fightingforafreefuture.com.To advertise on The Insurgency with Steve Baker, please email…