#229 - Harrison Pitt - Is Britain Still a Nation?

Harrison Pitt is a writer specialising in philosophy and intellectual history, a senior policy fellow at Restore Britain, a contributing editor at The European Conservative and a fellow at the New Culture Forum. Born in 1998, he is writing a book that sets out a systematic philosophy of national belonging.

Harrison and I argue about the question underneath almost every other political fight in Britain right now: what actually makes someone part of a nation and does it matter? We go through citizenship, values, what Harrison calls demographic security, why he thinks the post-1945 consensus overcorrected and whether a mass democracy can work without a shared people.

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TIMESTAMPS:

00:00:00 - Why Is Britain Failing?

00:03:12 - Have Conservatives Lost Their Confidence?

00:08:27 - Can You Even Define British Values?

00:12:06 - Citizenship By Descent

00:18:14 - Why Should We Care?

00:27:07 - Are We Heading For Defeat?

00:31:05 - In A Mass Democracy, Does It Matter?

00:35:30 - Insulated Until Now

00:39:13 - The Conversation With His Daughter

00:46:13 - Can It Stay Peaceful?

00:53:52 - Luxury Beliefs

00:56:43 - The Facts Of Life Are Conservative

01:02:07 - Brothers On Opposite Sides

01:11:41 - The Middle Class Is Being Squeezed

01:14:03 - The Italians At London Brick

01:17:54 - We Want Stuff Now, You Pay Later

01:23:34 - From Atheist To Conservative

01:28:39 - Could You Be Wrong?

01:34:29 - A Discerning Welfare State

01:43:14 - Could Restore Win Bedford?

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