War, Peace, Car Parks and Abundance

In this inaugural episode of The Abundance Agenda, hosts James O’Malley and Martin Robbins share their radicalisation stories – what got them interested in growth, progress and abundance.

Martin talks about Britain’s chronic inability to build infrastructure. James explains why abundance is the only credible response to the politics of climate change. And we dig into the curious and maddening story of the National Parking Platform.

And in our final segment, we’re getting real about defence – and talk about how Britain got into the… situation… it finds itself in, what we need to do to fix it, and why the political response so far has been too timid.

The Abundance Agenda is available on Apple Podcasts, Spotify, and hopefully wherever you get your podcasts!

You can find James on Bluesky here, and Martin here.

Here’s our newsletters for the week:

The new GOV.UK login system is the first step in a radical transformation of the British state

The war on curiosity

Here’s more on the National Parking Platform and how it works:

Rishi's stupid "Plan for Drivers" actually contains some good ideas

And here’s Martin on defence spending:

2.5% is a ludicrous target for defence spending

Finally, as this is our first episode, we’d love to hear what you think. And please do tell your abundance-curious friends to take a listen!