My guest today is David Furse-Roberts a well-known Australian academic who amongst his many books has written a biography on the great 19th Century British parliamentarian and social reformer, Lord Shaftesbury.

Today we discuss:

• Who Lord Shaftesbury was, his background, and his political and religious conversion
• His criticisms of laissez-faire capitalism, his alternative Tory paternalist approach, and what he would have made of today's global economy
• How he might have viewed today's libertarian right, the radical left, and MAGA, and our politics more broadly

And much much more

https://www.amazon.com.au/Making-Tory-Evangelical-Da ...