{"podcast":{"title":"UK Column News","slug":"uk-column-news-315425","podcast_index_feed_id":315425,"rss_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1044e334c/podcast/rss","website_url":"http://www.ukcolumn.org/","image_url":"https://d3t3ozftmdmh3i.cloudfront.net/staging/podcast_uploaded_nologo/43572011/3e727f1068800296.png","author":"UK Column","episode_count":1204,"summary":"The UK Column is an independent news organisation analysing the information war. Operating without financial backing or external investment, we remain free from advertisers, foundations, and political parties, relying solely on support from our audience through memberships and donations.","last_synced_at":"2026-07-25T02:17:04.047862+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425"},"episode":{"title":"Individualism is Destroying the West | Jerm Warfare","slug":"individualism-is-destroying-the-west-jerm-warfare","published_at":"2026-06-24T19:30:00+00:00","page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425/individualism-is-destroying-the-west-jerm-warfare","show_page_url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425","url":"https://podcasters.spotify.com/pod/show/ukcolumn/episodes/Individualism-is-Destroying-the-West--Jerm-Warfare-e3l7gp2","audio_url":"https://anchor.fm/s/1044e334c/podcast/play/121929954/https%3A%2F%2Fd3ctxlq1ktw2nl.cloudfront.net%2Fstaging%2F2026-5-24%2F426743762-44100-2-eb230f9132126.mp3","summary":"Jerm talks with Richard Storey — Catholic writer and author of The Uniqueness of Western Law — about the origins and decline of the West. Storey argues that European character was forged by Indo-European warrior culture, that the West rests on a Roman skeleton with Catholicism as its natural successor, and that "Judeo-Christian" is a dishonest label for what's really a Greco-Roman inheritance. He sees the Protestant Reformation as the moment shared corporate identity fractured into spiritual individualism — the seed of the hyper-individualism now eroding family and community — and frames modern liberalism as a resurgence of Gnosticism. Throughout, he argues that "mammon" — money and technology — is the recurring death mechanism: empires grow wealthy, lose their martial virtues, and collapse into individualism. https://richardstorey.substack.com ► Join UK Column Live every Monday, Wednesday and Friday at 1pm UK time or watch previous live recordings here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_dj_69XOmMs&list=PLCobN2DevAuUX4reUDER9YL_wgcHrNiau ► [UK Column Website] Explore all our written and video content on the official UK Column website: https://www.ukcolumn.org/ ► [Support UK Column] Please donate to support our independent journalism & investigative journalism: https://support.ukcolumn.org/ ► [UK Column YouTube] Please subscribe to the UK Column News YouTube channel for more alternative news and independent news: https://www.youtube.com/@ukcolumnofficial?sub_confirmation=1 Follow #UKColumn on: ► X: https://x.com/ukcolumn ► Telegram: https://t.me/ukcolumn ► Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/UKColumnExtracts ► Instagram: https://www.instagram.com/uk_column_news","meta_description":"Jerm talks with Richard Storey — Catholic writer and author of The Uniqueness of Western Law — about the origins and decline of the West. Storey argues th…","key_points":[],"chapters":[],"topics":[],"duration_seconds":3703,"processing_state":"not_requested","actions":[{"name":"request_transcript","method":"POST","url":"https://stenobird.com/v1/public/podcasts/uk-column-news-315425/episodes/individualism-is-destroying-the-west-jerm-warfare/transcription-requests","description":"Idempotently request low-priority transcript generation for this episode."},{"name":"read_markdown","method":"GET","url":"https://stenobird.com/podcast/uk-column-news-315425/individualism-is-destroying-the-west-jerm-warfare.md","description":"Read the agent-friendly Markdown representation of this episode resource."}]}}