About us
Welcome to the New Culture Forum Edinburgh Meetup.
Since its formation in 2006, the New Culture Forum has stood for the preservation and flourishing of British culture and heritage, challenging left-wing and liberal orthodoxies that have come to dominate Western institutions and public life.
Although not officially aligned with the New Culture Forum team, this meetup serves as a means of gathering those who personally identify with NCF content as reflected by its many videos, reports, books, and events. We aim to regularly discuss and develop the various socio-political insights that have been promulgated by NCF guests and representatives.
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Here is a description of NCF aims, as found on their website:
“Culture, it is said, is upstream from politics. Certainly, we in the New Culture Forum believe that cultural issues are the defining ones of our time.
“More and more people are passionately engaged in these issues, but feel there is no outlet within an atmosphere which is dominated by the existence of a liberal/left groupthink. The triumph of cultural relativism and political correctness in the opinion-forming fields of the media, academia, education and culture has meant that this groupthink has become even more deeply entrenched. The liberal establishment sets the terms of debate.
“At a time of threat from extremism, the West finds itself besieged from within and without. Too often our enemies and our opinion-formers appear to agree that Western culture is indefensible or a source purely of shame.
“We, however, believe that the West is in fact a unique bastion of reasoned freedom and that Britain in particular should be proud of the great role it has played in Western education, art and culture.
“Since it was formed in 2006 the New Culture Forum has been challenging the cultural orthodoxies dominant in the media, academia, education, and wider British culture. We have forged important relationships within the national political, media and cultural spheres and now enjoy a high profile.
“Through our research projects and our events, our highly-praised and influential publications and active media work, we have contributed fresh thinking to the public and political debate on the cultural issues of our time.”
https://www.newcultureforum.org.uk/our-aims
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If you’re new to NCF content, have a look at their YouTube channel:
https://www.youtube.com/@NewCultureForum
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Here’s a short video about the Forum featuring the NCF founder and director, Peter Whittle:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=F_bffddidaw
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Should you find a resonance with their work, then please reach out.
We’d love to hear from you, and to join us for lively conversation, camaraderie, consolation, and cheer.
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Disclaimer
In no instance will organisers be held liable to any party for any direct, indirect, consequential, or other damages arising from his or her attendance at one of our events. Attendance is at your own risk. The organiser, co-organiser, host, and Meetup are not responsible for loss, damage, theft, injury to oneself or equipment, allergic reactions, traffic or parking violations, or accidents with your vehicle.
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If you mark yourself as attending but fail to turn up, we will record this as a ‘no-show.’ Organisers reserve the right to discontinue membership of anyone accruing two or more ‘no-shows’ for this meetup’s events.
Thank you!
Upcoming events
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‘The Strange Psychology of Gen Z Girls’
Scott Monument, Princes St, Edinburgh, GBPlease note that the venue is in the vicinity of the Scott Monument and will be announced to RSVPing members closer to the event date. We will NOT be meeting at the monument, itself.
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Please join us for a discussion of a recent Winston Marshall interview with Freya India that addresses the topics of “Gen Z, social media, and the growing crisis of mental health, identity, and meaning among young people,” covering “how social media has reshaped an entire generation, from rising anxiety and loneliness to the collapse of real-world relationships and community”:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=z4Ficq6NHr0
Come and share your thoughts about recent generational changes and causes for hope in the face of communal and cultural decay.
C&S
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Please note that this will be a joint event with The Forest Way Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/edinburgh-conservatism-meetup-group/), with an invitation extended to members of the NCF Locals platform as well.
6 attendees
Are We Headed for Collapse?
Scott Monument, Princes St, Edinburgh, GBPlease note that the venue is in the vicinity of the Scott Monument and will be announced to RSVPing members closer to the event date. We will NOT be meeting at the monument, itself.
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For this event, we’ll be asking questions about widespread demoralisation, dysfunction, and depopulation in the West from the starting point of John Calhoun’s famous ‘mouse utopia’ experiment.
Here’s an excerpt from the article about the experiment that we’ll use as the basis for our discussion:
“Calhoun constructed an elaborate, enclosed habitat for mice, which he called Universe 25. This wasn’t just a cage — it was an engineered paradise…
At the start, the results were exactly as expected. The mice thrived… But as numbers grew past a certain point, subtle changes began to emerge…
By Day 1,580, the last mouse died. Not from starvation, disease, or predation—but from the collapse of the social structure that made survival possible…
The Universe 25 experiment has often been used as a cautionary tale about overcrowding, urban decay, and the dangers of population growth. But Calhoun himself believed the core lesson was deeper.
For him, the tragedy wasn’t just that the mice ran out of space—it was that they ran out of social meaning.”
The experiment offers food for thought on what is happening in our own societies. Are Western nations experiencing a ‘meaning crisis’ that is, in different ways, leading to decline? Has material and social prosperity brought us—strangely perhaps—to a point of decadence, dysfunction, and despair?
Here’s a link to the article (along with a few supplemental links):
https://drmutura.substack.com/p/the-collapse-of-universe-25-what
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7ReBJfxHjFU&t=5s
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5SH6fRSeqg4
Please join us!
C&S
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Please note that this will be a joint event with The Forest Way Meetup group (https://www.meetup.com/edinburgh-conservatism-meetup-group/), with an invitation extended to members of the NCF Locals platform as well.
5 attendees
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