Hilaire Belloc
Writer and former Member of Parliament of the United KingdomWikipedia
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Nov 7, 2026
DavidHOST
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MalcolmHOST
he's Thai at all, but Rudyard Kipling or something like that? No, it's Hilaire Belloc, the elephant from A Bad Child's Book of Beasts, 1896.
DavidHOST
Oh, I didn't realise you'd kept all your childhood books.
DavidHOST
Yes,
Joshua CharlesGUEST
Both our own sins and growing in merit.
Joshua CharlesGUEST
So if you want, you know, I read a quote from Hilaire Belloc the other day.
Joshua CharlesGUEST
Let me see if I can find it really quick.
Joshua CharlesGUEST
I sent a thread.
Joshua CharlesGUEST
Great English writer.
Joshua CharlesGUEST
Yeah, here it is.
Joshua CharlesGUEST
He said, um, There is no habit more dangerous to a man's active intellectual life than that of reading only modern books.
Georgia CookGUEST
I feel like it might have been inspired by Roald Dahl, very much that sticky end kind of quality to it.
Dave LawrenceHOST
Dave? I think it goes back as well to the poet Hilaire Belloc.
Dave LawrenceHOST
If you've ever read Cautionary Tales by Hilaire Belloc, it's basically kids doing stuff.
Dave LawrenceHOST
Like one girl screams so loudly that a statue falls on her and kills her.
Dave LawrenceHOST
If you read those, have you ever heard the monologue, Albert and the Lion, Stanley Holloway's?
Georgia CookGUEST
Yes, yes, of course.
Dave LawrenceHOST
That's based on a Hilaire Belloc poem as well about a child who goes to the zoo.
Dave LawrenceHOST
The lion's a bit sleepy, doesn't like it, so he prods it a bit and obviously the lion eats him.
Paul GaitGUEST
And at the same time, the productivity of the operating processes that we apply to those deposits, right, the main driver of increased the improvement in sort of cost performance, namely productivity, has also sort of ground to a halt.
Paul GaitGUEST
And of course, that has profound macroeconomic implications because you know as hilaire belloc once observed wealth is just matter transformed right once you know once that sort of wealth creation dynamic right starts to come under pressure then i think of course kind of kind of naturally and again apropos of what we're going to sort of discuss a bit later that converts or creates a bunch of geopolitical issues uh you know for um you know, for our industry.
Paul GaitGUEST
And I think sort of part of the problem here is that, you know, very few people seem to understand the magnitude of what has happened, what happened in the past.
Paul GaitGUEST
I mean, again, this point about scale, right, and just the returns to scale and that driving productivity.
Robert McTeigueHOST
Well, you know, Sarah, some of my best friends are English, and I like to quote them.
Robert McTeigueHOST
And so I want to quote Hilaire Belloc, apropos of our current conversation.
Robert McTeigueHOST
He said, And it seems to me that we don't even know how to accurately name what we believe anymore or articulate why it's worth defending.
Robert McTeigueHOST
You know, there is another World Youth Day coming up in South Korea, and the Italian bishops have... lack of a better term, a curriculum, a learning packet for young Italian Catholics going over there.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
That's the key thing.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
You know, I'm sure you know Hilaire Belloc's theory that the Germans came, that Rome didn't fall.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
It simply became the Catholic Church.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
And the Germans came in and everybody said, oh no, the Germans are here.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
That's the key thing.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
You know, I'm sure you know Hilaire Belloc's theory that the Germans came, that Rome didn't fall.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
It simply became the Catholic Church.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
And the Germans came in and everybody said, oh no, the Germans are here.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
That's the key thing.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
You know, I'm sure you know Hilaire Belloc's theory that the Germans came, that Rome didn't fall.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
It simply became the Catholic Church.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
And the Germans came in and everybody said, oh no, the Germans are here.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
That's the key thing.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
You know, I'm sure you know Hilaire Belloc's theory that the Germans came, that Rome didn't fall.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
It simply became the Catholic Church.
Andrew KlavanPANELIST
And the Germans came in and everybody said, oh, no, the Germans are here.
Andrew KlavanHOST
That's the key thing.
Andrew KlavanHOST
You know, I'm sure you know Hilaire Belloc's theory that the Germans came, that Rome didn't fall.
Andrew KlavanHOST
It simply became the Catholic Church.
Andrew KlavanHOST
And the Germans came in and everybody said, oh no, the Germans are here.
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