A Year of Fighting for a Free Future – Thank You
Let's look back at what we’ve built together, not as a finished project, but as a genuine movement gathering momentum.
Voices for a Free Future will be running a reduced output over the Christmas and New Year period. We will return to our usual schedule in the first full week of January. We will also be announcing an exciting new initiative that week! Thank you for all of your support in 2025! We look forward to continuing to fight for a free future, together!
We began modestly. Steve Baker started the Fighting for a Free Future with Steve Baker Substack in August 2024, testing out whether people actually wanted to hear directly about the case for liberty, sound money, and smaller government. In January of this year, I joined as the Director of Fighting for a Free Future. It is amazing to see how far we have grown since then.
In September, we “hard launched” Fighting for a Free Future. What followed was more than we could have hoped for: three days of significant media coverage - something remarkably difficult to achieve without riding a major news cycle. We announced the FFF Community and our first event, rebranded our Substack as Voices for a Free Future and significantly expanded its output, launched The Insurgency podcast, revealed FFF merchandise including our taxation is wrose than theft range, and cemented FFF and our message at the heart of Westminster - we are here to fight for a free future and to create the conditions for Britain’s Javier Milei to emerge at the next election. The message was clear: this wasn’t just commentary; this was a fight for ideas that matter.
Voices for a Free Future: Ideas that matter
Voices for a Free Future has grown into a digital forum for thought leadership. Publishing 3-4 articles per week from our team and guest contributors, both established and rising stars in Westminster, we’ve built a publication that reaches people who want to think seriously about the fiscal crisis facing Britain, the failures of monetary policy, and what a genuinely free society might look like. During our launch week, we hit the top 50 Substack new bestsellers - placing us among the most successful new publications on one of the world’s leading newsletter platforms. This matters because it means people want this conversation and want to open their eyes to the disastrous fiscal situation the UK is in.
The next generation of free market leaders
We’ve always believed that shifting the terrain of debate means investing in people who will carry these ideas forward. Similarly, we believe in the importance of continued study of free market and freedom-oriented political theory. Ultimately, a lack of this contributed to the wasted fourteen years of Conservative rule. During my time as a parliamentary aide, I met numerous young staffers with the right instincts but who couldn’t tell you the first thing about Hayek or Adam Smith. Public policy, and indeed, politics, must be rooted in sound political ideology; otherwise, as we have seen all too often, it is easy to veer off course into statism.
The FFF Book Club, run for the past year jointly with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute, completed its first cohort this month. The second cohort begins in January, and in 2026, we’ll be launching the Leaders for Liberty fellowship with our partners - a more ambitious programme of training for future free market leaders.
The impact that individuals in their twenties have in British politics is often underappreciated. Our education programmes are about identifying talented people working in and around Westminster, and giving them the intellectual ammunition to fight these battles in their own spheres of influence. It doesn’t make headlines, but it changes how people think and gives them both the confidence and knowledge to advance the free market in their careers.
The Insurgency: Amplifying the Right Voices
The Insurgency podcast gave us another platform to have the conversations that matter. We started with Tom Harwood from GB News, then brought on Reem Ibrahim from the IEA, Danny Kruger MP (notably, the week he defected to Reform), and James Heale from the Spectator. We finished the season with a fascinating interview with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. These were genuine conversations about why Britain is facing a fiscal and, in many ways, social crisis, what needs to change, and what courage that change will require.
The FFF Community and our first event
In October, we held our first in-person event: “One Month until the Budget.” It was exactly what we wanted - a platform for Westminster’s free market think tanks, who are part of the FFF Community, to engage directly with the intellectual class on Britain’s predicament. The room was packed with MPs, journalists, political commentators, and many more from Westminster. We heard from some of the country’s most respected voices on economic policy: Lord Moynihan, Robert Colvile from the Centre for Policy Studies, Maxwell Marlow from the Adam Smith Institute, and several others. We look forward to holding more events in 2026.
Javier Milei
Perhaps the clearest sign that we’re succeeding in our core mission can be seen in the shift in conversation about Javier Milei in the UK. When I wrote an article at the start of this year on what Milei was achieving in Argentina, I relied on X accounts translating the Argentine Congress and newspapers from Argentina to understand what he was achieving. The only articles from the UK that I could find were focused on the protests that erupted when he was first elected. That was the entirety of UK coverage of his presidency and its amazing achievements. Since then, FFF has relentlessly pushed the message that the UK needs its own Javier Milei, and now we see publications across the UK writing both for and against his agenda and achievements.
When Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, stated that she wants to be Britain’s Javier Milei, it wasn’t accidental. It reflects exactly the shift in the Overton Window we set out to achieve. When the narrative moves from “How do we tinker at the margins?” to “Do we need radical reform?”, that’s when you know you’re having an impact in the battle of ideas
The real thanks
None of this happens without you. To our free and paid subscribers who read Voices for a Free Future regularly - you’re reading because you know something is wrong with the current order, and you want to understand what comes next. To those who’ve bought our merchandise, read Voices for a Free Future, listen to the Insurgency podcast, everyone in our educational programmes, members of the FFF Community amplifying these ideas in your own circles, and everyone who’s taken action to fight for freedom - you are the movement.
A special thanks to our donors who make this work possible. You believe in this fight enough to back it with resources when the state and the establishment won’t. That matters.
We’re building something real here. And you’re all part of it. If you want to understand concretely how you can contribute to this fight - whether that’s through your work, your voice, or your support, we’ve set out the practical steps: here’s how you can fight for a free future.
Thank you for standing with us through this first year. The real work begins now.
Harry Richer is the Director of Fighting for a Free Future, working for the Chairman, the Rt Hon Steve Baker. He has previously worked as the senior aide to Mr Baker and was intimately involved in all of Mr Baker’s national campaigns, including his work on the monetary system, Net Zero, and the Covid Recovery Group, acting as its Head of Research. He has also co-written multiple publications on Austrian School economics, including the 2024 Springer book, The Age of Debt Bubbles.
exciting new initiative that week! Thank you for all of your support in 2025! We look forward to continuing to fight for a free future, together!
We began modestly. Steve Baker started the Fighting for a Free Future with Steve Baker Substack in August 2024, testing out whether people actually wanted to hear directly about the case for liberty, sound money, and smaller government. In January of this year, I joined as the Director of Fighting for a Free Future. It is amazing to see how far we have grown since then.
In September, we “hard launched” Fighting for a Free Future. What followed was more than we could have hoped for: three days of significant media coverage - something remarkably difficult to achieve without riding a major news cycle. We announced the FFF Community and our first event, rebranded our Substack as Voices for a Free Future and significantly expanded its output, launched The Insurgency podcast, revealed FFF merchandise including our taxation is wrose than theft range, and cemented FFF and our message at the heart of Westminster - we are here to fight for a free future and to create the conditions for Britain’s Javier Milei to emerge at the next election. The message was clear: this wasn’t just commentary; this was a fight for ideas that matter.
Voices for a Free Future: Ideas that matter
Voices for a Free Future has grown into a digital forum for thought leadership. Publishing 3-4 articles per week from our team and guest contributors, both established and rising stars in Westminster, we’ve built a publication that reaches people who want to think seriously about the fiscal crisis facing Britain, the failures of monetary policy, and what a genuinely free society might look like. During our launch week, we hit the top 50 Substack new bestsellers - placing us among the most successful new publications on one of the world’s leading newsletter platforms. This matters because it means people want this conversation and want to open their eyes to the disastrous fiscal situation the UK is in.
The next generation of free market leaders
We’ve always believed that shifting the terrain of debate means investing in people who will carry these ideas forward. Similarly, we believe in the importance of continued study of free market and freedom-oriented political theory. Ultimately, a lack of this contributed to the wasted fourteen years of Conservative rule. During my time as a parliamentary aide, I met numerous young staffers with the right instincts but who couldn’t tell you the first thing about Hayek or Adam Smith. Public policy, and indeed, politics, must be rooted in sound political ideology; otherwise, as we have seen all too often, it is easy to veer off course into statism.
The FFF Book Club, run for the past year jointly with the Institute of Economic Affairs and the Adam Smith Institute, completed its first cohort this month. The second cohort begins in January, and in 2026, we’ll be launching the Leaders for Liberty fellowship with our partners - a more ambitious programme of training for future free market leaders.
The impact that individuals in their twenties have in British politics is often underappreciated. Our education programmes are about identifying talented people working in and around Westminster, and giving them the intellectual ammunition to fight these battles in their own spheres of influence. It doesn’t make headlines, but it changes how people think and gives them both the confidence and knowledge to advance the free market in their careers.
The Insurgency: Amplifying the Right Voices
The Insurgency podcast gave us another platform to have the conversations that matter. We started with Tom Harwood from GB News, then brought on Reem Ibrahim from the IEA, Danny Kruger MP (notably, the week he defected to Reform), and James Heale from the Spectator. We finished the season with a fascinating interview with Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. These were genuine conversations about why Britain is facing a fiscal and, in many ways, social crisis, what needs to change, and what courage that change will require.
The FFF Community and our first event
In October, we held our first in-person event: “One Month until the Budget.” It was exactly what we wanted - a platform for Westminster’s free market think tanks, who are part of the FFF Community, to engage directly with the intellectual class on Britain’s predicament. The room was packed with MPs, journalists, political commentators, and many more from Westminster. We heard from some of the country’s most respected voices on economic policy: Lord Moynihan, Robert Colvile from the Centre for Policy Studies, Maxwell Marlow from the Adam Smith Institute, and several others. We look forward to holding more events in 2026.
Javier Milei
Perhaps the clearest sign that we’re succeeding in our core mission can be seen in the shift in conversation about Javier Milei in the UK. When I wrote an article at the start of this year on what Milei was achieving in Argentina, I relied on X accounts translating the Argentine Congress and newspapers from Argentina to understand what he was achieving. The only articles from the UK that I could find were focused on the protests that erupted when he was first elected. That was the entirety of UK coverage of his presidency and its amazing achievements. Since then, FFF has relentlessly pushed the message that the UK needs its own Javier Milei, and now we see publications across the UK writing both for and against his agenda and achievements.
When Kemi Badenoch, the Conservative Party leader, stated that she wants to be Britain’s Javier Milei, it wasn’t accidental. It reflects exactly the shift in the Overton Window we set out to achieve. When the narrative moves from “How do we tinker at the margins?” to “Do we need radical reform?”, that’s when you know you’re having an impact in the battle of ideas
The real thanks
None of this happens without you. To our free and paid subscribers who read Voices for a Free Future regularly - you’re reading because you know something is wrong with the current order, and you want to understand what comes next. To those who’ve bought our merchandise, read Voices for a Free Future, listen to the Insurgency podcast, everyone in our educational programmes, members of the FFF Community amplifying these ideas in your own circles, and everyone who’s taken action to fight for freedom - you are the movement.
A special thanks to our donors who make this work possible. You believe in this fight enough to back it with resources when the state and the establishment won’t. That matters.
We’re building something real here. And you’re all part of it. If you want to understand concretely how you can contribute to this fight - whether that’s through your work, your voice, or your support, we’ve set out the practical steps: here’s how you can fight for a free future.
Thank you for standing with us through this first year. The real work begins now.
Harry Richer is the Director of Fighting for a Free Future, working for the Chairman, the Rt Hon Steve Baker. He has previously worked as the senior aide to Mr Baker and was intimately involved in all of Mr Baker’s national campaigns, including his work on the monetary system, Net Zero, and the Covid Recovery Group, acting as its Head of Research. He has also co-written multiple publications on Austrian School economics, including the 2024 Springer book, The Age of Debt Bubbles.
Thanks for a great year Steve and Harry!