The Peter McCormack Show

Peter McCormack
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The Peter McCormack Show - politics, macro, Bitcoin and AI, long-form interviews. Twice-weekly conversations about money, power, and the shifts reshaping the next decade. Peter McCormack interviews politicians, economists, investors, journalists, founders and Bitcoiners. Past guests include Liz Truss, Lyn Alden, Curtis Yarvin, Matt Goodwin, Mike Green, Balaji Srinivasan, Rupert Lowe, Firas Modad, Scott Horton, Jeff Booth, Connor Leahy, Andrea Miotti, Neema Parvini, Dr Tim Gregory and Simon Dixon. Recurring threads: the debt and inflation endgame, UK political collapse and what comes after, Reform and the populist wave, the Middle East and the American war machine, AI safety and the race for superintelligence, energy and net zero, Bitcoin adoption and policy, and the slow-motion decline of Western institutions. Long-form - most episodes run 60 to 120 minutes. New episodes 2 to 3 times per week. Video on YouTube and Spotify. Host: Peter McCormack, a retired rapper from Bedford, UK, trying to understand this crazy world. Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

  1. 7h ago

    #219 - Paul Morland - Why The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Mathematically Inevitable

    Paul Morland, one of the world's leading demographers, joins me to explain the economic mechanics behind global population collapse and why our modern welfare system is mathematically doomed to fail. Paul is author of landmark books including The Human Tide and No One Left, specialising in the profound ways demographic shifts dictate global power, economics and human civilisation. Having spent decades analysing population trends across the globe, Paul has decoded the existential threats facing a world rapidly running out of people. In this episode, he exposes the "Bernie Madoff moment" facing Western welfare states, how falling birth rates destroy economic growth and what it will take to avert a total civilisational collapse. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - The Welfare State Is A Ponzi Scheme 00:01:03 - The Email At The Dinner Table 00:04:25 - How Families Got Smaller 00:10:02 - The Four Greys 00:14:54 - It Is Going To Get Considerably Worse 00:15:40 - Immigration Is Not The Solution 00:20:15 - Write Off Student Debt For A First Child 00:21:17 - The Degrowth Crowd 00:25:52 - People With Children Are Happier 00:27:37 - The Bernie Madoff Moment 00:32:22 - What Has Actually Been Tried 00:37:11 - Why Nobody Is Talking About It 00:41:07 - Marx, Lenin And The Pro-Natalist Left 00:45:04 - Is There A Split Between Men And Women? 00:50:52 - The Richer We Get, The Fewer Children 00:56:38 - We Need A Shift In The Culture 01:07:10 - Totally Uncharted Waters 01:09:04 - What Happened To The Horses 01:17:37 - Immigration Was Boris's Answer 01:21:19 - Biological Imperialism - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH PAUL MORLAND › Website – https://paulmorland.co.uk/ › No One Left – https://swiftpress.com/book/no-one-left/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/MorlandDemog SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter › Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #219 - Paul Morland - Why The Next Global Financial Crisis Is Mathematically Inevitable

  2. 3d ago

    #218 - Narinder Kaur - Divided & Looted: How the Political System Plays Us

    The political system is designed to keep us angry and divided, but who actually profits from the culture war? Broadcaster and political commentator Narinder Kaur returns to the show for a heated, unfiltered discussion that spans the entire political spectrum - from immigration and racism to the cost of living and private school taxes. We discuss the realities of integration, class privilege and the illusion of modern UK politics. While the public fights over manufactured outrage and identity politics, the political class is quietly looting the nation's wealth through endless taxation, inflation, and a refusal to fix a broken economy. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Do You Think I'm Racist? 00:04:02 - Why She's Turned On Reform 00:08:15 - Renters' Rights And Econ 101 00:11:26 - What Happened To Bedford's Private Schools 00:16:25 - Population Is A Ponzi Scheme 00:22:18 - The Desert Island And The Dinghy 00:26:55 - The Corner Shop And The Can Of Coke 00:39:17 - The Liz Truss Argument 00:47:46 - Rival Gangs Competing For Your Vote 00:54:28 - Why Peter Doesn't Vote 01:00:06 - We Cannot Afford The Triple Lock 01:06:05 - I'm A Culturalist, Not A Racist 01:14:37 - What We Saw In Selfridges 01:26:03 - I'm Othered In My Own Country 01:34:43 - Assimilation Or Integration? 01:41:44 - If The English Moved To Punjab 01:45:24 - What People Are Really Worried About 01:51:38 - Watching The Country Change Shape 01:55:23 - What Ed Sheeran Should Have Said 02:04:41 - Are We The Bad Guys? - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH NARINDER KAUR › X/Twitter – https://x.com/narindertweets SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter › Expat Money – https://expatmoney.com/peter › Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct5 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #218 - Narinder Kaur - Divided & Looted: How the Political System Plays Us

  3. Oct 1

    #217 - Lee Cronin - AI Will Never Be Conscious. This Is How We Create Real Life.

    Chemist and University of Glasgow professor Lee Cronin argues that the current tech narrative is a "massive AI delusion," dismissing modern artificial intelligence as an advanced form of plagiarism rather than a new life form. While Silicon Valley predicts the imminent arrival of sentient machines, Cronin explains that AI models are merely trained on human history-making them powerful tools, but fundamentally incapable of the curiosity, consciousness and biological intelligence that define true life. Instead of fearing silicon, Cronin’s actual mission is far more ambitious: programming chemistry to solve the origin of life and turn sand into living cells. In this episode, we explore why biological consciousness is tied to an unbroken 3.8-billion-year evolutionary lineage and why silicon will never replicate it. Cronin also breaks down why DNA might just be a cosmic fluke, how chemistry can be used to measure the complexity of life and why he firmly believes we will detect actual alien life within the next two decades. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - The AI Model Is Not Intelligent 00:01:38 - Trying To Create Life In A Lab 00:06:29 - Consciousness Is An Illusion 00:08:51 - We Know Nothing About The Origin Of Life 00:11:24 - Nobody Can Define Life 00:13:48 - The Adam Savage Definition 00:17:21 - Molecules Came Before Cells 00:21:53 - DNA Is A Fluke 00:25:48 - Biology Is The Descendant Of Chemistry 00:26:36 - Dark Matter And Dark Energy 00:31:50 - The Meaning Of Life Is Existence 00:35:18 - If You Handed Me Alien Matter 00:40:28 - What Is Digital Chemistry? 00:42:28 - Six Eureka Moments 00:49:12 - Unfathomable Is Not Strong Enough 00:53:01 - Could You Copy A Human? 01:11:55 - Why The AI Escape Story Was Nonsense 01:16:28 - The Photograph Nobody Thought Possible 01:18:25 - Curiosity Is The Coolest Thing We Have 01:31:33 - Social Media Is The New Smoking - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH LEE CRONIN › Cronin Group – https://www.chem.gla.ac.uk/cronin/ › Chemify – https://chemify.io/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/leecronin SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Quo – https://quo.com/pete › Venice AI – https://venice.ai/lp/mccormack/oct1 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #217 - Lee Cronin - AI Will Never Be Conscious. This Is How We Create Real Life.

  4. Sep 29

    #216 - Ross Clark - Britain is Bust & The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis

    The UK has accumulated £3.4 trillion in debt, and the interest payments alone now dwarf the national defence budget. Author and journalist Ross Clark argues that the nation is sleepwalking into a sovereign debt crisis that politicians refuse to acknowledge. We discuss the brutal arithmetic of the public purse, detailing why standard political talking points - like taxing billionaires-are mathematical illusions that fail to address the core rot of uncontrolled state spending and collapsing public sector productivity. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Print The Money, Get Hyperinflation 00:01:17 - Is Britain Bust Or Trading Insolvent? 00:02:57 - Whose Fault Is This? 00:07:24 - Taxing The Billionaires Buys Six Months 00:09:12 - How Bad Is The Debt Really? 00:12:07 - Perma-Stimulus 00:14:22 - No Party Has A Viable Plan 00:17:32 - What The Public Actually Thinks About Tax 00:19:21 - Three Choices On The Bond Market 00:24:02 - Where He Would Cut 00:25:33 - The Motability Scheme 00:29:03 - The Client State 00:30:06 - Austerity Never Actually Happened 00:34:21 - Productivity Is Almost Everything 00:44:32 - The Chancellor's Oldest Trick 00:46:51 - The Wealth Tax Trap 00:50:03 - The 1976 Tribute Act 00:55:59 - What Liz Truss Got Wrong 00:59:18 - How Would You Know A Crisis Had Started? 01:04:38 - What Gives Him Confidence - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH ROSS CLARK › The Spectator – https://www.spectator.co.uk/writer/ross-clark/ › Substack – https://rossjonathanclark.substack.com/ SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter › Venice AI – https://venice.ai/ – Code PETER15 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #216 - Ross Clark - Britain is Bust & The Coming Sovereign Debt Crisis

  5. Sep 24

    #215 - Nick Bostrom - "We Are Creating Superintelligence": The Existential Risk is Real

    Nick Bostrom is a world-renowned philosopher, founding director of the Future of Humanity Institute at Oxford University and author of Superintelligence: Paths, Dangers, Strategies and Deep Utopia. Widely credited with launching the global AI safety and existential risk movements, his work on machine alignment, recursive self-improvement and the Simulation Hypothesis has shaped how world leaders, tech founders and frontier AI developers view the future of humanity. In this episode, we discuss the rapid acceleration toward machine superintelligence and why leaving biological minds "in the dust" creates an urgent alignment crisis. We explore the real-world social fallout of AI-including looming 30% white-collar unemployment-alongside existential risk scenarios, the potential creation of an oppressed digital "slave class" and why humanity may already be living inside an advanced computer simulation. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Machine Minds That Leave Us In The Dust 00:01:33 - The Freak Out Camp 00:03:08 - We Already Have An Alignment Problem 00:05:07 - Why Nobody Can Afford To Slow Down 00:08:41 - The Anti-AI Movement Is Growing 00:13:19 - Three Buckets Of Disaster 00:15:02 - Winner Takes All 00:16:24 - Why It Might Still Need Us 00:18:55 - What Superintelligence Actually Unlocks 00:20:50 - What Do We Even Want It For? 00:22:14 - Did An AI Push Someone Off A Building? 00:24:15 - Can A Weaker AI Align A Stronger One? 00:28:51 - Will AI Become Conscious? 00:33:17 - Was Consciousness An Accident? 00:40:53 - Uploading A Human Brain 00:45:51 - What Happens To Status? 00:49:51 - We Could Redesign Ourselves 00:52:31 - My Daughter Is Studying Philosophy 00:56:35 - The Simulation Argument 01:04:20 - We Are Going To Need Some Luck - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH NICK BOSTROM › Website – https://nickbostrom.com/ › Deep Utopia – https://nickbostrom.com/deep-utopia › The Simulation Argument – https://simulation-argument.com/ SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter › Venice AI – https://venice.ai/ – Code PETER15 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #215 - Nick Bostrom - "We Are Creating Superintelligence": The Existential Risk is Real

  6. Sep 22

    #214 - Prof. Richard Werner - "They Are Traitors": How Central Banks Sabotage Wealth & Create Crises

    Prof. Richard Werner is a world-renowned economist, professor of banking, and author of Princes of the Yen. Famous for coining the term "Quantitative Easing" (QE) and publishing the first empirical proof that private banks create money out of thin air through lending, he has spent decades exposing the central planning mechanisms that dictate global finance. In this episode, we discuss the ”Revealed Preference" framework - demonstrating why we must analyse central bankers by their actions rather than their rhetoric. He explains how central planners use artificial recessions and banking crises as "windows of opportunity" to consolidate ownership, why textbook economics deliberately obscures credit creation, and how establishing decentralised local banks can unlock sustainable 10%+ annual growth. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Central Bankers Are Traitors To Their Countries 00:01:04 - Why Can't Britain Grow? 00:06:50 - Princes Of The Yen 00:11:19 - It Was Always About Control 00:13:38 - Banks Don't Lend Your Deposits 00:14:27 - Show Me Where The Money Is Created 00:16:14 - Every School Of Economics Gets It Wrong 00:20:14 - Why Would They Do This? 00:21:57 - Britain Is Close To Central Planning 00:22:46 - America Once Had 30,000 Banks 00:27:48 - The Problem Was Identified In 1918 00:31:18 - Who Runs The City Of London? 00:33:46 - We Need Thousands Of Small Banks 00:38:14 - First The Money, Then The Power 00:44:04 - Every Country Can Have 10% Growth 00:47:12 - Liz Truss And The Bank Of England 00:50:23 - We Don't Need Central Banks 00:52:22 - Were The Austrians Right? 00:57:35 - They Want Your Savings 00:59:21 - Europe's New Right - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH RICHARD WERNER › Website – https://professorwerner.org/ › Substack – https://rwerner.substack.com/ › Princes of the Yen – https://www.quantumpublishers.com/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/drrichardwerner SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Arch Public – https://archpublic.com/peter › Venice AI – https://venice.ai/ – Code PETER15 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #214 - Prof. Richard Werner - "They Are Traitors": How Central Banks Sabotage Wealth & Create Crises

  7. Sep 18

    #213 - Russell Napier - "They Are Stealth-Stealing Your Monday”: Financial Repression is Here

    Russell Napier is a renowned financial historian, author of The Solid Ground newsletter, and co-founder of the Library of Mistakes. Having advised global institutional investors for over thirty years, he specialises in long-term macroeconomic cycles, central bank interventions, and structural debt resolution. In this episode, we discuss the mechanics of "financial repression" - how Western governments use subtle regulatory mandates to force pension funds into negative-yielding sovereign bonds, effectively stealth-taxing savers to inflate away unpayable public debts.  He explains how risk-free assets have lost up to 78% of their real capital value, while revealing why the UK’s private sector balance sheet is "coiled like a spring" for an unprecedented economic boom. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - Stealing Money From Old People 00:01:26 - Britain Wants Lower Taxes Now 00:03:14 - The Public Sector Is Broke, The Private Sector Isn't 00:05:17 - Why Nobody Feels Richer 00:07:42 - It Has Never Been Easier To Fix This 00:09:47 - The Ideology Holding Britain Back 00:16:09 - What Financial Repression Actually Is 00:17:45 - We Need 4% Growth 00:19:40 - They Are Coming For The Savers 00:24:26 - How They Made Pension Funds Buy The Bonds 00:25:23 - The Triple Lock 00:29:28 - What Should A Saver Actually Do? 00:34:41 - Bitcoin And Gold 00:38:36 - Europe Wants Your Savings 00:40:43 - France Is Worse Than America 00:44:27 - You Are Now The Enemy 00:47:31 - We Have To Build Like Never Before 00:54:37 - Can AI Deliver A Productivity Boom? 01:01:19 - AI Will Trigger A Debt Crisis 01:06:15 - Three Firms Own Everything - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH RUSSELL NAPIER › The Solid Ground – https://russellnapier.co.uk/ › The Library of Mistakes – https://www.libraryofmistakes.com/ SPONSORS › IREN – https://www.iren.com/ › Quo – https://quo.com/pete › Ledn – https://www.ledn.io/peter › https://venice.ai/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

    #213 - Russell Napier - "They Are Stealth-Stealing Your Monday”: Financial Repression is Here

  8. Sep 16

    #212 - Callum Smiles - "They Are Stealing The Country": Border Gangs, Fake Deliveroo Accounts & The Civil War

    Callum Smiles is an investigative reporter and Associate at the Wyvern Fellowship. Having spent years conducting on-the-ground reporting across Calais, Dunkirk, and the Spanish enclave of Ceuta, he has documented the operational realities of Channel crossings, NGO involvement, and human trafficking networks across Europe. In this episode, Callum and I discuss the true mechanics behind illegal migration - from TikTok marketing campaigns run by trafficking gangs to the widespread abuse of gig-economy delivery accounts within the UK. We examine the systemic collapse of public infrastructure, government procurement waste, and the rise of local "parallel institutions" designed to rebuild community resilience independent of central state control. - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 - A 200 Grand Crossing 00:01:04 - The Failure of Modern Britain 00:02:46 - Where Is The Tax Money Going? 00:03:45 - NHS Inefficiency vs. Private Healthcare 00:05:45 - Single Air Fresheners & £600 Bed Moves 00:07:08 - The True Scale of Channel Crossings 00:10:00 - UN Conventions & Albanian Marketing Campaigns 00:12:30 - The Business Model: £3,000 Seats & TikTok Deals 00:14:32 - The Deliveroo Black Market & Criminal Networks 00:20:00 - What Are NGOs Actually Doing in Northern France? 00:22:21 - Conditions in Calais & Human Exploitation 00:26:34 - MOD Housing Contracts & Government Procurement 00:31:28 - Where Do National Lottery Grants Go? 00:37:38 - Undocumented Arrivals: Destroyed Passports on Planes 00:41:21 - Demographic Shifts & The Risk of Civil Unrest 00:44:25 - Legal Aid, Human Rights Laws & Border Enforcement 00:47:31 - The Political Class vs. Productive Taxpayers 00:52:48 - Eyewitness Report: The Ceuta Border Crisis 01:05:08 - Repurposing Military Bases for Migrant Housing 01:11:07 - Property Drop & High Street Decline in London 01:15:00 - Building Parallel Institutions: The Wyvern Fellowship 01:23:21 - Taking Back Local Control - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - CONTACT PETE › Website – http://petermccormack.com › Feedback – https://www.petermccormack.com/contact › Email – me@petermccormack.com › Instagram – https://www.instagram.com/mccormack555/ › X/Twitter – https://x.com/petermccormack/ CONNECT WITH CALLUM SMILES › X/Twitter – https://x.com/FranklySpeakP › Website – https://www.callumsmilesmedia.com/ SPONSORS › https://venice.ai/ - Code PETER15 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - LISTEN / SUBSCRIBE › Apple Podcasts: https://apple.co/40ruY9K › Spotify: https://spoti.fi/3Wc94Vu › Fountain: https://bit.ly/FountainPM › YouTube: https://bit.ly/YouTube_PM › Rumble: https://bit.ly/RumblePM FILMED BY CURTIS TAYLOR › https://www.curttaylor.co.uk/ › https://x.com/curttayloruk/ EDITED BY CONOR MCCORMACK › https://x.com/ConorM04 - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - - Hosted on Acast. See acast.com/privacy for more information.

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