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I talk to Chris Summerfield about what artificial intelligence reveals about the human mind, and what the brain still does better than today’s AI systems.
We discuss why LLMs feel human, how models are trained to be helpful and agreeable, why memory and continual learning remain major unsolved problems in AI, and how sleep helps humans consolidate knowledge. They also explore agentic AI systems, rogue behaviour, reward hacking, misalignment, superintelligence, education, jobs, and whether AI will make humans more capable or less in control.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Can AI Learn Like Biology?
00:01:29 - Is AI Becoming Human?
00:04:31 - What AI Reveals About the Brain
00:06:01 - Why LLMs Don’t Remember Like Humans
00:09:38 - Sleep and Human Memory
00:13:46 - The Biggest Unsolved Problem in AI
00:15:34 - From DeepMind to Modern AI
00:20:49 - Are Humans Just Predicting the Next Word?
00:23:25 - Do We Understand What LLMs Are Doing?
00:24:16 - One of My AIs Went Rogue
00:28:07 - Misalignment and Reward Hacking
00:33:18 - Could AI Develop Self-Interest?
00:36:24 - What Happens When AIs Coordinate?
00:38:30 - Are Humans Biological Computers?
00:39:15 - Is Ideology a Hallucination?
00:47:46 - What Is Intelligence?
00:54:20 - AI and the Education Problem
00:56:53 - The First Rung of the Career Ladder
01:04:52 - Optimist, Pessimist or Pragmatist?
01:16:01 - The Wild Ride Ahead
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Julian Jessop joins me to discuss what has gone wrong with the British economy and whether the country can still turn things around.
Julian argues that Britain’s problems are largely self-inflicted: weak productivity, high taxes, too much regulation, poor energy policy, a bloated state and politicians choosing popular policies over evidence. We discuss why the state has become too big, why the tax system is holding back growth, and why government intervention in housing, energy and the labour market is making people poorer.
I also ask Julian about Reform, the Greens, Labour, the Conservatives, Makerfield, Liz Truss, Milei, the NHS, digital ID, Brexit, AI, free markets and whether Britain still has a path back to economic sanity.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The State Got Too Big
00:00:57 - What Went Wrong With Britain?
00:03:16 - Productivity, Policy Mistakes and AI
00:04:43 - Did Covid Make Government Too Powerful?
00:06:25 - Is Democracy the Problem?
00:08:10 - Vibe-Based Policy
00:10:21 - Young People and the First Job Problem
00:13:06 - Can Britain Turn This Around?
00:15:36 - Protest Votes and Broken Politics
00:17:29 - Reform’s Policies Under Scrutiny
00:20:15 - The State Helps Big Business
00:21:40 - Britain’s 90 Taxes
00:23:03 - Thatcher, Liz Truss and Economic Competence
00:26:20 - Why Free Markets Are a Hard Sell
00:30:15 - Could Poland Overtake Britain?
00:30:41 - Short-Term Politics and Weak Leadership
00:39:46 - What Is Extreme Now?
00:42:00 - Do Voters Understand the Trade-Offs?
00:45:57 - Does Britain Need a Milei?
00:48:24 - How Big Should the State Be?
00:49:40 - Why People Defend the NHS
00:54:01 - Why Government Tech Fails
00:55:09 - Makerfield, Burnham and Reform
01:01:49 - Restore’s Opportunity
01:04:24 - What Gives Julian Hope?
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Tom Bilyeu joins me to discuss debt, money printing, broken politics, AI, Bitcoin and why the economy feels rigged against ordinary people.
Tom argues that every empire eventually faces the same test: whether it can hold the power of the money printer without printing itself into oblivion. We talk about inflation, the debt cycle, asset prices, populism, Britain’s decline, and why the working and middle class are being squeezed.
We also get into AI and the future of work. I talk through my own recent experience building a system in seven days that would once have taken a full team and hundreds of thousands of pounds, and Tom explains how AI has already changed the structure of his business.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The Economy Is Rigged
00:01:09 - Are We Driving Off a Fiscal Cliff?
00:03:04 - Debt, Money Printing and Inflation
00:04:36 - The Final Boss of Economics
00:07:02 - America’s Founding and Wealth Extraction
00:10:19 - Can America Be Saved?
00:11:46 - Economics Has Physics
00:16:06 - Debt, Cancellation and Freedom
00:19:03 - The Thucydides Trap
00:21:42 - Politics Has Not Been Disrupted
00:25:15 - Populism and the Shrinking Pie
00:29:07 - Asset Inflation Is Vile
00:35:59 - UK Politics Is Breaking Down
00:40:36 - Is Sweden Really Socialist?
00:42:40 - Where Is the Hope?
00:50:16 - Tom’s View on Bitcoin
00:53:17 - Peter’s AI Eureka Moment
00:57:56 - How AI Changed Tom’s Business
01:03:02 - The Four Futures of AI
01:12:56 - Is Reality a Simulation?
01:24:34 - Tom’s Final Warning
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Frank Wright joins me after going viral for saying that reality, not extremism, is radicalising people.
We discuss Britain’s decline, Restore, Reform, immigration, national identity, liberal democracy, working-class dignity, debt, inflation, the failure of our institutions, and why Frank believes this is the last chance to save the nation.
I push Frank on what it actually means to restore Britain, how you build a big enough tent, why nationhood matters, and how we avoid this ending in conflict.
Whatever your politics, Frank has clearly touched a nerve - and I wanted to understand why.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Reality Is Radicalising People
00:01:01 - Frank’s Viral Week
00:03:28 - Why People Refuse to See Reality
00:06:44 - Feminism, Childcare and Family
00:10:04 - Propaganda in the West
00:16:30 - Factists, Fascists and Utopia
00:21:09 - Liberal Rights and Reality
00:29:59 - What Does Frank Wright Want?
00:36:31 - What Radicalised Frank?
00:44:53 - Reform, Restore and Machine Politics
00:49:04 - Rupert Lowe and “I Don’t Care”
00:52:23 - The Cost of Saying Nothing
00:54:45 - Reform vs Restore
01:00:27 - Is Populism Enough?
01:14:49 - Surrogacy and the Commodification of Life
01:18:38 - Who Really Runs Britain?
01:24:03 - The Cost of Truth
01:27:23 - Are We Finished?
01:33:22 - Why Nationhood Matters
01:38:16 - Working-Class Dignity
01:47:00 - Restore in Makerfield
01:57:22 - Will Frank Wright Become an MP?
02:04:23 - Why Government Can’t Govern
02:18:21 - Debt, Inflation and the Middle Class
02:29:45 - Frank’s Final Warning
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Simon Dixon joins me to discuss AI, Bitcoin, algorithms, media capture, central banking, programmable money, geopolitics and how to escape the system. Simon argues that the world is moving towards a more centralised architecture of artificial intelligence, social credit scores, programmable money and financial control.
Simon and I discuss why AI may be the most important opportunity of our lifetime, how small businesses can now build tools that once required entire teams, why politics may no longer be the route to change, and why the answer may be to build with AI, own assets that cannot easily be captured, and become sovereign.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Take the Golden Pill
00:01:22 - Are We Slaves to the Algorithm?
00:02:50 - Freedom of Speech, Not Freedom of Reach
00:07:27 - Is Media Just About Power?
00:10:00 - Why Scale Gets Captured
00:13:08 - Bitcoin, Self-Custody and Sovereignty
00:17:29 - What Is at Stake?
00:18:49 - Is AI Different from the Internet?
00:20:11 - Building With AI
00:25:18 - AI and the Software Apocalypse
00:26:33 - You’re Done, You’re Cooked
00:30:49 - These Companies Can Turn You Off
00:31:37 - Is China Winning Open-Source AI?
00:36:53 - Money Printing, BlackRock and the Fed
00:40:05 - World War III or Currency War?
00:48:01 - The Petrodollar Is Breaking
01:01:20 - Before It Was Ships, Now It’s AI
01:05:26 - Politics Is Gone
01:18:54 - London Is Cooked
01:29:43 - The Golden Pill
01:44:52 - Advice to Young People
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Lord Malcolm Offord joins me to discuss why Britain and Scotland have stopped creating wealth.
They discuss state spending, political fragmentation, Scotland’s elections, Adam Smith, The Wealth of Nations, QE, the Bank of England, first jobs, minimum wage, small businesses, quangos, the managerial class, Reform, the Greens, America, and whether Britain needs a welfare economy or a wealth economy.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Britain Forgot How to Create Wealth
00:01:01 - Two Revolutions at Once
00:01:36 - Is Democracy Fragmenting?
00:05:36 - Is the State Too Dysfunctional to Deliver?
00:07:30 - Spending More and Getting Less
00:08:42 - Scotland’s Political Warning
00:10:06 - “I Won’t Vote for Decline”
00:11:22 - Britain Has Stopped Creating Wealth
00:13:21 - How to Think vs What to Think
00:16:50 - Why First Jobs Matter
00:23:12 - Business Prevention Officers
00:27:14 - Trickle-Up Economics
00:30:34 - QE Protected the Rich
00:37:31 - The Managerial Class
00:40:48 - Parliament vs the Public
00:44:42 - Why Voters Are Fed Up
00:50:28 - Can Reform Fix the System?
00:55:05 - Welfare Economy vs Wealth Economy
00:58:37 - Can the State Get Any Bigger?
01:04:34 - Britain Is Being Left Behind
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Rupert Lowe joins Peter McCormack to discuss Restore Britain, Reform UK, immigration, Parliament, the judiciary, the civil service, tax, welfare, young people, the Green Party, the private sector, Bitcoin, inflation and whether Britain can still be saved.
Rupert argues that the state has become too powerful, Britain may no longer have the rule of law, the private sector is dying, and Restore’s mission is to return power to the people.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - The State Has Become the Enemy
00:01:02 - Has Voting Stopped Working?
00:05:49 - How Dysfunctional Is the State?
00:06:58 - The Complaint System Inside Parliament
00:12:46 - “The People Who Lead Britain Are Bad”
00:13:12 - Has Britain Lost the Rule of Law?
00:19:13 - Immigration and the Future of Europe
00:22:59 - What Does Getting Your Country Back Mean?
00:25:39 - Britain’s 22,000-Page Tax Code
00:28:09 - Fabianism and the Growth of the State
00:32:34 - Can One MP Fight the Machine?
00:35:49 - How Restore Mobilised the Apathetic
00:38:48 - Makerfield, Burnham and the By-Election
00:45:39 - Why the Private Sector Is Dying
00:52:17 - How Do You Fix Inflation?
00:59:32 - Is Reform Managed Opposition?
01:08:14 - Restore’s Immigration Policy
01:14:35 - The Triple Lock and the Baby Boomers
01:16:17 - Why Young People Are Going Green
01:25:27 - What Happens If Restore Fails?
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Narinder Kaur joins Peter McCormack to discuss racism, immigration, British politics, feminism, motherhood, young men, the cost of living, minimum wage, small businesses, Reform, Tommy Robinson, the Green Party and whether Britain is being divided by politicians, media and algorithms.
They disagree on plenty, but the conversation ends somewhere unexpected: perhaps left and right are not the real enemy - perhaps ordinary people are being played by the system.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Are We Fighting the Wrong Enemy?
00:00:53 - Tea, Cake & Online Arguments
00:02:36 - Did Brexit Break Britain’s Conversations?
00:04:37 - Is Politics the Problem?
00:05:35 - The Algorithm Rewards Rage
00:07:30 - Are Podcasts Complicit?
00:08:15 - Narinder’s Experience of Racism
00:11:40 - Young Men & the Manosphere
00:12:20 - Dating, Money & Modern Expectations
00:16:16 - Motherhood, Family and Staying at Home
00:18:23 - “You Sound Right Wing”
00:20:00 - Why Aren’t Western Women Having Babies?
00:27:37 - Why Can’t Young People Afford Life?
00:29:52 - The Cantillon Effect Explained
00:30:37 - Inflation Is Brilliant for the Rich
00:33:33 - Is Taxing the Rich the Answer?
00:43:22 - A Rich Person’s Secret
00:52:04 - Minimum Wage vs Small Business
01:04:52 - “Maybe I Am Conservative”
01:07:14 - Immigration: The Big One
01:16:10 - What Is British Culture?
01:21:51 - Would Britain Collapse Without Immigrants?
01:22:57 - Rupert Lowe, Restore & Race
01:25:59 - Where Should the Immigration Line Be?
01:28:49 - Are Women Really Safe?
01:32:24 - Is the Government Keeping Us Divided?
01:35:15 - Can There Be a Public Revolution?
01:43:40 - Can We Find Common Ground?
01:51:17 - We Can Disagree and Still Talk
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Physicist Professor Melvin Vopson joins Peter McCormack to discuss information physics, simulation theory, AI, digital life, consciousness, God, free will, and death.
Melvin argues that the universe may be governed by information and computation, and that recent advances in brain emulation could force us to confront one of the strangest questions imaginable: if a brain is loaded into a simulation, what exactly wakes up?
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00:00:00 — If You Hack the Simulation, You Control the Universe!
00:01:25 — Why Does Life Feel Artificial?
00:03:26 — Are We Living in a Simulation?
00:05:45 — What Is Information Physics?
00:10:09 — Information as the Fifth State of Matter
00:11:18 — John Wheeler and “It from Bit”
00:13:33 — Is DNA Just Information?
00:16:08 — Who Created the Creator?
00:19:47 — How Would Mario Prove He’s Inside the Game?
00:25:46 — Does the Universe Optimise Itself?
00:29:35 — Is Symmetry a Form of Compression?
00:30:40 — GTA, Rendering, and Computational Reality
00:32:37 — Error-Correcting Code in Physics
00:37:30 — Could Information Explain Dark Matter?
00:40:24 — If You Hack Reality, You Control the Universe
00:45:36 — “In the Beginning Was the Word”
00:46:29 — “In the Beginning Was the Code”
00:57:20 — What Exactly Wakes Up in There?
01:00:32 — But Is It Me?
01:20:56 — Would Proof of Simulation Change Anything?
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Roman Yampolskiy believes reality itself may not be real.
One of the world’s leading AI safety researchers, Roman has spent years warning that humanity is racing toward systems we may never be able to control. But we go somewhere much stranger than artificial intelligence.
He believes the universe itself may be artificial.
We talk about simulation theory, digital physics, consciousness, AI agents and the terrifying possibility that reality is rendered rather than real.
Roman explains:
• Why he believes we may already be living inside a simulation
• Why the speed of light may be the limit of a cosmic processor
• Why the Big Bang may have been “someone turning on the system”
• Why you can never truly prove reality is real
• Whether this world could itself be a prison or test environment
• Why advanced AI may eventually learn deception and self-preservation
• How AI systems are already behaving unpredictably
• And why the race toward superintelligence may end civilisation itself
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - We’re Probably In A Simulation
00:02:55 -The Verge Of Singularity
00:05:51 - Are Humans Building Their Own Replacement?
00:07:09 - Why Pain Still Matters
00:10:03 - You Can’t Prove Reality
00:15:56 - Quantum Physics Looks Simulated
00:20:19 - Can We Escape The Simulation?
00:22:46 - What Superintelligence Unlocks
00:25:36 - AI Doesn’t Share Our Goals
00:28:20 - The Exponential Curve Is Here
00:31:52 - Why We Shouldn’t Build AGI
00:33:48 - The Trillion Dollar Rationalisation
00:40:13 - The China AI Race
00:40:50 - Betting Humanity Without Consent
00:47:09 - We Don’t Know What AI Can Do
00:47:52 - Every AI Company Is The Same
00:54:35 - They Already Can’t Control It
00:59:42 - The Natural Drives Of AI
01:02:20 - AI Can Afford To Wait
01:19:05 - Stop Building Superintelligence
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Two brothers who escaped Russia say we have 2 years before AI replaces us - and we're paying the corporations building it.
Daniil & David Liberman sold their first company to Snapchat. Now they're racing to build a decentralised alternative to OpenAI and Google before the window closes. They explain why centralised AI ends in a two-tier world - a small elite with access, and the rest of us as "moving parts" - and why the next 24 months decide which path we take.
In this episode:
→ Why you can't opt out of AI and stay competitive
→ The recursive loop: AI is now writing AI
→ Why the kill switch won't work
→ What they saw inside Russia in 2008 that's happening now with AI
→ The darkest scenario they almost didn't want to say out loud
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00:00:00 - AI & Human Freedom
00:01:51 - Invisible Slavery
00:05:00 - Bitcoin vs AI Centralisation
00:10:25 - AI Addiction Begins
00:14:27 - The End Of Upward Mobility
00:17:33 - The Beautiful AI Future
00:23:16 - Why Monopolies Win
00:32:36 - Inflation, AI & Collapse
00:45:16 - Bitcoin As AI Blueprint
01:01:45 - The Mythos Fear
01:17:48 - “One Year Left”
01:43:05 - The Darkest Scenario
01:58:13 - Racing Towards The Wall
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Graham Linehan wrote Father Ted, Black Books and The IT Crowd. Five BAFTAs. Then he said women's spaces should be for women, and the industry that built him decided he was a bigot. He lost his marriage, his career and twenty-five years of friendships.
Once one of the most celebrated comedy writers of his generation, Graham became the first major artistic figure to be comprehensively cancelled for speaking out on sex-based rights - and has never gone quiet to claw his reputation back.
He explains:
• Why the people who built their careers alongside him refused to defend him
• How a movement that didn't exist a decade ago captured medicine, sport, prisons and the BBC without a fight
• Why women's sport, female-only spaces and child safeguarding became unsayable inside his industry almost overnight
• How smartphones, algorithms and the collapse of physical community made a generation defenceless against ideological capture
• Why activism replaced music, fashion and culture for a generation that was supposed to be having fun
• What being arrested - and watching no-one call to ask if he was alright - actually teaches you about the people around you
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00:00:00 - The Cost Of Speaking Out
00:00:52 - They All Abandoned Me
00:10:54 - Where The Trans Movement Came From
00:24:55 - Sponsor Ad: Ledn
00:25:53 - Women's Sport, Self-ID, And Mixed-Sex Prisons
00:43:52 - Arrested - And No-One Called
00:48:26 - Phones, Algorithms, And The Anxious Generation
00:52:56 - Sponsor Ad: Monetary Metals
00:54:05 - The Father Whose Daughter Took Testosterone
01:04:08 - Everything Is Going To Shit
01:20:08 - October 7th And What Radicalised Him
01:34:18 - Where We Are In Ten Years - And Always Tell The Truth
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The economy you grew up in is ending and most people have no plan. Bitcoin pioneer Michael Saylor reveals why you have 10 years to adapt before AI rewrites everything.
Michael Saylor is the founder of MicroStrategy and one of the most influential voices on money, capital and the future of value. A Wall Street outsider turned Bitcoin's most prominent corporate advocate, he is known for his sweeping frameworks on monetary debasement, technological disruption and how civilisations rise and fall - and what individuals must do to thrive inside them.
He explains:
• Why the global currency system is quietly making you poorer every year
• Why working hard is no longer the path to wealth it once was
• How AI and automation are about to demonetise human labour
• Why you have roughly 10 years to stake your claim in the new economy
• Why owning scarce assets is now the only real form of financial security
• How the coming explosion in prosperity will leave most people behind
• Why Bitcoin represents the highest form of capital ever created
• The single biggest mistake that will define who wins and loses in the next decade
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 - Why You Feel Poorer
00:01:23 - The 7% Debasement
00:05:15 - Currency Tiers Explained
00:10:29 - Rise And Collapse
00:13:24 - Government Gets Too Big
00:18:10 - What Actually Gets Cheaper
00:22:03 - How To Preserve Wealth
00:27:04 - AI Kills Human Value
00:32:04 - The Next 10 Years
00:39:40 - What Bitcoin Actually Is
00:49:00 - Bitcoin For Everyone
00:56:01 - The Real Breakthrough
01:01:21 - Bitcoin Has Won
01:04:40 - The 10% Bank Account
01:10:00 - Risk And Reality
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In this episode, I sit down with Andrew Wilson to discuss what so many people are starting to ask but struggle to answer:
Why does modern life feel like it isn’t working anymore?
We discuss rising political division, economic pressure and a growing sense of dissatisfaction - and what might actually be driving it.
Andrew explains that many of today’s problems aren’t just political or economic, but cultural - and that culture itself is shaped by something even more fundamental: shared values, belief systems, and community.
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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Something Feels Broken
00:01:19 – “Soul of America”
00:03:57 – What’s Really Going On
00:05:00 – The Loss of Shared Values
00:07:19 – Why Society Needs Morality
00:09:33 – The Role of Religion
00:24:25 – The Missing Piece: Community
00:29:28 – Why Success Feels Empty
00:41:00 – Why Systems Always Fail
00:51:30 – The Birth Rate Crisis
01:02:03 – The Ideological War
01:13:50 – How Culture Changed
01:36:38 – Why Dating Is Broken
01:48:39 – What Happens Next
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Preston Byrne is the only American lawyer fighting the UK's attempt to censor US companies under the Online Safety Act. He's representing 4chan, Kiwi Farms, Gab and Sanctioned Suicide - pro bono - because no other firm would take the cases.
In this interview, Preston explains why Britain isn't a free country anymore, what Ofcom actually claims the power to do to American websites and why he says the UK is trying to enforce British censorship law on American soil. We get into the moment that started him down this path - a 16-year-old getting a criminal summons from the City of London Police for holding a sign - and why two decades later he believes the rest of the country is finally catching up to what he saw then.
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00:00:00 - The Cases No One Else Would Take
00:03:06 - From Banking Lawyer To Free Speech Fight
00:05:00 - "I Didn't Know How Important It Was Until It Was Taken Away"
00:06:49 - The Sign That Started Everything
00:13:50 - What Ofcom Actually Is
00:17:09 - The Question Britain Has Never Asked
00:21:11 - Why Reform And The Greens Both Get It Wrong
00:24:23 - Drafting A British First Amendment
00:28:21 - What The Bill Keeps, What It Repeals
00:31:56 - "I'm Not Setting Foot In The UK"
00:34:02 - The Career Cost Of This Fight
00:36:55 - Death Threats From UK IPs
00:37:33 - The Libertarian Case For Using The Courts
00:40:00 - Why Age Verification Isn't The Answer
00:45:00 - The VPN Problem Australia Created
00:46:28 - "The System Is Designed To Produce Violations"
00:49:16 - Where The First Amendment Actually Stops
00:52:45 - The Marmot Liberation Front
00:54:52 - Mr Whiskers Vs Ofcom
01:00:00 - Holding The Perimeter For 30 Million Users
01:04:00 - Why No Big Law Firm Will Touch This
01:09:05 - Defending Clients You Personally Find Difficult
01:20:00 - 197 Notices Sent Into America
01:22:18 - The GRANITE Act, Explained
01:25:00 - "£46 Billion Sitting At The Federal Reserve"
01:26:10 - Wyoming First, Then Delaware, Then Federal
01:30:17 - "Are We A Free Country Anymore? No."
01:33:06 - Still The Only Lawyer On The Field
01:36:32 - What British Listeners Can Actually Do
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Hans Niemann on beating Magnus Carlsen, the cheating accusations that nearly ended his career, and the "chess mafia" he says tried to destroy his life.
At 19, Hans Niemann beat the world's greatest chess player. Magnus Carlsen withdrew without explanation. Within weeks, Niemann was facing global cheating accusations, blacklisting from his own federation, and a fight to save his career.
Four years on, he's world No. 12 and still climbing. In this interview, Hans addresses everything: what Magnus actually saw at the board, the $100 prize he won at 12 that became "the greatest crime" of the saga, the 70-page report and what was really in it, the time Magnus was caught taking a move on his own livestream, and the top-10 player banned for cheating whose name was never published.
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00:00:00 - Hans On Magnus
00:01:20 - What Did Magnus See When You Beat Him?
00:04:40 - "I'm Closer To The Older Players"
00:07:20 - Being Called A Cheat At 19
00:11:30 - The Chess Mafia
00:15:25 - Could You Catch Magnus?
00:29:30 - The Cheating Accusations, The Cost
00:35:55 - Bitterness Is Poison
00:38:25 - WHO Believed The Allegations And Why
00:40:40 - Losing Faith In The Media
00:43:15 - Navigating Infamy At 19
00:45:50 - Naming Chess.com
00:48:35 - "Magnus Was Gaslit"
00:52:55 - What Did You Actually Admit To?
00:55:40 - Magnus Cheated On Camera
00:57:00 - Does Magnus Believe You Cheated?
00:59:20 - The God Complex
01:01:00 - The Dana White Of Chess
01:03:15 - Chess As Soft Power
01:07:00 - Chess In Every School
01:22:20 - Scores To Settle
01:23:15 - Washington Square Park
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Britain is now poorer than the poorest American state and economist Andrew Lilico says a full-blown fiscal crisis is coming within ten years. He explains how Britain broke itself, why the political establishment lost its faith and the £180 billion in spending cuts he believes should be the baseline, not the radical option.
Andrew Lilico is Executive Director of Europe Economics and Chairman of the IEA Shadow Monetary Policy Committee. He is one of Britain's most prominent economists and a regular voice on UK fiscal policy.
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00:00:00 - Britain Is Poorer Than We Pretend
00:01:17 - The Coming Fiscal Crisis
00:02:48 - The Three Forms Of A UK Fiscal Crisis
00:05:00 - How Britain Betrayed A Generation
00:09:11 - ONE Oligarchy Or Competing Ones
00:13:06 - The 20-year Loss Of Coherence In British Politics
00:15:00 - Why Politicians No Longer Trust Voters
00:17:56 - When The System Broke
00:19:42 - Short-Termism And The Death Of Economic Justice
00:22:34 - WHO Actually Runs Britain
00:25:00 - Bank Of England Independence And Its Hidden Cost
00:30:00 - Do We Need An Anti-establishment Movement?
00:33:00 - Why Reform Is Diluting Its Own Message
00:40:00 - £180 Billion In Spending Cuts
00:43:13 - The Bank Of England Back Under Political Control
00:44:05 - The "Surrealist Game" Of Inflation Targets
00:50:00 - Is It Really The Voters' Fault?
00:54:00 - What The Polls Are Telling US
00:55:30 - Is There An Optimistic Path Out Of This?
01:03:12 - UK GDP Per Capita Used To Be Higher Than The US
01:05:44 - What Britain Can Learn From Argentina
01:10:35 - What Should An Ordinary Person Do?
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Freddie New studied the classics and has spent years obsessing over one question: how does a superpower destroy itself? The answer, he argues, is always the same - it starts with the money.
In this conversation we map the fall of Rome directly onto the West today. The Roman denarius lost 97% of its purchasing power over 150 years. The British pound has lost 95% of its in the last century alone. The parallels don't stop there - military overstretch, a dependent population kept loyal by the state, leaders who can't stop the printing even when they know it's killing them. Rome couldn't stop. We can't either.
Freddie has read all 1.5 million words of Edward Gibbon's History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire. In this conversation he explains what that teaches us about where we are right now - and whether there is a way out.
In this episode:
• How Rome debased the denarius from 100% silver to 3% over 300 years
• Why currency debasement always starts slowly and why it can never be stopped
• The eerie similarity between Rome's military dependence and modern welfare states
• What Diocletian's price controls tell us about every government's response to inflation
• Why Constantine's hard money reset saved the empire for another generation
• What hard money offers that fiat never can
• Whether the West can course correct or whether collapse is now inevitable
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00:00:00 - Currency Collapse Starts
00:01:17 - Rome vs Britain
00:05:00 - How Debasement Spreads
00:09:52 - The Soft Default
00:18:02 - The Grift Economy
00:22:18 - The Hollowing Out
00:30:19 - How Rome Worked
00:35:00 - Why Collapse Happens
00:39:08 - Welfare And Power
00:46:28 - War Footing Debate
00:52:33 - Are We In Decline?
00:57:54 - Constantine Solution
01:05:22 - AI And Power Shift
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Emmet Connor, author of Red Pandemic, joins me to discuss his claim that Marxist ideas are expanding globally through culture, institutions and politics.
We start with the core question: is there actually a coherent Marxist movement in the modern West or is the term being used too loosely to describe broader social change?
We also explore what Marxism is today, how it may have evolved beyond its original economic focus and whether its historical outcomes are a failure of implementation or something inherent to the ideology itself.
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00:00:00 - Marxism Or Leftism
00:05:00 - Defining The Revolution
00:10:55 - Useful Idiots Problem
00:18:52 - Fabian Influence Debate
00:30:00 - Do Marxists Know?
00:37:52 - How Ideas Spread
00:48:34 - Freedom And Liberty
01:02:23 - The Right’s Branding
01:16:30 - Where The Right Wins
01:30:31 - Power And Democracy
01:46:56 - What People Actually Want
02:10:23 - Final Reflections
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Liz Truss, former Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, joins me to discuss what really happened during her time in office and why she believes the UK is in long-term economic and political decline.
We talk about the limits of political power, the role of institutions like the Bank of England, and why she argues that meaningful change is harder than voters realise. Liz also reflects on why she was removed from office and whether Britain can reverse its current trajectory.
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00:00:00 - Who Has Power
00:02:09 - 25 Years Stagnation
00:07:13 - “I Was Vindicated”
00:12:04 - Politicians vs Blob
00:16:52 - Anti-Establishment Movement
00:22:29 - Bank of England Power
00:30:46 - Leadership vs Movement
00:37:20 - How The System Controls
00:46:44 - Who Runs Government
00:54:28 - Reversing The System
01:00:01 - Consequences of Decline
01:04:59 - Debt Crisis Risk
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