Daniel O’Reilly, also known as Dapper Laughs, was one of Britain’s most cancelled comedians. Now he’s back sober, sharp, and with something to say.

In this episode, we dive into comedy, cancel culture, fatherhood, immigration, addiction, the working class & why Britain feels broken.

Carl Benjamin joins me for a conversations about the UK’s decline. From moral collapse and socialism-by-stealth to town centre decay and mass apathy, we dive into what went wrong and why fixing it might not be possible through conventional politics.

Carl and I share personal plans for Swindon and Bedford, compare strategies and ask whether it’s time to stop waiting for government and start building parallel institutions ourselves.

Fernando Nikolić is a Bitcoiner, a former VP at Blockstream, and the founder of Perception, a tool for tracking global Bitcoin narratives.

He joins me to talk about Argentina’s collapse, the danger of inflation, and why fiat currency is the biggest gaslighting project in modern history.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:18 – Why Britain Is Starting to Feel Like Argentina
00:02:37 – Is the UK Ready for a Milei Moment?
00:07:24 – Why Britain Needs Bitcoin
00:09:47 – The Return of Communist Ideology
00:22:28 – Policing, PR, and Political Theatre
00:30:00 – Private Sector vs Public Sector
00:36:46 – Why Bitcoin Is the Foundation for Real Change
00:43:52 – Bitcoin as Your Hedge Against the State
00:46:04 – Predictable Money vs Programmable Theft
00:52:18 – Argentina Warning to the West
00:55:27 – The Bitcoin Savings Mindset
00:59:00 – Why Inflation Kills Ambition
01:07:12 – Bitcoin’s BlackRock Era vs Its Cypherpunk Roots
01:13:36 – Has Bitcoin Become Boring?
01:17:24 – If Bitcoin Becomes the Monetary Base, Do We Win?
01:20:00 – Paper Bitcoin: Are We Recreating Gold’s Failure?
01:23:36 – What Happened to the Bitcoin Revolution?
01:26:04 – Fernando’s New Project: Perception
01:28:03 – Narrative Warfare & Media Fragmentation
01:34:00 – Are We Heading for a Post-Internet World?
01:38:00 – AI, Deep Fakes, Dead Internet
01:44:32 – Why Culture Matters More Than Content

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Laila Cunningham joins me to discuss the cultural crisis facing Britain and the West. We talk about mass immigration, the failure of multiculturalism, political identity, social disintegration, and the collapse of national cohesion.

Laila explores the deep psychological impact of globalist policies, the struggle for meaning in a hyper-liberal age, and why the youth are increasingly disillusioned with progressive narratives. Is there a path back to order, tradition, and identity?

Sir John Redwood has been inside Downing Street and the Treasury. He’s seen the machine up close and he’s not impressed.

Sir John explains why the Office for Budget Responsibility (OBR) and Treasury models are flawed, how Ireland beat Britain with smarter tax policy and what Thatcher got right that no one today is willing to say out loud.

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TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) – Introduction
(1:25) – Why government keeps making things worse
(4:14) – Taxing education & small business
(9:47) – Should we abolish the OBR?
(14:05) – Government too big, taxes too high
(18:52) – Are we heading toward another 1970s crisis?
(21:43) – How Thatcher fixed the mess
(31:28) – What would Thatcher think today?
(34:12) – Labour's economic strategy collapsing
(37:06) – Why Redwood entered politics
(48:34) – The water crisis & foreign ownership
(55:16) – What Thatcher got right
(58:59) – Jealousy politics & public perception
(1:02:20) – Why deregulation & low taxes aren’t a hard sell
(1:04:57) – Two-tier justice: public vs private sector failure
(1:07:26) – What makes a great Prime Minister?
(1:09:34) – Will Starmer survive a full term?
(1:12:04) – Rise of Reform & collapse in turnout
(1:18:17) – Should we audit the Bank of England?
(1:25:47) – The personal cost of political conviction

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Former Conservative MP Guy Opperman joins me to discuss rebuilding Britain from the ground up. We explore local banking, Bitcoin’s potential role in pensions, infrastructure challenges, and how community action can revitalise struggling towns.

Drawing on his 14 years in Parliament and time as Pensions Minister, Guy explains why grassroots civic leadership and decentralisation are key to fixing Britain’s broken economy. We also discuss the failures of centralised politics, the importance of community banks, and how financial innovation – including Bitcoin – could help restore savings, trust, and economic resilience.

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TIMESTAMPS:
(0:00) – Introduction
(2:58) – Labour's empty promises & voter regret
(8:36) – What’s really broken in local government
(13:01) – Why good people avoid politics
(18:03) – Are we living in managed decline?
(23:58) – Why the UK can’t build anything
(28:43) – If you want to change the world… look in the mirror
(35:56) – 14 years in office
(37:54) – The real fixes to local government
(40:34) – Building a community bank from scratch
(44:07) – Solving poverty through savings
(48:36) – Teaching kids about money in schools
(52:28) – Why big banks abandoned the working class
(1:00:26) – Crime, capital and community
(1:02:44) – Is there a role for Bitcoin in pensions?
(1:07:34) – MPs can do more than just make laws
(1:11:40) – Creating a civic wave
(1:13:52) – Regulation vs common sense in local action
(1:17:24) – Building local pride
(1:21:04) – Can Bitcoin solve pensions in broken nations?
(1:29:27) – Final thoughts: build something that lasts

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In this episode of The Peter McCormack Show, I speak with Balaji Srinivasan, founder of the Network School (ns.com).

We discuss the decline of the West, the rise of China, AI disruption, Bitcoin’s role in a collapsing dollar system, and why political polarisation is tearing America apart. Balaji explains why dollar inflation is global taxation, why U.S. empire is unsustainable, and how decentralised technology is reshaping money, media, and geopolitics.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:32 – West vs East: Power Rebalancing
00:06:33 – Asia Rising & West Declining
00:10:30 – Media Denial & Western Escapism
00:14:00 – Millionaire Migration Maps
00:18:20 – Exponential Collapse Trends Begin
00:20:10 – Red vs Blue vs China vs Internet
00:25:00 – Trade Wars & Tariff Illusions
00:33:05 – Blue America vs Internet
00:39:35 – The US Could Split Geographically
00:43:52 – Dollar Inflation = Global Taxation
00:49:30 – Left & Right Destroying Their Empire
01:07:20 – Super Bitcoinization Already Happening
01:26:00 – The Internet is the New West
01:32:00 – Debt Collapse vs Hyperinflation
01:42:00 – Foreign Trust in the US Collapsing
01:45:00 – Brain Drain: Talent Fleeing America
01:48:00 – India Rising, Fast & Quiet
01:54:00 – Bitcoin vs State Power
02:03:00 – America Cannot Handle Being #2
02:06:00 – Debt & Broken Promises
02:12:00 – Internet = West 3.0
02:14:30 – The Internet Will Replace the Empire

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Businessman, former MEP, and leader of Advance UK Ben Habib joins The Peter Mccormack Show to deliver a blistering critique of Britain’s political and constitutional decline. In this discussion, Ben exposes how Tony Blair’s reforms, the Human Rights Act, and decades of globalist policies have eroded British sovereignty, weakened our borders, and crippled our economy.

We discuss the collapse of public trust, the migration crisis, EU entanglements, judicial overreach, and why Keir Starmer’s Labour government poses an existential threat to Britain’s future. Ben reveals Advance UK’s plan to rebuild the nation from the ground up: secure our borders, return power to Parliament, revive our economy, and defend British values.

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TIMESTAMPS:
00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:08 – The UK is in a downward spiral
00:02:23 – The rise of globalism
00:03:56 – Starmer’s economic vandalism
00:08:03 – The EU trap & sovereignty erosion
00:10:16 – Why Starmer is anti-British
00:13:59 – Red tape vs economic freedom
00:16:02 – Local councils are broken
00:17:35 – Why businesses are dying
00:18:41 – The cost of firing people
00:19:56 – Civil unrest is coming
00:34:21 – The Human Rights Act must go
00:40:31 – Shaming Tony Blair
00:43:02 – Advance UK vs Reform
00:47:56 – Free speech & Lucy Connolly
00:50:33 – Reform’s failures & Farage
00:59:33 – Advance’s College model
01:12:33 – Tommy Robinson & political prisoners
01:17:04 – What Advance would do in power
01:22:53 – Ditch Net Zero, cut welfare
01:25:50 – Where to cut government
01:26:13 – What drives Ben Habib
01:27:26 – Final thoughts

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