The Peter McCormack Show

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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TIMESTAMPS:
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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TIMESTAMPS:
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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TIMESTAMPS:
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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TIMESTAMPS:
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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TIMESTAMPS:
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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