#125 - Tom Slater - Policing Speech & Ignoring Crime: The Decay of the UK
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 4 November 2025
⏱️ 103 minutes
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Summary
Tom Slater is the editor of Spiked, one of the most important voices in the UK free speech movement.
We cover: – Why free speech is collapsing in Britain – The absurdity of arresting 30+ people a day for tweets – The rise of soft censorship & speech policing – Why Labour has abandoned the working class – Illegal immigration, NGO rackets & the new elite – The failure of the police – Why we need direct democracy and state decentralisation – The case for cultural renewal and citizen power
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:03:45 – State Overreach & Free Speech 00:13:10 – Labour's Class Betrayal 00:17:55 – NGO Rackets & Migration 00:22:47 – Hotel Contracts & Public Anger 00:26:38 – Crime, Housing & Council Collapse 00:31:14 – Police Don't Stop Crime 00:36:30 – 30 Arrests a Day for Tweets 00:40:45 – Real Free Speech Cases 00:46:02 – NHS, Rackets & Reform 00:51:00 – Can We Save Policing? 00:56:00 – Speech Laws, Censorship & Culture 01:00:40 – Why the Public Are Right 01:06:10 – Direct Democracy 01:11:00 – Councils & Local Control 01:15:00 – Media Bias 01:18:15 – The Political Class Is Finished 01:23:00 – Can Reform Deliver? 01:28:00 – Why Free Speech Still Matters 01:32:30 – The Middle-Class Protection Racket 01:36:45 – Cultural Decay & Cowardice 01:40:10 – Final Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | There are certain things that the state does need to do, and it's doing those things terribly. |
| 0:03.0 | Meanwhile, there are all sorts of things it shouldn't do at all, and it's doing that zealously and to the ends of the earth. It should be protecting people from violent crime. It shouldn't be protecting people from offensive speech, and yet it's making great guns are doing the latter and not very well doing the former. kinds of things about, you know, you kind of see that across the piece. The fact that they've |
| 0:20.7 | allowed kind of defense and national defense to kind of completely wither on the vine, |
| 0:25.0 | meanwhile they're spending insane amounts of money on things that really don't matter. There's some |
| 0:29.2 | kind of reckoning with that is absolutely necessary because at the moment people feel like |
| 0:32.9 | it doesn't matter how much they pay in tax, it doesn't matter how much they kind of contribute to the system. |
| 0:38.3 | It just disappears. Meanwhile, their actual kind of living standards get worse. So I think there's more of a kind of, whether or not it's going to be pushed in a kind of purely libertarian perspective, I'm not sure, because I think people are still kind of not necessarily kind of in and themselves pro free market, but a sense that there needs to be a reckoning with the states that it focuses on the things it should do and could potentially do well and get the hell out |
| 0:58.0 | of the things that it has no business doing and that have kind of tyrannical consequences when it |
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