#126 - Ant Middleton - Why Violence Creates Freedom
The Peter McCormack Show
Peter McCormack
4.7 • 2.8K Ratings
🗓️ 6 November 2025
⏱️ 92 minutes
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Summary
Ant Middleton is a Special Forces veteran, author, and former SAS: Who Dares Wins star. He joins the show for a conversation about identity, violence, service, and what's gone wrong in Britain.
From his military career and time in prison to his rise in the media and now politics, Ant lays out why he feels a duty to serve again — this time as Mayor of London.
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TIMESTAMPS: 00:00:00 – Introduction 00:04:36 – Violence, Aggression & Mastery 00:11:16 – Freedom, Fear & State Control 00:16:45 – Multiculturalism vs British Culture 00:25:00 – The Discipline Deficit 00:30:22 – Sadiq Khan, Grooming Gangs & Denial 00:36:45 – Failure, Ego & Accountability 00:41:00 – Serving the Public Again 00:45:30 – Three Pillars of Trust 00:50:12 – Tax, Control & Silent Partners 00:57:30 – Why Business Is Broken 01:03:00 – How to Win in Politics 01:07:00 – Civil Unrest & the Line to Violence 01:12:30 – Victimhood vs Self-Mastery 01:18:00 – Excellence, Ego & Daily Debrief 01:22:00 – Service, Sacrifice & Family 01:28:00 – Brining London's Energy Back 01:30:25 – Closing Thoughts
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| 0:00.0 | We talk about identity. It's the suppression of British culture. |
| 0:04.3 | If we are of all cultures, Pete, that means we are cultureless. |
| 0:09.5 | Okay? And if we're culturalist, that means we have no identity, right? And then the process starts. |
| 0:14.9 | When we have a lack of identity, which I had when I left the military, confusion. |
| 0:20.0 | This is where it starts off. |
| 0:21.4 | You get confused? |
| 0:22.4 | Where do I belong? |
| 0:23.7 | Where's my purpose? |
| 0:24.9 | Frustration is the next thing from confusion. |
| 0:29.2 | Confusion, frustration, anger, violence. |
| 0:36.1 | And I say this from a psychological standpoint of how I understand people. |
| 0:42.3 | And this process is really, really important to understand that that lack of identity leads to that process. |
| 0:51.3 | And we are in the anger teetering into the violent stage of that process. |
| 0:59.3 | We're way down the line now with society out there. And I think it's a great point that |
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