#86 - Lewis Brackpool - BBC Propaganda, Government Overreach and Media Distrust

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Peter McCormack

Technology, News, Politics, Money, Investing, Finance, Bitcoin

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🗓️ 25 June 2025

⏱️ 113 minutes

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Summary

Lewis Brackpool is an independent journalist and freedom of information expert investigating government overreach, censorship, and media manipulation. With a sharp eye for buried truths, he uncovers how the state embeds messaging into entertainment, stonewalls transparency, and shapes public opinion through covert influence.

In this interview, we explore media collusion, the expansion of the surveillance state, the rise of the managerial class, and the bloated machinery of modern government. Lewis makes the case for radical transparency, smaller government, and a new wave of grassroots accountability.

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TIMESTAMPS
(0:00:00) – Introduction
(0:00:00) – FOI reveals media collusion
(0:10:54) – Nudge units in action
(0:13:30) – Trust in UK collapses
(0:18:13) – COVID red-pilling moment
(0:23:10) – Real conservatism vs Deep State
(0:30:15) – Reform Party frustrations
(0:41:16) – Immigration and public opinion
(0:42:03) – Grooming gangs and denial
(0:52:55) – Grifting local council budgets
(1:04:40) – Abortion law changes
(1:14:13) – National debt and collapse risk
(1:20:01) – Why Bitcoin matters now
(1:45:31) – Real journalism is rising
(1:46:53) – Future of media and X
(1:50:00) – Avoiding echo chambers
(1:51:38) – Final thoughts and Substack

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0:00.0	The government goes in sometimes and embeds their messaging or narratives or they rewrite some scripts like scripts within screenplay writing,
0:10.4	whether it be the BBC, Channel 4, IT, ITB.
0:13.9	So what I decided to do, because I enjoy a good freedom of information request, I ping off so many,
0:19.7	I thought, well this is an opportunity not
0:21.4	just to sit around and be skeptical or to just say, well, it must be true. I want to find out.
0:27.3	So I put in an information request to the Department of Culture, Media and Sport, to find out
0:34.3	whether the government has been doing that, whether it would be about COVID messaging or vaccines or, you know, public health.
0:43.1	And the government delayed it after 20 working days and said,
0:46.6	we do have the information, but if we release this,
0:49.8	it might prejudice public opinion and it might undermine institutions essentially.
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