If you've wondered who's actually running Britain — not the politicians on TV but the institutions, advisers, and networks behind them — these episodes of The Peter McCormack Show are the place to start.
Episodes in this cluster
#164 Liz Truss: Britain Isn't Run by Politicians — the former Prime Minister on why elected governments keep losing to the permanent state.
#157 Neema Parvini: Elite Theory — Who Runs the System? — the academic case for how elite circulation, not voters, determines policy.
#150 Curtis Yarvin: Who Actually Runs the System? — the Cathedral, the managerial class, and why modern democracies behave as a single organism.
#144 Rupert Lowe: Is the Government Organised Crime? — a sitting MP arguing the machinery of state functions like an extractive racket.
#139 Simon Dixon: Who Really Runs the World? — how asset managers and capital allocators outrank elected leaders on every major decision.
#138 Steve Baker: Why Government Doesn't Work — an insider on why Westminster can't actually deliver anything voters elected it to deliver.
New episodes in this cluster are tagged Who Runs Britain.