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#150 - David McGrogan - The British State Is Not Broken And The System Is Working Exactly As It Was Designed

David McGrogan is a legal scholar at Northumbria University and the author of the Substack News from Uncibal.

In this conversation, we think out loud about:

• Why the intelligentsia wanted to show mercy to the most treasonous man in British history

• Rebecca West and the moral vocabulary Britain abandoned

• Policing by consent becoming policing by negotiation — and why nobody trusts the police

• The shoplifter who comes every day — and why calling the police is a punchline

• Bukele, Napoleon, and the ancient Greek cycle of democratic collapse

• The Empire of Diversity — why Hobbes explains…

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