Peter C. Barnes

28/11/2025

Live tonight from 11pm I’m hosting TalkTVUK late-night phone-in with Ash Gould

We’ll be taking your calls on the biggest stories in UK politics, culture and the state of the country — if it’s keeping you awake, talk to us.

Call 0344 499 1000
Watch live on YouTube:
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20/11/2025

Britain is not on the edge of a crisis.
It is already in one, and most of Westminster is still pretending the cracks are nothing more than background noise.

My new piece for Hinton Magazine looks at what sits under the surface.
The parties have emptied out.
The institutions are split.
The UK government is running on momentum rather than strength, and you can feel it everywhere.

If you want to understand why the country feels stuck, this is the place to start.
https://www.hintonmagazine.com/post/the-hidden-politics-of-collapse-when-everything-continues-to-break

If this reflects how things feel where you live, tell me.
If it does, share it. People need to see what is happening.

17/11/2025

I’m on Jeremy Vine on 5 tomorrow at 9:15am on Channel 5.
A full discussion ahead on the key issues shaping the national picture.

We’ll be looking at:
• The UK asylum crisis and the pressure it is placing on the system
• Shabana Mahmood’s “safe routes” proposals
• Labour’s immigration strategy and the early signs of strain
• Border Force capacity and the question of operational control
• Cost-of-living pressures shaping the next budget
• Public services under growing demand
• Community tensions and crime linked to the hotel system

A clear, serious conversation about where things stand and why they matter.

If you’re watching, see you tomorrow morning.

08/11/2025

Apparently, there are people out there who read my work and thought, “You know what Britain needs? Even more of his opinions.”
Well, your wish — and possibly your curse — has been granted.

I’ve joined Hinton Magazine for a new twice-monthly column called Hidden Politics, an ongoing excavation of the ideology buried in everyday life. It’s where culture meets control, where performance masquerades as principle, and where people convince themselves that hashtags are a substitute for morals.

This isn’t Westminster soap opera; it’s the stuff that shapes how we think, talk, and behave — the quiet politics of who gets to define decency, identity, and truth itself.

The first few pieces will dig into how remembrance became performance, how compassion turned competitive, and how Britain keeps confusing virtue with visibility.

If you’re tired of noise without meaning, empathy without substance, and politicians without ideas — you might enjoy this more than is healthy.

📖 Read the new series on Hinton Magazine

06/11/2025

Every cause becomes costume, every silence a performance note. The poppy was once a symbol of loss — now it’s a badge in the contest of moral display, proof of belonging in a nation that’s forgotten what it means to believe.

We have:
A society addicted to signals, terrified of substance.
A government fluent in empathy, illiterate in truth.
A press that performs outrage to pay rent.
A public that scrolls itself into sedation.

The Hidden Politics of the Poppy is the first in my new series with Hinton Magazine, pulling back the curtain on a nation not collapsing but collapsed

🔴 The Hidden Politics of the Poppy: Two Minutes of Maturity in an Era of Competitive Empathy
by Peter C. Barnes | Published in Hinton Magazine
https://www.hintonmagazine.com/post/the-hidden-politics-of-the-poppy-britain-competitive-empathy

On your marks, set, grieve. We’ve confused the military bugle with the starting pistol. Like Strictly or the John Lewis advert, the poppy wars now live in the cultural calendar — and every year they start earlier. What began as remembrance has turned into a contest. Compassion has been replaced ...

24/09/2025

I said it on GB News and I’ll repeat it here:
“I’m sorry, I find today to be a repugnant and a dark day for Britain.”

The Labour Party recognition of Palestine is being celebrated by Hamas as “one of the fruits of October 7.” We gave them a gift for massacrereing jews done at the command of the radical Left on Labour backbenches

That is appeasement. That is weakness. And that is collaboration.

Read my full Wolves of Westminster article here 👇
https://wolvesofwestminster.co.uk/collaborator-how-starmer-in-your-name-made-you-an-accomplice-to-terror/

18/09/2025

Britain is collapsing — housing broken, economy shrinking, institutions in freefall. And yet the fight in Westminster is over who waves the flag harder.

That isn’t patriotism. That’s fraud.
My Latest: Great No Longer: Britain’s Plastic Patriots & Those Who Sneer: https://tinyurl.com/22fhw4ch
Socials & Other Work: https://linktr.ee/pcbarnes123

14/09/2025

Charlie Kirk was assassinated because of his opinions. A little girl has lost her father. That is not politics — that is civilisation itself on the line.

I’ve waited to release this because I’ve been watching in horror as not a single lesson is being learned. My fear is simple: the body count will only grow.

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14/09/2025

Charlie Kirk was assassinated for his opinions. A little girl has lost her father because society has decided opinion is a crime.

This is not politics. This is civilisation itself on the line.

Full essay here:
✉️ https://pcbarnes123.substack.com
🌐 https://linktr.ee/pcbarnes123

13/09/2025

Crime is being romanticised. But, why? Fariza joined Breaking Embargo to explain how younger generations are being influenced by shows like Top Boy and Peaky Blinders.

Does Fariza have a point?

13/09/2025

Is Singapore the answer to ridding politics of corruption? James Price makes a case for it on Breaking Embargo.

12/09/2025

We need to thank Jeremy Clarkson for highlighting the issues of farmers.

Watch my interview with Mo Metcalf-Fisher on Breaking Embargo on YouTube now.