179 - My Family Owns a Country | Liam Bates

Sealand, Sovereignty & Building Freedom Without Permission

- For nearly six decades, the Principality of Sealand has stood as one of the world’s most famous experiments in self-declared sovereignty: a former wartime sea fort occupied in 1967 by Paddy Roy Bates and still run by the Bates family today. What began as a pirate-radio outpost became a long-running test case in jurisdiction, legitimacy, and what it means to build freedom outside existing systems.

Timothy Allen sits down with Prince Liam Bates of the Principality of Sealand, grandson of Paddy Roy Bates and part of the family st...