The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 16th January 2026

00:00:00.960 Morning! You alright? How are you doing? I hope you're doing well on this lovely wintry morning.

00:00:10.720 It is 8am Greenwich Mean Time on Friday the 16th of January in the year of our Lord 2026.

00:00:18.000 You are watching Breakfast with Beau, the Beau show. You are the Breakfast Club.

00:00:24.000 The BBC Beau's Breakfast Club. You're part of the glorious band The Chosen Few. 0.96

00:00:28.540 A select few. I'm joined by my producer Harry. Young Harry, how are you little Harry? You alright?

00:00:33.500 Morning! Yeah, I'm good.

00:00:35.280 Good, good, good, good.

00:00:37.500 Alright, well let's just try and jump straight into it.

00:00:39.620 Today is one of those days where one story absolutely dominates.

00:00:43.860 It's wall-to-wall Robert Jenrick.

00:00:47.500 It's the Jenrick defection.

00:00:50.380 It's literally, I think, the front page of every single paper.

00:00:54.760 So we'll get into it.

00:00:55.840 I'm no fan of Jenrick, as will become clear during this stream.

00:01:01.500 Alright, let's have a look then.

00:01:02.880 So the BBC. 0.99

00:01:03.840 Sucked Jenrick defects and traitors. 1.00

00:01:08.240 That's a really, really tenuous pun on traitors. 1.00

00:01:14.320 Traitors.

00:01:15.440 That's a proper stretch for me.

00:01:19.320 In terms of wordplay.

00:01:22.220 Traitors.

00:01:22.700 The Guardian.

00:01:31.160 The Guardian goes with...

00:01:32.700 Sucked Jenrick defects to reform with fiery attack on failed Tories.

00:01:39.980 There we go.

00:01:41.440 Badenoch fires Shadow Justice Secretary for plotting against her.

00:01:44.820 Alright, so let's just jump straight into a few details.

00:01:48.860 Yesterday, it was yesterday sort of lunchtime, was it?

00:01:52.080 Maybe just slightly after lunchtime.

00:01:53.200 About lunchtime.

00:01:54.580 The story breaks, coming out of Conservative Party HQ, that Kemi Badenoch, the leader of

00:02:00.160 the Tory party, tiny little Nigerian woman, trying to claim she's British. 1.00

00:02:05.080 Little Nigerian woman, who somehow has been able to control the leader of the opposition party 1.00

00:02:11.120 in Parliament.

00:02:13.260 Made a statement, came out and said that she'd sacked Robert Jenrick.

00:02:18.740 She'd sacked him from the Shadow Cabinet, because he was, like, Shadow Justice Secretary.

00:02:26.000 And she'd removed the whip from him.

00:02:30.620 She was certainly not even, not only not in Cabinet, but not even, you know, welcome in

00:02:35.460 the Parliamentary Tory party.

00:02:37.920 And that she'd revoked, removed his membership from the party entirely.

00:02:41.420 So, in other words, deleted him from the Conservative Party ranks as hard as she possibly could.

00:02:48.960 Don't blame her for that.

00:02:50.160 I'm not blaming her for that.

00:02:51.700 I'm just saying that's what she did.

00:02:52.740 This is what happened.

00:02:53.880 About lunchtime.

00:02:54.680 That came out.

00:02:55.660 Big news.

00:02:58.340 Breaking.

00:03:00.060 Read all about it.

00:03:01.740 So, that happened at lunchtime.

00:03:03.580 And she'd said in that statement as well that it was because she'd got clear, like,

00:03:07.540 an irrefutable evidence that he'd planned to defect.

00:03:12.320 And then she also said that not only had he planned to defect, that he planned to do

00:03:16.500 it in such a way that was, like, really embarrassing for the Conservative Party and even his Shadow

00:03:20.840 Cabinet colleagues.

00:03:21.960 She didn't go into any further detail about exactly what that meant, what she meant by

00:03:25.080 that exactly, but, okay.

00:03:27.720 And she said, the British people are tired of such things, are we?

00:03:30.660 I'm not tired of seeing the Tory party implode.

00:03:33.740 Are we tired?

00:03:34.260 She was like, everyone's tired of all these psychodramas.

00:03:37.060 No.

00:03:38.740 Not really.

00:03:39.900 Yeah.

00:03:41.420 If it means the Tory party dies quicker, bleeds out quicker, I'm all for it.

00:03:46.820 Bring it on.

00:03:47.880 I'll have one of those a day.

00:03:49.680 The thing about Jemric, though, is that he's, like, high profile.

00:03:52.700 Anyone who might not know, he narrowly avoided becoming the leader of the Conservative Party,

00:03:57.920 Kemi Badalok.

00:03:59.900 Edged him out at the last moment to become the leader.

00:04:03.440 So he's very nearly, he's sort of, he's basically sort of leadership material, you know, people

00:04:08.920 can see how he might be the leader of a party, even Prime Minister.

00:04:13.120 We'll talk about that in a moment, how Nige might feel about that, you know, another shining 0.98

00:04:16.800 star.

00:04:17.680 Someone who's almost, shines almost as brightly as he does.

00:04:20.180 So, right, yeah, so Robert Jemric, he, so, it's the biggest defection so far, no two

00:04:26.640 ways about that, because even that Nadhim Zahawi fella, who used to be Chancellor, he's

00:04:34.280 actually not a sitting MP.

00:04:35.460 Whereas Jemric is, so, so Reform's number of actual sitting current MPs has just ticked

00:04:46.040 up one, and that's, that's absolutely not nothing, when you've only got, like, five.

00:04:52.000 Is it five they've got at the moment?

00:04:53.920 Four or five, they tick up on round four or five, they get a new one and then sack one.

00:04:57.880 They're about five, so I guess now they're six.

00:04:59.760 Um, okay, so, Robert Jemric polls, apparently polls reasonably well, um, you know, most sort

00:05:10.060 of Tory people anyway seem to like him.

00:05:13.040 He comes out and seems to say based things.

00:05:17.480 I don't, I don't trust him as far as I can throw it.

00:05:19.900 I'll get into all that in a moment, my personal opinion of the man in a moment.

00:05:22.860 Let's just keep talking about the story.

00:05:24.240 So, all that happened about lunchtime yesterday, and then later in the afternoon, was it late

00:05:29.040 afternoon or early evening time, Nige, uh, calls a press conference, a Reform press conference, 0.99

00:05:35.280 and he says, it's actually, it's a little bit funny that he was gloating that Kemi had

00:05:40.720 given him a birthday, a late birthday present, stuff like that.

00:05:45.220 And, um, and, um, yeah, making all jokes like that and gloating a little bit, being a bit

00:05:53.160 smug about it in Nigel's way, but that's okay, you know, I find it kind of funny.

00:05:57.040 Um, uh, and then he called out Robert Jenrick, he announced Robert Jenrick, and, uh, Robert

00:06:03.320 Jenrick actually wasn't there.

00:06:05.380 They, they just left Nigel standing there for like a few minutes before he came out on stage.

00:06:10.680 It was obviously a mistake. 0.93

00:06:11.900 I highly doubt Robert Jenrick deliberately meant to do that to make Nigel look a bit silly.

00:06:16.300 But anyway, that happened.

00:06:17.400 Then Robert Jenrick comes out, he does a little speech, a little disingenuous speech, if you

00:06:20.960 asked me about how the Tories are broken and they're, they're not sorry and they can't,

00:06:25.380 they won't and can't change.

00:06:28.120 And that reform is the answer.

00:06:33.360 You were part of the problem until literally this morning, Robert.

00:06:37.860 Sorry, sorry, Robert.

00:06:39.680 Weren't you the immigration minister for like over a year?

00:06:43.040 All through like 2023, basically.

00:06:46.380 If I recall, I looked it up this morning, but I think it was like October 2022 to December

00:06:50.520 2023.

00:06:51.860 It, Jenrick was the immigration minister.

00:06:53.940 So how are you not part of the problem?

00:07:00.740 Again, it's the same thing, the same thing, a lot of criticisms of that Nadiem Zahawi defection

00:07:05.180 is that, isn't this exactly the sort of person reform is supposed to be an option against?

00:07:11.500 You know, if you didn't, if you was right leaning, right of centre, you know, and you wanted

00:07:18.880 to vote for somebody, something more based, more nativist, more patriotic, more dare I

00:07:27.160 say nationalist than the Conservative Party, isn't reform, I mean at all, your only option

00:07:31.680 realistically that could win seats, your only option is reform.

00:07:35.860 So it's exactly the people that were in all the Conservative governments that did all the

00:07:40.480 damage really, that you don't want someone like Nadiem Zahawi and Robert, and Robert

00:07:46.620 Jenrick in my opinion, I don't trust him, I don't believe him when he comes out with

00:07:49.940 gaslighting red meat things that he says, that's what, that's sort of his reputation

00:07:55.340 isn't it, Robert Jenrick basically, a little bit, that he's, he's one of the hardest lines,

00:07:59.280 one of the hardest right voices in the Conservative Party.

00:08:05.320 Don't trust it, don't believe it, at all, I personally am saying, I don't trust it, I don't

00:08:09.120 believe it, at all, not at all, it's all just red meat, it's all just, it's all just

00:08:13.340 gaslighting, it's all just performative, don't trust him at all, what, the guy that

00:08:19.180 was the Immigration Minister during one of the periods of the most insanely traitorous

00:08:24.840 open borders area, times, during like, what, during Boris, or is it Rishi, all that, all

00:08:31.180 that time, all that time, the last handful of years of the Conservatives, whoever it was,

00:08:36.660 May, Boris, Rishi, he was an Immigration Minister for well over a year during that period, he

00:08:43.000 really, he's the guy, he's the based guy, is he, and then he was like, oh, I did, I was

00:08:49.000 moaning about it the whole time, trying to get loads of stuff done, I just couldn't, don't

00:08:52.260 trust, don't believe you, don't trust you, don't buy that, people say that about Suella

00:08:55.660 Breverman, Suella Breverman was trying really hard, it was just Rishi wouldn't allow her

00:08:59.960 to do the right thing, I don't buy that, don't buy that for a couple of reasons, one, it's

00:09:03.920 not just about the Prime Minister, it's this idea of Cabinet responsibility, it's the whole

00:09:07.820 Cabinet take responsibility, so someone like Suella Breverman, or Jenrick, just ignoring

00:09:12.460 that now, just blaming it all on the Prime Minister, the other thing is, if he was genuinely

00:09:18.300 thwarted from doing your job, you would have quit a lot earlier, it wouldn't have taken

00:09:23.180 you like 14 months to quit, I don't buy it, I don't trust him, oh really, Robert Jenrick,

00:09:31.480 Robert Jenrick's the based one, is he, he's the super based one, is he, the one that let

00:09:35.860 in like 20,000 Afghans, like under the cover of darkness, not that long ago, really, we're 0.59

00:09:44.440 going to trust him, this is what he wrote about that Afghan refugee, he says, welcoming Afghan

00:09:48.980 refugees is a national project, this was written by the Right Honourable Robert Jenrick MP,

00:09:53.020 these are his words, right, Afghans, who statistically speaking, crime rates are through the roof, 1.00

00:10:02.180 sex crime is absolutely through the roof, as a per capita thing, we don't want any, I don't

00:10:12.600 want any Afghans in this country, none, and he just welcomed over like thousands, 20,000, 0.99

00:10:17.500 was it something in the order of 20,000, it was thousands and thousands and thousands, again,

00:10:21.100 basically, secretly, really, Jenrick, Jenrick's going to do what's needed under, in a reform

00:10:30.960 government, to save the country, is he, he didn't stop the boats, they didn't really try

00:10:39.080 to stop the boats, did they, when he was immigration minister, I don't buy it, that they tried really

00:10:46.100 hard, and just couldn't, nonsense, nonsense, in this, he says, he says, it's so manipulative,

00:10:53.260 let me just read a bit of it, as the last US military aircraft lifted off from the airport,

00:10:58.120 that should witness both unimaginable tragedy, and remarkable heroism in the preceding weeks,

00:11:03.280 just an eight hour flight away, in my Nottinghamshire constituency, I walked to a house, in a peaceful

00:11:08.540 corner of my local town, won't be that peaceful for much longer, in my local town, to meet an Afghan 1.00

00:11:13.540 family, who are now my newest constituents, all this is great, by the way, according to him, I mean,

00:11:19.240 all this is great, Armand Dula, his wife, and their daughter, had arrived in the UK, three weeks

00:11:25.940 back, served their time, in a quarantine hotel, and were now settled in a house, thanks to the,

00:11:31.800 to the prompt response, of the local council, and the generosity of the local church, a world away,

00:11:36.620 from the tumult of Kabul, they greeted me, at their new front door, they radiated grace, and dignity,

00:11:42.280 and were effusive, and were effusive, with their gratitude, to those who had, who had helped

00:11:47.180 them, his name was Wayne Broadhurst, Robert, his name was Wayne Broadhurst, Afghans commit an insane 0.98

00:12:04.000 amount of violent crime and sex crime, but in this article he goes on to say how brilliant

00:12:08.980 it is, that Armand Dula and his family are now here, what a brilliant thing it is, a wonderful,

00:12:18.800 correct, the right thing to do, that he effectively smuggled in thousands and thousands, Robert

00:12:25.360 Jemmerick, effectively smuggled in thousands and thousands of Afghans, let's go, let's, what 0.95

00:12:31.580 does it say, the government is providing councils with funding for housing, education, wealth,

00:12:38.520 healthcare, English language training, and support workers to look after families, these new families,

00:12:43.700 oh are they great, brilliant, well two million of our elderly people face freezing or starving

00:12:49.040 to death, thanks for that, and job centres are already preparing to help people to find jobs,

00:12:54.360 and we will be working with community groups, the length and breadth of the country, we also

00:12:58.580 want to ensure long-term integration, do we, do we Robert, I don't want these people here

00:13:03.300 at all, I don't want them to attempt to integrate, integration is a civ-nat fantasy anyway, it

00:13:07.820 never happens, it basically never happens, I mean a tiny bit once in a blue moon, but I

00:13:14.080 don't want to like force Afghan nationals to integrate, to like pretend they're British now, 0.86

00:13:20.240 what nonsense, oh but Jemmerick says, we also want to ensure long-term integration, which

00:13:25.320 is a two-way street, is it, what, Britain becoming more Afghan, what do you mean it's a two-way street, 0.55

00:13:30.640 what are you talking about, Britain is a country which, with rules and values, we seek to ensure

00:13:37.160 that this effort, and the broader Afghan resettlement scheme, the Prime Minister has announced to help

00:13:43.300 others, who are particularly vulnerable, to come to the UK, say more, once more, in the years ahead,

00:13:50.100 are exemplars in achieving a united and integrated country, no it isn't, what are you talking about,

00:13:55.320 that, you're making it more dangerous, making it more divided, and he says there, not diverse,

00:14:02.140 but divide, not a diverse, but a divided one, among other things, that will mean care to,

00:14:07.220 that will mean, that will mean care to place families in all parts of the UK,

00:14:14.360 an increased attention to English language training, and an introduction to British cultural

00:14:18.920 and civic life, so he wants Afghans to be smeared across all the country, 0.96

00:14:23.740 this is mad globalism, this is insane, traitorous globalism, this is the type of person who you don't 0.96

00:14:31.720 want in government, you certainly wouldn't want as an immigration minister, don't believe that Robert

00:14:37.080 Jenrick is this like, based person, this like, someone with nativist interests at heart, he isn't,

00:14:42.500 he just isn't, he's a globalist, he's as much a globalist as Boris, or anyone, any one of these

00:14:47.640 people, absolutely, Jenrick is the based one, please, brave men and women like Amandula and his wife

00:14:56.300 are now our new country men and women, there you go, a statement, just a straight up statement of it,

00:15:02.900 they are our new compatriots, they are just, they are just British now, they are just English, 0.99

00:15:07.580 they are just, they are just one of us now, what, because you put them on an aeroplane,

00:15:13.980 Robert, really, we've just got to accept that now, their children are future members of our armed

00:15:20.800 forces, doubt that, teachers, doctors and entrepreneurs, they've come out of a tragic

00:15:25.840 and at times terrifying situation, but are now in a place of safety, freedom and opportunity,

00:15:32.340 we will do everything, we will do everything we can to ensure their new lives in the UK

00:15:35.660 are happy and successful, oh, great, brilliant,

00:15:39.580 cheers for that, Robert, cheers,

00:15:45.480 brilliant, there you go, Nige opening, welcoming him with open arms,

00:15:56.060 just welcoming him, there you go, he's one of the, he's the most based stories of anything,

00:16:03.700 well, we'll see, we'll see, the fact that he is, sort of, shines as brightly as Nigel,

00:16:16.580 with name recognition, almost on the level of Nigel, not quite, but you know, up there,

00:16:21.640 certainly, if not a household name, approaching a household name, one of the more famous politicians,

00:16:27.160 Robert Jenrick, right, speaks well, I'm not going to deny that, I'm not denying that,

00:16:31.400 you know, he's a good communicator, as they say, you know, he comes across well on like Newsnight or

00:16:37.340 something, so there you go, what else we got, Middle East allies urge Trump not to strike Iran,

00:16:46.360 yeah, apparently a load of the other Middle East, Eastern countries just asked Trump, don't just start

00:16:51.380 tomahawking Iran, please, apparently he, he heard that, we'll see, we'll see,

00:16:58.840 last time he attacked Iran, Trump, last year, he was like making out that he wasn't going to,

00:17:04.220 well, it wasn't any time soon, and then suddenly it happened, so we'll still see on that,

00:17:08.180 the sun, everything is about this generic defection today, everything,

00:17:13.840 all the front pages, so the sun, the sun, you might have, remember, I mentioned earlier in the week,

00:17:22.700 or was it the end of last week, there's this show on television, The Traitors, which is really popular,

00:17:28.180 and the son of the really, really tortured pun, Traitories, Traitories, however you, you know, 0.93

00:17:40.700 like Traitors, but Tories in it, it's sad, it's crap, dumped MP dishes dirt, banished degenerate in 0.96

00:17:48.620 defection to Farage, sacked by Kemi after plot rumbled, why do they talk like that, why do they, 0.99

00:17:56.000 why do they write it like that, in that tone, with that, sort of, intonation, with that, sort of,

00:18:05.000 banished to generic, in defection to Farage, that's not really proper English, I mean,

00:18:10.120 I don't know why they did it, The Metro,

00:18:11.980 The Secret Traitor, again, they went with, um, this, an allusion to, that show, The Traitors,

00:18:26.960 shock, torrid defection echoes drama on TV, well, only because you say it does, doesn't really, does it,

00:18:31.480 anyway, The Eyepaper, day of poison and betrayal as UK's right-wing feud deepens, I mean, none of

00:18:42.340 these people are right-wing, Kemi Badnock and the Conservative Party are just straight-up globalists,

00:18:48.000 occasionally making a lame attempt to pretend they're not, and Conservatives and Reform are

00:18:55.720 exactly the same thing, so none of them are right-wing, Tory leader sacks and expels her rival,

00:19:04.820 Robert Jenrick, Harry, can you just make this a bit bigger, just scroll up, make it a bit bigger for

00:19:12.540 me, there you go, okay, okay, that's fine, um, sorry, okay, Tory leader sacks and, uh, exiles her rival, 1.00

00:19:20.160 Robert Jenrick, before he defects to reform, has star signing, like it's football, it's a star signing,

00:19:28.400 um, member of Jenrick's, uh, inner circle, discovered his treachery and revealed plans to Kemi Badnock,

00:19:36.520 he says top Conservatives are, quote, uh, betraying voters and not sorry for their mistakes in government,

00:19:45.040 I haven't, I haven't heard him say sorry, sorry, I didn't mean to, it was a mistake, I haven't heard

00:19:51.680 him say anything like it was a mistake to import those 20,000 Afghans, no, that, from that article

00:19:59.280 I read you a moment ago, he thinks it's great, spread them across the, the length and breadth of

00:20:03.900 Britain, spend loads of money trying to teach them English and cultural civic values, British civic

00:20:10.540 values, get more of them over, make Britain more, sort of, Afghani, I don't, I've never heard him

00:20:20.360 recant any of that or say sorry for any of that, I didn't hear a dicky bird out of him about the 0.99

00:20:26.220 murder of Wayne Broadhurst, oh, but when there was a shooting by a Syrian in a synagogue, oh, then it was 0.61

00:20:34.940 a problem, then it was terrible, there's a travesty and things must be done, not a peep about

00:20:40.520 Wayne Broadhurst, who was murdered at the hands of an Afghan migrant, by the way, if you don't know 1.00

00:20:44.760 that, who that is, I wonder if Wayne Broadhurst haunts Robert Jenrick, no, I doubt it, I doubt it,

00:20:54.000 because he doesn't, he obviously doesn't care, it's all smiles, he'll hope to be back in government

00:20:59.260 in three years under Nige, doesn't he, he probably will be, probably will be as well, that's the thing 0.87

00:21:07.020 of it, okay, what else to say is in the government where he was a cabinet minister and vows to make

00:21:17.240 Nigel Farage UK, to make Nigel Farage UK's next prime minister, Badenoch and Farage both claim to be

00:21:23.120 jubilant, I get how Nigel Farage, in Nigel Farage's world and in his paradigm and in his world view,

00:21:29.920 he could and would be jubilant, that makes sense, there's a logic to that in Nigel's world, in

00:21:35.960 Nigel's mind, what has Kemi Badenoch got to be jubilant about, but defection to nemesis

00:21:43.740 Wyden's rift on UK right, again, none of them are right, none of them are of the right whatsoever,

00:21:47.800 not even close really, not even close, barely centrists, the centrist position is like mass

00:21:59.580 remigration and to not demographically replace a native people in their own ancestral homeland,

00:22:04.500 that's sort of a centrist position really, and they're not that, none of them are that,

00:22:08.240 they're all globalists, they're all, we just have to accept it being overrun by Islam and foreign 1.00

00:22:13.020 people, and it's impossible to reverse all of that, that's what all of these people are,

00:22:18.400 the conservatives and reform, conservatives and the reform and reform are an exercise in

00:22:25.360 containment, to contain the real right, to make sure the real right never gets a voice or any seats

00:22:32.080 and things, that's what they are, they stand in the way of that, I mean, you know, Nigel's happily

00:22:39.980 gloating about how, over the years, he's helped deflate and deflect and destroy various right-wing

00:22:47.060 move, actual right-wing movements, nationalist, nativist, populist, patriotic, nationalist movements,

00:22:55.220 that he would, he would destroy them all, and he's proud of it, you know, that's what Nigel is,

00:23:01.160 okay, the independent, police chief in football fan row, still clings on to his job as Streeting

00:23:12.440 joins Clammer for him to resign, okay, Jenrick defects as gloating Farage taunts Badalock,

00:23:19.280 Farage thanks Tory leader for jumping gun and delivering Robert Jenrick to reform on a plate

00:23:24.600 after firing him for defection plot, and boasts of a Labour deserter to come, that's interesting,

00:23:29.840 yeah, that's in the news, it'll be there, and apparently, Nigel said, there's a Labour deserter

00:23:33.520 to come, we don't know who it is yet, as Jenrick trashes Tories who have broken Britain, you broke

00:23:39.580 Britain, Robert, you were part of breaking Britain, take some responsibility, he's not going to take 0.58

00:23:44.860 any responsibility, he's not going to accept that he was, that he did, like that Nadiem 0.93

00:23:49.700 Sahawi, talking about how the Britain, how the Tories have done so many bad things, and Nigel

00:23:55.060 needs to come and save it all, and fix it all, it was you, it was you personally, it's not like

00:24:01.460 you were just a councillor, or just a member of the party, or a backbencher, you were in government,

00:24:07.080 you were in the cabinet, take responsibility, you can't avoid it, history will say that you

00:24:15.340 are responsible, that's the nature of cabinet responsibility, if anyone doesn't know what

00:24:19.480 that is, it's the idea that when there's a big decision to be made by government, right,

00:24:24.860 let's say, well any big decision that the cabinet makes, it's that legally, properly formally

00:24:32.840 legally, everyone that's in the cabinet, so that's usually between 20 people, sometimes

00:24:38.960 as much as 30 people, in that sort of number of people, everyone that's in the cabinet, all

00:24:43.320 take, and I'm talking legally, formally, they all take responsibility for it, the idea of

00:24:50.840 that is that there's a group, you know, a collective responsibility, so that no one individual

00:24:56.040 cabinet member can be basically prosecuted after the fact, or that they would all need

00:25:01.340 to be, you know, that's the idea, so if you were in cabinet during the Tory years, it really

00:25:08.780 is on you, it really is your fault, all the things they did that were wrong and bad and

00:25:14.340 disastrous, and not in the interests of the country and the people, but smiling Robert

00:25:21.840 Jenrick doesn't want to talk about that, he just wants to talk about how good reform and 0.86

00:25:29.520 denied is and how he's going to help them out, these filthy snakes, it's a snake of a man, 0.57

00:25:39.380 Robert Jenrick, don't trust him, that's my, that's my opinion, take it or leave it, that's 0.88

00:25:43.580 my opinion, take it or leave it, you know, you don't have to, right, Daily Mirror, would

00:25:49.900 you trust any of them, oh, okay, the mirror actually, that's not a bad take, is it, would

00:25:55.320 you trust any of them, yeah, good question, the mirror, Farage's party of Tory failures,

00:26:01.780 I'd forgotten that one, I forgot the mirror had, like, gone with that angle, yeah, a party

00:26:09.060 of, a party of traitorous failures, Nige thinks that's the road to government, well, it's probably 1.00

00:26:15.120 going to be in government, it's probably going to actually win the next general election,

00:26:18.220 but, and most of the supporters on the actual right, won't be happy about it, about the

00:26:29.720 route he's going, all right, Badrannock sacks Jenrick after Betrayal leak, then he joins

00:26:35.060 man who called him a fraud, yeah, apparently not too long ago, I think it was only like summer

00:26:38.660 last year, not long ago at all, um, Farage had called Jenrick a fraud, but they were their

00:26:48.740 best buddies, look, shaking hands, laughing, with delight, with joy, yeah, it's so funny,

00:26:56.960 Nigel, isn't it, it's so funny, mate, yeah, these people, psychos, psychos, Jenrick joins

00:27:07.300 reform with blast at rotten Tories, you were a rotten Tory until that morning, ugh, it's

00:27:14.040 so weird, most of the politicians always like to think that you've not got a memory, that

00:27:20.600 whatever they're saying now, in the moment, just makes sense, regardless of what has been,

00:27:27.400 do you think, Robert, do you think we don't remember that you were the immigration minister

00:27:31.480 in 2023, are you supposed to not remember that, when you were repeatedly gaslighting

00:27:38.340 us, saying, oh, we're trying to, we're trying to stop the small boats, no, you weren't, no, you weren't,

00:27:44.880 no, you weren't, the times, I told you, it's every single one, Jenrick defects to reform

00:27:50.740 after second by Badrannock, all right, let's just move on, the Tory graph, Jenrick, Tories,

00:27:55.180 broke Britain, okay, the Mail, the Mail got something else, no, no, and the Mail say, Britain's

00:28:02.700 economy is moribund, our borders broken, our armed forces badly depleted in a world of

00:28:07.640 peril, and our PM's an ocean-going socialist dud, I don't know what they mean by that,

00:28:11.620 an ocean-going socialist dud, it's a funny way of putting it, I don't think I've ever heard

00:28:18.520 that expression before, an ocean-going socialist, what, what does that mean, anyway, as Jenrick's

00:28:23.520 affection rocks the right, the Daily Mail's message to reform and the Tories, dot, dot,

00:28:28.160 dot, stop fighting each other and end the Labour nightmare, well, Nigel says he'll never do

00:28:36.760 that, and I think Kemi, I'm pretty sure Kemi has also said he'll never do that, like, join

00:28:41.420 each other in a pact, I mean, when push comes to shove, they might anyway, you know, after

00:28:47.300 the next general election, imagine this, there's so many ways it could play out at the next general

00:28:52.420 election, imagine this, reform get the most seats, but it's not quite enough just to form

00:28:58.180 a government, right, and if Labour and Lib Dems and Greens and some of the other smaller

00:29:08.600 parties, like your party or whatever, if they all team together and Islamic independence, if

00:29:14.400 they all make a coalition, that'll be enough to beat reform, and so the only way for reform

00:29:22.160 to avoid a Lib Lab Green coalition is to form a coalition with the Tories, now that might

00:29:30.360 sound really convoluted and unlikely, like one in a million chance something like that

00:29:34.180 would happen, not really, that's not that unlikely, that's not that mad that that sort of could

00:29:39.940 play out like that, depending on what happens in the polls, I mean, as the polls are at the

00:29:47.320 moment, it looks like reform will just win outright, wouldn't need to do that, but it's

00:29:53.200 possible because, because what a lot of parties, in a lot of countries, what a lot of the leftist

00:30:01.620 parties and centre-left parties will do in order to keep, like the AFD or Gert Wilders or Marine

00:30:08.820 Le Pen, in order to keep them out of power, they will form any coalition, any coalition

00:30:14.480 in regards of how sort of incongruous or silly it is on paper, they will form that coalition

00:30:20.420 to make sure the centre-right doesn't have power. I would imagine exactly the same thing

00:30:26.760 would play out in Britain, if, you know, the Greens, the Libs, the Labourers, everyone

00:30:32.080 else, maybe even the Conservatives would join that coalition to keep reform out, even though

00:30:39.600 reform are milquetoast, barely centrist. There you go. I mean, when you look at the AFD,

00:30:46.080 they're not, they're not far, they're barely centre-right, really. Le Pen, same thing. Gert Wilders

00:30:53.160 are a little bit better, in my opinion. But still, right, they're not, they're not really

00:30:57.180 right-wing. They're certainly not far-right. Certainly not. And yet, all the powers that be

00:31:03.320 will range against them as hard as they possibly can to keep them out. If reform don't win enough

00:31:10.620 seats outright to form a government, I imagine there'll be some sort of massive coalition against

00:31:17.560 them. So in that instance, they might just join with the Conservatives. I don't think they'll

00:31:23.080 do it before then, just because, I mean, they might, they might, they may well might, but

00:31:27.320 just because the Tories and Farage sort of have said they won't so many times and so vehemently

00:31:34.860 they've said it. Like, it's been Nigel's, it's been his line in the sand since day one, where

00:31:42.600 he's always said, I absolutely will not, under any circumstances, merge with or join or be

00:31:49.700 in any sort of pact with the Tories. I kind of believe him on that. Although, I believed

00:31:57.620 him that the Brexit party was actually going to run in elections. And he betrayed everyone

00:32:02.960 on that one, didn't he? Okay. The Financial Times. Jemric joins reform after Bagnot gives

00:32:13.160 him sack for plotting to defect. Okay. The Star. Money for old dope. They're calling Nigel

00:32:22.920 a dope. Money for old dope. Greedy Nigel's video nasty. Farage duped into pedo tribute.

00:32:31.820 Little bit of an and finally thing from the Star as usual. This is a story. Okay. A bit

00:32:40.080 embarrassing. There's a website or an app called Cameo. Anyone might not know this. I didn't

00:32:47.780 know this until just a few months ago. There's some sort of app called Cameo, right? And if

00:32:54.320 you're famous, not necessarily full-blown famous like Nigel, enjoying actual national or even

00:32:59.340 international fame. If you're just like an influencer and you've got a few thousand followers or

00:33:04.880 whatever, you can go on this thing called Cameo and people ask you and pay you money to like

00:33:10.660 say something, to say a message. Like someone says, wish my nan happy birthday or whatever.

00:33:14.960 And you read out, dear Gladys, happy 85th birthday, love. Well done. Right. And that's

00:33:20.340 it. And you get, then someone pays you to do that. Right. Or anything. They can pay you

00:33:24.680 to do anything. It's up to you, obviously, if you want to do it or not. Cameo. That's

00:33:28.700 what Cameo is, right? Nigel Farage, Prime Minister in Waiting, supposed to be a statesman, is on

00:33:36.200 Cameo and does Cameo things. It's weird. And people, younger people have sort of duped him

00:33:42.520 one way or another into saying things that are mildly embarrassing before. Things that like a

00:33:47.660 man in his 60s. I actually don't know how old Nigel Farage is. I guess, I guess he's in his 60s,

00:33:51.700 is he? Anyway. Someone like Nigel Farage is supposed to be trying to generate and garner

00:33:57.100 gravitas and authority. They get him to say silly, dumb things. Silly, dumb, zoomer things. 1.00

00:34:05.000 Okay. So that's that. For a small amount of money. I thought Nigel Farage is already a 1.00

00:34:12.140 millionaire. Surely he's already a multi-millionaire, Nigel Farage. Surely. Why does he need like a

00:34:17.640 little bit more money? Why does he need like 50 quid here and 100 quid there? So this story

00:34:22.280 is that somebody paid him £75 to pay tribute to. And I don't know exactly what that means. I

00:34:31.880 certainly haven't seen the clip myself. But he paid tribute to Ian Watkins.

00:34:38.880 If you don't know who Ian Watkins is, he used to be the lead singer of Lost Prophets. And then there's

00:34:42.460 also a really, really, really prolific paedophile who then went to prison and got murdered in prison

00:34:47.740 because he was such a paedophile, Ian Watkins. Ian Watkins, shorthand for one of the worst human 0.75

00:34:52.640 beings ever. On cameo, Nigel paid him tribute for £75. Mad, isn't it? Mad. Probably our future

00:35:03.480 Prime Minister. You don't need £75, Nigel. You don't need £75. Why did you do that? Have

00:35:11.600 you not got any political acumen? You've not got any sense? Have you not got any sense? Why

00:35:16.840 are you doing that? Why are you on cameo at all? Silly old git. Calm down a bit, Beau. Yeah,

00:35:26.120 I know. Yeah, I know. All right. Let's move on to the actual websites. BBC. Venezuelan Nobel

00:35:38.100 Prize winner presents her medal to Trump. Trump thanked Venezuelan opposition leader Maria Corina

00:35:45.020 Mercado, calling it a wonderful gesture of mutual respect. Yeah, so that woman, one of

00:35:51.360 the opposition leaders in Venezuela, Mercado, has visited Trump there. And she, I guess she's

00:36:00.940 got a Nobel Peace Prize and she sort of presented it to Trump, who's always coveted one, thinks

00:36:06.540 he deserves one. Nobel Peace Prize.

00:36:08.520 So, finally, he's sort of talking to her. Because in first, in the first few days or two

00:36:14.860 of the, you know, the raid, the Delta Force raid, people had said, have you spoken to Maria

00:36:21.900 Corina Mercado? And Trump's just like, no. No. Next? Anything else? No, I haven't. No, we

00:36:29.440 haven't spoken to her, no. But now he is. Finally he is. Finally he is. All right. A

00:36:34.480 generic story there. Another generic story. What else? Iran authorities demanding large

00:36:39.500 sums for return of protesters' bodies, BBC told. The landscape beneath Antarctica's icy

00:36:44.240 surface revealed in unprecedented detail. Nice. That's an interesting science one for

00:36:48.300 me. I love a bit of Antarctica as well. I've done content in the past, both on my channel,

00:36:54.480 history bro, and on my history show on Lotus Eaters, Epochs, about Antarctic exploration.

00:37:02.160 All about the story of Scott, Captain Scott and Captain Oates, trying to get to the North

00:37:07.560 Pole and getting pipped and dying in the process. Oh, the story of Shackleton and the Endurance.

00:37:16.300 Fascinated by the Arctic and the Antarctic and sort of science-y stuff. So that's, what an

00:37:22.700 incredible landscape, isn't it? What an unbelievable sort of beautiful and terrifyingly bleak at

00:37:28.440 the same time. I'd like to go to the Antarctic. I'd love to go there. I'd love to see it with

00:37:35.320 my own two eyeballs one day. All right. The ITV. ITV. What have we got there? Here. Heartless

00:37:41.240 images of crash victims' burnt clothing sent to family by Air India. Doesn't sound good.

00:37:47.000 A generic story. That Mikado story again. A TikTok story. Yeah, but this TikTok thing,

00:37:55.240 these kids, they don't tell you what the actual... Okay, it says, bereaved British families gather

00:37:59.620 in US ahead of landmark TikTok case. And there's been some sort of trend on TikTok, apparently.

00:38:07.800 I'm not on TikTok. There's some sort of trend which is obviously dangerous and can lead to

00:38:15.980 death. I don't know. God knows what it is. Something to do with asphyxiation. I've honestly

00:38:20.580 got no idea what it is. Because whenever you click on one of these stories about bereaved families

00:38:26.080 and that kids are dying to get clicks, in the two or three stories I had a look at, it didn't

00:38:32.020 actually tell you what the thing is. I mean, maybe that's fair enough, because I don't

00:38:38.240 want to encourage anyone else to do it if it's causing deaths. But whatever it is, I don't

00:38:43.760 even know what it is. But there you go. And the families of kids that have died doing this

00:38:50.840 thing, whatever it is, are like, you know, trying to take TikTok to court and stuff. So

00:38:54.480 that's a story. That is a story. All right. What else have we got? Channel 4. Channel 4.

00:39:11.020 Just the worst. Robert Jenrick. Robert Jenrick. Disgraceful. There was one bit I saw here, one

00:39:17.540 story I thought was interesting or telling about on Channel 4. Bear with me two seconds.

00:39:26.400 What does it say? Oh, yeah. Sorry. It says, this is a Channel 4 piece. Debate. What is the

00:39:36.980 future of right-wing politics in the UK? We spoke to Sir Jacob Rees-Mogg. So again, a Boris era,

00:39:45.480 essentially globalist, pretending that he's based, Jacob Rees-Mogg. In my opinion, a laughable

00:39:56.120 scumbag. Scumbag. Pretending to be working in the interest of the people, whilst allowing 1.00

00:40:06.220 us to be flooded, invaded by foreign enemies, Jacob Rees-Mogg. He's part of the right-wing

00:40:12.920 debate. The future of the right-wing in UK politics. That's our Jacob Rees-Mogg. You're

00:40:18.640 joking. Who was leader of the Commons and Brexit minister. Didn't get it done. Brexit betrayal

00:40:26.060 minister, when Boris Johnson was Prime Minister. And former spectator, editor and Conservative

00:40:31.180 columnist, Fraser Nelson. Fraser Nelson, absolutely one of the worst. Someone who, in my opinion,

00:40:41.740 is out of his mind. Somebody who will work tirelessly to ruin this country. And joke about

00:40:50.840 it as well. And joke about it. Behind the scenes. A discussion between Fraser Nelson and Jacob

00:40:57.880 Rees-Mogg about the future of right-wing politics. There you go. That's Channel 4. That's what

00:41:02.420 Channel 4 thinks is a reasonable, measured debate. Two people that aren't of the right, and in fact,

00:41:10.320 have used their careers to try and destroy the right, they're talking about the future

00:41:15.360 of right-wing politics. Yeah, OK, Channel 4. Yeah, all right. Yeah. Sure. Sure it is.

00:41:21.600 All right. Sky News. These bereaved parents say their children died taking part in viral

00:41:26.980 trend. Doesn't tell you what that viral trend is. Now they're set to face TikTok in court.

00:41:31.560 OK, well. I mean, good luck to them. I'm not saying that. I'm not saying anything other

00:41:37.000 than good luck to the parents. But I'm mildly interested in what the trend was, just because

00:41:45.040 it's so key to the story. But I'm sure if I spent a few minutes Googling it, I could find

00:41:52.020 out. But I don't care that much. I'm not on TikTok. I'm not personally on TikTok. I've got

00:41:58.200 no intention of ever being. Let alone doing something stupid for clicks. Just say something 0.99

00:42:04.940 interesting or funny. If you're out there and you're young and you want clicks, right, you

00:42:10.920 want to gain a following. Find out something interesting or funny. Right. And then say that

00:42:21.560 to your camera. Yeah. You don't have to do anything silly that will get you hurt. You don't have

00:42:30.680 to do anything humiliating. Be interesting and or funny. That's it. Don't do anything mad.

00:42:40.920 Like, why would you? Well, it's in lieu of having a character, isn't it? Right. People

00:42:46.920 that do things that are stupid and crazy and stuff. It's because they haven't got anything 1.00

00:42:53.420 interesting to say, isn't it? Usually. Nearly always. That's too much work, isn't it? To

00:42:59.380 do some reading. Find out something interesting. That's too much work. To take years in order

00:43:08.700 to build an actual character. Too much work. The Daily Mail. The Mail Online. Dining with

00:43:17.700 his Tory colleagues last week, Robert Jenrick must have felt like Judas at the Last Supper.

00:43:23.700 Andrew Pearce takes us inside the build-up to and fall out from Westminster's worst-kept secret

00:43:29.700 anatomy of a defection.

00:43:32.700 Anatomy of a defection. It's all a bit hyperbolic, isn't it? A bit overblown. A bit dramatic,

00:43:42.700 that. I mean, the anatomy of a defection. All right. Jason Groves. Robert Jenrick. Oh,

00:43:51.700 Robert Jenrick and Kevi Bandnock. Is there anything else? Nobel Committee issues to fight message

00:43:57.700 after Venezuela's opposition leader. Okay. What else? Is there anything else of massive interest?

00:44:04.700 Something about Kate Moss. Who used to be a supermodel like, what, 30 years ago. Okay. All right.

00:44:15.700 Let's have a look. What else have we got? The Express. Oh, it's a good paper. The Express.

00:44:22.700 Oh, something about Andrew here. New nightmare for King Charles as royal family fans issue shock

00:44:29.700 demand for Andrew. It was just a story there that some royal family fans are saying, come

00:44:36.700 on, like, give Andrew a bit of a break. He's getting a bit silly now. I don't agree with that. 0.94

00:44:44.700 I would hope to never, ever, ever see Andrew Mountbatten again or ever hear a story about

00:44:51.700 him again. I'd be happy in a world where that was the case. If he just kind of just disappeared.

00:44:57.700 I mean, they basically have tried to make him disappear as much as possible, but the press

00:45:03.700 will still talk about him a fair bit. I would like it if not only was he disgraced to the point

00:45:08.700 of basically disappearing off the radar, but that no one even ever talked about that he had

00:45:12.700 disappeared off the radar and here's the latest photo of him. That's what I would prefer.

00:45:17.700 Royal family braces for crisis as Meghan Markle and Prince Harry plot UK return.

00:45:23.700 Yep. Again, don't care about Harry and Meghan at all. Don't care what they've got to say,

00:45:31.700 what they're doing, what they think, nothing. They are nothing people. If he wasn't HRH,

00:45:40.700 if he wasn't in the royal family, no one would care what these two people do or say or think

00:45:47.700 because they haven't got any opinions that are worthy of note, have they?

00:45:53.700 They're not interesting, are they? In and of themselves. They're not interesting.

00:46:01.700 Right.

00:46:02.700 Labour can't even sack a failing police chief. The whole thing stinks. Yeah, that's fair enough. 0.88

00:46:06.700 Yeah.

00:46:09.700 What's this? Something about...

00:46:12.700 Nigel teases bombshell labour defection that will spark hell for Starmer.

00:46:16.700 Yeah, I wonder what that will be. I wonder if that story will properly break today on Friday the 16th. I wonder.

00:46:25.700 I wonder whether it's a big labour defection or whether it's just some backbencher most people have never heard of

00:46:32.700 or it's just a councillor. Who knows? Who knows? It'd be funny. It'd be interesting.

00:46:37.700 You know, that would be interesting if reform started getting and accepting defections from Labour or Lib Dem or Green or whatever,

00:46:48.700 right, or the SNP. That would be interesting. That would put a different slant on things.

00:46:54.700 That it's not... that they're not just... just want to be the teal Tories. That it really is purely an exercise in being Tory 2.0.

00:47:06.700 If, you know, if they got defectors from Labour or Lib Dem, say.

00:47:10.700 I mean, it still wouldn't bode well in some senses in, you know, people that are actual patriots, people like me, or most people watching this.

00:47:18.700 Because you're like, well, you're actually taking in leftists now.

00:47:23.700 But nonetheless, it would still be interesting, wouldn't it, from the point of view that it's...

00:47:28.700 it's not just about becoming the new Tory party.

00:47:33.700 So we'll see. We'll see who this Labour defector is. I am genuinely interested to see.

00:47:38.700 Right, The Sun. What slop of The Sun served us up today?

00:47:41.700 Get the hell out. Helen Flanagan. Don't know who that is. 1.00

00:47:46.700 Forced out of £1 million family home by Scott Sinclair. Don't know who that is.

00:47:50.700 As warring exes' feud takes explosive turn. Don't care. 1.00

00:47:54.700 Horrorfall. Janice Dickinson. Don't care about her. 1.00

00:47:57.700 Left disfigured after I'm a Celebrity Fool as picks show injuries.

00:48:01.700 Yeah, don't care. Janice Dickinson. Don't care. 1.00

00:48:05.700 Used to be a supermodel or whatever 30 years ago. She fell over. Don't care. Don't care. 0.91

00:48:09.700 Dying for likes. My son Jules, 14, died in my arms after deadly viral challenge.

00:48:16.700 Which they don't say what it is.

00:48:18.700 And I'm soon TikTok in court for answers.

00:48:21.700 Well, good luck to you.

00:48:23.700 Why not? Why not? Good luck to you.

00:48:26.700 The traitor is... 1.00

00:48:28.700 Lame. The Sun. 0.99

00:48:32.700 That's lame.

00:48:33.700 Can you imagine some editor going, yes! 0.98

00:48:38.700 Traitoris. They're throwing stuff around in the bullpen.

00:48:41.700 What about Traitoris?

00:48:43.700 Has someone really seen it?

00:48:44.700 He goes, yes, run with it. Print.

00:48:49.700 Pathetic. Pathetic. 1.00

00:48:51.700 All right. 1.00

00:48:52.700 New York Slimes. What have the New York Slimes got? 0.96

00:48:55.700 Newly released records detail chaos during fatal ice shooting in Minneapolis.

00:49:00.700 Okay. It's mainly stuff about ice and Venezuela in the American press today.

00:49:06.700 I see we've only got 10 minutes left.

00:49:08.700 I actually want to get to this day in history a little bit today for once.

00:49:11.700 Give that a bit of a whirl again. I like that.

00:49:12.700 Give that a few minutes.

00:49:14.700 The Washington Post medical examiner believes death of man in ice custody was homicide, recording says.

00:49:22.700 A fellow detainee says he witnessed Giraldo Lunas Campos being choked to death by guards at an ice detention centre in Texas on January the 3rd.

00:49:32.700 Okay. Maybe. Maybe not.

00:49:35.700 That's what the Washington Post are saying.

00:49:38.700 Can't trust them to just not be liars, really.

00:49:43.700 Top ice official steps down to run for Congress in Ohio.

00:49:47.700 Trump threatens to invoke Insurrection Act and deploy troops in Minnesota.

00:49:52.700 Yeah. If people are preventing justice from being done,

00:49:56.700 if people are preventing the police from doing their job and justice from being served,

00:50:02.700 and the police themselves can't deal with it,

00:50:05.700 then yeah, invoke the Insurrection Act and call in the National Guard or the Army or whatever you need to do.

00:50:12.700 Yeah. Fine. By me. Do that.

00:50:15.700 In Bowes Britain, I would be using the military to enforce my policies if need be. 0.54

00:50:20.700 Absolutely.

00:50:21.700 Mercado's Nobel Gamble, a peace offering to win over a weary Trump.

00:50:28.700 All right.

00:50:33.700 Okay.

00:50:34.700 Let's just move on to today,

00:50:37.700 on this day in history.

00:50:39.700 I thought it was an interesting on this day in history.

00:50:41.700 We've only got a few minutes left.

00:50:43.700 See if people like this segment or not.

00:50:45.700 So on January, 16th of January, in the year 27 BC,

00:50:52.700 the title of Augustus is bestowed upon Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus by the Roman Senate.

00:50:59.700 So that's Octavian, Julius Caesar's grand-nephew, who'd won the Battle of Actium a few years before.

00:51:11.700 It was the Battle of Actium 31 BC or something, a few years before.

00:51:14.700 And become sort of the sole ruler of the Roman world.

00:51:18.700 This is in the generation after Julius Caesar.

00:51:20.700 And in 27 BC, finally the Senate say,

00:51:24.700 accept the title of Augustus.

00:51:26.700 Augustus is a title, not a name.

00:51:29.700 And it means sort of, there's various connotations, religious connotations to it actually.

00:51:32.700 You're like the father of the country in some way.

00:51:35.700 You know, you are august.

00:51:36.700 You know, even the modern connotation, you sort of get it.

00:51:40.700 And you're sort of the most august father of the nation type thing,

00:51:43.700 even with religious overtones.

00:51:45.700 It's like, it's an incredible title.

00:51:47.700 It's an incredible title.

00:51:50.700 And he still wasn't even that old.

00:51:51.700 I think he was in his thirties.

00:51:54.700 He was in his thirties at that point.

00:51:55.700 So still a young man, effectively.

00:51:58.700 So that happened on this day in the year 27 BC.

00:52:03.700 In 1412, the Medici family is appointed official banker of the papacy.

00:52:08.700 Again, on LotusEaters.com, on my show, Epochs.

00:52:14.700 My show behind the paywall, Epochs there.

00:52:17.700 I've got a few bits of content all about, well, Augustus,

00:52:23.700 but also about the Medici family.

00:52:26.700 So 1412 is a big one.

00:52:28.700 You know, once you become the personal bankers of the papacy,

00:52:32.700 you become one of the biggest banks in the world at that point.

00:52:36.700 If not the biggest bank in the world, essentially, in essence.

00:52:39.700 Okay, on this day in 1547, Ivan the Terrible, aged 17, crowns himself the first Tsar of Russia.

00:52:47.700 Talk a little bit about Ivan the Terrible in a piece of content I did on Epochs in conversation with Apostolic Majesty.

00:52:56.700 One of the greatest history YouTubers out there at the moment.

00:53:00.700 Apostolic Majesty.

00:53:01.700 True genius of a man.

00:53:03.700 We talk a little bit about that.

00:53:04.700 Ivan the Terrible, an incredible life.

00:53:06.700 Both Augustus and Ivan the Terrible.

00:53:10.700 Incredible figures in history.

00:53:12.700 If you've got a little bit of time and you're a history person and you're interested,

00:53:15.700 and you're looking for something new to watch a video about,

00:53:19.700 you could do worse than, you know, watch a biography about Ivan the Terrible or Augustus.

00:53:24.700 There you go.

00:53:26.700 On this day in 1605, first edition of El Ingenicio Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha was published,

00:53:36.700 by Gervantes, was published in Madrid.

00:53:39.700 Don Quixote.

00:53:41.700 Interesting.

00:53:42.700 Kind of.

00:53:43.700 In 1793, French King Louis XVI was sentenced to death by the National Convention during the French Revolution.

00:53:51.700 And subsequently got his head guillotined off in public, by the way.

00:53:57.700 On this day, in 1913, the British House of Commons accepts home rule for Ireland.

00:54:04.700 Yay, go Ireland!

00:54:06.700 But it was, but the Great War, World War I, got in the way of it happening.

00:54:13.700 Which was a shame really, because by 1916, the Irish had, like, sort of had enough and, you know, 1.00

00:54:20.700 did an insurrection type thing.

00:54:22.700 And, erm...

00:54:26.700 There you go, still a pretty big day, really, I suppose.

00:54:28.700 Well, it is, for an Irishman. 0.54

00:54:31.700 Or for all Brits, really.

00:54:32.700 Sort of an important landmark thing.

00:54:35.700 On this day, in 1919, the 18th Amendment of the US Constitution, authorising the Prohibition of Alcohol,

00:54:42.700 is ratified by a majority of the US states.

00:54:46.700 That's interesting, isn't it?

00:54:48.700 They thought that abstinence would be a way to a better society.

00:54:52.700 If we just ban alcohol...

00:54:53.700 Sorry, I thought it was the land of the free.

00:54:56.700 I mean, they just completely banned alcohol.

00:54:59.700 That would make for less drunkenness, which would mean, you know, less joblessness, less domestic violence.

00:55:06.700 Just a better country if we banned alcohol.

00:55:10.700 Well, that's not how it worked.

00:55:11.700 It just became a massive underground...

00:55:13.700 It just caused an explosion in organised crime.

00:55:17.700 So the best laid intentions often, you know, create paths to hell.

00:55:25.700 To be fair, the people that were calling for, you know, alcoholic abstinence, they had the best intentions.

00:55:32.700 They didn't think, they didn't know it would cause an explosion in organised crime, but it did.

00:55:39.700 OK, on this day in 1920, the League of Nations holds its first council meeting in Paris.

00:55:44.700 The doomed League of Nations, the precursor to the UN.

00:55:49.700 There you go. OK, with five minutes left to go then, let's do some super chats and rumble rants.

00:55:55.700 The rumble rants. Rick T. W. G. P. says,

00:55:58.700 Morning, mate. Are you not covering what Victor Orben exposed about Sir Queer's backdoor re-entry into the EU at that meeting in Hungary a couple of days ago? 0.59

00:56:09.700 No, I guess not. I mean, I can do, going forward, if it appears in the news.

00:56:12.700 I mean, this show is meant to be whatever's in the news, whatever's on the front pages and in the news.

00:56:19.700 I mean, once or twice here or there, I'll take something, like the other day I talked about Hillary Clinton, didn't I, and Bill Clinton, who didn't turn up for their hearings.

00:56:26.700 Incidentally, Hillary didn't turn up on Wednesday for her hearing, and therefore she and Bill can be prosecuted for, like, contempt, basically.

00:56:35.700 So, once in a blue moon, here or there, I'll take a story which isn't on the front pages and in the news, if I think it's particularly, particularly interesting or important.

00:56:47.700 But otherwise, the point of the show is that it's what the rest of the world, the mainstream media, the legacy media, are talking about that day.

00:56:54.700 That's the point of the show. So, the fact that that didn't really show up, that Victor, although interesting, I'm not denying it's not interesting and important, although it didn't really register in the news cycle.

00:57:06.700 So, I didn't talk about it. So, you know, sorry, but, okay.

00:57:12.700 Fictagia says, Nigel, Nigel saying, we are reform, we at reform would like to reveal the defector from Labour.

00:57:20.700 Sir Keir's armour. It'd be funny, wouldn't it?

00:57:24.700 Obviously, that could not, would not happen, but funny anyway.

00:57:27.700 Exile 29 says, it would appear Dominic Cummings got it wrong.

00:57:32.700 It would seem the Tory party isn't the town vagrant that's passed out in a wheelbarrow. 0.89

00:57:37.700 They are the town vagrant that is punching itself in the face. 0.95

00:57:41.700 Yeah. 0.96

00:57:42.700 Yeah.

00:57:43.700 Yeah.

00:57:44.700 The town vagrant that's just like, got a broken bottle and slit in his own wrists or something. 0.93

00:57:50.700 God knows what, I mean, that's a dark image, isn't it? 0.96

00:57:54.700 Not Muse says, good boning my fellow boners.

00:58:03.700 Bo with a B-E-A-U. 0.73

00:58:08.700 I like, I like Bo puns.

00:58:12.700 There's lots of them out there.

00:58:14.700 I like them.

00:58:15.700 Thank you for that, Notch Muse.

00:58:20.700 Although, okay.

00:58:23.700 All right.

00:58:24.700 Let's do a few YouTube, YouTube Superchats.

00:58:33.700 Dickie Earl 4998 says, Ofcom are gonna need your texts in real time.

00:58:40.700 It's now de facto illegal to be right wing.

00:58:43.700 PJW covered this.

00:58:45.700 Is that Paul Joseph Watson?

00:58:47.700 Covered this.

00:58:49.700 Lotus boys need to give this a spotlight.

00:58:53.700 Right.

00:58:54.700 Yeah.

00:58:55.700 I mean, yeah.

00:58:56.700 I think, have we done a full segment on it in the afternoon podcast yet?

00:58:58.700 If not, I think we have.

00:58:59.700 If not, then we will at some point, I'm sure.

00:59:01.700 But I'm a big fan of PJW.

00:59:04.700 PJ.

00:59:05.700 Yes.

00:59:06.700 He put that on his luggage.

00:59:10.700 PJ.

00:59:11.700 And he, when he followed me on Twitter, I was like, oh.

00:59:16.700 I'm a little bit of a fan of PJW.

00:59:20.700 Okay.

00:59:21.700 Guy from Stoke 6084 says, Bobby Jenrick is Israel first.

00:59:26.700 Yeah.

00:59:27.700 Yeah, he is.

00:59:28.700 Yeah.

00:59:29.700 Yeah.

00:59:30.700 Like I said, not a word about Wayne Broadhurst, but there's a shooting at a synagogue.

00:59:36.700 And the sky's falling now, apparently.

00:59:41.700 LJNV says, Time to threaten politicians if they threaten us with demographic replacement.

00:59:50.700 Can't condone, can't condone inciting violence.

00:59:55.700 Prank caller.

00:59:57.700 Prank caller.

00:59:58.700 Zajutz 149.

01:00:03.700 With Jenrick out, there is a tiny chance that Tory CC, central command, may ask Lowe to replace Badenoch.

01:00:11.700 Tories with Lowe in charge is a vote splitter for the right.

01:00:16.700 Yeah, I don't know.

01:00:17.700 There's all sorts of angles and stories and possibilities along the lines of Rupert Lowe taking over the conservatives.

01:00:25.700 I don't like any of that.

01:00:27.700 I don't want any of that.

01:00:28.700 I want the Tory party as it is, as an entity, to completely die.

01:00:33.700 I would like to see Rupert Lowe make his own thing.

01:00:36.700 Why would you want such a broken and dysfunctional and corrupt thing like the Tory party?

01:00:44.700 Why would you want to try and save it?

01:00:47.700 It's so damaged.

01:00:49.700 It's so poisonous.

01:00:51.700 I don't want Rupert to have any association with it.

01:00:57.700 Why would you?

01:00:58.700 It's a sinking ship.

01:01:00.700 A sinking poison ship.

01:01:02.700 Don't go near it.

01:01:04.700 Don't go near it.

01:01:05.700 But anyway, I know that's not exactly what you're saying, but that's just my take.

01:01:09.700 Okay.

01:01:10.700 Principled Uncertainty.

01:01:11.700 All right, mate.

01:01:13.700 Says, no one wants Nigel's centrist supergroup.

01:01:18.700 Not what we all did.

01:01:19.700 Yeah, exactly.

01:01:20.700 Perfectly right.

01:01:21.700 Yep.

01:01:22.700 Yep.

01:01:23.700 Yep.

01:01:24.700 So, Jukes149 said, lads, our idea, make a tier rating of teas.

01:01:28.700 It's not a bad idea.

01:01:29.700 I love tea.

01:01:30.700 I love talking about tea, drinking tea.

01:01:33.700 I could do that.

01:01:34.700 I could make an hour and a half out of that.

01:01:36.700 I don't know if we ever will do that, but it's not a bad idea.

01:01:40.700 LJMV again.

01:01:41.700 I don't know if that's how you want it said, but it says, you still think democracy works?

01:01:48.700 Question mark.

01:01:49.700 To an extent.

01:01:50.700 Yeah.

01:01:51.700 Yeah.

01:01:52.700 I don't really buy the Duma angle that it's all a complete facade. 0.98

01:01:55.700 I mean, it largely is.

01:01:57.700 I accept that.

01:01:58.700 It largely is, but not entirely.

01:01:59.700 You can get things changed at the ballot box still.

01:02:02.700 A bit.

01:02:03.700 Kind of.

01:02:04.700 Maybe.

01:02:05.700 I do accept that angle largely, but it's not entirely.

01:02:07.700 When people say, it's a complete waste of time.

01:02:08.700 It's complete nonsense.

01:02:09.700 I don't accept that.

01:02:10.700 I don't think it is.

01:02:11.700 All right.

01:02:12.700 LJMV also says, Bo, have you heard of Asher Logos?

01:02:15.700 Invite him for a talk over video chat.

01:02:17.700 I have never heard of Asher Logos, I'm afraid.

01:02:18.700 I'll Google him a bit later, but I'm sorry.

01:02:19.700 I haven't heard of them.

01:02:20.700 What can I say?

01:02:21.700 Sorry.

01:02:22.700 Nope.

01:02:23.700 Okay.

01:02:24.700 Neil Henderson 9805 says, the RRS Discovery in Dundee is worth a visit.

01:02:31.700 As close as you can get to Scott and Shackleton without leaving the UK and going to Antarctica.

01:02:37.700 Right.

01:02:38.700 The discovery.

01:02:39.700 Right, yeah I'd love to see that.

01:02:52.880 I'd love to go there and see that as a ship one of an earlier ship.

01:02:55.700 The discovery.

01:02:56.700 There's a ship, an earlier ship, the Discovery.

01:02:59.960 I think that was a ship, if memory serves,

01:03:02.900 that both Scott and Shackleton were on earlier on,

01:03:06.260 like right at the turn of the 20th century,

01:03:08.800 like 1901 or 1903 or something.

01:03:11.560 This is before Shackleton and Scott's most famous expeditions.

01:03:16.080 And Scott was the captain,

01:03:18.720 and Shackleton was just one of the men under him.

01:03:22.060 If memory serves, I hope I haven't got that disastrously wrong,

01:03:24.980 well, I think that was the Discovery.

01:03:27.180 I'd love to go and see that.

01:03:28.040 I'd love to go and see that.

01:03:30.040 All right, and the last one there is I-X-Z-O-Y-T says,

01:03:34.740 first time watching the morning show,

01:03:36.620 most fun starts in a day I've had.

01:03:38.640 Keep up the good work, Beau.

01:03:39.780 Big fan, 10 quid.

01:03:41.400 Boom, lovely, brilliant.

01:03:42.980 You are members of Beau's Breakfast Club,

01:03:46.900 the chosen band, the glorious few.

01:03:49.320 Thank you for tuning in.

01:03:50.720 Appreciate it. 0.62

01:03:52.020 I know it sounds like a silly, flippant, throwaway cliche,

01:03:54.620 but it is true that it wouldn't be anything without you guys.

01:03:58.160 So it's an honour and a pleasure to talk to you every morning.

01:04:01.320 It really is.

01:04:01.780 I'm enjoying it.

01:04:02.400 I hope you guys are.

01:04:03.860 It doesn't feel like work to me, right?

01:04:06.420 Just come in and just talk about what's in the news.

01:04:08.980 Fun, almost.

01:04:11.200 All right, so today is the first day of the rest of your life.

01:04:14.420 Try and make it count.

01:04:15.180 You'll only have this day in history once in your life.

01:04:17.680 Carpe diem, seize the day.

01:04:18.660 If there's anyone out there you love

01:04:20.720 and you haven't told them that recently,

01:04:23.420 do make an effort to do that today.

01:04:25.880 Until tomorrow.

01:04:27.660 Until Monday, rather.

01:04:28.580 It's Friday, isn't it?

01:04:29.200 Sorry.

01:04:30.300 Until Monday.

01:04:31.740 Take care.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 16, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 16th January 2026

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