Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 24th July 2026
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Summary
In this episode of The Dark Lord's Summertime, we're joined by Edward Dutton to talk about a family trip to Auschwitz, climate change and the Queen. Plus, the latest on the Queen and Prince Andrew.
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Yeah, I'm fine. Yeah, yeah, I'm good. I'm good.
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The Glorious Band, The Chosen For You, my band of brothers and sisters.
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You guys know who you are. You don't need any introduction.
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It is now 8 in the a.m. British Summertime on Friday.
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On the 24th of July in the year of our Lord, 2026.
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As always, I'm joined by my producer, Little Harry.
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We're going to go through the headlines like usual today,
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i have no idea whether you're joking or not i'm not joking are you really okay yeah it was my
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wife's idea um she'd always wanted to go so um that's what we're gonna do we're gonna go to go
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to auschwitz uh and okay with the kids the kids and you can see all the things that the soviets
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built in the late 40s that'll be cool exactly this is what i'm really really looking forward
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to i was looking forward to seeing all things the soviets build and um um it should be it should be
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interesting so it should be i mean i mean that very very sincerely yeah so i'm gonna go there
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no it's something i wouldn't mind i wouldn't mind visiting in all honesty um it's not really top of
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my list but yeah i wouldn't mind i wouldn't mind going there so one or two people in the office
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it was funny how it happened i said to my wife concentrate and book us a holiday in a holiday
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camp and she misheard me and she thought i said book us a holiday in a concentration camp and so
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that from from there the you know the holiday just sort of took place i don't know but uh
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never mind i'll find a way through at least you didn't have to like go camping in a little tent
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in the forests outside sobibor i mean at least there is some sort of infrastructure i believe
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in auschwitz around us yeah yeah exactly exactly i should emphasize you we're not actually because
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when i told my mom about this she got confused and she thought i was saying that we were actually
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staying in kind of like an auschwitz themed hotel where there would be bunk beds and and and you
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know weird soap and whatever one of the actual barrack houses on the site exactly exactly because
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that happened when i was when callum came and we did our film about finland we we stayed in
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a tuberculosis sanatorium that had been turned into a tuberculosis themed hotel really really
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so it was just staying literally in what it would have been like to be in a tuberculosis sanatorium
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in the 30s but it's not like that we're staying in a hotel in crack hour oh good good good good
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well i hope you enjoy it all right generally let's crack on with this then so what's in the
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what's in the legacy corporate lamestream media today what's that evil cabal of fleet street
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editors trying to tell us is or isn't important what they lying to us about by mission if by
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nothing else we've got burnham eager to get drilling so no stern and burnham king bumham
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of the north uh he's gonna drill baby drill and tardis fit for a king that's just a story of
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there's a picture there the commonwealth games kicked off in glasgow of all places and for like
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the opening ceremony thing which seems to be they seem to be increasingly more surreal don't they in
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the elaborate uh it seems there was uh i didn't watch it but this is on the front of quite a few
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papers there's a mock-up of the doctor's tardis and the king and queen came out of it there you
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go so that's what that's referring to tardis fit for a king all right the times let's start then
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burnham eager to get drilling in the north sea industry experts uh green light oh sorry industry
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expects green light to open up new fields so for me ed yeah it's a no-brainer i don't really buy
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into the man-made co2 drives climate change um so for me it's an absolute no-brainer for our energy
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security to drill in and they'll see I don't see any cogent reasonable argument not to what's your
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feelings on all of that yeah I agree with you I mean this from what I've read the uh the level of
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of co2 follows the warming or something rather than the other way around so uh I get the impression
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that this is nonsense I get the there's I've seen convincing evidence that the changing climate is
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to do with sunspot activity which is uh it's across time we've seen that that whenever there's
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low levels of sunspots it's cold whenever there's high levels of sunspots i.e massive explosions on
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the sun it's hot so i don't think it's it's man-made and i think the idea that it is man-made
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is this kind of semi-religious idea that we can control things and that we can behave in ways that
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influence the gods and whatever and it goes back to that so it's nonsense we shouldn't have stopped
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drilling in the north sea it wrecked aberdeen for example where i used to live that they that they
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stopped uh drilling in the north sea and now they're saying if you read about this bow they're
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saying that the lack of pollution is itself making it hotter but the the yeah did you read about this
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that the the sort of all the pollutants in the atmosphere were stopping the sun's rays and the
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sun's heat from fully penetrating and now that there is less pollution that's the reason for all
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of these heat waves so if anything we need more pollution because it's because it's far too hot
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so the whole the whole thing is a is a nonsense which i think is just grounded in a kind of
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religious christian sort of idea that that there is free will and we have to negotiate with the
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gods and we can behave in certain ways to get them to do what we want it's rubbish
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from what i can see and from various scientists i've read so yeah i think we need to drill
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drill drill and get energy out and hopefully release lots of pollutants and therefore stop
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all this global warming that's just been going on it's the only prudent thing to do really isn't it
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i think oh because it's too hot i mean when i was in the uk last month it was absolutely ridiculous
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i mean it was something like 36 degrees in in london uh it was and on certain uh underground
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lines in the in the tube it's there's no air conditioning there's no air conditioning as i
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understand on the central line yeah and i i had a dinner in central in uh the city of london at
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mercer's hall or somewhere i'm not going to go to that and two-thirds of the people that were
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supposed to go to this didn't turn up because it was just 200 out of 300 people didn't cut
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because it was just insane we don't want that so we need yeah more energy more energy to fund
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so we can have we can all have air conditioning and there's the energy for us to be able to have
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it they're saying that the lights almost went out on the i think was it 23rd of june it was it was
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The lights almost went out we almost had a blackout
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I usually leave this right to the end of the show don't I
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2019 global warming is fastest in 2 000 years and scientific consensus that humans are the cause
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is at 99 according to three major reports published in journals nature and nature geoscience
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okay a little bit perhaps a little bit of the history of that as well um that going back to the
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1990s, research that was funded by the UN to find that CO2 drove climate change, or rather man-made
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CO2 does drive climate change. And ever since then, in the 90s, the so-called hockey stick,
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you may know about this sort of data and science. And so periodically, we get things exactly like
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that where it says the debate is over the science is in all the scientists or 99% of the scientists
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agree there is no doubt that we're in almost a runaway uh spiral of uh temperatures going up
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and it's because of co2 specifically man-made co2 and whenever i see that i just i i don't buy it i
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always think no no no no no no no no no no drill into exactly who the scientists are exactly who
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was funding their research exactly who is peddling the publishing of that of their results etc etc
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etc when it boils down to it exactly as you said ed it's much more likely that the sun's weather
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patterns the sun's um different phases drives our climate much more than man-made co2 if man-made
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co2 is well co2 in total is 400 470 parts per million in our atmosphere and a man-made co2 is
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maybe half of that and that's at an all-time low on like on the scale of millions of years
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we're actually in uh in uh we're in an ice age we're just in an interglacial period within an
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ice age and the the earth's cycles are on the on the scale of hundreds of thousands of years
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usually go on in scientific terms the theory that makes sense of the most is inherently the
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best theory it's the most parsimonious theory so if you say well okay it's getting it's getting
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warm at the moment and we're putting this down to carbon dioxide in the atmosphere or whatever
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or pollutants or that sort of thing that's very interesting but um what do you how do you explain
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the previous warm period how do you explain for example the medieval warm period how do you explain
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the roman warm period and the answer is it seems to relate to sunspots and things like that it's
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nothing to do with pollutants so wouldn't it make more sense the more parsimonious explanation would
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explain everything would explain all of the warm periods rather than just this particular warm
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period um secondly the we were thinking in the 70s that we were going to get into a new ice age
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that it was too cold um and and then suddenly they're they're they're manifested this idea in
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the late 80s that there was there was global warming thirdly with the science there's a
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difference between science which is the pursuit of truth and the science guild if you read thomas
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kuhn's research well he said what happens is there becomes this idea it becomes popular then
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everybody shifts over to that idea and then inherently the majority of scientists are the
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overwhelming majority are going to believe it because it's in the interest of their career
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to basically keep their heads down and shut up and conform to whatever the dominant way of thinking
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is the fact that the majority of scientists think it is completely irrelevant the majority of
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scientists used to believe in newtonian physics then newtonian physics was shown to be incorrect
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at the subatomic level and then gradually it took a long time but they shifted over and they shifted
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over on mass eventually to einsteinian physics and there's many many other examples of that so
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it means nothing that the majority of scientists say something at any given time the majority of
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scientists say something and they will almost certainly be wrong because we learn more we
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understand more we gather more information and we nuance things more and so whatever the majority
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of scientists are saying at any given time is probably wrong and as for the journals well the
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completely irrelevant. Some people say, oh, appeal to
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quarks you mean quarks or something right okay okay so but that that would be the kind of thing
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that you would get from gcse science but there's much more complicated questions such as uh you
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know are quarks made of a wave or whatever where you consult science it's the guild and so their
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idea is okay well appeal to authority is a good thing to some extent that's true um with at least
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with questions which aren't particularly controversial
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then it's a very bad thing to appeal to the Guild
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because the Guild will be politically manipulated
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a deep time the geological time periods of the earth got everything from sort of uh
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tropical conditions on antarctica to a snowball earth type scenario where glaciers would come
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down as far as florida and stuff as far as spain um and that we now seem to be in some sort of
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absolute all-time low for co2 in the atmosphere absolute low and uh and as i say we have ice
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ages the the come and go on the scale of in in the hundreds of thousands of years and within those
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ice ages you have interglacial periods where you're actually in an ice age but the glaciers
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have receded quite far and that almost certainly right now in 2026 the year of our lord
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we're in an interglacial period within an ice age and therefore nowhere near a global warming let
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alone a runaway global warming type situation and yeah i remember i've seen the clip of leonard
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nemo i don't remember it firsthand i wasn't born but leonard nimoy you know spock in the 70s talking
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about that there's going to be a new ice age and stuff so i'm just not buying uh that we need to
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rework our entire economy and the infrastructure of our all our energy in order to prevent some
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sort of runaway greenhouse effect i just think it's liars it's hysteria it's hysteria it's a
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kind of self-flagellation before the gods uh that there there are things happening that we can't
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understand or that we don't like well there's change happening and we don't like it we don't
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understand it and we've we've made a new god and that god is gaia that god is gaia that god is the
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earth itself and we will make a sacrifice we will wear uh we will do penance we will we we
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will wear uncomfortable clothing and hair shirt hair shirts exactly we we we will do that and
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hopefully the gods will be nice to us and that goes back to a particular christian theological
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view wherein we feel that we can negotiate a we feel a sense of sin and evil and that we're
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inherently bad and we need to and guilt and that we have to do things to placate god to to to show
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our our sorrow and whatever um um to to to to the gods and b that we have a sort of a sense of
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control over what we do so it's like we we we can we can influence the gods a different world view
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of the pagans or even the calvinists is no there's there's there's no free will and god is just in
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charge and he dictates things so it's a particular kind of theology it reflects so there's no reason
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for that to be congruous with the with the way things are uh as far as i can see from there's a
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very good book i've got here somewhere by james telling pole uh what was it called now watermelons
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it's called um and he and he he he looks at all the the the available studies and it was very
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convincing that no as i say carbon dioxide changes come uh are a consequence of warming not the other
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way around uh and and that this is this is a hysteria that we've got ourselves into you know
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like the tulip craze or whatever yeah this the psychology one last thing to say on it it's very
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i find it very interesting the psychology to think that we completely dominate human activity
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completely dominates the the climate of the earth and and that it's within our power to
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In what the late 19th century through the 20th century
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seems to me you're viewing yourself and your own period of living as the only way things can
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possibly be and you've lost all knowledge of history yes it's very very cold and you used
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to have ice fairs on the thames uh if you go back to 1800 or something like that but if you go back
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a lot further you're growing grapes in many many parts of the uk including in york in york so that's
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that's how warm it was in the in the medieval period um and it was similarly warm and in there
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was a roman cold period in the roman warm period so it's completely ahistorical it's the idea that
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the way it is now is the way it always has been and the way it always will be and if it isn't it's
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a crisis and it must be something we've done and that fits into an adaptation where we where we
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feel a sense of agency and we feel a sense that we can control things and that leads to us feeling
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all we have to do is just do something we can just do something and we can make things as we
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want it to be it's a bit like it reminds me of communism in the sense that there's this feeling
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that if we could just do we have the power we have the power to change everything and if we
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could just do something then we could make the world better but and it forgets that no humans
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are genetically hardwired in various ways there's nothing we can actually do about it that we're
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powerless yeah yeah no actually so i feel like um the idea that for ideological reasons for science
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reasons we shouldn't drill in the null c is just complete ball pop and it seems that no stern and
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burnham has actually decided that we shall just drill in the null c so okay i welcome that moving
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on to the express then it's a good paper you can read your express now do you like alan partridge
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to keep criminals off the streets new cells will end the early release scandal one thing when i
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first saw this i was like what what night ago you know sometimes when the the world whether it's
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adverts or whether it's the corporate mainstream media or whatever they come up with a new term
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a new thing it's just made up that day you've never heard it before you're supposed to accept
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it as though like that's a thing i was like wait wait wait wait nightingale prisons what are you
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talking about i had to google it what it was are they guarded by nightingales
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And they called them Nightingale hospitals
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They've decided to call them Nightingale prisons
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said they're going to do to sort of ease the release the the the pressure on our prisons my
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feeling is that we need to deport between 10 and 20 million people and thusly might be a bit of a
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lag thusly the massive amount of pressure would come off our prison estate what do you feel about
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that yeah deport 20 million people that's that's obvious that goes without saying i mean that's
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just any reasonable person with any love for their country would accept that without without question
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um but um why does it have to be all these prisons i mean why not other things like flogging
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that it's not i was reading it's a 60 000 pounds a year but i god knows why they get rubbish food
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and they don't have much to do yeah but apparently it's 60 000 pounds a year to keep a bloke in prison
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right whereas surely and you would agree both surely you know like 10 strokes with a birch
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I'm thinking more 200 licks of the cat of nine tails
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If you consider that it's nine strokes per stroke
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strokes of the cat is a bit much but uh yeah uh yeah no i mean
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i would just like to see our population reduced massively and it will take pressure off
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everything wouldn't it school classroom sizes the waiting list for doctors and dentists and
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and the actual hospital and the prison just everything my primary school my primary school
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is now completely different from how it was when i went there they've built all over the playground
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with little new classrooms there was a school orchard school orchard to teach kids about
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growing stuff and that that was built over even while i was while i was there so so so it was
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built a nice school with nice grounds and a reasonable number of people the population is
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too high and it needs to be very heavily reduced but it can't be reduced in such a way that oh
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people don't have children and so then you just have lots of old people because then just you
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have lots of unproductive people and you have a very conservative society that doesn't like any
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kind of innovation or new things or or whatever that's that's not what actually is happening in
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japan can't have that it just has to be the mass deportation of people that don't have any business
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being in the country in the first place yeah dan uh did an interesting segment on this uh earlier
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in the week and he said sort of i can only agree with him uh a program of mass remigration for a
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lot of people, strangers, foreigners, that should not be here, got no right, really, to be here.
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And also a set of policies that encourage natalism, encourage having children for the
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native white Brits, some sorts of tax and housing carrots to entice people to have more children
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more early in life for the native population. So the double whammy of those things, that seems
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good and reasonable to me. The idea that we need to import lots and lots of foreign people in order
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to care for our aging population is obviously mad because they themselves assuming they stay
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they themselves then become old don't they a few decades later so you're not actually solving the
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problem in any sense you're actually making it a lot worse you're also you're also not solving
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the problem because having an aging population creates other problems even if you could have
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even if you've got people from abroad or whatever who are who are looking after them it creates a
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culture of a lack of innovation of extreme sort of conservatism and not in a good way um and uh
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and and so it it doesn't help it it's you have you have to have a young population that's what
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we had in the 80s because of the boomers we had a young popular in the 70s and look at all the
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innovation we had all the interesting stuff like all the interesting movies and original stuff and
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and now it's just remakes because that's what happens in a society of people that are old
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and it permeates out to the rest of the culture you don't want to take risks you don't like change
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and so you have remakes you know now they've remade little house on the prairie what's the
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point of that just watch little house on the prairie what in the name of god is the point of
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remaking little house on the prairie but they have they've and they've remade out of green gables
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constant remakes nothing new no risks they're going to remake the waltons
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if they remake coronation street but like starting from the beginning
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it is um it is interesting to see it when you when you look at history you know a fair bit
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about history and you see where cultures certain civilizations become effectively
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stagnant and inward looking and just uh try and recreate the glories of the past first thing that
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springs to mind and there's so many examples of this in history the first thing that springs to
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mind is so there's some of the later periods of egyptian history ancient egyptian history even
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by the middle kingdom they're looking back and trying to recreate the old kingdom times and
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doing it in a far inferior way uh that their their their innovation their their spark whatever you
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want to call it um it is has gone out and all they can do is try and reboot and remake and try
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and emulate what came before and there's there's no there's no real they're not they're not as
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clever they've built civilization they've built certain amenities of civilization which makes
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life less harsh and that means that people that are of lower intelligence are able to have
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successfully have more children and people that are higher up just don't want to have children
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because they're less instinctive and they're in an evolutionary mismatch where there's not enough
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death and so therefore they we know that if you prime people with death then their instincts come
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out this includes religiosity and wanting to have children um and so then i mean look at the pyramids
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look at the way they get smaller and smaller and smaller and smaller and and so so you can
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literally trace across time proto-pyramids that then get really big and then it's it's the size
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of the pyramids parallels like the intelligence and the innovativeness of the population it's
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fascinating there's a great number of examples of that through history where um it just it just
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piece they don't get better and better and more efficient it degenerates and i feel like just
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just one data point is just like the state of hollywood at the moment or tv that there's just
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endless remakes and reboots and the that there's not much there's not not much originality there
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and the quality and when things are an original piece it's the quality isn't as good as it used
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to be i think it's a very telling sort of data point but okay let's move on here um here well
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in the independent the banner it's only the banner i know it's not the actual headlights
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a banner but let's talk about it anyway it says tax cuts pints in pubs are we heading for a snap
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general election i don't think so i think burnham has said quite clearly a number of times he doesn't
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intend to hold the general election but he is the messiah without a mandate isn't he beyond
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the 25 000 people that voted for him in makerfield and 330 odd labour mps that uh gave him his
00:28:38.720
coronation but ed what do you what are your thoughts and feelings about burnham and his
00:28:45.260
mandate or the lack thereof and the idea of a general election would you like to see one are
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you indifferent well uh first of all this idea that you don't have a mandate as prime minister
00:28:57.220
unless you have won an election is a very new thing and it's manifested because we because in
00:29:04.240
recent history we've had two prime ministers that have become very presidential because they've been
00:29:08.640
in power for so long one and also that came in on a on an election that came in on a mandate
00:29:14.640
are you talking about blair and cameron or thatcher and blair and thatcher blair and thatcher
00:29:19.660
they were both in for a decade or more and they both came in on in an election so they inherently
00:29:26.140
had a mandate and and then they made sort of radical change for the country and so on and so
00:29:31.380
we think of ourselves as this idea that a prime minister doesn't have a mandate if they're not
00:29:34.460
elected but that that historically we're going back to to the norm now the norm but it was a
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weird period of relative peace uh and relative economic security under mrs thatcher under major
00:29:48.000
blair and brown that was it was that it was this peculiar period that's unusual uh over the cycle
00:29:54.000
of a hundred years and normally you go through prime ministers and um people didn't talk about
00:29:59.860
when jim callaghan became prime minister he wouldn't say he didn't have a mandate he had a
00:30:03.520
mandate because he had the support of more than half of the parliament uh of the house of commons
00:30:08.680
that was his mandate and people didn't say he went John Major there was some murmurings about
00:30:14.600
oh he hasn't won an election because we'd had Thatcher for 10 years or 11 years but even then
00:30:19.780
it's a relatively new idea that you have to have you have to have won an election to have mandate
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an election was won but with him it's more strange I didn't discuss this before it's more weird with
00:30:29.960
him because he I can't think of another example in recent history he wasn't actually elected to
00:30:37.340
parliament on the on the policies of the Labour Party at all so the nearest equivalent would be
00:30:44.940
the making some peer of the realm prime minister something like that and of course appear in
00:30:49.960
Victorian times and of course a peer of the realm isn't elected but on the other hand you could
00:30:55.060
argue well he was still a member of the Labour Party and so in theory we expect him to at least
00:31:01.140
have implicitly supported the policies of the Labour Party or presumably he would have left
00:31:05.080
the Labour Party so I'm I'm I'm not so I'm not so bothered about this this um that he doesn't
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personally have a mandate issue I'm more positive about the clock I think that he had he has as much
00:31:19.620
of a mandate as most privatists in history he has as much of a mandate as as uh as Callahan as much
00:31:25.680
of a mandate as Alex Douglas Hume as much of a mandate as John Major as anybody that has
00:31:33.320
What's more bizarre is that you have a person that comes in
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um but i think um while you was talking i was thinking but there's shades of it degrees of it
00:32:06.340
um so you're quite right to point out that what like reishi didn't go back to the people
00:32:10.800
um i don't think list trust had any intention of doing that um uh gordon brown didn't john
00:32:18.240
major didn't a number a number of them and going back through the centuries even a number of them
00:32:22.040
didn't but then and that's a fair point it's a fair point um but then there's degrees of it
00:32:27.800
though aren't there uh where i feel like some some examples are sort of more egregious than
00:32:33.480
others and i just i in my opinion i feel like the burnham case is particularly egregious like he
00:32:40.480
particularly doesn't have because you you mentioned the man there's an idea of a mandate
00:32:45.940
from the people and a parliamentary mandate a popular mandate i feel like his popular mandate
00:32:52.820
is just not it's almost non-existent it's just not really there i wonder if he did you know put
00:32:58.620
it another way i wonder if he did call an election right now what the pop what the popular vote would
00:33:03.300
be for labor and if it was shown to be really quite small then um and they lost government
00:33:09.960
um it would be fair to have described him as somebody without a mandate uh but nonetheless
00:33:31.660
because he wasn't even a member of Parliament at all
00:33:40.880
and he wasn't elected as part of this government at all.
00:33:45.760
So he is he it's I can't think of any other example at all of someone that has come from that was not involved in the election.
00:33:57.460
Which is that Alec Douglas Hume was a peer of the realm, but he was a member of the government.
00:34:01.880
He was a member of Harold Macmillan's government and then he was made prime minister.
00:34:06.080
When Macmillan stood in whatever election it was, 59, Alec Douglas Hume was part of the cabinet.
00:34:40.560
so he just waited till then so he did just sit there he didn't call an election right away
00:34:45.980
he just waited a year or 18 months before one was going to happen anyway i can't but yeah that's
00:34:52.460
that's correct and he he removed thatcher was removed in november 1990 and he um he waited
00:35:00.200
he had to have an election because elections are normally every four years but they have to be every
00:35:05.100
five years and he simply he simply waited and then there was there was an election a year and
00:35:11.960
a half or whatever after he was again prime minister okay there's wildfires all across
00:35:17.220
europe ed there's wildfires don't worry about that it happens every year and it's perfectly
00:35:22.440
natural but there's wildfires be worried well there's more wildfire because it's hotter because
00:35:58.120
And then we watched, and everybody else watched,
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as this field just caught fire down in the valley.
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And eventually, I guess, somebody must have telephoned the emergency services.
00:36:12.420
And by the time the helicopter arrived and started spraying it with water,
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I don't know exactly what caused it, but a little spark.
00:36:27.040
And you saw it, you saw the glint as it happened
00:36:42.160
Burnham puts early prisoner release scheme on hold
00:36:56.060
that the government and not just Burnham it seems like but Starmer was guilty of it and a lot of the
00:37:01.700
last 10 years or so of Tory governments were guilty of it of just seeming to react and changing
00:37:08.060
national government policy on the back of quite simply if there's enough pressure or limelight
00:37:14.960
coming from the media then they will change policy otherwise not it seems to me this prisoner thing
00:37:22.620
because there was enough enough uproar in the media about those two young men that may well
00:37:28.880
be released after dragging that cop along the road and killing him now they're looking at
00:37:33.900
changing the policy and if there wasn't that much uh pressure on them they wouldn't do and i made
00:37:40.700
the argument that that's an extremely shaky and extremely dodgy way of of doing government do you
00:37:48.680
think i'm overreacting i've just got the wrong end of the stick on that i think i think you're
00:37:52.360
Right. I think you're right, Beau. It's a double-edged sword. It's like Margaret Thatcher.
00:37:56.620
She comes up with a policy, the poll tax. It's incredibly unpopular. She refuses to bend on it.
00:38:04.360
She refuses to move. And that was the thing that helped to have her removed from power.
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But on the other hand, at least it's reassuring to think that you've got someone in charge of
00:38:15.040
the country that has clear ideas about how things should be done, is confident in themselves and in
00:38:21.600
what they uh what they think has a plan which they at least think is a good plan which will
00:38:28.140
have positive results in the end uh one of the things that the conservatives argued yes it hurt
00:38:33.560
but yes it works so when she came in she said that the country is in chaos we need to sort out
00:38:39.720
this the the british disease of being uh governed by trade unions of constant strikes uh of us being
00:38:47.440
the poor sick man of Europe we need to do these things we need to we need to um denationalize
00:38:53.800
various industries that aren't making any money we need to uh we need to open up the economy so
00:38:59.380
that we can make lots of money these are the things we have to do and these are incredibly
00:39:03.040
unpopular when she was doing them at first in the early 80s they were unbelievably unpopular
00:39:09.000
but they uh but she said no we're doing it anyway I don't care how unpopular I am
00:39:13.240
And eventually the results were there. And then she was reelected in 87 with a with a massive majority, having done these unpopular things, having taken on the unions.
00:39:22.480
So that's good. But if it goes too far, if you come up with an unpopular policy, which nobody likes and you won't you won't renege on it, then that's that's that's obviously that was the problem.
00:39:32.780
But, yeah, it just makes it look like they don't really have any ideas. They're just they're just in power, but they don't know what to do with the power.
00:39:38.960
they have no plan for the country they have there are various problems that are very bad problems
00:39:43.480
like housing costs and too many people and uh inter-ethnic strife and low trust in authorities
00:39:49.960
and all this stuff there are various problems need to be solved and they've got no idea how to solve
00:39:55.160
them and so they're just living moment by moment trying something out oh it's not popular it gets
00:40:00.120
bad headlines as it comes across there's a weak disorganized government with no plan that's what
00:40:05.760
it seems like to me whereas at least if they did it is they said no our policy is to release
00:40:10.500
prisoners early this is our policy we think it will have positive consequences in the end these
00:40:15.100
are what they are so judge us in a few years time then at least that would be more reassuring that
00:40:20.620
we have people in power that know what they're doing and have a clear plan for the country this
00:40:24.180
just makes them seem weak yeah yeah yeah it's gone back on the policy on other policies that
00:40:29.660
starboard was going to bring in as well like to do with pubs there's other ones um it just makes
00:40:34.540
d cards weak and just subject to the whim of the people yeah absolutely i wouldn't want a
00:40:40.280
completely inflexible completely deaf government because that way lies like ceauchescu right
00:40:48.020
that's not good but but but not to just run around like a headless chicken i mentioned the
00:40:53.680
duke of wellington at waterloo now i'm not just gonna always react and run around like a headless
00:40:59.380
chicken when something moves i'm not going to do that that's as you say just weak it doesn't just
00:41:03.980
look weak i think it is weak right um so i feel like the real prerequisite to be in government
00:41:11.700
is to have a vision of what you want and do the guts to stick by it when you get a bit of flat
00:41:20.080
from the likes of the bloody telegraph or the metro to stick by to ignore that noise
00:41:25.460
it will be popular in the short term but you have to have the confidence that having done
00:41:31.900
your calculations and so forth that it will have positive results in the long term and that's not
00:41:36.620
the case with prisons all they're thinking is prisons are overcrowded uh human rights whatever
00:41:42.800
uh we can't just stick loads of them in a room like like they do in el salvador and uh so so
00:41:49.140
what can we you know let's just release loads of them oh we're getting we're getting flack we're
00:41:53.280
getting uh emotional articles because a police officer was killed this look makes us look bad
00:41:58.920
will change up will u-turn and that's when you when the people say the government u-turns then
00:42:03.800
that's when people just see the government as weak and they're not doing anything and they're
00:42:07.420
not they can't they can't sort anything out and so you might as well vote for somebody else yeah
00:42:12.240
yeah quick story here won't spend too long on this but in the ongoing uh trial between trump
00:42:17.480
and the bbc in in florida i think is uh i find it fascinating that the bbc is trying to trying
00:42:23.340
to get trump in the in the uh what's the the phase of the trial where you did disclosure
00:42:28.100
trying to get Trump's personal messages even trying to prove that he did in fact want to
00:42:36.040
incite violence on the 6th of January so they've decided it seems like this article points that
00:42:42.220
what makes the point it seems like the BBC have moved from just simply trying to say sorry yeah
00:42:48.420
the panorama thing was disingenuous and disingenuous and we're sorry about that they seem
00:42:53.500
to have moved their strategy to now let's try and go on the attack let's try and prove that Trump
00:42:58.020
did actually in his heart or in his soul or at least privately on messages uh actually want to
00:43:03.380
incite violence on the 6th of january um i just find that interesting and uh have you got any
00:43:08.780
feelings on the trump bbc trial i i yeah i only hope that trump hasn't kept copious diaries
00:43:16.740
because this is what did for david irving he sued he sued uh deborah lipstat and penguin books
00:43:24.660
proclaiming that he was a holocaust denier and a not sympathizer and a racist and whatever
00:43:29.180
and then in the disclosure aspect of the trial he was open about the fact rather foolishly
00:43:35.400
that he kept copious diaries and they and they demanded his personal diaries during the disclosure
00:43:41.920
which he happened which he gave to them and of course then they went through the personal diaries
00:43:46.740
and found uh him expressing his his thoughts and feelings in a way that weren't exactly helpful to
00:43:52.440
his case right so it's it's it's it's very um it's it's it's you've got to be very careful if
00:43:59.800
you're gonna you're they they they can basically ask ask for your diaries like a window into your
00:44:04.700
soul and then you use it against you so i i um yeah it'll be very very that would be what they'd
00:44:11.520
have to do they'd have to prove that he that they were correct um and therefore i don't i don't
00:44:17.220
understand why that's the case though i mean like whether or not he did deliberately cause the
00:44:21.720
january 6th riots they still misrepresented him to make him seem worse than he was yeah so i don't
00:44:29.560
understand why that should be a defense um they didn't i think they didn't have the evidence at
00:44:35.660
the time for it to be correct to say whether they then subsequently get the evidence is irrelevant
00:44:42.120
so i think that's that's a bad aspect of the legal system if you can say no we didn't have
00:44:46.240
the evidence when we said it but now we've gone and got it and we are right no it should be you
00:44:50.720
didn't have the evidence when you said it so you shouldn't have said it so you're wrong and you
00:44:54.160
have to pay out yeah no quite right quite right here's a story i think it's interesting because
00:45:00.300
where uh burnham has come in and he said oh the us the us air force at least can in fact use some
00:45:08.500
of our air bases i think they already were but he's he's redoubled down said no you can particularly
00:45:13.340
the B-1 bomber flying out of Fairford, RAF Fairford, which is not very far from where I'm
00:45:22.000
sitting. It's just on the Gloucestershire, Wiltshire, Baldess, just north of where I'm
00:45:25.520
sitting right now, RAF Fairford. Iran threatens RAF base, RAF Fairford, and Royal Family,
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indirectly, after a wave of US strikes. Iran have just said any base that US planes fly out of
00:45:40.100
that bomb us Iran is a fair target what do you think of the escalating war in the Persian Gulf
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are you concerned about have you got Persia Iran fatigue do you follow it very closely yeah I have
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I've got I've got I've got fatigue um I just take the view look we can't we need to be have we need
00:46:00.140
to have the attitude much more of a kind of an Edwardian gentleman in his in his club that's what
00:46:05.940
we that's what we need and we need to say our civilization is based around oil and we that is
00:46:13.660
very important that we get that oil and if countries are going to mess up countries that have
00:46:18.460
that are relevant to our ability to obtain oil are going to mess us about then we need to invade
00:46:24.640
those countries and that's it that is basically we can't we can't allow this we who who is in
00:46:31.420
charge of the world is the western people and we can't have this and that would be in edward in
00:46:38.840
england that would just go without saying we're not having this but you're not messing us around
00:46:43.000
you're not stopping us from accessing the resources that we need you're not going to do that and if
00:46:47.660
you do we we we we we come in i can't believe we allowed the iranian revolution to happen in the
00:46:54.400
first place i mean it was ridiculous we had a we had a a friendly dictator in iran and uh and then
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we allowed him to be overthrown and replaced by these these religious fanatics and it's not good
00:47:07.840
enough i think we need to just go in there and sort it out well 1979 wouldn't that be jimmy
00:47:14.380
carter jimmy carter was a bit wet wasn't he he was never probably going to invade yeah okay
00:47:50.140
even being selected to stand again so this is all part of sort of her broader thing of trying to
00:47:55.740
trying to purge the conservative party of wets what do you think about that yeah good
00:48:02.940
good she's good on her yeah i mean i don't i don't know if we if we must have um a foreigner
00:48:09.260
as prime minister again uh if we if we if we if we must have an anchor baby a literal anchor baby
00:48:17.580
as Prime Minister that seems to have recently adopted an English accent.
00:48:21.760
There's interviews with her talking in Nigerian accent about 10 years ago.
00:48:26.440
If we must, then I think we could do worse, perhaps, than Kenny Badenov.
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Yeah, if we can have an anchor baby as a leader,
00:48:34.800
at least have a based one, mildly based one, even if it is performative.
00:48:38.580
Exactly. If we must be ruled by a foreigner,
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then at least it could be a based one that's quite sort of funky.
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They say it's not safe for him to stay in Belmarsh
00:49:44.740
to not be in Broadmoor and which is a secure hospital which and another thing is much it's a
00:49:53.400
more pleasant environment for the inmate actually much more pleasant much less dangerous as well
00:49:59.320
and just one thing we talked earlier about how much it costs to keep a fella in the clink yeah
00:50:05.940
it did cost something like 50 grand a year to keep him or anyone in Belmarsh and it costs more like
00:50:11.860
300 grand a year to keep them in broadmore well that's outrageous isn't it that's that's
00:50:17.780
right i think that the we should make rwanda pay for that yeah we we give we we give aid we
00:50:24.100
give government aid we give third world aid to rwanda so i think we just reduce it by how much
00:50:31.140
it costs us to keep him in prison because he's 19 years old sentenced to them a minimum of like 51
00:50:37.300
or 52 years he could live for another 50 60 years that's i mean what's your feelings on the death
00:50:46.020
penalty ed i assume you're very very pro death penalty wouldn't you put this person to death
00:50:52.600
in all honesty in all seriousness it goes it goes without saying that i'm in favor of the death
00:50:58.320
penalty uh the question shouldn't be should the person be executed the question should be by what
00:51:04.400
method um that's the question intelligent question right so obviously hanging would be for
00:51:11.840
for for minor relatively minor crimes like hanging's too good for a man hanging's too good for
00:51:17.340
him nail him up that's what i say nail him up yeah yeah yeah but we get with hanging drawing
00:51:23.280
and corporating for the really really serious things or burning for um for women um and yeah
00:51:29.480
i think that's that's that's uh that's that's entirely reasonable and i don't see how anybody
00:51:33.720
could even consider arguing with us in his law because oh well the the this person was innocent
00:51:40.640
and he was hanged yeah yeah he was but normally they're a bit dodgy aren't they these people that
00:51:47.060
are that are wrongly executed they're probably they've usually done something where they're a
00:51:51.920
bit dodgy the only problem is that i think that lucy let me might be innocent um and they presumably
00:52:28.280
in all honesty in all seriousness i would reserve it for cases where there's no doubt it's not that
00:52:33.940
there's a reasonable doubt but that there's no doubt that there's um very very clear camera or
00:52:40.000
eyewitness testimony and probably would want slam dunk dna billions to one that it's not your dna
00:52:46.880
type evidence i would want there to be no doubt yeah but in those cases in those cases then yeah
00:52:53.420
Now, for example, there was a case in Scotland recently
00:52:56.700
of a guy who killed an academic at the University of Aberdeen
00:53:00.800
and he killed his wife, supposedly, in the early 70s or mid-70s
00:53:06.780
and then eventually, due to advances in DNA and things like that,
00:53:10.660
then quite recently he was put on trial for it and found guilty
00:53:16.800
But as far as I could see in that case, there was quite a lot of doubt.
00:53:19.740
it was it was not a slam dunk case at all that he had that he had he had killed her so i um i
00:53:27.280
yeah it would be it would i want witnesses i've what proper that there's even dna evidence i don't
00:53:33.140
know but um but but in that case there was not dna evidence that he killed her there was dna
00:53:39.480
evidence that was circumstantial i you know your dna was on her was on her clothes or something
00:53:45.560
like that well why was it there but there was there wasn't actually proof that he really killed
00:53:50.160
her right okay let's quickly move on we're getting towards the well so if you're nearly
00:53:55.360
now let's uh quickly go through this oh andy burnham's and it is number 10 north there's
00:54:00.660
some a place called heron house just a building in the middle of manchester that's his new that's
00:54:06.440
his his new number 10 north do you think that's good in any way or is that just pure gimmick to
00:54:11.160
you what do you think about it it's gimmick oh come on it's oh we're going to be in the north
00:54:15.980
we're going to be a bit different we're not going to have a lectern and we do our speech in front
00:54:19.920
of downing street because we're so laid back and cool and funky and and you know it's oh we're
00:54:26.780
going to be a bit different because a lot of people are working from home these days and so
00:54:30.660
i'm going to be like them and no it's just a gimmick god's sake yeah yeah look how laid back
00:54:36.400
is he's holding a pint there he's well laid back look there's another on the other hand though do
00:54:42.120
do we do we want the prime minister on the we talk about oh you know you want the prime minister to
00:54:47.480
be intelligent and and skilled and hard working and a brilliant speaker and whatever and so
00:54:52.260
well he's not representative of the people but people go on about oh we want people we want
00:54:56.740
people to be representative of the people you know it's a problem that they've been to a posh
00:54:59.840
university or it's a problem that they've been to private school or whatever we want to be
00:55:03.140
representative so if you do then surely you want a prime minister that works from home
00:55:07.660
gets up at about 11 in the morning well sorry gets up at about nine in the morning tunes in
00:55:14.120
to make it look like he's working goes back to bed right gets up at 11 in the morning
00:55:21.100
starts does a bit of work in his pants you know has it has it has it has a few wank breaks um
00:55:28.820
you know what works from home easy this is supposed to be child friendly ed come on
00:55:32.940
oh sorry um um okay pleasure sorry about it it's all right sorry i didn't know it's going to be
00:55:40.780
child friendly i would i wouldn't have thought there would be children watching your show at
00:55:44.140
any time in the morning but um but but um i apologize living in finland i'm used to the
00:55:50.840
fact that i get up i get up at like nine and i put tv on and family guys on and kids could watch
00:55:56.100
that but of course they think to themselves well the kids won't be able to understand it
00:56:28.260
normal working class guy look at this one look burnham my nights out at the hacienda anyone who's
00:56:34.200
not old enough or maybe foreign might not know the hacienda was a very very famous really hip
00:56:38.340
nightclub in manchester hacienda and burnham's saying that he used to go there because he's a
00:56:47.180
normal normal fella with okay all right they're the front pages for one day the increasingly
00:56:54.340
absurd front pages let's have a look at our poll harry can you bring up the poll for me
00:56:58.200
What did we ask you today? Oh, I asked you about a relatively serious thing, over 1,000 votes. I asked you, will Trump need to put boots on the ground in Iran in order to win? That's what I asked. And the ires have it. 72% of the Glorious Band of Chosen for You say yes. Not an insignificant 28% say no. They think it can be done just with an air campaign, I assume.
00:57:20.560
what do you think ed is this iranian regime ever going to crumble and bend the knee and just do
00:57:27.340
exactly what the state department and israel want or is that just never gonna happen without boots
00:57:34.140
on the ground and an actual 2003 iraq style regime change what do you think i think they are
00:57:40.400
obviously they are religious fanatics the people that are in charge and because they are religious
00:57:45.040
fanatics then it is it is very unlikely that they will willingly it's like taliban it's it's very
00:57:50.320
it's very unlikely that they will willingly uh or that they will with any ease um give up power
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because they're religious fanatics so they will fight to the to the absolute end confident that
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allah will um will support them and will guide them and all that kind of thing they're actually
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happy to be martyred yeah so i think i think that they that they will fight to the very very end and
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And so I think that, therefore, it would make sense to just put boots on the ground.
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And it's such a shame. Iran is this historically highly significant country, you know, Persepolis and whatever.
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And frankly, it does have very, very good looking women who are the sort of exact balance between difference and sameness.
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So it's a shame. So I think I think that it's in our interest.
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And I'm sure it's in our interest to just go in and just, if you're going to take out Iraq, then surely you should go in and just take out Iran.
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So with that said, what do you think then of the fact that the White House, the State Department and the Pentagon all have said and repeatedly say, and don't seem to be budging on, the policy of that they have no appetite for boots on the ground?
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What then? How do you square that circle there?
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yeah you can't you don't um they don't have any appetite for bits on the ground because trump
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has said that we don't want to get involved with foreign wars and all this kind of thing
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but it's it's very very important that the west has enough oil and and so to our standards of
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living that oil is a reasonable price it's very very very very important yeah and nothing can
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function without oil nothing it would be finished without oil well so talking of which just say uh
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we sometimes check in with the live price of oil right now brent is just over a hundred dollars
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that psychological barrier of a hundred dollars west texas uh uh 91 and a half dollars so it's
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creeping up it's getting back up there sorry ed i spoke over you a bit there carry on no no i think
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i think it would be it's completely reasonable and entirely sensible real politic to invade the
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country and install um i think there's a lot of there's a lot of rebellions going on in iran as
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i understand it there's a lot of people have had enough uh standards of living have gone down
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people are very very unhappy uh there's terrible inflation the appalling prices of everything
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people are very very very unhappy in iran so i think that it's it's it's on the it's on the
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brink anywhere so i think that we it's in our interest as the west to push it over the brink
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and and stabilize like as we did with venezuela or as trump did with venezuela
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We need to stabilise and control our sources of oil
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If you was chairman of the Joint Chief of Suffolk
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Let's mass tank divisions in the Zagros Mountains
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would you would you be advising that uh well i wouldn't i i i'd have a lot more knowledge than
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i ed dutton have about the complicated dynamics of invading iran i'm sure it's very very difficult
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and annoying it involves mountains and god knows what but but um yeah i think i think it's getting
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to a point where it becomes reasonable to somehow remove that regime and um and help them towards
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a more friendly one okay okay all right let's do on this day in history i quite like doing that bit
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everyone else seems to doesn't mind me doing that bit i think it's interesting if you don't mind
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staying with me ed it's up to you those if you control cool all right so on this day down through
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the centuries what happened of an 8 july the 24th on this day in 1534 french explorer jacques cartier
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claims for france the islands around guespe i think that's how you pronounce it guess pay
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That I can talk about because I've got a sub chapter
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on women oh tell us about it tell us about your book yeah so the book will probably be called
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borderline um borderline genius borderline insane and it um understanding borderline
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personality disorder and how women with it have um have influenced history and it looks at how
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basically women that are highly significant tend to have borderline personality disorder which is
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marked by extreme moods problems with anger identity disturbance self-harm um uh theory
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of abandonment uh depression and other disease various various traits and um i argued that well
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i looked at the most eminent women and i found that more than half of them had the traits
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and then i looked at queen's regnant because i argue because often if their fathers are narcissists
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for example or psychopaths then this expresses in women as borderline personality and so you'd
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expect these queens regnant to be like that and that's what i found and she was the of the queen's
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that we've had in britain uh that were absolute monarchs i that were actually in charge um she
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had the most she was the most extreme case i mean she's the most extraordinary woman um for example
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um someone raped her and so then she married him right or she had her husband assassinated
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and then that person that killed her husband then took her away abducted her and raped her
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So it's absolutely a absolutely crazy woman.
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She had all of the traits of BPD, as far as I could see.
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it was suspected that it wasn't even the father's son.
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It was suspected that it was the son of her Italian secretary.
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She was having an affair with her Italian secretary.
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particularly for a woman um okay on this day in 1832 benjamin bonneville leads the first wagon
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train across the rocky mountains through wyoming's south pass i always find it remarkable how late
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it was in history in the 19th century that america expands out west i always find that
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remarkable i always i always do that it is basically the 19th century when that happens
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You could reasonably expect that to have happened
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I don't know if you're familiar much with that story,
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He's literally sort of hacking his way through the forest
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and sort of through the canopy or through some bushes,
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It's just like, oh, oh, there is an actual ancient lost city here in the mountains.
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How quickly, if you don't, if buildings aren't maintained, how quickly they become.
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I went there a few years ago and it's not been touched.
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It's been left alone since the late 50s and no one's been, it's falling down.
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All the glass has fallen out the windows and smashed.
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There's trees growing in the middle, like literally through the building.
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it is amazing how quickly if you don't if you don't maintain it it just becomes it just turns
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back into earth comes over it grass grows on it it just becomes a what he found it's remarkable
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isn't it i once saw a very what i thought was a very very interesting documentary about exactly
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that how long if humans just disappeared how long would it take before any any evidence that we ever
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existed completely disappeared and i said with a few exceptions like the pyramids which would take
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a very very very long time for wind erosion to completely remove them other than a few examples
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like that um it would only be a few centuries even still girded buildings would after a few
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centuries would collapse and fall down and uh all sorts of erosion it wouldn't it wouldn't be a
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couple of thousand years at most and nearly all the evidence that humans ever existed would be
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a book i've got coming out next year called the reign of dust which is on ancient uh high
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everything else would be gone and even the pyramids
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they wouldn't necessarily fall down but they'd become
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There's another book that I forget the name of it
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The lady that runs that put up a photo of some book
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about what was done to Germany when it was liberated
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and just the atrocities, like crucifying people
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Bomber House's policy was let's just kill lots and lots of civilians
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wasn't it in the early months of 45 it was right near the end seems to me utterly completely and
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utterly unnecessary but um they destroyed country which was a beautiful historical town
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and so we had to destroy dresden to just get our own back i have i have heard that hamburg before it
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was almost wiped off the map in 43 was a beautiful beautiful sort of medieval city it was like
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largely at the center of it was one of those examples of something straight from the middle
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ages genuine example of sort of a medieval town basically um but now of course gone okay and the
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last fact right there was the one we already talked about where um a bunch of shill scientists
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try and peddle the liar the climate change is 99 the fault of uh humans okay all right well
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thank you very much for your time ed i appreciate it if you've got anything else you want to let
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people know about or where they can watch you and uh and buy your many many books
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yes well there's the jolly heretic which is my youtube and substack and so if you like what i
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do you can help me the cast of a kind of beer month that i've got a new film on moldova which
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is um people seem to quite like uh sort of neo-byzantium where we might flee to as as the
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chaos happens um unfolds and gets worse and then yeah i've got various books that are available on
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amazon um but i've got a new one which i'm going to be coming out next month which is on borderline
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personality disorder and the influence of women with it on history and on the modern day so um
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look out for that excellent well thank you very much sir hopefully it's not too long before i
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speak to you again and once again thank you for your time really appreciate it pleasure bye bye
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bye there you go professor ed dutton there the good professor always a brilliant guest he always
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knows what he's talking about got some great takes of course he has all right should we do
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our rumble rants and super chats and then that should be the show it's already knocking on
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towards quarter past nine okay no not in any massive rush though not on the podcast today
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or anything all right let me do this with my mic boom so i can see the left hand side of my screen
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where the rumble rants are do you think global church history is going to be in a number one
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what do you reckon is it going to be a good day let's have a look have a look yes he is reigning
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defending and stew the champ of rumble rants global church history says today in 1969 apollo
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11 safely landed in the pacific ocean that's cool i believe in the moon landings i do have
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some questions and reservations about about apollo 11 specifically or apollo 9 10 and 11.
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i do think men landed on the moon in my opinion like apollo like apollo 14 15 16 17 it's just
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it's just definitely a real it's just that they just definitely did do you have a slight
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reservation about apollo 11 haven't got time to go into it here though all right um you have
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global church history also said uh in on this day in 2019 uh u.s immigrant of uh russo-turkish
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descent Boris Johnson became Prime Minister. Alexander Johnson. His first name is Alex.
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And his middle name is Boris. Bo is my middle name. He called him US Immigrant of Russo-Turkish
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dissent. Yeah. I would have Boris Johnson's name at the top of my list of people to face
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the consequences of their crimes against the people in the nation. Alexander Boris Johnson.
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Okay. Pigdog5150 says, great to see and hear Ed on the Real BBC, Bo's Breakfast Club,
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The main problem is a spiritual and moral inversion
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That cares nothing for our people's future
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in the west in england very concerning okay the last one around today is from matthew c how are
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you sir is one of the super fans met him at the live show great guy matt you say
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ed is referring to hellstorm the book on germany in 1944 to 47 truly horrifying currently reading
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it alongside like the roman is that a book called like the roman okay hellstorm there you go yeah
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A lot of them didn't even ever vote for the NSDAP
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Were never in favour of Mr Hitler's regime from day one
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Yeah, horrible, horrible thing that most histories just skate over
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Not really, you know, you read a book by Andrew Roberts or something
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His paymasters and publishers don't want him to talk about that
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say that you are a butlerian warrior. AI can however be used to limit bureaucracy. You
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will be replaced by the Bobot though. Butlerian warrior, is that like from Dune? Is that what
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that is, a reference to the butlerian jihad? Yeah, I don't trust it. In fact, that was
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a story we didn't get to today, but it's in the news
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Kemi Badenoch, well there was more stories that
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on the open internet, that that's actually happened
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that's her words exactly her words clear and present danger and we and now i'm paraphrasing
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that we you know we'll be sleepwalking into something nightmarish if we're not careful
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yeah that's my feeling okay calzetti says is it an eamon holmes joke where was eamon holmes on
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september the 11th 2001 curious oh it's getting dark the eamon holmes jokes are getting very very
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just in case anyone doesn't know what the hell we're talking about
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Didn't he have a stroke or a heart attack or something
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Might be completely naturally occurring, mightn't it?
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They do seem to like to set fire to things, don't they?
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There does seem to be a pattern there, doesn't there?
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but probably yeah probably yeah loads of these people treated each other in a colonial fashion
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down through the millennia yeah it's pretty normal pretty normal in the sweep of history
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standard across human civilization all right that's the show um it is now 23 minutes past
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nine in the am on friday thank f it's friday the 24th of july in the year of our law 2026 thank you
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for joining me you've been the glorious band the chosen few my bag of brothers and sisters without
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you the show is nothing it really is nothing thank you for watching make the best of the day ahead
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carpe diem if you can enjoy the weekend try and make the best of your time over the weekend as
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well if you can you're at liberty to use it however you see fit it's not very often the case is it
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You feel like you've got endless days on this earth
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There's nothing more valuable to you than your time
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Alright, I don't want to be too preachy about it