The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 31st July 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning you

00:00:02.400 You alright?

00:00:08.220 That was so slow it was almost creepy

00:00:09.580 Me, I'm alright, yeah, I'm much better than yesterday

00:00:12.200 Yeah, fine, thanks, yeah, not too bad, not too bad

00:00:14.560 Thank F, it's Friday, right?

00:00:19.820 Friday the 31st of July in the year of our Lord, 2026

00:00:23.400 It was just ticked past 8 in the a.m. British summer time

00:00:25.900 Could be any time where you are

00:00:28.400 lots of people from all around the world watch this really literally around the world crazy

00:00:31.960 oh as always i'm joined by my producer little harry how are you this morning good sir

00:00:36.360 morning i'm all good good freshly turned 21 cool all right um what have we got today let's we stop

00:00:46.780 all that faffing about we don't need any more fanning around do we a little bit of a slow

00:00:50.440 news day i would say well that's what they'd have you believe not actually is it but

00:00:56.020 if you only got your news from the legacy corporate lamestream media you would think

00:01:01.300 it's a relatively slow news day but um all right let's have a look what that cabal of evil fleet

00:01:05.160 street editors are talking about first and foremost what's on the front pages of uh the

00:01:08.540 british print media today what have we got they a bbc summarise it as cruel summer

00:01:13.960 it's not that bad and football's staying home

00:01:19.100 there's that song football's coming home football staying home

00:01:23.980 It's FIFA, UEFA

00:01:26.960 Threatening to boycott

00:01:29.640 The next FIFA tournaments

00:01:31.740 World Cup

00:01:32.300 Alright

00:01:33.900 My mouth is boomering out on me

00:01:36.840 Okay I got it back, here we go, alright, the Metro

00:01:38.740 First thing

00:01:40.720 Early in the morning for that

00:01:43.640 Isn't it

00:01:43.960 I'm recovering from a slightly dicky tummy

00:01:47.360 Don't give me the Metro first thing in the morning

00:01:49.020 Ew

00:01:49.320 It's unnecessary isn't it

00:01:57.260 Alright the metro, they're nearly all going with wildfires again

00:02:01.000 Is that like the third day in a row?

00:02:03.400 None of them are really talking about our invasion

00:02:05.180 Yesterday was one of the worst days ever

00:02:08.900 700, 750, maybe as many as a thousand people

00:02:12.240 Depending on the numbers you read

00:02:13.320 Crossing, four died in the attempt overnight

00:02:16.520 Not talking about that, no

00:02:19.400 Imagine if you went back to generations past

00:02:22.460 And you said

00:02:24.040 England, Britain

00:02:25.640 Would be invaded

00:02:28.240 Piecemeal day after day after day

00:02:30.260 By foreign invaders

00:02:31.460 And there are laws on the book

00:02:33.740 To say they can't do it

00:02:34.760 It is illegal, every single one of those people

00:02:36.560 Those small boat people

00:02:37.520 Are by definition a criminal

00:02:39.760 It's against the law

00:02:40.760 Just to enter our country without a passport and a visa

00:02:43.520 And all sorts of things

00:02:44.320 It's absolutely against the law to cross the channel

00:02:47.660 Like that

00:02:49.420 So there's laws on the book

00:02:51.060 If you tell people from yesteryear

00:02:52.460 That our government would do nothing about it

00:02:57.120 In fact gaslighters pretend they were sometimes

00:03:00.600 But actually do nothing about it

00:03:03.080 And even the media

00:03:05.300 You would think it was their job

00:03:07.820 To hold the government to account

00:03:10.900 You think even it was in their interest to get

00:03:12.540 People buy their newspapers

00:03:14.640 They ignore it, largely ignore it

00:03:18.240 They just wouldn't believe you would they

00:03:20.740 People from years gone

00:03:22.340 Decades or centuries past

00:03:24.680 They wouldn't believe you, surely not

00:03:26.400 Surely there's something deep down in the human character

00:03:28.640 In the human nature which wouldn't allow that to happen

00:03:31.240 So that's sort of the most existential of existential things

00:03:34.860 You could imagine

00:03:35.660 Why would that, how could that be?

00:03:40.420 And yet here we are

00:03:42.540 Here we are

00:03:45.380 We shall have to clear them out and deport them

00:03:48.540 And it won't be pretty

00:03:49.940 A lot of them won't want to go

00:03:53.520 A lot of atrocities that foreign migrants do

00:03:57.640 Is when they're told they must leave

00:03:59.680 And they're going to be deported imminently

00:04:01.180 That's when they do some sort of crazy, crazy violent thing

00:04:06.220 Often, it's then

00:04:07.320 Thanks Blair

00:04:11.660 Thanks for rubbing our noses in diversity

00:04:14.660 Well done

00:04:15.520 Thanks Boris

00:04:17.400 Thanks Boris

00:04:21.680 Okay meanwhile

00:04:26.040 The legacy corporate mainstream media

00:04:28.620 Go with what is

00:04:29.600 Relatively small fire in Suffolk

00:04:32.940 That's now under control

00:04:35.700 The news from coming out of this place

00:04:39.220 In Suffolk this morning

00:04:40.700 In real time

00:04:41.400 Is that it's basically under control

00:04:43.000 And yeah, it's all over the front pages

00:04:46.820 Again, the same picture

00:04:48.180 That's the same place

00:04:48.820 It's near-ish

00:04:50.020 A nuclear power station

00:04:52.020 What's the thing called?

00:04:55.720 Sireswell power station

00:04:57.200 It's not that near

00:04:59.280 Football as well

00:05:03.400 Football

00:05:04.700 The exact same picture

00:05:06.980 Football

00:05:09.040 That fire

00:05:11.180 that small fire in suffolk but or something about okay let's go through it in a tiny bit

00:05:17.160 more detail than that though right the metro cruel summer monster wildfire amid fourth heatwave so

00:05:22.760 far new weather fears as families flee massive blaze the size of 247 pitches i guess football

00:05:29.940 pitches near nuclear plant that's not that big in the scale of things not that big half a dozen a

00:05:37.540 dozen fire engines they put it out and it's under control but on the tv news the proper tv news this

00:05:45.740 morning if you watch a little bit of sky news um yeah their reporters are just saying just talking

00:05:53.120 for minutes minutes about how it's man-made climate change that that drives all this sort of stuff

00:06:00.240 Bizarre to me

00:06:05.820 Bizarre and obvious nonsense

00:06:08.300 Cruel summer

00:06:12.940 A little brush fire in Suffolk

00:06:16.480 Come on

00:06:17.040 The times, the venerable times

00:06:21.240 French police criticised as four boat migrants die in Channel

00:06:26.300 That's the problem, is it?

00:06:30.240 Wildfire in Suffolk near a nuclear plant

00:06:38.020 It's not that, it wasn't even that near

00:06:39.100 I have to do well to find an image like that

00:06:42.920 That even suggests it's like right imminently next to it

00:06:46.460 It's not really

00:06:47.100 The closest it came was a mile or two away

00:06:51.080 Something like that

00:06:52.020 UEFA backs World Cup boycott

00:06:54.360 I know you don't like football and this isn't actually about football itself

00:06:56.580 It's more about the governance and the politics of football

00:06:58.500 But even that I imagine you guys don't really care about

00:07:01.300 I can barely bring myself to care about it

00:07:03.180 But it is possibly the biggest story in the news cycle today

00:07:06.920 So just a couple of minutes on it

00:07:08.620 European sides won't play

00:07:10.900 If investment plan goes ahead

00:07:12.920 International football is not for sale

00:07:14.860 Gianni Infantino told

00:07:17.320 You mentioned it the last few days haven't we

00:07:20.040 That FIFA, the world governing football body

00:07:22.300 Wants to sell something like 20% of the rights to commercials

00:07:25.200 For FIFA events

00:07:27.600 It's not just the World Cup, there's like the Women's World Cup

00:07:29.600 and there's all the competitions around the world between World Cups

00:07:36.000 for qualifying to get in the World Cup.

00:07:38.000 All that is governed by and run by FIFA.

00:07:39.860 So there's a lot more to it than just the World Cup finals every four years.

00:07:44.100 And FIFA, the European body, which is completely separate to FIFA,

00:07:49.360 UEFA, with its 55 countries, including England, of course,

00:07:53.600 as one said, no, we won't vote for this.

00:07:56.740 We're not up for this

00:07:57.620 In fact

00:07:58.000 Not only won't we vote for it

00:07:59.720 Our block of 55 votes in FIFA

00:08:02.200 We'll actually even boycott

00:08:04.840 Any FIFA competitions going forward

00:08:07.020 And there's the Women's World Cup next year

00:08:09.740 It will include that

00:08:10.700 Imagine if we didn't get the Women's World Cup next year

00:08:14.740 It would be heartbroken

00:08:18.300 Such great football would be lost like tears in rain

00:08:22.360 Imagine all the great goals

00:08:27.520 All the great 30 yard screamers

00:08:30.020 We're going to miss

00:08:30.640 Imagine all the step overs

00:08:32.640 And backhills

00:08:33.480 And brilliant bits of skill

00:08:34.740 We're going to miss

00:08:35.400 At the Women's World

00:08:36.100 They don't do any of those things

00:08:39.440 If you don't know

00:08:39.900 Don't do any of those things

00:08:40.940 Do they?

00:08:45.320 Put together a compilation of women

00:08:46.700 Even at international level

00:08:48.000 Doing sweet bits of skill

00:08:49.860 Not there

00:08:54.000 Right

00:08:54.700 The Express

00:08:55.720 Is a good paper

00:08:59.720 You can read your Express now

00:09:03.840 They go with a football thing

00:09:06.140 England's joint boycott of World Cup

00:09:07.740 We've covered it

00:09:08.220 I've pretty much covered everything they say about it there

00:09:10.640 So

00:09:11.180 I won't go on with it

00:09:14.600 The Mirror

00:09:16.100 Mel C from the Spice Girls

00:09:19.200 Wasn't she the least attractive one

00:09:26.460 In the 1990s

00:09:28.300 Right alone now

00:09:30.740 World Cup sell-off Fury

00:09:36.820 Alright we get it

00:09:37.900 Red card for Infantino

00:09:39.520 Clever, clever

00:09:40.540 Star

00:09:41.980 Glorious Goodwood

00:09:43.620 Michael Owen

00:09:44.320 You know I remember Michael Owen

00:09:45.640 He was a football player

00:09:46.380 Wasn't he?

00:09:47.920 Years ago

00:09:49.200 He's got a daughter who's a jockey.

00:09:54.000 Brilliant.

00:09:54.940 Thanks, The Star.

00:09:56.120 Great journalism there.

00:09:57.460 Not going to mention now invasion, no, by barbarians,

00:10:01.620 whose rate of doing organised crime, violent crime and sex crime per capita

00:10:07.720 is through the roof.

00:10:08.900 Not going to mention that, no?

00:10:09.960 No, no, no.

00:10:10.660 Michael Owen's daughter is into horses.

00:10:14.020 Okay.

00:10:14.540 All right.

00:10:14.900 The football thing

00:10:17.440 Look, FIFA and UEFA are at war

00:10:19.920 There's a civil war

00:10:20.860 Civil war in football, yeah?

00:10:22.620 Yeah?

00:10:23.160 Okay

00:10:23.500 Alright

00:10:24.480 The IR paper

00:10:26.420 Game changer

00:10:27.540 Europe tackles

00:10:28.360 Infant

00:10:28.760 Oh, even they go with the football thing

00:10:31.100 See?

00:10:31.680 Bit of a slow news day, right?

00:10:33.000 You know it's a bit of a slow news day

00:10:34.320 When even Fleet Street

00:10:37.780 Who is very actively, proactively

00:10:40.180 Lying to you by omission

00:10:42.680 Can't find anything of real interest

00:10:46.800 Odd though they've nearly all in unison

00:10:50.880 Decided to go with the same story

00:10:52.840 Essentially

00:10:53.440 When they could talk about anything in the whole world

00:10:56.240 That's odd

00:10:58.060 It's almost as if

00:10:58.820 Do you think maybe they communicate with each other a bit?

00:11:01.700 Maybe

00:11:02.080 Maybe they're in a group somewhere

00:11:04.640 On Boomer Book or something

00:11:05.980 A little WhatsApp, Instagram group

00:11:09.260 Of senior people

00:11:10.940 Each one of these papers

00:11:11.880 Or they're all controlled by the same

00:11:16.240 Even smaller clique and cabal of people

00:11:19.220 They just tell them what they're going to write and go with on any given day

00:11:22.420 Seems that way, doesn't it?

00:11:26.120 It'd be a remarkable coincidence otherwise, wouldn't it?

00:11:28.540 Day after day after day after day

00:11:29.940 They go with the exact same, nearly the exact same stories

00:11:33.060 And quite often the exact same image

00:11:35.700 It'd be a remarkable coincidence, wouldn't it?

00:11:41.880 The sun, talking about football, staying home

00:11:46.040 Right, really important stuff

00:11:49.140 Important stuff

00:11:50.220 When our country is going to pop

00:11:53.620 Of the worst crises, set of crises it's ever faced

00:11:59.260 You're going to worry about Jarrah Kushner's brother

00:12:03.760 Getting some commercial rights for adverts during the World Cup

00:12:06.980 Alright

00:12:07.440 The Independent, the same picture

00:12:09.620 Huh, well

00:12:11.280 What are the odds of that occurring organically

00:12:15.040 Using the exact same picture

00:12:17.440 I wonder what the odds are on that

00:12:21.240 And it's near a nuclear plant

00:12:26.200 No it's not, not really

00:12:26.960 Why are you lying?

00:12:32.120 Why are you lying?

00:12:33.320 Why are you doing this?

00:12:34.300 Why are they doing this?

00:12:37.840 And Europe to boycott the World Cup

00:12:39.780 you can only imagine in that group wherever it is hey guys i'm there blackberry hey guys

00:12:46.500 today instead of talking about the invasion and the real nature of jeffrey epstein the fifth

00:12:56.080 baron mothschild and ehud barrack instead of talking about that like every day what we want

00:13:00.980 you to do is talk about the football world cup thing and that there was a wildfire in suffolk

00:13:08.940 And here's an image

00:13:09.820 We'll attach an image for you

00:13:11.360 Of that fire

00:13:11.980 All you guys

00:13:12.980 Or most of you

00:13:13.600 Go with that

00:13:14.260 This one same image

00:13:15.280 Yeah

00:13:15.880 Okay

00:13:16.720 Good boys

00:13:18.180 Send

00:13:19.440 Am I exaggerating?

00:13:26.800 Am I blowing that out of all proportion?

00:13:28.340 Am I being a conspiracy theorist?

00:13:33.260 Or is this not exactly

00:13:34.780 What the evidence of our eyes and ears

00:13:36.400 Are showing us?

00:13:37.660 That that's what's happening

00:13:39.460 That's what goes on every single day.

00:13:43.600 Is it a stretch for me to call them an evil cabal?

00:13:48.300 Is that a mischaracterisation?

00:13:52.280 You can decide.

00:13:54.220 You guys can decide that.

00:13:56.440 The Financial Times, even.

00:13:58.560 The World Cup.

00:14:01.840 Bank of England holds rates steady, but sees risk ahead if war drags on.

00:14:06.560 Amazing insight.

00:14:08.500 absolutely amazing insight you'd have to have a master's degree perhaps even phd

00:14:14.900 level economics to come up with that one

00:14:22.900 no one could have no one could have no one else other than like the professional professional

00:14:28.900 economists at the financial times could have really dreamed of such a take

00:14:37.540 there's risk ahead if war drags on

00:14:42.180 thanks that's worth paying what even is it i can't even remember they're not cheap though

00:14:46.260 these papers not particularly cheap i can't see is that's too small harry can you see that on your

00:14:51.940 screen how much it says there is that what it says i was physically leaning into your screen

00:14:57.940 anyway anyway oh he's gonna say we're gonna get a uk free pound 70. 370 for the ft

00:15:10.720 really and you get incredible journalism though very very serious

00:15:15.580 the gravitas on it the gravitas of the 370 if it was 170 i'd be like oh pass

00:15:27.940 £3.70 for the...

00:15:30.420 It's not good value, is it?

00:15:33.400 Is it worth it?

00:15:35.580 Most people that regularly do buy the physical FT

00:15:38.500 don't have to probably worry about £3.70, do they?

00:15:42.700 I think literally don't and can't notice

00:15:44.920 that small amount of money.

00:15:46.560 All right, the Telegraph, the Daily Toregraph.

00:15:49.280 Pretty much a complete slop.

00:15:50.640 Pretty much.

00:15:52.080 Wildfires close in on Sizewell nuclear power stations.

00:15:55.520 Look, there you go, look.

00:15:56.320 You remember they keep saying,

00:15:57.300 it's right next to the power station as though it's like scary as though the fire will engulf

00:16:01.680 the nuclear power station facility and where we might get some sort of like meltdown we're looking

00:16:07.200 at a fukushima possibly a chernobyl problem no look look there it is and there's quite a big

00:16:16.320 distance i would say that's like at least maybe a mile as much as a mile do you reckon

00:16:21.580 maybe a bit more difficult to gauge distances isn't it like that i'd say that's a good

00:16:27.140 mile maybe more and and and ultimately these wildfires weren't uh completely under control

00:16:35.620 and that looks reasonably verdant ground doesn't it it's not like that that bleached yellow

00:16:41.540 like tinderbox stuff like the flames are just gonna go and just overtake the facility no no no

00:16:48.260 there's no there's no ever real any danger even looks like a break in the

00:16:52.180 in the in the forest line in the in the tree line there as well

00:16:57.140 The papers can't help themselves

00:16:58.940 They just can't stop lying

00:17:01.240 Can they

00:17:01.660 They're addicted to lying

00:17:05.020 It's gross

00:17:09.160 Alright

00:17:10.120 Labour's £18 billion

00:17:12.840 Council tax raid

00:17:14.740 £500 rise in average bill

00:17:17.440 Of council tax

00:17:18.520 By 2030 under

00:17:20.920 Burnham premium

00:17:22.300 The Burnham premium

00:17:24.840 Hitting 25 million homes

00:17:26.940 Yeah they'll raise taxes

00:17:28.160 He'll raise taxes

00:17:28.920 And raise taxes

00:17:29.580 And raise taxes

00:17:30.240 Because once they've done

00:17:33.900 Everything they can

00:17:34.900 To destroy millionaires

00:17:38.200 Or not even once

00:17:39.500 As alongside that

00:17:40.840 It's the middle class

00:17:42.800 The bourgeois

00:17:43.500 That's what Fabians

00:17:45.940 Socialists

00:17:47.100 Champagne socialists

00:17:47.920 Or otherwise

00:17:48.540 That's what they really want to do

00:17:50.780 They hate the monarchy

00:17:51.740 They hate hereditary wealth

00:17:53.580 They hate millionaires

00:17:54.860 And billionaires

00:17:55.420 With a passion

00:17:55.960 They would kill them if they could

00:17:57.840 They would eat them

00:17:58.780 That's one of their slogans

00:18:01.620 Eat the rich

00:18:02.200 But then perhaps

00:18:03.720 Perhaps their first enemy

00:18:06.760 Is the bourgeois

00:18:08.980 The bourgeoisie

00:18:10.900 The middle classes

00:18:11.900 You've got a little bit of money

00:18:14.740 You run a small business

00:18:17.480 You own a car or two

00:18:19.540 Or a reasonable sized house

00:18:21.520 Three, four bedroom house

00:18:22.640 Nothing massive

00:18:23.340 Nothing giant

00:18:24.900 You're not by any real stretch rich, rich.

00:18:29.180 You're comfortable if you have to find a grand somewhere now.

00:18:33.760 It's okay, you've got it.

00:18:34.480 It's in your bank, that sort of level.

00:18:37.060 You're not rich.

00:18:38.060 You haven't got a Lambo.

00:18:41.620 You haven't got six spare bedrooms, not that.

00:18:46.840 But you're comfortable.

00:18:47.600 You don't have to worry about paying for food.

00:18:49.920 You don't have to worry about new shoes for your kids.

00:18:51.900 You can go on holiday twice, even three times a year

00:18:54.940 That sort of level, bourgeois

00:18:56.120 They hate you

00:18:58.540 They despise you

00:19:02.020 You are their enemy

00:19:07.760 Because everything you have

00:19:10.820 In their world view

00:19:12.420 Let's be clear, you know me, I'm no bloody lefty

00:19:15.080 In their world view

00:19:16.480 Everything you have is at the expense of some poor people

00:19:19.560 That money and wealth

00:19:23.020 And the ability to get on and succeed in life

00:19:26.200 Is some sort of absolute zero-sum game

00:19:28.360 And everything you have is just absolutely at the expense

00:19:31.000 Of someone who hasn't got something

00:19:32.080 Of course, that's not how reality works, is it?

00:19:38.180 But that's what they believe

00:19:39.560 That's their world view

00:19:40.700 So if you're middle class

00:19:44.700 Yeah, they'll raise bills on you

00:19:48.620 they'll raise them and raise them and raise them until you've got nothing left or nearly nothing

00:19:52.460 left and then and then they come after the kulaks and then they come after the working class

00:19:58.620 that have got anything at all

00:20:00.400 you poor you struggle kind of poor you struggle to get by you're not exactly going hungry but

00:20:10.100 you're not buying tesco finest yeah you can afford shoes but not expensive ones you don't

00:20:17.800 go on holiday, you don't live in a big house, you're crammed into a two up, two down, but

00:20:26.060 you're not exactly going hungry, you might own a car, crappy old second hand, bust up

00:20:32.220 car, anything goes wrong with it, you struggle to pay to sort it out, Kulak, how dare you

00:20:38.480 own a car, how dare you own a house, look after you next, once the millionaires and

00:20:45.660 billionaires are either fled or dead and the bourgeoisie are annihilated then they'll come for you

00:20:57.100 sorry do you think i'm exaggerating that's a crazy that's a far-right fantasist

00:21:01.660 thing to say just look at the record of history how socialist governments behave

00:21:09.020 So we can all be equal

00:21:13.780 Equity

00:21:15.960 We can all be brothers

00:21:21.220 Fraternité

00:21:22.140 Liberté

00:21:23.860 Egalité

00:21:25.280 We can all be free brothers

00:21:27.660 Equally

00:21:29.280 Living in penury

00:21:31.880 Equally oppressed with nothing

00:21:34.800 But we'll all be equal

00:21:36.300 And we'll all be free

00:21:38.000 And we'll all be brothers

00:21:39.940 In the mud

00:21:42.720 Starving to death

00:21:44.020 Well if that's what you want

00:21:51.640 Vote Labour

00:21:52.300 Vote Green

00:21:54.320 Vote Lib Dem if that's what you want

00:21:56.560 I don't know how many times

00:21:59.240 Without history it needs to have been attempted

00:22:00.660 It never ever ever works

00:22:04.460 It always ends like that

00:22:05.740 In misery and penury and famine

00:22:07.580 Human, human misery

00:22:09.800 Okay, we'll all be equally miserable

00:22:12.860 Great

00:22:13.560 Oh, apart from people that are in the party, of course

00:22:16.280 None of that applies to them

00:22:17.820 Some people are more equal than others, remember

00:22:23.660 If you're in the party, you're in the inner circle

00:22:27.220 Then you're all good

00:22:29.140 You get to live the life of Riley

00:22:37.580 They might even make you appear.

00:22:42.820 Okay.

00:22:45.100 Badenoch, doubting net zero doesn't make me a climate change denier.

00:22:49.460 Badenoch, what's that? Oh, that's right.

00:22:51.520 Olukemu Badenoch, the Nigerian woman.

00:22:56.060 An actual anchor baby.

00:23:00.460 Through dint of some sort of insane out-group fetish from the Conservative Party,

00:23:06.100 Finds herself the leader of the opposition

00:23:08.480 Olukemi Badenoch, the anchor baby

00:23:10.940 I don't care about her opinions on Net Zero one way or another

00:23:14.880 Don't trust them

00:23:16.840 Don't trust anything she or that entire party ever does or says

00:23:20.360 Ever, ever again

00:23:21.280 They had 14 years

00:23:22.960 And they ran this country into the ground

00:23:25.240 They sprinted it up to the edge of a cliff

00:23:27.940 All 10 toes hanging off the edge of a cliff

00:23:30.420 They're not interested

00:23:33.920 Don't buy it

00:23:35.800 Don't believe anything they say.

00:23:39.340 Daily Mail, pure slop, wearing the skin suit of, like, nationalism, patriotism, nativism.

00:23:48.900 You're a globally slop, anti-white, anti-Western, anti-British.

00:23:52.240 Hates us just as much as the Mail.

00:23:55.020 Just as much as, like, the Guardian or something.

00:23:57.320 Just as much.

00:23:59.340 Just pretending it doesn't sometimes.

00:24:01.060 Burnham admits oil drilling can ease cost of living

00:24:05.860 Well yeah, obviously

00:24:07.040 Signalling break with Ed Miliband

00:24:09.700 Red Ed Miliband's Net Zero Agenda

00:24:11.440 New PM concedes

00:24:12.960 Britain can't ignore resources in North Sea

00:24:15.500 Yeah, it was mad to have done

00:24:17.260 Absolutely mad

00:24:19.640 Well done Burnham

00:24:23.580 Whether he'll actually do something about it

00:24:25.800 Whether he'll actually allow the drilling to go ahead

00:24:28.100 Is another thing

00:24:28.800 He hasn't yet

00:24:29.600 But, yeah, the most obvious, centrist, painfully obvious take to have

00:24:40.640 But, yeah, the North Sea is just sitting there

00:24:43.700 And the oil reserve is just sitting there

00:24:45.360 And we're ignoring it

00:24:47.120 Maybe we shouldn't

00:24:48.740 Yeah, yeah, well done

00:24:51.740 Again, another slow hand clap

00:24:53.140 George Clooney and his mental missus had to flee France

00:24:59.540 What if they live down on the French Riviera

00:25:01.920 Do they near Bordeaux or something

00:25:02.980 These two virtue signalling boomers

00:25:07.660 Who hate themselves

00:25:09.140 And white civilisation

00:25:10.680 Had to flee their multi multi million pound home

00:25:13.940 On the French Riviera

00:25:14.860 Oh well

00:25:15.660 Oh well

00:25:17.660 The Guardian

00:25:18.760 Ew

00:25:19.120 Yeah

00:25:21.860 That's kind of

00:25:23.880 Ew

00:25:26.240 Must be

00:25:29.540 Genre surfing British star are joined by Pops A-list

00:25:35.160 Rachel Cinaruri

00:25:37.520 Never heard of her

00:25:38.960 Never heard of her

00:25:39.980 Not interested

00:25:40.580 Move on

00:25:41.220 Oh here we go

00:25:44.640 The Guardian can't help themselves

00:25:45.880 Someone had to do it didn't they

00:25:47.580 Someone had to do it

00:25:48.620 A little bit of reform derangement syndrome

00:25:51.000 Imagine in that group

00:25:54.880 Oh and someone keep a little bit of pressure on Nigel and reform

00:25:58.160 today it's the guardians let's roll a d20

00:26:02.300 it comes up between one and eight it's the guardians turn yep yep guardian put something

00:26:09.320 about reform and them and their money things keep the pressure up thanks reform is up to its neck

00:26:16.140 in sleaze says labor as it calls for inquiry it's just another it's just a contin there's nothing

00:26:21.840 new about it i don't know why it's the main headline there's literally nothing i read this

00:26:26.520 There's literally nothing new in it

00:26:28.300 Again, it's just that story that posh George Cottrell

00:26:31.100 Remember him, George Cottrell, posh George

00:26:32.880 He transferred to his own mum

00:26:35.020 I can't remember her name

00:26:37.800 I'll just say it somewhere there

00:26:39.520 He transferred to his mum about 2 million dollars

00:26:42.420 1.48 million pounds

00:26:44.400 And then she shortly after, like within a few days

00:26:47.780 Donated like half a million pounds

00:26:51.980 Or quarter of a million pounds twice

00:26:54.120 To reform

00:26:56.860 Or one of the companies

00:26:58.620 Britain Means Business

00:27:02.220 Which is a company

00:27:03.900 That is set up for reform

00:27:05.840 To take donations

00:27:06.780 Or something along those lines

00:27:07.960 Probably just if I get

00:27:08.780 Any of those details

00:27:09.800 That's slightly wrong

00:27:10.560 It's just that story again

00:27:13.400 That Post George and or his mum

00:27:15.040 Gave reform loads of money

00:27:16.780 One time

00:27:17.400 A couple of times

00:27:19.160 Of which

00:27:21.480 That may or may not be bad or wrong

00:27:23.840 i'm absolutely prepared to give them the benefit of the doubt if it comes out and it's shown that

00:27:30.280 the parliamentary standards committee and or the police because it's also been referred to the

00:27:35.220 actual met police as well if they come out and they do an investigation and it seems reasonable

00:27:41.400 and it's shown that reform broke the rules and have done something wrong okay at that point i'll

00:27:48.300 Jump on that bandwagon and say

00:27:50.240 Ooh, Mr Farage and reform

00:27:52.200 You've dropped the ball there

00:27:53.640 What a shame

00:27:54.420 If it's shown they in fact have done

00:27:58.060 Absolutely nothing wrong

00:27:58.900 I will stand up and I'll say

00:27:59.960 Look, they did nothing wrong

00:28:01.720 Let's stop, you know

00:28:03.760 Stop attacking them from that particular angle

00:28:06.040 It's nonsense

00:28:06.840 I'm prepared to do that

00:28:08.660 Just wait for that

00:28:09.440 What's wrong with that?

00:28:13.040 This reform derangement syndrome

00:28:15.080 From the left really isn't it

00:28:18.800 Obviously

00:28:19.080 It's kind of pathetic

00:28:22.580 It's really kind of pathetic

00:28:24.420 I think

00:28:25.640 Just wait and see

00:28:29.740 It may well be

00:28:31.340 I suppose the issue here is that

00:28:33.300 I think George Cottrell's

00:28:35.820 I think part of it is that

00:28:36.920 George Cottrell's mum

00:28:38.320 Is American

00:28:41.340 Or she was in America

00:28:43.020 Or what was the wording?

00:28:46.120 Oh, Fiona, that's her name, Fiona Cottrell

00:28:47.780 It was that, it might be that she is

00:28:51.680 And what was the word?

00:28:52.980 An impermissible donor

00:28:55.020 That's what it is, that's the word

00:28:56.440 It may be that these funds derived from

00:29:00.240 A quote, impermissible quote, donor

00:29:03.240 It may or may not have broken the rules

00:29:09.740 I'll just wait to see

00:29:11.060 If they haven't broken any rules

00:29:13.140 I will stand up and say

00:29:14.020 Look they didn't break any rules

00:29:15.120 Let's move on from that

00:29:16.460 You tried to take them down

00:29:17.900 With some ball plop thing

00:29:19.280 And it failed

00:29:19.980 Bad luck

00:29:20.820 The Guardian can't help themselves

00:29:26.560 UEFA backs boycott of FIFA over World Cup

00:29:29.120 Alright we've done that

00:29:29.880 The wildfire in Suffolk

00:29:31.600 Not really much of a wildfire

00:29:33.580 Alright that's it

00:29:35.640 That's the headlines

00:29:36.380 An increasingly

00:29:39.100 Infuriating and absurd

00:29:42.180 Front pages in the British print media today

00:29:44.800 Alright, did we do a poll, Harry?

00:29:46.380 We usually do a poll at this point of the day?

00:29:48.080 We did, yeah

00:29:48.660 Okay, it was one of those days where

00:29:50.880 We asked you guys in the chat

00:29:52.960 Just before the show, or as the show starts

00:29:54.840 What you would like the poll to be

00:29:56.720 I'm a man of the people

00:30:01.040 My people

00:30:02.700 The glorious man, the chosen few

00:30:06.380 more interaction all right let's see what we got is that genuinely new to me i wonder what it will

00:30:12.140 be okay we just asked you guys what matters less what matters less fifa politics or england's

00:30:21.580 wildfires i have to try and come up with my own polls every day that one's a bit weak

00:30:29.020 Is it? Anyway

00:30:31.420 What matters less, FIFA politics

00:30:34.380 Or England's wildfires

00:30:35.800 And the FIFA

00:30:37.900 FIFA wins that, it matters less to you

00:30:40.460 82% to 18%

00:30:42.120 You guys really don't care about football

00:30:44.040 On any level till do you, really, really

00:30:45.600 Yeah

00:30:46.680 Alright, I'm sure that story

00:30:50.300 Will probably rattle on a bit as well

00:30:51.700 Maybe

00:30:52.780 Alright

00:30:55.740 What else do we do at this point in the show

00:30:57.660 We usually have a quick look at the price of crude

00:30:59.360 Because some bombing did start back up in Iran

00:31:02.300 What have we got?

00:31:05.380 West Texas is just shy of $82 a barrel

00:31:07.820 About the price when the war started

00:31:11.000 Brent crude, a little bit under $88 a barrel

00:31:15.380 $87.70

00:31:17.140 Not significantly higher

00:31:19.920 Or just a little bit higher

00:31:22.240 Than when the war started

00:31:24.280 That's incredible

00:31:25.120 I really do find that incredible

00:31:26.220 Alright, let's see what other stories we've got

00:31:28.060 What else did I pick out?

00:31:29.460 Oh, this is a thing

00:31:30.620 The front pages didn't want to go with it

00:31:32.820 But it is all over Twitter

00:31:34.440 And it's all over quite a lot of alternative media

00:31:37.760 And even on the BBC website

00:31:40.720 It was quite far down

00:31:41.580 I had to scroll down a bit before I got to it

00:31:42.880 But this story

00:31:44.800 There's this place in North Africa

00:31:48.980 Little enclave or exclave, is it?

00:31:53.100 A little bit of land on the coast of North Africa

00:31:57.180 Just across the straits a bit from Spain

00:32:02.140 Called Shuta

00:32:05.960 I had to look up how you pronounce that

00:32:08.240 Google said it's Shuta

00:32:10.420 It's a bit rich when Spain says

00:32:14.540 They by right should have Gibraltar

00:32:16.540 Because it's just part of their mainland

00:32:17.880 Oh you can give back Shuta then

00:32:20.180 Can you to Morocco

00:32:21.100 Okay, so it's a little Spanish exclave on the Moroccan coast

00:32:25.020 And so it is Spanish soil though, right?

00:32:31.460 Spain sends troops of thousands into enclave

00:32:34.040 Or is it an exclave? I've seen both reported

00:32:36.800 I should look, I should Google the exact definition of that

00:32:38.900 I've seen it called both those things

00:32:40.940 Almost interchangeably

00:32:42.940 Anyway, that's besides the point really

00:32:45.020 So it's a little bit of Spanish land

00:32:48.240 And if Moroccans at the moment can just physically get there

00:32:53.360 Then they're allowed to say

00:32:55.440 Apparently the story is that a court in Spain said

00:33:00.080 If anyone basically can get to Spanish soil

00:33:03.340 Whether it's the Spanish mainland, one of the Spanish islands

00:33:05.820 Or this little enclave

00:33:09.100 Then you almost certainly won't get deported

00:33:13.960 You get to be Spanish there

00:33:16.160 or you get to be part of the EU even then

00:33:18.300 because of free movement inside the EU.

00:33:23.320 And so loads of Moroccans just have.

00:33:37.720 They're all young men.

00:33:40.120 No women and children or old men.

00:33:46.160 All of them.

00:33:48.160 This is the tip of the iceberg of the footage that there is.

00:33:51.160 There's loads more, even more alarming footage.

00:33:54.160 So this is an invasion, quite simply an invasion as far as I'm concerned.

00:33:58.160 And then we know that the Spanish government, particularly socialist,

00:34:02.160 have absolutely no intention of deporting these people.

00:34:05.160 In fact, we'll just give them increasingly likely,

00:34:08.160 or most certainly in fact, we'll just give them amnesty to stay forever.

00:34:13.160 Probably part of chain migration, they'll bring their families over

00:34:17.360 And then they don't have to stay in Spain

00:34:19.560 This is a free movement, yeah

00:34:22.340 It would be inhumane not to let them move anywhere in Europe now

00:34:27.360 Well, if they're only doing this as chances, economic migrants

00:34:33.420 Just for Gibbs, essentially, just for Gibbs

00:34:36.380 And the opportunity to get involved in organised crime

00:34:39.940 And commit sex crime against white women

00:34:41.880 Where's the best place in Europe to go?

00:34:44.400 Places like Germany, Scandinavia, Britain

00:34:46.880 That's where you get the most gibs most easily

00:34:49.160 Less likely to get deported

00:34:51.160 So will a lot of these, or at least some of these

00:34:56.340 End up in the Par de Calais

00:34:58.080 Getting a small boat across to Britain

00:35:01.500 Some will, yeah

00:35:03.720 It's an invasion

00:35:08.980 It's a continent-wide invasion

00:35:12.640 They're not refugees

00:35:15.660 Refugees

00:35:22.960 They're not fleeing persecution or anything like that

00:35:27.440 They just want Gibbs and the opportunity to commit crime

00:35:31.780 Chaos in shooter

00:35:35.440 There we go

00:35:37.600 How 20,000 migrants swam from Morocco into Spain, Spanish enclave, after court ruled anyone arriving by sea could not be forced, could not be forced back.

00:35:49.680 These invaders would keep coming after loophole exposed, as local homes are broken into.

00:35:54.300 Yeah, so immediately, Bo, why are you saying that, why are you saying they're going to commit crime and things? Why are you saying that? That is racist, that is bigoted, isn't it?

00:36:06.360 No, immediately

00:36:07.940 They're just immediately breaking into homes and businesses

00:36:10.220 Okay

00:36:22.140 Okay

00:36:23.640 Hamas

00:36:26.780 Do you remember Trump's board of peace?

00:36:30.820 Trump realised that the UN wasn't really working for him

00:36:33.200 Stroke the Americans

00:36:34.500 NATO

00:36:36.000 Also not so much particularly

00:36:37.880 I mean NATO is supposed to be defensive only

00:36:39.940 But anyway

00:36:40.300 Trump wants to conduct diplomacy

00:36:43.860 His way

00:36:46.380 Started his new thing didn't he

00:36:48.120 The board of peace

00:36:48.840 Now he's saying

00:36:50.400 Hamas are going to disarm entirely

00:36:53.340 In Gaza

00:36:54.980 But

00:36:57.960 Hamas to disarm

00:37:00.280 And Israel to withdraw from Gaza

00:37:02.220 In New Deal

00:37:03.080 Trump says

00:37:04.740 So not

00:37:05.860 The deal was supposed to be

00:37:10.240 That Israel will completely pull out of the Gaza Strip

00:37:14.280 And Hamas will completely disarm

00:37:17.480 Yeah right

00:37:20.420 Yeah right

00:37:22.020 That's what Trump says

00:37:23.040 That's what Trump would like

00:37:24.060 What a lot of people would like

00:37:25.640 That's not happening

00:37:27.140 That's not happening

00:37:28.280 Israel is yet to agree the deal

00:37:32.400 Right so that's not happening

00:37:33.460 Hamas said they'll do that

00:37:36.180 They won't

00:37:36.820 They've said they will do things like that

00:37:39.740 Dozens, hundreds of times

00:37:41.360 Over decades

00:37:42.480 Oh yeah, we'll disarm, we'll disarm

00:37:43.840 Israel do what we want

00:37:45.580 The rest of the world do what we want

00:37:46.940 Yeah, we'll disarm, we'll disarm

00:37:47.860 Never, ever, ever, ever have

00:37:49.820 Never, ever have

00:37:51.240 So Hamas say they'll disarm

00:37:55.280 They won't

00:37:56.100 And Israel will withdraw from Gaza

00:37:57.840 They won't

00:37:58.480 Oh, okay

00:37:59.840 That's news though

00:38:00.680 That's news

00:38:02.020 Apparently

00:38:02.840 Diane Abbott

00:38:05.140 We've got something on Diane Abbott

00:38:06.280 What have we got?

00:38:07.280 What have we got?

00:38:07.800 Let's have a

00:38:08.220 Was it

00:38:08.920 Yeah look

00:38:10.240 Diane Abbott's back in the fold

00:38:13.120 Andy Burnham

00:38:15.000 This is in the Express

00:38:16.180 Andy Burnham has shown his true colours

00:38:18.180 With one crazy decision

00:38:19.460 Labour dinosaur Diane Abbott

00:38:21.720 Has been welcomed back

00:38:23.100 Welcomed back

00:38:24.860 To run the country by Andy Burnham

00:38:26.960 She's not running

00:38:27.500 She can't even put her shoes

00:38:31.960 On her

00:38:32.360 The right feet

00:38:33.160 Is her son

00:38:38.800 Still sectioned

00:38:40.220 Being completely

00:38:41.420 Violent to people

00:38:42.980 For no real reason

00:38:43.780 Including like

00:38:45.120 Ambulance people

00:38:46.260 And doctors

00:38:47.080 Why are you wearing

00:38:50.440 A shemar there

00:38:51.460 Why are you wearing

00:38:51.940 Like the Arab

00:38:53.020 Shemar thing

00:38:54.360 She's meant to

00:38:57.740 And that's gotta

00:38:59.140 Be a wig

00:38:59.880 That's gotta be a weave

00:39:01.620 surely. Diane Abbott. Diane Abbott's been around since the 80s, hasn't she? And all she's ever

00:39:09.560 done, as you can guess, is the politics of resentment, the politics of victimhood, the

00:39:17.760 poor oppressed British black. Just that endlessly. Oh, and jump on the bandwagon with anything

00:39:24.520 else what Palestinians yeah sure sure yeah Palestinians yeah yeah okay yeah

00:39:28.660 the poor oppressed British black person who didn't do nothing ever

00:39:36.960 the plight

00:39:41.120 of the oppressed British black person

00:39:45.720 I don't think so I don't think so anyway she was too crazy for Starmer

00:39:54.360 Wasn't she

00:39:54.840 Even Starmer was like

00:39:56.900 You're just toxic as hell

00:40:00.100 And an idiot

00:40:00.900 Like truly an idiot

00:40:02.140 David Lammy level

00:40:04.300 Retarded

00:40:05.460 She said didn't she

00:40:07.600 On the balance of things

00:40:12.140 Chairman Mao

00:40:14.380 Mao Zedong

00:40:15.480 Did more good than harm

00:40:17.600 If that wasn't a grotesque thing

00:40:24.100 to say, it would be funny, wouldn't it, on my own channel, go to this camera Harry, I've got an 18

00:40:36.280 part series talking about Mao Zedong, the life and career of Chairman Mao Zedong, 9, 10 hours

00:40:42.580 worth of content there on my own channel history bro, if you watch that, watch that, and it's

00:40:46.880 fair handed, I'm quoting from half a dozen books, three or four different books, it's not just an

00:40:52.060 Endless scree

00:40:52.940 It's not just a rant by me

00:40:54.260 Quoting from the history

00:40:56.340 Of the documented facts of history

00:40:59.260 You watch that

00:41:00.620 And you tell me that Mao did more good than harm

00:41:03.740 You won't be able to

00:41:04.920 He's responsible for

00:41:08.480 Untold, quite literally

00:41:09.880 Untold millions of unnecessary deaths

00:41:12.500 Mao's he doing

00:41:13.260 The Great Leap Forward alone

00:41:15.460 Just that one thing

00:41:16.320 Late 50s until the early 60s

00:41:19.860 Caused a famine

00:41:21.600 It was entirely the result of his policy

00:41:24.600 His personal policy he insisted upon

00:41:27.000 A great leap forward

00:41:28.260 They don't know how many millions

00:41:31.140 It would have been the tens of millions

00:41:32.560 Of people starved to death

00:41:33.680 Men, women and children

00:41:34.440 Because Mel was left

00:41:40.440 Diane Abbott said on TV

00:41:44.760 That he did more good than harm

00:41:47.540 She's equal parts

00:41:51.920 Idiot

00:41:53.380 And scumbag

00:41:54.960 Let's say

00:41:57.420 Even Starmer didn't want her anywhere near him

00:42:00.340 Or his front benches

00:42:02.240 Andy Burnham's brought her back

00:42:03.500 Andy Burnham, back in the fold

00:42:05.300 Back in the Labour Party you go

00:42:07.020 Lovely jubbly

00:42:08.140 Alright

00:42:14.100 Alright

00:42:15.640 There you have it

00:42:17.880 In the sun there's a story

00:42:21.460 Give us our money back

00:42:23.120 Give us our free

00:42:24.620 Give us our money back

00:42:27.160 France faces calls to refund cash

00:42:30.420 UK paid to stock migrants

00:42:32.140 After cops waived small boat migrants

00:42:34.520 Through on beaches

00:42:35.400 Fair enough wouldn't it

00:42:39.080 The page is

00:42:39.700 It depends how it's reported

00:42:41.900 Somewhere over 600 million pounds

00:42:44.740 Some say, some have reported as much as a billion pounds

00:42:47.760 Over the last few years

00:42:49.400 What have they done with it, where's that money gone?

00:42:54.200 Because it's not been spent on preventing the small boats in any way

00:42:58.340 In any way

00:42:59.540 Yesterday, 752 migrants

00:43:03.960 Nearly all sub-Saharan

00:43:07.960 All fighting age men

00:43:14.740 that will be a net negative financially to this country a drain on this country

00:43:20.600 and who knows what crime they'll go on to commit

00:43:23.980 thanks france thanks for that yeah in a in a fair world we'll have our money back at least at the

00:43:36.320 very very least give us the money back they won't they won't of course they won't oh that's theirs

00:43:42.680 now and it's gone all right it's quarter to nine i can't spend ages today i'm afraid let's have a

00:43:51.440 look on this day in history down through the centuries on this day the 31st of july what

00:43:57.560 happened of note okay in the year 1620 on the 31st of july pilgrim fathers depart leiden in

00:44:05.460 the netherland for england on their way to america america

00:44:11.160 hillgrim fathers there are no cats in america

00:44:18.580 yep yep i mean it was around that time wasn't it like the early 17th century where the big

00:44:31.500 the big movements of people to the new world happened for a number of reasons quite often

00:44:36.700 quite often um religious persecution in in the old world we talked yesterday didn't we about the

00:44:44.800 potato family in ireland in the 19th century sometimes it was just wasn't necessarily like

00:44:48.620 religious persecution it was just that you're simply going to have a better life in america

00:44:53.300 even if it's really bad and you struggle and it's really hard going it's still going to be better

00:44:57.800 Than starving to death in your hovel

00:45:00.520 In Ireland, for example

00:45:04.420 Loads of reasons, anyway, alright

00:45:06.060 On this day in 1917

00:45:10.020 The Battle of Passchendaele

00:45:11.600 World War I's Battle of Passchendaele

00:45:13.640 Or the Third Battle of Ypres

00:45:15.280 Begins and lasts until November 6th, 1917

00:45:18.700 Causing approximately 500,000 casualties

00:45:22.460 I've got all sorts of content about

00:45:27.800 World War One

00:45:57.800 which, a bit of which is about World War I, actually.

00:46:01.340 Passchendaele, the third battle of Ypres,

00:46:04.300 is the muddy one.

00:46:06.960 A lot of them are muddy.

00:46:08.040 All of them are muddy.

00:46:09.780 But the one, if you've got this idea in your head,

00:46:13.000 of a very, very, very muddy battlefield,

00:46:16.480 where all the trees have been,

00:46:18.300 you can see in that image,

00:46:19.040 all the trees are sort of stripped,

00:46:21.700 stripped down.

00:46:24.060 And there's giant shell holes filled with water.

00:46:26.280 There's muddy men falling over and drowning in the mud

00:46:30.100 Passchendaele was one of those perhaps

00:46:34.960 The example, our excellence of that

00:46:39.640 The commanding officer was Haig

00:46:46.280 There's a great quote

00:46:48.540 Why is Sir Douglas Haig not thought as one of England or Britain's

00:46:54.720 all-time greatest generals why isn't he the answer is one word passioned out there's this revisionist

00:47:03.380 thing among some group among some people revisionism that actually the commanding

00:47:09.800 officers in world war one weren't insane butchers who just threw men into a meat grinder kind of

00:47:14.560 knowing they would be chewed up for very very little gain they that's not what happened you've

00:47:20.960 got history wrong there, they were trying their best not to do that. No, not really,

00:47:26.800 some were, a few were, sometimes, no. The first Battle of Ypres in 1914 and the second

00:47:33.060 Battle of Ypres in 1915, Haig should have known, he should have known, it was his job

00:47:40.460 to know how the Passchendaele, there's the Ypres salient, you know what a salient is

00:47:47.920 in the battle line. It's like the city of Ypres. The battle line comes down and bulges

00:47:53.300 out around Ypres and continues. This bulge in the line, a salient. Beyond that was the

00:48:01.960 town of Passchendaele. The idea was to break through the German lines and get to Passchendaele,

00:48:07.420 about five miles away, was it? And to the north of it is the Messines Ridge, which overlooks

00:48:13.560 it earlier in 1917. We'd taken the Messines Ridge off the Germans. France had had a big

00:48:23.320 mutiny in its army and wasn't looking to do any large-scale attacks. America had joined

00:48:29.280 the war but hadn't sent over millions of men yet. The Allies were using tanks but not tons

00:48:35.500 of them yet. Russia was out of the war. They capitulated after the fall of the Tsarist

00:48:43.540 regime, the Kerensky government was out of the war, so Germany brought tons of divisions

00:48:48.160 over from the east. Ypres had already been the scene of horror, twice, and Haig decides

00:49:00.040 To attack there

00:49:01.280 To a 10 day bombardment

00:49:03.840 So giving the Germans all the notice in the world

00:49:06.360 They would need to reinforce their

00:49:08.160 Their defence

00:49:09.520 In depth

00:49:11.100 And then attack

00:49:13.660 Throw wave after wave of

00:49:15.520 The flower of your youth

00:49:17.580 Against German machine guns

00:49:19.460 Something like

00:49:21.880 A quarter of a million, 275,000

00:49:24.120 Maybe as many as 300,000

00:49:25.920 Of them killed

00:49:26.560 Canadians, Anzacs, all sorts

00:49:29.660 100,000

00:49:32.180 Hundreds of thousands

00:49:33.440 As many as 300,000

00:49:34.800 The Germans lose maybe 200,000

00:49:37.400 For what?

00:49:40.680 For what?

00:49:41.220 The gain of a few

00:49:42.520 A couple of miles

00:49:43.080 Five miles

00:49:43.600 They did get to Passchendaele in the end

00:49:45.460 There's all these things

00:49:46.760 Polygon Wood

00:49:47.780 Pilcombe Ridge

00:49:50.860 All sorts of battles within the battle

00:49:54.860 Each one

00:49:56.580 Absolute horror

00:50:00.280 Horror

00:50:00.940 Just keep going

00:50:04.520 We'll just keep going from now in July

00:50:06.260 At the end of July till November

00:50:07.520 We'll keep going

00:50:09.580 Day after day after day

00:50:10.880 Don't give me the revisionism

00:50:14.300 That those World War 1s

00:50:15.160 Particularly Haig

00:50:16.060 Was like humane

00:50:17.640 And he's trying his best

00:50:19.080 Not to

00:50:21.620 Incur casualties

00:50:23.160 No he wasn't

00:50:23.940 No he wasn't

00:50:24.860 I don't buy that

00:50:26.260 Don't buy that

00:50:27.180 That's sort of 1970s revisionism

00:50:30.500 To sell a book

00:50:31.280 Actually all the historians think this and say this

00:50:34.100 Because all the evidence points to it

00:50:35.560 But no, that's not

00:50:37.620 Buy my book, that's not how it was

00:50:39.360 How can you have a battle

00:50:42.400 That lasts from July

00:50:44.440 The end of July until the beginning of November

00:50:46.840 Where you lose over a quarter of a million men

00:50:50.360 In order to take five miles of ground

00:50:53.820 And say that's not insane

00:50:55.720 And again, for what? To make the Ypres salient even bigger

00:50:59.180 Tactically a complete clown show

00:51:04.720 Strategically nonsense

00:51:06.500 The idea was maybe we'll break through the German lines

00:51:09.120 And we'll end up taking their ports

00:51:10.420 Didn't have that happen

00:51:11.320 Ports up on the Belgian coast, much more further north

00:51:14.100 The Germans would have to retreat their entire battle line

00:51:17.840 Across the Western Front

00:51:18.760 And we'd get there

00:51:20.600 The Allies would be able to take their U-boat pens

00:51:25.020 That are up on the Belgian coast

00:51:26.820 None of that happened

00:51:27.420 So tactically and strategically

00:51:29.960 Nonsense

00:51:31.580 Quarter of a million

00:51:34.740 Again, the flower of your youth

00:51:36.620 Wasted

00:51:37.680 Oh, but I can find an account from 1920

00:51:43.360 That said actually Haig was a great general

00:51:45.980 And he didn't do anything wrong

00:51:47.440 See, so everything you think you know about history is wrong

00:51:50.800 No

00:51:52.020 I don't think so

00:51:55.020 I don't think so

00:51:56.260 That's me

00:51:59.960 Pass on down

00:52:02.960 Memoirs of an Infantryman

00:52:11.060 By Siegfried Sassoon

00:52:12.780 Prose, it's prose

00:52:14.540 It's not a poem

00:52:15.560 Very very moving if you've ever read that

00:52:19.020 On my channel History Bro

00:52:20.780 There's one video

00:52:23.140 Where I

00:52:25.020 Where I read a long excerpt from that

00:52:30.340 If you're interested

00:52:32.520 Okay

00:52:34.640 On this day in 1961, Israel welcomes its one millionth immigrant

00:52:40.200 Does it? Well done

00:52:41.240 On this day in 1970, Black Tot Day

00:52:46.900 The last day of the official sanctioned rum ration in the Royal Navy

00:52:51.040 Which started in 1740

00:52:53.240 It's interesting to note, isn't it?

00:52:55.020 Even until 1970, if he was in the Royal Navy, every day you get a little bit of rum.

00:53:01.660 It used to be quite a lot.

00:53:03.260 I mean, they'd drink it watered down.

00:53:04.460 It's not just like neat rum.

00:53:05.880 It's not like 30, 40% Captain Morgans.

00:53:10.740 It'd be watered down, but...

00:53:14.820 Well, in centuries past, everyone, even children, would drink beer, small beer.

00:53:20.120 Again, very, very watered down beer.

00:53:21.680 Not like 5% lager or anything, but like...

00:53:25.020 because why why why is all that because just normal water was um could well be stale or off

00:53:32.220 and uh poison you basically give you give you bad guts and sorts of things

00:53:38.900 we're used to a world where you could just get perfectly clean water you guaranteed the water's

00:53:44.340 clean right whether it's in your tap or or a bottle of buxton bottle of evian or whatever

00:53:50.640 It's guaranteed not to make you ill, isn't it?

00:53:53.740 Well, imagine a world where that just was not the case.

00:53:56.660 Quite often the water on your ship would be stale and fetid.

00:54:04.140 I'll have a little nip of rum, keep you going.

00:54:08.420 Okay, all right.

00:54:09.700 On this day, in 2007, Operation Banner,

00:54:13.400 the presence of the British Army in Northern Ireland,

00:54:15.540 comes to an end as the longest-running British Army operation ever.

00:54:18.780 After the Good Friday agreements

00:54:22.100 Why would the British government

00:54:25.360 Feel the need to send the British army

00:54:27.800 To Northern Ireland for so long

00:54:29.320 Why would they do that

00:54:30.680 Was it just mad colonialism

00:54:32.660 Was it

00:54:33.140 Was it just for the sake of it

00:54:35.200 Just because the Englishmen in Westminster

00:54:38.340 Just hate Irishmen

00:54:39.860 Or was it to try and protect

00:54:43.820 The Unionist Protestants

00:54:45.840 From

00:54:46.200 some sort of endless campaign of shootings and bombings from from catholic nationalists

00:54:53.700 you decide you decide all right let's have a look

00:55:00.820 let's have a look at the uh our rumble rants and super chats what have we got here

00:55:09.080 is global church history going to be in at number one yes he is it's a good day global

00:55:14.880 church history right what have we got you give us a couple of factors don't you you say today in 1291

00:55:20.900 ad acre fell to the mamalooks yes 1291 so that's that's long after richard and the third crusader

00:55:29.460 in fact that's the is that the end i think that's the end isn't it of outromore that's the end of

00:55:36.560 the crusader if i've got my history right and i've got all sorts of content all about first

00:55:44.400 second and third or fourth crusade i think that is if i'm not mistaken the last crusader uh toehold

00:55:53.280 in in the levant 1291 yeah i think that's right and so when the mamalook muslims finally retake

00:56:03.840 acre that's it the crusader period is over apologies if i've got that wrong

00:56:10.800 You also say

00:56:14.840 On this day in 1492

00:56:16.760 The Jews were expelled from Spain

00:56:19.220 Did they do anything to warrant that?

00:56:24.420 What might they have done?

00:56:26.120 Again, was it just mad Spanish monarchs?

00:56:30.020 That would be 1492

00:56:32.320 Well that is Isabella and Ferdinand isn't it?

00:56:36.860 Yeah

00:56:37.080 What was the decree called?

00:56:40.800 I can't remember off my head

00:56:43.200 The Almeida decree or something

00:56:45.840 Anyway

00:56:46.320 It's just mindless anti-semitism

00:56:50.100 Was it

00:56:50.400 There's no reason

00:56:53.120 They're just like

00:56:53.840 They're just sitting down one day

00:56:55.300 Do you know what

00:56:56.100 We must expel all the Jews for no reason

00:57:01.240 Or did he have a reason

00:57:06.540 Probably can't go into it

00:57:09.460 Because the T's and C's

00:57:10.780 even very stringent rules about what you're allowed to say whether you're on YouTube or not

00:57:18.420 there you go that happened we got a third one as well it gives a third one little extra Friday

00:57:25.520 extra you say it's also the feast of St Ignatius of Loyola founder of the Jesuits yeah I've talked

00:57:34.960 About St Ignatius before somewhere

00:57:36.600 Or other

00:57:37.600 Might be

00:57:39.040 I can't remember where I would

00:57:41.100 But I definitely have talked about him before

00:57:42.560 We're talking the late 15th century there

00:57:44.800 It's the counter-reformation isn't it

00:57:47.440 Classic thing

00:57:49.380 Where you've got the reformation

00:57:50.460 Martin Luther's reformation

00:57:51.960 Rome and the Catholic Church

00:57:55.060 Is doing Christianity

00:57:56.280 All sorts of

00:57:57.060 Doing it incorrectly in all sorts of ways

00:57:59.680 To the point where they're accusing the Pope

00:58:01.880 Of being an antichrist and stuff

00:58:04.960 the Reformation. Well, there's a counter-Reformation. The Catholic world saying,

00:58:09.300 no, no, no, no. Well, we're not doing it wrong. You're the heretics. You're the insane ones.

00:58:16.940 Right, you think it's wrong or bad to venerate saints or Mary and to have stained glass windows

00:58:23.260 and relics. Right, we'll do it more then. You don't like any of that. You don't think there

00:58:29.320 should be incense. You don't think there should be golden bejeweled crosses. Right, we'll do it

00:58:33.580 more then. We'll double down on all of that. Those silly Germans, Brits, Scandinavians,

00:58:44.160 people from the Netherlands. You think we're doing Christianity wrong, you're doing it

00:58:48.320 terribly wrong. We're going to double down on all that. That's the Jesuits, the Society

00:58:54.920 of Jesus. The Jesuits are sort of more Catholic than Catholic, if you, kind of, doesn't really

00:59:02.580 make sense. It's not exactly that, but you get what I mean. Interesting. St Ignatius

00:59:10.940 was an interesting person. Absolutely. I don't agree with his worldview and what he did and

00:59:15.980 said and stuff, but it's interesting. I don't agree with everything that St Francis of Assisi

00:59:22.880 said, but it's a very, very interesting life. I'm not on the same page with Stalin or Mao

00:59:31.080 Or Hitler

00:59:32.420 But

00:59:32.940 It's an interesting life

00:59:35.420 Alright

00:59:36.820 What else have we got?

00:59:38.760 Gimli O'Gloin

00:59:39.880 Says

00:59:40.520 Morning Bo

00:59:41.020 Morning

00:59:41.400 Glad you feel better today

00:59:44.100 Thank you

00:59:44.600 I learned that yesterday

00:59:47.140 Was the last ever flight

00:59:48.440 Of the A-10s

00:59:49.580 Or the A-10 Warthogs

00:59:51.260 Is that true?

00:59:53.180 Truly the end of a legend

00:59:54.460 Is that true?

00:59:55.460 Harry

00:59:55.700 Google that for us

00:59:56.540 Will you?

00:59:56.780 Because I know you're an A-10 fan

00:59:57.960 The Warthog

01:00:00.820 oh that's a shame if that's true yeah they were badass

01:00:05.380 the ground attack plane that would just like with a massive gatling gun in its nose

01:00:11.060 oh yeah just he's looking up now yeah the thunderbolt was scheduled to be retired in 2026

01:00:22.540 it says specifically at the end of the financial year which is october 2026 but nonetheless

01:00:30.820 You're saying it was the last flight yesterday.

01:00:33.600 Oh.

01:00:34.960 What a shame.

01:00:36.140 I hope they've got a replacement, some other version of it.

01:00:39.880 A newer version, better version maybe.

01:00:42.600 Because that worked to treat, didn't it?

01:00:44.600 In places like Iraq, Afghanistan and all over the place.

01:00:48.140 Worked to treat.

01:00:51.320 It's fine, wouldn't it?

01:00:52.320 Sweep in.

01:00:55.140 Everything in its path is gone now.

01:00:57.500 When you absolutely positively have to kill everyone on the plane

01:01:03.780 The open plane

01:01:06.100 Except no substitute for an A-10 Warthog

01:01:10.140 A Thunderbolt

01:01:10.740 Okay, that's a shame

01:01:13.420 Alright, next one

01:01:14.640 Fallen Firebird says

01:01:16.680 Reform its up to its neck in sleaze

01:01:20.040 Which is one of the headlines we had

01:01:21.700 Say the paedophile employing

01:01:24.940 Rape gang loving

01:01:26.020 Migrant invasion facilitating

01:01:27.940 Rent boy using

01:01:29.020 Epstein sycophantic degenerates

01:01:31.440 Of the treasonous Labour Party

01:01:33.840 LOL

01:01:34.420 Couldn't have said it better myself sir

01:01:37.060 I love it

01:01:39.440 Love it

01:01:39.960 Yeah

01:01:40.440 Love it

01:01:41.440 Yeah you're going to talk to us about sleaze

01:01:43.640 You're going to try and pour scorn on reform for sleaze

01:01:48.620 And even if they have done something wrong with their funding

01:01:51.200 It's not sleaze is it

01:01:54.940 Okay, it's odd that they use that word now

01:01:57.400 Didn't used to be used that way

01:02:00.300 Until quite recently

01:02:01.240 That any scandal of any stripe

01:02:03.800 Is sleaze

01:02:04.940 No

01:02:05.360 You're not using the word correctly again

01:02:10.080 Yeah, the Labour Party

01:02:14.320 Paedophile employing

01:02:18.120 Yeah, matter of record

01:02:19.120 That's not slander

01:02:20.360 A matter of record

01:02:22.460 Rape gang loving

01:02:24.520 Yes, a hundred percent

01:02:26.180 They must be

01:02:26.940 There's no other conclusion you can come to

01:02:29.560 Migrant invasion facilitating

01:02:32.080 Every single day without fail

01:02:33.560 Yeah, a hundred percent

01:02:35.580 Rent boy using

01:02:39.860 Would have thought so

01:02:43.000 The Tories also

01:02:43.920 Also

01:02:44.700 Epstein sycophantic degenerates

01:02:48.460 Yeah, yeah

01:02:49.380 All those words you've used there

01:02:53.480 a fallen firebird are correct they're going to try and accuse nigel and posh george of sleaze

01:03:06.040 hypocrisy rank okay and the last one around today is from matthew c how are you buddy super fan it's

01:03:13.720 a pleasure to meet you at the live event that time you say world war one absolutely ruined this

01:03:18.760 country forever yeah most of europe yeah we're still living in the shadow of it and the wake of

01:03:25.060 it now i would say world war ii and the cold war simply repercussions from that yeah you put still

01:03:33.800 at least the architects of that war got what they wanted even if they had to wait until 1948

01:03:39.300 it's a number of things i could say about that i don't want to get this channel yeeted and

01:03:57.860 myself thrown in a cell the youtube super chats rodney that's his name at rod underscore knee

01:04:06.520 Says the current situation makes me

01:04:08.760 Think of the phrase the only thing

01:04:10.580 Necessary for the triumph of evil is for

01:04:12.600 Good men to do nothing yeah

01:04:13.620 Yeah

01:04:15.120 Yeah

01:04:18.760 I'm trying I'm

01:04:20.080 Personally I'm trying my best

01:04:21.820 I'm trying

01:04:27.040 I always feel like we could do more

01:04:30.700 I was listening to a

01:04:32.380 An audio book all

01:04:34.660 about Guderian the other day, Heinz Guderian, the German soldier, and it was mainly about

01:04:43.660 his World War I service, and Germany directly after World War I, less about the Nazi period,

01:04:51.920 but, and there was this feeling in Germany where it looked like the Social Democrats

01:04:58.800 and then perhaps the actual Communists were going to take over Germany, there was this

01:05:02.520 feeling that every man had to stand up and do his bit. He couldn't just wait for somebody

01:05:10.040 else to sort it out. Everyone had to stand up and do their bit, regardless of what that

01:05:17.020 meant, really. Yeah, the only thing necessary for the triumph of evil is for good men to

01:05:29.220 do nothing yeah who originally said that was it burke edmund burke i can't remember i should know

01:05:35.000 that off the top of my head who originally said that harry can't post that and put it in google

01:05:38.840 is it an even older axiom is it much older than that i can't remember okay while harry does that

01:05:44.680 i'll move on to the next one aristotle luton says morning bow morning friday libtard fight night who

01:05:51.360 wins james o'brien or owen jones i imagine james o'brien because owen jones is such a pussy

01:06:00.460 can i say that word i don't i don't feel like that the p word is a swear word

01:06:06.100 maybe it is although owen jones is a lot younger and not as fat

01:06:14.940 James O'Brien would get gassed immediately, wouldn't he?

01:06:20.980 He'd throw like one punch and he'd be out of breath, wouldn't he?

01:06:25.600 Actually, I say that just to dunk on Owen Jones.

01:06:27.400 In all honesty, if they had a street fight, a fist fight,

01:06:30.800 Owen Jones would probably beat up James O'Brien real quick.

01:06:35.940 James O'Brien would just be immediately knackered.

01:06:39.180 Just a sweating mess, he can't breathe.

01:06:41.960 Because he tried to move.

01:06:43.120 Yeah, James O'Brien seems terribly out of shape

01:06:47.520 Terribly, terribly out of shape

01:06:49.300 He might even have a heart condition

01:06:52.400 See how ruddy his face is

01:06:53.700 He might have high blood pressure

01:06:56.100 Or who knows what

01:06:57.520 Owen Jones

01:07:00.260 Could Owen Jones throw a decent punch?

01:07:02.600 Imagine Owen Jones holds his fist like that

01:07:09.060 Alright

01:07:09.660 Next one

01:07:12.700 Gingersberg

01:07:14.340 Says

01:07:14.980 I won't read the first bit

01:07:20.220 Because it's a

01:07:20.700 The

01:07:21.640 The

01:07:22.380 Breakfast show is supposed to be clean

01:07:25.540 Can't read anything too blue

01:07:26.800 Any swear words

01:07:28.440 Not supposed to

01:07:29.080 Because people might be listening to this

01:07:30.920 In the car

01:07:31.540 Or

01:07:31.940 Just in their living room

01:07:33.080 And little kids are listening

01:07:34.100 So I can't say anything that's

01:07:35.060 Sexually explicit

01:07:36.980 Or swear words

01:07:37.640 So I won't read the first bit you've put there

01:07:38.900 Although it is funny

01:07:39.580 And it's an in-joke from

01:07:41.200 State of Politics

01:07:42.000 State of Politics

01:07:42.600 You then say, I watch every Ellie upload, but YouTube unsubbed me, so I can't comment for 30 minutes now, lol.

01:07:53.540 Check you're still subbed, guys.

01:07:56.000 Yeah, YouTube does that.

01:07:57.980 YouTube does that.

01:07:58.860 Twitter does it as well.

01:08:00.000 You just find you've unfollowed someone, and you haven't.

01:08:02.240 You definitely haven't clicked on their profile and gone unfollow, but then you find yourself unfollowed.

01:08:07.640 Yeah, and on YouTube.

01:08:09.080 Yeah.

01:08:09.240 you definitely definitely subbed to a channel and put the bell on and at some point later you

01:08:15.020 realize you're not subbed to them anymore yeah they do that that happens so everyone out there

01:08:22.100 do make sure you're subbed to the channel get the bell on gives a thumbs up

01:08:26.240 it makes a difference yes please thank you harry were you able to look up that quote yeah

01:08:35.980 Oh, it is Edmund Burke

01:08:40.400 I was right

01:08:42.560 Just off the top of my head

01:08:43.900 Does it say

01:08:47.440 Yeah, it was Edmund Burke

01:08:49.300 But John Stuart Mill says

01:08:50.260 Had a similar line earlier

01:08:52.220 No, not earlier

01:08:54.220 Sorry, not earlier

01:08:55.140 John Kennedy said it later

01:08:57.860 So yeah, it's an Edmund Burke line

01:08:59.440 Smug mode

01:09:02.300 Alright

01:09:06.420 Moving on

01:09:09.000 StuKHP says

01:09:13.060 On this day in history

01:09:14.360 USSR Spire Vladimir

01:09:16.340 Vladimir Eamon Holmesovich

01:09:19.120 Was born

01:09:25.340 Eamon Holmes was a Soviet Spire

01:09:27.800 Soviet era Spire

01:09:32.300 In all sincerity, get well soon, Eamon

01:09:35.940 Please do

01:09:39.320 He had a stroke in April

01:09:42.380 No joke

01:09:43.460 No joke, get well soon

01:09:46.340 Okay

01:09:49.100 James Lee Pevenhall says

01:09:52.220 England has a defunct Egyptians Act 1555

01:09:55.940 Under Mary I

01:09:57.760 It followed the Vagrancy Act of 1547

01:10:01.020 Capture and jailing of overseas vagrants

01:10:04.220 Gypsies

01:10:04.920 Deported immediately

01:10:06.800 Legals went through Calais to get papers

01:10:09.540 That would be interesting if there was

01:10:13.400 Laws on the books

01:10:15.760 On the statute books dating back to the

01:10:17.740 16th century which means

01:10:19.840 We can just deport

01:10:21.900 Whoever we want

01:10:22.480 They would argue wouldn't they

01:10:25.680 In the courts that the ECHR whatever

01:10:27.580 Just supersedes that now

01:10:29.200 But

01:10:31.020 Interesting. I feel quite like looking at old laws, really old laws, like there's something from pre-Black Death,

01:10:37.480 there's something from like the 11th century that says, like something like,

01:10:43.600 it's illegal to herd pigs through the centre of Sheffield. Punishable by death or something.

01:10:49.620 all right Kiefer Brown 1337 says one report states that local shepherds were organizing

01:11:00.960 to repel the Moroccan invaders but all were arrested by the governor of Souter whose name is

01:11:07.980 I thought you were being serious for a moment there

01:11:17.840 Okay, Fgoogle2, their actual name isn't just F

01:11:22.120 Fgoogle2 says

01:11:26.480 Haig was absolutely wrong

01:11:29.520 General Haig, I suppose

01:11:32.540 A retreat in August would not change the outcome

01:11:35.660 And would have saved lives

01:11:37.020 And his reserves

01:11:38.400 Yeah absolutely

01:11:39.060 It was

01:11:40.100 From inception

01:11:41.740 The Battle of Paschdale

01:11:42.960 The Third Battle of Ypres

01:11:43.880 Was entirely unnecessary

01:11:45.800 Didn't make sense

01:11:47.340 Strategically

01:11:49.440 Well if they'd achieved

01:11:50.660 What they wanted to

01:11:51.280 Maybe

01:11:51.580 And ended up taking those ports

01:11:53.080 The U-boat ports

01:11:55.020 If that had happened

01:11:55.900 But soon

01:11:56.800 Really

01:11:57.260 As soon as it became clear

01:11:58.960 That wasn't going to happen

01:11:59.840 Which was quite quickly

01:12:01.400 It should have been called off

01:12:02.900 Yeah

01:12:03.080 They were just going to keep going

01:12:05.460 Until November

01:12:06.420 Quarter of a million

01:12:09.420 Maybe as much as 300,000 dead

01:12:11.200 Unbelievable

01:12:13.180 Unbelievable

01:12:15.240 People that write books

01:12:20.860 That try and rehabilitate the memory of Hague

01:12:23.280 He was

01:12:24.300 He was a great general in some way

01:12:26.800 Just because they can find

01:12:28.900 One or

01:12:29.240 They can find literary evidence

01:12:31.080 Of one or two of his sycophants

01:12:32.440 From the time

01:12:33.580 Or Lloyd George

01:12:35.340 Lloyd George, the Prime Minister

01:12:36.760 Said, that's ridiculous

01:12:39.200 So much so, I'm not even

01:12:40.580 We've got reserve divisions in Britain

01:12:42.660 I'm not even going to send them to France

01:12:44.800 Because you're just going to throw them into the meat grinder

01:12:47.460 No, I'm pulling rank on this one

01:12:49.900 I'm not even going to send them

01:12:51.740 Because you'll just butcher them

01:12:53.180 Don't tell me Haig was a good general

01:12:57.680 You're absolutely right, F Google too

01:13:00.640 Okay

01:13:01.300 Du Wei

01:13:03.660 Dal Hai

01:13:04.900 Says

01:13:06.180 Hi Bo

01:13:06.940 Are there any historians you really dislike

01:13:10.600 Susan Sontang

01:13:12.120 Was a staple of my school curriculum

01:13:15.180 Was she

01:13:15.820 But I've since read some foul things from her

01:13:19.340 Yeah, Susan Sontang is insane

01:13:21.500 Insane

01:13:22.960 Susan Sontang isn't a historian

01:13:25.920 She's not a historian

01:13:27.800 She's an ideologically captured activist

01:13:32.980 A disgusting one, actually

01:13:36.280 Are there any historians I really dislike?

01:13:39.340 Yeah, loads, loads of them

01:13:40.420 Yeah, loads of them

01:13:42.620 Most, all the mainstream, most of the mainstream ones

01:13:47.020 Court historians, yeah

01:13:48.940 Anthony Beavers, alright, as far as mainstream goes

01:13:54.320 Mary Beard, again, not a historian

01:14:00.740 Really?

01:14:02.120 A globalist feminist shill

01:14:04.900 Wearing the skin suit of a historian

01:14:07.440 Andrew Roberts

01:14:10.500 A cult jester

01:14:11.860 Pretending to be a historian

01:14:14.920 Niall Ferguson

01:14:18.240 A globalist shill

01:14:20.280 Doing the impression of a historian

01:14:22.920 He goes, oh no no no

01:14:23.920 Yeah, loads of them

01:14:24.740 Susan Sontang

01:14:26.280 Who ever told you

01:14:27.780 Susan Sontang was a historian?

01:14:32.120 No, no, no, no, not having that

01:14:34.580 Not even close

01:14:35.960 Not even close

01:14:38.100 Susan Songtang, evil, an evil woman

01:14:42.060 That's not history

01:14:45.060 Okay

01:14:48.720 Belgians are evil, trust me, that's their name

01:14:52.060 At Belgians are evil, trust me, all one wrong word

01:14:54.500 They've said

01:14:55.100 All please Google Peter Lynch, Southport, yeah

01:14:58.960 Remember Peter Lynch

01:15:00.960 we must remember him often i look at his photos and stories and his self-deletion to remind me of

01:15:10.100 the injustice i fight yeah peter lynch was a middle-aged man slightly older gentleman

01:15:16.980 was at a um a counter southport protest rally basically basically didn't do anything and the

01:15:27.000 Police arrested, but really, really, basically he didn't do anything.

01:15:30.760 The police arrested him.

01:15:34.440 He went to court.

01:15:35.840 The police slapped him with, like, two years plus, two and a half years custodial sentence.

01:15:41.180 And even the judge said, you haven't really done anything,

01:15:42.920 but what you were doing was just sort of inciting others.

01:15:46.360 He wasn't really.

01:15:47.040 There's footage of it.

01:15:49.140 So they banged him up, sent this old dude to prison for basically nothing.

01:15:52.380 There's a clip.

01:15:52.900 There's clips.

01:15:53.740 You can see what he did or didn't do.

01:15:55.740 Almost nothing at all.

01:15:57.000 really really really really really barely minimal banged him up that seemed to have broken him

01:16:04.840 psychologically and or emotionally or something and he committed suicide

01:16:07.720 remember peter lynch that's what the system did to him

01:16:12.360 his crime was to see that southport happened and not stay at home he decided to actually go out

01:16:21.560 To one of these protest or rallies

01:16:23.360 Didn't do anything violent

01:16:25.520 That's how the state treated him

01:16:29.840 Broke him, killed him

01:16:32.320 The state killed him

01:16:34.140 Because he dared

01:16:38.560 To do something other than stay at home

01:16:41.360 And stay quiet

01:16:42.220 In the face of the slaughter of innocents

01:16:45.580 At the hands of a foreign invader

01:16:48.800 The son

01:16:52.080 Of a foreign invader

01:16:54.200 That's the Britain we live in now

01:16:56.700 Yeah, remember Peter Lynch

01:16:59.740 His name was Peter Lynch

01:17:02.440 Marcos 588 says

01:17:07.220 The final legacy

01:17:08.460 Of

01:17:10.400 Stuka Ace Hans Ulrich Rudel

01:17:17.160 A Stuka Ace

01:17:18.560 Hans Riddell

01:17:20.740 Does that name ring a bell?

01:17:23.040 It's called Stuka's World War II

01:17:24.200 I don't know exactly

01:17:27.460 What you

01:17:28.700 That's because that's all you say

01:17:30.040 The final legacy of Stuka Ace

01:17:32.080 Hans Ulrich Riddell

01:17:33.300 I don't know what that's exactly in reference to

01:17:35.380 But

01:17:35.680 Thank you nonetheless

01:17:37.520 Okay we've got another half dozen or so

01:17:41.860 Brendan Lucas says

01:17:43.700 Iran war is nuts

01:17:45.360 Last war for Harriers

01:17:47.220 And the A-10 because the Americans bought all our Harriers

01:17:49.640 Didn't they? Our Harrier jump jets

01:17:50.980 The last war for Harriers and the A-10

01:17:53.940 And the last wooden ships

01:17:56.040 In the form of Avenger class

01:17:57.820 Minesweepers that are 50 years old

01:17:59.940 The first war for

01:18:02.100 Lasers, sonic and microwave weapons

01:18:04.260 Yeah, the battlefield is certainly

01:18:05.840 Moving on in the last 10

01:18:07.880 15 years isn't it? Yeah definitely

01:18:09.120 Yeah

01:18:09.660 Yeah it's interesting to note isn't it

01:18:13.380 It's interesting to note

01:18:14.980 i expect over the next half generation or generation or so we'll see a massive increase

01:18:22.340 in anti-drone measures if drones are the future of the battlefield you know a lot of research and

01:18:30.900 development and money and thought and energy will be put into anti-drone measures one way or another

01:18:38.660 that's what i expect to see okay rodney again at rod underscore knee it says

01:18:43.580 You and the others at the Lotus Eaters

01:18:45.640 Are among the few willing to stick your heads

01:18:47.520 Above the parapet, I salute you

01:18:49.020 Oh thank you, I try my best

01:18:51.420 When um

01:18:52.520 When Carl started Lotus Eaters

01:18:55.700 And I considered offering my services

01:18:57.940 Carl

01:18:59.660 Accepted

01:19:01.240 It was a little bit like

01:19:03.020 Am I going to put my head above the parapet

01:19:05.800 Constantly over and over again

01:19:07.860 Isn't that a worry

01:19:09.320 Doesn't that mean I might struggle to find employment after that

01:19:11.720 Etc, etc, etc

01:19:12.600 Would I lose friends and family, etc, etc, etc

01:19:14.980 But yeah

01:19:17.460 Because otherwise

01:19:19.540 I'd find it difficult to live with myself a little bit

01:19:23.820 Difficult to sleep sometimes

01:19:26.680 Watching my country and my people

01:19:29.000 Get increasingly marginalised

01:19:32.600 And ultimately destroyed

01:19:34.340 And I sat at home and did nothing, said nothing

01:19:37.240 Now I'm going to say something

01:19:41.480 Even if it comes at like you know a personal price

01:19:44.440 A personal cost

01:19:45.180 Even if ultimately it ruins me

01:19:48.460 Even if ultimately

01:19:50.500 I get David Amist in the street

01:19:52.320 I get Anne Widdicombed

01:19:54.260 By some crazy leftoid

01:19:56.600 Even at the expense of that

01:19:58.780 I can't not say anything

01:20:00.220 I've got to say something

01:20:04.400 I've got to do something

01:20:05.600 That's how I felt about it

01:20:11.480 and rod underscore knee says he salutes us for it well thank you appreciate it thank you brother

01:20:17.520 appreciate it all right the next to uh brandon lucas again first one you say here the fact that

01:20:26.160 they are such fact they are such ill feeling and hatred about a neoliberal party i guess you're

01:20:32.800 talking about what the the guardian and their reformed arrangement syndrome um that is a bit

01:20:40.780 iffy of supranationalism

01:20:42.780 but indifference

01:20:45.140 about Restore

01:20:46.100 tells you how easy it is to get into

01:20:48.620 someone's head

01:20:49.280 who exactly are you referring to there

01:20:52.360 you're feeling hatred about neoliberal

01:20:54.600 party people

01:20:55.080 I don't think the Guardian is indifferent

01:21:00.720 to Restore

01:21:01.560 they will publish a hit piece

01:21:04.960 along with all the others

01:21:05.840 I suppose I know what you mean

01:21:08.100 they're much more focused

01:21:10.160 A lot of the legacy corporate mainstream media

01:21:12.660 Have a little blip, a little window

01:21:14.800 Of all attacking

01:21:16.040 Restore at some point

01:21:18.120 But then revert back to their default of

01:21:20.500 Attacking reform

01:21:23.960 Well it's because reform are bigger aren't they

01:21:26.640 It's a bigger threat

01:21:27.320 They do poll up there with Labour and Conservative

01:21:29.700 And Restore don't yet

01:21:31.580 Yet

01:21:32.660 Reform are the much bigger threat

01:21:36.240 As far as they're concerned aren't they

01:21:37.540 but yeah it's interesting to note if and when restore are up there they'll come after them

01:21:45.780 just as hard if not harder you know if all this this finance stuff does uh scandal nudge into

01:21:53.600 oblivion which it might do i don't know who knows and reform sort of have a bit of a collapse or an

01:22:01.280 implosion if that happens i don't know if it will it might not they may well get a renaissance out

01:22:05.280 Of all of this

01:22:05.800 You can go on

01:22:06.720 To form a giant majority

01:22:07.580 Who knows

01:22:08.100 Two years

01:22:09.200 Two and a half years

01:22:09.740 Is a lifetime in politics

01:22:10.720 But if reform were to

01:22:12.620 Collapse or implode

01:22:13.960 In some way

01:22:14.320 And a lot of their support

01:22:16.500 Just naturally

01:22:17.940 Bleeds into

01:22:19.140 Restore

01:22:20.680 Then all

01:22:23.340 The

01:22:23.940 The lexical

01:22:25.200 But lamestream media

01:22:25.960 Will just revert to

01:22:27.300 Just attacking

01:22:27.800 Restore all the time

01:22:28.860 Constantly

01:22:29.300 Okay the other one

01:22:32.120 From Brendan Lucas says

01:22:33.040 Sorry

01:22:35.140 What did dear old Izzy and Ferdy suspect

01:22:38.140 About a certain people they inherited

01:22:40.180 Everything I learned suggested

01:22:43.680 It was genuine maliciousness, lol

01:22:45.800 I detect a hint of sarcasm there, Brendan

01:22:49.780 We can't say more

01:22:55.000 Might actually get into trouble

01:22:56.260 For just talking about real history

01:22:57.440 That's why sometimes

01:23:00.540 On this day in history segment

01:23:02.640 There'll be a fact word there

01:23:04.860 About various things

01:23:06.480 And I'll just move on

01:23:08.120 I'll just go

01:23:08.800 Is it okay if you say so

01:23:10.260 Anyway

01:23:10.600 Because I can't talk about it

01:23:12.220 Because I can't talk about it

01:23:13.380 Because of T's and C's

01:23:14.120 And the police

01:23:14.920 Can't talk about

01:23:16.260 Actual historical fact

01:23:17.460 Great

01:23:18.760 Great

01:23:19.820 What a great society

01:23:20.840 We live in

01:23:21.860 Belgians are evil

01:23:26.900 Trust me again

01:23:27.460 Says

01:23:27.660 Did you tell

01:23:28.440 For us live

01:23:29.140 On Lotus E-Tish yet

01:23:30.140 That I love him

01:23:30.720 No homo

01:23:31.260 I don't think

01:23:32.300 I've done it live

01:23:33.100 did you also tell him live of massive belgian threat to geopolitics and western civilization

01:23:43.420 no i don't think so i haven't been actually i haven't been on a podcast with faras in

01:23:47.020 a couple of weeks i think um if you see uh that we're going to be on the podcast together one

01:23:57.040 day remind me again and i will do it because that is quite funny um okay marcos 588 says

01:24:04.340 oh rudel was a chief advisor for the a10 design oh okay i did not know that

01:24:10.480 that's interesting an old world war ii stucker ace designed the a10 wall hog or thunderbolt did

01:24:18.580 he that's interesting i didn't know that nice little factoid there appreciate that i'm very

01:24:24.000 interested in civil military aviation do you think both on my own channel history bro and on epochs of

01:24:29.800 load seaters i took got more than one two three even four is it videos about the history of

01:24:36.460 military and civil aviation most of them in conversation with tim davies

01:24:42.020 retired squadron leader raf tim davies who of course knows his stuff inside out

01:24:54.000 yeah oh that's all there if you're interested in that

01:24:58.240 okay last two here brendan lucas says i mean the common lad who crosses the

01:25:04.560 country to top off old anne but likely never

01:25:08.800 heard of restore or what they actually believe

01:25:12.320 re-last reform okay right i see i see all right normal normal people

01:25:17.600 that are leftist leftoid left-leaning champagne socialist pinko

01:25:21.360 partnering pinko types they'll go berserk about reform but haven't even heard of restore

01:25:27.280 or just don't seem to just doesn't register on their on their radar

01:25:31.680 people have been moaning about it in their sort of local facebook group yeah fair point

01:25:40.080 okay and then the last one here is from max robe who said restore did try to get low banged up

01:25:47.680 reap and sow comes to mind yeah yeah yeah fair point didn't they i absolutely tried to

01:25:56.320 deprive rupert of his liberty on the strength of what seems to be a liar

01:26:02.480 that he threatened zeer yusuf did he there's no evidence of that at all was there none

01:26:14.720 yeah

01:26:17.680 okay and one last one has come in so um keifer brown 1337 says you're so wrong bro

01:26:26.660 o'brien would massacre jones okay if you think so i just feel like maybe he's probably bigger

01:26:32.760 and heavier isn't he he's bigger and heavier i just feel like he'd get gassed if he didn't

01:26:38.820 if his first haymaker didn't spark owing jones out with one go he would i think he'd just get

01:26:44.400 gassed pretty quick

01:26:45.540 the fight of the centuries

01:26:53.840 O'Brien vs Jones

01:26:55.340 alright

01:26:57.800 that's the show

01:26:59.760 it's now 27 minutes past 9

01:27:02.340 in the AIM British Summertime on Friday the 31st

01:27:04.520 of July in the year valour 2026

01:27:05.920 thank you for joining me I really can't say that enough

01:27:08.320 and with enough sincerity thank you for

01:27:10.400 joining me without you guys it's not a thing

01:27:11.940 you're the best people in the world basically watching

01:27:14.160 Breakfast with Bo, the Bo Show

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01:27:19.180 The Real LBC

01:27:20.180 Thank you

01:27:23.060 Okay, try and make the best of the day ahead

01:27:27.800 And indeed the weekend ahead

01:27:29.020 Carpe Diem, seize the day

01:27:30.460 The most valuable thing you will ever have

01:27:32.760 By orders of magnitude is your time

01:27:34.240 You are more valuable than gold or gems or cars or houses

01:27:37.420 You can't take any of that with you

01:27:38.800 The most valuable thing you have

01:27:41.300 Is your time

01:27:44.000 If you can

01:27:46.200 And you're at liberty to today

01:27:48.200 Try and do something valuable with it

01:27:50.040 There's a finite amount of time on this earth

01:27:52.100 You haven't got endless days

01:27:54.020 And you're young, you think you have

01:27:56.100 But you haven't

01:27:57.140 You never know when it's all going to come to an end

01:27:59.240 Probably later than you think

01:28:01.080 Try and make the best of it if you can

01:28:03.220 Alright then, without being too preachy

01:28:04.720 Until Monday morning

01:28:05.440 Take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - July 31, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Friday 31st July 2026

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