The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 1st June 2026

00:00:00.000 Monday, Monday

00:00:07.200 Morning, you alright?

00:00:12.360 I hope you are, genuinely

00:00:13.880 I hope you are

00:00:14.980 Did you have a good weekend?

00:00:18.500 Me? Yeah, it was fine

00:00:19.560 Yeah, it was great, thanks

00:00:20.320 Yeah, cheers

00:00:20.820 Thanks for asking

00:00:22.080 Alright, it's just ticked past 8 in the AM

00:00:24.960 British Summer Time

00:00:26.480 On Monday, the 1st of June

00:00:29.260 in the year of our lord 2026 that's gone quick six months just seems like just yesterday when

00:00:35.600 we did the first bow show like what was it the 5th of january just yesterday okay thank you thank

00:00:41.800 you for joining me without you guys it isn't a thing is it it wouldn't be anything if it wasn't

00:00:46.520 for you guys the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters basically the best

00:00:54.060 people in the world tuning in live to the beau show breakfast with beau hashtag the real bbc

00:00:59.480 the lotus eaters breakfast club don't you forget about me hashtag the real lbc

00:01:04.520 the breakfast club with capital t and the the breakfast club

00:01:11.680 what are you gonna do watch boring mike graham and his stale old reformed hard takes come on

00:01:17.500 get real all right i'm joined by harry little harry my producer as i am every morning how are

00:01:21.720 morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good great we just get into it though why are we faffing

00:01:28.520 about what's the purpose of all this fannying about there isn't one let's just get on with it

00:01:33.160 right we've got cancer pills precious gift of time there's like some sort of new cancer

00:01:41.480 cure well not cure sorry not cure that just gives you more time more than chemo

00:01:46.600 for pancreatic cancer and i do a round words of i do that do a leaper is that how you pronounce it

00:01:55.560 harry i don't know her music yes do leaper do leaper yeah do leaper okay i'm aware of her i've

00:02:04.120 seen her she's famous enough to have punctured my consciousness but i don't know any of her music

00:02:08.440 anyway she's got hitched she's got married all right that's the main things also a bit of a

00:02:12.920 mandelson day tiny bit of football sports ball i'll keep it to an absolute minimum don't worry

00:02:19.160 a little bit maddie get ready for a mandy day tomorrow though tomorrow's going to be probably

00:02:23.000 wall-to-wall mandy so brace yourself all right should we get into the mirror your slop some of

00:02:31.320 the worst lot they're reformed arrangements i try and like actively keep my nigel stroke 0.66

00:02:39.960 reform derangement syndrome i try and keep a handle on it like don't lose perspective 0.73

00:02:45.880 you know i'm a restore guy but don't go crazy the mirror is mad aren't they all right so the

00:02:53.800 tiny bit of sports ball arsenal played the champions league final on saturday and lost to

00:03:01.400 um paris central man loads of riots in paris after that they won and yet there was rights

00:03:07.160 in paris we'll get to that as well but yesterday sunday was the they were celebrating the winning

00:03:12.840 the premier league different thing would have thought you would have thought it's a

00:03:18.200 falls a bit flat doesn't it because they would hope to have won the champions league as well

00:03:23.160 the day before which they didn't so it's like this massive victory parade but actually they're

00:03:28.280 probably a bit gutted still winning the premier league no small thing all right that's all that's

00:03:33.480 all the sports ball say um there you go that do leaper is do leaper is that you pronounce it okay

00:03:41.560 she's got married to that actor dude callum something whatever his name is calum turner

00:03:47.000 i looked up here i recognized him as well i've seen him i've seen him in stuff

00:03:50.120 what's he been in and i looked i googled like just quickly googled his video

00:03:55.080 videography his films he's been in i was like oh yeah i'm not sure i've seen any of those films so

00:04:00.440 So, I'm getting old.

00:04:04.660 I can talk to you all about history and politics.

00:04:07.900 Modern music and film, not so much.

00:04:09.700 I'll say modern film.

00:04:11.400 Like the last few years, last five, ten years.

00:04:14.560 I haven't watched a great deal of films.

00:04:15.960 All right.

00:04:16.580 So, she's getting married or got married.

00:04:19.500 That's all over the front pages today.

00:04:22.180 So, all right.

00:04:23.620 A bit more of a normal, actual story.

00:04:25.980 Deadliest cancer, pancreatic cancer.

00:04:28.640 i think it's most deadly in terms of not necessarily that the most people get it but

00:04:35.260 if you do get it it's like your chances aren't good pancreatic cancer i believe

00:04:41.040 like you're lucky to survive it sort of one so a bad one really bad one all right and it's and

00:04:49.400 it's relatively common as well so the story is that they've got this new pill that's come out

00:04:54.560 you take it daily and it just gives you loads more time like it's better than chemo

00:04:59.040 significantly better than chemo i can give you six months more

00:05:03.280 again apologies if i get any of this wrong because i've never had it and nobody in my family has had

00:05:10.200 this type of cancer anyway i think if you get pancreatic cancer not only is it quite deadly

00:05:15.580 but it's quite quick as well there's some cancer you can just live with and manage for a long time

00:05:20.180 right some types of cancer you're quite likely to get better from even nowadays i'm not pet

00:05:25.920 cancer so anyway there's this new pill apparently it's so brilliant that when like the scientists

00:05:30.620 this is all in the news today when the scientists first saw like the data come out of like research

00:05:37.040 they were in tears tears of joy because it was so sort of revolutionary grandpa again it doesn't

00:05:42.380 cure it just gives you more time so there you go the headline precious gift of time game changing

00:05:48.240 quote game-changing pill helps double survival times for pancreatic disease expert says she

00:05:54.440 cried after seeing data for the holy grail breakthrough all right well good good the express

00:06:05.200 it's a good paper you can read your express now again arsenal celebrating their their win but

00:06:14.740 also a bit gutted for not winning the champions league i did do leaper there again getting married

00:06:21.700 cancer hope for millions as drug double survival so the cabal of evil fleet street editors have

00:06:27.740 decided to go to that with those two or three things yeah talk about pancreatic cancer and

00:06:32.960 that do leaper lady and uh and arsenal yeah don't talk about jeffrey epstein if you can possibly

00:06:42.580 help it. Certainly don't mention Nathaniel Rothschild, the fifth Baron Rothschild, or

00:06:48.640 Ehud Barrett, or Les Wexner, or the Israeli Intelligence Services. Okay, the son. Celeb

00:06:58.900 marriage of the year. See, they've decided this is the thing that you need to know about

00:07:04.480 today. Singer and star Callum in Surprise UK Wedding, days before Italian Bash. See,

00:07:09.980 this is the story they only got like it was like the formal legal registering of their marriage

00:07:14.100 but they are set to go to italy for like a multi-day long massive celebration

00:07:18.880 yeah there's your bread and circuses for the day

00:07:24.360 all right all right the daily telegraph the torograph there they are again all right

00:07:35.100 Reeves looks at PFI to fund new towns

00:07:38.600 A publicly funded initiative, that is

00:07:41.840 I.e. capitalism

00:07:44.360 Filthy, evil capitalism

00:07:47.080 Oh, sorry, private 0.68

00:07:48.960 What am I talking about? Sorry, sorry

00:07:50.400 Private funded initiative

00:07:52.580 Sorry, private, not public

00:07:54.480 Very different, completely different

00:07:55.680 Private funded, let's get it right

00:07:57.340 Reeves looks at private funding for new towns

00:07:59.900 Blair-style private sector deals

00:08:03.820 For major infrastructure work

00:08:05.440 Risks backlash from left

00:08:07.120 Yeah, because they hate that, don't they

00:08:08.140 They hate private businesses

00:08:10.080 Making money, doing business

00:08:12.560 Existing

00:08:13.480 Leftists hate that

00:08:15.320 Everything should be controlled by the state

00:08:23.480 Don't worry about how that always fails

00:08:25.180 Nearly always fails

00:08:29.940 Although having said that

00:08:32.020 When I say things like that

00:08:33.100 Sometimes I see comments

00:08:34.160 And they're fair comments 0.99

00:08:35.040 Saying

00:08:35.320 Well actually 1.00

00:08:36.260 Isn't a mixed economy 1.00

00:08:37.240 Best 1.00

00:08:37.500 Or it's a bit of both

00:08:38.140 Yeah

00:08:38.320 Actually

00:08:38.760 Yeah

00:08:40.100 Because to have

00:08:41.160 Entirely

00:08:43.020 Privately funded things

00:08:45.200 Often also isn't ideal

00:08:47.140 Is it

00:08:47.500 You know

00:08:48.660 We'll have a

00:08:49.160 Completely

00:08:49.800 Completely

00:08:51.200 Privately funded

00:08:53.940 I don't know

00:08:55.740 Like

00:08:56.160 A train

00:08:57.740 A train network

00:08:58.580 It gets bought out 1.00

00:09:01.100 By the French 1.00

00:09:01.800 Or the Chinese 0.58

00:09:02.380 Or something 1.00

00:09:02.800 And then they run it into the ground

00:09:03.960 Because they don't care about Britain

00:09:04.920 Or something

00:09:06.040 Yeah

00:09:07.000 To have all of one or the other

00:09:10.620 Is not ideal

00:09:11.640 But

00:09:11.940 Still

00:09:13.080 The left

00:09:13.860 The left would have it

00:09:15.440 That it was entirely

00:09:16.480 Entirely

00:09:18.420 Like you think

00:09:19.820 The left think that like

00:09:21.320 Bureaucrats

00:09:22.420 And

00:09:23.140 Civil servants 1.00

00:09:24.320 Are better at managing things 1.00

00:09:26.200 Than the private sector

00:09:28.860 Not that the private sector is perfect

00:09:30.960 I just said that

00:09:31.720 Right

00:09:31.960 But

00:09:32.800 Historically not

00:09:35.360 When they haven't got the same incentives

00:09:40.320 The same carrots and sticks

00:09:42.420 As the private sector

00:09:43.780 Look at the HS2 thing

00:09:46.080 You know

00:09:47.180 It's going to take something like 1.00

00:09:50.240 The last thing Heidi Alexander said

00:09:55.080 It might be as late as 2040

00:09:58.020 2042 or something

00:10:00.060 and cost like

00:10:01.840 over 100 billion pounds

00:10:04.280 to build a railway line

00:10:08.060 from London to Birmingham

00:10:09.160 was going to take 30 years

00:10:10.920 and cost 100 billion pounds

00:10:12.680 London to Birmingham

00:10:14.660 140 mile stretch of train track

00:10:16.680 hasn't that been mismanaged

00:10:22.660 just throw that on the pile

00:10:24.920 of examples of when

00:10:26.220 when government

00:10:30.060 Can't really manage projects properly

00:10:33.260 Right, Tories plan benefits ration cards for criminals

00:10:37.420 This is interesting, quite funny

00:10:40.020 I think this is a classic example

00:10:42.000 One of those things where

00:10:42.880 When you're in opposition

00:10:44.300 You can just sort of throw things out there

00:10:47.960 Throw ideas out there

00:10:48.920 Just say stuff

00:10:49.640 You're never going to have

00:10:51.060 Well, not for a while

00:10:52.340 Or in the Tories case probably never

00:10:54.080 Have to actually do it

00:10:55.500 So you can just say it

00:11:00.060 Right, you're in opposition.

00:11:01.080 I think we should build a space elevator.

00:11:07.400 Because you're never going to have to actually do it.

00:11:11.120 So the Tories are saying, ration cards for criminals,

00:11:14.200 where criminals might get benefits and handouts.

00:11:18.060 Why they should get in here is beyond me, but okay.

00:11:20.720 Some that do, if you're an ex-lag, an ex-criminal,

00:11:25.080 and then you're also on some sort of benefits,

00:11:26.860 trying to get work or whatever,

00:11:27.920 the tories want to make sure that you don't spend any of that money on alcohol

00:11:33.000 and things they don't like alcohol and gambling so you actually have some sort of ration card

00:11:40.520 to me that smacks of a policy that they know they'll have no no intent that's just that's

00:11:47.780 just red meat isn't it it's like yeah we're really tough on criminals you're right yeah right it's 0.50

00:11:55.360 exactly sort of policy they get into power and then just go oh no we've we've looked at it and

00:12:00.240 it's not workable it was never workable it was always nonsense wasn't it wasn't it all right 0.88

00:12:06.560 there you go street streeting that is the right honorable west streeting practicing homosexualist 0.86

00:12:14.640 backs fresh drilling for north sea oil to boost economy that's not bad good yeah abandon red 0.78

00:12:22.480 Ed Miliband's nonsense

00:12:23.940 The insane concept

00:12:26.740 That there's something fundamentally

00:12:28.500 Evil and wrong and backward

00:12:30.220 About drilling for fossil fuels

00:12:33.400 That CO2, man-made CO2

00:12:39.240 Drives climate change

00:12:41.480 It doesn't

00:12:43.800 That was always a lie

00:12:45.080 400 odd parts per million in the atmosphere

00:12:48.360 CO2

00:12:49.080 Man-made CO2 is a small fraction of that

00:12:52.480 It doesn't drive climate change

00:12:55.320 Pretending that it does

00:12:59.560 So that you can increase your power and state power

00:13:04.020 That's all that is 0.99

00:13:05.120 So okay, practising homosexualist streeting is against that 1.00

00:13:09.920 Well good, that's something isn't it 0.96

00:13:11.560 Alright, first hint of Mandelson, of the Mandelson day ahead

00:13:16.000 Here

00:13:16.820 Keep key Mandelson files private, say police

00:13:21.100 all right we'll get into it a bit well let's not get into it now i mean some of the other

00:13:25.240 headlines but we'll get into it now tomorrow is the day the tag when um there's gonna they're

00:13:35.960 gonna release the second tranche of manderson files why have taken so long i don't know they've

00:13:40.480 they've obviously had these files ready to go for a while but okay tomorrow is the day

00:13:45.960 oh no sorry sorry let me get it right sorry today is the day

00:13:51.100 so it won't be reported at least on fleet street until tomorrow so

00:13:54.540 tomorrow i can talk all about it in detail but actually today later today is when they're um

00:13:59.980 releasing that tranche of files something like apparently something like a thousand pages of

00:14:04.540 documents but there's certain stuff we won't get for example uh morgan mcsweeney's text messages

00:14:15.660 or the investigation into when morgan mcsweeney had his phone stolen when he lost it very very

00:14:22.780 conveniently lost it the details of that won't be released also uh the actual vetting document

00:14:31.340 that what mi5 did is mi5 or mi6 the the the foreign office did those actual documents won't

00:14:39.420 be released but that's because the police there's an ongoing criminal investigation into it isn't

00:14:44.380 there and the police have said and i think this is fair enough if it's true if you're prepared to

00:14:50.300 take it at face value if it's true the police have said don't release those yet because it that might

00:14:53.900 prejudice our police investigation well in my opinion fair enough you know at first glance

00:14:59.420 why aren't you telling us everything why won't you sense it well

00:15:05.260 if it damages the actual criminal investigation into peter manderson

00:15:08.940 then i'm fine make sure that goes through make sure that works as best possible if you've got

00:15:16.160 any faith in the police to do it properly at all all right we'll still get something like a thousand

00:15:20.940 documents today later today so i'll be reporting on it the papers it'll be all i'm sure it'll be

00:15:25.800 all over the papers maybe one of those days where every single front page is is a mandy front page

00:15:30.480 all right wonder can't appeal doubles life expectancy okay this guy robert tombs

00:15:38.880 i know robert tombs yeah he says france is descending into chaos britain can still avoid

00:15:46.080 this fate i've only read that headline haven't read his actual article i hope he's talking about

00:15:51.480 a program of mass remigration where something like 10 million maybe more people need to be

00:15:56.320 deported back to their countries of origin because that is the only fix it switch isn't it 0.89

00:16:01.200 to avoid a sectarian nightmare france is further down the road than us isn't it

00:16:07.780 oh if you didn't know over the weekend i think i mentioned it right at the top of the show didn't

00:16:12.220 i mention it here again once uh when when psg harris's answer man had defended their title

00:16:20.840 Raining, defending

00:16:21.980 And they beat Arsenal, the Gooners

00:16:25.960 In the Champions League final

00:16:28.300 There was loads of rioting across France

00:16:31.020 Not just in Paris

00:16:32.100 In apparently something like 15 different French towns and cities

00:16:35.560 Rioting, smashing stuff up

00:16:38.060 Burning cars, smashing windows

00:16:39.680 Loads of people arrested

00:16:41.360 700, 800 people arrested

00:16:44.000 Loads of people injured and wounded

00:16:46.880 Including loads of policemen

00:16:48.100 One person died

00:16:49.820 that france just went a bit berserk after they won the champions league

00:16:55.480 of course it's only nominally about football isn't it it's actually really loads of their

00:17:02.000 invaders going berserk realizing there's a there's a small a slim reason to go berserk

00:17:08.680 so they do you know like on new year's eve and various other times of year oh oh the normal

00:17:15.420 All native population of France are enjoying something, are celebrating something, people 0.98

00:17:19.460 are out on the streets, right, let's start burning stuff and smashing stuff up and hurting 1.00

00:17:23.260 people. 1.00

00:17:24.260 Largely they're African, North African and Middle Eastern populations in France. 1.00

00:17:30.720 Tombs reckons Britain can avoid that, that sectarian nightmare, racial, religious, tribal 1.00

00:17:39.020 sectarian nightmare. 1.00

00:17:40.660 I wonder if he talks about re-migration. 1.00

00:17:45.420 Obviously, deportations and re-migration 0.99

00:17:49.600 Of all the foreign invaders we've got in the West 1.00

00:17:53.700 Is the answer, isn't it? 1.00

00:17:57.480 Alright

00:17:58.040 What else have we got? Let's see

00:18:01.220 The Guardian, oof

00:18:02.260 The Guardian, you're still a thing 1.00

00:18:07.360 Disgusting socialist rag 1.00

00:18:11.260 Absolute subversion from top to bottom 1.00

00:18:14.500 Weirdo freaks

00:18:16.440 Mandelson files show no mitigation of security concerns over top US job

00:18:23.880 So the thing is

00:18:25.220 Oh and the gooners there

00:18:27.420 The gooners

00:18:30.440 So even though the files aren't going to be released until later today

00:18:35.920 A fair few people have seen them

00:18:38.500 People in the know

00:18:39.200 People at the heart of power or whatever

00:18:40.920 Have seen them or been briefed about them

00:18:44.140 and some of those have then leaked what they've seen because there's always leaks it's very very

00:18:50.780 very very difficult to stop leakage very difficult in this day and age so there's been some

00:18:59.100 some leakage going on and they say that what these files reveal among other things among the fact

00:19:06.820 that loads of people in the labor party just looked up to manderson and he was like some sort

00:19:10.840 godfather and that you couldn't get on in the party without his blessing and that he told

00:19:17.360 ministers what they what their role was really and what their policy would be all stuff like that

00:19:22.180 beyond that well as this headline says apparently that it shows there's no mitigation of security

00:19:28.860 concerns over top us jobs so you remember we already know don't we for sure as a matter of

00:19:34.200 record that the vetting process well wasn't in even entirely complete before he was just given

00:19:41.000 the job and put into post but that vetting process did say uh he has got ties to russians

00:19:49.160 chinese and israelis which are questionable

00:19:51.880 so after that these files show that there was no mitigation of the security concerns

00:20:04.900 so people the right people in the know in the right place knew there was he had all

00:20:09.860 these concerns over who he is basically over what he is

00:20:13.760 and nothing was really done to mitigate that you know to maybe keep him out of seeing the

00:20:20.020 most sensitive things and stuff no it's just full-blown because to be ambassador to the u.s

00:20:25.640 you get access to some of the most sensitive information don't you you're supposed to be

00:20:32.960 in the loop for everything that goes on between the u.s and the uk and that would include all

00:20:38.140 sorts of intelligence services stuff it's a concern isn't it it's a real worry let's say

00:20:46.760 What Mandelson is

00:20:48.180 Who he was

00:20:48.680 What he was

00:20:49.740 Well what he was

00:20:51.080 Was a mole

00:20:51.880 Wasn't it

00:20:53.060 I'm prepared to say that

00:20:55.940 A treasonous mole

00:20:58.180 On the inside

00:20:59.160 Working for

00:21:01.460 Third party 1.00

00:21:02.800 Foreign

00:21:03.660 Interests

00:21:04.540 Wasn't he

00:21:05.040 Wasn't he

00:21:06.120 Was he not

00:21:07.800 Sending politically

00:21:09.080 And market

00:21:10.000 Sensitive information

00:21:11.240 To one

00:21:12.740 Jeffrey Epstein

00:21:13.600 Was he not doing that

00:21:15.200 He was doing that

00:21:15.800 Again that's a matter of record

00:21:16.740 isn't it now as well so what's that if that's not a traitor actual traitor not just someone you don't

00:21:24.580 like he's got policies lefty policies you call them a traitor not that no an actual an actual

00:21:30.820 full-blown full-blown traitor

00:21:37.380 nothing was done to mitigate the concerns over that

00:21:42.260 all right

00:21:42.580 okay the idf seizes strategic castle in lebanon it's reasonably interesting if i can find there's

00:21:52.780 a decent picture of it i think maybe it's on the bbc uh yeah yeah let's just have a quick look at

00:21:57.400 this the beaufort castle look that's nice is it in normal in the normal times that might be a nice

00:22:05.540 Stay out

00:22:06.040 There's like a 1.00

00:22:06.900 Crusader era

00:22:07.940 Castle

00:22:08.420 In Lebanon 0.60

00:22:09.720 So probably 0.65

00:22:12.660 Something like

00:22:13.100 An 800 year old

00:22:14.200 Maybe 900 year old

00:22:15.700 Castle

00:22:16.700 In Lebanon

00:22:17.860 Beaufort Castle

00:22:19.380 And

00:22:20.800 The IDF 0.95

00:22:22.020 The Israeli

00:22:23.620 Army

00:22:24.640 Have captured it

00:22:27.060 People saying

00:22:27.920 It's strategically

00:22:28.600 Important

00:22:29.000 Well

00:22:29.700 Kind of

00:22:31.860 Basically I mean

00:22:32.420 I suppose

00:22:32.860 They did

00:22:34.180 Build castles

00:22:35.140 didn't they usually nearly always in sort of the most strategically important

00:22:39.800 maybe even tactically important place to overlook the landscape

00:22:44.480 that was usually very deliberately the case so all right and some people around even like our

00:22:54.620 foreign secretary loads of different politicians have condemned it because it's like the furthest

00:22:59.460 the israeli army of their furthest incursion into lebanon for years like a generation 25 years or

00:23:06.960 whatever um again i would have loved to do a tour of castles in syria and lebanon the crack to

00:23:19.700 chevalier in syria before this current space this generation's wave of warfare in that part of the

00:23:27.860 world this is exactly the sort of place i would have loved to visit and walked around really

00:23:32.480 slowly looking at loads of stuff one afternoon would be nice all right now it's occupied by

00:23:38.180 the israeli army all right that's in the news a little bit this morning let's go back here

00:23:45.460 all right the times the venerable times it's almost as subversive and anti-western as all the others

00:23:57.860 very nearly so all right there's that leaper woman do leaper again all right she's got married

00:24:08.780 that date that cancer pill daily pill that could revolutionize cancer treatment for millions

00:24:13.720 good reform vote in unions at same level as labor this is interesting poll shows working class

00:24:21.360 Abandoning Starmer 0.88

00:24:22.540 So the story is

00:24:24.060 I read this story

00:24:24.600 The story is

00:24:25.380 That among unions

00:24:27.180 Workers

00:24:27.780 Unions

00:24:28.760 That of course

00:24:31.680 Are historically

00:24:32.620 Labour

00:24:34.020 Pro-Labour 0.90

00:24:34.460 I mean some

00:24:34.960 A lot of them

00:24:35.680 The biggest ones

00:24:36.340 Are all sort of

00:24:37.680 Formerly affiliated

00:24:39.120 To the Labour Party

00:24:40.380 Right

00:24:42.820 Labour

00:24:43.420 In the first case

00:24:44.600 In like the early 20th century

00:24:45.980 All through the 20th century

00:24:47.440 Was

00:24:49.300 You know

00:24:49.700 Like staunchly

00:24:51.360 supposed to be old labor anyway sort of a working class movement or as it says on the tin a labor

00:24:58.520 movement it's funny how far they've come isn't it not funny haha funny bizarre how far labor have

00:25:04.740 come from that from an original working class labor movement labor with a small l and now what

00:25:12.840 are they well they're not really for they're just so socialist that they'll ring they'll ring wealth

00:25:20.600 Out of kulaks even 1.00

00:25:21.740 Don't seem to care 1.00

00:25:23.680 About working class normal people 1.00

00:25:25.620 Working people do they 1.00

00:25:26.720 They wouldn't flood us 1.00

00:25:28.100 With millions

00:25:29.180 Of low skilled 1.00

00:25:32.320 Low wage foreign people 1.00

00:25:34.140 Would they 1.00

00:25:34.460 If they cared about us

00:25:35.820 If they cared about 0.99

00:25:36.520 Working people that joined unions 0.80

00:25:39.560 They obviously don't care about that anymore

00:25:43.920 Haven't for a very very very very long time

00:25:46.180 And so surprise surprise

00:25:49.920 A lot of people in unions

00:25:53.120 According to this data

00:25:54.160 According to this story

00:25:55.180 Are just as likely to vote reform than Labour

00:25:59.280 To be perfectly honest

00:26:04.320 Restore are much more likely to

00:26:06.900 Stand up for the interests of the working man

00:26:10.560 Than reform are

00:26:11.660 But certainly Labour don't

00:26:15.440 Certainly most people

00:26:17.020 Unless you're dyed in the wool Labour

00:26:18.640 Unless you're one of those people

00:26:19.880 That have got your head in the sand

00:26:21.100 And insist on voting Labour

00:26:22.420 Until your dying day

00:26:23.300 Regardless of how much damage

00:26:24.960 They do to you and your country 0.98

00:26:26.220 Unless you're one of those people 1.00

00:26:28.340 A useful idiot 1.00

00:26:30.220 Then 1.00

00:26:31.960 You start looking somewhere else

00:26:34.600 For a party that

00:26:35.500 Might not try

00:26:37.260 And

00:26:38.040 Make you penniless

00:26:39.920 As quickly as possible

00:26:41.460 You might not try and replace you

00:26:44.040 In your one and only

00:26:45.220 Ancestral homeland 1.00

00:26:46.020 With foreign people 0.99

00:26:47.020 So yeah

00:26:49.160 Reform vote in unions at the same level as Labour

00:26:52.080 Remarkable, really

00:26:53.060 Even when I was a kid

00:26:55.140 Not many people probably would have predicted that

00:26:58.040 Well, of course, reform didn't exist, but you know what I mean

00:26:59.640 Union people abandoning Labour on a large scale

00:27:05.560 That's what you get if you screw over your base

00:27:11.020 Long enough and hard enough

00:27:12.560 They will abandon you

00:27:13.440 Eventually, or at least a lot of them will

00:27:15.920 You're not owed anyone's vote

00:27:19.720 Are you

00:27:20.440 You have to win it

00:27:22.140 Every election

00:27:23.460 That's the way it should be

00:27:25.540 That's the way it is

00:27:26.240 You know Labour thought

00:27:30.760 Oh we can just always

00:27:32.460 Always rely on unions

00:27:34.020 The people that are in unions

00:27:36.960 Just always rely on them

00:27:39.200 To be Labour

00:27:40.840 Well

00:27:41.820 Not so much anymore

00:27:43.460 Good and it's a reckoning long overdue

00:27:45.460 is it not all right red tape to be cut on home improvements i believe when i see it

00:27:52.940 good idea good on paper welcome of course but i believe when i see it

00:27:58.160 it's one of those things we're going to cut red tape we're going to leave the eu and cut loads

00:28:01.780 of red tape didn't really we're going to cut down on bureaucracy and red tape but they don't 0.99

00:28:07.800 they add more if anything so it's one of those things we're going to stop the small boats stop

00:28:11.920 the boats and then they don't the higher paper should we read the blurb it's usually the best

00:28:17.640 thing you get on uh fleet street on any given day well there's wee jimmy cranky there having a bit 1.00

00:28:23.180 of a boo booing it up and that'd be nausea talk about her in a minute leadership rivals back

00:28:31.820 revolution in uk voting system would be nice again i wonder if it'll ever happen talking about first 0.99

00:28:37.920 Pass the post

00:28:38.620 Or winner takes

00:28:39.880 Against proportional representation

00:28:43.040 I'm a PR person

00:28:44.740 I would prefer PR

00:28:46.680 Most people do

00:28:48.320 If you look at it dispassionately

00:28:49.720 Most people do

00:28:50.820 You get the odd person

00:28:52.160 Like Peter Hitchens 1.00

00:28:55.420 With his stupid contrarian takes 1.00

00:28:59.740 He doesn't like being called a contrarian 1.00

00:29:01.380 But that's exactly what he is 1.00

00:29:05.200 Contrarianism to the point of

00:29:07.840 insanity, contrarianism to the point where you'll

00:29:11.840 pretend, you back, pretend, you back first past the post

00:29:15.840 that you think that's better, contrarian to the point where you argue 0.57

00:29:19.700 in favour of ISIS brides coming back to England

00:29:23.680 Mentor, he's lost his mind 0.98

00:29:27.860 Okay, enough about bloody P Hitch

00:29:30.300 Leadership rivals back revolution in UK voting system

00:29:34.040 West Streeting is expected to throw his weight

00:29:36.760 behind electoral reform

00:29:38.220 after Andy Burnham backed his commitment

00:29:39.940 to introduce proportional representation

00:29:41.440 into future Labour election manifesto

00:29:44.000 quickly to say if you might not know

00:29:46.880 you've got first pass the post

00:29:47.780 whoever gets the biggest number of votes just wins

00:29:50.140 whereas proportional representation is

00:29:51.980 you'll have like your first choice, second choice, third choice

00:29:54.380 that system

00:29:56.240 and then the loser

00:29:57.740 the one that comes last

00:29:58.760 they get scrubbed off

00:29:59.780 and their votes go over to the next people

00:30:01.260 and anyway the net result

00:30:03.640 in a nutshell um is that you're much more likely to get different people's views different people's

00:30:11.600 candidates elected like quite often with first past the post or winner takes all like half of

00:30:18.720 nearly half of the electorate don't get what they want or never ever get what they want

00:30:23.860 it locks out smaller parties doesn't it basically basically what it is that's the net result of it

00:30:30.160 You end up with the same couple of parties

00:30:34.560 Dominating

00:30:35.300 Forever

00:30:37.240 Forever

00:30:37.800 Because they'll also use the argument

00:30:41.020 Oh you can't vote for anyone else

00:30:42.360 That will split the vote

00:30:43.200 That will let the other side win

00:30:44.280 And so you're stuck with a two party system

00:30:46.900 And if they're of the same mind

00:30:48.100 If they're controlled by some other forces

00:30:51.820 Then it's just a one party system

00:30:54.040 In essence

00:30:54.540 It's just a uni party

00:30:55.560 PR

00:30:57.080 They will break that

00:30:59.040 Or it's less likely to have, it's slightly less likely to have like a uniparty dominance with PR 0.59

00:31:06.660 Alright, the IA paper understands that the former health secretary, practicing homosexualist West Streeting

00:31:14.100 Supports scrapping first past the post, though he is yet to confirm his position

00:31:19.600 Shouldn't he be on the record one way or the other on that his whole career?

00:31:24.640 we're waiting for wesley streeting to confirm whether he is pro pr or not why

00:31:33.040 why if you've got a strong view on it wes just come out and say it in fact you should have done

00:31:40.720 years ago but you haven't got a strong opinion on it because you're a nothing man he's just trying

00:31:48.340 to play the game of power you're not you're not actually a man of conviction right with a solid

00:31:54.640 worldview and vision, are you? Plus, who cares? You're going to lose your seat in the next

00:32:01.580 election. I would bet everything I own, he loses his seat in the next general election,

00:32:07.460 so it's mad that he's even in the running for a leadership position. Why would anyone

00:32:21.020 back him in the plp in the parliamentary labor party why would you back him he's going to lose

00:32:25.740 his seat next time don't do that i don't know why i'm telling labor what they should or shouldn't do

00:32:31.180 but that's mad that's mad as the main challenger to front runner bumham andy bumham king of king

00:32:40.300 of the north no sternum burnham as the challenger to front runner andy burnham in potential leadership

00:32:49.260 Contest to oust Keir Starmer

00:32:51.060 And become next Prime Minister

00:32:52.900 He is backing boosts chances

00:32:55.460 Of major overhaul of Britain's voting system

00:32:57.780 If you remember

00:32:59.260 Back in the Cameron

00:33:01.260 Clegg years

00:33:02.380 So what would that have been? Straight after Gordon Brown

00:33:05.500 So what like 2010 is it?

00:33:07.860 2011

00:33:08.300 When Cameron had to enter into

00:33:11.400 Coalition with Nick Clegg and the Lib Dems

00:33:13.520 One of the

00:33:15.560 Lib Dems

00:33:16.340 Things they insisted on

00:33:19.260 in order to form a coalition at all was that there would be a referendum on PR which there was 0.99

00:33:25.820 but David Cameron slippery scumbag that he is

00:33:31.540 contrived things so it was done really really quickly there wasn't really much of a national 0.98

00:33:38.060 debate about it it was done really really quickly and he again manipulated events so that most

00:33:44.140 people didn't even really hear about it it wasn't like the brexit referendum and um yeah

00:33:51.540 that was a gross thing that cameron did there again throw it on the pile of gross things david

00:33:57.860 cameron has done and said right labor support for pr is seen by the greens as prerequisite

00:34:04.860 for any pact between parties the greens would love a pact wouldn't they where they get to

00:34:12.080 where one of their MPs gets to be a cabinet minister or something.

00:34:19.600 Reform UK and Lib Dems also support change.

00:34:23.740 I'm pretty sure Rupert does as well.

00:34:25.840 Am I?

00:34:26.520 I think Rupert does.

00:34:28.980 So in other words, it's sort of really only the Tories

00:34:32.460 that love First Past the Post,

00:34:36.040 that insist that it's the better system,

00:34:37.940 it's the better way of doing things.

00:34:38.980 It's kind of just not.

00:34:39.920 it's kind of less fair ultimately but it helps keep the tories in the game

00:34:47.020 it's helped keep them in power many times so the tories will argue against pr with it to their

00:34:55.980 dying breath i would have thought everyone else right labor especially the left of labor

00:35:00.720 reform and the lib dems and the greens and i think restore uh all of them are like well no

00:35:08.360 come on look pr is fair isn't it all right said about uh said about we jimmy cranky there she went

00:35:19.780 on laura kunigsberg yesterday morning sunday morning did an interview 20 25 minute interview 0.78

00:35:26.080 i watched it where she just insists double down she didn't know anything she's as much betrayed

00:35:32.340 by peter morrell her ex-husband and embezzler i mean he's really guilty so i can just say that

00:35:38.060 without libel or anything he stole 400 grand from the smp and she insists she's completely betrayed

00:35:45.740 didn't know anything about it completely innocent of any wrongdoing don't believe it i just don't

00:35:50.700 believe i just don't believe it a lot of people don't she said some of the things she said was

00:35:58.540 believable i'm prepared to believe for example she just didn't know that certain items in the

00:36:05.180 the house were bought with embezzled money she said they don't have children they didn't go on

00:36:09.660 holiday hardly ever because they were so busy they both made half decent pretty decent money

00:36:14.280 you know not millionaire money but they made decent money and they didn't spend it on much

00:36:18.300 like say didn't have holidays didn't have kids so the idea that he might spend two grand three grand

00:36:25.280 on a new coffee machine isn't crazy it isn't beyond the realms of what's reasonable i can buy

00:36:31.060 that that's fair enough i can sort of buy i can buy that that he's buying a new ps3 or something

00:36:37.300 yeah it's totally believable on their wages okay and then some of the stuff he bought for her as a

00:36:44.620 gift like a christmas or birthday gift like a gold pendant a one-off thing it's not like she

00:36:51.080 it's not like he bought endless jewels endless diamonds and jewels and tiaras for her it's like

00:36:56.720 one gold pendant again all right okay you can believe that that was like a bit of a special

00:37:00.220 gift for birthday or something okay fine all that all right

00:37:06.460 but then he did buy a jag a jaguar car and that motorhome that 125 grand

00:37:11.820 motorhome when laura kunigsberg started drilling 0.99

00:37:16.060 started playing a bit of hardball tried to skewer 1.00

00:37:20.060 we jimmy cranky on the point of her intellect

00:37:23.500 we jimmy cranky did seem to crumble a bit the answers were a little less

00:37:27.260 believable and impressive

00:37:30.220 Koenigsberg says stuff like

00:37:32.220 So didn't you notice the giant

00:37:35.160 The giant motorhome 0.99

00:37:37.000 She's like no it was kept at his mum and dad's house

00:37:39.560 And then they're like well so didn't you

00:37:42.500 Did you not see it you didn't go round there

00:37:44.200 She's like I did go round there but I never saw it

00:37:46.340 And they were like you didn't see it

00:37:48.020 Wasn't it parked on the driveway

00:37:49.680 And she's like no it wasn't parked on the driveway

00:37:51.280 It was parked round the side or round the back

00:37:53.080 And I never actually saw it

00:37:54.460 And anyway if I did see it

00:37:56.400 I would have assumed it was the next door neighbour's motorhome

00:38:00.220 so again you know when a little kid a small child is caught in a liar and it just throws out a

00:38:08.020 number of excuses and and those excuses don't marry up with each other and stuff it's like

00:38:13.640 well kind of obviously you're lying i even saw on twitter someone did um someone found a picture of

00:38:20.500 peter morrell's mom and dad's house her mother and father-in-law's house where this

00:38:25.500 motorhome was parked and it's a really little bungalow type place with one little driveway

00:38:31.860 down the side there's no way you can there's kind of no way you could park a motorhome there and not

00:38:39.360 see it it's just not believable then laura koenigsberg is all like okay all right all right

00:38:48.360 but in the years leading up to 2023 when she and peter were finally arrested

00:38:54.840 she was released without charge

00:38:57.060 didn't like three different members of the smp before including the actual treasurer the party

00:39:04.500 treasurer themselves didn't they resign and publicly say there's questions about the finances

00:39:10.560 smp's finances why are you pretending there was no problem you were on record throughout those

00:39:16.400 couple of years at least on record saying there's nothing to see here it's it's just it's just the

00:39:21.020 enemies of the party trying to smear us trying to make up uh you know trying to stoke division and

00:39:27.760 just making up lies about the party our finances are as strong as they've ever been there's nothing 0.90

00:39:32.380 to see here didn't you say all of that nicola and then sturgeon's like uh yeah but you know again

00:39:39.500 just squirming really no yes but that was to do something else that wasn't this embezzled money

00:39:45.460 that was to do with other monies that were misspent that was to do with something else

00:39:51.020 which is also fair enough and reasonable but the point is isn't it the overall point is that there

00:39:56.840 were questions there were question marks over it and then she goes on to play the victim card even

00:40:04.560 though insisting she's not a victim oh all sorts of women whenever they're in a relationship with

00:40:08.980 a male who does crimes and the woman is smeared with the crimes that they did not commit

00:40:14.420 That it's not fair, it's unfair

00:40:18.100 I've had a really tough week

00:40:20.000 It's going to take me a long time to get over this

00:40:22.820 I don't care, I don't care about any of that

00:40:27.360 I don't care about any of that

00:40:29.140 Now when you sign up to be in public life

00:40:31.640 You've got to stand the scrutiny

00:40:34.820 Sort of the endless, the endless brutal scrutiny of it

00:40:40.800 That's what it is

00:40:43.180 Just having a Twitter account

00:40:45.500 You've got to deal with that 1.00

00:40:47.100 I don't care about that she's had a tough week

00:40:50.420 And that she feels betrayed by her husband

00:40:51.800 No, no, no

00:40:52.340 Don't care about any of that 1.00

00:40:54.320 She's having a little crier 0.99

00:40:56.280 Sort of a fairly fake crier

00:40:58.340 Barely welling up

00:40:59.960 I don't believe you that you didn't know

00:41:05.480 He was embezzling money

00:41:06.580 There's no evidence of it

00:41:08.400 Because the police probably would have

00:41:10.780 Gone ahead with something

00:41:11.800 If there was evidence of it

00:41:13.040 Okay, you've stitched it up well enough

00:41:15.060 You're clever and savvy enough

00:41:17.780 To realise if you just stick to your story

00:41:19.780 And if he just sticks to his story

00:41:21.720 That you didn't know anything about it

00:41:22.960 And there's no paper trail proving you knew about it

00:41:25.420 Then you can get away with it

00:41:28.400 But it doesn't stop the rest of the world

00:41:29.840 From just saying

00:41:31.660 Alright, fine

00:41:33.320 Almost certainly will never go to prison for it

00:41:35.460 But I don't believe you

00:41:37.020 I just simply don't believe you

00:41:39.020 It's not believable

00:41:40.680 you've never seen that camper van

00:41:44.760 yeah all right oh we bought a onesie i never even saw that onesie

00:41:50.600 all right if you say so okay we jimmy if you say so

00:41:56.360 all right the daily mail pure subversion slot worse than the the mirror and the express and

00:42:08.220 the Metro in the sense that they pretend they're not. That's worse, isn't it? At least the

00:42:16.720 Guardian's honest about what it is. A fifth column. But the male, they all throw out some

00:42:25.080 red meat, try and pretend it's patriotic or nativist in some way. Pretend it cares about

00:42:29.720 the boats, the small boats and stuff. It hates us just like all the others. All right. Labor

00:42:37.920 leadership chaos you've not won anything yet andy it warns andy bumham king of the north with his

00:42:46.240 eyeliner and his double chin no sternum burnham a weak nothing man a parlour in pinko acting like

00:42:57.920 he's hard acting like he's a prime minister in waiting there was leaks that he's got his fantasy

00:43:04.980 cabinet it's already picking out his cabinet members for when he's the leader

00:43:08.740 would be funny if he failed to win that by election would be really quite funny

00:43:17.880 echoes of neil kinnock as cocky burnham accused of taking voters for granted yeah if anyone

00:43:25.020 doesn't know neil kinnock now the lord kinnock was he alive did he die 0.89

00:43:30.160 Now I think Neil Kinnock's still alive

00:43:34.260 Stephen Kinnock, his son

00:43:36.820 Is in politics, isn't he

00:43:38.400 If anyone doesn't remember

00:43:39.980 In like the 80s or very early 90s

00:43:42.400 Or both, the late, the 80s and the early 90s

00:43:44.880 Neil Kinnock, the then leader of the Labour Party

00:43:47.320 Particularly against John Major

00:43:49.180 In 1992

00:43:50.320 Was it?

00:43:53.860 He counted his chickens

00:43:55.400 Before they were hatched

00:43:56.440 He just started talking about how he's definitely going to be Prime Minister

00:43:59.260 And acting like he's the government

00:44:01.800 He is the government in waiting

00:44:03.180 And all that sort of thing

00:44:03.960 And then he lost

00:44:04.860 Chains of Hillary Clinton

00:44:07.760 Where she thought it was a lock didn't she

00:44:09.640 She thought it was a foregone conclusion

00:44:11.400 That she'd be president

00:44:12.820 Didn't she

00:44:14.480 She thought that

00:44:15.280 Didn't she congratulate herself on her birthday

00:44:18.540 Just before the presidential election in 2016

00:44:21.120 Happy birthday future female president

00:44:25.280 First lady president

00:44:26.460 Happy birthday

00:44:27.120 That aged like milk, didn't it?

00:44:32.780 So anyway, Burnham's sort of beginning to count his chickens

00:44:36.120 Sheer hubris

00:44:41.480 We'll see, maybe he'll win that by-election

00:44:44.620 And then maybe he'll win that leadership contest

00:44:47.820 And become Prime Minister and former government

00:44:50.060 Who knows?

00:44:51.320 We shall see

00:44:51.940 It's definitely in the lap of the gods, isn't it?

00:44:55.580 Okay, the Metro

00:44:56.520 Don't want

00:45:00.760 Stop

00:45:03.100 Stop it

00:45:04.440 Grow up

00:45:06.060 The metro

00:45:09.540 Sergei Gaylor

00:45:11.200 Another wee Jimmy Cranky

00:45:12.460 25 foot motor home

00:45:15.240 I didn't spot it

00:45:16.280 Yeah it's not believable is it

00:45:17.600 She's never seen it

00:45:19.140 That's her story

00:45:19.780 That's her story

00:45:23.460 She said something like

00:45:26.240 to my memory i'm gently something i'm slightly paraphrasing but she said something like

00:45:31.680 as far as my memory goes i can genuinely tell you i never saw it never saw it

00:45:40.640 but yet she visited that house quote a handful of times she said not even a handful of times

00:45:46.960 so at least more than once okay who knows what that means a handful of times or less

00:45:52.560 than a handful of times. What does that mean? It's a tiny little bungalow. She claims she

00:46:00.320 never saw it. And even if she did see it, why would she assume that it had been bought

00:46:06.880 by Peter with embezzled money? Rock adult is pretending she's crying. Huge holiday vehicle

00:46:19.240 my husband paid for with smp funds was parked out of sight she insists difficult if you look

00:46:25.640 at that property that's difficult to believe all right the ft the financial times oh look

00:46:30.440 there's a picture again of that crusader era castle in lebanon with israeli troops there

00:46:37.880 all right wall street's bulls bet u.s bull as in a bull market bullish um you know a bull market

00:46:47.000 going up, a bear market going down, Wall Street's balls, people betting on the market going

00:46:51.940 up, bet US stocks rally has further to go, there you go, this story is just that some

00:47:00.060 many on Wall Street think that the US economy's fundamentals are strong, right, not sure how

00:47:10.880 And they can think that when the US is in debt to the tune of, what is it, well over 30 trillion dollars, with a T.

00:47:24.600 House of cards.

00:47:26.020 As is our economy, as is our economy as well.

00:47:28.640 As our most Western economy is a complete house.

00:47:31.160 As is the Chinese economy, actually, when you look at it. 0.54

00:47:34.100 Could well be a house of cards. 0.57

00:47:36.740 If you look at one or two cards near the bottom, boom, all collapses.

00:47:39.600 catastrophically

00:47:41.360 you can't really be in debt

00:47:46.700 to the tune of over 30

00:47:48.660 was it more like 35

00:47:49.740 trillion dollars

00:47:52.080 and expect that to sort of work

00:47:56.340 indefinitely

00:47:56.940 oh and it's still ticking up of course

00:47:58.780 of course

00:48:00.100 endlessly ticking up

00:48:02.200 alright

00:48:04.860 alright

00:48:05.980 don't say nobody warned you

00:48:07.980 not just me

00:48:08.460 that was me

00:48:09.080 When the US economy and British economy collapses

00:48:13.580 Don't say there weren't voices

00:48:15.720 Warning about it

00:48:17.600 Shouldn't you cut spending and borrowing?

00:48:21.180 Isn't that the prudent thing to do?

00:48:22.560 No

00:48:22.840 No

00:48:24.380 We're just going to borrow endlessly and spend

00:48:26.520 Massively beyond our means

00:48:29.040 Oh

00:48:29.900 Oh okay

00:48:32.000 Fair enough

00:48:35.200 I'll just move on with my life then

00:48:36.580 Tell me about Strictly Come Dancing then

00:48:39.940 Tell me about

00:48:41.620 Do Leeper's wedding then I suppose

00:48:43.460 If you're not going to be serious and talk about

00:48:45.340 Real things, reality

00:48:47.300 Alright, The Independent

00:48:50.960 There's the Gooners

00:48:53.340 A bus full of Gooners there, Harry

00:48:55.120 A bus full of them

00:48:58.420 Actually Gooners is the fans really

00:49:00.380 I suppose you could say it about the players as well

00:49:02.460 Ultra strength cocaine hits UK

00:49:05.080 As Fatality Spiral

00:49:06.340 Mildly interesting story

00:49:08.160 Mildly

00:49:10.000 Lucky I'm not a druggie

00:49:13.720 Do you do cocaine?

00:49:16.080 Is that your drug of choice?

00:49:17.920 Be careful

00:49:18.460 At the moment the market's flooded

00:49:20.300 With super strength

00:49:22.160 85% purity cocaine 0.93

00:49:24.300 It kills people

00:49:27.640 There's 1,279 deaths this year

00:49:32.100 Or in a year

00:49:33.640 That's a lot

00:49:35.180 That seems a lot

00:49:36.340 if it was 279 that would be a lot but a thousand undercover investigation by the independent

00:49:44.280 reveals scale of crisis as pure crisis just don't do cocaine at all all right uh scale of crisis as

00:49:52.280 pure cocaine direct from south america fuels record surge in deaths and they said they said

00:49:57.320 they went to the cheltenham festival that's race horse racing right the independent undercover

00:50:03.520 investigative team went to the horse races and they collected samples from toilet surfaces

00:50:15.360 which found that two out of three were 85 purity cocaine

00:50:21.920 i suppose where people chop up their lines of cocaine on the what is it on the on the

00:50:27.680 like uh sink on the sideboard and they went in there and scraped samples off of that

00:50:34.840 grace all right yeah super strong drugs be careful do you do drugs of any type be careful

00:50:42.900 it's not so good that it kills you what is it um that's a relatively common thing even experienced

00:50:50.120 to drug users, like heroin, you accidentally get given a super strong version. You do the

00:50:57.440 normal amount you're used to, but it's actually a massive overdose. Boom, you're dead. Sid 0.57

00:51:03.240 Vicious, that happens to Sid Vicious. Sid Vicious, right? From the Sex Pistols. He was

00:51:10.200 a smack head, wasn't he? One day he was so out of his mind, he went and sent his mum 0.82

00:51:17.280 to go and get some some golden brown extra like sun she went and got some didn't really know what

00:51:24.560 she was doing particularly or whatever got some for him and it was super super strong killed him

00:51:33.200 there you go be careful

00:51:36.880 or just don't don't do drugs hey kids hey kids don't do drugs

00:51:41.520 all right let's start look goona party harry look it's a goona party

00:51:48.560 in all seriousness there was a massive goona party in london yesterday

00:52:00.340 Let's get serious now

00:52:12.140 Let's talk about the giant Gooner party 1.00

00:52:14.220 Half the city of London descends into a Gooner party 1.00

00:52:23.460 Alright, enough of that, alright, you get it 1.00

00:52:26.460 Oh look, Frank Skinner is disappointed that they might sort of stop doing the Three Lions song

00:52:32.180 You know that

00:52:32.880 Three Lions on his shirt

00:52:34.520 Jewels remain still gleaming

00:52:37.420 That song, you know it, probably 0.99

00:52:39.880 Unless you're foreign or very young

00:52:42.240 Frank, Frank Skinner, this man

00:52:44.340 Again, if you're very young, might not know him

00:52:46.060 Been a staple on TV for years

00:52:47.560 A comedian, nominally

00:52:50.160 No, he's quite funny actually, I quite like Frank Skinner

00:52:52.980 And he did that song, didn't he, with David Baddiel

00:52:56.460 and was it the lightning seeds again if you do you know the lightning seeds harry no clue

00:53:04.780 there you go david badill frank skinner heard of either of them no okay you know that song three

00:53:12.060 lions on a shirt yes okay you know that okay all right so you know that all right so frank skinner

00:53:18.380 says the fa wants to ditch england anthem save three lions and the star's got a campaign to keep

00:53:24.940 the football the football coming home all right enough of that that's the front pages we're done

00:53:29.420 with that enough silliness let's move on we got a poll it's about time to do the poll isn't it

00:53:37.020 what's our poll take oh it's gone 10 2 already that went quickly

00:53:42.140 all right well you get a bumper show today so

00:53:46.860 that's how i'm not generous the poll says we asked you oh yeah right so we need to ask you

00:53:51.260 about this i had a little bit of a conversation about it in the office didn't come to any sort

00:53:56.140 of great conclusion so i thought we'd ask you um when bogo is and it's when not if when bo goes on

00:54:06.300 holiday probably at the end of summer it'll probably be what would you rather do no breakfast

00:54:14.700 With Bo

00:54:15.280 Or have another host do it

00:54:17.600 Like Dan or something

00:54:20.280 So 76% of you say

00:54:23.740 You would rather another host do it

00:54:25.980 24 say

00:54:27.780 Just no Bo Show

00:54:28.560 Okay

00:54:29.020 That's an overwhelming win

00:54:30.400 Isn't it really basically

00:54:31.160 So

00:54:31.420 Alright

00:54:33.000 Well

00:54:33.380 I'll take that on board

00:54:34.840 Absolutely

00:54:35.860 And if possible

00:54:37.020 We'll get someone else

00:54:38.540 My gut feeling is

00:54:40.780 I think Dan would probably

00:54:41.920 Be best at it

00:54:43.000 Probably

00:54:43.420 I don't think Carl is prepared to get up early

00:54:46.840 And come in every morning

00:54:48.760 He might do but I doubt it

00:54:50.040 Maybe recruit Dan

00:54:52.620 I don't know

00:54:53.960 Maybe tomorrow's poll will ask you

00:54:56.460 Who would you rather

00:54:57.920 In fact if I'm off for two weeks

00:55:00.220 It might be two weeks because

00:55:03.820 I think you're supposed to take two weeks 1.00

00:55:05.900 Where you're P-A-Y-E 1.00

00:55:08.360 I think you've got to take a chunk of two weeks 1.00

00:55:11.220 Got to

00:55:12.100 so might be more than one host big harry big harry could do it big harry would be quite good

00:55:18.860 actually they will be good they'll be they'll be all right wouldn't they have a few days here and

00:55:22.700 there of all the other ones of all the other people all right all right maybe get some guest

00:55:29.140 people in don't know i have to organize it it'll be later in the summer anyway probably after the

00:55:34.280 six weeks holidays probably in september so it's not imminent don't worry it's not imminent

00:55:38.840 all right should we have a look at the main website so should we have a look at the price

00:55:42.620 of oil we do that about this point in the show don't be most days let's have a look at the price

00:55:46.380 of oil there you go it's gone down again a little bit west texas uh what is that 89 dollars a barrel

00:55:53.520 oh that says very small for me i think that's 89 brent crude at 93 it's down again a little bit

00:56:02.880 Not fantastically higher than when the war in Iran started, really

00:56:07.460 Again, does that translate to how much you pay at the pump? No

00:56:10.580 Alright, was there one or two other stories I thought was mildly interesting?

00:56:15.340 Oh yeah, the US and Iran have traded more kinetic weapons with each other

00:56:21.880 But still insisting a deal, there could be a deal

00:56:25.380 And there is still a ceasefire of types

00:56:29.180 They're nowhere near a deal, nowhere near

00:56:33.320 Iran came out over the weekend, or was it on Friday day

00:56:36.120 Saying, no, again saying, no, we're nowhere near a deal

00:56:39.900 Effectively

00:56:41.960 So when you see Trump or Rubio or Hegseth say

00:56:48.680 We just need a couple more days

00:56:50.380 No, it's not really happening

00:56:56.020 In fact, let me play this video here

00:56:58.320 it's just a small quick video and it is bbc so it's you know take it or leave it like one minute

00:57:06.280 43 let's play this because it just tells you a little bit about a deal how close they are to a

00:57:12.620 deal like an actual full-blown piece are you nowhere near let's play this harry make sure

00:57:18.620 the stream can actually hear it cheers they want to make a deal we negotiate with them and then we

00:57:23.680 We always have to blow them up. 1.00

00:57:24.800 We are on the cusp of ending Iran's sinister threat. 1.00

00:57:28.400 The entire country can be taken out in one night. 0.98

00:57:31.120 Are you confused about the war in Iran?

00:57:33.040 If you are, it is really not your fault.

00:57:35.760 Almost every day, it seems like we're on the verge of a peace

00:57:38.600 deal until we're not. 0.93

00:57:40.640 Both the US and Iran are still attacking each other, 0.75

00:57:43.120 even though there's supposed to be a ceasefire in place

00:57:45.160 to stop the fighting.

00:57:46.680 And every day this goes on is another day

00:57:49.280 those international tanker ships are stuck in the Strait

00:57:51.880 Hormuz which is driving up the price we all have to pay for food, fuel and lots of other things.

00:57:57.160 So what is actually happening? Well both America and Iran say they do want to reach a peace deal

00:58:01.560 but they simply don't agree on the really big issues. Donald Trump started this war saying it

00:58:05.800 was the only way to stop Iran developing a nuclear weapon. He wants Iran to hand over

00:58:10.280 all of its existing nuclear material and agree not to develop any more. While Iran wants America 0.97

00:58:15.400 to lift lots of economic restrictions and hand back loads of Iranian assets that have been frozen.

00:58:21.080 When you hear that a deal is really close, what that usually means is the two nations

00:58:25.080 are about to agree the agenda for negotiations on the really tough issues.

00:58:30.680 We're not there yet, but we're very close when we keep on working at it.

00:58:33.640 And then just to make it even more confusing,

00:58:36.040 every time Donald Trump says a deal is imminent, he usually then changes his mind

00:58:40.760 and says he's not actually satisfied with what the Iranians have agreed to.

00:58:44.120 I can say that we can make a good deal right now, but maybe not a great deal.

00:58:49.560 and if it's not a great deal, then I'm making it.

00:58:51.840 The main thing to remember is that if we do get an announcement

00:58:54.760 that they have reached an agreement,

00:58:56.140 that doesn't mean they have done a peace deal.

00:58:58.200 It just means they're about to start the really serious negotiations

00:59:01.640 to try and get to a peace deal.

00:59:05.960 Right.

00:59:09.800 So, yeah, still a long way, then.

00:59:14.280 And ultimately, isn't it? 0.99

00:59:16.220 Iran would rather rule over a country of rubble 0.68

00:59:20.800 than give up their designs on enriching uranium. 0.91

00:59:26.300 Isn't that the bottom line of it all?

00:59:28.360 Apart from the Straits of Hormuz and all that sort of thing. 0.82

00:59:33.800 The US and Israel insist that Iran should not have

00:59:38.000 weapons-grade uranium and the ability to make more. 0.98

00:59:42.660 And they insist that they should.

00:59:44.540 What do you do? That's an impasse, isn't it? That's just an impasse

00:59:48.960 Alright

00:59:51.360 Mandy, Cuba 0.98

00:59:53.780 We Jimmy Cranky

00:59:55.640 Alright, shall we just move on to on this day in history

00:59:57.900 You like doing that bit? I quite like doing that bit

01:00:01.900 Shall we have a look at what happened down through the centuries of note on this day, the 1st of June

01:00:06.680 Alright, in the year 4000 BC exactly

01:00:10.080 It's only an approximate date

01:00:12.700 Oh sorry it says

01:00:16.160 Approximate domestication

01:00:18.880 Of the horse

01:00:19.740 In the Eurasian steppe

01:00:21.720 In basically

01:00:24.260 In what is modern day Ukraine 0.69

01:00:25.720 It is completely 1.00

01:00:27.780 Completely

01:00:29.680 Clucked out of thin air

01:00:31.400 The 1st of June in the year 4000 BC

01:00:34.360 Was when the horse was domesticated

01:00:36.720 Okay

01:00:38.200 Nonetheless

01:00:39.060 Despite sort of the kind of palpable

01:00:41.680 silliness of picking an individual day

01:00:44.360 when that happened

01:00:45.120 it's an important thing in history isn't it of course

01:00:47.900 the horse being

01:00:50.640 sort of

01:00:52.040 domestication of the horse being

01:00:54.000 absolutely pivotal to the human story

01:00:55.980 human civilisation

01:00:57.280 from that point onwards

01:00:58.660 until what the 19th century

01:01:02.340 news could only

01:01:04.140 travel as fast as a man on a horse

01:01:06.000 humans could

01:01:08.200 only travel as fast as a man on a horse 1.00

01:01:10.280 Absolutely pivotal for warfare

01:01:13.760 All sorts of things

01:01:14.580 On this day in 1215

01:01:19.060 Peking, then a city of over 1 million

01:01:21.500 Under the control of the Jurchin ruler

01:01:23.840 Emperor Zhuangzong of the Jin 0.97

01:01:27.400 Falls to the Mongols under Genghis Khan

01:01:30.780 And is looted for a month 1.00

01:01:32.480 I'm going to do content all about the Mongols 0.97

01:01:36.980 That was probably the great Khans 0.99

01:01:39.860 Genghis Khan's greatest achievement really wasn't it we would have thought 0.76

01:01:45.680 finally actually sacking and taking peaking as was okay on this day in 1543

01:01:53.720 Flemish Flemish a physician Andreas Vesalius Vesalius publishes his the

01:02:01.820 humani corpus fabrica on the fabric of the human body a major step forward in

01:02:07.040 understanding human anatomy yeah because there was an injunction on doing autopsies basically

01:02:12.800 for quite a lot of human history all sorts of cultures not just the christian religion

01:02:16.780 all sorts of cultures were like you don't do that you don't like there's something terribly wrong

01:02:20.940 about defiling a corpse like no but it's for research it will help people if we find out how

01:02:28.160 the human body works no it's just defiling a corpse and the gods or god doesn't like that you

01:02:33.540 can't do that held back human understanding and medical science for centuries if not millennia

01:02:41.220 that way of thinking right leonardo da vinci himself harry do you think i've got content all

01:02:51.120 about the life of leonardo da vinci yeah more than one bit of content a few hours for me talking

01:02:55.260 about he had to do it basically in secret a bit that's in what the uh the 15th century

01:03:00.580 Sort of secretly do a deal with people

01:03:03.800 Under the table

01:03:04.760 To do what is effectively

01:03:07.660 A post-mortem or an autopsy on a dead body

01:03:09.760 Try and see how it works

01:03:11.400 Well

01:03:14.560 There's a reason why it was a Flemish

01:03:17.440 Physician

01:03:18.320 Because the Flemish 1.00

01:03:20.980 The Dutch 0.99

01:03:22.360 Modern day Dutch Belgian people 0.97

01:03:24.500 They were sort of

01:03:26.700 Protestant

01:03:27.660 Among the first 1.00

01:03:30.180 And hardest line Protestants 0.97

01:03:32.020 Not including some places in Germany 0.93

01:03:33.420 Where they were like

01:03:34.200 No, the Catholic Church can't stop us 0.99

01:03:37.100 Now

01:03:38.140 There's like religious injunctions

01:03:40.540 Against defiling occult

01:03:41.720 And they were like

01:03:42.140 No, now we

01:03:43.140 Now we want to

01:03:44.700 We really feel like we need to

01:03:46.180 Want to find out

01:03:47.040 How it actually works

01:03:48.600 Properly

01:03:49.420 Scientifically

01:03:50.420 So they started doing that

01:03:51.840 For the best, wasn't it?

01:03:56.060 Alright

01:03:56.340 On this day in 1676

01:03:59.060 the Battle of Oland

01:04:00.980 I don't think that's how it's pronounced

01:04:02.600 Allied Danish Dutch forces

01:04:04.860 defeat the Swedish Navy in the Baltic Sea

01:04:07.380 during the Scania War

01:04:08.980 I don't know a great deal about that I must say

01:04:11.160 I've heard of it before, I know a bit about it

01:04:12.880 but the details I'm afraid I don't

01:04:14.860 I can't tell you a great deal about that one

01:04:17.400 I haven't got any content on

01:04:19.120 about it, I have got content

01:04:20.840 all about the

01:04:22.780 the Anglo-Dutch

01:04:25.220 Wars of the 17th century

01:04:26.660 we had three arguably four mostly naval engagements with the dutch in the 17th century

01:04:34.100 long form content a few hours talking about that but the wars between the the danish and the dutch

01:04:42.920 or the danish and the dutch versus the swedish i'm afraid not all right the boston tea party

01:04:48.380 classic got content at least on history bro actually go to that one on history bro got

01:04:55.260 content, content all about the Revolutionary War, yeah, one about Jefferson, one about

01:05:04.080 Washington, talk about the Boston Tea Party in some detail there. 1774, Boston Port Act,

01:05:13.700 following the passage of the act, the British government orders the Port of Boston closed

01:05:17.200 to punish the colonists for the Boston Tea Party, where they, instead of paying the tax,

01:05:22.300 Threw the tea over the side, famously 0.75

01:05:24.220 It wasn't the first time

01:05:26.060 We'd had the Stamp Act before that 0.98

01:05:27.820 Where the American colonists

01:05:30.200 Had refused, got up in arms

01:05:32.180 About the Stamp Act, but now they want

01:05:34.160 The Parliament, the British Parliament wanted to put

01:05:36.400 Duty on tea

01:05:38.280 And the Americans

01:05:39.940 Said, no taxation without representation

01:05:42.720 Can't we have

01:05:44.260 Like some of our people in Parliament

01:05:46.280 In London, at least

01:05:48.020 Surely, to at least stand up

01:05:50.440 At some point and say

01:05:51.540 We don't think this is fair

01:05:53.100 And they were like, no, you can't do that

01:05:54.520 No, you're colonists

01:05:55.460 Okay, alright

01:05:57.820 By 1774

01:05:59.700 Independence was like

01:06:02.920 Already in the mail, right

01:06:05.080 It was already in the pipeline, really

01:06:06.360 Although it's complicated

01:06:09.220 Lots and lots of people, including many founding fathers

01:06:12.060 Still ummed and ahmed and vacillated on it

01:06:15.380 All the way up to 1776

01:06:17.020 Many of them, in fact

01:06:18.400 Many of the founding fathers that you would have thought were

01:06:21.240 Sort of staunchly for independence

01:06:24.140 Right up to the last minute

01:06:26.800 Where it's like

01:06:27.220 No I don't think so

01:06:28.020 We should remain loyal

01:06:29.060 He's our king isn't he

01:06:30.520 It's a very complicated story

01:06:33.440 Interesting

01:06:33.920 Fascinating

01:06:34.500 Yeah

01:06:36.780 Okay

01:06:37.460 Boston Tea Party

01:06:38.880 On this day in 1998

01:06:40.420 European Central Bank

01:06:41.520 Is founded in Brussels

01:06:42.900 To define and execute

01:06:44.400 The European Union's monetary policy

01:06:46.240 Brilliant

01:06:47.080 One more layer of supranational

01:06:50.240 Economic stranglehold

01:06:52.640 I'm not for it

01:06:53.520 I'm not for it myself

01:06:54.580 One last thing

01:06:55.520 I don't usually keep scrolling down do I

01:06:56.980 But it was mentioned to me last night

01:06:58.320 On the State of Politics stream

01:07:00.080 State of Politics

01:07:00.660 It might be worth mentioning

01:07:02.000 Famous birthdays

01:07:03.320 Quite a lot of famous birthdays

01:07:06.260 Marilyn Monroe

01:07:07.700 Morgan Freeman

01:07:08.340 The actor Brian Cox

01:07:10.060 Not the physicist Brian Cox

01:07:11.260 Grace Hogan in Sharp

01:07:13.060 Among other things

01:07:15.060 Tom Holland

01:07:16.600 The actor Tom Holland

01:07:17.680 Not the writer and historian Tom Holland

01:07:19.520 Alanis Morissette, Heidi Klum

01:07:20.980 It's their birthday, they say

01:07:22.540 But Marilyn Monroe, it's her centenary

01:07:24.600 Had she been alive, she would be 100 years young today

01:07:28.480 Marilyn Monroe 0.99

01:07:30.240 Instead she OD'd

01:07:33.480 Because she was a very, very unhappy person

01:07:35.700 Seems like

01:07:36.420 Alright, shall we talk about

01:07:38.100 Shall we do the Rumble Rants and Super Chats instead then?

01:07:40.780 Shall we talk about that?

01:07:41.980 Let me do this with my mic boom

01:07:43.240 So I can see the left and right side of my screen

01:07:44.820 Alright, what have we got here?

01:07:46.420 Is Global Church History going to be in at number one?

01:07:48.240 yes yes he is brilliant it's a good day today is a good day

01:07:53.560 all right global church history usually gives us a couple of factoids what have we got here we've

01:07:58.320 got today in 794 a.d charlemagne opened the frankfurt synod to deal with the adoptivist

01:08:08.440 controversy right that's interesting a synod is like an ecclesiastical gathering

01:08:16.000 To decide

01:08:18.220 Doctrine, religious doctrine and stuff

01:08:20.940 So yeah, the adoptivist controversy

01:08:23.400 That is

01:08:24.380 Again, they're talking about

01:08:28.740 The nature of Christ

01:08:30.620 We talked about the first council of Nicaea before, didn't we?

01:08:36.780 Centuries before that

01:08:37.800 500 years old before that

01:08:39.080 During the age of Constantine the Great

01:08:40.520 Constantine the First

01:08:41.300 The 300s AD

01:08:43.000 and there's still controversies about it in the at the end of the 8th century

01:08:48.940 nearly into the 9th century like was was jesus a man

01:08:55.000 or was he like a divine being or was he god he's actually god

01:09:05.920 Okay

01:09:08.260 Then I see in Creed says he's God, right

01:09:10.460 That God, Jesus and the Holy Spirit, the Holy Ghost

01:09:14.740 Are all one and the same thing

01:09:16.920 But anyway, the adoptivist controversy was that

01:09:20.960 No, Jesus was born a man

01:09:23.600 But then when he gets baptised

01:09:26.860 You know, by John the Baptist

01:09:28.560 It's in the Gospels, isn't it?

01:09:30.300 Jesus goes, as an adult, goes and gets baptised

01:09:32.960 In the River Jordan, isn't it?

01:09:35.280 memory serves anyway he goes and gets baptized by john the baptist and then the heavens open

01:09:41.280 and god says this is my son and i'm happy with him if memory serves so if i've got any of those

01:09:47.280 details slightly wrong but that's the story isn't it and the the adoptivists said right now jesus

01:09:53.360 was born a man but at that point when he's sort of given the mandate of heaven effectively at that

01:10:00.400 point he becomes sort of more than a man he's like a divine at that point okay

01:10:07.200 that's the controversy and lots of people like the catholic church the

01:10:10.720 the orthodoxy was no that's completely wrong

01:10:13.200 no he's the nicene creed is that he is god

01:10:18.160 so stop talking that nonsense

01:10:22.560 they're arguing about it i mean some people some people theologians might

01:10:25.440 still argue about do you argue about that sort of stuff to

01:10:28.240 To this day don't they

01:10:29.160 But okay Charlemagne the most powerful man in Europe

01:10:32.360 Western Europe certainly

01:10:33.300 It was like such a thing 1.00

01:10:35.880 In his age

01:10:37.420 That he had to

01:10:39.180 Convene a synod

01:10:42.200 Get all the most powerful bishops

01:10:43.960 That he could together

01:10:46.080 And agree on something one way or the other

01:10:48.240 Pretty sure they agreed

01:10:50.620 On orthodoxy

01:10:51.640 On the Nicene Creed

01:10:53.160 Stop saying Jesus was born a man

01:10:55.640 And then God adopted him as his son

01:10:58.220 stop saying that that's wrong

01:11:00.300 all right uh the other thing global church history says is on this day in 987 AD

01:11:10.460 Hugh Capet Charlemagne's descendant was crowned beginning the Capetian

01:11:16.140 Capetian dynasty yeah that's interesting the kings of France in a way they remained Capetian

01:11:23.320 in a sort of kind of fairly roundabout way

01:11:28.880 all the way up to the French Revolution.

01:11:31.220 Oh, and beyond, and the Bourbon Restoration.

01:11:33.180 I mean, when Louis XVI,

01:11:36.580 during the French Revolution times,

01:11:39.500 when he's deposed as king,

01:11:42.700 the revolutionaries,

01:11:44.080 this is, of course, at the end of the 18th century,

01:11:47.560 the revolutionaries,

01:11:48.380 before they decided he needed to be guillotined,

01:11:50.680 They stripped him of his

01:11:53.800 Of his crown

01:11:55.580 And he wasn't

01:11:57.700 King Louis XVI anymore

01:11:59.240 He was Mr. Capet

01:12:00.580 So they called him

01:12:03.040 Mr. Louis Capet

01:12:04.600 You know like

01:12:07.520 Prince Andrew isn't Prince Andrew anymore

01:12:09.500 He's just Andrew Mountbatten 1.00

01:12:10.660 Or Sex Co. Bergotha 0.93

01:12:12.820 Your normal name 0.98

01:12:16.180 Is a normal man

01:12:16.860 Mr. Capet

01:12:17.720 Alright

01:12:19.800 so interesting though the capetian kings the capetian dynasty one way or another i mean it's

01:12:24.740 very tortured to go from the original hugh capet all the way through to like the bourbon restoration

01:12:31.880 like louis the 18th say that they're all one continuous family line i mean there's a few

01:12:39.760 skips and jumps and oddities along the way all right all right what else have we got

01:12:45.000 for team barber all right bo yeah i'm all right thanks you're right sir says uh the west streeting

01:12:54.060 on pr is a prime example of why blair was moaning about them all the other day i hate agreeing with

01:12:59.300 him on anything too it's vile really hope you have a good day oh yeah cheers hope you have a good day

01:13:04.240 as well um yeah blair moaning about them they're on on the right of the party essentially i mean

01:13:13.240 I think he calls himself centrist, doesn't he?

01:13:14.900 Because he's not right, but...

01:13:16.360 Well, OK.

01:13:17.660 The left of the party have always hated it.

01:13:20.180 Hated the new Labour project, the whole nine yards.

01:13:23.440 All right.

01:13:25.100 GWFF says,

01:13:26.240 I watched Rupert Lowe MP's latest interview with Peter McCormack at the weekend.

01:13:30.280 He espoused the virtues of using AI to replace large parts of the parasitic lawyer class.

01:13:36.480 Fair enough. 0.99

01:13:38.240 Yeah, the parasitic lawyer class does need to have its back broken. 1.00

01:13:43.240 Yeah 0.93

01:13:45.200 If Rupert wants to use AI

01:13:48.500 Okay

01:13:49.000 I wouldn't

01:13:50.560 I wouldn't

01:13:52.160 But there you go

01:13:53.060 Can't agree with everything

01:13:54.820 That's the nature of having a party isn't it

01:13:57.320 You'll never have a single leader

01:13:59.680 Whose his entire thought

01:14:01.240 All his thoughts and feelings and opinions

01:14:03.380 Are exactly the same as yours

01:14:05.640 It's just not going to happen

01:14:06.460 Alright

01:14:07.360 Party politics

01:14:09.440 Politics is the art of compromise

01:14:11.180 You've got to endlessly compromise

01:14:12.760 That's the nature of it

01:14:16.460 If you can't do that

01:14:19.140 Politics and party politics isn't for you

01:14:21.860 You're going to have to compromise

01:14:25.040 But you're one of those people

01:14:27.800 Well no I won't do it then

01:14:28.640 I'll just absent myself from it

01:14:30.220 Yeah probably for the best then

01:14:31.260 The party's done one tiny thing you don't like

01:14:34.740 Or they're working with one person you don't like

01:14:37.980 And you're like right I'm out

01:14:38.880 Well yeah it's not the game for you is it then

01:14:41.860 you've got to compromise gwff says again second one says

01:14:48.600 as partisans it's our duty to scrutinize everything coming out from uh restores camp

01:14:57.960 yeah yeah that's right yeah definitely scrutinize it voice your opinion as well if you don't like

01:15:01.660 it you say ai talk from rupert is a red flag we can train and promote our own people to streamline

01:15:07.980 the parasite the parasite class i agree with you gwff yeah i agree with you i would i would i don't

01:15:14.120 want to use ai very much at all if at all as i said before a number of times i think it might

01:15:19.520 be brilliant for like i don't know some very specific things like maths problems or like

01:15:26.980 medical research and things like very very quickly mapping genetics or something like that i don't

01:15:34.000 know something of the human mind isn't really capable of doing okay but yeah just replacing

01:15:39.660 whole swathes of lawyers with ai that doesn't sound good to me if we've got the human capital 0.84

01:15:46.720 to do it yeah i agree with you there all right tom rat 247 says pr is for mugs and will lead to 0.67

01:15:57.880 Endless Europeanised electioneering

01:16:00.060 Heinleinism fixes this 0.57

01:16:02.560 All of it

01:16:03.180 Heinleinism

01:16:05.700 I mean 0.72

01:16:07.660 Endless Europeanised electioneering 0.95

01:16:12.540 There's nothing wrong with electioneering

01:16:16.600 In and of itself particularly

01:16:18.180 But you're saying

01:16:20.920 Not PR

01:16:22.040 Not first past the post

01:16:23.760 But Heinleinism

01:16:26.040 Robert Heinlein who wrote Starship Troopers

01:16:29.960 Just

01:16:31.740 Like an all powerful state

01:16:35.100 But not a leftist one

01:16:36.440 Whilst we are still going with

01:16:43.600 The democratic model though

01:16:45.060 If we are confined by

01:16:49.020 The concept of democracy

01:16:51.720 i think pr is better than first past the post all right fallen firebird this is last rumble

01:17:00.580 rant fallen firebird says been reading wolfran simon's seaman's book on metternich lately and

01:17:09.180 it's extraordinary yeah he was an extraordinary man um i was always a pre-modern history guy

01:17:17.120 but the way the way modern period personalities really shine through is fascinating okay yeah

01:17:23.940 so metinich if you don't know sort of that one of the great of the great um what would you say

01:17:29.880 sort of foreign ministers of the early 19th century like after after napoleon it's like a

01:17:37.480 bismarck before bismarck sort of a grand puppet master moving things around the the chess table

01:17:43.480 of Europe yeah just like a Bismarck before Bismarck Kestinich yeah absolutely fascinating

01:17:50.500 I know that I'm pretty sure that um Apostolic Majesty a true history genius I'm just a history

01:17:58.140 fan with a mic that's all right I am I'm just I'm just an armchair history nerd nothing more than

01:18:02.600 that never claimed to be anything more than that got an undergrad in ancient history that's it

01:18:06.100 that's as far as it goes Apostolic Majesty an actual academic genius level dude pretty sure

01:18:13.300 he's got long-form content lots of long-form content about meta niche if you're interested in

01:18:19.060 that i i recommend that someone who's done far more reading than nearly anyone then the vast

01:18:28.820 majority of people telling you all about it right a talking head a genius talking head good stuff

01:18:36.820 all right let's flip over to the youtube ones let's see it's a fair few 20 odd

01:18:43.300 two dozen maybe so i'll whip through them a bit all right what have we got in here we've got

01:18:49.940 insane europe you're it's 0.97

01:18:53.900 insane europeist insane europeist says so warm here next door next door's kids challenge me to 0.99

01:19:04.720 a water fight so i'm watching a bit of the old brekkie with bow while i wait for the kettle to 0.97

01:19:10.500 Boyle never missed an epoch's outstanding work quadruple exclamation mark thank you thank you

01:19:16.100 very much never missed an episode brilliant lovely can't ask for more than that I'm proud of that

01:19:23.360 body of work there's not a single episode in there where I'm sort of cringed like oh that was a bad

01:19:27.540 one oh I dropped the ball terribly there they're all good in my opinion and some not all but some

01:19:34.680 I think are excellent so do consider sign up for this five pound a month bronze team membership

01:19:39.420 rotis.com hundreds of hours of me talking about history thank you very much for having never

01:19:45.980 missed an epoch great stuff all right namenlos namenlos says english brothers and sisters

01:19:57.340 exclamation mark join us in stolz monet the german counter to pride month counter to pride month in

01:20:05.320 germany okay pure fiery love from out for our own culture history and future and uh that's one of

01:20:13.720 two you've said so and i'll much further down there's a second one saying um no negativity

01:20:20.740 just deep pride in who we are stand with us stand with us never again bruder krieg is that brother

01:20:28.920 wars. No more brother wars. Yeah, great. We've absolutely, whether it's Germany or Britain,

01:20:36.480 anywhere in the West, anywhere in the Anglosphere, we've got to absolutely abandon this nonsense

01:20:42.340 of being ashamed or disgusted by our own history and heritage. No, no, no. Even when there

01:20:48.280 are bad things. Because of course there are. Of course there are. Yeah. This idea that

01:20:53.400 we're guilty of the crimes of our ancestors. Abandon all of that nonsense. Be proud in

01:21:02.040 what our ancestors achieved when there are good things to point to, and in our case there

01:21:05.720 are many. Yeah, and no more brother wars, quite right. Thank you for the two super chats there.

01:21:12.100 All right, Brendan Lucas says, Israeli soldiers traipsing through the same castle seen in

01:21:18.000 Kingdom of Heaven 0.98

01:21:18.740 Sure there is some

01:21:20.200 Symbolism there

01:21:21.380 Yeah

01:21:22.440 I mean that castle

01:21:24.100 Must have been around

01:21:24.840 Since

01:21:25.300 Well

01:21:26.280 What

01:21:26.920 800 years

01:21:27.680 I would have thought

01:21:28.240 Or more

01:21:28.820 Okay

01:21:31.940 Kingdom of Heaven

01:21:33.780 I never really liked

01:21:34.480 The film Kingdom of Heaven

01:21:35.560 I feel like

01:21:37.700 Orlando Bloom

01:21:38.620 Ruined it

01:21:39.860 You know when

01:21:40.980 Like the main actor

01:21:41.760 Has to carry the film

01:21:43.000 The main actor in it

01:21:45.020 Isn't up to snuff

01:21:47.100 The whole film's a bit ruined

01:21:49.600 I feel like that

01:21:50.100 I mean it looks great doesn't it

01:21:51.040 Of course the cinematography

01:21:52.000 It looks great

01:21:52.620 I just feel Orlando Bloom

01:21:54.420 Was just too wooden

01:21:55.840 Anyway

01:21:58.060 I'm sure I'll get people saying

01:21:59.620 No watch the director's cut

01:22:00.680 The director's cut's amazing

01:22:01.740 Now I say that

01:22:03.480 Alright

01:22:04.260 Sam Jones

01:22:07.660 Sam Jones

01:22:09.660 Our team

01:22:10.360 For a decent amount of money

01:22:12.720 For the super chat

01:22:13.260 Thank you very much for that

01:22:14.020 Says

01:22:14.480 Morning

01:22:15.740 Hope you and Harry are well

01:22:16.980 There was no option on the poll to say

01:22:19.940 Bo is not allowed to have a holiday

01:22:21.680 Smiling, laughing, crying face

01:22:24.080 Where are you going to go?

01:22:26.740 Somewhere in England or further afield

01:22:28.320 Think little Harry should stand in

01:22:30.220 Have a fab day

01:22:31.080 Thank you

01:22:31.720 Not sure exactly where I'm going to go

01:22:34.980 I haven't been back to Italy in quite a few years

01:22:37.920 I think I'd quite like to go back to Italy

01:22:41.140 We'll see

01:22:42.320 I do advocate for having holidays in England, don't I?

01:22:45.480 And I will have various breaks in England

01:22:48.860 But it's been quite a few years since I've been to Italy

01:22:51.760 It's been 6, 7, 8 years since last I was in Rome

01:22:54.800 I do like to go there from time to time

01:22:57.480 And Florence, Fianzi

01:22:59.480 I do like to go to visit Florence if I can from time to time

01:23:04.740 Once every 10 years isn't too much to ask, is it?

01:23:08.960 There's a load of places in Tuscany or in central Italy

01:23:12.140 Where I would like to visit and haven't yet

01:23:14.180 Like Orvieto

01:23:14.900 Some of these walled medieval towns

01:23:18.420 It's quite literally like going back in time

01:23:21.120 And of course it's set in the

01:23:23.200 In the sort of the apple

01:23:25.060 In the Tuscan countryside

01:23:26.540 Absolutely beautiful

01:23:27.760 We'll see

01:23:30.440 We'll see

01:23:30.900 I don't know

01:23:31.520 I haven't made up my mind

01:23:32.240 Okay

01:23:33.460 What else have we got

01:23:34.900 Brendan Lucas again says

01:23:36.180 Every lovey argue

01:23:39.660 That every Zittian artefact 1.00

01:23:42.660 and location belongs to the islam world it's our own fault that israeli soldiers walk through them 1.00

01:23:49.820 it's not our fault it's got nothing to do with us oh sorry i don't know what country you're from 0.89

01:23:53.420 brendan lucas i don't know if you're american or british or whatever but as a brit no it's got

01:23:58.120 nothing to do with us a war between israel and lebanon it's not our fault any of it i i reject

01:24:05.140 that i'm afraid thanks for the super chat though uh the next couple are also you you say pr strips

01:24:11.500 away ideologues and produces unified political cultures yeah yeah right with the latter operating

01:24:19.900 on what benefits them rather than what benefits others yeah and then you've also put we've had

01:24:26.820 pr in scotland oh you're so you're scottish okay i think you have said that before actually now

01:24:30.860 you say that i think you have said that before so what is israeli troops occupying a lebanese

01:24:36.480 castle got to do scotland i appreciate that you're a super fan i really appreciate it but

01:24:42.360 i just don't see that that it's our fault it's not okay anyway uh we've had pr in scotland for

01:24:50.700 20 years off of 25 years and it's just a bunch of managers with ideological hobbies who agree

01:24:56.800 on trans rights and data centers all right okay well it is what is that's not that's not pr's

01:25:04.000 fault is it the concept of pr that's the people that take part in a pr system isn't it so if you

01:25:13.220 got people that weren't into trans rights and data centers they'd actually have a better chance of

01:25:19.660 being elected under pr than not wouldn't they so okay oh the next one also is brandon lucas

01:25:26.160 Says

01:25:27.140 You are my drug of choice Bo 0.99

01:25:29.320 And you are lethal 0.98

01:25:30.880 Thank you sir

01:25:33.540 Drug of choice

01:25:35.980 You get addicted to Bo

01:25:37.100 It's good for what ails you though

01:25:39.780 I can

01:25:41.500 I can understand how you can get addicted to it 1.00

01:25:43.780 It's very Moorish 1.00

01:25:45.560 Isn't it 1.00

01:25:46.100 Not lethal though

01:25:47.980 Again I have to disagree with you there Brandon

01:25:49.520 On whether it's lethal

01:25:50.340 No it's good for you

01:25:51.820 It's good for what ails you

01:25:53.000 all right thanks again i know you won't but don't take it to heart when i disagree with you or

01:26:02.340 anything it's great pushback i like pushback i know you won't so good cool all right still

01:26:10.820 got another dozen or so 10 or more all right what have we got oh god my thing just spazzed out a bit

01:26:18.640 there can you say spazzed out just did um i've got to find my place again okay here we are okay

01:26:25.920 marcos marcos 588 says breakfast show with dan and arry i don't know if he means little harry

01:26:34.400 or whether he wants dan tub and big harry as a joint thing either way he probably means dan

01:26:39.840 tub and little harry is the producer so dan yeah that's the first data point i've got people want

01:26:46.120 Dan. Okay, thanks for the super chat. Farooog231 says, um, if you have someone else do breakfast

01:26:54.420 with Bo, you should give them a special Bo soundboard, which sounds like, it's, it's a

01:27:00.600 good paper, and the Guardian, ugh, they've done asterisks, disgust noise, the Guardian,

01:27:08.700 And it was soundboard, little buttons press

01:27:12.760 Monday, Monday

01:27:16.320 Okay

01:27:18.500 Thundercork

01:27:23.300 2028 says

01:27:24.600 Thoughts on the Crimea fuel crisis

01:27:28.380 Is there a particular fuel crisis in Crimea?

01:27:33.000 I haven't read about that recently anyway

01:27:34.800 Sorry, I can't really tell you much detail

01:27:37.300 On my thoughts on it

01:27:38.080 if there is a fuel crisis in the crime here for average normal people then that's bad but i don't

01:27:44.120 know a great deal i haven't seen anything i haven't been on the internet much over the weekend

01:27:48.260 a little bit but not much i've done my morning research my morning reading and i haven't seen

01:27:53.360 anything about that so sorry can't really give you much of a take on that i'll try and look into it

01:27:57.820 today if that's like a thing okay all right next one dr climate abortion that's their name

01:28:06.480 at

01:28:07.940 doctor underscore climate underscore

01:28:10.520 abortion

01:28:11.000 says 0.84

01:28:13.000 should be getting 1.00

01:28:17.640 danger on Wednesday

01:28:19.520 danger

01:28:23.200 okay

01:28:26.220 a few more from Brendan Lucas in a row here

01:28:28.380 says the Danish-Swedes war

01:28:30.200 was a bit of a scandal

01:28:32.480 and I don't know quite enough about it

01:28:36.000 did one preemptively attack the other was it okay it's in the age before napoleon isn't it

01:28:44.720 oh yeah no way before okay way way way way before okay i don't know enough about it i'm afraid uh

01:28:49.440 brenda luke's again says um also took a while to finish yeah that said it went on for a few years

01:28:55.600 didn't it in fact let's just quickly scroll up what did it say what did it say yeah it goes on

01:29:02.000 on for something like four years maybe as much as looking five years i should know more about it

01:29:07.140 it's one of those things in fact i will look it up and at least read the wikipedia page at least

01:29:10.620 watch a youtube video about it it's one of those ones i should know i'm going to call myself a

01:29:15.620 history nerd it's a little bit of a fan of history it's a little bit of a dark spot for me a little

01:29:21.840 bit of a blind spot for me so i will i will read up about it okay brenda lucas again says

01:29:27.220 also happy pride month bow

01:29:30.160 He's taking the wick in it 1.00

01:29:36.680 Happy Pride Month 1.00

01:29:39.840 When's the heterosexual month? 0.99

01:29:43.520 I guess it's just all the other months isn't it? 0.99

01:29:46.220 Maybe we should say it every single month

01:29:47.700 Like having an unbirthday

01:29:49.080 A very merry unbirthday

01:29:51.860 To you 0.99

01:29:53.240 Yeah every month that isn't Pride Month 1.00

01:29:56.000 Let's bang the drum that it's 1.00

01:29:58.400 It's heterosexual month 1.00

01:30:00.340 Okay 1.00

01:30:03.300 Brenda Luke again says

01:30:04.940 I prefer a female's interpretation of the Odyssey

01:30:08.460 Again, are you being sarcastic there?

01:30:13.960 Apparently the translation that

01:30:16.500 They used for this latest adaptation of the Odyssey

01:30:20.320 That's coming out 1.00

01:30:21.000 Was that female feminist 1.00

01:30:22.840 She's an actual feminist, wasn't she? 1.00

01:30:24.440 Her translation of it 1.00

01:30:25.320 You just say

01:30:27.140 Doesn't seem to be in relation to anything else

01:30:29.720 Just say

01:30:30.060 You've just said 0.99

01:30:31.280 I prefer a female's interpretation of the Odyssey 1.00

01:30:33.900 Oh well 0.99

01:30:34.540 Do you?

01:30:36.540 Okay

01:30:36.720 I don't know if you're being sarcastic or not there

01:30:39.400 Okay

01:30:40.600 Next one

01:30:41.260 Also Brendan Lucas

01:30:42.060 There's a fair few

01:30:43.140 The next two are Brendan Lucas

01:30:44.420 Busy today mate

01:30:45.940 Appreciate it though

01:30:46.620 Appreciate them all

01:30:47.340 You said

01:30:48.080 I learned it wasn't Helen's fault

01:30:50.020 And men are bad

01:30:51.080 Alright you're definitely being sarcastic

01:30:52.440 Okay got it yeah

01:30:53.080 Yeah

01:30:54.560 Yeah it's all 1.00

01:30:56.200 It's all men's fault 0.98

01:30:58.280 And men are bad 1.00

01:30:59.120 Men are bad 0.83

01:30:59.680 That's for sure 1.00

01:31:00.760 Always

01:31:02.420 Always

01:31:03.520 Sure

01:31:04.280 Next one also

01:31:05.680 Brendan and Lucas

01:31:06.320 Kingdom of Heaven is bad

01:31:08.040 Because plot made up

01:31:09.580 Orlando Bloom's character

01:31:11.040 In real life

01:31:12.120 Actually negotiated 0.90

01:31:13.140 Slave quota for Saladin 0.93

01:31:14.620 Really anti-Western film 0.99

01:31:16.560 Yeah, yeah, yeah

01:31:17.780 I haven't seen it in a long time

01:31:19.280 I've only seen it like twice

01:31:20.120 And not in a long, long time

01:31:21.560 Not since relatively soon

01:31:23.440 After it come out

01:31:24.140 But

01:31:24.400 some people really love it i didn't i didn't get on with it i didn't particularly like it

01:31:29.620 yeah okay all right varul 231 says says i think what the guy means by a hindline ism

01:31:40.720 is restricting the vote to people who've proven willing to go through adversity

01:31:45.000 to serve society if i remember sargon's video on starship troopers anyway all right okay no

01:31:51.240 fair enough, yeah, what is it, Tom Rat, Tom Rat, okay, so you're not talking about Heinlein-ism

01:31:56.980 in general, you're talking about the society that's in Starship Troopers, right, because

01:32:05.380 I've read a fair bit of Heinlein, he's got loads of great books, classics, classics,

01:32:10.140 he's not just as Starship Troopers, I've read the book Starship Troopers a couple of times,

01:32:14.300 it's quite different to the film, very different actually, there's loads more to it, it's not just

01:32:20.060 that one bug uh planet there's loads more to it um but okay in that society yeah you

01:32:27.420 only if you serve in the army in the military are you allowed to vote

01:32:32.060 right so you've got to earn you've got to earn your vote yeah restrict the franchise massively

01:32:40.380 yeah i'm certainly not for expanding the franchise certainly not it might be nice

01:32:49.020 To restrict the franchise in some ways

01:32:51.060 In the ancient world

01:32:52.700 It was very very restricted

01:32:53.800 When you look at some

01:32:55.840 Actually relatively few

01:32:57.400 Examples of ancient republics

01:33:00.240 The franchise was very very restricted

01:33:02.980 Usually an age and property qualification

01:33:06.780 You had to be sort of almost middle aged

01:33:08.840 Well in your 30s usually

01:33:11.260 You're talking about classical Athens

01:33:12.660 Or the Roman Republic

01:33:14.160 Usually in your 30s at least

01:33:16.220 If not older

01:33:16.780 And have a property qualification

01:33:18.920 are the only people that own land and and houses you've got a real real stake in society stuff

01:33:28.400 like that maybe that's a bit far for the 21st century but nonetheless yeah perhaps the franchise 0.89

01:33:34.820 is too broad all right certainly foreign people or even dual nationals should not have a vote 1.00

01:33:43.420 I don't think 1.00

01:33:44.280 If you're an actual 1.00

01:33:45.520 Foreign national 1.00

01:33:46.420 No way 1.00

01:33:47.600 You should get a vote

01:33:48.600 16, 17 year olds 0.99

01:33:50.900 No thank you

01:33:51.620 No pass on that idea

01:33:52.900 It's crazy

01:33:54.160 Okay

01:33:58.200 Marcos 588 says

01:33:59.720 Bowen Furious

01:34:01.140 Italian epochs

01:34:02.100 Documentary when

01:34:02.940 Oh we've done

01:34:03.420 We've had

01:34:03.980 I've had Furious Personex on 1.00

01:34:05.320 I've had him on

01:34:06.560 Yeah we talked all about

01:34:08.720 We talked all about

01:34:10.340 Early Rome

01:34:10.980 Like the kings of Rome

01:34:12.120 We've talked all about

01:34:14.940 I think the fourth crusade

01:34:16.140 We definitely talked all about Byzantium

01:34:18.380 Maybe it was a few

01:34:20.060 Couple of centuries worth of Byzantium 0.69

01:34:21.820 Leading up to and including the fourth crusade

01:34:24.320 So we're friendly

01:34:25.400 And I have everyone again

01:34:26.360 Absolutely

01:34:27.280 Privileged to call him my friend

01:34:29.440 Next time he's in England

01:34:31.700 And he comes over every now and again

01:34:32.960 Every year or two or so

01:34:33.940 Whenever he's over next

01:34:34.980 I'll get him in again

01:34:36.000 We'll make more long-form content again

01:34:37.620 He's great

01:34:38.380 He's one of those people

01:34:41.020 Who knows more than me

01:34:42.100 absolutely absolutely happy to concede that i'll say somewhere between me and apostolic majesty

01:34:49.540 don't take this as a criticism uh furious if you see this you're not quite on am's level

01:34:57.060 but not far off and above me so there you go certainly above me much more knowledgeable

01:35:04.720 very very great interesting history dude we'll make more with him don't worry about it don't

01:35:11.220 worry about it we'll do that no one is on am's level hardly anyone i mean hardly anyone i would

01:35:21.300 say he's the most knowledgeable history content creator on the internet i don't i don't know of

01:35:27.140 another that's close that's close so again no shade furious no shade we're still good it's still good

01:35:35.200 Alright, last two now

01:35:38.580 Ridge

01:35:39.660 Ridge 6264 says

01:35:41.820 Did the Rothschilds annex Palestine

01:35:44.800 Mid 1800s, Beau

01:35:46.400 The Rothschilds annex Palestine 0.78

01:35:50.780 No 0.93

01:35:51.760 In the 1800s

01:35:54.160 It was under Ottoman rule, wasn't it?

01:35:59.120 What am I?

01:35:59.780 Is there some massive bit of history I don't know about?

01:36:01.820 What are you talking about?

01:36:02.620 it was under ottoman rule was it not

01:36:05.920 all right another one from brenda's lucas says i'm scottish

01:36:12.520 they're still upset about about the darian affair

01:36:16.660 okay the last one marcos i've got to finish up here marcos says uh no like a full holiday doco

01:36:24.500 given he's italian all right go to italy and make a documentary with him yeah maybe okay all right

01:36:29.520 i've got to wrap up now because we've got i'm recording more stuff later today um we've already

01:36:34.320 it's already 36 minutes past nine in the am british summer time on the first of june in

01:36:39.840 year of our lord 2026 you've been the glorious band i chose a few my band of brothers and sisters

01:36:43.360 thank you for joining me without you it isn't a thing until tomorrow do you try and make the best

01:36:47.680 of the day ahead you know copy dm seize the day your time is the most valuable thing you will ever

01:36:52.080 have and it's fine right it's fine i don't get too dark don't get too preachy but try and make the

01:36:58.160 the best of your time if you can. All right then, until tomorrow morning, take care.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 01, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Monday 1st June 2026

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