The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Thursday 15th January 2026

00:00:00.000 morning you all right how are you doing this fine morning all good i hope fighting fit

00:00:09.540 bright-eyed and bushy-tailed how are you harry yeah i'm good yep we're all good we're all set

00:00:16.740 to go okay let's jump straight into it oh say hello to you guys welcome hello um you are part

00:00:25.200 of the glorious few the chosen band of brothers joining me on breakfast with beau

00:00:32.340 breakfast with beau colloquially the beau show the bbc beau's breakfast club the lotus eaters

00:00:41.420 breakfast club a big celebrity to get the day going there's another way of doing it right let's

00:00:49.500 jump straight into the news what we're looking at what we're talking about what is the world

00:00:52.920 talking about today we are told world on the brink a bit hyperbolic uh and trump intent on

00:01:00.860 conquering quote conquering greenland both those things seem a bit sensationalist hyperbolic to me

00:01:07.480 but let's get into it all right let's start with the daily mirror today you know proper tabloid

00:01:13.640 bit sloppy okay they go with global tensions rise world on the brink just let you know it isn't

00:01:20.920 not particularly not any more than usual really like really on the brink you know the suggestion

00:01:26.760 there's like a big nuclear submarine there so we're on the brink of a world war we're not we're not

00:01:34.500 don't buy it it's pretty irresponsible really isn't it when newspapers do this

00:01:41.060 to be perfectly honest i mean only the credulous would you know believe it and start panicking or

00:01:47.300 anything but still it's a bit out of order really i think for editors to do this world on the brink

00:01:53.720 picture of a nuclear submarine and the foreign secretary and putin and trump

00:01:58.020 like we're about to have a world war right there's going to be a nuclear exchange or something or

00:02:03.180 there's a world war two or a world war one is about to kick off all around the world or something

00:02:07.720 world on the brink it's a bit much isn't it i mean despite everything that's going on

00:02:13.760 when you look at the sweep of history we're not on the brink but there's been other basically

00:02:20.640 world-spanning conflicts before during the napoleonic era for example the various napoleonic

00:02:26.740 era conflicts some of them spilled out all over the world right when napoleon took spain

00:02:32.740 the capitulations of bayonne and suddenly france controls massive parts of louisiana and america and

00:02:39.880 he sells them off and there's conflicts down in southeast asia or the seven or the seven years

00:02:45.500 war before that even earlier in like the 18th century where there was conflicts that spanned the

00:02:53.480 world from the americas to the spice islands but we're not on the brink the world isn't on the

00:03:00.860 brink well i don't think it does that could prove to be a terrible take and uh this time tomorrow

00:03:06.620 there's a world war going on but i don't think so i don't think if you've got some perspective

00:03:11.720 a little bit of um historic perspective as well we're not particularly on the brink

00:03:17.220 right there's there's trouble spots in the world sure obviously not denying that but

00:03:23.440 world on the brink all right the times

00:03:28.160 fan rail police chief won't quit why do they have to talk like that fan rail police chief like

00:03:36.700 just speak normally just write normally

00:03:38.920 okay head of west miss head of west midlands force

00:03:45.660 quote lawyering up quote after home secretary calls for resignation over decision to ban israeli

00:03:52.340 supporters so this story's got a bit of legs it keeps it keeps going it keeps trickling out i don't

00:03:56.900 think it's a well in and of itself it's not a giant giant story but it just keeps trickling on um

00:04:03.520 one of the things the one the angle now today in in the in the press is that shabana mahoud

00:04:11.600 his majesty's home secretary um wants the that police chief to quit

00:04:19.320 and he hasn't he won't and then she sort of some reports are saying she sort of asked the police

00:04:26.200 commissioner person who's got the power to fire him to fire him and he says he won't or not yet

00:04:32.500 anyway um and like so the home secretary the shadow home secretary the mayor of west midlands like

00:04:40.220 the head of birmingham council oh you know pretty much all the important real important players in

00:04:46.020 this story all want this one senior policeman to resign and he's refusing to there you go that's the

00:04:52.200 story in a nutshell um perhaps one other little detail to add to it which i think is interesting

00:04:58.440 is that shabana mahoud well the first thing you might think if you're british or if you know anything

00:05:04.460 about how the system works in britain you think wait can't the home secretary simply fire him

00:05:10.040 surely like all the police comes under the purview of the home office right all of mi5 comes under the

00:05:17.700 purview of the home office more or less everything domestic comes under the purview of the home

00:05:22.200 office right the home secretary is or should be extremely powerful with the ability to do within

00:05:29.600 reason most things certainly have the authority the power to just fire a police officer no matter how

00:05:36.280 senior um so that's what i thought when i was reading the stories this morning and over the last day or

00:05:43.020 i'm thinking if the home secretary wants to him to not be in his job anymore surely she or he in this

00:05:49.620 case she can just do that at the very least force somebody like the police commission or whatever to 1.00

00:05:57.060 order them to fire him right and the way shabana mahoud's been talking gives the impression that she

00:06:04.280 hasn't got the power to do that and in fact even in parliament from something i read this morning i may have

00:06:09.020 it slightly wrong but it seems like in parliament she was saying we the government we the government

00:06:14.780 need to give the home secretary the power again to be able to just directly fire policemen like this

00:06:20.700 and then the shadow home secretary what is it philp is it chris philp chris philip i think it's chris philp

00:06:27.780 in one article i read he said what are you talking about you do have the power why are you pretending you

00:06:34.380 haven't got the power and that's where i thought yeah right yeah i thought they did have the power

00:06:38.380 i was surprised that the suggestion that she didn't but the shadow home secretary has said that

00:06:44.120 said why are you pretending i think that was literally the quote why are you pretending you

00:06:48.300 don't have the power to all right let's move on from that story i don't think it's that interesting

00:06:53.280 in the scheme of things i mean we know what happened the police lied and covered up for muslims 0.84

00:06:58.380 for muslim mobs basically they're capitulated to intimidation from muslims in birmingham and then 0.98

00:07:05.580 lied about it and the home secretary won't fire the police chief seemingly what more is there to say

00:07:14.660 let's move on okay the killing has stopped iran avoids wrath of us uh so this is in the story

00:07:22.940 this is one of the stories out of iran today there's more much more iran stuff i won't do it in full

00:07:28.200 depth i won't do like 30 40 minutes on iran today because we've done that um but it's still in the

00:07:34.160 news a bit so talk about a little bit um sorry some reports are saying president trump is imminently

00:07:39.580 going to start firing missiles and things and then other stories are saying that he's he's backing off

00:07:47.440 a bit a couple of stories are this quote that the killing has stopped i.e the iranian regime has

00:07:54.600 stopped killing protesters in their own country and that mr trump has seen that and noticed that

00:07:59.700 and uh may well just you know ever so slowly slink back from from uh launching things uh so kind of

00:08:10.340 conflicting reports on the exact extent to which mr trump is imminently going to do something

00:08:17.460 so yeah conflicting reports a bit this morning but this is one of them this is one of the angles the

00:08:22.820 killing has stopped and and well according to the times iran has avoided the wrath of the u.s

00:08:31.160 i think we'll wait and see on that one exactly there's a picture of some woman in europe somewhere 0.94

00:08:36.820 i think um with a bit of paint on her head like she's been shot through the head she hasn't really 0.66

00:08:41.820 that isn't an image of someone that's been shot through the head it's a larping protester

00:08:46.540 okay the eye paper uk military prepares for american strike on iran you see so there you go so

00:08:52.460 exactly what i was just saying another paper says no there's going to be military strikes

00:08:56.260 and it's happening any any minute almost world on the brink

00:09:01.840 there you go it's difficult to know isn't it when you're just when you're just sitting at home and

00:09:08.420 you've got no real insight real real insight into military planning or anything like that

00:09:13.140 or the upper echelons the inner sanctums of power and all you all you've got to go on is

00:09:19.100 what various reporters are sort of having educated guesses about it's not much more than that is it

00:09:24.660 really um like the odd leak here or there from a source which may or may not be completely reliable

00:09:32.900 and you get to read what they say and that's it that's that's your view on reality you can take

00:09:39.800 it or leave it all right with the eye paper is saying that uk military prepares for american

00:09:44.480 strike on iran britain withdraws military personnel from qatar base ahead of potential trump strikes on

00:09:51.140 tehran the eye paper learns amid growing belief that action is imminent there you go so one paper says

00:09:59.260 iran has avoided any sort of wrath another says it's imminent

00:10:02.960 sorry bit of tea in the moustache there get rid of that the old soup strainer

00:10:14.900 okay uh some us forces stationed alongside raf at al-udid i'm probably pronouncing that wrong

00:10:23.200 al-udid air base are also pulling out so yeah that that air base um in uh qatar near doha

00:10:31.440 that the al-udid air base it's like a key one it's pretty damn big

00:10:37.280 so i've it's pretty it's a pretty big air base and then like the the americans and the

00:10:43.240 uh uk have got um you know various aircraft quite a lot of aircraft and things stationed there

00:10:50.280 it's like ready to ready to rock and roll all the time i saw someone on twitter saying

00:10:54.680 there won't be any strikes in iran because no one's got any bases anywhere near it will take

00:10:59.140 weeks to do nonsense there's loads of bases there's loads of bases all around they can fly

00:11:04.720 the british have got an air base in cyprus you can fly straight from cyprus to iran and back if you

00:11:09.320 want it america have got aircraft that can do mid-air refueling like the b2 can fly from missouri

00:11:15.900 around the world to iran and back in one go well they're refueled in the air but nonetheless

00:11:22.240 they don't need an air base in the region some people some people on twitter is so mad they say

00:11:27.760 stuff that's like just so crazily just so crazily wrong a one second google search well

00:11:34.440 all right anyway it's the nature of twitter isn't it what else we got oh yeah so the what so with

00:11:40.280 withdraw withdrawing personnel from that base because many have said that if iran uh retaliates

00:11:47.160 the first thing it's likely to do is hit that base i mean if you remember last summer

00:11:52.580 um when when israel was striking iran and then the us did do b2 stealth bomber stuff on iran and iran

00:12:04.120 sort of uh felt the need to strike back it was really just a sort of a token strike back

00:12:11.320 if one knew it was a sort of a token gesture to say we've we've retaliated well it was on that it

00:12:18.380 was on doha wasn't it i think so it's on qatar there i might hope i'm not mistaken on that correct

00:12:24.360 me if i'm wrong in the comments if it was but most most people most analysts think that if iran strikes

00:12:29.340 back in any way it'll be at that base so some are pulling out um yesterday it was in the news that

00:12:33.940 at least the u.s said so i think all u.s citizens in iran uh leave if you can leave iran entirely

00:12:45.220 once again they don't usually do that or say that um unless they're relatively serious about

00:12:54.020 ordinance falling from the sky

00:12:55.540 okay uh white house expects retaliation against u.s bases and allies in event of a strike yeah

00:13:08.340 trump threatens quote very strong action quote as protesters death toll climbs to 2500

00:13:14.980 relatives of ff that's the individual student not so much interesting the story of an individual person

00:13:21.380 to be perfectly honest i don't think it really helps some say it really does it like you know

00:13:26.660 it gives the whole thing a human angle but i think it just sort of muddies the waters a bit in sort of

00:13:33.460 i think the broader picture is more more important for us people like us we're just trying to understand

00:13:40.340 trying to grapple with what's really happening um muddying the waters with the story of an individual

00:13:47.860 protestor in their potential hanging all right the guardian

00:13:59.540 the god the god you got it trump still intent on quote conquering greenland says danes after talk

00:14:07.620 after talks washington meeting fails to bridge divide between nato allies yeah so this story that

00:14:14.260 yesterday i believe it was you must have been yeah yesterday uh there was some high level talks

00:14:18.660 between people from the the trump administration and people from the the kingdom of denmark's

00:14:24.020 government and they didn't really seem they it seems like they didn't really agree on anything there

00:14:27.940 was certainly no deal struck no actual deal for america to basically buy a greenland or at least be

00:14:35.060 given carte blanche to uh use its waters how and skies however they feel and mineral resources so nothing was

00:14:42.660 particularly resolved that's the story so therefore some again people trying to sell newspapers are

00:14:50.900 saying that trump will still conquer it no deal was struck so he's going to conquer it i mean come

00:14:55.860 on we're not quite there yet uh we'll see trump did say something if you remember a few days ago or a

00:15:01.780 week or two ago he said something i think it was just after the maduro affair and someone i think literally

00:15:09.140 like the day after something someone on air force one said um what about greenland and he said it

00:15:15.780 might there might not be anything to do there might not be anything in this but trump said give me 20

00:15:21.460 days come back to me in 20 days and we'll talk about it in 20 days i mean i thought hmm that's very

00:15:26.980 specific that's like oddly specific to me 20 days why'd you say 20 days he may have just something he

00:15:35.060 just come up off the top of his head and he just said it out loud and doesn't really mean anything but

00:15:40.820 my gut says that they have got like a timetable time schedule you know the planners at the state 0.98

00:15:46.340 department and the pentagon they're not stupid they might be hawkish they might be uh you know killers 0.99

00:15:53.780 stoke old killers essentially ruthless but they're not stupid right you can't i mean well 1.00

00:16:01.460 actually some might be able to make the argument 0.99

00:16:09.140 all right

00:16:11.940 what else uh a pro-palestinian activists end prison hunger strike couldn't care less

00:16:17.380 don't care don't care if those pro-palestinian people were on

00:16:21.620 activists are on hunger strike or not

00:16:25.140 got no sympathy for them or their calls us and uk evacuate staff in qatar amid iran

00:16:31.300 fears there you go so all right the telegraph four million denied right to vote yeah so this is

00:16:38.980 the story about local elections which are coming up this year in is it may uh well prime minister

00:16:45.220 running scared of public with 27 councils poised to cancel elections so this is a story it's not it's not

00:16:52.180 new because there was sort of rumblings of this that was going to happen um but in may the local

00:16:58.340 elections are you for who gets to be councillors and who runs your council you know it's actually sort

00:17:03.700 of really important to like your town or village or city who are the councillors and what they do

00:17:11.300 um in in some ways some very real ways it's more important than who your actual mp is

00:17:17.300 um in terms of you know getting roads fixed whatever all all the normal things of making

00:17:24.340 um um a metropolitan or urban area run smoothly or even rural area it is important local elections

00:17:31.620 are important i think the older i get every year that goes past every local election that goes past

00:17:36.180 i realize more and more and more that who are the councillors does actually really quite matter

00:17:41.220 or who rather which party controls the council right because depending on the size of the council

00:17:48.900 there can be just a few or a few dozen councillors on any given council and um just like in parliament

00:17:55.700 well similar to like in parliament then whoever's whichever party's got the majority of councillors

00:18:00.500 it's not straightforward as that either but will be said to control the council right so let's say

00:18:07.220 let's say your council your local council's got 30 40 members right and 29 of those are labor that you

00:18:16.020 it would be said that it's a labor controlled council anyway labor get to if they really want to win any

00:18:22.500 given vote on things in the council and get their way right you get it you get it it's not that it's

00:18:27.220 not that complicated well in may at least 27 councils are poised to just cancel

00:18:37.060 their elections that's not nothing that's a big thing because you say well why is that

00:18:46.100 what's going on there just why first of all first question why are you canceling them their reasoning

00:18:51.460 is really really shaky and and dodgy they're saying we haven't really got the resources um since the

00:18:57.540 last election there's been quite a lot of reforms to the way that local government has done

00:19:02.180 and we haven't got really everything in place we haven't got all our ducks in a row

00:19:06.020 we're not ready um so we're not just not going to have an election that's not good enough that's

00:19:12.340 nowhere near good enough that's not acceptable not acceptable no that's your job that's your job

00:19:18.420 is to be ready for it and do it because of course in any given local area it's the count again like

00:19:25.220 anything else it's the actual council that will boil down to to have um to do all the logistics of that

00:19:32.340 election you know have have um little scout huts or primary schools or whatever or the local

00:19:38.980 uh a local hall is used to for for voting or you know sending out and receiving and collating any sort

00:19:47.700 of postal ballots or everything that the actual physical reality of the logistics of making that

00:19:52.820 happen falls on the council at least the purse strings of it does so um so but think about it it's really

00:20:00.100 really really dodgy it's like your your labor your labor and you control the council and you say

00:20:07.780 uh we can't have any more elections you just think how dodgy that is just giving yourself

00:20:14.980 uh more time just giving yourself an out and anyway other parties obviously mainly the conservatives and

00:20:23.220 reform because all the polls suggest reform are going to dominate at the last set of local elections

00:20:31.300 they did really really well really really well sort of kind of outperformed themselves in a way

00:20:36.420 well that's not even fair they just they just did really really well um it's one of the things that

00:20:40.740 people have always accused reform of or any new party actually it's like they always say look you

00:20:45.780 haven't even got any mps or you've got like one mp you haven't even got any councillors or like you've

00:20:50.100 got you've got seven councillors because there's hundreds and hundreds and hundreds of councillors 0.97

00:20:53.220 in the country oh look you've only got seven councillors you're you're a joke you're nothing

00:20:58.340 well reform certainly broke that seal at the last uh election local elections they completely broke

00:21:06.500 that seal they've got loads of councillors now and in fact just yesterday they were gloating about

00:21:11.700 how um they've got what was it in the order of 20 or 30 i can't remember the exact number 20 or 30

00:21:18.180 uh conservative councillors all defected in one go yesterday to reform so in terms of uh and actually

00:21:26.900 control a few councils right they've actually got one or two mayors haven't they so in terms of local

00:21:33.300 politics reform are not nobody's anymore you know they're definitely definitely sort of established

00:21:39.780 in in in that theatre of political conflict should put it like that um so they're one they're the ones

00:21:49.060 that are set to lose the most by having loads of local council elections cancelled it screws with reform

00:21:58.660 and if you were even a tiniest bit cynical you would say that's the whole point

00:22:02.820 is that labour are like pretending oh we're not ready there's been too many changes recently and we're not

00:22:06.980 ready is it that you just refuse to allow that council to to become reform controlled is that

00:22:14.260 really what's going on am i being too cynical even thinking that i don't think so i don't think so

00:22:23.860 i think the establishment particularly the labour party are terrified of reform

00:22:28.980 they needn't be nigel is a containment project but they're still they're terrified they're terrified 0.52

00:22:35.860 of like allowing them to have any more power

00:22:42.580 someone suggested the next general election might not go ahead for whatever reason um just to prevent

00:22:50.420 nigel from becoming prime minister but we'll see about that that is a little bit more um into the

00:22:56.180 realm of conspiracy theory at this stage in my opinion but we'll see i mean it might not be might not be

00:23:00.100 you know um they could manufacture a war with russia and say it's it's wartime we can't have general

00:23:07.700 elections because it's wartime and in fact it's all a smokescreen to prevent

00:23:15.940 nigel and richard tice from controlling the levers of power i don't i i don't think that will happen

00:23:23.140 but it might do at the last general election i had a number of people in my ear saying exactly like

00:23:30.580 when it was rishi sunak it was rishi sunak against kia starmer and i had a fair few people say rishi's

00:23:38.820 going to start a full-blown well not necessarily rishi himself the establishment the swamp the deep state

00:23:45.540 the blob will start a proper war with russia in order to then be able to say you know it's 0.92

00:23:51.460 full-blown wartime we must count we must postpone general election um and i was saying to them i don't

00:23:58.740 see that happening that's still crazy you only really postpone elections like that one if you're

00:24:05.300 an actual corrupt tyrant like zelensky or whatever or it's an actual full-blown world war like world war

00:24:11.700 two i mean even president abraham lincoln didn't postpone a presidential election in the middle of

00:24:20.180 the american civil war

00:24:25.060 so i i don't i don't see the next general election being cancelled but you know again but having said

00:24:30.180 that i wouldn't put it past starmer to do something like that as i said yesterday he suddenly finds a

00:24:36.660 backbone when it's to do with his position and his hold on power if he's you know super weak on

00:24:43.860 everything apart from that so we'll see we'll see but it is a bit outrageous that so many uh i i think

00:24:53.620 you know it's a travesty actually you know it's a make makes a mockery of democracy itself that they're

00:25:00.180 just going to cancel or maybe probably cancel 27 local elections well yeah people said i think it might

00:25:05.700 be nigel himself said that the prime minister is running scared kind of yeah that's what it looks 0.84

00:25:09.940 like doesn't it it's what it looks like if you don't believe that it's all just to do with a lack

00:25:14.740 of organization it's not that difficult to organize it to get it done it does sort of look like they're

00:25:21.940 running scared it does sort of look like they're pulling out any stops to prevent more power sliding

00:25:29.940 towards reform but again they needn't even worry nigel is a creature of the establishment like a hundred percent 1.00

00:25:40.740 you know he's basically a good little globalist boy he'll do as he's told essentially 0.67

00:25:46.340 right he'll just fill his ranks with traitor globalist tories

00:25:50.980 so i don't know what the blob is really worried about

00:26:00.340 all right

00:26:02.180 core minister police boss refuses to sack maccabee officer

00:26:05.780 yeah so that's what i said um there's a police commissioner in between essentially in the pyramid

00:26:10.900 of things in between the home secretary and that senior police officer apparently he's a core minister

00:26:16.500 and he's refusing to fire that cop home secretary says fire him and he says nope

00:26:23.140 i told you if i was the home secretary you then you just fire that guy and get a new one in to do it

00:26:30.260 have a bit of backbone but you know yeah you know can't trust shabina mahmood to really do that

00:26:38.580 because you can only imagine her sympathies are ultimately with the muslims of birmingham

00:26:42.740 okay china super embassy faces court challenge um that's good so i think it's some of the residents

00:26:50.420 in that big complex of buildings around the royal mint are some um residential areas flats

00:26:58.980 and uh apparently those people can or are taking the government or or china itself to court over um

00:27:09.140 well various wrongdoings and and weird goings on about the whole thing so

00:27:16.980 that'll be nice whether they'll get very far i don't know sting owed his police bandmates half a

00:27:22.340 million pounds

00:27:25.540 sting is he still going

00:27:27.940 um he owes his police bandmates okay okay

00:27:36.580 see that's the sort of story the sort of story really it's like semi-slop to me or basically

00:27:40.660 slop i mean it's kind of interesting but it's not really important is it

00:27:45.540 britain shuts base in iran over strike fears yep new wind farms will add 1.8 billion pounds to bills great

00:27:53.780 great great the daily mail

00:27:59.700 shameless it's about that that cop well he's got he's got a bit of a weird face

00:28:03.540 hasn't he why is he why is he so weird looking a scathing report condemns west midlands police

00:28:09.060 liars over its decision to ban israeli football fans the home secretary declares she's lost confidence

00:28:15.220 in under fire police constable craig guildford but astonishingly he refuses to quit and the local

00:28:21.700 labor crime commissioner refuses to sack him we've done all the details on that so there you go the

00:28:26.500 ft the financial times reeves's signal uh on extending pub u-turn cheers hotels right we'll see how

00:28:36.660 how deep and extensive the government u-turn is on uh sort of basically rates on various types of

00:28:42.900 hospitality venues whether it's pubs hotels whatever uh broader rates relief for hospitality

00:28:49.780 uh latest big policy reverse by labor yeah another story here out of japan snap election iron lady

00:28:58.420 the japanese iron lady not margaret thatcher coming back from the grave the japanese version of the iron

00:29:03.540 lady bets on her personal ratings to revive japan's listless conservatives yes apparently there's going to be 1.00

00:29:10.500 another election in japan um so this that that woman the iron lady is going to uh it makes a calculation that it will 1.00

00:29:21.300 further her interests and her party or her faction of the party's interests if she calls another election

00:29:28.980 um we'll see if that see if that calculation is right or not u.s evacuates military base in qatar as

00:29:35.620 iran tensions put middle east on edge okay the daily express oh it's a good paper let's honor nations

00:29:43.540 injured 999 heroes so this is just a story that um the the express itself is sort of got a campaign to

00:29:53.780 to honor injured people that have been injured in the line of duty like police officers and things

00:29:58.980 not just police officers but various types of 999 staff you know ambulance people and whatever they've

00:30:05.060 been injured like this this cop got shot in the face once during you know during the light on the line

00:30:11.620 of duty um so the express says let's honor them fair enough fair dinkum fair dude the metro

00:30:25.140 the metro

00:30:38.340 f the metro and michael doesn't like swearing but f them they're the worst they're literally like they're

00:30:47.780 they're literally like a uh like like well fifth columnists are they i can't really tell you the

00:30:57.140 depths of my disgust towards the metro filthy filthy thing on their front page they go with one small step

00:31:08.660 to reception it's a story a nonsense story as well um that there will be hotels on the moon

00:31:17.940 by like was it 2032 by 2032 there's going to be like luxury hotels on the moon

00:31:27.540 no there won't be there won't be that's just utter utter nonsense

00:31:34.180 like not just like a base where it may be possible for one or two

00:31:40.980 um normal people extremely rich people to pay to be taken there not that an actual luxury hotel

00:31:47.620 like that with like big double beds and stuff by 2032 1.00

00:31:54.180 complete idiot what idiot wrote that and what idiot editor or set of editors green lit it and said 1.00

00:32:00.740 yeah go print print that morons i was talking the other day wasn't i about the artemis missions 1.00

00:32:08.100 artemis 2 hopefully launching in february and artemis 3 actually going back boots on the ground there 0.97

00:32:14.020 won't be luxury hotels on the moon by 2032 trust me bro

00:32:19.700 okay the sun what's the sun saying oh some slop uh cheryl's stalker nicked again 1.00

00:32:28.340 uh so this is that that uh cheryl tweedy this woman 0.99

00:32:33.140 who used to be in a really lame girl band girls allowed was it years ago

00:32:41.940 uh she she got or had or has got a stalker this guy this 51 year old

00:32:49.140 ex-killer it describes him as a killer i guess when he was a younger man he did a murder

00:32:54.500 served his time for that he's been stalking cheryl

00:32:59.940 like he turned up at her house four times

00:33:04.260 i didn't read all the details but i read most of the details and i don't think he did anything

00:33:08.020 much more than that although that is stalking that is still sort of terrifying she said she

00:33:11.460 was terrified and i believe her right he got sentenced to a year in jail for stalking but he's

00:33:18.180 been released after only three months that's it that's the story that's the story that's the

00:33:24.660 front page that out of everything that's happening in the world the world is on the brink of war

00:33:29.140 there's so much stuff going on all over the world of like genuine importance and seriousness but the

00:33:35.460 sun go with cheryl stalker has been released after only three months of a year-long sentence that's

00:33:41.940 that's the front page news of the sun the start is it going to be even more absurd is it going to be

00:33:50.820 even more sloppy let's have a look yes it is yes this is the story his royal skyness this is the story

00:34:01.140 okay ready for this buckle up it's it's so intense it's so serious and real and vital

00:34:07.620 where prince andrew sorry andrew mountbatten windsor has been removed from his very very big

00:34:18.420 plush royal residence and he's now being forced to live on a much smaller residence on the sandring of

00:34:23.220 a state still very very nice place to live ultimately compared to normal people um he's having sky installed sky tv

00:34:32.820 that's the story his royal skyness he's having sky oh but it's a really it's the it's the best package

00:34:42.740 it's the vip package he's getting

00:34:46.900 that's the news that's what that's what the star to be honest it's well it is quite funny it's so 0.98

00:34:54.260 stupid right it's so trivial and inconsequential that it's kind of funny is it let me know in 0.90

00:35:02.980 the comments what you think if you think that is funny or it's just annoying uh all right let's have 0.99

00:35:09.380 a look at the actual uh web sites the bbc okay they go with the they say only 21 only a mere 21 english

00:35:17.620 councils are asking for election delays not 27 either way it's pretty bad pretty bad rift at the

00:35:24.980 top of the taliban bbc reveals clash of wills behind internet shutdown in afghanistan i take it let's have

00:35:32.260 a quick look at this yeah apparently there's all sorts of some sorts of like intrigue at the top of the

00:35:37.540 taliban going on and their leader the supreme leader there hibatula askanzula hibatula askanzula

00:35:50.260 no hibatula askanzada is their leader have you ever heard of him you wouldn't have heard of him i

00:35:58.820 didn't i've never heard that name until this morning when i was reading about it even though i'm quite

00:36:04.820 interested in afghan history and what's gone on since 2021 still hadn't committed that name to memory

00:36:13.540 um yeah so there's some sort of internal internal um power struggle tensions in the taliban in

00:36:23.140 afghanistan so there you go now you know now you know trump told killing has stopped in iran after

00:36:30.020 violent protest crackdown all right concern for couple jailed in tehran as british embassy

00:36:34.740 closes well yeah you would be concerned for them wouldn't you yeah if the british embassy closes

00:36:40.100 then they've they're sort of on their own then aren't they at that point and if the raf joined

00:36:46.420 any attempt to sort of bomb the country then they become basically sort of prisoners of war in a way

00:36:52.660 don't they it's a tough spot i wouldn't like to be currently in jail in tehran as an englishman

00:37:00.100 as a british citizen that would be a sort of a worrying spot x to stop grok grok ai from undressing

00:37:07.620 images of real people after backlash yeah so this is where elon has said all right all right we'll

00:37:13.700 reprogram grok a bit so it can't do the bikini thing on real people oh all right

00:37:22.100 maybe we might not really stop someone like keir starmer and andrea jenkins from doing what they want to

00:37:26.580 do which is censor all of twitter or x i don't know why they care i was made to put in a bikini

00:37:36.900 a number of times three or four times i've seen people do it it's not it's so it's so not a problem

00:37:44.340 or an issue or anything just like it's it's a bit funny isn't it it's not a big deal one way or the other

00:37:48.820 people pretending to be really really offended people pretending to be like it's a like it matters

00:37:56.660 like it's a really big deal there's a story i saw earlier it was some woman who is sort of um

00:38:02.580 well a narcissist but the type of woman that posts i'm not sure if she's an only fans woman or not but

00:38:07.300 she's the type of woman whose social media is her dressing scantily clad taking loads of pictures of 1.00

00:38:12.260 herself in the mirror scantily clad and or in actual underwear and bikinis right and then 0.74

00:38:19.380 someone took a picture of her where she isn't wearing a bikini she is fully clothed and they 1.00

00:38:22.500 said grok make put put this woman in a bikini and grok duly did it and then she's getting all pissed 1.00

00:38:28.260 off and pretending to be offended about it and stuff it's just it's just nonsense it's faux outrage isn't

00:38:32.420 it it's it's faux outrage it's not real it's all about it's all about censorship it's not about 1.00

00:38:38.980 ii generated images of bikinis women in bikinis or anyone in a bikini it's funny it's stupid 0.99

00:38:49.060 like people say oh there's some cute little dog and they say grok put this in a bikini 0.85

00:38:54.820 all sorts of things inanimate objects i saw one i think i said the other day didn't i saw one

00:38:59.380 that was talking about an asteroid or a planet or something or a or a black hole or a star or something

00:39:05.700 or other and it was like grok put this in a bikini you know it's get real get a sense of humor really

00:39:11.620 really grow a sense of humor although as i say it's not about that is it actually all right it's

00:39:17.620 not about that let's move on denmark warns of quote fundamental disagreement quote after white

00:39:22.180 house talks on greenland yeah it probably is a fundamental disagreement yeah isn't it

00:39:26.420 that america is seems intent hell-bent one way or another on controlling greenland and denmark don't

00:39:32.740 want that to happen that's the fundamental disagreement isn't it i don't know why denmark

00:39:39.540 want it i think i've only really spoken to or conversed with people from denmark on the greenland

00:39:47.060 issue two or three times and they've all said denmark greenland is like an annoying thing to most danes

00:39:56.980 it's like uh some sort of weight around their neck it's like something that just drains what

00:40:02.900 relatively little resources denmark has got already it's like uh

00:40:09.940 i don't know why the danish government don't see that it probably is in the entire world's probably

00:40:15.780 in the entire world's interest to let the us have it one way or another i thought of analogy maybe you're

00:40:21.780 in a playground some big kid from another school comes into the playground with a baseball bat

00:40:27.700 right this is like china or russia and in that playground are a bunch of kids and they've got

00:40:34.660 one baseball bat but at the moment that baseball bat is being held by a really weedy little seven-year-old

00:40:42.100 but there's a big burly 15 year old he's like give me the bat give me the bat oh you know it's right

00:40:47.140 that i should have the bat if anyone's going to save us from that other big kid that's just come in

00:40:50.740 give it to me give it to me and the little scrawny seven-year-old's like no it's not fair it's not

00:40:54.820 right that you should have the bat give the bat ice agent shoot minneapolis man in the leg 0.79

00:41:06.260 yeah do they don't try don't get in the way of ice agents then

00:41:09.460 two palestine action hunger strikers end protest after 73 days

00:41:21.220 NASA astronauts begin bittersweet uh bittersweet medical evacuation from space station yeah that's

00:41:26.500 a story quite an interesting story i thought for me being a space nerd um that someone on on the uh

00:41:32.900 international space station is is is ill you know genuinely a bit a bit ill you can't really have that

00:41:39.300 in those enclosed spaces uh where like everyone could get ill and then if they get seriously ill

00:41:45.860 up there obviously there's no actual hospital so anything so if you're on an international space

00:41:50.740 station and you get sort of properly ill it's bad news you've probably got to come down immediately

00:41:59.540 if you're one of these people you're ready to launch you're like ready to go up on a soyuz or on an old

00:42:04.660 shuttle as it used to be or whatever the chinese are getting prepared to send you up uh they're 0.88

00:42:09.220 constantly watching you to see if you're ill and if you're even the tiniest tiniest bit ill in the

00:42:14.260 days running up to your launch they swap you out for an alternative

00:42:19.460 so it's really bad to get ill in space and so there's at least one person that is they've got to

00:42:26.020 bring back before their time so let's the zelensky declares energy emergency as biting cold persists

00:42:33.380 persists funny i thought he had i thought he was given the insane amounts of billions of pounds

00:42:41.780 dollars from all different sectors particularly europe western european nations and the u.s

00:42:49.620 haven't the u.s alone given him i can't even remember the number what is it

00:42:52.500 80 90 billion is it much much more than that and and now he's saying there's an energy emergency in

00:42:58.740 ukraine where's all that money gone where is all that money gone that's just the u.s you know the

00:43:04.820 europe has given them billions and billions and billions more where's all that money gone

00:43:11.220 hillsborough campaigners say they cannot back the proposed bill okay david hockney says don't care what

00:43:17.460 david hockney says next thing itv it makes you feel inhuman patient reveals nhs corridor care ordeal

00:43:28.900 yeah oh nhs despite how big and massive it is and how much funding is endlessly pumped pumped into it

00:43:35.940 there's just always stories about how bad the actual delivery is i mean to be fair i've had to use the

00:43:43.940 nhs a little bit here and there in my time most people have at some point one way or another something

00:43:49.300 happens and you have to go to a hospital my personal experience is it's always been pretty damn good

00:43:55.860 i mean one time i had to wait for an x-ray and i did have to sit there for sort of four hours

00:44:00.340 but other than that the small amounts of the but i've never had anything profound needed to be done on

00:44:04.500 the nhs so my experience is very limited and i definitely know people whose first-hand experience was

00:44:10.660 that they had to go to a and e and it's not like they were bleeding to death or they were going to

00:44:14.660 die in the next hour so they just had to sit in a and e for hours and hours and hours like 10 hours

00:44:19.780 whatever i definitely know people that have that's been their experience and there's always still quite

00:44:26.820 often stories about people just having to sit in you know people that are terribly ill in actual

00:44:33.780 trouble and they're just on a on a bed that's just left in a corridor and sometimes people occasionally

00:44:41.620 it's an outlier but it does happen an old person just left on a on a bed in a corridor and they die

00:44:46.900 there what a terrible thing what a terrible end see the way it seems to work to me is that some

00:44:54.180 hospitals are better than others right some hospitals are much more swamped than others and

00:44:59.060 have got much more or less funding than others so it really depends you could go to you could have

00:45:04.260 more than one hospital in your area and one of them is really good and efficient and the other one's

00:45:09.380 a nightmare that's what it seems to be like um okay anyway there you go another story about

00:45:18.100 corridor care ordeal the amount of money that's spent on the nhs it should be

00:45:24.180 an amazing service every time and it's just it's just not it's a shame okay

00:45:35.140 grok ai a block from generating images in revealing clothing x says yeah elon uncle elon said all right

00:45:43.300 all right all right just calm down calm down all right we can change a little bit of code and grok

00:45:47.540 will stop doing that then calm down pipe down layers of bodies that's a quote that there

00:45:54.020 are layers of bodies protester tells itv news of uh of a full horror of iran killings

00:46:02.500 yeah a lot of the reports at the moment are saying between 2400 and 2500 people have killed

00:46:08.340 so that upper limit yesterday of 12 000 seems to have been an exaggeration but as you know even the

00:46:14.260 regime itself was admitted to 2000 plus denmark says quote fundamental disagreement quote with us

00:46:23.860 after greenland talks okay we've done that one defense secretary rejects trump's suggestion

00:46:29.620 nato should help us take greenland don't know why the united states is nato in various ways in terms

00:46:38.580 of funding right without the us nato wouldn't be much of a thing you may well you know imagine if

00:46:46.340 donald trump did say just came out one day one morning and said right the us is unilaterally

00:46:51.780 withdrawing from nato right now not one penny more not one plane more not one bullet more

00:46:56.980 from now would nato just completely collapse and implode that day it's a serious question it might

00:47:06.340 you know the vast vast majority of all the funding and hardware for nato is is the united states so

00:47:13.860 that's all one story saying that germany was or germany and france

00:47:17.460 we're going to do a sort of a joint military exercise in inverted commas an exercise in greenland

00:47:24.420 under the under the auspices of nato in greenland

00:47:30.660 getting a bit weird getting a bit weird now

00:47:35.540 like a fight between cousins or brothers a wedding or a mad person just punching himself in the face what

00:47:41.940 isn't that what is nato what is it doing what's going on this is it's odd it's a whole weird odd

00:47:47.060 thing now all right channel four uh

00:47:55.780 channel four makes me want to puke channel four iran earth and sultani execution delayed but countless

00:48:05.300 small families grieve for the dead iran what we know and what's next iran stop the killing but

00:48:11.540 not with bombing says a british iranian author police chief apologizes for using ai as evidence

00:48:19.220 all right channel four

00:48:21.060 sky news i'm ashamed of sir keir starmer says furious rebel

00:48:27.620 mildly interesting stories here it's from a labor mp

00:48:30.580 um oh there you go a labor mp uh leading a rebellion against plans for uh for trials without

00:48:37.060 juries so it's a story about that um has said he's quote ashamed of sir keir starmer he's a former

00:48:44.260 lawyer carl turner that's carl turner mp a labor mp um he described justice secretary david lammy as lazy 0.98

00:48:52.900 that was about right stupid and lazy should we say that can we say that is that libelous 1.00

00:49:03.700 i'm going to get a defamation letter from defamation for calling lammy lazy and stupid 1.00

00:49:10.180 i think it's pretty pretty clear he's stupid 0.99

00:49:15.220 and now also being accused of being lazy yeah it's crazy isn't it they're all their plans to overhaul 1.00

00:49:20.820 uh jury trials for all but the most serious crimes because there's such a backlog so don't address

00:49:28.260 immigration don't just why there's a backlog don't address that it just completely rework the centuries

00:49:34.900 old steeped in tradition legal system the crazy sobs crazy david lammy i think history will look back

00:49:46.900 at people like david lammy being at the top of government and it will be like scarcely believable

00:49:55.940 it'll be it will seem it will seem laughable it's like you let somebody like that be the foreign secretary

00:50:03.940 or the the justice secretary deputy prime minister someone who's clearly 0.98

00:50:09.700 if not is very close to being clinically retarded so a true dumb person but truly truly not just a bit 0.99

00:50:18.500 uninformed not just a bit slow not just like you know not a great speaker but 0.99

00:50:26.500 but obviously struggles to understand most things

00:50:33.220 somebody who shouldn't really be in charge of um of a shop

00:50:42.740 shouldn't be in charge of anything really he's probably not capable of being in charge of his own

00:50:47.220 affairs uh but he's the foreign secretary or the justice secretary crazy all right the daily mail

00:50:57.780 top of the story for daily mail is it sloppy looks a bit sloppy siblings at war who cares let's see

00:51:04.340 daughter who squandered inheritance on mills at the ivy that's a very posh restaurant in london if you

00:51:10.340 if you didn't know she squandered inheritance on mills at the ivy and left her brother with virtually

00:51:15.460 nothing from mother's five million pound fortune is morally and criminally wrong says nephew how is that a

00:51:22.180 story give me a break the daily mail they put that top that's front and center that's top

00:51:29.860 that this woman squandered loads of money at the expense of her own brother

00:51:36.180 yeah yeah that's out of order yeah that's that's bad yeah sure but

00:51:41.540 who cares outside of their family outside of her brother and her nephew

00:51:46.340 that that immediate family group who cares how is that important to anything iran iran confirms

00:51:53.780 protest hero will not be executed as trump reveals tehran told him quote the killing has stopped quote

00:52:00.180 after he threatened to take military action so i wonder if that is what happened if that was really

00:52:04.020 the case trump said it doesn't really it might be true it doesn't that doesn't seem to add up to me

00:52:11.380 but it could it could be true that that trump said i'm about to bomb you but i won't if you don't

00:52:18.980 execute that one dude and iran was like done that's a deal we're all good yeah and america was like yeah

00:52:26.180 we're all good it doesn't really i don't feel like that's probably exactly an accurate view of what's

00:52:34.900 going on okay what else have we got have we got anything more interesting from the daily mail i

00:52:40.980 don't think so is this the express of the express starmer just proved his way out of his depth the

00:52:46.820 feeble pm's time is finally up flip-flopping prime minister sakir starmer is a man so clearly out of

00:52:52.740 his depth that his time is surely up yeah sounds about right i mean he'll never quit he would have to

00:52:59.940 be removed by some sort of internal labor party you know coup d'etat whatever um he'll never quit on

00:53:07.780 his own uh but yeah he's it's true to say in my opinion that he's out of his depth that he's feeble

00:53:14.980 that he's a flip-flopper um all those things yeah i think he is badly out of his depth i mean

00:53:23.140 he he sort of looks he just sort of at a glance looks i mean even just look at that image that picture

00:53:28.020 harry brick look just like like a deer in the headlights like like pretending not to be scared

00:53:35.300 that look on your face when you're like i'm not scared i'm not out of my depth sort of thing

00:53:43.220 just pretending megan markle is nervous about return to uk as problem revealed don't care about megan

00:53:49.460 megan markle don't care about megan don't ever talk to me about megan markle ever again

00:53:55.940 the press dear the press stop talking about harry and megan who cares i don't some people do actually

00:54:03.700 to be fair a lot of people do a lot of people do i just happen not to all right the sun goes with

00:54:09.220 of cheryl stalker he's been nicked again he's been he's been rearrested

00:54:14.740 cheryl cole's a bit old not that she's a bit old although she's a bit old what i meant was what i 0.67

00:54:24.020 was going to say was it's it's the story of what happens to cheryl cole and her like cheryl tweedy

00:54:31.060 sorry in her life it's a bit of an old story isn't it like 20 years ago that band when she was married

00:54:37.860 to a footballer and was like you know one of the most glamorous one of the most hottest women on in 0.99

00:54:43.940 like the the glitterati it wasn't that 20 years ago why are we still talking about cheryl tweedy

00:54:52.260 in any way it's not it's not news is it all right i've noticed we've actually got about five minutes

00:54:57.060 to go so if you have a super quick look at what's going on in america republicans block effort to

00:55:01.860 check trump's power in venezuela u.s races to sell venezuelan oil transforming ties with former foe

00:55:08.740 venezuelan immigrants urge appeals courts to restore deportation protections okay that's the new york

00:55:16.660 times the uh washington post trump says iran has stopped killings as of protesters as u.s ways military

00:55:24.820 options is agent shoots man in leg at minneapolis protest as protests flare um greenland meeting

00:55:34.180 ends with fundamental disagreement all the same stories really okay uh super quick look at the

00:55:39.700 los angeles times judge skeptical on is agents wearing masks in case that could have national

00:55:47.700 implications california obviously a very very blue state very very democrat state anti-trump

00:55:55.300 pro mass immigration of god knows who so they don't like ice agents wearing masks 1.00

00:56:03.300 because what they want to dox the individual ice agents and

00:56:09.220 federal officer shoots person in leg okay national park staff are asking about the citizenship status of

00:56:14.420 visitors

00:56:18.100 good so

00:56:18.660 what's wrong with that california surfers california surfer escapes a shark attack that shreds his

00:56:25.780 board and wetsuit uh and he drives himself to the hospital was that story all right all right well

00:56:31.780 we've only got a few minutes left so i'll quickly read uh some of the some of the super chats

00:56:36.260 okay

00:56:39.380 wasiv manka

00:56:42.900 wasiv manka says morning bow i want one of those brown mugs for thy office have a word will you

00:56:49.220 yeah they're all right they're quite good they're quite interesting they're quite good

00:56:54.020 could um

00:56:56.580 i mean you have to go to the you have to go to the lotus seaters store

00:57:00.420 go to lotus seaters.com and then there's like a merch store tab you can find them there

00:57:08.820 get yourself one do it make it happen all right uh cwye says

00:57:14.260 youth don't watch tv anymore your show brings some nostalgia and structure to my mornings

00:57:20.420 a feature of the day once lost best ellie show it's mint cheers that's lovely to hear thank you

00:57:28.100 thank you appreciate that really do you are you are what makes this happen we go between the different

00:57:34.500 cameras

00:57:37.540 no harry's not even sitting at the thing harry you're even sitting there

00:57:40.740 okay he is

00:57:45.220 all right um michael hasler dl9ux says

00:57:50.980 bow recommend reading and political philosophy known as ivan ilian

00:57:56.420 in particular in particular his book on the essence of legal consciousness perhaps you could do a book

00:58:01.460 discussion on it he's up where with he's up there with the likes of thomas carlisle okay interesting

00:58:07.860 oh have a look at that i don't know i'm not familiar with ivan ilian i must admit i'm not

00:58:13.300 familiar with that so i've read i've read a bunch of carlisle in my time so if you say he's up there

00:58:19.300 i'll at least give him a google search see what's going down on that one interesting thank you for that

00:58:23.620 20 us dollars all right um cuban 922 says as an american working overnight thanks for the show no thank you

00:58:31.380 of the glorious band the chosen few the bow shoe seriously thank you for joining us

00:58:39.780 it wouldn't be it really wouldn't be anything otherwise um thomas glindauer

00:58:45.380 says uh watching danes mobilize their military in preparation for a us invasion is hilarious 0.75

00:58:52.500 it's like watching my toddler build a pillow fort and hiding it when i tell her it's bedtime

00:58:58.260 um yeah compared to the us military that the danish military is not uh i mean trump made a joke

00:59:06.500 he said he said something like i'm paraphrasing but he said something like watch out the danes are

00:59:10.980 going to send two more dog sleds to defend greenland it's so dismissive and obviously a joke but it's

00:59:18.980 not much beyond like if america decide they want to use false to just take greenland which i wouldn't

00:59:26.740 get behind instantly but if they did do that it's no it would be no contest whatsoever it would be

00:59:33.220 completed in a few hours it's just it's just not any sort of contest i mean obviously so

00:59:43.700 uh tezvan y8y just gives a donation doesn't say anything but thank you um

00:59:52.100 p jackson 6688 says just ordered uh four islander i guess number four or four islanders for friends

01:00:00.340 and family oh yeah i just ordered four islanders for friends and family brilliant great cool yeah

01:00:06.100 just a quick super quick chill while in the magazine it's a lot of seats magazine it's brilliant it's

01:00:11.220 properly glossy and uh professional properly properly so and there's and there's great articles in there

01:00:17.620 from very very intelligent important important people i mean there's an uh an interview there from

01:00:23.700 of rupert low mp rocket man 5252 says loving the show bow thank you thank you very much all right

01:00:35.540 that takes us to the top of our it has just struck a 9am greenwich mean time on thursday the 15th of

01:00:42.260 january in the year of elder 2026 um do try and make the best of the day carpe diem seize the day do

01:00:48.580 try make a count if you can you've only got this day once in history all right so until tomorrow take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 15, 2026

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