The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 16th June 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning.

00:00:02.680 You alright?

00:00:06.980 I hope you are. Sincerely hope you are.

00:00:09.900 You bright-eyed and bushy-tailed, rocking around for the day ahead.

00:00:13.440 Come on, wakey-wakey. Eggs and bakey. The day's half over. Let's go.

00:00:16.740 Wake up, sleepyhead. It is now eight minutes...

00:00:19.120 Oh, sorry, not eight minutes. I've done that before, haven't I?

00:00:21.160 Zero minutes past eight. It is just gone.

00:00:23.100 8am, British summertime, on Tuesday, the 16th of June,

00:00:26.120 in the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:00:28.280 You guys know who you are.

00:00:30.000 the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters the very best people on

00:00:34.060 earth basically turning up to watch the bow show live getting involved in the chat doing the poll

00:00:41.120 perhaps consider sending in a super chat or a rumble round as always i'm joined by my producer

00:00:46.060 little harry how are you this morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good the disembodied voice

00:00:50.760 of the all-powerful editor there producer rather okay should we just get straight into it what's

00:00:55.960 all the faffing about for why are we fannying about stop that just let's go

00:00:58.760 let's get into it what's that cabal of evil fleet street editors banging on about this morning what

00:01:03.800 have we got here okay social media firms hit back okay social media firms hit back

00:01:10.080 and arson attack on starma linked to russia

00:01:13.760 so we finally got uh some results to that arson attack those those ukrainian lads okay

00:01:24.620 Okay, and social media firms hit back

00:01:28.740 Shall we just get straight into it, The Guardian

00:01:30.360 Oh, straight off the bat with The Guardian

00:01:31.480 It's a bit early for that, isn't it?

00:01:37.620 Ew, ew

00:01:38.580 Grace, Grace

00:01:40.680 The Guardian

00:01:41.640 Smells like a wet dog 1.00

00:01:46.500 The Guardian smells like a dirty hippie, doesn't it? 0.99

00:01:50.880 Okay, social media firms hit back at PM as PM vows to ban under 16. 0.95

00:01:57.640 Interesting though, this morning a lot of the news coming out

00:01:59.960 and Starmer made a speech yesterday, little address.

00:02:03.620 Plans to be introduced next year.

00:02:05.980 He probably won't be Prime Minister next year.

00:02:08.300 Probably won't be Prime Minister in like two months time.

00:02:13.180 Weather King Andy Bumham, the first of his name, King of the North

00:02:16.020 and his eyeliner are going to do anything about it when he's in power.

00:02:19.080 We shall see.

00:02:21.440 yeah a lot of the social media firms say uh if you ban sort of um meta or if you ban facebook

00:02:28.960 and x and tick tock assuming the kids don't just get around it easily literally one click

00:02:36.400 into some other proxy or mirror site and they can see anyway

00:02:39.760 then it'll force them onto even worse sites even less regulated worse sites

00:02:46.720 Okay

00:02:50.500 Tiny bit of football

00:02:51.720 I'll keep it to a complete minimum

00:02:52.740 Spain drew 0-0 with Cape Verde

00:02:55.280 As a turn up for the books

00:02:56.640 Spain are the bookies favourites

00:02:58.500 weren't they going into this

00:02:59.440 Spain were the favourites

00:03:00.840 France was second favourite

00:03:01.580 England were third favourites

00:03:03.220 So Spain 1.00

00:03:04.500 Supposed to be 0.96

00:03:05.500 Well are

00:03:06.040 One of the best teams in the world

00:03:08.360 Arguably the best

00:03:09.260 International team in the world

00:03:10.340 They couldn't score a goal

00:03:12.380 Against Cape Verde

00:03:13.460 Cape Verde's tiny, tiny little island

00:03:18.020 Tiny population

00:03:18.820 Terrible football team

00:03:20.680 Well, not terrible, obviously

00:03:21.640 They managed to keep a clean sheet against Spain

00:03:23.960 Alright, there you go

00:03:24.800 That's a turn up for the books

00:03:25.940 Straight will open

00:03:27.900 Now Iran deal 0.93

00:03:28.920 All signed

00:03:29.520 Trump

00:03:29.880 Trump is supposed to have said

00:03:31.080 That the Iranians have actually already signed that deal

00:03:33.940 It's not really a deal, is it?

00:03:35.280 It's just that memorandum of understanding

00:03:37.380 Giving themselves 60 more days

00:03:39.380 To make an actual deal

00:03:40.480 Trump says it's already signed

00:03:42.200 we're over at the g7 at the moment isn't it the g7 is going on all right let's talk about this

00:03:47.880 russia link as too guilty of starma arson attack should talk all about it finally we've got some

00:03:53.680 details there were three lads that were on trial for this at the old bailey one of them was acquitted

00:03:59.140 didn't do anything wrong and the other two were found guilty of arson basically arson

00:04:04.840 so the question is what was going on what really was it all about well

00:04:09.940 Where to begin

00:04:13.500 In the trial itself

00:04:16.120 They were found guilty

00:04:19.180 But the trial didn't really go

00:04:20.620 It seems from reporting

00:04:21.900 That I've been reading this morning

00:04:23.100 Last night and this morning

00:04:24.060 The trial itself didn't go into a great deal of detail

00:04:27.700 Which is weird and suspicious in and of itself

00:04:29.880 About exactly what

00:04:31.740 Who was behind it

00:04:35.280 It went into their motivations

00:04:36.600 Apparently the motivations was money

00:04:38.940 They were being paid by someone

00:04:41.220 They didn't know Keir Starmer

00:04:42.180 They've never met Keir Starmer

00:04:43.340 They were just told to go and do this

00:04:47.800 They didn't even know that what they were burning

00:04:49.680 Used to belong to the Prime Minister

00:04:51.760 They had a handler 0.96

00:04:53.400 A Russian handler 0.98

00:04:54.520 They didn't even know what they were doing 0.84

00:04:56.920 They were just told do this

00:04:57.900 And you'll get some money

00:04:59.120 That's the story

00:05:01.940 And then the trial didn't go into

00:05:03.340 Really who the handler was

00:05:06.000 In any real detail

00:05:07.340 But the papers, the media

00:05:10.900 Sort of have done some digging

00:05:13.080 Now

00:05:14.360 And so we'll talk about that

00:05:15.880 We'll talk all about that

00:05:16.620 Because that's the juicy bit isn't it

00:05:17.880 That's the interesting bit

00:05:18.760 That's the actual crux of the matter isn't it

00:05:20.680 Okay so we'll talk all about that

00:05:22.400 We've got a long BBC article

00:05:24.540 In fact let's just go straight to it now

00:05:25.700 Let's just do it top of the show

00:05:27.600 Let's talk all about it now

00:05:28.460 There's a BBC article here

00:05:29.680 I think I'll read all of it

00:05:31.760 It's quite long as well

00:05:33.580 But I'll spend 5-10 minutes reading it

00:05:35.320 You know

00:05:36.420 Breakfast with Bo

00:05:38.360 Reading the news

00:05:39.240 So you don't have to

00:05:40.280 Should I start saying that?

00:05:43.800 Should I make that

00:05:44.360 One of my things I say

00:05:45.300 Nearly every day

00:05:46.020 Reading the news

00:05:48.140 So you don't have to

00:05:48.820 Now

00:05:50.700 Just before I go into it then

00:05:51.900 Start reading

00:05:52.440 Tell you all about it

00:05:53.380 Obviously

00:05:54.920 I mean it goes without saying really

00:05:56.120 Take it all with a pinch of salt

00:05:58.060 Right

00:05:59.420 Because

00:06:00.260 I mean do you believe

00:06:01.760 The BBC

00:06:02.240 And other legacy

00:06:03.200 Corporate mainstream media

00:06:04.100 Outlets

00:06:04.760 Do you believe them?

00:06:06.420 Hasn't the BBC always been

00:06:09.100 Always

00:06:09.780 A mouthpiece for the establishment

00:06:13.560 Hasn't it always been

00:06:14.560 Sort of the front facing media organ

00:06:16.820 Of the British intelligence services

00:06:18.700 Yeah it has

00:06:21.180 So

00:06:23.860 What I'm about to tell you and read

00:06:26.520 Take with a pinch of salt

00:06:27.340 You know the people that wrote this

00:06:28.820 Daniel DeSimone

00:06:31.040 Tom Beale

00:06:31.960 And Oleg Malchevska

00:06:34.920 Have they just been told

00:06:38.640 What their narrative

00:06:42.120 What their angle should be

00:06:43.060 What to peddle

00:06:43.760 Because a lot of it

00:06:45.380 Though there is some detail

00:06:46.400 And some sort of seemingly facts

00:06:48.600 There's also a lot of insinuation

00:06:51.640 And a lot of sort of

00:06:53.680 What's the word

00:06:55.420 Sort of guilt by association type stuff

00:06:58.300 In the article as well

00:06:59.260 And right at the very very end

00:07:01.300 Right at the very very end

00:07:03.100 It says

00:07:03.440 Oh and the police say they don't know anything about

00:07:05.500 Everything we've just told you about

00:07:07.020 In fact let me just quickly read this

00:07:09.780 Oh it goes into hope not hate

00:07:10.940 Tommy Robinson gets name dropped

00:07:12.880 Tommy's involved

00:07:14.080 Of course he's not really

00:07:14.820 But they make it so that he is

00:07:16.560 Ben Wallace

00:07:19.880 At the very end it says

00:07:21.920 Commander Helen Flanagan

00:07:23.660 A policewoman

00:07:24.500 Head of the counter-terrorism policing in London

00:07:28.340 Said the aim of the attack

00:07:30.500 Was clearly to intimidate and create fear

00:07:32.460 For the Prime Minister

00:07:33.280 And to attack the UK

00:07:35.260 But she said police have not been able to prove

00:07:37.960 The identity of EL

00:07:39.440 Oh, all this story revolves around the handler, right? 0.52

00:07:42.860 Who was telling these young Ukrainian lads to do this?

00:07:45.420 Their handler, EL 0.99

00:07:46.400 A mysterious EL

00:07:48.280 Spy games, espionage

00:07:51.480 Not really

00:07:52.780 Okay, EL is at the heart of this

00:07:55.040 Whoever that is

00:07:55.820 They tell you they think

00:07:57.880 They think they know who it is 0.99

00:07:59.860 Some 23 year old Russian

00:08:02.120 son of a diplomat called Yevgeny something or other. We'll get into it. But the police say

00:08:07.580 they've not been able to prove the identity of E.L. Like this whole article I'm about to read

00:08:11.820 is going on and on about who this E.L. here is and what his connections are. The police go,

00:08:16.480 we don't know that. We don't think that. We're not sure about that anyway.

00:08:20.780 We're unable to prove the identity of E.L. or who he was working for and that we've got no

00:08:27.500 evidence to suggest that this was a state-backed threat that's the police so the bbc spend ages

00:08:35.100 talking about how it is a state-backed threat russian state-backed threat but then right at

00:08:39.180 the end they go oh and by the way the police say there's no evidence of it

00:08:44.220 but it might be i mean that's another thing right where i have thrown shade at zelensky and ukraine

00:08:51.340 many many many times i've been accused sometimes of like being pro-russian and i'm not i've said

00:08:58.940 many many times as well i'm not pro-russian right i'm not pro either of them not interested in that

00:09:04.860 conflict it's got nothing to do with us as far as i'm concerned right so let's just make it clear

00:09:10.940 i've mentioned before remember sasha litvinenko i've said that two or three times on camera

00:09:15.420 The murder of Sasha Litvinenko

00:09:17.900 It was a crazy thing

00:09:19.900 To poison him with polonium in a London hotel

00:09:22.800 In tea 0.59

00:09:23.800 Crazy thing

00:09:25.580 The Novichok poisonings

00:09:27.580 Crazy 0.94

00:09:28.980 The Russians are a strategic enemy on some level 1.00

00:09:34.240 Of course they are 1.00

00:09:35.260 I think I said

00:09:36.980 Was it even yesterday or at the end of last week

00:09:38.860 I just explicitly look into the camera and say 0.99

00:09:40.760 Yeah, I think Putin is a gangster and a murderer 0.99

00:09:43.140 Yeah 0.99

00:09:44.260 Right, just because I throw shade at Ukraine doesn't mean I'm pro-Russian

00:09:48.440 Alright, anyway, let's say that

00:09:50.380 Let's just say that

00:09:52.160 The number of journalists and political enemies of Putin in Russia over the years

00:09:57.380 That have just disappeared

00:09:59.240 Or just turned up murdered

00:10:02.280 Like if you're a journalist in Russia

00:10:04.760 And you throw enough shade at Putin

00:10:07.460 You disappear

00:10:09.700 okay okay should we talk about it then you talk about the details of the case what came out in

00:10:18.760 the case and then what the bbc has to say about it not just the bbc as well all the legacy

00:10:23.700 mainstream media are going with this angle all of them the bbc is a good bellwether of what the

00:10:30.100 legacy corporate mainstream media thing can say aren't they all right let's read it then

00:10:36.360 Even after he set fire to Sir Keir Starmer's house, Roman Lavrinovich, convicted on Monday

00:10:53.500 of conspiring to commit arson, seemed to know as much about the Prime Minister as a bullet

00:10:57.680 knows about its target, i.e. nothing.

00:10:59.580 his anonymous handler known by the initials el gave a clue in a message an el the mysterious

00:11:10.440 russian handler is supposed to have said look you attacked the home of a very high-ranking

00:11:15.340 person in britain i'll send you money you need to leave the city it was too late this is the

00:11:21.560 bbc's editorial continuing it was too late labrinovich was arrested within hours the 22

00:11:27.280 year old ukrainian builder had been weaponized to target the uk's head of government but by whom

00:11:32.720 donna carrie needs to write a novel about this

00:11:38.320 spy games

00:11:42.460 very lame really compared to actual cold war stuff okay but by who our investigation has found the

00:11:53.840 arson attack which is one part of an extensive campaign of sabotage uh uh provocation and liars

00:12:01.520 leading all the way to the russian state the handler el who directed labrinovich uh offered

00:12:07.300 russian citizenship in return for other attacks for other attacks and glorified uh president

00:12:13.140 vladimir putin messages the bbc has uncovered show um one thing to say is that ukraine particularly

00:12:21.340 this labronovich who seems to be the the main one of the two that got convicted seems to have been

00:12:27.420 a ukrainian but um you know like a a russian ukrainian if you know i mean there's there's

00:12:33.480 ukrainians that are pro-ukrainian and speak ukrainian or whatever and then there's ones in

00:12:38.960 the donbass region that are russian speaking consider themselves more russian than much more

00:12:44.300 russian than ukrainian right that kind of that's part of what all the war in the donbass is about

00:12:49.360 isn't it that it seems that this labrinovich is one of those like his russian was much much better

00:12:53.760 than his ukrainian apparently seems to if if you believe this prepared to act on behalf of the

00:13:01.120 russian state if you believe this so all right take that into account he's ukrainian but not

00:13:06.640 like a pro zelensky pro kiev ukrainian all right okay we have identified evidence we the bbc have

00:13:15.520 have identified evidence suggesting that E.L. is a young Russian diplomat

00:13:19.080 schooled in information warfare by spies and propagandists

00:13:21.900 who is close to the highest levels of power in Moscow.

00:13:26.760 His name is Yevgeny Lychukin.

00:13:32.700 Lychukin.

00:13:34.740 Yevgeny Lychukin.

00:13:36.680 He is 23 and the son of a senior official.

00:13:39.520 Russian operatives ran their sabotage and provocation campaign remotely

00:13:43.840 through social media and the messaging app telegram we found creating fake online far 0.67

00:13:48.680 right and muslim groups this is this is interesting again if true uh that they made fake far right

00:13:57.560 and pro-muslim groups obviously different ends of the spectrum right the idea is to so just so

00:14:04.200 Division and Discord in Britain

00:14:07.100 I'm going to stop saying every two seconds

00:14:14.420 If you believe it

00:14:15.840 But just bear in mind

00:14:16.780 Just bear in mind

00:14:20.040 I'm going to stop saying it

00:14:20.840 Because I might say it a couple more times

00:14:22.520 Because otherwise it would be every two seconds

00:14:24.820 If you believe that

00:14:25.860 Okay 1.00

00:14:26.820 They created fake on-right, far-right and Muslim groups 0.98

00:14:31.260 Which were used to organise acts of vandalism 0.63

00:14:33.460 In the UK and stir up division of fear 0.91

00:14:35.120 Accounts based in Russia posted lies

00:14:37.300 About the motive for the arson attack

00:14:38.900 Targeting Starmer

00:14:40.200 Which were spread by figures such as

00:14:42.280 Far-right anti-Muslim activist Tommy Robinson

00:14:44.940 Tommy Robinson had an opinion

00:14:48.780 And a take

00:14:49.440 Said so on social media

00:14:51.380 Now he's part of the story

00:14:53.560 Smear that in

00:14:54.500 They're obsessed with Tommy aren't they

00:15:00.060 The legacy couple of mainstream media

00:15:01.640 They're obsessed with him

00:15:02.560 He's their boogeyman

00:15:03.380 isn't he Tommy Robinson of all people okay the Russian embassy said we reject any attempt to

00:15:12.240 associate Russia or its foreign ministry with unlawful activities one way or another they

00:15:17.080 would say that they wouldn't they if it's true or not they would deny it obviously uh it said

00:15:23.200 that Russia poses no threat to the United Kingdom or its people and harbors no aggressive intentions

00:15:27.900 towards britain well putin has made belligerent comments towards us in recent times hasn't he

00:15:34.540 like kushin did not respond to our questions this 23 year old son of a diplomat who's supposed to be

00:15:39.580 the spy master handler moscow center but hours after contacting him a propaganda channel

00:15:47.580 we had challenged him on disappeared work for the glory of the nation ukrainian national

00:15:53.740 uh labronovich and ukrainian-born romanian national stanislav karpiuk no idea how to

00:16:01.020 pronounce that properly karpiuk karpiuk 27 um have now been convicted at the old bailey of conspiring

00:16:07.820 to target property and a car connected to the uk prime minister a third man petro pocky knock

00:16:14.860 35 was found not guilty of conspiracy to commit arson the first fire last year occurred when a

00:16:20.860 a Toyota previously owned by the Prime Minister was set ablaze in North London there were two

00:16:24.940 more arson attacks one at the entrance of flats where Sir Keir Starmer used to live and another

00:16:28.780 at the entrance of his house which had been rented to his sister-in-law after his move to number 10

00:16:33.120 but the trial of the three men was strange mainly because the true author of the drama was never

00:16:40.140 revealed EL the case focused strictly on financial motive the identity connections and motives of

00:16:46.700 The anonymous handler who offered Labrinovich money for the attacks

00:16:50.660 Were deliberately avoided

00:16:53.020 That's the BBC saying that

00:16:54.620 Apparently the barristers, all the lawyers

00:16:57.660 Deliberately avoided that

00:17:00.060 Maybe there's a reason, I don't know, I'm not a barrister, right?

00:17:06.220 I've got an undergrad in ancient history

00:17:07.900 And a post-grad in policy and government

00:17:09.980 I'm not a lawyer

00:17:12.240 Maybe there's good reasons, or legit reasons

00:17:14.580 Why that, you know, this isn't the point of the trial

00:17:16.540 i don't know you would have hoped you would have liked that would be nice if they had though

00:17:19.740 wouldn't it maybe if the police can get enough evidence on him he'll have a trial of his own

00:17:27.820 who knows probably not i would have thought it'd be spirited away back to

00:17:32.300 russia or something in fact he's already in russia right he's in russia so

00:17:38.540 we asked interpol to hand him over

00:17:40.300 we'll go and grab him maduro style okay in court the handler was referred to as el money

00:17:51.080 no money no problems for el uh which is how he was saved in labrinovich's phone but on the

00:17:58.740 telegram messaging app he simply used the initials el this app was where el recruited labrinovich

00:18:04.120 finding him in a group for ukrainians in london seeking work from that innocuous initial connection

00:18:09.960 and Labrinovich was tasked with actions of escalating criminality

00:18:12.840 from plastering posters to graffiti to arson.

00:18:15.880 Labrinovich now knew he was doing wrong,

00:18:18.600 but carried on anyway, hoping to earn a payday.

00:18:20.780 In court, there were only a limited number of messages from EL,

00:18:23.080 all of them sent to Labrinovich and Karpiyuk,

00:18:28.440 which showed him writing in formal Russian

00:18:30.800 and far less proficient Ukrainian. 1.00

00:18:33.680 See, that's why I say I imagine these two guys 0.96

00:18:36.900 that got found guilty of arson are sort of pro-russian ukrainians

00:18:40.500 okay uh but we were able to uncover el's wider activities using open source tools

00:18:49.960 classic uh open source tools sure that's all this don't worry about what that really means

00:19:00.920 open source tools

00:19:06.900 fun and games fun and games

00:19:11.620 the bbc got connections to our intelligence services

00:19:15.380 mi6 gchq etc are they basically the the front for them

00:19:24.180 el's ideology and goals were plain according to the bbc again again like this all could be

00:19:30.420 misdirection couldn't it bear that in mind this could all be misdirection all of this

00:19:36.020 that's what intelligence services do it's one of their most powerful tools is to just muddy the

00:19:41.460 waters just misdirection okay but let's carry on messages from the el account in various telegram

00:19:51.300 channels show him glorifying russia uh putin and russia attacking the ukrainian people and

00:19:56.260 promoting russian narratives it is obvious that putin is the leader of the white race

00:20:00.580 he posted in one chat el posted in job groups for ukrainians asking for painters to do graffiti

00:20:08.420 in london but in other chat groups he used deeply offensive russian terms for ukrainian people

00:20:13.220 el incited attacks on conscription centers in ukraine which has been at war since russia's

00:20:20.820 full-scale invasion in 2022 he said that people there who are in favor of the white slavic race

00:20:27.700 should join the real third rome a reference to the belief that russia is the successor to the

00:20:32.100 roman empire that's a very old idea by the way talked about it i think with apostolic majesty

00:20:37.060 before at least in passing um work for the glory of the nation despite our enemies el added before

00:20:45.620 offering one thousand dollars which is 749 pound and russian citizenship as a reward for arson

00:20:51.380 attacks so that's really the key of this trial just to go back to the trial the facts of the

00:20:55.540 the trial that was sort of what seems to have been shown in open court that these two dudes

00:21:03.300 sort of pro-russian ukrainian types

00:21:08.180 were being offered russian citizenship and a grand to just go and do something like

00:21:14.420 set fire to something they don't know that that was kistama's old car or old flat

00:21:20.180 it's basically that okay uh el also gave hints about his identity offering russians in other

00:21:32.180 telegram telegram group groups access to documents from nato and the cia and he's supposed to say

00:21:37.580 my father links part of it to me it was not for nothing that he went to europe end quote

00:21:43.640 This war

00:21:47.320 There was no mention in the trial

00:21:49.360 Of what the posters put up by Labrinovich

00:21:51.480 On EL's orders

00:21:53.120 Actually advertised

00:21:54.160 A purported far right group

00:21:55.720 Called Direct Action UK

00:21:56.960 Now they get into

00:21:58.060 Now the BBC here

00:21:59.000 And all of the corporate mainstream media

00:22:00.740 Now they get into

00:22:02.100 Stuff that wasn't like in court

00:22:05.120 I don't believe

00:22:05.680 It's all their own investigations

00:22:07.660 So you know

00:22:09.940 Again, take it with a pinch of salt

00:22:13.960 They go on and on about this direct action UK

00:22:16.200 And Tommy Robinson a bit and stuff

00:22:20.200 Let's read it

00:22:21.060 The group sought to appear as an organic British creation

00:22:24.420 I mean, this is classic

00:22:25.300 This is classic Cold War stuff

00:22:27.120 It's believable

00:22:29.160 I'm not sure if I believe it all

00:22:30.240 But it's believable

00:22:31.240 Alright, let's read it

00:22:35.280 Direct action

00:22:36.220 The group sought to appear as an organic British creation

00:22:38.640 But we found that direct action was created online by Russian operatives to cause division among ordinary people in the UK.

00:22:45.860 Messages sent in the group bought a Moscow timestamp, used Cyrillic letters and placed pound signs at the end of numbers rather than at the start, as in Russian.

00:22:54.300 The accounts that were principally involved in running direct action, particularly ELs, were using other channels to promote Russian political goals and using Russian to communicate.

00:23:03.480 Direct Action first appeared online in autumn 2024 after the riots that followed the Southport murders and its propaganda exploited images from the disorder.

00:23:13.480 Its social media channels, which the posters were advertising, featured videos branding Sir Keir a traitor, promoting hatred of Muslims and offering money for violence and arson, including attacks on mosques and police.

00:23:25.640 Direct Action also lionised Tommy Robinson.

00:23:28.520 I'll throw a little bit of shade at Tommy from time to time

00:23:34.440 He's not the enemy

00:23:35.180 Tommy's not really got anything to do with this

00:23:38.780 He's really not got anything to do

00:23:41.800 Other than having a take, having an opinion

00:23:43.360 Like everyone has

00:23:44.780 They'll throw Tommy in there

00:23:47.380 This is war, the group declared

00:23:49.420 But although direct action was fake

00:23:51.300 You see the BBC has just established it's fake

00:23:53.920 It generated real life attacks

00:23:58.500 In London, six mosques and an Islamic school were vandalised last year after the group offered payment for Islamophobic graffiti.

00:24:05.500 Slogans such as Remigration and Stop Islam were spray-painted on mosques from Croydon in the south of the capital to Leighton in the east.

00:24:13.200 Direct action turned video clips of the vandalism into brash social media videos to amplify hatred and create fear.

00:24:21.220 The morning after a mosque and primary school had been vandalised by a direct action attack in Leighton,

00:24:25.120 el posted an innocent sounding ad in a chat group for ukrainian people seeking work in london which

00:24:29.940 said part-time job today late in district you need to take pictures of two buildings

00:24:34.640 end quote the bbc continues he wanted images of the aftermath so the vandalism could be publicized

00:24:40.740 online even direct actions apparent support on the ground was fake and only existed because

00:24:45.520 it paid people to act when labronovich himself carried out actions for el he did so for financial

00:24:51.440 reasons the court heard not because he shared direct actions ideology

00:24:58.720 there you go there's a picture of it so they're telling us now

00:25:02.320 this was some sort of 3d 4d chess russian spy games 0.54

00:25:14.320 some hapless know nothing pro-russian ukrainians were duped into spraying stop islam on the

00:25:21.280 the side of a mosque or something if you believe that anti-racist organization hope not hate oh

00:25:31.300 oh hope not hate they're on the case don't worry hope not hate are on the case

00:25:37.840 they're completely trustworthy in everything they do

00:25:43.080 hope not hate investigated direct action and reported its concerns to counter terror police

00:25:50.900 In February last year, months before the arson attacks relating to the Prime Minister

00:25:54.280 Hope Not Hate concluded that Russians were behind the group

00:25:56.980 The anti-racist organisation, Hope Not Hate

00:25:59.140 Told the authorities people behind the group may be grooming UK residents to launch

00:26:03.940 A terror attack against a mosque or identifiably Muslim target in the UK

00:26:08.220 But no one replied, says Nick Lowell's CEO of Hope Not Hate

00:26:12.880 Which has since worked with the BBC to investigate direct action and the people behind it

00:26:16.700 Give you a measure of the BBC, doesn't it?

00:26:18.620 I work hand-in-hand with Nick Lowell's and Hope Not Hate.

00:26:23.240 Tell Mama, a group which monitors anti-Muslim hate,

00:26:26.920 also passed evidence to counter-terror police

00:26:28.880 and concluded that direct action appeared to be a Russian operation.

00:26:32.180 It received an acknowledgement, but nothing more from police.

00:26:36.780 Imam Atta, Tell Mama's CEO, told us she believed

00:26:40.300 such actions are not taken seriously by police

00:26:42.600 and it was worrying for Muslim communities

00:26:44.440 to see a group offering cryptocurrency

00:26:46.040 to vandalise mosques and create division.

00:26:48.620 She said, it's something that is happening online, but it is actually moving directly into criminal damage and criminal acts of violence and terrorism on our streets.

00:26:57.240 The Met told the police, sorry, the Met told the BBC, it is investigating seven instances of criminal damage as anti-Muslim hate crimes.

00:27:06.060 No arrests have been made and it is, quote, keeping an open mind, quote, whether offences are linked.

00:27:12.940 Okay, got it so far.

00:27:16.940 A bit straightforward so far.

00:27:18.620 It does get a little bit more murky

00:27:21.160 Before EL began running fake far right groups 0.90

00:27:25.300 He helped to create bogus Islamic organisation

00:27:28.840 Called the Takbir Foundation

00:27:32.160 So according to the BBC

00:27:34.720 This 23 year old, Evgeny

00:27:38.040 He's creating far right groups like this

00:27:41.260 Direct action 0.85

00:27:42.620 But also pro-Islamic ones

00:27:45.220 The Takbir Foundation

00:27:47.700 We discovered this because the usernames for EO's Telegram account

00:27:51.420 Previously bore the name of the fake foundation 0.94

00:27:54.100 The foundation sought to recruit Muslims to spray paint sacred graffiti in the UK 0.79

00:27:59.000 But its real goal was obvious 0.84

00:28:00.780 To inflame the far right with its vandalism

00:28:03.360 A bit contrived, a bit convoluted isn't it?

00:28:09.580 I mean possible

00:28:10.300 Possible

00:28:12.220 Telegram accounts that pretended to be those of devout Muslims

00:28:18.180 Later switched seamlessly to an aggressive anti-Muslim agenda

00:28:21.320 With direct action 0.78

00:28:22.260 In a telegram group for Muslims

00:28:24.020 Another account called EL posted that

00:28:26.760 The Takbir Foundation is dedicated to financially supporting jihad throughout England

00:28:31.660 Oh Mujahideen, be courageous and extend your hand towards the coming Caliphate 0.91

00:28:36.240 Is that coming directly from Moscow Centre? 0.78

00:28:42.220 Is it? I don't know. I mean, let's be clear at this point. Give a little bit of my take.

00:28:47.040 I don't know. I don't know. I'm not going to say. I can't say if I'm being honest. I'm being

00:28:54.140 perfectly honest. It's all so murky that who knows? Who knows? Okay. The foundation offered

00:29:03.340 up to £150 for graffiti in one location and said, this is halal money to promote the word of Allah.

00:29:12.220 But just as direct action would later pay people who were not really on the far right

00:29:17.220 Takbir Foundation offered money to non-Muslims to spray Islamic graffiti

00:29:21.120 It goes on here, I won't bother with some of the details

00:29:24.580 Some Bristol graffiti artists were approached to do this and they declined

00:29:30.640 They were asked to spray paint the Declaration of Faith

00:29:35.440 The Islamic Shahada on a Debenhams 1.00

00:29:39.980 Look like that, see the pictures

00:29:41.960 Is this 4D chess out of Moscow's centre?

00:29:49.200 Is it? 1.00

00:29:55.080 Is this poor, hapless Ukrainians, Russian, pro-Russian Ukrainian people 0.90

00:30:01.260 being duped into doing this by some 23-year-old handler in Moscow,

00:30:07.540 the son of a diplomat?

00:30:11.960 I don't know.

00:30:18.280 Okay, the article goes on.

00:30:19.560 Another link between EL and the Takbir Foundation

00:30:23.000 underlines how the handler and his fake groups

00:30:25.000 sought to provoke and divide ordinary people.

00:30:27.320 EL had provided Roman Labrinovich with an anti-Muslim poster.

00:30:31.900 Okay, okay, there's more of this.

00:30:34.020 I want to get into...

00:30:35.120 Look, there's a picture of Nick Lowell's.

00:30:37.940 There you go.

00:30:38.620 Very, very serious man, isn't he?

00:30:40.060 doesn't look anything like penfold doesn't look like penfolds had too many pies okay let's get

00:30:46.900 into a bit of where it starts look steven yacksy lennon it talks about it talks about tommy um

00:30:53.660 it says the suspects did not know the prime minister personally and they were not sex workers

00:30:59.560 but the lie was taken up by tommy robinson and loads of other people the very person who had

00:31:05.540 been promoted by direct action EL's fake far-right group. Robinson, whose real name

00:31:10.980 is Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, they did it, they did the meme. They couldn't help themselves,

00:31:15.940 could they? Robinson, real name Stephen Yaxley-Lennon, claimed on X that Sir Keir Starmer had been

00:31:24.140 quote, banging Ukrainian male sex workers and posted a fake image of the Prime Minister

00:31:31.500 with the suspects. Putin's special presidential envoy, Kirill Dmitriev, reposted one of these

00:31:38.120 messages about the case. Okay. Now, some more of the stuff I wanted to, because it's quite a long

00:31:43.960 article, this. If they start talking about now, okay, they've established for you that this whole

00:31:51.080 thing is Russia, and the handler was this EL, right? Now they want to tell you all about who's 0.50

00:31:59.440 behind el because obviously he's not the top of the chain is he a 23 year old someone son of a

00:32:03.960 diplomat so now they just go on to do even more sort of guilt by association or um sort of from

00:32:12.400 my mind to my money fairly tenuous or tenuous links these people are linked to him it seems but

00:32:18.240 whether they're really behind it okay they just start talking about um various other sort of more

00:32:26.020 senior spies people that are in the russian government that are sort of above el um let's

00:32:34.120 pick up the story here more often however it is age rather than nationality that attracts

00:32:38.480 sabotage recruiters approached on social media young people are offered easy money for a low

00:32:43.220 level crime often masked as innocent tasks then blackmailed if they try to refuse further actions

00:32:48.640 again that is classic that is classic sort of spy games very often people that do this sort of stuff

00:32:55.280 They're not necessarily a full-blown member of the intelligence services

00:32:58.760 They're just sort of forced or coerced or duped or blackmailed into it

00:33:02.660 That is true, that is classic

00:33:04.220 Okay, the US has long been a target

00:33:10.340 Okay, it goes on to talk a fair bit here about something called Texas versus USA

00:33:15.160 Which they say that someone above EL was involved in, someone called Rybar

00:33:24.880 let's try to sow discord and promote social division in the united states

00:33:31.040 okay i hope not hate had identified texas versus usa as sort of a russian oh and radio southport

00:33:40.300 another one of these according to them sort of completely fake russian uh russian things

00:33:47.360 radio southport they all promoted a relentlessly bleak view of the uk and spread racist

00:33:54.740 racist abuse about migrants and muslims the same blueprint as direct action okay let's get into

00:34:01.080 the details of some other names that they start throwing out here in the direct action telegram

00:34:05.300 group we identified a member of the russian elite associated with the ministry of foreign affairs

00:34:10.400 evgeny lashukin whose initials el match those of the handler who directed the attack on the

00:34:17.400 uk prime minister we found lashukin again in a private chat for radio southpaw the channel

00:34:21.940 created by rybar he was also in another chat that glorified the wagner group the russian

00:34:27.980 controlled military organization whose late founder evgeny prigosh prigoshkin previously

00:34:34.360 funded rybar a picture posted by the ministry of foreign affairs shows him standing behind

00:34:39.520 deputy foreign minister alexander grushko at a diplomat's day event in moscow in february

00:34:44.780 where foreign minister sergey lavrov gave a speech there you go see how they did this guy

00:34:50.020 knew this guy who this guy who's in a picture with this guy and uh it's sergey labrov if you

00:34:55.240 don't know sergey labrov is like you know the most senior super senior foreign minister dude

00:35:00.340 putin's effectively like putin's foreign secretary or uh um like state department guy

00:35:07.180 the equivalent of marco rubio the russian one you see this guy i knew this guy who was funded

00:35:12.540 by this guy who's in a picture with this guy uh and it's putin it might all be true i don't know

00:35:18.200 i really don't know i'm just telling you what's in the news today okay uh all right it goes on

00:35:23.000 i've done this for quite quite a while now but i thought because okay and that's sort of the main

00:35:28.340 it goes on to do more and more of this these connections apparently that's the guy it's that

00:35:33.960 that's that 23 year old handler that they tried to rank his face out but the bbc have got his face

00:35:41.220 There he is

00:35:42.120 There's the master spire

00:35:45.420 The master handler

00:35:48.140 Behind the arson attacks 1.00

00:35:51.180 On Sir Queer Stalin

00:35:52.160 That's what they're saying 0.63

00:35:56.300 But remember again, right at the vent

00:35:58.080 Oh look, they got Ben Wallace to chip in

00:35:59.760 Ben Wallace used to be

00:36:01.100 Defence Secretary, didn't he?

00:36:03.220 And he just says, yeah, he would have come directly from the top

00:36:05.520 Launching attacks on property linked to the UK Prime Minister

00:36:08.420 Was a change of policy that

00:36:11.220 according to Ben Wallace

00:36:12.920 would not have just come

00:36:14.120 from a low level individual

00:36:15.280 it would have come

00:36:16.260 from the very top

00:36:17.180 I mean I get believable right

00:36:20.320 it's likely isn't it

00:36:21.380 I mean

00:36:21.640 if you believe this whole narrative

00:36:23.560 it's probably not the 20

00:36:25.980 that 23 year old kid

00:36:27.300 who's dreaming

00:36:28.280 all these operations up

00:36:29.680 is it

00:36:30.840 it would have been

00:36:31.360 someone above him

00:36:31.980 if it's all true

00:36:33.040 okay

00:36:33.780 and then finally right at the end

00:36:34.920 they just

00:36:35.340 the BBC said

00:36:36.040 oh the police say

00:36:36.900 we have no evidence

00:36:38.560 to suggest this

00:36:39.620 was a state

00:36:40.200 state-backed threat all right there you go i thought i'd spend quite a lot of time on it this

00:36:45.960 morning because we've been starved of information about it ever haven't we everyone's everyone's

00:36:49.860 really interested in this story in this case that's gone cold um moved my backup water this

00:36:58.260 isn't a second cup of tea um so now we've got some of the details i thought i'd bring it to

00:37:02.840 you i thought i'd spend a fair amount of time this morning talking about it

00:37:05.240 all right so there you go will more stuff come about come out about it in the coming days and

00:37:14.060 weeks months and years or will this just be the established story now

00:37:18.460 they were russian it's russia it's come straight from moscow and labrov and putin

00:37:27.820 Alright, shall we move on?

00:37:31.360 It's already nearly 22

00:37:32.600 But I hope you were okay

00:37:35.420 With spending so much time on that this morning

00:37:36.940 I think it was worth it

00:37:37.960 Okay

00:37:38.820 The times

00:37:40.340 The venerable times

00:37:41.580 There's the Princess of Wales

00:37:42.880 Looking radiant as ever, isn't she?

00:37:46.680 I'm not even sure if I'm being ironic

00:37:48.400 And sarcastic with that anymore

00:37:49.600 She is quite good looking and radiant, isn't she?

00:37:53.600 I usually say that

00:37:54.340 If you don't know, like, ironically

00:37:55.960 Because the papers love her

00:37:59.120 She's quite radiant isn't she 0.51

00:38:01.760 Anyway

00:38:01.960 At Windsor Castle there was the

00:38:05.260 It was the ceremony for the Garter

00:38:08.000 The Order of the Garter

00:38:09.060 The Knights of the Order of the Garter

00:38:11.340 So she turned up in public

00:38:13.660 So they put a picture on the front page

00:38:15.120 Of course they do

00:38:15.660 Age checks on phones to access social media

00:38:18.800 PM promises ban for under 16s

00:38:21.780 By early next year 1.00

00:38:22.960 He's unlikely to be in number 10 isn't he

00:38:25.580 by that point. Okay, the Telegraph, the Daily Toreograph, there is the Radiant Princess of

00:38:31.940 Wales again, and the Prince of Wales. He is a member of the Order of the Garter, of course.

00:38:39.620 He'll be king one day, won't he? Starmer's social media ban, a rush job. Yeah, many people saying

00:38:45.860 it's all just, it's all a bit slapdash. It's all a bit held together with scotch tape and baling

00:38:52.000 wire it's all a bit of a rush through nonsense plan starts to unravel as tech giants warn that

00:38:58.080 children will have less protection seems a reasonable argument may well be the case oh you

00:39:05.920 know you're a 15 year old you know oh i can't get on facebook and tiktok anymore i'll go to some

00:39:11.980 other some other place and it's the world west on that other place i mean all right oh here's

00:39:20.000 interesting churchill's biographer rejects starvation lies i talked to him about this

00:39:24.360 yesterday didn't i there was a little article saying that i think it was was it the national

00:39:28.640 gallery i remember one of the big galleries in london apparently had a video installation

00:39:33.820 video art installation that was just saying that churchill was responsible for the bengal famine

00:39:38.780 of 1943 do you remember me yesterday saying well that's just not no it was to do with the fact the

00:39:43.560 imperial uh japanese army had invaded burma and were controlling the seas in that part of the

00:39:49.780 indian ocean and there was a massive cyclone right a massive storm weather system that ruined the 0.66

00:39:56.280 crops and then they couldn't get food from burma which they were doing and then we couldn't relieve

00:40:01.360 them by ship because of the imperial japanese imperial navy that's actually what caused that

00:40:07.500 famine really a combination of weather and world war ii not actually churchill just deliberately

00:40:13.680 saying i'm going to deliberately starve two million indian people for fun yeah that's not

00:40:19.260 what happened well um yeah uh the lord roberts came out churchill biographer the lord roberts

00:40:27.000 is andrew roberts isn't it who i actually don't like as a historian i think he's a

00:40:32.000 an establishment shill i think he's uh i i think he's like a cult historian

00:40:37.240 he's a cult historian he writes what his his overlords tell him to write

00:40:49.260 uh nonetheless he and loads of others like 50 other people signed an open letter

00:40:54.460 um saying yeah just that's not true like churchill didn't just didn't deliver the accusation

00:41:00.220 that the famine was deliberately visited upon bengal is by churchill

00:41:06.060 uh is foul and vile yeah because it's not true is it it's just not true so in this case

00:41:12.460 the lord roberts andrew roberts the lord roberts of belgravia

00:41:15.900 Andrew, Andy

00:41:19.200 I agree with him on this one

00:41:22.560 On this stage

00:41:23.340 Actually to be fair to Andrew Roberts

00:41:26.400 I call him a cult historian

00:41:28.740 And a shield and all that sort of thing

00:41:30.000 Like a lot of these people

00:41:31.560 Most of his history is fine

00:41:33.200 Most of it is legitimately fine

00:41:36.080 And good, solid, well researched

00:41:38.980 Etc, etc

00:41:39.640 It's just then they'll add in a paragraph

00:41:42.860 Somewhere in there

00:41:45.900 Russian diplomat linked to firebomb attack on PM's house

00:41:52.560 Okay, see, they're all going with it 0.69

00:41:53.880 They're all going with the narrative that it's the Russians 0.73

00:41:57.020 I mean, and it may be

00:41:58.980 I don't know

00:42:00.960 A little bit

00:42:01.900 It doesn't smell fresh to me

00:42:05.720 Okay, I don't know

00:42:07.900 I wasn't there

00:42:09.040 I haven't got any special insight

00:42:11.160 Into what the Russian intelligence services are doing

00:42:14.780 all right social media revolution p.m my band will keep kids safe will it will it or is it an 0.59

00:42:21.220 exercise in controlling everyone of every age in the end thin end of the wedge to just censor

00:42:28.840 everyone create a more censorious society for your political ends oh but you're going to keep

00:42:35.060 kids safe sure sure sure yeah sure sure i paper they go with the russian plot all about the russian

00:42:40.080 the russian mastermind the 23 year old russian mastermind okay independent again they go with it

00:42:48.640 but there's the picture of the car the toyota starma's x toyota okay ask an attack on starma

00:42:56.480 linked to russia okay ask an attack on starma's property is run by pro-kremlin hacktivists

00:43:02.880 hacktivists yep okay all right the daily express it's a good paper and they decide to go they're

00:43:13.480 not dropping the idea of um an assisted dying bill remember we had the assisted dying bill

00:43:19.880 that got defeated in parliament didn't it well the people that won it haven't given up on that

00:43:25.580 Dame Esther, Esther Ranson

00:43:27.320 Is she there? I don't see her there

00:43:30.040 Dame Esther, delighted as Labour MP says she will reintroduce assisted dying bill

00:43:35.800 Our hope has been restored

00:43:37.600 I think I've said before, I've never said it again, I don't care

00:43:45.320 I think in some exceptional circumstances

00:43:50.840 If you're dying completely inoperable

00:43:54.440 And the drugs don't work anymore

00:43:58.440 Assisted dying is not the worst thing in the world

00:44:02.180 When you're lying in a hospital bed for months on end

00:44:06.020 And the morphine doesn't work anymore

00:44:07.500 And you've just got to lie there in pain

00:44:09.400 And your family have got to watch you die 0.96

00:44:11.560 And you really want to die 0.89

00:44:13.500 You should be allowed to

00:44:14.980 The problem is, isn't it though?

00:44:16.660 That of course it won't be that, will it?

00:44:19.240 Once there's an assisted dying thing

00:44:21.760 Doctors, loads of doctors

00:44:23.240 We'll just say

00:44:24.620 We'll just write people off

00:44:25.580 Oh it's too expensive to do

00:44:27.600 Extreme course of chemo

00:44:30.400 And loads of surgery 0.99

00:44:32.440 So you can just kill yourself if you want though 0.99

00:44:34.520 Do you want that yeah 1.00

00:44:35.220 That's what it will be

00:44:38.860 Loads and loads of people will end up

00:44:40.700 Unnecessarily ending their own life

00:44:43.600 I would have thought

00:44:44.200 It will be abused won't it

00:44:46.040 It will be abused very quickly

00:44:48.800 Probably on a large scale

00:44:49.920 Like in some other country

00:44:51.640 Was it Canada

00:44:52.280 and some other countries or there's someone that's just very unhappy and given a few months or years

00:44:58.300 may come out of that depression and funk but at that low ebb a doctor said well you can end your

00:45:04.840 life if you want and they do when they're young when they're in their 20s or 30s or 40s still got

00:45:11.660 half a lifetime ahead of them or more and if they just it would be abused wouldn't it it would really

00:45:18.940 be abused. A lot of people die that way, i.e. lying in a hospital bed for weeks or months

00:45:26.200 in agony, just waiting to die. That's not uncommon. That's how a lot of people end.

00:45:35.160 A lot of people. Some people watching this, that's how you're going to die.

00:45:40.920 Might be how I'm going to die. A lot of people. You just waste away in a hospital bed in pain.

00:45:48.940 Should you be allowed to end your own life

00:45:53.080 If you want to at that stage

00:45:54.580 Oh okay

00:45:56.760 It's a horrible difficult one isn't it

00:45:58.360 Talking about horrible difficult things

00:46:00.820 I'll come back to that in a moment

00:46:02.080 This terrible story

00:46:05.240 Unbelievable story 1.00

00:46:07.160 These two gay men 1.00

00:46:12.400 Were married

00:46:14.340 Adopted a little kid

00:46:15.600 A little boy

00:46:16.120 And then they 0.55

00:46:18.720 Sexually assaulted him in the worst way

00:46:21.220 And just physically assaulted 0.93

00:46:23.060 And even psychologically tortured him 0.99

00:46:24.920 And then killed him 0.99

00:46:26.360 Choked him on something 0.99

00:46:28.780 Oh, took photos of it

00:46:39.080 Yeah

00:46:39.760 Mr Lowe, if you do a

00:46:42.480 Referendum

00:46:45.840 On the death penalty 0.98

00:46:48.000 I will be voting for that

00:46:50.220 And the story, the angle of it is that they say

00:46:53.000 Eight missed chances to save baby Preston from evil adoptive fathers

00:46:56.920 That the authorities, sort of childcare authorities

00:47:00.560 At least eight times

00:47:02.160 Didn't sort of completely intervene and take that little baby off of them

00:47:06.280 When they should have, probably

00:47:09.220 Or most certainly should have

00:47:10.740 Because again, the suggestion is

00:47:14.380 they were worried about being called homophobic

00:47:18.460 quickly back to this one the mirror they talk about 10 years on since joe cox was murdered and

00:47:28.760 they mentioned david amess for anyone who doesn't know this was a left-leaning politician who got

00:47:32.740 murdered and here's a conservative conservative and the right-leaning david amess who also got

00:47:37.440 murdered. In 2016, her murder shocked us all. Five years later, another MP fell victim to

00:47:44.680 extremism. Today, as hate grows daily, their shattered families unite to call for a return

00:47:49.880 to decency and civility. We need to talk. Okay. It's all very easy to say that, isn't

00:47:59.480 We need

00:48:03.700 Return to decency and civility

00:48:05.660 Were the people

00:48:07.460 That beat up young Bob

00:48:08.840 The other day in the street

00:48:09.960 Were they decent and civil

00:48:11.080 Are the people that hope not hate

00:48:19.660 And the running me trust

00:48:21.700 Are they decent and civil 0.96

00:48:22.920 Trying to annihilate us demographically 1.00

00:48:25.940 Trying to flood us with foreign people 1.00

00:48:28.220 To wipe us out 0.99

00:48:29.480 And then gaslight and call a Nazi 0.92

00:48:32.080 Anyone that notices and tries to say anything about it

00:48:34.480 Is that decent, is that civil

00:48:35.760 So you can talk about decency and civility

00:48:39.520 Well good luck with that

00:48:42.480 Okay, the sun, they go with that

00:48:47.440 Poor little, poor little angelic baby

00:48:50.200 Oh my god

00:48:50.880 Alright, and the star goes with the fact that

00:48:59.440 the wives and girlfriends of the england football team uh live in a completely a separate hq in

00:49:06.320 in florida the main england team's in what like kansas somewhere and their wives and girlfriends

00:49:11.920 are kept 1400 miles away in miami it's the front page that's the most important thing going on in

00:49:16.960 the day today all right they're the front pages they're the increasingly absurd front pages absurd

00:49:23.280 Front page

00:49:24.620 Pardon me

00:49:25.980 Alright

00:49:26.760 Let's have a look at our poll

00:49:29.300 What did we do in our poll today Harry

00:49:30.900 If you bring that up for me

00:49:31.640 Oh there it is

00:49:32.080 You say

00:49:32.380 We asked you

00:49:33.760 Knocking up over 1300 votes

00:49:38.220 Nearly 1400 votes

00:49:39.280 Do you think Russia is behind the arson attacks?

00:49:43.180 Oh

00:49:43.340 What do I mean?

00:49:47.100 A stonking 92% of you say no

00:49:50.080 That's interesting

00:49:52.760 i thought it might be closer to 50 50 60 40 no the vast majority of you say no only eight percent of

00:50:00.260 you and it's knocking up towards 1400 votes on that 92 say no you don't you don't you're not

00:50:06.820 buying the russian thing it doesn't smell right does it there's something

00:50:10.280 put it this way i'm not prepared to just take all of that on face value

00:50:16.620 It could be true

00:50:19.680 But yeah, I'm not like

00:50:21.880 I'm not just swallowing that

00:50:23.580 Oh yeah, okay, absolutely, everything you say BBC, sure

00:50:26.120 Yeah

00:50:26.960 Don't trust the BBC

00:50:31.900 They've lied to me and us

00:50:34.260 Too many times, haven't they

00:50:35.620 Don't trust them

00:50:37.520 Interesting though, that was much higher than I thought

00:50:42.080 Much, much higher than I thought

00:50:43.900 Alright

00:50:45.240 Well, good stuff

00:50:46.720 Interesting, based 0.80

00:50:48.520 The Glorious Man, The Chosen Few

00:50:50.560 Based 1.00

00:50:51.620 Alright

00:50:54.540 Shall we have a look at anything else?

00:50:57.220 It was really 10-2

00:50:58.000 Was there one or two other things?

00:51:02.420 Let's see

00:51:03.580 The ITV goes with that there's some schools

00:51:06.960 Can you even really call them schools?

00:51:08.960 Look, thousands of children at risk

00:51:10.840 In dirty and dangerous illegal schools

00:51:13.320 Are they really illegal schools?

00:51:15.240 Or is it just, it's to do with, it's a bit of a rabbit hole, there's so much going on there.

00:51:23.600 It's a stretch to call them schools in any way, shape or form, isn't it?

00:51:27.560 Okay, like Keir Starmer and his band.

00:51:30.620 It is interesting from Sky News.

00:51:33.560 Again, you see how the editorial line and just reality can be two different things.

00:51:40.820 You get this, you've got this deal with Trump.

00:51:42.800 He says he's already signed the deal.

00:51:45.100 The Straits of Hormuz will be fully open by Friday.

00:51:48.620 Sky News decide to tell you Trump has admitted defeat on Iran war after historic blunder.

00:51:56.840 I mean, that may or may not be the case.

00:51:59.540 May or may not be true.

00:52:01.700 It's certainly just Sky News' editorial position.

00:52:06.300 Donald Trump has arrived for this week's G7 summit in France,

00:52:09.720 keen to celebrate his peace deal with Iran.

00:52:11.660 But the agreement has only proved this war was one of the greatest strategic blunders in US history.

00:52:21.020 All right, says Dominic Waghorn.

00:52:24.960 Oh, Dominic Waghorn, the master of all things geopolitical.

00:52:31.260 He's the arbiter of truth when it comes to everything in the world.

00:52:37.280 A bit presumptuous.

00:52:38.480 The Daily Mail, top of the Daily Mail

00:52:42.700 Is about the Beckhams

00:52:44.700 I won't spend more than a few seconds on this

00:52:46.240 But, you know, Brooklyn Beckham

00:52:48.740 He's had a falling out, hasn't he?

00:52:51.160 With David and Victoria 1.00

00:52:52.320 David and Posh, full blown, full out with them

00:52:54.820 And now he's made some sort of advert

00:52:58.660 Cashing in on it

00:53:00.960 And the Beckhams, David and Posh

00:53:03.700 Are inconsolable about it

00:53:05.280 that's the most important thing going on according to the the uh the male group's website this

00:53:12.420 morning all right the sun the sun go with it as well slop yes look okay let's go fatal fall

00:53:23.200 bungee jumper was still alive when found after being thrown 130 foot with no rope what look

00:53:30.080 these clowns like chucked her off a bridge or whatever it was 130 foot and they hadn't put a

00:53:35.980 rope on her and then put a bungee rope on her and then she didn't even immediately die when she 0.89

00:53:41.960 struck the ground oh horrible okay thanks for that son thanks for bringing me that out of

00:53:46.800 everything in the world you could report brilliant cheers all right should we have a look at the uh

00:53:53.780 on this day in history it's already 5-2 i like doing this bit you guys kind of like me doing this bit

00:54:00.080 Let's have a look

00:54:01.220 On this day in history

00:54:01.900 Down through the centuries

00:54:03.420 What happened of note?

00:54:04.240 The 16th of June

00:54:05.080 Ah, the Great Siege of Gibraltar

00:54:08.060 Love it

00:54:08.700 In 1779

00:54:10.060 Spain declares war on Great Britain

00:54:11.660 In support of France 0.98

00:54:12.580 And the USA

00:54:13.360 The American War of Independence

00:54:16.320 The Revolutionary War

00:54:18.100 Starting the Great Siege of Gibraltar

00:54:22.000 Which lasts three years, seven months and two weeks

00:54:24.680 As the British already held Gibraltar

00:54:27.300 The siege of Gibraltar

00:54:39.560 Yeah, we held the rock of Gibraltar 0.99

00:54:42.360 And the Spanish wanted it back

00:54:44.740 Tried really hard

00:54:45.720 Well, for three years, seven months

00:54:47.400 Couldn't do it 0.69

00:54:48.780 At one point they sent 60,000 men

00:54:51.840 Against 5,000 British defenders

00:54:55.280 They made a blockade around it

00:54:59.840 In the end, finally, we relieve

00:55:01.920 The British Navy relieves the garrison on Gibraltar

00:55:06.600 Spain tried really, really hard to take Gibraltar off of us and failed

00:55:12.340 It's a great story if you're sort of pro-British

00:55:16.020 Okay, in 1858, Abraham Lincoln says

00:55:21.920 A house divided against itself cannot stand

00:55:24.760 Accepting Illinois Republican Party's nomination for the Senate

00:55:28.340 Yeah, I've talked all about Abraham Lincoln before

00:55:30.600 And the run-up to

00:55:33.380 Oh, I've talked all about the American Civil War

00:55:36.940 With Benjamin Boyce again

00:55:37.960 Talked all about that, yeah

00:55:39.780 House Divided, he's talking about their sort of

00:55:41.980 Pro-slavery and anti-slavery factions

00:55:43.960 Within the US government

00:55:45.440 The North and the South, essentially

00:55:48.360 That's what he means by House Divided

00:55:50.040 He said, I don't expect

00:55:51.620 I don't expect this to destroy

00:55:53.920 The United States

00:55:57.000 I expect

00:55:58.140 One side will win

00:55:59.740 One or the other will

00:56:00.800 It'll become all of one thing

00:56:02.180 It won't remain divided

00:56:03.720 It will have to become

00:56:05.420 All one thing

00:56:06.080 Or all the other

00:56:06.720 Is what he said

00:56:08.220 Okay

00:56:11.200 The Illinois

00:56:12.420 Rail splitter 0.59

00:56:13.800 Abe Lincoln 0.97

00:56:14.660 Honest Abe

00:56:15.580 A lot of people

00:56:17.260 A lot of Americans

00:56:17.860 Hate him

00:56:18.420 I think particularly

00:56:19.120 People from the south 1.00

00:56:19.880 People like Razor Fist

00:56:21.020 Hate him

00:56:21.520 I think he's great

00:56:22.480 I think he's one of the greatest

00:56:23.460 the greatest U.S. president.

00:56:28.460 Oh, he suspended habeas corpus. 0.92

00:56:30.400 Yeah, that's normal for a time of war, 0.87

00:56:31.640 particularly Civil War, yeah.

00:56:36.160 Okay, in 1904,

00:56:38.520 Bloomsday, the date of the fictional events

00:56:40.920 in James Joyce's novel Ulysses.

00:56:42.820 I haven't read Ulysses.

00:56:44.380 It's one of those classics

00:56:45.480 I really, really, really should have read.

00:56:48.620 I like to think I'm reasonably well-read,

00:56:50.160 particularly in classics,

00:56:51.480 the classic literature.

00:56:52.260 But it's one of those ones

00:56:53.180 I've picked it up a number of times

00:56:54.700 Two or three times

00:56:55.520 Tried to read it

00:56:56.880 Didn't get on with it

00:56:58.940 I should listen to it on audiobook or something

00:57:00.720 It's one of those ones most people should have read

00:57:02.700 By the time you're in your 40s or 50s or whatever

00:57:04.320 You probably should have read it

00:57:05.820 It's that famous

00:57:06.660 But I just never have

00:57:08.060 So I can't really comment on that really

00:57:09.860 I've tried it a couple of times

00:57:11.620 Last time was a long time ago

00:57:12.800 Maybe 10 years ago

00:57:13.700 I tried to read Ulysses again

00:57:15.600 And just couldn't get into it

00:57:16.840 Didn't like it

00:57:17.440 You get that right?

00:57:21.300 Paradise Lost, I've always struggled with Paradise Lost

00:57:24.760 Most Thomas Hardy novels

00:57:29.340 Okay, on this day in 1963

00:57:33.060 Soviet space mission Vostok 6 launches with Valentina Teshikova aboard

00:57:39.580 Making her the first woman in space

00:57:41.220 Oh yeah, well done

00:57:42.120 That sounds really sarcastic, I didn't mean it

00:57:44.040 Yeah, well done, I suppose

00:57:45.000 Okay, on this day in the year 2000

00:57:48.880 Israel complies with UN Security Council Resolution 45 after 22 years

00:57:53.480 Which calls on Israel to completely withdraw from Lebanon

00:57:56.020 Israel withdraws from all of Lebanon

00:57:58.780 Except the disputed Sheba farms 0.92

00:58:01.280 Oh they stuck to that then didn't they? 1.00

00:58:06.060 They did well sticking to that 0.93

00:58:07.260 Israel do what they want when they want don't they?

00:58:16.080 Because they've got political cover from the United States

00:58:18.560 So they do what they want

00:58:20.980 Alright, let's have a look at our

00:58:28.000 Rumble Rents and Soup chats, shall we? 0.66

00:58:32.120 Is it a Global Church History Day?

00:58:34.600 Is he in at number one?

00:58:35.800 Yes he is, reigning, defending

00:58:37.620 And still

00:58:40.100 Global Church History in at number one

00:58:44.020 He usually gives us a couple of factors

00:58:45.460 What have we got here?

00:58:46.060 On this day in 363

00:58:50.200 Julian the Apostate burned his Tigris fleet 1.00

00:58:53.140 Oh yeah, cool, cool

00:58:54.200 I've got to do some long-form content

00:58:58.300 About Julian the Apostate at some point

00:58:59.800 He's one of my favourites

00:59:01.020 I haven't done it yet

00:59:02.540 It's in, oh you said it there

00:59:05.420 Yeah, the 360s, the 4th century

00:59:08.040 The 4th century AD 1.00

00:59:09.000 As an apostate, that means a Christian apostate 1.00

00:59:11.860 We'd already had the age of Constantine 1.00

00:59:13.540 And Christianity becoming 0.99

00:59:15.640 Very, very prevalent in the Roman world 0.99

00:59:18.920 Julian Apostate returned back to that 0.60

00:59:21.360 He was anti-Christian 0.96

00:59:22.300 He tried to return Rome to the old pagan gods

00:59:26.080 And so as far as Christians are concerned 0.93

00:59:30.360 He's an apostate 0.75

00:59:31.240 He was a great military commander 0.99

00:59:34.340 One of the best to do it, ever do it

00:59:36.680 Fascinating life, fascinating reign

00:59:38.940 All the chapters in Edward Gibbon

00:59:41.880 The kind of all the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon

00:59:43.720 Are very, very good on Julian the Apostate

00:59:45.640 Edward Gibbon was a big fan

00:59:47.280 But eventually he got himself killed

00:59:50.220 In a war against the Persians in the east

00:59:52.280 He burned his Tigris fleet 0.96

00:59:54.420 He took a fleet up the Tigris

00:59:56.000 Up to Ctesiphon

00:59:56.920 Which is modern day Baghdad 0.53

00:59:58.960 Sort of

00:59:59.420 The ancient ruins of Ctesiphon

01:00:01.060 Are just outside Baghdad

01:00:02.400 Sort of Baghdad effectively

01:00:04.960 It was called Ctesiphon back then

01:00:07.160 But he couldn't

01:00:10.480 What was it

01:00:11.000 Shapur

01:00:13.080 Shapur II

01:00:14.000 He couldn't defeat him

01:00:15.840 Couldn't take Ctesiphon

01:00:18.200 So on his retreat back westward

01:00:21.420 Gets himself killed in a little skirmish

01:00:24.840 A little ambush type thing

01:00:26.320 Alright

01:00:28.800 It's a great story though

01:00:29.920 Fascinating story

01:00:30.640 Brilliant story

01:00:31.260 One of those ones 0.65

01:00:32.380 Had Julian the Apostate lived longer

01:00:35.060 How different history might have been 0.82

01:00:37.000 One of those people

01:00:37.800 Had Henry V or Alexander lived longer

01:00:41.000 How different things would have turned out

01:00:43.440 one of those ones okay and the other factoid from global church history says on this day in 1487

01:00:51.840 king henry the seventh henry tudor um defeated john de la pole's yorkists at stoke field

01:01:01.680 on bodade's epochs my history theme channel behind the paywall on locust.com considering

01:01:06.320 signing up for as long as five pound a month at the moment i'm doing henry the eighth so

01:01:11.040 So a few weeks ago, or a couple of months ago, you'll see that I've done all sorts of long-form content about his father, Henry VII, Henry Tudor.

01:01:21.880 And so if you want detail all about that, Stokefield and Henry Tudor kind of wiping out the last, not exactly, but wiping out the last remnants of Yorkist descent.

01:01:36.060 I mean, Henry VIII, even into the reign of Elizabeth I, the Pole family, the Della Poles, were an issue.

01:01:47.780 There's like one little old lady of the Della Pole family left in Henry VIII's time.

01:01:52.420 And he has a throne in the tower and even executed, doesn't he? 0.98

01:01:57.300 Yeah, a big threat from sort of the remaining Yorkist faction, his father, Henry VII, puts down at Stoke.

01:02:04.460 okay it's all there if you're interested okay perpetual jonathan says rupert's already got

01:02:12.040 the endorsement of john terry ex-england football captain john terry but will he get the endorsement

01:02:17.800 of wayne bridge another football player ex-football player right he's retired now wayne bridge surely

01:02:23.760 uh oh it definitely is could you cover the dirty dirty smear merchants of the toronto star 0.74

01:02:30.360 thanks oh i don't know what the dirty dirty smear merchants of the toronto staff said

01:02:35.460 i'll have a i'll have a look at it later when i get off the show here today i don't know what

01:02:40.800 they've said i'll have a look they're talking about wayne bridge i'll have a look sorry right

01:02:48.980 now i don't have that information but interesting all right fallen firebird says russian intelligence

01:02:53.840 doesn't create division as they'd have you believe they see existing existential problems

01:03:01.580 within the uk and attack them it's hardly 4d chess but normies will fall for it okay well

01:03:07.880 according to the poll that's i guess that is what a lot of people are thinking

01:03:11.820 i mean that's sort of my gut reaction is that i'm not really buying this narrative

01:03:20.160 I mean it could be true couldn't it

01:03:22.820 It could all entirely be true

01:03:24.000 What the BBC has fed us there

01:03:25.300 I just don't

01:03:26.540 I'm not sure

01:03:27.900 I don't think so

01:03:28.640 It doesn't feel

01:03:29.300 Okay

01:03:32.540 Alright

01:03:33.380 GWFF says

01:03:35.840 ITMbo

01:03:38.740 Production

01:03:39.720 What's ITM Harry

01:03:40.720 Do you know what that means

01:03:41.420 Alright

01:03:48.280 i say production note it's faffing around and fannying about because if you're going to assist

01:03:56.320 if you're going to insist on formosa and constantinople and constantinople you should

01:04:01.280 also burnham wears manscara or guyliner i'm going to use that they're funny

01:04:08.620 manscar and guyliner andy bumham's guyliner

01:04:13.740 yeah i like that i like that very good very good

01:04:18.820 okay all right

01:04:22.900 no sternum burnham and his guy liner all right

01:04:29.060 fallen firebird again says tightly controlled assisted dying is a moral good my grandma has

01:04:36.720 dementia and she's just vegetating in a care home she's expressed a wish to die in her lucid moments

01:04:42.800 But I know they'll abuse it

01:04:44.960 Yeah, that's sort of exactly my feeling

01:04:46.960 It will get abused

01:04:51.900 Someone that's got terrible dementia

01:04:56.940 And every now and again they sort of come back to themselves

01:04:59.020 And they're like, let me die, let me die

01:05:00.380 I don't want this, please, please, please, please

01:05:02.340 Like, they're begging you

01:05:03.740 Someone in a hospital bed in excruciating pain

01:05:07.560 Begging you 1.00

01:05:08.820 To let them go, to let them die 0.99

01:05:12.100 begging anyone that will listen but it will get abused won't it oh it's tough it's horrible 0.76

01:05:23.240 all right 14 barber says morning how's it going i've got a suggestion ulysses if it's a struggle

01:05:31.380 watch ulysses 31 ulysses brilliant 80s cartoon brilliant theme tune

01:05:37.840 and just pretend you've actually read it top draw cartoon after all brilliant one of my favorite

01:05:44.020 80s cartoon theme tunes going Ulysses 31 I don't make them like that anymore check it out go and

01:05:52.680 google that for yourself an 80s cartoon Ulysses 31 opening theme banger all right uh Harry can

01:06:02.480 you bring up the youtube ones for me you'll have to do that if you can make it so engage there they

01:06:08.360 are there they are okay there's uh again 20 odd or so so all right let's get through them something

01:06:14.680 wickedly shown a super fan shona hello this morning madam all good i hope you say 0.62

01:06:18.780 Investigate Queer's Back Door 0.97

01:06:22.780 Laughing, crying face 0.98

01:06:25.340 Tatum says

01:06:31.000 What do you think of

01:06:33.460 Colternost 0.98

01:06:35.460 From the USSR

01:06:36.500 I don't know what Colternost is 1.00

01:06:37.840 Making the average person

01:06:40.300 Read big novels, play chess

01:06:41.820 Oh I know what you mean

01:06:43.100 The state forcing you to be cultured in some way

01:06:47.280 making the average person read big novels play chess watch opera ballet etc unlike modern

01:06:53.400 westerners yeah i mean there's nothing wrong with that i don't know about forcing people to but yeah

01:06:57.800 encouraging them to yeah encourage them to be well read and cultured in some way why not yeah

01:07:02.640 you get off tiktok and read a book yeah

01:07:07.960 I'm a big proponent of reading

01:07:13.800 Getting into the mind space

01:07:17.280 Getting into the habit

01:07:19.700 Of sitting down quietly

01:07:22.120 And reading

01:07:23.360 For a few hours on end

01:07:27.260 Not many people do that anymore

01:07:29.100 I think, I feel, it seems

01:07:30.620 If they do read, it's something off the internet

01:07:33.240 I love books, I mean, I love books

01:07:36.760 It's a really old school thing now, it seems, really out of date.

01:07:42.440 One of the only things I've ever collected in my life is books.

01:07:45.640 At home, I've got a few thousand books, without exaggeration,

01:07:49.080 on a myriad of different things, on anything and everything.

01:07:53.400 It's the only thing I sort of collect or hold is books.

01:07:56.920 Loads of them I'll never read, I'm sure.

01:07:59.080 Yeah, I'll sit down and I'll be like, I want to read about Julian the Apostate.

01:08:04.040 Oh, I'll find a book on that. I've got more than one book on that era, that period.

01:08:08.500 I'll just get my well-thumbed copy of Gibbon off the shelf.

01:08:12.540 Sit there and read for most of the evening, two, three hours, sit there reading.

01:08:16.360 But a lot of people don't do it. That would be crazy to them.

01:08:20.480 Why would they do that? There's not enough stimulating enough.

01:08:26.060 They'd be like, oh, I need to go back on Twitter for a moment.

01:08:30.080 I need to scroll through YouTube shorts for a minute, though.

01:08:34.040 yeah encouraging people to read and be a bit more cultured is not a bad thing is it i think

01:08:40.880 blatantly okay um shona again says are you british if you haven't been oh it's a bit dirty a bit

01:08:51.880 blue that i'm not gonna read that it's quite funny shona but if something's properly blue

01:08:57.620 i can't really read it out because especially on this show maybe on uh maybe on um state of

01:09:04.440 politics but this show is supposed to be clean because there might be kiddy winks in the room

01:09:09.060 listening in the morning or in the car or something okay i'll move on uh tatum says

01:09:18.060 it's really absurd how leftist how leftist tommy is about ethnicity he has the same position as

01:09:25.280 Polanski, literally anyone could be

01:09:27.360 English-British, the whole 0.99

01:09:29.240 world, yeah, Tom is a Sivnat, yeah 0.99

01:09:31.260 yeah, he's a Sivnat 1.00

01:09:33.600 yeah 1.00

01:09:39.040 Sam H

01:09:43.740 1989 1.00

01:09:44.760 says, it's always the Russians 0.99

01:09:47.080 when it comes to the 1.00

01:09:48.620 perverted behaviour of our weirdo political

01:09:51.280 class, first man dear now

01:09:53.240 starmer sure we believe you winking emoji right yeah i mean possibly possibly it's just that

01:10:00.860 isn't it possibly that they were still like like this rent boys is a way uh i don't know i don't

01:10:08.660 know of course got no special insight but it could it could be that it's just that and they've just

01:10:14.160 concocted all this about russia who knows who knows i mean the police said we don't see any

01:10:21.540 Evidence of a state backed

01:10:22.820 Operation going on here

01:10:24.800 They could just be wrong though couldn't they

01:10:27.500 Who knows 0.62

01:10:32.380 Shona again says

01:10:34.640 Do we need to have desert detritus

01:10:37.960 Here good question no we don't

01:10:40.180 Good question and no we don't

01:10:41.640 It's not in our interests

01:10:42.900 Tack Best Defence

01:10:47.480 Says are we supposed

01:10:49.820 To believe that the government can find

01:10:51.240 anyone in the country for naughty facebook posts but not the mystery russian el okay question mark

01:10:58.960 i believe this el is supposed to be in russia i think i think that's what i gathered from

01:11:05.340 some other things i was reported that he's when he's posting stuff to them in telegram

01:11:09.900 it's got on moscow they can tell i guess from electronic surveillance stuff that they've got

01:11:17.280 gchq to tell them it's actually coming from russia from moscow but i don't know i think that's the

01:11:23.340 case it might be wrong fgoogle2 says uh would you wear a jaunty hat it was supposed to be hat as a

01:11:31.060 typo would i wear a jaunty hat like prince william yeah why not why not it's a classic

01:11:39.400 i'm not too proud i think i think silly hats are funny often

01:11:43.960 Okay

01:11:48.140 Shona again says

01:11:49.400 Esther Saville's 0.81

01:11:52.620 Pal

01:11:52.960 It will be hellish

01:11:55.660 Esther Ransom was Jimmy Saville's

01:11:58.400 Pal, it will be hellish 0.99

01:11:59.800 It will get abused won't it, assisted dying will just get 0.99

01:12:02.380 Abused 1.00

01:12:02.800 People that shouldn't really have been sent to their deaths 1.00

01:12:06.320 Will be won't they

01:12:07.580 Kyle Langdon

01:12:10.080 169 says

01:12:11.140 Here you go Bo and Harry

01:12:13.880 and gives ten dollars oh well thank you thank you very much very kind of you um

01:12:18.520 uh what else have we got ivan the boneless cool name at ivan the boneless says morning all bo

01:12:27.740 any thoughts on the peter morrell and nikki sturgeon embezzlement scandal apologies if

01:12:32.440 you've already spoke about this yeah no um it's an ongoing scandal ongoing trial isn't it i did

01:12:37.100 talk all about it what a week or so ago maybe slightly more than a week when it was all in the

01:12:41.120 Front pages when he pleaded guilty

01:12:42.980 On the first day of his trial

01:12:44.200 And we talked about it a fair bit

01:12:45.440 But I'm sure it will come up again

01:12:47.300 When he gets convicted

01:12:48.840 Or rather when he gets sentenced

01:12:52.260 When he gets sentenced

01:12:53.320 It'll be all in the news cycle again won't it

01:12:55.860 And I'll talk about it again

01:12:56.880 But I did

01:12:57.380 I did talk about it a couple days in a row

01:12:59.240 Even

01:13:00.140 Yet well my thoughts are that

01:13:01.900 I just don't buy

01:13:02.720 That Nicola

01:13:04.460 Wee Jimmy Cranky

01:13:05.580 Couldn't have known anything was amiss

01:13:08.160 It's just not believable to me

01:13:11.120 Okay.

01:13:13.840 Dacoub.

01:13:15.600 Dacoub says,

01:13:17.880 Rape Gang Inquiry report releases today. 0.91

01:13:20.540 Good.

01:13:21.380 We put those.

01:13:22.560 I know some of the people that have worked on that expressly.

01:13:26.360 It had to be tidied up from when the barristers,

01:13:29.140 what the barristers released.

01:13:31.700 You can't just release.

01:13:32.480 Well, you can, but to just release that,

01:13:35.240 it would be a little bit of a mess.

01:13:36.900 It would be a bit difficult.

01:13:38.060 So it's being released today.

01:13:39.740 Good.

01:13:41.120 good we'll see if the legacy corporate mainstream media try and memory hole it or just completely

01:13:46.560 ignore it just lie about it by omission i wouldn't be surprised if they do may not though hopefully

01:13:52.080 they don't hopefully okay i'm sure we'll cover it i'm sure we'll cover it here at lotus eaters

01:14:01.840 okay uh a fair few more still to get through tatum again says this war was a disaster for us in america

01:14:11.120 We'll see if there is some sort of final final deal

01:14:15.800 Within 60 days of now

01:14:17.220 And America

01:14:20.360 On that first night when Trump came out at Mar-a-Lago

01:14:23.980 And said this is a war about regime change

01:14:27.280 Well in those terms if nothing else

01:14:31.340 That war aim, that war goal was not realised was it

01:14:34.660 If nothing else 1.00

01:14:35.940 It's supposed to be all about stopping them

01:14:39.420 Flipped to stopping them 0.99

01:14:41.440 Enriching uranium and taking their

01:14:43.480 Their stockpile of enriched uranium

01:14:46.000 Off them, weapons grade uranium

01:14:47.300 So far that hasn't happened

01:14:49.680 Has it, we'll see

01:14:51.520 Okay, something wickedly again, Shona says

01:14:53.420 I'm reading Gulag Archipelago

01:14:55.520 It's mad, yeah great read

01:14:56.840 Alexander Solzhenitsyn

01:14:59.220 Very long, very very long

01:15:01.380 There's more than one

01:15:03.320 Volume as well, you may have one book

01:15:05.700 There's usually more than one

01:15:07.480 If it was all in one

01:15:09.200 Tome

01:15:10.440 It would be like this wide

01:15:11.680 So okay

01:15:12.820 The Gulag

01:15:13.520 Yeah 0.89

01:15:13.940 An amazing read

01:15:14.860 Listen to it on audiobook

01:15:16.620 If you're not into reading

01:15:17.880 The stories he tells

01:15:19.740 About 0.81

01:15:20.120 A Russian

01:15:22.220 Oppression

01:15:23.180 Repression

01:15:23.820 How he was treated

01:15:25.480 How many many many people

01:15:26.680 Were treated

01:15:27.120 Under the Soviet system

01:15:28.640 Leftists will try and claim

01:15:31.560 It's all made up and stuff

01:15:32.820 Or a lot of it is made up

01:15:33.820 And exaggerated

01:15:34.540 I don't think so

01:15:36.180 I don't think so

01:15:37.620 Oh socialism

01:15:38.320 Communism isn't all that bad

01:15:39.740 It's not really that

01:15:40.540 Solzhenitsyn is just

01:15:41.980 A lie

01:15:43.020 He's just a shill for the West 0.99

01:15:44.200 No 0.99

01:15:46.100 Not 0.81

01:15:47.120 Their gulag system

01:15:51.840 Harrowing

01:15:53.760 Hard to believe

01:15:55.480 Hard to believe that that happened in the 20th century

01:15:57.960 Thundercork

01:15:59.800 2029

01:16:01.180 2028 says

01:16:02.280 Russia bombed the equivalent of Notre Dame in Kiev

01:16:05.620 Did they?

01:16:06.740 When was that?

01:16:08.320 I'll have to look that up, was that recently, was that like last night or

01:16:11.620 Okay

01:16:14.540 Not good, not good, yeah

01:16:19.280 I hate that, I hate the, you know, the destruction of

01:16:22.260 Important buildings, wherever that happens in the world

01:16:26.720 Whether it's in Syria or Iraq or Afghanistan or wherever

01:16:31.820 I'm ashamed

01:16:34.580 or when actual Notre Dame burnt down

01:16:38.480 don't ask about the details of that

01:16:43.040 how that actually happened

01:16:44.280 a worker dropped a cigarette

01:16:49.320 was it

01:16:49.960 was it

01:16:51.980 okay

01:16:54.340 King Philip 1861

01:16:56.020 doesn't say anything

01:16:56.900 and just gives a donation

01:16:57.760 so thank you for that

01:16:58.480 thank you for that sir

01:16:59.320 appreciate it

01:17:00.400 Ezek 86 says

01:17:02.680 now that the dust has settled

01:17:04.340 why did the russians get ukrainian rent boys to burn the prime minister's property

01:17:08.360 well we've been through it i guess you sent that earlier but we've been through it today

01:17:11.960 yeah and when you put it like that exactly like that it doesn't like make obvious sense does it

01:17:17.440 doesn't sort of obviously add up

01:17:19.220 okay psycho hobo says that's their name at psycho hobo says have you read camp of the saints you

01:17:31.700 should no i haven't but i'm aware of it i know what's in it i've read like a synopsis a review

01:17:37.020 of it i know what the story is but i haven't actually read it myself it's actually relatively

01:17:40.920 difficult to get a copy i think it's like it's out of print and you could like get a copy off

01:17:45.940 amazon but it's like quite expensive i think that's the case i looked into it once about

01:17:49.880 buying a copy and it was like it wanted loads of money like 100 quid or something i was like

01:17:53.600 i don't know about that maybe i should though i should read it it's one of those ones i should

01:17:58.080 read but i know about it i know what the story is and and what it says but i really should read the

01:18:03.340 whole thing shouldn't i yeah okay good advice thank you thank you psycho hobo all right and 0.89

01:18:09.320 the last one here today diana bauer 3960 says taking the power away from girls filming these 0.77

01:18:18.960 foreigners approaching them by taking their phones away from them sorry what are you saying there

01:18:25.880 taking the power away from girls filming these

01:18:29.440 foreigners approaching them by taking their phones away from them 0.97

01:18:33.340 I don't know what that's in reference to what what you're saying that

01:18:36.920 in context of what I'm sorry

01:18:40.680 I'm sorry Diane but I'm not sure exactly what you're

01:18:45.380 saying or asking now I'm sorry 0.99

01:18:51.380 Okay, one more just popped in, Varug, Varug231 says, some good news, I saw the BBC News is having to do job cuts, nice, also I'm sure the government would never abuse any infrastructure made to ban under-16s and use it against normal people, true Raikou, yeah, yeah, it's what it is, it's obviously isn't it, it's an exercise in taking more power for themselves, censoring all of us, of course it is. 0.98

01:19:20.660 Alright, that's the show 0.99

01:19:22.080 It's now 19 minutes past 9

01:19:25.360 In the AM, British Summer Time

01:19:27.360 On Tuesday the 16th of June in the Year of Our Lord

01:19:29.300 2026, thank you for joining me

01:19:31.400 You're the glorious band, the chosen few

01:19:32.920 My band are brothers and sisters

01:19:34.080 Try and make the best of the day ahead if you can

01:19:35.960 I know it's not always easy

01:19:36.940 Carpe diem, seize the day

01:19:39.740 If it's possible to use your time

01:19:41.460 In a valuable way

01:19:43.720 Because it's the most precious thing you will ever have

01:19:46.300 Is your time

01:19:47.320 You've only got a finite number of days on this earth

01:19:50.640 Try and make them count if you can

01:19:53.240 Alright then, without being too preachy about it

01:19:54.780 Until tomorrow morning, take care

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - June 16, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 16th June 2026

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