The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 17th March 2026

00:00:00.000 what me yeah enough i'm fine cheers

00:00:03.900 it is tuesday tuesday the 17th of march in the year of our lord 2026 it has just ticked at one

00:00:14.180 minute past eight in the a.m greenwich meantime as always i'm joined by my producer little harry

00:00:19.060 how are you this morning good sir morning yeah i'm all good good you're the glorious band the

00:00:23.860 chosen few you know you are you know who you are the best among us my band of brothers and sisters

00:00:31.880 all right should we just jump straight into it then should we have a look what the corporate

00:00:34.180 mainstream media is banging on about this morning what that cabal of evil fleet street editors are

00:00:39.040 trying to beam directly into your brain box make you think it's important or not what are they

00:00:43.160 lying about omission lying by omission about this morning should we have a look should we just have

00:00:48.800 look. No further ado, let's bow. Race to stop meningitis spreading and Donald Trumped. Doesn't

00:01:00.440 mean he's done a fart, does it? Donald Trumped. No? Okay, alright. It's a bit lowbrow, isn't

00:01:11.200 it? Don't want to bring the tone down. Okay, Donald Trumped.

00:01:18.800 okay the telegraph the daily telegraph let's get serious now race to stop meningitis spreading

00:01:27.500 nationwide yeah this is one of those poor victims she's only an a-level student girl

00:01:34.460 yeah emergency measures after health bosses wait a day before warning of killer outbreak

00:01:43.380 there's some suggestion that there's some suggestion that there's some sort of thing

00:01:48.020 at kensbury university kent university some sort of event and people are maybe sharing vapes

00:01:53.940 that's got something to do with it i've got no idea if that's true or not that's just what one

00:01:57.940 one or two of the reports have been saying and that health bosses whatever that really means

00:02:05.220 were sort of aware of this thing but like left it a day before they sort of raised the alarm on some

00:02:11.460 level now the authorities want to health authorities need to try and trace or want to try and trace

00:02:24.380 quite a few thousand people that are at this particular event this particular student union

00:02:29.800 event yep so there you go there's a lot of the news this morning on the papers on the front

00:02:38.020 page of the papers anyway, is about this meningitis outbreak. So yeah, okay, Britain needs EU to help

00:02:47.600 it grow again, claims Reeves. No it doesn't, no it doesn't, oh my god. Oh my god, no it doesn't.

00:02:58.440 They hold us back in every single way, not just the bureaucracy and the red tape, but just, 1.00

00:03:04.300 oh my god what kind of what kind of moron would you have to be what kind of the type 1.00

00:03:10.720 of person that just rejects reality 1.00

00:03:12.780 that just chooses ideology over reality

00:03:19.340 britain needs eu to help grow again no no we don't it was a net apart from anything else

00:03:28.120 To zoom out on the grandest scale

00:03:31.280 We were a net contributor to it

00:03:34.560 It took more money off us than we got from it

00:03:37.540 Simple as that, bottom line

00:03:40.000 And then as a trading bloc

00:03:42.580 We can still and do still trade with them

00:03:44.620 It's not like we don't trade with them

00:03:46.840 We don't need them to grow

00:03:52.500 There are all sorts of other stories in the news this morning though

00:03:57.040 saying pushback saying to rachel reeves stop blaming brexit for everything there's a certain

00:04:08.020 point there's an old adage i can't remember who said it but um well you know there's the classic

00:04:13.520 cliche of a new government comes into power and whatever's going wrong whatever isn't perfect

00:04:18.300 goes well for them they always blame the old government well we inherited a dodgy situation

00:04:22.260 in the last lot. You can only rely on that for so long. Brexit was quite a few years

00:04:31.140 ago now. We've had quite a few years to get more trade deals in place and have done so

00:04:37.420 and all sorts of things. Going to keep blaming Brexit for everything. There's a certain point

00:04:43.860 where you can't keep blaming everything on something like that. There's another saying,

00:04:49.420 I can't remember who it was

00:04:50.300 Someone quite profound

00:04:52.740 Like Walt Whitman or something like that

00:04:54.300 I don't think it was Walt Whitman

00:04:55.320 But somebody like that said

00:04:56.280 At a certain age you've got to stop blaming your parents for things

00:04:59.760 If you're in your 30s and your 40s

00:05:03.240 You're still blaming your parents

00:05:04.700 It's like no, it's on you now

00:05:07.160 Or whatever

00:05:07.940 Alright

00:05:09.200 You can't blame everything on Brexit

00:05:11.520 Constantly

00:05:12.880 Okay

00:05:15.140 Ayatollah's son 0.95

00:05:16.880 The Ayatollah's son

00:05:18.880 escaped death by popping into garden for a stroll so apparently he was there in that compound that

00:05:25.300 got hit and if anyone saw the you know the footage of it i've played it loads you could find it very

00:05:32.240 easy if you haven't seen it it was that whole compound was blown two bits wasn't it like it

00:05:38.340 was hit by what three four five massive massive explosions the whole thing was turned to complete

00:05:47.460 rubble wasn't it so if you were in that vicinity at all yeah you were lucky to escape death

00:05:53.280 very very lucky um

00:05:58.660 so apparently the story is now coming out is that you know sort of what 90 i would say 90 95 percent

00:06:08.200 confirmed now that he is he was terribly wounded in that whether he's in a coma and or lost a leg

00:06:14.460 or not it's not confirmed but it seems like other than the iranian regime themselves saying no he's

00:06:22.100 fine he's absolutely fine um other than them it seems like he was he's wounded in that and yeah

00:06:29.140 he escaped just by a happen chance to go for a stroll in the gardens i mean i've looked out i've

00:06:36.020 watched that bit of footage and there's various buildings in the compound isn't it's not just like

00:06:40.260 one big like UN building it's there's various buildings and in the middle it looked like

00:06:46.740 more like in the middle or between them are some gardens the whole thing was pounded just exploded

00:06:53.640 so yeah he was lucky uh it's often away with these things isn't it serendipitous the way

00:07:00.060 history goes the way life works sliding doors tiny little details make all the difference in

00:07:07.480 the world. I just happened to fancy a walk at that moment.

00:07:15.340 B.A.'s wife and father are dead.

00:07:17.700 I think it's one of his kids as well.

00:07:22.520 Alright.

00:07:25.240 Mandelson cashed in with 1.5 million pounds

00:07:27.660 shares sale.

00:07:30.440 That's a story that we've mentioned it before, haven't we? Mandelson

00:07:33.220 co-founded and ran a business.

00:07:35.540 like a a a lobbying firm classic well you can't do anything else what else is

00:07:43.540 Madison really got it's all he knows right isn't it how to lobby ie pressure

00:07:51.920 and coerce people and bully them I wouldn't say blackmail because I don't

00:07:59.640 know you know I wouldn't I don't want to formally accuse Peter Mounderson of

00:08:05.700 anything like that but just bullying coerced people at the highest level yeah

00:08:14.760 not a lobbying firm and oh that lobbying firm when the police asked for all these

00:08:20.460 emails and they just disappeared that one oops we accidentally deleted the

00:08:25.140 servers or whatever it was oops yeah that and uh and it's collapsed now it imploded of course

00:08:33.160 because without manderson or manderson being completely disgraced it's not worth anything

00:08:36.240 the whole thing revolved around his personality right and his position oh but he did manage to

00:08:42.840 sell the shares for one and a half million quid though you can only imagine like before it imploded

00:08:48.160 Before his current disgrace

00:08:50.060 So he sort of knew it was coming 1.00

00:08:51.940 What a scumbag 1.00

00:08:54.680 What a scumbag 1.00

00:08:56.440 Is there anything 1.00

00:08:58.640 Mandelson has ever done

00:09:00.260 Which wasn't scummy

00:09:01.200 Really

00:09:03.260 Did he ever do something

00:09:05.560 Noble and just

00:09:08.000 And righteous and good

00:09:09.260 And altruistic

00:09:10.260 Like ever

00:09:10.780 Ever

00:09:12.160 Not that I'm aware of

00:09:16.580 His entire life was an exercise in dirty tricks

00:09:20.780 Wasn't it? Isn't it?

00:09:23.080 Trying to gain money and power and influence

00:09:25.800 Via any means possible 0.99

00:09:27.840 Horrible little wretch of a man 0.82

00:09:32.240 What a wretch 0.90

00:09:33.360 Exactly the sort of person I wouldn't want in politics

00:09:40.160 I don't want anywhere near politics

00:09:41.640 Okay

00:09:46.580 Okay.

00:09:48.580 Iran crisis to give Reeves a £3 billion windfall.

00:09:52.580 We'll see about that. We'll see about that.

00:09:54.580 The Daily Mail pretending it's not slop when it is.

00:09:58.580 Elton John had a huddle with Brooklyn Beckham and Brooklyn Beckham's wife.

00:10:02.580 The Mail's got an inside story.

00:10:09.580 The Mail. Joke.

00:10:12.580 it so desperately wants you to think

00:10:15.980 that it's something better than like the star or the guardian and it's not

00:10:21.260 the male group who owns the male group

00:10:26.460 thousands told get help now for meningitis risk

00:10:32.100 race to trace anyone who went to kent club like nightclub student nightclub

00:10:36.040 over three nights as deadly outbreak hits university and three schools

00:10:40.120 Yeah, that poor girl who died

00:10:44.720 Okay, so there's a lot of the front pages about the meningitis thing in Britain

00:10:48.560 They've decided in the senior editor, Boomer, WhatsApp, Facebook group

00:10:55.220 We can talk about meningitis today, yeah?

00:10:57.640 Yeah, a little bit of Mandy

00:10:58.660 Don't mention Rothschild

00:11:01.500 Okay, the star

00:11:03.340 Meningitis, victims, dad

00:11:06.600 We are beyond devastated

00:11:08.240 I mean, what can you say?

00:11:12.040 What real commentary can I give you about that?

00:11:14.720 Those star.

00:11:15.700 A giant picture of some vacuous actor.

00:11:22.160 Some other actor.

00:11:23.440 Real classy.

00:11:24.240 After he got his Oscar, went and got a burger.

00:11:27.580 Classy.

00:11:28.620 And the very, very unfortunate death of some poor, innocent young girl from meningitis.

00:11:34.580 Great.

00:11:35.000 Thanks, the star.

00:11:35.740 Cheers for that.

00:11:36.280 Great bit of news.

00:11:38.240 Getting my news there.

00:11:41.160 The Mirror. 0.97

00:11:42.940 Two chumps who think they're important because they read somebody else's words. 0.97

00:11:48.380 Starmer stays strong. 0.96

00:11:50.520 Trump rant and PM says we won't be dragged into Iran war hell.

00:11:54.620 That is a bit of the Iran story this morning.

00:11:56.440 More fallout about in the special relationship.

00:12:00.960 Starmer, as it says there, staying strong for once.

00:12:04.540 Well he's got the Islamic vote in Britain 0.99

00:12:09.140 To worry about hasn't he

00:12:09.900 He's more interested in that

00:12:11.700 Than Trump

00:12:13.480 I think it's important

00:12:20.240 The tragic meningitis outbreak

00:12:23.500 Terror on campus

00:12:24.360 Look a big queue of people

00:12:25.680 At Canterbury

00:12:27.040 Want to get antibiotics

00:12:30.200 It's an infection meningitis

00:12:32.400 It's just an infection

00:12:34.400 If you get antibiotics quick enough, I think

00:12:36.720 You survive it

00:12:38.960 Unless you're already very weak or something

00:12:40.580 Or it works so quickly

00:12:43.440 Anyway

00:12:46.020 If you get treated quickly enough

00:12:49.100 It should be fine

00:12:50.680 If you're already healthy, that is

00:12:52.380 Comorbidity is a different story

00:12:55.820 Alright, the sun

00:12:56.840 Again, the sun

00:12:57.680 Report on that Brooklyn Beckham sat at a table 0.99

00:13:01.680 With Elton John briefly

00:13:02.820 This young kid

00:13:06.020 This Arsenal kid

00:13:07.000 He's a gooner

00:13:07.700 Harry

00:13:09.680 This 16 year old's a gooner 0.78

00:13:12.180 That can't be

00:13:16.560 That can't be the word for it

00:13:18.060 Surely

00:13:18.680 He's a gunner

00:13:20.720 He's 16

00:13:22.160 He plays for Arsenal Football Club

00:13:23.800 The Gunners

00:13:24.860 Which means he's a gooner

00:13:27.260 That's very unfortunate

00:13:29.340 Apparently he's really good

00:13:32.980 Well he scored a goal

00:13:33.560 In his debut

00:13:34.860 I think it might have been his debut

00:13:36.020 Imagine that

00:13:36.780 Being 16

00:13:37.380 And you play in the premiership

00:13:38.440 And score a goal

00:13:39.080 What?

00:13:40.380 Man

00:13:40.780 Tap before

00:13:42.220 Wasn't Wayne Rooney 16

00:13:43.380 It's not entirely unheard of

00:13:45.400 But still

00:13:45.880 Imagine that

00:13:47.380 I guess that would be

00:13:48.180 Alright

00:13:50.400 We'll probably do a poll later

00:13:51.860 And 89% of you say

00:13:53.040 You don't care about football

00:13:53.900 Probably will actually

00:13:55.340 I don't care

00:13:57.500 I care less

00:13:58.680 About football as the years go by

00:14:00.200 I really really do

00:14:01.280 Okay

00:14:03.980 Mum's meningitis fears

00:14:05.980 Vapes spread killer bug

00:14:08.980 She says

00:14:10.400 She thinks

00:14:11.260 I think she thinks

00:14:13.840 And her daughter

00:14:16.860 Has got an e-cig

00:14:18.880 An e-cig

00:14:20.260 And she shared it

00:14:22.940 At this particular nightclub place

00:14:24.980 Where they think that patient zero

00:14:27.180 was when the meningitis outbreak began

00:14:29.040 passing around

00:14:31.280 a vape didn't help 0.93

00:14:32.320 probably it seems

00:14:34.600 I don't know according to that report

00:14:36.180 alright

00:14:38.720 the metro

00:14:39.880 the metro

00:14:46.900 don't want

00:14:49.780 the US pres

00:14:52.220 the president of the United States

00:14:54.040 isolated after

00:14:56.060 iran war threats donald trumped

00:15:03.020 okay it sounds like he did a fart in the past tense donald trumped

00:15:12.300 all right so it's just a story basically that um the donald wants more allies to get involved

00:15:18.380 in it i mean the stories yesterday it's like it's like today a little bit of a groundhog day

00:15:24.140 Yesterday it was all about the Oscars and this sort of thing

00:15:27.380 And today's pretty much the exact same thing

00:15:29.660 Again the cabal of editors didn't have anything particularly new

00:15:32.840 Other than the meningitis thing

00:15:34.200 Which is probably why they've gone with it so much

00:15:36.100 Because there's not really fantastic movements in the Iran war

00:15:41.700 But yeah so the little thing says

00:15:45.040 NATO threat a new broadside at Starmer

00:15:49.400 As leaders refuse to send warships to face Iran strikes

00:15:53.440 So yeah that Donald wants

00:15:56.200 He called on

00:15:57.540 China, France, the UK

00:16:00.020 And I think they asked Germany as well

00:16:02.340 And more or less

00:16:04.600 All of them said no

00:16:05.420 Like NATO itself

00:16:06.580 NATO itself is sort of

00:16:10.260 Saying no

00:16:11.500 That it's not

00:16:20.560 Our war

00:16:21.320 One of the things about this

00:16:25.620 That is what I've said

00:16:27.040 I said it on the State of Politics we recorded yesterday

00:16:29.360 State of Politics

00:16:30.700 My other channel with Nate, Mr H Reviews

00:16:33.160 Was that

00:16:34.480 The thing about

00:16:38.540 How the Donald and the United States and Israel

00:16:41.640 Didn't really invite anyone else

00:16:43.620 To the planning phase

00:16:45.020 Now one, you sort of can't

00:16:47.420 Don't necessarily blame them for that

00:16:49.200 just because of operational security could you trust you know like the German or the 1.00

00:16:59.200 UK government not to sort of leak information like that to

00:17:05.040 anybody to anyone could you really trust them with like a super super duper secret operation

00:17:10.000 like they're going to hit the Ayatollah in his compound in the middle of Tehran

00:17:13.920 any moment as soon as they get the intelligence that he's there they're going to do it

00:17:17.200 is waiting for that could you trust like the uk foreign office with that probably not right i mean

00:17:24.480 may well maybe the answer to that is no but okay all right still all the no one else was invited

00:17:31.520 to the planning stage and so they just did it like starmer and i believe macron and i guess

00:17:37.280 the german leader found out about this like everyone else on the news that saturday morning

00:17:42.640 okay okay fair enough if that's how you want to do it that's how you want to play it

00:17:47.080 the pentagon that's how you want to do it fine but now you're asking them

00:17:52.880 to send whole parts of their navy and stuff

00:17:58.180 and you've already been quite rude about it as well

00:18:04.440 like when starmer what a week ago or more or more during the first week of it

00:18:10.040 started talking about, or in the second week rather

00:18:14.040 started talking about sending ships

00:18:15.640 and Trump said

00:18:16.660 Trump said, well we don't need your ships

00:18:20.200 after we've already won the war

00:18:22.180 and a number of barbs and jibes

00:18:26.620 that Trump has sent Starmer's way

00:18:29.980 you remember we did that, we reported on last week

00:18:35.160 that they had a telephone call at one point

00:18:37.500 I guess it would have been last week

00:18:38.660 and it was described as not being a cosy affair

00:18:41.980 or not being a rosy affair or something

00:18:43.620 and that Trump wouldn't listen to Starmer.

00:18:47.440 When Starmer was trying to explain his position

00:18:49.480 and where he's going to do what he's going to do,

00:18:52.260 Trump just wouldn't let him speak

00:18:54.940 or wasn't listening to it,

00:18:56.820 refused to sort of listen to his reasoning.

00:19:01.100 Now you want, now you're sort of insisting,

00:19:03.900 trying to insist.

00:19:06.320 Or even threatening NATO, that was part of it.

00:19:08.400 He was saying, Trump was saying yesterday, or it was Sunday even, wasn't it, that it's not fair, it's not right that you, European countries, Britain, UK, France, UK, Germany, France, it's not really right that you're not just going to send loads of your fleet to the Gulf of Aden and the Persian Gulf, the Straits of Hormuz.

00:19:34.080 Because we, the United States

00:19:35.880 Have spent loads of money on NATO

00:19:38.200 To protect you

00:19:39.920 So you sort of owe us

00:19:44.380 I mean, do we?

00:19:46.280 It's Israel's war 0.99

00:19:47.380 It's Nettie's war, isn't it? 0.65

00:19:55.640 And the whole NATO project

00:19:56.960 Is just pure altruism from the United States

00:19:59.000 Because it cares about the security of Western Europe so much

00:20:01.900 Is it?

00:20:02.280 Or is it always an exercise in global hegemony

00:20:05.520 From your point of view

00:20:06.640 You just spent loads of NATO over the decades

00:20:09.960 Just out of the goodness of your heart was it

00:20:11.660 It's not so you could be

00:20:13.320 Like a de facto parent to us

00:20:15.140 Tell us what we can or can't do

00:20:17.700 Tell us what sorts of military

00:20:19.680 And missiles and weapon systems

00:20:21.780 We are or aren't allowed to have

00:20:23.200 Basically control and dominate us in various ways

00:20:27.840 Right take NATO

00:20:30.580 Okay, right, take NATO funding away then.

00:20:32.620 Do it, yeah.

00:20:33.060 I don't care.

00:20:33.800 Get rid of NATO.

00:20:34.680 It destabilises the world, if anything.

00:20:36.900 You're going to hold NATO as a sword of Damocles over us.

00:20:39.600 You've got to do what Bibi and what I say now.

00:20:42.140 Otherwise, we won't pay for NATO anymore.

00:20:43.660 Don't pay for it then.

00:20:44.380 Don't do it then.

00:20:45.100 Don't worry about it.

00:20:46.020 We'll look after ourselves, like the old days.

00:20:48.040 How about that?

00:20:53.800 Calm down a bit, but yeah, I know.

00:20:56.980 The Guardian.

00:20:58.240 The Guardian.

00:20:59.620 Ugh.

00:21:00.580 look a woman who's got the ability to read 1.00

00:21:09.400 other people's lines

00:21:12.140 there you go

00:21:15.180 you've got to pay attention to what she wears now 1.00

00:21:17.680 what she thinks and says

00:21:19.020 because she stood in front of her

00:21:22.360 someone pointed a camera at her

00:21:23.800 while she read someone else's words

00:21:25.460 okay

00:21:27.560 PM Val's UK will resist US pressure to join Iran war

00:21:31.660 Alright, yeah

00:21:33.440 Bibby's war, they call it the oil war

00:21:37.800 Call it Bibby's war 1.00

00:21:39.800 Meningitis confirmed at university and schools

00:21:44.140 Alright

00:21:44.540 The Independent

00:21:46.180 Same woman got given an award by a bunch of weirdos and wrongers in LA 1.00

00:21:51.580 So that's important 0.51

00:21:53.160 Freaks in L.A. give Irish freak an award 1.00

00:21:58.760 Not NATO's war

00:22:04.320 Quote, not NATO's war

00:22:05.780 Allies reject Trump's call for help in Straits of Hormuz

00:22:09.300 Germany and UK among countries unwitting to send warship

00:22:12.660 As Keir Starmer won't be drawn into the wider conflict

00:22:16.780 Prompting the US President to say he was not happy

00:22:19.480 that Royal Navy won't help patrol in vital oil route. 0.88

00:22:24.820 Well, you started the war.

00:22:26.380 You haven't got giant fleets.

00:22:28.440 Yeah, the Royal Navy is not up to snuff,

00:22:30.680 and you've got multiple, multiple fleets.

00:22:35.760 He wanted our aircraft carriers, or both our aircraft carriers.

00:22:38.440 I saw Trump say that.

00:22:39.580 He wanted, in the initial phase,

00:22:41.880 he wanted both our aircraft carriers to go there.

00:22:44.180 So he didn't tell us about it,

00:22:45.680 and then the second it happened,

00:22:46.820 the second Starmer finds out about it on TV,

00:22:48.700 Donald's like both your aircraft carriers

00:22:50.960 They're now

00:22:51.560 Who are you against what

00:22:53.780 Who do you think you're not actually the god emperor

00:22:57.140 You're not actually a god emperor

00:22:58.720 And haven't you got like

00:23:02.140 10 aircraft carriers at sea at any given time

00:23:04.900 Have you got something like 15 or 20 aircraft carriers

00:23:07.560 And about 10 of which

00:23:09.320 At any given moment are at sea

00:23:11.080 Operational

00:23:11.960 But you need both our aircraft carriers there

00:23:15.420 Do you

00:23:15.920 Couldn't you peel off half of the Atlantic fleet

00:23:19.640 Or Pacific fleet

00:23:20.680 And that's way bigger than the entire Royal Navy

00:23:25.680 But you need both our aircraft carriers there, do you?

00:23:30.060 But you're not happy we didn't immediately jump

00:23:32.200 Netty manipulated you into a war, his war

00:23:38.840 And now we've got to send both our aircraft carriers there 0.99

00:23:41.840 No, no, no, don't worry about it, mate

00:23:43.580 Don't worry about it

00:23:44.840 UK in talks on Royal Navy role in Gulf to end oil blockade

00:23:52.700 UK preparing to step up involvement in Middle East

00:23:58.220 although PM insists it will quote not be drawn into a wider war

00:24:01.940 government working closely with US, France and Gulf states

00:24:05.500 on plans to unblock key shipping channel

00:24:08.980 Britain already preparing to send mine hunting ships to the Gulf

00:24:13.360 and is stepping up production of octopus interceptor drones

00:24:17.740 I guess they're the boat drones 0.60

00:24:19.540 to ready them for the Middle East

00:24:23.000 Trump says he's, quote, not happy, quote, with UK's level of support

00:24:28.380 and Trump's words said

00:24:30.440 we spent a lot of money on NATO to protect you

00:24:33.820 again, out of the goodness of your heart, was it?

00:24:38.180 you really care about us being protected

00:24:40.200 is that really the motivation for that?

00:24:42.800 Is that what that was?

00:24:44.400 Not an exercise in power.

00:24:48.860 New Supreme Leader

00:24:50.020 escaped death by seconds.

00:24:53.560 So it's emerging, I think,

00:24:54.900 about the Iotology.

00:24:56.920 He is alive, but terribly wounded.

00:24:59.200 Those reports do seem to be

00:25:01.060 what it is.

00:25:03.320 The Times. The Venerable Times.

00:25:07.400 Can Michael B. Jordan

00:25:08.900 save cinema? Nope.

00:25:10.720 Trump turns fire on Starmer

00:25:13.500 Terrible, that's what Trump's words

00:25:15.360 It's terrible to refuse warships for Gulf

00:25:17.460 Is it?

00:25:20.480 Maybe have a strategic plan and an off-ramp

00:25:22.960 And an actual game plan

00:25:24.780 And invite us to the planning stage then

00:25:27.380 Threat to end US military support for Ukraine

00:25:35.380 Good, do that, yeah, do that

00:25:36.480 Yeah, that'd be great, yeah

00:25:39.180 why do you keep giving that obviously corrupt little goblin man in kiev billions of pounds 1.00

00:25:45.740 yeah do that yeah cut off military support and money to them yes please yeah maybe it'll end

00:25:50.600 that war quicker if you do that pm vows not to be drawn into war well good it's the one thing

00:25:58.740 it's the one thing you know the one thing uh that that uh starm has done thus far in government

00:26:07.720 that I've sort of agreed with, of any real note.

00:26:12.680 Labour paid for a Rayner tax barrister.

00:26:17.500 Health boss is too slow over meningitis alert.

00:26:20.760 Okay, if you say so, the Times.

00:26:23.640 The Financial Times.

00:26:26.320 Rayner charm offensive seeks to lay investor worries to rest.

00:26:30.800 That's Angela, the fridge Rayner. 1.00

00:26:33.740 That's her name now.

00:26:34.940 She's the fridge. 0.98

00:26:36.260 the fridge charm offensive seeks to lay investor worries to rest

00:26:40.660 labor hopeful the bookies have her like the the favorite at the moment 0.99

00:26:45.840 to replace keir star must be the prime minister i mean she's 1.00

00:26:50.380 she's still got an ongoing investigation into her herself so i don't know i don't

00:26:57.560 really know how or why unless that's cleared up very very quickly

00:27:00.860 i.e. in the next month or so

00:27:03.020 but yeah the bookies have

00:27:06.000 angela the fridge reiner as

00:27:07.400 the favourite

00:27:08.760 apparently she's made noises now

00:27:11.960 to city bosses

00:27:13.320 bankers

00:27:14.600 that she won't go hard left

00:27:17.920 yeah labour hopeful courts city bosses

00:27:21.120 promise made of no lurch to the left

00:27:24.760 well she's not got any strong ideology

00:27:29.620 She's not capable of, I honestly don't think that she's capable of having any sort of extreme ideology, extreme leftist ideology. 0.98

00:27:41.260 That would require having done some reading, wouldn't it?

00:27:47.920 I don't think she's ever done that.

00:27:51.340 I don't feel like she's very well read. 0.85

00:27:55.360 Is that really, really arrogant and conceited?

00:27:59.620 I do feel like that. I do feel like she's unlettered. I wonder if you asked her something sort of kind of serious, like kind of academic level, you know, something about the Austrian school or, I don't know, anything. Something about actual Marxist-Leninism or, you know, anything like that. 0.95

00:28:21.820 Ask her about Foucault or something

00:28:24.520 Ask her about Russo or something

00:28:28.240 Whether she would know what on earth you were talking about

00:28:31.740 Probably not right

00:28:33.880 I would suspect she'd have no idea

00:28:37.100 Ask her something about

00:28:40.420 Something from the life of Keir Hardee

00:28:42.840 Anyway

00:28:51.820 Starmer and allies reject Trump's call for warships, okay there we go, again the US

00:28:57.700 Navy, why do they really need anyone else's warships, they've got loads, they've

00:29:04.700 got loads and loads, it doesn't make sense to me why he would want or need a

00:29:09.820 British or a French or even German like cruiser or frigate or destroyer or

00:29:16.540 anything like that or aircraft carrier they've got loads like probably the u.s

00:29:23.420 just just the pacific fleet is probably bigger probably i don't know i think it's bigger than

00:29:31.480 the royal navy the french navy and the german navy all put together

00:29:35.480 just the pacific fleet just the u.s pacific fleet

00:29:39.700 They don't need anyone else's ships

00:29:43.840 Alright, Manson made 1.5 million from advice firm

00:29:47.400 Advice firm

00:29:48.380 It's an advice firm

00:29:50.360 It's not a tentacle of something very, very dark and evil

00:29:56.900 Epstein related

00:29:58.100 Ehud Barak

00:29:59.120 Nathaniel Rothschild related

00:30:01.960 It's an advice firm

00:30:03.480 Okay

00:30:04.860 Anyway, he sold his shares before it collapsed

00:30:07.740 Made a half million and a half

00:30:09.000 Dirty

00:30:10.400 Dirty

00:30:12.080 Before colleagues were wiped out

00:30:13.980 Yeah right

00:30:14.340 Yeah

00:30:14.520 Absolute cut throat

00:30:18.160 Expresso

00:30:20.880 It's a good paper

00:30:21.860 Some 0.93

00:30:24.800 Some laughing buffoon 0.99

00:30:28.060 Laugh it up clown 1.00

00:30:29.920 While the world burns 0.97

00:30:31.900 Okay

00:30:36.160 Labour accused of blaming

00:30:38.180 our EU departure rather than accepting their failures i had to read that two or three times

00:30:43.360 this morning for there should be a comma in there shouldn't there labor accused of blaming our EU

00:30:48.900 departure rather than accepting their failures stop pointing the finger at brexit and fix economy

00:30:55.240 there we go i said that earlier didn't i at the top of the show can't keep blaming things

00:31:01.660 All the stuff that happened years and years and years ago

00:31:04.900 Endlessly

00:31:06.860 The ball is now in your court

00:31:09.820 So make it work

00:31:12.080 Alright, that's the front pages

00:31:15.140 Let's have a look at our poll this morning

00:31:16.860 What did we say on our poll?

00:31:18.520 I honestly don't remember

00:31:19.760 We put

00:31:21.260 Should the UK send warships to the Gulf?

00:31:26.220 Okay

00:31:26.600 I think I've made it quite clear, haven't I?

00:31:28.780 In my position

00:31:29.240 I said no

00:31:30.000 oh okay it's closer than I thought so 32% of you say yes 52% of you say no and 16% say maybe

00:31:40.360 so it's a win for the for the no vote but not resounding not overwhelming a big chunk of you

00:31:48.780 or like a third of you basically almost exactly say we should so there you go all right still

00:31:57.200 winning but not resounding is it not overwhelming although as i always say don't i if it was a

00:32:07.700 national referendum you would claim a complete mandate for all time on the strength of that

00:32:12.780 result but yeah a third of you all right i'll take that on board a third of you all right let's have

00:32:19.500 a look at the websites today a couple of interesting stories i thought um on on the

00:32:25.420 Maybe say, oh, the US embassy in Iraq, obviously in Baghdad, in the green zone in Baghdad,

00:32:30.420 has been hit a couple of times for a second time last night, was it?

00:32:36.140 So Iran's definitely still got some munitions, hasn't it?

00:32:41.300 It may be running low, and even if the Pentagon and Hexeth are right to say

00:32:46.540 they've taken out the vast majority of their ability, their capability to launch sort of medium,

00:32:52.520 not truly medium

00:32:55.260 but like you know

00:32:56.780 I was going to say medium range missiles

00:32:58.660 a true medium range missile

00:33:01.380 would be still way way further

00:33:03.160 than Iran to Baghdad

00:33:05.460 but you know what I mean

00:33:06.740 not super short range ones

00:33:08.240 so they can still

00:33:10.040 launch stuff into Baghdad

00:33:12.140 there you go

00:33:13.420 that's got to be annoying for the Americans

00:33:15.080 a bit embarrassing even

00:33:16.300 yeah there's another war

00:33:21.220 going on in the world as well right now and i'm not talking about ukraine i think it was literally

00:33:27.540 this friday before this war started i think it was very shortly before the war started that

00:33:33.600 saturday morning i think it was the friday before i did a little a little bit on the bow show

00:33:40.960 breakfast with o about how pakistan and afghanistan are just completely at war

00:33:47.240 like they both have just said that

00:33:51.480 their foreign ministers or their government spokesmen

00:33:54.300 have said we're completely at war with each other

00:33:56.180 it's a war, a full blown war

00:33:58.420 Pakistan and Afghanistan

00:33:59.540 still going on

00:34:02.840 completely gone by the wayside hasn't it

00:34:05.340 as far as the corporate mainstream media is concerned

00:34:07.140 well this is at least now

00:34:10.800 there is a story here about that

00:34:13.480 it's um

00:34:14.160 as I said I think yesterday I didn't know that

00:34:17.100 The corporate mainstream media can't keep up the tempo

00:34:20.400 Of just talking about

00:34:21.920 Iran and nothing else 0.99

00:34:23.880 Other stories are now seeping in

00:34:25.440 Dozens killed after Afghan rehab centre

00:34:28.460 Struck

00:34:28.860 So the Afghans say 0.99

00:34:31.340 In the middle of Kabul

00:34:32.640 There was some big drug rehab centre

00:34:36.060 Where there was loads of druggies

00:34:38.000 There trying to get better

00:34:39.460 And Pakistan hit it with a missile

00:34:41.840 And killed loads of people

00:34:42.760 Dozens

00:34:44.940 Pakistan say it was

00:34:48.280 It wasn't a drug rehabilitation centre

00:34:50.780 It was something to do with their

00:34:52.640 The Afghan 0.96

00:34:54.060 Military infrastructure in some way

00:34:56.660 So you go, just remember

00:35:00.680 Pakistan and Afghanistan are entirely 1.00

00:35:02.860 At war with each other as well

00:35:04.260 Throw that on the pile

00:35:07.200 Not a million miles away, I mean they've got a border

00:35:10.900 With

00:35:11.320 Iran haven't they 0.80

00:35:14.940 It's all right there, the whole region

00:35:17.080 So basically everything from

00:35:21.200 Everything from the Khyber Pass to the Mediterranean is at war

00:35:26.400 Everything from India to the Lebanon to the Mediterranean is at war

00:35:33.680 Oh but nothing happens, nothing happens

00:35:37.020 What a cretinous view that is, was, was

00:35:40.860 That nothing ever happens

00:35:43.340 Wake me up when something happens

00:35:44.820 bro the nothing ever happens guy is undefeated is he is he oh i don't understand the meme when

00:35:54.480 they say nothing ever happens what they mean is anything short of a full nuclear war 0.82

00:35:59.220 only that will count as something happening more moronic way to view the world in not 0.87

00:36:07.520 understanding reality properly nothing ever happens you're right you're right all right

00:36:13.940 Let's see, there was something in, a couple of things in the mail online I thought was mildly interesting.

00:36:20.980 The meningitis thing.

00:36:23.980 Let's see, what was it?

00:36:25.980 Oh, just this story about Putin.

00:36:27.800 There's a whole story here, it's quite a long article.

00:36:30.920 Because yesterday I reported, was it at the end of last week?

00:36:35.160 The story that Putin, the hidden hand of Putin, I think it was at the end of last week.

00:36:39.080 The hidden hand of Putin is really controlling everything in Iran.

00:36:43.100 It's all Putin.

00:36:43.940 it's quite a long article here and i did read it

00:36:47.600 but it's just it's basically loads of conjecture saying

00:36:51.300 we think maybe this one analyst has said that maybe that happened

00:36:55.400 i mean basically they run down a whole list of things that maybe russia has

00:36:59.920 done and been involved in but this line says

00:37:02.400 the full extent of moscow's involvement remains unclear

00:37:06.040 i mean that's that's it though that is that is sort of the bottom line on this

00:37:12.260 yeah, maybe they've done all sorts of things

00:37:14.620 like supplied Iran with intelligence

00:37:16.940 supplied them with

00:37:18.660 Iranian design but Russian

00:37:20.760 built drones

00:37:21.640 all sorts of stuff is possible

00:37:24.060 but at the moment it remains

00:37:26.940 unclear

00:37:27.460 so

00:37:29.920 I mean, we can say it

00:37:33.100 and maybe it's true

00:37:34.080 but

00:37:34.820 it remains unclear

00:37:38.640 here's a story

00:37:40.860 i thought was interesting today about jerry adams's trial

00:37:46.380 said ex-bbc reporter a veteran panorama reporter tells high court

00:37:56.440 he's open-mouthed that chutzpah of jerry adams denying ira role

00:38:01.700 to anyone who's really young i mean harry you don't remember the troubles at all would you be

00:38:08.420 the good friday agreement was before you're born or something i don't know but i mean i i uh we

00:38:13.500 had a couple lessons on it in history class did they say that the english are evil uh not in

00:38:23.180 history but in english we have like a whole a whole thing about that yeah

00:38:28.140 oh right

00:38:30.680 that on bloody sunday evil english paratroopers just shot a load of

00:38:37.680 completely innocent civilians dead for no reason and that's like the only thing

00:38:41.820 that ever happened in that and yeah

00:38:45.080 okay don't look it don't look into the warren point massacre

00:38:51.160 don't look into that one though

00:38:53.700 warren point 0.97

00:38:57.680 just evil English people 1.00

00:39:02.300 just murder Irish people 1.00

00:39:03.360 for no reason 0.99

00:39:04.000 that's the story

00:39:06.400 of the Troubles

00:39:07.240 that's all you need to know

00:39:09.620 no of course not

00:39:11.060 so the IRA

00:39:13.260 or the original IRA

00:39:14.280 did a massive campaign

00:39:16.800 of bombing

00:39:17.320 of actually killing

00:39:18.360 innocent civilians

00:39:19.100 the Arndale Centre

00:39:20.720 in Manchester

00:39:21.520 just blow that up 1.00

00:39:22.720 oh just shoot 0.98

00:39:23.800 just launched

00:39:24.360 a

00:39:25.520 a mortar shell into the back garden

00:39:29.160 of number 10 Downing Street

00:39:30.440 just shoot a shoulder

00:39:36.920 mounted rocket propelled grenade 0.96

00:39:39.060 into the MI6 building

00:39:40.860 in the middle of London

00:39:41.640 blow up loads of things

00:39:49.200 loads of civilian things

00:39:50.240 loads of completely innocent people killed

00:39:52.920 all the time

00:39:54.660 okay let's read a bit of this

00:40:00.600 I talked about it the other day didn't I

00:40:02.840 for anyone who sort of may not really know

00:40:06.880 it's such a long story that

00:40:10.420 just very very quickly then you've got Sinn Féin the political party

00:40:14.240 and the IRA or the provisional IRA as the actual militant wing

00:40:18.820 paramilitary wing that Gerry Adams was the leader of Sinn Féin

00:40:22.740 and claimed he never, ever, ever had anything to do

00:40:26.320 with the actual paramilitary side.

00:40:30.160 Gerry Adams has spectacularly deluded himself.

00:40:34.320 That's a quote, spectacularly deluded himself.

00:40:37.180 By continuing to deny he ever held a leading role in the IRA,

00:40:40.900 a veteran BBC journalist told the High Court today.

00:40:43.660 John Ware, just to say, Gerry Adams has been taken to court in London

00:40:47.820 by three people that survived some of the bombings.

00:40:51.040 they're claiming it's a civil case

00:40:53.520 they're claiming one pound of compensation

00:40:56.360 it's not about actual money

00:41:00.320 or sending Gerry Adams to jail

00:41:02.440 it's about letting the record of history show

00:41:06.260 that he was in fact

00:41:08.480 a senior member of the IRA

00:41:11.040 if not calling the shots largely

00:41:12.960 during a certain period of time

00:41:14.560 John Ware, that's the journalist

00:41:16.880 who worked for the BBC's flagship investigative series

00:41:20.940 panorama and has made documentaries for other channels uh said it would be a travesty of history

00:41:26.480 recorded that adams was never a member of the paramilitary group the former sinn fein president

00:41:30.960 77 is being sued for vote uh quote uh vindictory damages quote of just one pound by three survivors

00:41:40.640 of ira bombings on the british mainland between 1973 and 1996 he has always denied being a member

00:41:46.620 of the ira the claimants in the civil trial alleged that due to his leading leading role in

00:41:52.440 the terror group adams was quote directly responsible quote for the attacks the trial

00:41:56.880 has heard evidence from former soldiers and police officers involved in intelligence gathering in

00:42:01.780 northern ireland during the troubles the former ira member a former ira member and the family of

00:42:07.780 an ira murder victim who met with adams who all claim he was a senior ira figure and even the

00:42:14.260 group's quote de facto leader quote in a written witness statement mr ware who has reported on the

00:42:20.260 troubles for 50 years and interviewed adams on at least two occasions said he wasn't sure whether

00:42:25.940 adams uh has quote persuaded himself that he wasn't in the provisional ira by virtue of his

00:42:32.020 strategic and leadership role as opposed to being the person who pulled the trigger or planted the

00:42:37.300 bombs, quote. Of his continual denials, he, the BBC journalist, the Panorama journalist,

00:42:48.360 added, quote, the rest of us are metaphorically open-mouthed at his chutzpah, given the sheer

00:42:54.280 weight of evidence from his colleagues, comrades and other sources, end quote.

00:42:58.260 There's a picture of Gerry Adams there.

00:43:06.260 Gerry Adams, who claimed he only wanted a united Ireland

00:43:11.260 by peaceful means, had nothing to do with any violence.

00:43:16.260 The court heard Mr Ware, 78, made a 1993 ITV documentary about Adams entitled

00:43:22.260 The Honourable Member for West Belfast. At the time, Adams had just been elected

00:43:27.260 as the abstentionist Sinn Féin MP for the constituency.

00:43:32.160 He said that he interviewed IRA figures who had known Adams

00:43:36.660 from when he allegedly joined the IRA at the age of 16,

00:43:40.240 and they wanted to speak because of his constant denialism.

00:43:44.820 Then there's another quote.

00:43:46.540 The principal motivation for many provisional IRA interviewees

00:43:51.120 was their complete and utter astonishment

00:43:53.560 at Adams' brazen, unequivocal and unambiguous denial of his role in the provisional IRA, he said.

00:44:00.080 It clearly grated with many of them that when Adams said that he strongly supported the armed struggle,

00:44:05.840 his denial of actual IRA membership allowed him to avoid taking personal responsibility for their actions.

00:44:11.980 He added, Adams seemingly elevated himself to a higher moral plane than the IRA

00:44:16.560 when it was they who were sacrificing life and limb, as they would see it,

00:44:22.260 for a cause Adams was leading.

00:44:26.080 In short, they saw Adams' denial of IRA membership 0.97

00:44:30.100 as insufferably hypocritical.

00:44:33.060 So the actual IRA are annoyed with Adams on some level, 0.96

00:44:37.320 Gerry Adams, for denying it.

00:44:40.420 It's like, we put everything on the line,

00:44:42.200 we're doing everything for you in aid of you,

00:44:43.780 you're the leader of the thing

00:44:44.460 and you won't even admit to being one of us.

00:44:47.560 One of us.

00:44:48.180 obviously Jerry Adams was doing that

00:44:53.060 for political reasons

00:44:54.340 but even now

00:44:56.920 or at the time

00:44:57.620 but certainly now

00:44:58.720 a lot of them are saying

00:45:00.200 like it's time to just

00:45:01.160 aren't you proud of what you did

00:45:02.860 of leading that movement

00:45:03.840 you're still going to deny it

00:45:06.020 alright

00:45:08.300 when it comes to suggestion

00:45:10.040 when it was suggested

00:45:11.780 by Adams' barrister

00:45:12.960 Edward Craven Casey

00:45:14.060 that his client was never in the IRA

00:45:16.940 Mr Ware

00:45:17.500 who left the BBC in 2012 said

00:45:20.000 quote

00:45:20.320 it would be a travesty

00:45:21.920 if that is how history recorded

00:45:23.440 Mr Adams' role in the conflict

00:45:25.320 he also added

00:45:26.500 as I have said

00:45:27.600 and said to Gerry himself

00:45:28.820 there is no question

00:45:29.960 he played a seminal role

00:45:31.220 in bringing the conflict to an end

00:45:32.980 but he also played a seminal role

00:45:35.220 in starting it

00:45:36.280 Mr Ware also claimed

00:45:41.260 that the sources

00:45:41.840 had told him

00:45:43.520 that the 1979 IRA member

00:45:45.860 of Lord Mountbatten

00:45:46.860 A second cousin of Queen Elizabeth II

00:45:48.500 Could not have been carried out without his approval

00:45:51.520 Lord Mountbatten

00:45:53.760 A World War II hero basically

00:45:55.340 Old man by that point

00:45:58.420 Went out on a boat

00:45:59.700 With a couple of other members of his family I believe

00:46:01.480 One little old lady in his family 0.99

00:46:02.960 And he had an IRA bomb in it

00:46:04.740 And blew them all up

00:46:05.880 One of Margaret Thatcher's

00:46:13.000 Who is it?

00:46:14.220 Airy Neve

00:46:15.000 one of Margaret Thatcher's closest advisors

00:46:17.280 they put a bomb in his car

00:46:19.720 and as he was driving out of Parliament

00:46:21.440 it blew up, he was literally like

00:46:23.280 there's like an underground car park

00:46:25.500 right next to Parliament

00:46:26.780 and as he was driving up that ramp

00:46:28.740 like inside the Parliament

00:46:31.500 compound, inside the gates 0.89

00:46:33.000 blew up, blew both his legs off, killed him

00:46:37.140 died 0.99

00:46:37.760 Gerry Adams

00:46:41.540 don't know nothing about that

00:46:43.240 nothing to do with that

00:46:44.200 That was other people

00:46:46.040 I'm just Sinn Féin

00:46:49.080 I support their actions from afar

00:46:53.680 Says Gerry Adams

00:46:56.740 Okay

00:46:59.440 So that quote where it said he misses out

00:47:04.160 He helped end the conflict

00:47:07.860 He also helped started it

00:47:09.440 Gerry Adams has been a significant figure in the conflict

00:47:13.800 and helped end it but also misses out the case that he also started it that is the missing bit

00:47:18.680 and i think it's important history should record that as the objective truth the court also heard

00:47:23.300 yesterday from a retired british army brigadier ian leels who served numerous tours of northern

00:47:29.620 ireland from the 1970s he said he had been privy to high-grade intelligence quote high-grade

00:47:35.320 intelligence which suggested former northern ireland deputy minister martin mcginnis

00:47:39.400 the late martin mcginnis they made the queen shake his hand

00:47:43.560 martin mcginnis who may work may well allegedly have been behind the murder of members of her

00:47:50.480 family but tony blair said the troubles were over and there's a good friday agreement now

00:47:55.080 now the queen needs to shake martin mcginnis's hand that martin mcginnis was involved in the

00:48:00.260 day-to-day operations of the ira while sitting on the army council whereas adams was the director

00:48:06.040 who ordered others to do this.

00:48:07.540 Oh, it's St. Patrick's Day, by the way, today.

00:48:10.840 It is St. Patrick's Day today.

00:48:15.320 He added,

00:48:16.160 I don't know if Adams has started to believe his own story

00:48:19.660 that he wasn't in the provisional IRA,

00:48:21.940 but to me it looks like the only person

00:48:24.180 who thinks that Adams wasn't in the provisional IRA is Adams.

00:48:29.980 There you go.

00:48:31.500 Adams is being sued by John Clark,

00:48:33.160 a victim of the Old Bailey attack in 1973,

00:48:35.500 Jonathan Ganesh, who was injured in the 1996 attack on the Docklands

00:48:39.960 and Barry Laycock, who was injured in the attack

00:48:42.660 on Manchester's Arndale Shopping Centre in the same year

00:48:45.780 Adams denies any involvement in the bombings

00:48:48.040 and membership of the IRA

00:48:49.400 The trial continues

00:48:50.600 Alright, there you go

00:48:53.040 Gerry Adams didn't do nothing

00:48:59.120 Alright, it's now 10-2

00:49:01.560 Oh, spent a bit of time on that

00:49:03.100 Shall we do this day in history?

00:49:05.500 Let's pop on to this day in history.

00:49:06.780 What happened on this day in history?

00:49:07.820 I like that section.

00:49:08.560 You like this section.

00:49:09.480 On March the 17th, down through the centuries,

00:49:11.820 what happened of now?

00:49:13.320 Oh, as I said, St. Paddy's Day.

00:49:15.280 St. Patrick, a real historical figure.

00:49:18.940 On this day, in the year 432 AD,

00:49:23.380 the late Roman, or the Romans had left.

00:49:25.540 The generation or so, maybe two generations,

00:49:29.460 about a generation after the Romans had left Britain.

00:49:32.820 So still a heavily Romanised society 0.86

00:49:35.700 Actually

00:49:36.200 St. Patrick

00:49:41.300 Is captured

00:49:44.120 At age 16

00:49:45.620 Is captured by Irish pirates

00:49:47.320 From his home in Great Britain

00:49:48.560 And taken as a slave to Ireland

00:49:50.280 His father was like a

00:49:53.680 Preacher or a priest in some way

00:49:54.940 And he went on to become a holy man

00:49:57.480 In orders

00:49:58.060 Yeah the story is that he exiled

00:50:01.640 All the snakes from Ireland 0.68

00:50:03.300 There's no snakes in Ireland

00:50:04.780 Aren't they?

00:50:07.440 And they're not even adders

00:50:08.360 Are there really no snakes in Ireland?

00:50:10.900 I know it's not like a snake heavy part of the world

00:50:13.180 I get that

00:50:14.200 Just as mainland Britain is very few

00:50:16.380 But we still

00:50:16.820 I wonder if they have even adders

00:50:18.640 Anyway

00:50:20.300 Does Ireland actually have no snakes?

00:50:25.360 Anyway

00:50:25.520 Part of the story is

00:50:26.600 St. Patrick

00:50:27.620 We brought them

00:50:30.260 Christianity

00:50:31.520 all right okay saint patrick half lost to the mists of time that is the so-called dark age

00:50:42.380 really isn't it the the fifth century fifth sixth seventh eighth ninth century sort of a dark age

00:50:52.040 in terms of our in terms of literary sources if nothing else there is a source from saint patrick

00:50:57.620 himself isn't there and there's like things like the venerable bead bit later you start getting

00:51:02.340 the anglo-saxon chronicle various things but the light of history the wick of history is turned

00:51:09.900 down during those centuries so we've got less we've got less information okay on this day in

00:51:14.580 1861 italy is unified into a single kingdom under victor emmanuel following the campaigns led by

00:51:20.460 garibaldi yeah so you might think that's quite late might you might think oh what

00:51:27.460 Italy as a modern

00:51:28.880 as the modern political entity of Italy

00:51:31.320 only goes back to the 1860s

00:51:34.040 yeah

00:51:34.260 same with Germany 0.88

00:51:37.060 Germany's even later isn't it 0.88

00:51:38.920 yeah because Giuseppe

00:51:43.080 Garibaldi

00:51:44.760 won loads of campaigns

00:51:46.260 particularly in the south of Italy

00:51:47.760 and Victor Emmanuel the King

00:51:50.720 was able to unify

00:51:53.100 a bunch of central and northern

00:51:55.700 than Italian principalities, sort of all came together in that generation, of course we're

00:52:01.300 after Napoleon, right? So, yeah. Victor Emmanuel and Garibaldi unifying Italy. Okay, on this

00:52:14.180 day in 1905, Albert Einstein finishes his scientific paper detailing his quantum theory

00:52:19.540 of light a foundation of modern physics yeah fascinating isn't it so 1905 was einstein's

00:52:28.420 annus mirabilis his year of miracles because i'm not a scientist sort of wish i were

00:52:36.020 but i can't understand i don't understand the maths or the physics but i do like the history

00:52:40.740 fascinated by the history of science need to know all about einstein need to know all about

00:52:45.140 niels bohr all of it all of it like need to know about newton need to know about james clark maxwell

00:52:52.420 need to know about you know kepler or whatever all of it so yeah love the einstein thing um

00:52:59.700 four different there's four different papers in 1905 was that like the electromagnetic effect

00:53:05.940 the brownian thing about how tiny particles move um special relativity and

00:53:12.820 and the E equals MC squared thing, all in the same year, four different papers, I believe.

00:53:22.200 Anyway, one of them there was, he finished it on this day, in 1905.

00:53:30.200 Some say that his work at that patent office is that he may have been inspired by other people's ideas,

00:53:42.820 Stroke stole them wholesale.

00:53:49.520 Anyway, Albert Einstein may or may not be a plagiarist.

00:53:57.420 Nonetheless, the official account of history is that Albert Einstein came up with all those ideas himself in a year of miracles.

00:54:05.600 Okay, on this day in 1939, the Battle of Nanchang between the Kuomintang and the Japanese breaks out during the Second Sino-Japanese War.

00:54:20.700 so yeah World War 2

00:54:23.940 started before 1939 really didn't it

00:54:27.620 didn't it really

00:54:28.380 I mean in Britain

00:54:30.560 the dates are

00:54:32.780 like September 1939

00:54:34.420 when Mr Hitler invades Poland 0.97

00:54:36.720 and we've had enough and war starts

00:54:38.260 that's when World War 2 started

00:54:39.940 it would have been going on for a while

00:54:42.920 in the east really

00:54:44.260 Japanese against the Chinese 1.00

00:54:46.020 in 1942

00:54:50.040 Belzec concentration camp opens with the transport of 30,000 Polish tubes from Lublin.

00:54:57.420 Did it?

00:54:58.320 Alright, let's do the Rumble Rants and Super Chats.

00:55:04.040 The Rumble Rants.

00:55:06.660 Here we go.

00:55:07.660 Pig Dog 5150 sent two in.

00:55:11.680 Okay, and the first one says,

00:55:13.420 The globalists want the Iran war to go badly for Trump.

00:55:17.740 Yeah, they hate Trump.

00:55:18.920 Yeah, yeah.

00:55:20.040 even the weak-wristed, half-arsed, lip-service attempt

00:55:24.540 to have a country of your own.

00:55:27.160 Any sort of, any tiny slither of patriotism or nationalism

00:55:32.000 or nativism, even the tiniest dog whistle to it,

00:55:38.640 like what Trump does.

00:55:40.140 Not really even doing it, is he?

00:55:41.420 Not really doing it.

00:55:43.060 But he sort of talks about maybe doing it.

00:55:46.260 Even that, they can't stand and it must be destroyed.

00:55:48.240 as far as globalists are concerned isn't it

00:55:50.420 the globalists want the Iran war to go badly for Trump

00:55:52.720 they want

00:55:53.560 they want to

00:55:55.580 I guess you'd be saying they want the war

00:55:57.380 they want to war 0.63

00:56:00.300 but they don't want it to end quickly

00:56:02.360 and they want to make Trump look as bad

00:56:04.700 as possible with the economy

00:56:05.980 yeah

00:56:06.260 because someone like Donald Trump

00:56:10.280 isn't truly in their

00:56:12.300 camp is he truly

00:56:13.620 you know he'll go to the UN or he'll go to WEF

00:56:16.500 and sort of pour scorn on them for their climate hoax stuff

00:56:20.480 and their open borders immigration thing

00:56:22.460 that is destroying their countries.

00:56:24.100 So they hate him.

00:56:27.420 Pigdog again says,

00:56:29.160 Globalists get two birds with one stone, 0.92

00:56:32.240 get their long-wanted war with Iran

00:56:34.340 and get Trump to look bad by not assisting.

00:56:38.020 Surprise if they conned the Don into going to war.

00:56:42.740 Industrial military complex making money.

00:56:45.020 Yeah, a number of points you've made there

00:56:47.080 By globalists

00:56:51.420 Do you just mean Israel?

00:56:55.240 They conned him into the war

00:56:56.860 Possibly manipulated him

00:57:03.480 In various ways

00:57:04.500 Alright, shall we look at the

00:57:07.180 YouTube superchats

00:57:09.320 Can you bring it up on my screen Harry?

00:57:15.020 we had some issues with my thing so sorry what's the net result of that can you put them on my

00:57:26.500 screen here or no there's this one just that yeah the other ones will be on a different page i'll

00:57:32.620 pull that off in a second sorry okay all right well we've got one here in front of me the first

00:57:37.120 one guess who it was guess who's the first person to send a super chat global church history

00:57:41.300 Oh yeah, he loves a bit of it

00:57:44.260 Cheers buddy, cheers

00:57:45.980 Every day is first, it's great

00:57:47.600 Okay, he says

00:57:49.840 Today in 45 BC

00:57:52.560 Caesar wins

00:57:54.280 Battle of Munda versus Pompey

00:57:56.100 Lovely

00:57:56.580 Do you want something in the order

00:58:00.400 Of 30 plus

00:58:02.360 Hours of me

00:58:04.360 On my own, not with Carl, not in conversation with Carl

00:58:06.040 Just me, on my own

00:58:06.840 Over 30 hours

00:58:09.320 Of me talking about the life and career of Julius Caesar

00:58:12.880 In insane detail

00:58:15.880 Basically all the ancient sources

00:58:18.340 Almost word for word

00:58:21.440 Almost reading out

00:58:22.360 And then commenting on

00:58:24.480 All the actual ancient sources

00:58:26.740 About the life of Julius Caesar

00:58:28.300 Caesar's own account of his conquest of Gaul

00:58:32.660 Plutarch

00:58:34.580 And a number of others

00:58:36.680 Do you want that?

00:58:41.880 Behind the paywall on Epochs

00:58:43.940 LotusCetus.com

00:58:46.860 For as little as £5 a month

00:58:48.100 Bronze tier membership

00:58:49.060 Hours and hours and hours of me

00:58:53.280 Talking about

00:58:54.100 Caesar

00:58:55.800 The Battle of Munda

00:58:57.260 Okay, Harry's sorted it out now

00:58:58.620 Here, brilliant

00:58:59.220 Cheers Harry

00:58:59.780 I've only got a few this morning

00:59:01.040 Yeah, Global Church 0.88

00:59:03.040 45 BC

00:59:03.780 Battle of Munda

00:59:04.400 Big one

00:59:05.200 It's a big one

00:59:06.620 Caesar versus Pompey

00:59:09.740 Great stuff

00:59:11.080 Pompey Magnus

00:59:11.720 Pompey the Great

00:59:12.220 And his sons

00:59:13.960 Who died hard

00:59:15.480 Talk about die hard

00:59:17.340 Sexless Pompey

00:59:18.900 Anyway

00:59:19.160 Battle of Munda

00:59:21.700 Big one

00:59:22.160 Right

00:59:23.500 It was sort of

00:59:24.200 Okay

00:59:27.420 Well

00:59:27.800 I haven't got time

00:59:28.320 To go into it here

00:59:28.940 Could just talk for an hour there

00:59:31.020 But I can't

00:59:31.940 I can't

00:59:32.300 I've got to carry on

00:59:33.380 Okay

00:59:34.320 Er

00:59:35.100 Conrad Fatt says USA is just one of Israel's alt accounts

00:59:45.180 I mean

00:59:50.300 if there's a special relationship it's not between London and DC is it

00:59:57.260 it's between Jerusalem and DC

00:59:58.940 Principled Uncertainty says

01:00:01.840 Khomeini was out for a walk

01:00:03.820 And got caught in the blast

01:00:05.520 Why would they appoint

01:00:07.980 A horrifically injured guy

01:00:09.840 Supposedly in a coma

01:00:11.360 As their new leader

01:00:12.700 Yeah I mean that's a good question

01:00:13.920 Yeah that's a really good question

01:00:15.800 If he is in a coma

01:00:21.100 And or terribly wounded

01:00:23.300 It kind of doesn't make sense

01:00:26.260 That they would pick him

01:00:27.460 to be the new ayatollah does it i mean stranger things have happened and if the ayatollah is

01:00:34.100 only ever really going to be a figurehead and doesn't really control military policy and things

01:00:41.560 military tactics and strategy then it wouldn't necessarily matter that he's in a coma but

01:00:48.800 still your your question is perfectly good and valid like what that doesn't it sort of doesn't

01:00:54.340 make sense to our mind does it if if that's the case or it could be that all this reporting that

01:01:00.700 he's terribly wounded and or in a coma is wrong and what the iranians are saying i.e that he's

01:01:07.060 absolutely fine he's just in an underground bunker somewhere doing all the business of government

01:01:10.320 that that is true it could turn out that that's true

01:01:14.020 and if that is true then it all makes sense that they picked him but yeah you're right

01:01:23.080 If he was injured in the blast

01:01:25.800 How does it make sense

01:01:28.540 That they picked him

01:01:29.300 Yeah it's weird isn't it

01:01:30.900 A couple of things

01:01:31.700 Don't seem to make perfect sense

01:01:33.860 Or add up perfectly

01:01:34.900 Do they on the face of it

01:01:35.900 With all this

01:01:37.340 Who knows

01:01:39.020 Or as I said yesterday

01:01:40.340 I think it was yesterday

01:01:41.000 The suggestion that

01:01:43.360 There's some sort of

01:01:45.000 There's someone else

01:01:45.940 Some other people

01:01:46.780 Even a group

01:01:47.900 A gang

01:01:48.340 A cabal of other people

01:01:49.500 That they realised

01:01:52.420 that if they argue for and get the comatose Khomeini II to be the new Ayatollah,

01:02:01.320 then the business of government and setting policy and being the leaders of the country

01:02:05.540 will devolve to them.

01:02:07.320 So it's just in this other cabal's interest to make him the Ayatollah,

01:02:11.640 even if he's in a coma, because it means power for them.

01:02:15.680 Who knows? Maybe that's going on.

01:02:18.540 I feel like maybe something like that's going on.

01:02:20.520 But we're not privy to any of the true behind-the-scenes machinations, are we?

01:02:26.440 So, who knows?

01:02:29.040 But it's a perfectly valid question, isn't it, principled uncertainty?

01:02:32.900 Perfectly valid.

01:02:35.760 Yeah, or it's a liar.

01:02:36.800 He wasn't caught in the blast in any way, and he's just fine.

01:02:42.480 Probably show him, then.

01:02:44.300 Isn't it in your interest, Iran, the Iranian regime? 0.99

01:02:47.460 Isn't it in your interest to show that he's fine, if he is?

01:02:50.520 I don't know

01:02:52.340 I don't know

01:02:54.500 Alright

01:02:54.940 Chris281 says

01:02:56.120 Harry doing the troubles

01:02:59.700 In history class

01:03:01.060 Sure makes me feel old

01:03:02.560 Yeah

01:03:03.900 When I reference stuff

01:03:08.240 All the time

01:03:08.760 It doesn't seem that long ago

01:03:09.840 And ask Harry

01:03:10.440 And he's like

01:03:10.800 No I don't remember that

01:03:11.700 Or I was a little kid

01:03:12.520 At that time

01:03:12.980 I was like

01:03:13.200 Yeah it makes me feel old

01:03:14.180 Makes you feel

01:03:15.140 Well old

01:03:16.360 Alright and the last one

01:03:19.400 For today

01:03:20.200 Is 0.88

01:03:22.040 Jankus the Great

01:03:25.640 Says 0.93

01:03:26.540 Good morning

01:03:29.080 You beautiful Brits

01:03:31.200 Can America invade Britain yet?

01:03:37.280 Now just send some special advisors

01:03:39.400 Send some special advisors

01:03:41.900 Alright thanks for that

01:03:43.860 Alright well that's the show

01:03:45.540 We'll finish at a reasonable time this morning

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01:04:00.020 few. The best among us, my band of brothers and sisters. Thanks for watching. I really

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01:04:23.080 When you've got a normal adult life

01:04:24.820 And loads and loads of responsibilities and things

01:04:26.420 You've got to go to work

01:04:28.020 If you don't

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 17, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 17th March 2026

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