The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 27th January 2026

00:00:00.000 I mean, good morning. Morning. How are you doing? It has just ticked past 8am Greenwich Mean Time

00:00:08.060 on Tuesday the 27th of January in the Year of Our Law 2026. I'm joined by a little Harry.

00:00:13.320 How are you this morning, Harry? Morning. Good, good, great. Well, thanks for joining us. You are

00:00:20.320 you are the glorious band, The Chosen Few. Those good enough to watch this live. I love you.

00:00:28.040 Thank you for turning up. Without you, it isn't anything. It really isn't anything, is it?

00:00:32.960 So yeah, Breakfast with Beau. Beau's Breakfast Club, the BBC. All right, let's jump straight

00:00:41.220 into it then. So what have we got today? What's the world talking about on this glorious morning?

00:00:46.700 It's not that glorious in Wiltshire, actually. It's windy, rainy, a bit cold. Miserable in

00:00:52.340 Wiltshire, anyway. All right, so let's have a look. What's the world talking about? What's

00:00:55.700 well talking about? Burnham Rebellion Growing and Klan United. That's the Beckham Klan. 0.87

00:01:01.720 Klan United. Man United. Clever, isn't it? Clever wordplay. Very clever. Okay, the Daily

00:01:06.520 Mail. What have we got? Picture of a beautiful actress there of no importance to anybody.

00:01:12.300 Burnham Rebellion Growing. 50 Labour MPs. Signed letter to Prime Minister protesting against

00:01:17.420 decision to block Manchester Mayor. Kind of interesting, but doesn't really mean anything.

00:01:23.620 50 MPs. Starmer could lose 50 MPs. It wouldn't make, fundamentally wouldn't make a difference

00:01:29.620 to him. That's, 50 MPs sounds a lot, is a lot actually. Right, it is a lot, but in the

00:01:36.280 terms of how big the Labour Parliamentary Party is, he wouldn't need them. If he did a three-line

00:01:43.740 whip on something or other, he could lose 50 and still win votes. So there you go. All right.

00:01:53.600 But it is growing. There you go. The little blurb says, following the decision to block

00:01:58.720 Andy Burnham from standing in a forthcoming by-election, which has continued, the Mail

00:02:02.740 reporting a growing rebellion among government officials. It reports that 50 MPs have signed

00:02:07.660 a letter protesting against the decision, noting that pressure on Prime Minister Keir Starmer

00:02:11.660 has intensified. I mean, a little bit, not really. I mean, he already knew who all these

00:02:17.540 people were, who all the hardline Andy Burnham supporters were, who would like to see him outed.

00:02:22.780 He would already have known exactly who they were. So has it really intensified? They've

00:02:27.760 signed a letter, which doesn't do anything. It doesn't force him to do anything. So, it hasn't

00:02:34.680 really intensified, has it? Okay. The Times. Oh, nice fresh warm cup of tea. Absolutely delicious.

00:02:41.680 Okay. The Times. Police chatbots could free up equivalent of 3,000 more officers. Great.

00:02:50.680 Just outsourcing police work to chatbots now. I don't know if you've ever experienced a crime,

00:02:57.680 relatively small crime in the last few years. You'll phone up the police and they're saying,

00:03:01.680 well, we haven't got the resources or the inclination to actually investigate it or do anything.

00:03:08.680 Here's a crime number. Thanks. Bye. But your car got stolen or you got burgled or pickpocketed

00:03:16.680 or something. Here's a crime number. That's the end of the story as far as the police are

00:03:21.680 concerned, essentially. So, what's that? You know, you won't even get through to a humour

00:03:25.680 now. It'll just be a chatbot or something. This country. Right. Labour fears stumbling

00:03:31.680 to third in by-election. Yeah. I mean, I said that, didn't I? Didn't I? Last week?

00:03:36.680 Or this week? It could well be that at that by-election in Manchester, in fact, my prediction,

00:03:44.680 I'll make two predictions, because I don't know. Who knows? It does, it is in the balance,

00:03:49.680 isn't it? It is in the balance. One prediction, my conservative prediction, is that Labour will

00:03:54.680 scrape a win. Like, they'll win the seat again, but it'll be with a majority of like 1,000

00:04:01.680 or 2,000, or maybe just in the hundreds. If that doesn't happen, my slightly less conservative

00:04:09.680 prediction, is exactly that. If it swings further than I think it will. Well, reform

00:04:17.680 will win it, Greens will come second, and Labour will be third. That's not unrealistic,

00:04:22.680 put it that way, that's what I'm trying to say. That's not unrealistic, that Labour could

00:04:26.680 finish third in that by-election. In which case, there would be tons of pressure on Starmer

00:04:31.680 at that point, because the results of by-elections in between general elections are always blown

00:04:37.680 out of all proportion, in my opinion, blown out of all proportion. A lot of people say

00:04:40.680 that, I'm not the only one saying that. Because it's all you've got to go on, isn't it? It's

00:04:44.680 your only data point. So people quite often put a lot more emphasis on the results of by-elections

00:04:51.680 than perhaps they merit. Perhaps not, perhaps it is, perhaps it does merit it. All right.

00:04:58.680 Hands-on grandparents help themselves too. It's a story that grandparenting is a good thing

00:05:07.680 for everybody. The Sun. The Sun are still going with the Beckhams. Clan United. You know,

00:05:14.680 it's a very, very clever pun on Man United, isn't it? Beckhams step out and shove solidarity.

00:05:19.680 We don't care, do we, at the Bo Show. We don't care about any of that slop. So we'll move 1.00

00:05:24.680 on swiftly. The Star. Again, they've gone with the Beckhams. Nothing about Iran. Nothing 0.79

00:05:29.680 about Venezuela. No. No, nothing about Minneapolis. Trump. Gaza, Ukraine. No, the Beckhams. You

00:05:40.680 are my everything. Don't care. The Guardian. The Guardian. Jeez Louise. The despicable Guardian.

00:06:08.680 Enemy of the people. The Guardian. They go the big picture of the Beckhams, but they also

00:06:12.680 say that Trump faces reckoning over killing in Minnesota. I mean, in what real way does

00:06:18.680 he? Burnham has not given up, says his allies. Well, whilst Keir Starmer is the leader of the

00:06:27.680 party, he's not going to get selected to be an MP for the Labour Party. I don't know what

00:06:34.680 he's not given up on. There you go. Okay. The mirror. Again, massive picture of the Beckhams.

00:06:41.680 Victoria got given some sort of a ward. So the whole family, the clan united, went out and

00:06:50.680 was seen in public. Another Tory flop jumps ship. Reform's latest con. Gaff prone government

00:07:00.680 failure Braverman cozies up to shameless Farage. Okay. This is an important story, a big story

00:07:08.680 this morning in Britain anyway. Is the defection of Suella Braverman, one time Home Secretary.

00:07:17.680 So let's talk all about that. In fact, we've got a poll, today's poll. I let Harry do the wording.

00:07:24.680 It was about Braverman. It was like, so if you're in the chat, do consider giving that a quick click

00:07:34.680 and having a vote on it. You know, are you enthusiastic about Braverman joining reform? Do you, you know,

00:07:40.680 is it good in your opinion? Something like that. All right. And I'll get to it after we do the front pages

00:07:45.680 and we'll see what the results are. My take is, no, I don't, I don't really like reform anyway.

00:07:51.680 Might end up voting for them if there's no other alternative through gritty teeth, much to my own chagrin.

00:07:57.680 So like, they're still the best option, but I'm not like enthusiastic about it.

00:08:01.680 But Braverman herself, no, no, no, I don't buy it. There's many people on the right.

00:08:08.680 Centre right, let's say. The dissident right, the online right, whatever you want to say.

00:08:13.680 People that are sort of to the right of the Conservatives, reform type people and further.

00:08:18.680 There's lots of people in that sphere who, like Braverman, who have bought what I consider

00:08:25.680 the lie that she's actually based, that she's like a, that she's got the native's interest at heart,

00:08:32.680 that it was, it was Rishi and others holding her back from doing the right thing.

00:08:36.680 I don't buy any of that. No, no, no, I don't buy any of that. That's gaslighting.

00:08:40.680 That's part of her media team trying to spin things to best suit her career and stuff. 1.00

00:08:46.680 I really don't get it. And it's quite prevalent as well.

00:08:49.680 It's quite prevalent in, in, in like the centre right or the online right or whatever.

00:08:54.680 that Braverman was really one of the good ones. If only she was sort of allowed to act,

00:09:01.680 she would have like saved us or whatever. She would have, she would have,

00:09:04.680 she would have stopped the boats or she would have reversed immigration or anything like that. 1.00

00:09:08.680 No, no, no, I don't buy it. Come on. Don't be naive. Come on.

00:09:11.680 Oh, sweet summer child. That's what they do. They lie. They lie.

00:09:16.680 They spin and they spin and they spin and they lie.

00:09:19.680 You know, David Cameron, we will reduce immigration to tens of thousands.

00:09:24.680 It increased to millions.

00:09:26.680 Right? Rishi, the, his slogan for government was stop the boats.

00:09:32.680 Didn't stop the boats. They increased in numbers of anything.

00:09:35.680 Right? Boris, getting in on a ticket of reversing immigration essentially.

00:09:42.680 And you get the giant Boris wave.

00:09:47.680 They spin and they spin and they spin and they lie and they lie.

00:09:49.680 And all the while the proof is in the pudding that we're invaded by more and more people. 0.94

00:09:53.680 Shwella Breverman was home secretary throughout most of 2023.

00:09:58.680 Right? She gets in in what? October, November 22 and resigns in October, November 23. 1.00

00:10:05.680 So for about a year.

00:10:08.680 That was one of the worst times.

00:10:10.680 That was among one of the worst times for us being invaded.

00:10:14.680 That's the proof.

00:10:19.680 And even if I was to be kind, even if I was to grant those that say,

00:10:25.680 Breverman just had her hands tired and actually she's one of the good ones.

00:10:29.680 Even if we were to grant that.

00:10:31.680 Well then she was completely terrible at her job. 0.97

00:10:34.680 She was worse than useless, wasn't she?

00:10:36.680 A complete, a complete and utter failure.

00:10:39.680 Still sat in that office for a year, didn't she?

00:10:42.680 Still collected the ministerial wage.

00:10:45.680 Still got all the perks of being the home secretary, which are considerable.

00:10:48.680 Still took her a year before she resigned.

00:10:53.680 Or before she pushed so hard that Rishi felt he had to remove her. 0.85

00:10:57.680 Or however it played out.

00:11:02.680 If she really had convictions, she would have resigned quite quickly.

00:11:07.680 It doesn't take a year to realise your hands are being tired.

00:11:10.680 It doesn't make sense.

00:11:11.680 It doesn't add up.

00:11:12.680 Don't trust her.

00:11:14.680 Don't like her.

00:11:15.680 She's as much of a criminal as the rest of them, in my opinion. 1.00

00:11:19.680 If there was trials for crimes that the Tory governments did,

00:11:24.680 she'd be among the first.

00:11:26.680 The home secretary during a period of the worst invasion this country's ever seen.

00:11:31.680 Like, you forgive?

00:11:32.680 Oh no, she's one of the good ones.

00:11:33.680 Why do you think that?

00:11:34.680 Why do you think that?

00:11:35.680 What PSYOP has melted your brain to think she's actually based?

00:11:39.680 We've got the nativist interest at heart and all of that.

00:11:42.680 Don't get me started on the Rwanda programme.

00:11:44.680 Her Rwanda programme, which was only ever an exchange programme.

00:11:50.680 Under her, we get under that initiative and under her,

00:11:54.680 we gave Rwanda millions and millions and millions of pounds.

00:11:56.680 Our money, ultimately for nothing.

00:11:59.680 That wasn't necessarily her fault because it was others that scuppered the plan.

00:12:03.680 But nonetheless, again, net result,

00:12:05.680 we just gave millions and millions and millions and millions of pounds to Rwanda for nothing.

00:12:08.680 And it was only ever going to be an exchange programme.

00:12:11.680 It was going to swap people that had come here.

00:12:13.680 You know, Nigerians, Syrians, Iraqis, Albanians, whatever.

00:12:16.680 It was going to swap one for one with a Rwandan person. 0.96

00:12:22.680 And yet she's got our interests at heart, has she?

00:12:24.680 She was one of the good ones, is she?

00:12:27.680 Don't be naive.

00:12:28.680 Come on.

00:12:29.680 Come on.

00:12:30.680 That's my opinion.

00:12:32.680 Anyway, that's my take.

00:12:37.680 Take it or leave it.

00:12:38.680 I wonder if people will actually have a split with my own audience a bit on that take.

00:12:43.680 But anyway, so the story is Breverman yesterday defected to reform.

00:12:48.680 And then there were eight.

00:12:50.680 So now reform have got eight MPs.

00:12:53.680 I wonder if that McMurdoch dude, if he gets cleared of any wrongdoing,

00:12:57.680 sort of comes back.

00:12:58.680 Because I think at the moment he's not sort of formally in the party.

00:13:00.680 He's just sort of suspended or something.

00:13:02.680 But maybe if he's found to have done no wrongdoing, he'll come back.

00:13:06.680 I don't know about that.

00:13:07.680 I should look into that in more detail.

00:13:08.680 But anyway, at the moment, at the moment, they've got eight.

00:13:11.680 And half of them are ex-Tory traitors, aren't they?

00:13:16.680 And also that whole thing where they cooed Boris and they got Liz Truss in. 0.95

00:13:21.680 I mean, in the first instance, Sweller Breverman was a Truss supporter.

00:13:25.680 But then the party very quickly, if you remember, cooed very quickly,

00:13:30.680 cooed Truss out, shortest serving Prime Minister of all time,

00:13:32.680 and got in the absolute worst, that little hall monitor weirdo Indian dude, 1.00

00:13:39.680 weff hand-picked puppet, Rishi Sunak.

00:13:43.680 Not that Sweller Breverman was solely responsible for all of that,

00:13:47.680 but she was absolutely at the heart of everything during all of that.

00:13:50.680 Absolutely at the heart of all of that.

00:13:52.680 And, of course, profited from it, even though she was a Truss supporter in the first instance.

00:13:56.680 Still, Rishi did pick her as Home Secretary when he became the Prime Minister.

00:13:59.680 So, she was absolutely at the heart of everything.

00:14:01.680 That's complete clown show, clown shoes, complete mismanagement of government. 0.55

00:14:08.680 That whole thing.

00:14:09.680 That whole thing.

00:14:10.680 A disgusting, a disgusting mess.

00:14:14.680 From Boris to, from Boris to Truss to Sunak.

00:14:18.680 That was just one hot mess, a dumpster fire of a set of events.

00:14:24.680 And she was right at the heart of it.

00:14:29.680 Yet Naird welcomes her with her open arms.

00:14:35.680 Crazy.

00:14:36.680 I don't know why people think Sweller Breverman's good in any way.

00:14:41.680 She's responsible.

00:14:42.680 She was at the helm for one of the worst, if not the worst crime ever committed against our people.

00:14:49.680 On an unimaginable scale, almost.

00:14:53.680 And will doom us to some sort of sectarian nightmare. 0.87

00:14:59.680 And you think she's, she's, she's actually good.

00:15:02.680 She was good.

00:15:03.680 She just wasn't allowed to do the right thing.

00:15:05.680 Nonsense.

00:15:06.680 Nonsense.

00:15:07.680 In my opinion.

00:15:09.680 Alright, let's move on.

00:15:10.680 In the eye paper.

00:15:12.680 Tories weaponized mental health claim on defector, defector Breverman as Exodus grows. 0.98

00:15:17.680 Yeah, the Tory party, when she defected, they released some sort of statement.

00:15:20.680 Saying that she had mental health, or suggesting anyway.

00:15:25.680 She had some sort of mental health issue.

00:15:28.680 That's quite funny.

00:15:29.680 They very quickly retracted that and said, oh, we put that out in error.

00:15:33.680 Did you?

00:15:34.680 That's a classic thing to sort of brief the press.

00:15:37.680 With what you really think, or something more hardline.

00:15:40.680 And then take it back and say, oh no, sorry, that was an error.

00:15:42.680 What we really mean is this much more staid statement.

00:15:47.680 But, um, whether it was done by error or not.

00:15:50.680 There you go.

00:15:51.680 It's a little blurb on the eye paper.

00:15:53.680 Conservatives forced her withdraw suggestion that ex-Home Secretary was struggling with her mental health.

00:15:59.680 Breverman is the latest high profile Tory figure to defect to Reform UK.

00:16:03.680 In a statement, they later retracted.

00:16:05.680 The Tories said that they, quote, did all we could to look after Sweller's mental health.

00:16:09.680 But she was clearly very unhappy, end quote.

00:16:12.680 Yeah.

00:16:13.680 Ex-deputy speaker, Nigel Evans, says the statement, the conservative statement, is, quote, an absolute disgrace, quote.

00:16:23.680 Calm down.

00:16:24.680 I hate all this.

00:16:26.680 Everything.

00:16:27.680 Anything that's not completely 100% PC.

00:16:30.680 It's a disgrace.

00:16:31.680 It's terrible.

00:16:32.680 It's unconscionable.

00:16:33.680 Is it?

00:16:34.680 Calm down.

00:16:35.680 Farage claims attacks will, quote, get nastier still, quote.

00:16:39.680 Yeah.

00:16:40.680 I'm sure they will.

00:16:41.680 Yeah.

00:16:42.680 That's true.

00:16:43.680 Saying the Tories face a cataclysm in May's local elections.

00:16:47.680 Again, probably true.

00:16:48.680 Yeah.

00:16:49.680 Hopefully, Labour and the Tories will face a cataclysm at the ballot box for local elections.

00:16:57.680 The ones they've allowed to go ahead.

00:17:00.680 Okay.

00:17:01.680 I'm trying not to slap into the mic.

00:17:06.680 Apologies.

00:17:07.680 All right.

00:17:08.680 What have we got?

00:17:09.680 The Metro.

00:17:10.680 Metro.

00:17:11.680 The Metro.

00:17:12.680 God.

00:17:13.680 Okay.

00:17:14.680 The Metro, this morning, for some reason, wants to frame everything that's going on as

00:17:27.680 though it's football transfers.

00:17:29.680 So, more January transfer deals.

00:17:32.680 And there's Nigella Lawson there.

00:17:34.680 He's got a new job on the telly.

00:17:37.680 Andy Burnham.

00:17:39.680 Niaj and Suella.

00:17:40.680 And they characterise it as...

00:17:43.680 Braverman follows teammate Jenrick to reform.

00:17:47.680 Star signing Lawson confirms switch to Bake Off.

00:17:52.680 But Prime Minister defends blocking Burnham's move south.

00:17:56.680 All these things framed as though they're football transfers.

00:18:01.680 Clever.

00:18:02.680 Clever.

00:18:03.680 The Metro, it's the sloppiest of the slop.

00:18:08.680 It's...

00:18:09.680 Hard to really describe it as a newspaper.

00:18:12.680 It's just like some sort of weirdo globalist propaganda organ.

00:18:17.680 Revolting.

00:18:22.680 The FT, the Financial Times, what they're saying.

00:18:25.680 Dollar slumps to four month low.

00:18:29.680 And Yen rises as gold breaks $5,100 barrier.

00:18:34.680 So gold just breaking record after record after record as I said yesterday.

00:18:39.680 Be concerning that really, doesn't it?

00:18:41.680 Because it suggests...

00:18:42.680 Investors, market makers, just in general.

00:18:48.680 In the most general, broadest sense.

00:18:51.680 Haven't got much confidence in everything else.

00:18:54.680 Bonds, equities, commodities, foreign exchange.

00:18:59.680 A whole lot.

00:19:01.680 Just put your money in gold and sit tight.

00:19:04.680 That's what it suggests, isn't it?

00:19:06.680 Because some things are coming down the pipeline.

00:19:09.680 Alright.

00:19:10.680 I always think it's funny when financial...

00:19:12.680 The Financial Times, or any sort of financial news.

00:19:15.680 Say that there's new records and things.

00:19:18.680 And new things set.

00:19:19.680 And it's the highest or the lowest, or whatever, since.

00:19:22.680 And then they give you a time that's not that long ago.

00:19:26.680 Like, well...

00:19:27.680 Yeah.

00:19:28.680 Dollar slumps to four month low.

00:19:30.680 What?

00:19:31.680 What do you mean, four month low?

00:19:32.680 So not that long ago at all.

00:19:34.680 If it was a four year low, I'd be like...

00:19:37.680 If it was a 40 year low, then I'd take interest.

00:19:40.680 I'd be like, oh, well, that is...

00:19:41.680 That is of note, isn't it?

00:19:43.680 That is something.

00:19:44.680 It slumps to a four month low.

00:19:46.680 Four month...

00:19:47.680 You get me, right?

00:19:49.680 That doesn't mean much.

00:19:51.680 That's not much of a...

00:19:53.680 Alright.

00:19:54.680 Braverman deals fresh blow to Tories by joining wave of reform defections.

00:19:57.680 Yeah, there'll be more to come.

00:19:59.680 Absolutely more to come.

00:20:00.680 Probably a lot more.

00:20:02.680 Probably a lot more to come.

00:20:04.680 If reform get one more MP, I believe this is right.

00:20:07.680 Then they'll be on nine.

00:20:09.680 And that's the same number as the SNP.

00:20:12.680 And obviously one more than that.

00:20:14.680 And they've got one more than the SNP.

00:20:16.680 And then they're the fourth party.

00:20:18.680 Properly officially.

00:20:19.680 They'll be the fourth party after the Lib Dems.

00:20:22.680 But then the Lib Dems have got 70 odd.

00:20:24.680 So it's a big jump up to that, isn't it?

00:20:30.680 Yeah, you can...

00:20:31.680 They will actually...

00:20:32.680 Two more and they'll be actually able to say

00:20:34.680 they're the fourth biggest party.

00:20:37.680 So there you go.

00:20:38.680 There you go.

00:20:39.680 It's funny, I've got such mixed feelings about reform.

00:20:42.680 They're both really rooting for them

00:20:45.680 and sort of despise them all at the same time.

00:20:49.680 Anyone else out there that's on the centre right

00:20:52.680 or on the right that feels that way.

00:20:54.680 Whilst it's the best we've got, right?

00:20:57.680 If Rupert Lowe made a party,

00:21:01.680 then reform would become just, politically speaking,

00:21:04.680 the out-and-out enemy at that point.

00:21:05.680 They'd just be a...

00:21:07.680 just a true competitor at that point.

00:21:11.680 But while they're not,

00:21:12.680 while they're the best realistic option on the table,

00:21:16.680 there is a big part of me that roots for them, you know, right?

00:21:19.680 In that by-election in Manchester,

00:21:21.680 I'd love to see reform win that seat.

00:21:23.680 Why not?

00:21:24.680 Why not?

00:21:25.680 At the local elections,

00:21:27.680 why not see them ruin Labour and the Tories?

00:21:30.680 Again, while it's the best we've got.

00:21:32.680 They are a containment project, but...

00:21:35.680 Okay.

00:21:36.680 The Toreograph.

00:21:37.680 What have we got in the Toreograph?

00:21:38.680 China hacked phones in number 10.

00:21:40.680 Oh, did they?

00:21:41.680 What a surprise.

00:21:42.680 Years-long spying operation targeted senior figures

00:21:45.680 including aides to Johnson and Sunak.

00:21:49.680 Yeah.

00:21:50.680 I can't believe that.

00:21:51.680 Yeah.

00:21:52.680 Oh, by the way,

00:21:53.680 Sir Queer Starling, 0.80

00:21:54.680 the First Lord of the Treasury,

00:21:57.680 His Majesty's Prime Minister,

00:21:59.680 is on the way to China right now.

00:22:01.680 I believe he's actually on the plane right now.

00:22:05.680 Anyway, he's going to China.

00:22:06.680 He'll be in China later today or tomorrow.

00:22:10.680 Visiting Winnie the Pooh.

00:22:13.680 And what he said,

00:22:14.680 one of the things,

00:22:15.680 the latest things he said,

00:22:16.680 latest sound bites,

00:22:17.680 is that he won't choose between the United States and China.

00:22:20.680 It's so weird for a...

00:22:21.680 I think, just my opinion.

00:22:22.680 It's so weird for a British Prime Minister to be like that,

00:22:30.680 to think that and say that,

00:22:31.680 and have that as sort of a policy and a way of thinking,

00:22:35.680 a way of looking at the world.

00:22:37.680 Is that China and the United States are somehow equal in his mind,

00:22:42.680 as allies,

00:22:43.680 as partners on the world stage.

00:22:46.680 Really?

00:22:47.680 I mean,

00:22:48.680 I know I'm a bit of a fanboy for the United States.

00:22:50.680 Okay?

00:22:51.680 A little bit.

00:22:52.680 There are many on the right that think the United States and the GAE

00:22:55.680 is sort of a terrible thing,

00:22:56.680 and it's all run by black rock,

00:22:57.680 and it's all sort of...

00:22:59.680 I still much, much prefer the United States,

00:23:02.680 for a dozen different reasons.

00:23:04.680 Two dozen different reasons,

00:23:06.680 over China.

00:23:08.680 Over China, really.

00:23:11.680 Do not trust the Chinese Communist Party, 1.00

00:23:14.680 one tiny bit,

00:23:16.680 not the tiniest bit,

00:23:18.680 when they've got our interests at heart.

00:23:22.680 That they wouldn't just bully us into complete oblivion.

00:23:30.680 If they could.

00:23:33.680 There you go.

00:23:34.680 There you go.

00:23:36.680 Reeves' pub support will only be temporary.

00:23:40.680 We'll see about that.

00:23:41.680 I wouldn't have thought so.

00:23:42.680 Well, temporary,

00:23:43.680 maybe they mean in terms of when Labour get out of power,

00:23:47.680 someone can reverse what she's done.

00:23:50.680 Anyway.

00:23:51.680 BBC to use iPlayer to catch license fraudsters.

00:23:55.680 Don't pay your BBC license.

00:23:56.680 Don't watch the BBC.

00:23:57.680 Don't watch the iPlayer.

00:23:58.680 And don't pay your license.

00:24:00.680 The BBC needs to be destroyed,

00:24:02.680 needs to be annihilated.

00:24:03.680 Again, it's an enemy of the people, essentially.

00:24:07.680 A state propaganda organ,

00:24:09.680 which hates us, essentially.

00:24:12.680 will lie to you.

00:24:14.680 Can't get me on LIB or anything like that.

00:24:18.680 Look at Panorama.

00:24:19.680 Shown to have lied.

00:24:21.680 And as if that's the only example.

00:24:23.680 Aunty must die. 0.97

00:24:28.680 Net zero is killing energy sector, 0.93

00:24:33.680 World's Union.

00:24:34.680 Yeah.

00:24:35.680 Yeah.

00:24:36.680 Again, state the obvious.

00:24:37.680 Of course it is.

00:24:38.680 Of course it is.

00:24:40.680 Trump's right.

00:24:41.680 We should be tapping the North Sea for the oil there.

00:24:44.680 We should have quite a lot of offshore oil rigs in the North Sea.

00:24:50.680 And build a few nuclear power stations.

00:24:54.680 That's what I'd do, again, if I was PM in Bose Britain. 0.58

00:24:59.680 In Bose Britain I would order 0.95

00:25:03.680 3, 4, 5, 6, maybe?

00:25:06.680 Nuclear power stations to be built.

00:25:07.680 Because they take ages to be built, don't they?

00:25:09.680 Like 10 years or whatever.

00:25:10.680 15 years or whatever.

00:25:12.680 Yeah, I'd sign off on that right away.

00:25:13.680 And greenlight a bunch of oil rigs in the North Sea.

00:25:18.680 And stop paying the Chinese to send us windmills. 1.00

00:25:23.680 All that stuff.

00:25:25.680 Stop trying to bully normal people into having solar panels on their roof.

00:25:32.680 And a few years down the line.

00:25:33.680 It might be 10, 15 years even down the line.

00:25:35.680 But at that point, then, we'd have to rely on anyone else for energy.

00:25:38.680 That's all.

00:25:39.680 And it would be dirt cheap.

00:25:42.680 Well, compared to what it is today.

00:25:44.680 Job done.

00:25:45.680 And then all the, like, Just Stop Oil people,

00:25:48.680 they get out of their pram and start protesting all the place.

00:25:52.680 Lock them up.

00:25:53.680 Pass some legislation.

00:25:54.680 Some tough legislation.

00:25:55.680 That if you do Just Stop Oil type protest,

00:25:58.680 you go to prison for a decent amount of time.

00:26:00.680 Sorted.

00:26:02.680 All it takes is a little bit of political will.

00:26:06.680 A little bit of backbone.

00:26:10.680 In my opinion, not even all that much.

00:26:13.680 Right?

00:26:14.680 It's not like politicians of old.

00:26:16.680 Imagine the backbone it takes for like, I don't know, someone like Winston Churchill.

00:26:23.680 I'm not a giant, giant fan of Winston Churchill.

00:26:25.680 But the backbone it will take to have like a big policy.

00:26:29.680 Big sort of country changing, country defining policy that might be deeply unpopular.

00:26:37.680 And you just do it.

00:26:40.680 We need more leaders like that. 0.73

00:26:42.680 We need men like that. 1.00

00:26:44.680 Not like Ed Miliband.

00:26:46.680 Really?

00:26:47.680 Actively, actively trying to destroy our economy and our energy.

00:26:52.680 And our energy sector.

00:26:54.680 Really?

00:26:55.680 The people that returned Ed Miliband as an MP.

00:27:02.680 You did a bad thing.

00:27:03.680 You did the country a disservice.

00:27:06.680 You really did.

00:27:08.680 Think about it at the ballot box next time.

00:27:11.680 Think about not voting for Ed Miliband.

00:27:14.680 The Daily Express.

00:27:16.680 Oh, it's a good paper.

00:27:18.680 This is a woman that was, says she was born in Auschwitz.

00:27:24.680 Because it's like Holocaust Memorial Day or something today.

00:27:28.680 She says, now stop the hate.

00:27:35.680 The papers.

00:27:37.680 The websites.

00:27:38.680 Oh, let's go and look at the old, let's have a look at the poll we did.

00:27:44.680 Okay.

00:27:45.680 We said, are you enthusiastic about Swella Braverman joining reform?

00:27:49.680 Oh, it's split.

00:27:50.680 Okay.

00:27:51.680 Oh, okay.

00:27:52.680 So, 53% of you say no, agreeing with me.

00:27:57.680 So, a slim victory.

00:27:59.680 However, as somebody asked yesterday, we also put in a not sure element in there.

00:28:05.680 So, we've got 53% say no, they're not enthusiastic about Braverman joining reform.

00:28:12.680 So, a majority win there.

00:28:14.680 But only 22% of you say yes.

00:28:17.680 And 26% of you say not sure.

00:28:20.680 So, the numbers are actually clicking around and moving around right now.

00:28:25.680 But, I mean, 800 plus, 815, 14 odd votes.

00:28:30.680 So, it's not just like 16 people voted.

00:28:32.680 That's a few hundred people.

00:28:33.680 Over 800 people voted.

00:28:35.680 So, there's now clicked down to 21% of you say yes, you're enthusiastic about Braverman.

00:28:41.680 So, only one in five people watching the Bo Show, anyway.

00:28:46.680 Only one in five of you are enthusiastic about that.

00:28:49.680 All the others are either no or not sure.

00:28:51.680 So, I would take that as a personal vindication.

00:28:56.680 Although, not a strike.

00:28:58.680 It's not sort of a 90% win, is it?

00:29:00.680 But, I suppose if I take the not sure's, it's still knocking 80% though, isn't it?

00:29:06.680 So, alright.

00:29:08.680 There you go.

00:29:10.680 Not a complete break and schism with my own audience, once again.

00:29:14.680 Streak. Keeping up the streak.

00:29:16.680 I'm not completely disagreeing with my own audience.

00:29:19.680 So, it'll happen one day.

00:29:23.680 Alright, cool. Good. Alright.

00:29:25.680 Let's move on then.

00:29:26.680 Let's have a quick look at the websites.

00:29:29.680 Okay.

00:29:30.680 My mouse.

00:29:31.680 Here we go.

00:29:32.680 Alright.

00:29:33.680 So, the US immigration dude, Greg Bovino.

00:29:38.680 They've removed him from Minneapolis from being actually on the ground there.

00:29:42.680 The headline there says,

00:29:43.680 US Immigration Chief Bovino.

00:29:46.680 Bovino? I think it's Bovino.

00:29:48.680 Yeah.

00:29:49.680 Set to leave Minneapolis after deadly shooting.

00:29:51.680 Balder Tsar, Tom Homan himself,

00:29:55.680 will instead lead on the ground efforts in Minnesota City after tensions escalated.

00:30:00.680 Yeah.

00:30:01.680 So, that guy was sort of the head shed, the top dog.

00:30:05.680 And, um, Trump wasn't happy with the optics of that, of that Alex Pretty shooting.

00:30:12.680 Which is fair enough.

00:30:13.680 I said that, didn't I?

00:30:14.680 I think probably it was, like, just, just about a comedy of errors stroke possibly justified shooting.

00:30:21.680 But the optics of it are bad, right?

00:30:23.680 You can't, no, not many people are arguing that the optics are good, right?

00:30:28.680 Trump certainly wasn't happy with the optics of it.

00:30:30.680 And so they've sort of removed him, sort of bumped him to the side to go and retire somewhere else.

00:30:42.680 And, uh, that big Tom Homan.

00:30:46.680 Big Tom.

00:30:47.680 He's gonna be on the scene.

00:30:49.680 With all sorts of things.

00:30:50.680 Now, that's a proper leader.

00:30:51.680 I feel like Tom Homan.

00:30:52.680 Like, that's a proper dude, right?

00:30:54.680 Like, he knows his own mind.

00:30:56.680 He's got actual convictions.

00:30:58.680 And the backbone to back them up at all times.

00:31:01.680 That's how leaders used to be.

00:31:04.680 That's how politicians used to be decades ago, I'm talking.

00:31:07.680 It should be the bare minimum, is that?

00:31:09.680 I think.

00:31:10.680 The bare minimum should be a man like that.

00:31:13.680 That you stand on your convictions at all times.

00:31:19.680 It should be just de rigueur.

00:31:21.680 Alright.

00:31:22.680 Who else have we got?

00:31:23.680 50 Labour MPs signed a letter.

00:31:25.680 I guess we've talked all about that.

00:31:26.680 I accused a police officer of rape, but I ended up on trial.

00:31:33.680 That's bad.

00:31:34.680 That's terrible.

00:31:35.680 That's unfortunate.

00:31:36.680 There's a big storm coming.

00:31:37.680 Storm Chandra.

00:31:38.680 It's gonna hit Britain.

00:31:40.680 It's on its way, apparently.

00:31:42.680 Big, big, big storm.

00:31:44.680 A story about Northern Ireland driving licences.

00:31:47.680 Change to driving licences.

00:31:49.680 Menopause linked to Alzheimer's-like brain changes.

00:31:54.680 And they're saying the menopause actually, like, really damages your memory and all sorts of things.

00:32:02.680 What to expect from today's BAFTA nominations couldn't care less.

00:32:10.680 Let's move on.

00:32:11.680 The BAFTAs.

00:32:12.680 Give me a break.

00:32:13.680 At least the Oscars is like the premier thing, right?

00:32:16.680 It's the premier league.

00:32:17.680 It's the gold tier.

00:32:19.680 At least you can say that about the Oscars, right?

00:32:22.680 Like the Golden Globes and the BAFTAs.

00:32:26.680 It's like watching the minor leagues of a sport you don't like or care about or find very, very boring.

00:32:32.680 Difficult.

00:32:33.680 Difficult to care one iota about that.

00:32:36.680 Here's the sort of story, again, I don't really care about.

00:32:40.680 An individual person.

00:32:41.680 Family accused met police of failures after a gay student found dead in a hotel.

00:32:46.680 I think that's the most important news story by TV news, is it?

00:32:52.680 Some random gay student at University College was found dead.

00:32:59.680 It's not a story, is it?

00:33:02.680 It's not a national story.

00:33:05.680 The front line of Donald Trump's immigration crackdown.

00:33:09.680 The front line.

00:33:11.680 See that woman yesterday, apparently some woman, she picked up a flashbang and it went off in her hand. 0.63

00:33:15.680 Didn't lose any digits or her sight or anything.

00:33:17.680 But she's rolling around on the ground screaming, Medic! 0.87

00:33:20.680 Like she's an Iwo Jima or something. 0.88

00:33:24.680 Needs a poor man to come and save her life. 0.99

00:33:27.680 Nonsense, just nonsense.

00:33:31.680 It's all LARPing, isn't it?

00:33:33.680 It's all LARPing.

00:33:34.680 It's all fun and games until an ice officer actually shoots you, isn't it?

00:33:38.680 That's the thing.

00:33:39.680 They just don't think they'll be shooting.

00:33:41.680 I mean, I saw footage emerge yesterday of that guy, that Alex Peretti, before, you know, minutes before he was killed.

00:33:49.680 And he's screaming at the cops, shoot me in the head.

00:33:52.680 He's shouting at them.

00:33:54.680 Screaming at them.

00:33:56.680 Shoot me in the head then.

00:33:58.680 Go on, shoot me in the head.

00:33:59.680 I bet in his mind it was all just fun and games.

00:34:04.680 It was all just LARPing.

00:34:05.680 If you F around, you'll find out eventually.

00:34:12.680 If you play silly games...

00:34:14.680 Don't play silly games with armed law enforcement officers.

00:34:21.680 Goading them and stuff.

00:34:24.680 Not that I'm saying that justifies them killing him.

00:34:27.680 Of course it doesn't.

00:34:28.680 I'm not saying that.

00:34:31.680 Don't...

00:34:32.680 Don't mess with... 0.88

00:34:33.680 Don't go there and do that.

00:34:35.680 Alright.

00:34:36.680 What are we at here?

00:34:38.680 Is this Sky News, is it?

00:34:40.680 Sky News.

00:34:41.680 Relief for millions of leaseholders.

00:34:44.680 People that rent.

00:34:45.680 As ground rent cap announced.

00:34:47.680 So the government hate landlords, don't they?

00:34:49.680 They hate them.

00:34:50.680 All socialists and leftists and pinkos and communists hate capitalists.

00:34:55.680 Owners.

00:34:56.680 People that own anything really.

00:34:58.680 Not just like capitalists in the grand sense.

00:35:00.680 Those that own industry.

00:35:02.680 But anyone.

00:35:03.680 Any landlord.

00:35:06.680 I hate them.

00:35:07.680 I'll destroy them.

00:35:09.680 See them ruined.

00:35:10.680 It's capitalism.

00:35:12.680 Evil capitalists must be...

00:35:15.680 Must be stamped out at every possible turn.

00:35:19.680 Although some rents are too high.

00:35:25.680 Alright.

00:35:27.680 Alright.

00:35:28.680 Road and school closures as weather alerts issued across much of UK.

00:35:31.680 That's that Storm Chandra.

00:35:33.680 Incoming.

00:35:34.680 Erm.

00:35:35.680 Wasn't anything else particularly fascinating in Sky.

00:35:38.680 Let's have a look at the Daily Mail.

00:35:40.680 Ok.

00:35:41.680 The Daily Mail.

00:35:42.680 Oh this.

00:35:43.680 That same guy.

00:35:44.680 That ice bloke. 1.00

00:35:45.680 He's now frozen out.

00:35:46.680 Humiliating end for little Napoleon.

00:35:49.680 They're calling him.

00:35:52.680 Greg Bovino.

00:35:53.680 He's a little Napoleon apparently.

00:35:55.680 He's the border patrol commander.

00:35:58.680 He's five foot four.

00:36:01.680 Self-proclaimed hard man.

00:36:03.680 Is demoted and sent back to his old job.

00:36:06.680 To retire.

00:36:07.680 After riling Trump.

00:36:08.680 When his men shot dead nurse in Minneapolis.

00:36:13.680 Couldn't accuse the Daily Mail of being...

00:36:15.680 Of having a bias in any way could you?

00:36:19.680 It's funny the Daily Mail.

00:36:20.680 Bit like the Express.

00:36:21.680 And to a lesser extent.

00:36:22.680 The Telegraph.

00:36:23.680 But the Mail.

00:36:24.680 Sometimes they're really based.

00:36:27.680 They'll come out with a pretty damn based story.

00:36:30.680 And take on the story.

00:36:32.680 And then other times it's complete leftist globalist slot.

00:36:36.680 You just get sort of both.

00:36:38.680 I hate the Daily Mail.

00:36:39.680 The Mail group.

00:36:40.680 I hate them.

00:36:41.680 Pretty much.

00:36:42.680 I'm not impressed by the odd bit of baseness they come out with.

00:36:46.680 I mean look at that.

00:36:48.680 Just completely.

00:36:49.680 Completely and utterly.

00:36:51.680 Okay.

00:36:52.680 Alright.

00:36:53.680 So.

00:36:54.680 But then you've got Big Tom.

00:36:57.680 He's coming.

00:36:58.680 Coming to save the day.

00:36:59.680 Alright.

00:37:00.680 Here's a story.

00:37:01.680 See.

00:37:02.680 Reasonably based.

00:37:03.680 That.

00:37:04.680 Judge ordered jury not to be told that Pakistani national who raped a teenage girl in a park

00:37:13.680 was an asylum seeker.

00:37:14.680 This judge.

00:37:15.680 This judge here.

00:37:16.680 She decided that.

00:37:18.680 She would put a.

00:37:20.680 What is it like?

00:37:21.680 A denotist.

00:37:22.680 Not a denotist.

00:37:23.680 She just.

00:37:24.680 She just.

00:37:25.680 Banned the press from being allowed legally to report.

00:37:27.680 The.

00:37:28.680 The.

00:37:29.680 The.

00:37:30.680 The.

00:37:31.680 The.

00:37:32.680 The rapist on trial.

00:37:34.680 Who was convicted.

00:37:35.680 Uh.

00:37:36.680 Was an asylum seeker.

00:37:37.680 That wasn't in the public interest apparently according to her.

00:37:40.680 According to this judge.

00:37:43.680 Uh.

00:37:44.680 What's her name?

00:37:45.680 I can't remember but it's.

00:37:46.680 It's.

00:37:47.680 It's.

00:37:48.680 It's.

00:37:49.680 Not a very.

00:37:50.680 English.

00:37:51.680 British name.

00:37:52.680 Um.

00:37:53.680 Anyway.

00:37:54.680 Oh yeah.

00:37:55.680 Nirmal Shant.

00:37:56.680 Judge.

00:37:57.680 Nirmal Shant.

00:37:58.680 Judge.

00:37:59.680 Nirmal Shant.

00:38:00.680 Judge.

00:38:01.680 Nirmal Shant.

00:38:02.680 Playing defense on behalf of.

00:38:05.680 Uh.

00:38:06.680 Uh.

00:38:07.680 A refugee.

00:38:08.680 Asylum seeker.

00:38:09.680 Rapist.

00:38:10.680 That's Britain.

00:38:11.680 That's the Britain. 0.54

00:38:12.680 The Tories.

00:38:13.680 Created for us.

00:38:14.680 And Labour now.

00:38:15.680 Are not doing.

00:38:16.680 Making worse.

00:38:17.680 If anything.

00:38:18.680 I said in the article that got me in trouble with hope not hate and reform.

00:38:21.680 That we have to clear out not just the home office.

00:38:22.680 But the judiciary as well.

00:38:23.680 We have a bad ass justice secretary. 1.00

00:38:24.680 Bad ass.

00:38:25.680 And we'll pass some legislation to just get rid of any judges like this. 0.99

00:38:28.680 Get rid of them.

00:38:29.680 They're not doing justice are they?

00:38:34.680 What justice is there in that?

00:38:36.680 How does that make sense?

00:38:38.680 Revolting.

00:38:39.680 Sickening.

00:38:40.680 Sickening to the core.

00:38:41.680 Sickening.

00:38:42.680 Look.

00:38:43.680 There's Beckham's son's wife's dad.

00:38:45.680 Who's a super rich.

00:38:46.680 Wall Street investor.

00:38:47.680 Okay.

00:38:48.680 Well.

00:38:49.680 Well.

00:38:50.680 Well.

00:38:51.680 Well.

00:38:52.680 Well.

00:38:53.680 Well.

00:38:54.680 Well.

00:38:55.680 Well.

00:38:56.680 Well.

00:38:57.680 Well.

00:38:58.680 Well.

00:38:59.680 Well.

00:39:00.680 Well.

00:39:01.680 Well.

00:39:02.680 Well.

00:39:03.680 Well.

00:39:04.680 Well.

00:39:05.680 Well.

00:39:06.680 Well.

00:39:07.680 Well.

00:39:08.680 We got the Express.

00:39:09.680 Nigel Farage just copied Donald Trump and it's why he'll finish Keir for good.

00:39:14.680 Possibly.

00:39:15.680 Yeah.

00:39:16.680 I do think it's a little bit funny and weird all the parallels that people like Ed Davey or

00:39:20.680 many people on the left.

00:39:21.680 Centre left.

00:39:22.680 Say about Farage and Trump.

00:39:25.680 That Farage wants to bring in a Trump style Britain.

00:39:29.680 He's copying Trump.

00:39:30.680 He's using Trump's playbook.

00:39:32.680 Hardly at all in my opinion.

00:39:34.680 Hardly at all.

00:39:35.680 Hardly at all.

00:39:36.680 Well.

00:39:37.680 The fact that he's just like a millimetre to the right of the establishment.

00:39:42.680 Okay.

00:39:43.680 In that sense there's a parallel isn't there with Trump.

00:39:45.680 Everything else.

00:39:46.680 Pretty much everything else.

00:39:47.680 He's not copying Trump.

00:39:49.680 In what way.

00:39:50.680 In what real way.

00:39:52.680 But yeah.

00:39:53.680 He's saying that I suppose the angle here is really that there's a parallel between MAGA

00:39:58.680 and reform being sort of genuinely populist in the limited sense that before people get

00:40:04.680 all out of their pram about the word populist and populism whether or not it's a delusion

00:40:08.680 or not.

00:40:09.680 But just that it's popular.

00:40:10.680 I just mean it in that sense.

00:40:11.680 That it's actually popular.

00:40:12.680 That lots and lots of people have joined the MAGA movement.

00:40:15.680 Are behind Trump.

00:40:16.680 Right.

00:40:17.680 Lots and lots of people have joined reform.

00:40:19.680 I believe it's the biggest part.

00:40:21.680 Oh there you go.

00:40:22.680 Reform is now comfortably Britain's biggest affiliated political party with more than 270,000 members.

00:40:29.680 Just average normal members.

00:40:31.680 So that's more than the Labour Party or the Conservative Party.

00:40:35.680 It's popular in that sense.

00:40:39.680 So there's a parallel there with MAGA and Trump.

00:40:43.680 I mean it's interesting.

00:40:44.680 Reform have got momentum.

00:40:45.680 Right.

00:40:46.680 Can't deny it.

00:40:47.680 I wouldn't deny it.

00:40:48.680 They have got momentum behind them with tons and tons of membership.

00:40:53.680 Loads of people still absolutely love Farage.

00:40:55.680 I wonder how surprised they'll be when he gets into number 10 and acts exactly like the Tories acted.

00:41:06.680 I.e. ruining our country further in various ways.

00:41:10.680 And not even coming close to reversing the demographic issue.

00:41:17.680 And immigration still being massive and all the rest of it. 0.76

00:41:22.680 Nonetheless he is popular with boomers and ex Tory boys and people that are like ostriches putting their heads in the sand. 0.98

00:41:35.680 Refusing to accept that Nige isn't really got the backbone or the conviction or the world view to do what's needed. 1.00

00:41:41.680 He's popular with all those to the tune of millions or over a quarter of a million are prepared to bum him a bit of money and be a member.

00:41:50.680 There you go.

00:41:52.680 Can't deny it can you.

00:41:53.680 He will probably almost certainly be the Prime Minister I think at the next general election.

00:41:58.680 Unless something profoundly changes.

00:42:01.680 Unless something profoundly changes in the next three years.

00:42:04.680 Which is possible.

00:42:05.680 There could be some giant scandal couldn't there.

00:42:07.680 There could be some giant scandal or something or other.

00:42:10.680 Who knows.

00:42:11.680 All right.

00:42:14.680 Rachel Reeves.

00:42:16.680 Nigella Lawson. 0.98

00:42:17.680 Prince Harry and ex Prince Andrew.

00:42:20.680 Let's just move on.

00:42:22.680 The Sun.

00:42:23.680 The Sun is particularly sloppy today.

00:42:25.680 Their biggest news.

00:42:26.680 I'll pass over it quickly because I know the glorious band The Chosen Few aren't particularly interested in slop. 0.96

00:42:31.680 But just very, very quickly then to say that Jordan's new, Katie Price's new hubby.

00:42:38.680 The Sun are accusing him of being a bit of a Walter Mitty.

00:42:41.680 You know like living, living a fake life sort of thing.

00:42:45.680 It's exposed as a Walter Mitty who boasts of a string of top jobs and posted fake AI images with celebs.

00:42:54.680 Fake it till you make it.

00:42:59.680 Don't do that by the way, in life, if you can.

00:43:01.680 Sometimes you sort of have to.

00:43:02.680 Sometimes there's no sort of way around that.

00:43:04.680 A little bit.

00:43:05.680 But in general, don't fake it till you make it.

00:43:10.680 Just be normal.

00:43:11.680 Just be a normal human being and work hard.

00:43:13.680 Alright.

00:43:14.680 A Prince Andrew story.

00:43:17.680 Look, he's out on a horse.

00:43:22.680 Mobster Grans. 0.99

00:43:26.680 Really, this is the news, is it?

00:43:27.680 The Sun.

00:43:28.680 Mobster Grans. 0.99

00:43:32.680 How some old ladies rule gangster families with iron fists. 1.00

00:43:38.680 Yeah, good one.

00:43:39.680 A Beckham story.

00:43:40.680 Clan United.

00:43:41.680 Alright, let's just move on.

00:43:42.680 Alright.

00:43:43.680 The New York Slimes.

00:43:44.680 The New York Slimes.

00:43:45.680 New video analysis reveals flawed and fatal decisions in pretty shooting.

00:43:52.680 Pretty shooting, sorry.

00:43:53.680 So I called him pretty early on.

00:43:55.680 Okay.

00:43:56.680 Anyway.

00:43:57.680 Again, that's what I said yesterday.

00:43:58.680 Like you can, you can slow it down frame by frame and watch it 20 times.

00:44:02.680 The guys in the moment have not got that luxury, have they?

00:44:06.680 That is a big element to it.

00:44:07.680 Not just needlessly trying to play defense for them.

00:44:13.680 That is the reality of it.

00:44:15.680 That's a big, big thing.

00:44:16.680 Alright.

00:44:17.680 How do we determine that the Minneapolis videos contradict the federal officials?

00:44:22.680 Bovino, Trump.

00:44:24.680 Okay, let's just move on from that.

00:44:26.680 It's Minneapolis wall to wall in the New York Times this morning.

00:44:30.680 Okay, the Washington Post.

00:44:33.680 Again, not great.

00:44:35.680 Trump threatens to raise tariffs on South Korea to 25% over cars largely.

00:44:40.680 And here's a really important piece of journalism from the Washington Post.

00:44:44.680 Does every invite need an RSVP?

00:44:51.680 Second most important story.

00:44:54.680 Going to the Washington Post.

00:44:56.680 Alright.

00:44:57.680 Let's go over to Aussie, down under.

00:44:59.680 How good?

00:45:00.680 Oh yeah.

00:45:02.680 Bondi victim fears Jewish-Australian patients unsafe in Western Sydney hospitals after staff changed her name.

00:45:09.680 Possibly.

00:45:11.680 I mean, who knows?

00:45:14.680 Chaos at ABC as national broadcaster's Facebook account flooded with porn star images.

00:45:21.680 Teens who allegedly damaged Anzac statue to be dealt with by police.

00:45:29.680 Yeah, I saw that.

00:45:30.680 This is perhaps a little bit of an actual story.

00:45:33.680 So there's an Anzac statue.

00:45:35.680 The Aussies and New Zealanders that fought in the wars.

00:45:39.680 The Anzacs. 0.91

00:45:41.680 It was damaged by teens.

00:45:43.680 Was it damaged?

00:45:44.680 It was completely destroyed.

00:45:46.680 I mean, they broke it to bits and like graffitied all over it.

00:45:52.680 See that?

00:45:53.680 Damaged.

00:45:54.680 Was it a bit more than damaged?

00:45:58.680 I completely, completely smashed it up.

00:46:02.680 Just teens as well.

00:46:04.680 Don't worry about exactly who they were or what their actual motivations were.

00:46:09.680 If that happened yesterday, then it would have been on Australia Day.

00:46:14.680 Which the enemies of Australia, the barbarians within the gates of Australia are called Invasion Day. 0.89

00:46:21.680 Just some teens did that.

00:46:23.680 Just some teens.

00:46:24.680 And they just damaged it.

00:46:27.680 A bit more than that, isn't it?

00:46:31.680 Okay, let's hop over to Japan.

00:46:34.680 I had a quick look at this web page earlier and there wasn't anything standing out that was particularly massive.

00:46:39.680 China, same thing.

00:46:40.680 Same thing most days with China.

00:46:42.680 China.

00:46:43.680 I don't know.

00:46:44.680 Let me know in the chat and I'll try and have a look later if you're interested in me reporting on China.

00:46:49.680 Because their news is bland, right?

00:46:52.680 Their own news organs are obviously very, very strictly controlled by the state.

00:46:59.680 And so, by design, it's always very, very bland and the same thing.

00:47:04.680 But do you still want to hear about if there is anything in it of interest or not?

00:47:10.680 Maybe I'll just use my judgement on a day.

00:47:12.680 Most days not mention it, but if there is something of note.

00:47:15.680 Alright.

00:47:16.680 The Russkies.

00:47:17.680 What are the Russians saying?

00:47:19.680 U.S. dispatches an armada next to Iran believes Republic ready to talk.

00:47:26.680 So that's interesting.

00:47:27.680 It wasn't in any of the British print media anyway, was it?

00:47:32.680 That story.

00:47:33.680 I mentioned it yesterday, didn't I?

00:47:34.680 That the United States has sent a big part of their navy over to the stretch of ocean at the bottom of Iran.

00:47:46.680 Oh, I just see Harris just put up a poll saying, should we look at the Chinese papers?

00:47:53.680 First few votes are coming and saying, yes, we should.

00:47:57.680 Okay, but that's only the first, literally the first few.

00:47:59.680 It's only a few seconds old.

00:48:00.680 Do you vote on that poll?

00:48:01.680 Let me know.

00:48:02.680 Okay, it's dropping down now.

00:48:05.680 Okay, we'll see.

00:48:06.680 I'll leave it in a minute.

00:48:07.680 We'll see.

00:48:08.680 Okay.

00:48:09.680 The Russkies are talking about how America sent an armada to Iran.

00:48:14.680 If the Donald is going to do military stuff against Iran in Iran over Iranian airspace,

00:48:22.680 first he's going to need a carrier group or two to be sitting just off their shores.

00:48:27.680 That's how it works.

00:48:28.680 Despite the big bases in places like Doha or whatever.

00:48:33.680 Despite the fact that, you know, they can still reach Iranian skies if they need to. 0.90

00:48:39.680 You know, like the B2 can do mid-air refuelling and fly from Missouri, wherever it is, wherever

00:48:45.680 they're based, to Iran and back all the way around the world with the help of mid-air refuelling.

00:48:50.680 But ideally, if you're really going to do stuff, you know, extended operations in Persia,

00:48:57.680 you want to carry a group or two sitting just off the coast.

00:49:00.680 And that's what they're doing.

00:49:01.680 That's what they've done.

00:49:02.680 That's happening.

00:49:03.680 It's in the process of happening.

00:49:06.680 So we'll see.

00:49:09.680 Will Mayer Tucci get his wish?

00:49:12.680 Just have to wait and see.

00:49:14.680 Ukrainian counterintelligence agents surrender in the Ukrainian conflict.

00:49:20.680 There you go.

00:49:21.680 Government of Venezuela obeys its people, does not accept external orders, says Rodriguez.

00:49:26.680 Yeah, right.

00:49:28.680 Yeah, right.

00:49:32.680 Don't buy that. Don't believe that.

00:49:34.680 That's palpable nonsense, isn't it?

00:49:37.680 Okay.

00:49:38.680 UK Starmer says he won't choose between US and China during visits to Beijing.

00:49:43.680 What a weirdo.

00:49:45.680 What a weirdo little...

00:49:47.680 What is he?

00:49:49.680 What is he?

00:49:50.680 History will judge him very, very harshly.

00:49:55.680 I mean, he's already the...

00:49:57.680 He's already the most unpopular Prime Minister of China.

00:49:59.680 He will go down in history as probably a bigger joke.

00:50:03.680 A bigger joke than this trust even.

00:50:08.680 Like a terrible Prime Minister.

00:50:10.680 The worst.

00:50:11.680 His name will be shorthand for a failure of a leader as a leader.

00:50:16.680 All right.

00:50:17.680 The Germans. 0.62

00:50:18.680 What are the Germans talking about? 0.99

00:50:22.680 Again, they've got storms.

00:50:27.680 Build often reports on road traffic accidents, it seems to me.

00:50:32.680 Very often.

00:50:33.680 Yeah, they mention again the Trump's build-up in Iran.

00:50:39.680 Pictures of carriers.

00:50:41.680 Multiple carrier groups, even.

00:50:45.680 Yeah, there was no massive standout story that was particularly amazing,

00:50:48.680 that only the Germans were reporting on.

00:50:50.680 The French... 0.99

00:50:51.680 They're talking about upcoming presidential elections.

00:50:54.680 They ask, why are there so many French presidential hopefuls?

00:50:58.680 Because French politics is, again, another dumpster fire.

00:51:03.680 They've got lots and lots of different factions.

00:51:06.680 Even just within the left in French politics.

00:51:08.680 There's loads and loads of different factions.

00:51:10.680 I saw something that Hollande might want to come back.

00:51:13.680 Yeah, look.

00:51:14.680 So there's all different names.

00:51:15.680 One of which is Hollande again.

00:51:17.680 Fancies a comeback.

00:51:21.680 But okay.

00:51:22.680 When the next French presidential elections come up,

00:51:27.680 we'll see what happens.

00:51:28.680 I feel like Macron himself, his base is eroded.

00:51:31.680 I know a bit about it and read a bit about it,

00:51:33.680 but I'm not deeply, deeply immersed in French politics,

00:51:36.680 but still probably know slightly more than the average person.

00:51:39.680 I've read bits here and there that Macron's base,

00:51:42.680 his sort of personal base, has and is eroding.

00:51:46.680 So his faction within his party are moving over to other people.

00:51:53.680 So I suspect Macron won't be the president of France for,

00:51:56.680 after their next election there.

00:51:59.680 Space, science.

00:52:01.680 There's an interesting thing in some science news,

00:52:04.680 space news.

00:52:05.680 Oh look, Oman is getting involved in space projects.

00:52:09.680 Oman.

00:52:10.680 No one doesn't know Yemen and Oman are very, very impoverished backward countries. 0.98

00:52:22.680 I'd go so far as to say that.

00:52:24.680 Okay.

00:52:25.680 Yeah.

00:52:26.680 This story.

00:52:27.680 We need a planetary neutral network for AI enabled space infrastructure protection.

00:52:33.680 It's a story just about how, as I mentioned earlier,

00:52:38.680 so many satellites, so many objects in orbit, particularly low Earth orbit,

00:52:43.680 that there is a problem, a potential issue of some sort of catastrophic

00:52:50.680 knock on domino effect failure of them all breaking up and smashing into each other.

00:52:54.680 That that's becoming increasingly, like, possible.

00:52:59.680 Just quickly, it says here.

00:53:01.680 You may not see it with the naked eye, but in Earth's orbit,

00:53:04.680 a silent crisis is unfolding, with over 11,000 active satellites currently in orbit,

00:53:10.680 a number expected to reach between 30,000 and 60,000 by 2030.

00:53:14.680 That's not that long away, is it, 2030?

00:53:16.680 But it goes on to say that it's not just the tens of thousands of satellites.

00:53:23.680 But the 40,500 tracked objects of 10 centimetres or more,

00:53:28.680 and 1.1 million pieces of space debris between 1 and 10 centimetres long,

00:53:32.680 130 million pieces of space debris between 1 millimetre and 1 centimetre.

00:53:38.680 And when things are going round in orbit satellites,

00:53:41.680 they're moving at thousands and thousands of miles an hour.

00:53:47.680 So, I say that because even if something's like 1 centimetre long, 1 centimetre big,

00:53:53.680 that can punch a hole through something, blow it apart.

00:53:56.680 Something that's 10 centimetres across, could, like, blow another satellite a bit to pieces,

00:54:05.680 and then, and so on.

00:54:07.680 Again, that domino effect.

00:54:11.680 I have seen some people talk about how there's ideas that we send up satellites or sort of robotic machines into low-Earth orbit,

00:54:23.680 and it's their job to clear it up.

00:54:25.680 Like, they go round in low-Earth orbit, and they sweep up all the debris as much as possible.

00:54:32.680 That might, that will probably be necessary at some point relatively soon.

00:54:37.680 Okay, let's have a quick look at this day in history for the last few minutes,

00:54:41.680 because you guys seem to like that, and I like it.

00:54:45.680 Okay, so on this day, the 27th of January, various things happened.

00:54:50.680 In 1820, Russian Antarctic Expedition discovered the continent of Antarctica.

00:55:00.680 Now, I've made a few bits of content, both for my own channel, my own history channel, History Bro, and for Epochs.

00:55:06.680 Epochs of the Lotus Eaters, my history theme show, behind the paywall, Epochs.

00:55:13.680 I've made content about the Antarctic before, I'm fascinated by the Antarctic.

00:55:17.680 I've made long-form content about Captain Scott, you know, Captain Scott and Captain Oates,

00:55:22.680 they're doomed expedition to the South Pole.

00:55:25.680 And about Shackleton, Ernest Shackleton, and the Endurance.

00:55:28.680 Anyway, fascinated by the Antarctic, the Antarctic exploration.

00:55:32.680 You would think, wouldn't you, that we would have, in inverted commas,

00:55:36.680 discovered the Antarctic continent-sized piece of land before 1820.

00:55:46.680 That seems quite late in history, doesn't it?

00:55:48.680 1820, to have discovered, in inverted commas, Antarctica.

00:55:53.680 There's a bit more to the story than that.

00:55:55.680 Like, they knew, almost certainly knew, well they did sort of know, hundreds of years before that,

00:56:01.680 they could infer that there must be some sort of giant landmass down there.

00:56:05.680 Like, even Captain Cook, Drake, Magellan, hundreds of years before that.

00:56:09.680 Just knew by the way the ocean's going, weather patterns, wind patterns, storm patterns.

00:56:15.680 They could infer that off the bottom of South America, there must be another giant landmass.

00:56:19.680 But none of them actually landed on it.

00:56:21.680 Also in medieval, or perhaps even ancient times, there's a suggestion that people might have gone down there.

00:56:27.680 But it's not properly documented.

00:56:29.680 It's a little bit like Wu history.

00:56:31.680 It's a little bit sort of Graham Hancock territory.

00:56:33.680 But the formal story of history is that the first people to ever land on the Antarctic landmass,

00:56:39.680 to get through the pack ice, and actually land there.

00:56:42.680 And then sort of formally discover it, if you like, was the Russians.

00:56:46.680 And it was as late as 1820.

00:56:48.680 I find that remarkable, whenever I'm reminded of that.

00:56:52.680 Okay, what else we got?

00:56:54.680 In 1825, US President James Monroe urges Congress to approve the creation of Indian territory,

00:57:00.680 west of the Mississippi River, for the relocation of Eastern Indian tribes,

00:57:04.680 to quote, promote their welfare and happiness, quote.

00:57:13.680 You may or may not want to characterize that as death marches.

00:57:17.680 Am I going to get in trouble with the Americans? 0.61

00:57:19.680 Hey, I'm half American.

00:57:21.680 No, so a lot of Indians were relocated under Monroe.

00:57:31.680 It's a long story. It wasn't just like one time.

00:57:34.680 That goes on and on and on.

00:57:36.680 Andrew Jackson, et cetera, et cetera.

00:57:38.680 Okay, in 1924, Vladimir Lenin is placed in a mausoleum in Red Square in Moscow.

00:57:44.680 Lenin was mummified and put in Red Square.

00:57:49.680 In 1924, on this day, on this day in 1944, the Siege of Leningrad, now St. Petersburg,

00:58:02.680 Petersburg, it's all the same city.

00:58:05.680 In 1944, it was lifted by the Soviets after 880 days and more than 2 million Russians were killed.

00:58:12.680 Yeah, the Siege of Leningrad, terrible one.

00:58:15.680 The Germans basically, effectively, this is fairly low resolution, but I've only got a couple of minutes, 1.00

00:58:21.680 but they surrounded the city, or attempted to surround the city, and just starve it out, Army Group North.

00:58:29.680 Hitler didn't really have the resources to fully, properly take it. 0.88

00:58:33.680 He'd moved loads of men from Army Group North downwards.

00:58:36.680 And so he said, just keep it under siege, we'll starve them out, we'll starve them all to death.

00:58:42.680 Any food we are getting, we need to use it to feed our troops and people in Germany.

00:58:49.680 So, loads of people starved to death in Leningrad, froze and starved to death in Leningrad.

00:58:57.680 Like they're eating the leather from their shoes, or they're eating bark off of trees,

00:59:03.680 or they're eating the wood glue from furniture.

00:59:06.680 Terrible, terrible accounts from the Siege of Leningrad.

00:59:10.680 In 1945, Soviet troops liberate Auschwitz and Birkenau concentration camps in Poland,

00:59:16.680 now commemorated as International Holocaust Remembrance Day.

00:59:21.680 In 1973, Paris Peace Accords, signed by US Secretary of State William P. Rogers,

00:59:27.680 and the North Vietnamese Minister for Foreign Affairs,

00:59:30.680 and that gives his name, Yen Du Trinh,

00:59:34.680 Republic of South Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs, Yen Thi Binh,

00:59:39.680 and Republic of Vietnam Minister for Foreign Affairs, Tran Van Lam.

00:59:44.680 They signed the Paris Peace Accords in 1973,

00:59:48.680 which ends America's then longest war and its military draft.

00:59:53.680 Yeah, the final chopper out of Saigon wasn't until 1975, I believe.

00:59:56.680 But yeah, those Peace Accords, Paris Peace Accords,

00:59:59.680 were sort of basically ended, mostly ended the Vietnam conflict.

01:00:08.680 And Mr. Nixon and Henry Kissinger, oh how we miss him,

01:00:13.680 said that, you know, they've got peace, peace with honour.

01:00:18.680 What a brilliant diplomatic success it was.

01:00:21.680 And the rest of the world saying,

01:00:22.680 this is the same deal the Vietnamese were offering years ago. 0.89

01:00:26.680 Essentially.

01:00:29.680 Good one.

01:00:31.680 Alright, so, we are at 9am, let's read the chats.

01:00:34.680 Have we got Super Chats?

01:00:36.680 Harry? I'm not seeing them on my screen.

01:00:38.680 Just let Harry do this.

01:00:41.680 Alright, so let's have a look at the YouTube Super Chats.

01:00:45.680 What we've got.

01:00:46.680 Phil Marshall Dahl Browning, quick, says,

01:00:49.680 and this is a quote.

01:00:51.680 Judge people by what they do, not what they say.

01:00:54.680 Said someone really important.

01:00:56.680 Yeah, I guess she's talking about,

01:00:57.680 we should talk about Breverman, isn't it?

01:00:59.680 Yeah, judge her by her results.

01:01:00.680 Disastrous results for the country,

01:01:02.680 and for the native people of this country.

01:01:04.680 Disastrous results, so judged on that.

01:01:06.680 Yeah, good point, Dawn.

01:01:11.680 The Fenlander 1665 says,

01:01:13.680 the Metro isn't a fit to wrap your chips in.

01:01:16.680 Yeah, it's not, yeah.

01:01:17.680 Yeah, and it's actually cheap as well.

01:01:20.680 Like the ink does come off a bit more than other papers,

01:01:23.680 so it's super cheap.

01:01:24.680 You probably shouldn't, literally actually shouldn't wrap chips in it.

01:01:28.680 Although the metaphorical point you're making is even more apt.

01:01:32.680 All right.

01:01:33.680 Jack Wyatt 5073 says,

01:01:37.680 some more book club recommend, for $20 as well.

01:01:39.680 Some more book club recommendations.

01:01:41.680 The Revolt of the Elites. 0.97

01:01:43.680 The Culture of Narcissism.

01:01:45.680 Narcissism.

01:01:46.680 Stalin's War.

01:01:47.680 The Real Lincoln.

01:01:48.680 Lincoln Unmasked.

01:01:49.680 Why Liberalism Failed.

01:01:51.680 The Bill Gates Problem.

01:01:52.680 The Secret Empires.

01:01:53.680 The Invisible Coup.

01:01:55.680 Extortion.

01:01:56.680 Okay.

01:01:57.680 There you go.

01:01:58.680 Thank you for that.

01:01:59.680 Thank you for those books.

01:02:01.680 Some things about Lincoln there.

01:02:02.680 I'm very interested in Lincoln.

01:02:03.680 I've made some content about the American Civil War.

01:02:05.680 I've got a long form bit of content with Benjamin Boyce,

01:02:07.680 all about Grant, Ulysses S. Grant.

01:02:09.680 One of my first videos ever.

01:02:10.680 In fact, my first video ever on History Bro was about the American Civil War.

01:02:13.680 Fascinated by the life of Lincoln and the American Civil War.

01:02:16.680 So that's good stuff.

01:02:17.680 Interesting stuff.

01:02:18.680 All right.

01:02:19.680 149 says, Restart coal mines and build temporary coal plants next to where you build nuclear.

01:02:26.680 So you can get energy whilst building nuclear.

01:02:29.680 Yeah.

01:02:30.680 Not a bad idea.

01:02:31.680 Sure.

01:02:32.680 We could look into that in Bowes Britain.

01:02:33.680 We'll have a look into that.

01:02:37.680 JetQuiet5073 says, The Myth of the Robber Barons.

01:02:42.680 I guess this is more book recommendations.

01:02:45.680 The Myth of the Robber Barons.

01:02:48.680 San Francisco.

01:02:49.680 Blood Money.

01:02:50.680 Bad Money.

01:02:51.680 The Age of Entitlement.

01:02:53.680 The Naked Communist.

01:02:54.680 Apocalypse Never.

01:02:55.680 I've heard of Apocalypse Never.

01:02:56.680 I think I might have a copy of that on my bookshelf, which I haven't read.

01:03:01.680 Okay.

01:03:02.680 Interesting.

01:03:03.680 Thank you.

01:03:04.680 Again.

01:03:05.680 Okay.

01:03:06.680 Couple more.

01:03:07.680 Fortien Barber says, Keep Zinho, Ditch German slop. 1.00

01:03:12.680 Okay.

01:03:13.680 Interesting feedback.

01:03:14.680 Interesting feedback.

01:03:15.680 We'll see if we can get more on that.

01:03:17.680 Yeah.

01:03:18.680 Both the Chinese and the German coverage is hanging in the balance for the bow show.

01:03:24.680 We'll see.

01:03:25.680 We'll see how it goes.

01:03:26.680 Alright.

01:03:27.680 And the last one.

01:03:28.680 B2010 says, Has anyone mentioned your likeness to the Gypsy King Tyson Fury?

01:03:33.680 Yeah.

01:03:34.680 I've been likened to any bald man.

01:03:35.680 Any bald man you can think of.

01:03:37.680 From Richard O'Brien onwards, I've had it said.

01:03:40.680 Okay.

01:03:41.680 I look like Tyson Fury and Luca with a moustache looks like Captain Darling from Blackadder.

01:03:46.680 Yeah.

01:03:47.680 Everyone says Luca, particularly with the tash, looks like Darling.

01:03:50.680 In fact, he actually played Captain Darling in a stage show of Blackadder goes fourth, apparently.

01:03:55.680 There's pictures of that.

01:03:56.680 It's true.

01:03:57.680 Okay.

01:03:58.680 That's the show.

01:03:59.680 Okay.

01:04:00.680 That's the show.

01:04:01.680 We are now at four minutes past nine a.m.

01:04:03.680 Greenwich Mean Time.

01:04:04.680 On Tuesday 27th of January in the year of our Lord, 2026.

01:04:08.680 You have been a member of the Bow Show.

01:04:11.680 Breakfast with Bow.

01:04:12.680 Bow's Breakfast Club.

01:04:13.680 The Glorish Band, The Chosen Few.

01:04:15.680 Thank you for tuning in.

01:04:16.680 Without you, it isn't a thing.

01:04:17.680 And try and make the best of the day if you can.

01:04:20.680 Carpe diem.

01:04:21.680 Seize the day.

01:04:22.680 If you can.

01:04:23.680 You only have it once.

01:04:24.680 Try and make it count.

01:04:26.680 Until tomorrow morning.

01:04:27.680 Take care.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - January 27, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Tuesday 27th January 2026

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