The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 27th May 2026

00:00:00.000 Morning, you alright?

00:00:03.000 I'm alright. I hope you are. I really do hope you are.

00:00:10.000 Lovely cup of tea. Lovely cup of tea.

00:00:12.000 Right.

00:00:13.000 It has just ticked past 8 in the a.m. British summer time on Wednesday.

00:00:18.000 It's now Wednesday isn't it?

00:00:19.000 When Wednesday? Wednesday.

00:00:20.000 The 27th of May, the year of our Lord, 2026.

00:00:24.000 Who are you? You know who you are.

00:00:26.000 you're the glorious band the chosen few my band of brothers and sisters without you it isn't a

00:00:33.780 thing cheers for tuning in you make it without me without you guys it's just me rambling into

00:00:43.420 the void isn't it as always i'm joined by my producer little harry and how are you this

00:00:48.640 morning guitar morning yeah i'm all good little harry for anyone who's new isn't little there's

00:00:54.240 just a much much bigger Harry. Little Harry's taller than me. He's comfortable with it,

00:01:01.180 he doesn't mind. Should we stop faffing about though? Should we just stop fannying around

00:01:10.360 and get into it? What's the legacy corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning?

00:01:15.340 What are they lying to you by omission about? What's their way to? All right, we've got Blair

00:01:23.120 Starmer has no plan for Britain

00:01:26.380 He's intervened

00:01:29.260 The Dark Lord has intervened

00:01:32.300 And

00:01:34.360 The heat's still on

00:01:37.320 It was hot again yesterday and today

00:01:40.740 The heat is on

00:01:42.000 The heat is on

00:01:44.940 What?

00:01:47.200 The pressure's high

00:01:48.520 Just to stay alive

00:01:51.080 That's not funny

00:01:52.380 Some people will die for Heat Street

00:01:53.540 Okay, the Daily Telegraph

00:02:04.700 Notori graph

00:02:06.580 This is George Harrison's wife, ex-wife

00:02:10.340 Of the Beatles, Beatles fame, George Harrison

00:02:12.960 They're travelling Wilburys

00:02:15.840 And they're making it all made a biopic

00:02:21.600 A Beatles biopic thing

00:02:22.940 And she wasn't asked for any input

00:02:25.480 That's it

00:02:27.120 That's the only reason why

00:02:28.060 She's on the front page there

00:02:29.560 Alright Blair 0.68

00:02:30.660 Starmer has no plan for Britain

00:02:33.020 Oof

00:02:33.740 The Dark Lord has intervened

00:02:37.240 One ring for the Dark Lord

00:02:41.300 On his Dark Throne

00:02:44.440 In the land of Mordor

00:02:48.140 Where the shadows lie

00:02:51.720 Who let Sauron in the room?

00:02:57.560 Own up

00:02:58.020 Own up 1.00

00:02:59.900 Who let Blair speak?

00:03:03.520 Former PM launches stinging attack on Labour

00:03:06.860 For refusing to leave its comfort zone

00:03:09.220 Yeah, he wrote like a whole essay

00:03:10.980 Like a 5,000 plus word essay

00:03:13.160 Like a whole thing about it

00:03:15.920 It's in the news a fair bit today

00:03:17.480 To be honest

00:03:18.340 It's probably

00:03:18.760 Well it's the main story

00:03:19.500 I think

00:03:19.760 Look there's Blair

00:03:20.400 There he is

00:03:21.460 Evil man

00:03:23.440 He's starting to look evil

00:03:25.480 Isn't he

00:03:25.840 Like the Dark Lord

00:03:27.000 Like he's corrupted

00:03:28.240 Like his moral corruption

00:03:32.520 Is now showing through

00:03:34.600 Physically

00:03:35.420 Blair

00:03:37.220 Blair

00:03:39.020 Blair

00:03:41.120 See

00:03:42.160 Alright

00:03:43.700 What has he actually said

00:03:45.440 A number of things

00:03:46.160 A whole number of things

00:03:46.820 because remember tony blair is on the right of the labour party i mean he called himself the center

00:03:55.840 but the radical center that's an oxymoron isn't it isn't the center by definition not very radical

00:04:03.580 okay he likes the the term the radical center but in terms of the labour party he's firmly on the

00:04:11.340 has always always has been when he first got into power he rewrote the constitution a bit

00:04:17.180 the labour party constitution sort of stopped talking about the ownership of industry by the

00:04:24.620 state and things like that so the full lefties hardline lefties you know they don't like they

00:04:32.300 may never really liked blair you know he was he would win for them but they always considered him

00:04:39.660 like some sort of horrible compromise uh and so with all that said blair doesn't really like

00:04:47.980 the direction that someone like angela the fridge rainer big bird or king andy bumham the first of

00:04:55.100 his name he doesn't like the way they would take the party or even particularly where street here

00:04:59.660 he's not happy with the way star was doing it someone's uh blair has basically said you know

00:05:05.580 this is what i would do you know come on this is what i would do if i was in power

00:05:11.100 um and yeah a whole number of things just a whole number of things he said

00:05:15.420 uh which we quickly whip through them um well one of the things blair's an arch europhile though

00:05:24.940 like arch europhile so on that on that he's actually on board with kia starmer and the things

00:05:30.620 that we're street singer said tony blair would like britain to rejoin the eu

00:05:35.580 So that's one thing where there isn't sort of giant clear light between them

00:05:39.480 Other than that, what is his head?

00:05:41.320 He said that they're damaging the economy largely

00:05:44.440 That you're screwing with the economy and businesses

00:05:47.380 You're creating headwinds instead of tailwinds for businesses

00:05:51.880 All the taxes you're putting on businesses

00:05:54.320 I mean, I don't disagree with him

00:05:56.180 Myself

00:05:57.400 If you're going to take the far left

00:06:01.800 That is the current Labour Party

00:06:04.940 Whether it's Starmer or

00:06:06.260 Burner would be slightly more to the left

00:06:09.440 And I'm over here 1.00

00:06:10.840 Blair is somewhere in the middle

00:06:12.820 So a lot of things he says

00:06:15.160 In this

00:06:16.440 I'd be like well yeah it's a start

00:06:17.820 It's a start

00:06:19.400 Stop screwing businesses 0.52

00:06:21.440 Stop sort of destroying them 0.99

00:06:23.680 Stop sort of strangling them in the cradle

00:06:26.080 With taxes

00:06:27.160 He had a pop at Starmer's legislation

00:06:30.660 About

00:06:31.060 Wages, minimum wage

00:06:34.220 And things

00:06:35.300 Again, to a proper lefty

00:06:36.720 A dyed-in-the-wool sort of

00:06:37.760 Kind of more old labour

00:06:39.020 20th century

00:06:41.040 Pinko type 0.94

00:06:42.600 That's all good

00:06:45.360 But Blair wasn't that really, was he?

00:06:47.780 Blair was like a

00:06:48.600 Sort of a managerial

00:06:51.340 Managerial almost

00:06:52.900 I was going to say pragmatist

00:06:55.260 That's probably a bit too kind

00:06:56.860 To just call him a pragmatist

00:06:58.780 No, no, I'm going to say

00:06:59.400 No, he was pretty pragmatic

00:07:01.180 I mean, obviously he had his ideology

00:07:02.980 An agenda

00:07:05.480 To destroy this country 1.00

00:07:08.820 To rub our noses in diversity

00:07:13.160 Oh he doesn't say anything about immigration

00:07:14.500 Not that I saw

00:07:15.820 I haven't read the whole essay myself

00:07:17.660 But I've read multiple articles this morning

00:07:20.420 I didn't see anything about immigration

00:07:22.820 Legal immigration certainly

00:07:25.940 Nothing about that

00:07:26.760 Nothing about demographic change 1.00

00:07:28.900 And a sectarian nightmare 0.88

00:07:30.560 Future sectarian nightmare 1.00

00:07:32.200 nothing at all about that, not a dicky bird 1.00

00:07:34.320 but no, the economy

00:07:36.480 you're screwing with businesses too much

00:07:38.340 and the general

00:07:40.700 point, sort of the general point

00:07:42.420 he said is that

00:07:43.700 Keir Starmer and this Labour government

00:07:45.860 haven't got a plan

00:07:47.260 look, Starmer has no plan for Britain

00:07:49.880 that was sort of the overarching meta point he was saying

00:07:52.280 he was like, you've got no plan

00:07:53.940 and West Streeting and Andy Burnham

00:07:55.960 don't seem to have a plan either

00:07:57.280 that's not wrong is it?

00:08:00.520 I think Blair was saying

00:08:02.780 What you need for government

00:08:04.820 What you need for government

00:08:07.080 Is

00:08:07.500 A proper set of policies

00:08:10.700 For everything

00:08:11.740 Or at least the biggest things

00:08:13.460 At least for the economy

00:08:15.420 Have a proper set of

00:08:18.780 Thought out, joined up

00:08:20.540 Policies

00:08:21.440 And like a vision

00:08:24.280 For Britain

00:08:25.280 A vision for what you want

00:08:28.180 A clear one, what you want Britain to be

00:08:30.500 And look like

00:08:31.660 Proper set of policies

00:08:33.940 That all work together

00:08:35.140 In unison

00:08:35.800 I mean it's 101 stuff isn't it

00:08:38.060 Sort of GCSE level politics

00:08:41.900 Stuff isn't it

00:08:43.160 He's basically saying

00:08:45.760 Have a proper government

00:08:46.840 Basically isn't he

00:08:48.080 And yeah you know

00:08:50.480 He's saying that

00:08:51.200 The way Starmer's doing it

00:08:53.580 Has been doing it

00:08:54.540 Is just sort of

00:08:55.120 Stumbling bumbling along

00:08:56.640 I'm paraphrasing there

00:08:57.320 But stumbling bumbling along

00:08:58.820 From one thing to another

00:08:59.760 yeah that's what it looks like isn't it well it looks like it's what it is isn't it again he's not

00:09:04.240 wrong and that you just you just leave ministers out there to just sort of flail around try and

00:09:11.680 say a few things and then get defeated by your own backbench nearly every time and have to do a u-turn

00:09:16.080 yeah you can only imagine from the starmer camp imagine action gear starmer well can you just

00:09:26.480 imagine if you were the leader not even of a britain or of a country just use like the ceo of

00:09:31.920 a big company or something anything really small company and the old guy the guy used to run it 0.70

00:09:38.880 just writes 5 000 words about what a crap job you're doing and how you haven't got a clue

00:09:44.880 how you're fundamentally failing like a you know a truly fundamental level 0.99

00:09:49.360 You wouldn't be best pleased would you

00:09:54.120 I don't think

00:09:54.680 And so some

00:09:59.980 Or many

00:10:01.820 In the Labour Party coming out saying

00:10:03.840 Oh this is refreshing

00:10:05.080 Yes Tony Blair was great wasn't he remember

00:10:07.180 All he's saying is really good and interesting

00:10:10.020 And we should take it on board

00:10:11.020 And then you've got a whole bunch of 0.88

00:10:13.980 Starmer

00:10:14.520 Starmer fanboys

00:10:16.920 Starmer partisans

00:10:18.580 Just saying, look, Tony Blair

00:10:20.160 Hasn't been in power for 30 years

00:10:22.200 He doesn't know what he's talking about

00:10:23.380 Just pipe down, Tone

00:10:25.760 Your time's over

00:10:27.640 But of course they would say that, wouldn't they?

00:10:31.520 If your job

00:10:32.460 Is absolutely dependent on Keir Starmer's position

00:10:35.260 Then you would say that, wouldn't you?

00:10:39.960 But yeah, it's not like Tony Blair's come out and said

00:10:41.700 Like, Burnham's the man

00:10:42.800 Or

00:10:43.120 Streeting would be best

00:10:45.940 Or

00:10:46.400 I fully back here forever

00:10:49.800 No there's none of that

00:10:50.960 He was criticising all of them

00:10:52.260 I suppose that's the prerogative

00:10:55.320 Of a senior statesman

00:10:57.040 A knight of the garter

00:11:00.400 Alright we'll talk about it a little bit more as we go on

00:11:05.520 Because it's on the front page of a few of these

00:11:07.440 What else have we got

00:11:10.080 Sturgeon

00:11:11.120 Wee Jimmy Cranky's

00:11:12.240 Motorhome story

00:11:13.480 Thrown into doubt

00:11:14.480 Yeah

00:11:15.640 Yeah

00:11:16.400 yeah doubt is there a doubt button i can press 0.78

00:11:19.880 doubt um so apparently i didn't realize that part of her story

00:11:27.300 about the motorhome you know the 125 130 grand motorhome

00:11:32.700 that embezzler peter morrell her ex-husband bought with stolen money

00:11:40.260 remember that apparently her story was that she didn't even know it existed

00:11:44.460 I didn't realise that

00:11:46.280 I thought she knew it existed

00:11:48.380 And just hadn't really questioned

00:11:51.100 Where the dough came from

00:11:53.220 To pay for it

00:11:53.920 Apparently her story is that she didn't even know it existed

00:11:57.160 But then so now

00:11:58.800 People are saying

00:12:00.680 No we saw her

00:12:02.000 We saw her like in it or near it

00:12:04.800 The story is something like

00:12:06.380 Eyewitnesses

00:12:08.080 Saw her

00:12:09.720 It's all a bit tawdry actually

00:12:12.300 It's all a little bit he said she said

00:12:14.300 Petty

00:12:15.040 Apparently she was seen

00:12:17.320 Buying pizza and garlic bread

00:12:20.660 And the motorhome was parked

00:12:22.760 In the car park

00:12:23.500 Something like that

00:12:28.100 Let's see

00:12:28.580 So you must have known

00:12:31.280 You did know he existed

00:12:32.560 Almost certainly

00:12:34.540 We haven't actually got a photograph of you

00:12:36.780 Sitting in the passenger seat

00:12:38.160 But

00:12:38.900 Alright

00:12:41.500 sturgeon's sturgeon's fabric of lies falling apart

00:12:51.500 all right all right okay um iran will sign peace deal if it gets 24 billion dollars okay

00:13:02.220 well its own 24 billion dollars actually of frozen assets but again that's a big

00:13:07.740 part of the american strategy if they're not going to bomb them into oblivion they're certainly going

00:13:14.140 to crush what little economy they've got left that include include included and includes

00:13:23.020 freezing their sort of foreign held assets and not giving them back

00:13:30.460 like iran's got any real leverage like give us back our 24 billion

00:13:35.100 Can you imagine

00:13:37.440 The senior players at the White House

00:13:40.100 Sort of sniggering at that

00:13:42.900 Yeah

00:13:44.980 You're not getting that money back bro

00:13:46.660 You're not getting it back

00:13:47.480 Okay the times

00:13:49.680 The venerable times

00:13:51.380 Social media ban will protect children

00:13:54.800 From addictive features

00:13:56.060 So this is the thing rearing its head again

00:13:58.200 About a social media ban 0.96

00:14:01.420 For under 16s 1.00

00:14:02.460 In this country

00:14:03.600 they've tried it in australia and apparently it's not that popular because

00:14:09.400 it doesn't really work kids by the time you're 14 or 15

00:14:14.100 if you want to get around that you'll be able to get around it

00:14:18.200 right a 14 or 15 year old these days anyway a lot more savvy than the like when i was when i was

00:14:25.860 that age well we just didn't have mobile phones when i was that age literally let alone smartphones

00:14:29.680 there was no internet nowadays yeah kids like what there's a ban please just let me

00:14:36.480 get a vpn or something some other app that just lets me get in there

00:14:41.040 you ask someone else you just google it how do you get around that oh it's really easy it's just

00:14:46.760 a few clicks fine done so there's that the kids resent it and just get around it so it doesn't

00:14:53.960 really work and then like and then like apparently in australia this is some of the feedback so far

00:15:00.640 is that the parents like well some of them anyway had hoped that the kids would get off social media

00:15:08.820 and start you know start living a real life touch grass start going out and playing sports like in

00:15:14.240 a wholesome way or something like it was the 1970s the 1980s but that just doesn't happen

00:15:19.180 It just doesn't happen

00:15:21.400 I find a screen somewhere else or something

00:15:23.740 Or as I say, they just get round it

00:15:25.260 Or the kid just really, really resents it

00:15:28.000 And then

00:15:28.520 They take away the kid's favourite thing

00:15:32.000 And the kid just hates them now

00:15:33.720 The kid's already addicted to

00:15:37.780 God knows what, Snapchat

00:15:39.120 Insta, I don't know

00:15:40.860 Facebook 1.00

00:15:42.880 Harry, Zoomers 1.00

00:15:45.620 I want to just ask the opinion of

00:15:47.740 of an authentic zoomer real quick is it right am i right in thinking that zoomers don't really

00:15:54.980 use facebook much that's not really their their thing or is it no not really it's more uh instagram

00:16:02.200 it's what instagram it's instagram instagram is it okay tiktok yeah yeah yeah instagram and tiktok

00:16:14.760 yeah not boomer book even i'm not on facebook i got like a ban ages ago ages and ages and ages ago

00:16:22.680 and i was like oh fine fine a bad for something really really really minor wasn't even saying

00:16:28.200 anything particularly spicy if i recall just banned off now and i'm like oh fine that's fine

00:16:32.740 i'll live my life without facebook i won't appeal that i won't try and get back on it or anything

00:16:36.320 i think they wanted to get me back on it when i was with reform but anyway

00:16:39.680 yeah fine i can live a life without facebook fine it's just boomer slop isn't it isn't it 0.93

00:16:46.700 just isn't it just populated with boomers being retarded not understanding memes and stuff that's 0.93

00:16:51.780 the impression i get without being on it yeah no that's all it is right 0.88

00:16:56.840 some ai generated cat meme and boomers asking is this real like a cat driving a rally car

00:17:06.900 so i'm septuagenarian is this real anyway vote green

00:17:13.300 right okay shouldn't have a pop of boomers unnecessarily based boomers are some of the

00:17:22.440 most based people you'll ever see i'll say that i'll stand by that a lot of people chuck a little

00:17:26.900 shade at boomers a lot of them deserve it but the ones that don't deserve it really don't deserve it

00:17:32.600 I think. 1.00

00:17:34.100 Yeah.

00:17:35.200 You find yourself a based boomer, a proper based boomer.

00:17:37.740 Woo.

00:17:40.820 Because they're old enough to remember.

00:17:43.660 Yeah.

00:17:44.560 They're old enough to remember a world before this insanity.

00:17:48.660 And that it was good.

00:17:50.400 And lo, it was good.

00:17:54.160 All right.

00:17:56.480 I'm not on TikTok or Instagram.

00:17:58.400 I'm not interested.

00:17:59.440 Not interested in that.

00:18:00.440 I'm too old for that.

00:18:02.600 45 this summer me well i'm going to take loads of pictures of my own meal and post that or something 0.91

00:18:10.680 all right so in britain anyway anyway get back to a social media ban for under 16s

00:18:19.660 um i think it's really cynical i don't buy i don't buy at all that the government cares about 0.98

00:18:25.580 the safety of children they wouldn't flood this country with foreign barbarians who per capita 0.98

00:18:30.300 Commit sex crime 1.00

00:18:32.600 On a crazy level

00:18:34.220 If they cared about the actual safety

00:18:36.360 Of us

00:18:37.600 They wouldn't be doing that would they

00:18:40.700 Now this is to do with

00:18:42.640 An exercise in power and control

00:18:44.500 They make certain things 0.99

00:18:46.680 Illegal for under 16s

00:18:48.340 And then that means a couple of things 0.59

00:18:50.240 One, you have to prove

00:18:52.460 You're over 16, i.e.

00:18:54.080 You send in some ID, i.e. you can't be anonymous

00:18:56.740 i.e. the government can see exactly

00:18:58.320 Who's doing what at all times

00:18:59.560 oh yeah oh yeah they'll oh they'll exploit the the the misery and grief of of parents

00:19:06.080 bereaved parents in order to do that oh yeah they're not above that and it's a slippery slope

00:19:14.740 to censorship in general on the internet first it's under 16s can't do xyz look at xyz click 1.00

00:19:21.780 And then it's everyone

00:19:23.460 They'll exploit the grief

00:19:27.660 Of a parent

00:19:29.880 Who's lost a child

00:19:30.920 In order to achieve that

00:19:32.240 They'll do that without blinking

00:19:33.840 They'll do that a hundred times over

00:19:36.160 Disgustingly cynical 0.63

00:19:39.480 It's about protecting our children

00:19:43.560 No it's not

00:19:44.120 There's loads of things you would do

00:19:48.760 If it was really about that

00:19:49.800 Not just internet

00:19:51.780 Not just social media.

00:19:53.520 If you really cared about the safety of people in this country or children.

00:20:00.720 You'd have a thorough investigation into grooming stroke rape gangs for a start, wouldn't you?

00:20:10.080 Okay.

00:20:12.480 Lurch to left puts Britain at risk, Blair tells Labour.

00:20:17.840 Yeah, Keir and, of course,

00:20:19.960 Bumham

00:20:21.900 Andy Bumham

00:20:24.280 King of the North

00:20:25.400 Far to the left

00:20:28.700 Far to the left of Blair really

00:20:31.260 PM attacks Bumham

00:20:33.560 And 1.00

00:20:34.340 Practicing homosexualist 0.89

00:20:36.600 Wesley Streeting 0.55

00:20:37.480 Attacks them

00:20:39.360 In words of course

00:20:40.960 He's not going for a double takedown

00:20:45.400 Ground and pound

00:20:46.200 Alright

00:20:48.420 What else have we got?

00:20:50.900 What else have we got?

00:20:51.440 The Daily Mail, pure slop.

00:20:54.900 Pure subversion.

00:20:57.900 Trying to pretend it's not.

00:20:59.640 The Mail Group. 1.00

00:21:01.940 Disgusting. 0.98

00:21:03.260 Right, there's Lucy Punch there. 0.99

00:21:05.080 It's some TV thing called Amanda Land, is it?

00:21:08.140 I've not watched it.

00:21:08.780 I've got no intention of ever watching it.

00:21:10.480 Couldn't care less.

00:21:11.820 They're calling her Amanda.

00:21:13.020 Her name's Lucy, isn't it? 0.52

00:21:14.800 Lucy Punch. 1.00

00:21:15.340 Amanda lands a modelling contract 1.00

00:21:18.600 don't care 1.00

00:21:19.000 now Blair

00:21:22.480 savages Labour's lurch to the left

00:21:24.480 XPM issues blistering

00:21:26.760 verdict on Starmer's government

00:21:28.340 blistering

00:21:29.120 blistering but warns that moving 0.97

00:21:32.500 even further left with Bumham

00:21:34.120 is doomed to fail

00:21:35.540 it probably is, I mean yeah

00:21:37.620 again the Dark Lord on his Dark Throne

00:21:40.360 in the land of Mordor where shadows lie

00:21:41.840 isn't wrong

00:21:42.680 Labour's lurch to the left

00:21:46.120 Is pushing Britain towards relegation

00:21:48.900 Tony Blair warns today

00:21:50.280 Relegation from the top tier of countries 0.87

00:21:52.220 He's talking about there

00:21:53.180 I don't think Britain is

00:21:55.320 Well we are in the top tier of countries in a number of ways

00:21:58.780 Our economy was tiny

00:22:00.780 Compared to

00:22:01.320 United States and Russia

00:22:03.760 Still in the top 10 I think

00:22:05.140 Pretty sure it is

00:22:06.580 We're one of only 7 is it

00:22:09.180 7, 8 countries that have got nukes

00:22:12.680 Even if we do buy them off the United States.

00:22:14.560 A nuclear submarine program.

00:22:16.700 We've still got quite good intelligence services.

00:22:20.520 I'd say we're obviously not in the top tier.

00:22:23.800 If there's one top tier, it would have to be the United States and China

00:22:27.340 and Russia knocking at the door of that, right?

00:22:30.060 We're in the next one. 0.91

00:22:31.700 We're still in the next one.

00:22:33.460 Let's not just cope.

00:22:34.200 I mean, it's an objective thing to say.

00:22:37.280 Objectively true thing to say.

00:22:39.540 Yeah, are we in danger of being relegated even below that?

00:22:43.160 if we lurch to the left yeah and we still lead the world in a number of different things

00:22:49.880 number different things various technologies and research high-end stuff some high-end stuff

00:22:57.080 yeah we're at risk of not not even that yeah it's true okay all right the eye paper look there's a

00:23:07.320 little bit about a little bit about rupes there vince rupert lobby one kenobi and nige al farage 0.99

00:23:16.520 who says uh you know you can't really confront islam because if you do you'll lose

00:23:21.480 when asked about demographic decline he said i'm not interested in that

00:23:27.880 remember that wasn't that in the edgington stevenson interview

00:23:31.800 you concerned about demographic decline no that doesn't worry me i think that's what he said

00:23:37.320 Might not be verbatim, but he's like, no, I don't care.

00:23:43.060 Oh, but there's no difference between them.

00:23:45.380 Yeah, right.

00:23:47.500 Farage is like Lemon Nando's.

00:23:49.840 Low is full heat.

00:23:54.740 There's the eye paper.

00:23:56.340 Okay.

00:23:57.520 Britain at risk of becoming irrelevant.

00:23:59.820 Blair turns on Labour rivals.

00:24:02.000 Former Labour PM, the Dark Lord, launches a blistering broadside.

00:24:05.880 It's not a blistering side

00:24:07.000 A blistering broadside

00:24:08.540 At Starmer and leadership contenders

00:24:12.580 Saying Britain risks being

00:24:14.760 Marooned on an island of irrelevance

00:24:17.400 What imagery

00:24:19.800 An island of irrelevance

00:24:24.000 Okay

00:24:27.760 I mean again

00:24:29.520 Not wrong is he?

00:24:31.900 I don't think he's necessarily wrong

00:24:32.900 Tony Blair accuses PM of coming to power

00:24:36.420 Without quote a coherent plan

00:24:38.040 Quote for the UK

00:24:38.900 Remember his manifesto

00:24:41.780 It was Keir Starmer's manifesto

00:24:44.320 It was very very very very thin

00:24:46.500 And in the years

00:24:48.320 And certainly the months leading up to the general election

00:24:50.560 Where everyone knew Rishi was going to get pwned

00:24:52.740 At the ballot box

00:24:53.900 And the mainstream media and others

00:24:56.280 Trying to get Keir Starmer to say

00:24:58.280 Exactly what his plans were

00:25:00.040 Exactly what everything meant in the manifesto

00:25:02.460 trying to get them to pad out the manifesto in any way they can

00:25:05.360 and he just didn't

00:25:06.400 he just spent those months

00:25:08.460 sort of actively

00:25:10.420 being vague

00:25:12.820 actively not saying

00:25:14.180 actively not giving us

00:25:16.760 a coherent plan with any real detail

00:25:18.500 about what he's going to do

00:25:19.420 it was mad to have ever voted for them

00:25:24.600 all the people that voted Labour

00:25:28.160 at the last election

00:25:29.240 um

00:25:32.460 I mean what did you think you were doing

00:25:36.640 I mean those get the get the Tories out the Lib Dems probably would have been worse

00:25:43.140 didn't have many options right you could have voted reform but

00:25:46.500 I don't think they were standing in a gigantic number of seats were they

00:25:49.580 they're standing quite a few anyway there weren't great options were there

00:25:54.680 if you remember there was this general general feeling massive feeling of

00:26:00.900 Get the Tories out

00:26:03.260 Punish the Tories

00:26:05.800 Okay

00:26:10.640 Well it was likely to be Labour then wasn't it

00:26:12.720 At that moment in time

00:26:14.020 We've got options now haven't we

00:26:16.660 Reform and restore at the very least

00:26:18.580 Should really think about

00:26:20.800 Aiming high and voting low of course

00:26:22.580 Because

00:26:25.120 Rupa is full heat Nando sauce

00:26:28.040 Why do you want the lemon

00:26:29.520 The lemon and herb

00:26:31.860 Nando sauce

00:26:32.900 Nigel's lemon and herb

00:26:34.960 Weak

00:26:36.480 You want the full

00:26:39.580 You want the full shebang right

00:26:41.200 You want the hot tamale

00:26:43.300 Alright

00:26:45.080 Tony Blair says

00:26:46.020 In his 5,600 word essay

00:26:48.960 That's not short

00:26:50.620 5,000 word essay is like

00:26:52.400 A fair few pages

00:26:53.660 Maybe I'll read it later today

00:26:55.460 I mean I was only aware

00:26:56.760 That it was a thing this morning

00:26:58.000 So I literally haven't had time to read it

00:27:00.160 Maybe I'll read it today

00:27:01.380 Probably should

00:27:02.400 Right, it's 5600 word essay

00:27:06.060 He says

00:27:06.780 Policies have given, quote, headwinds, not tailwinds

00:27:10.880 To business

00:27:11.740 There you go

00:27:12.320 And calls for radical centre

00:27:14.440 To harness AI as a route to prosperity

00:27:17.680 Oh, that's a thing he said

00:27:18.740 Which I completely and utterly disagree with

00:27:20.540 You know my feelings about AI

00:27:21.760 Outside of a few limited

00:27:26.400 Functions

00:27:28.520 Medical research perhaps

00:27:30.240 Tony Blair loves AI

00:27:32.500 He loves it, always has

00:27:34.680 He was talking about it

00:27:36.380 When it was like when most people still weren't talking about it

00:27:39.140 He loves AI

00:27:40.960 And ID cards

00:27:42.680 Because he's, you know, mental

00:27:44.800 Because he does want to be

00:27:48.180 Like an all powerful 0.91

00:27:50.300 Dark lord

00:27:51.500 In some way

00:27:53.560 So of course he loves AI

00:27:54.980 what get peter till to get a 100 surveillance on everyone at all times and then just hand

00:28:07.720 tony blair the keys to that

00:28:09.280 like tony you know you'll be oppressed by it along with everyone else right

00:28:16.660 and your children and grandchildren you know that right yeah you don't care no i know

00:28:20.640 all right tony blair look

00:28:25.940 it's really difficult to keep sort of the evil out of his out of his features isn't it

00:28:34.820 imagine that i'll just devolve i'll devolve parliament i'll break the back of the power

00:28:40.820 the hard one power of westminster over centuries i'll break i'll break that yep

00:28:48.340 i'll sort of ruin government by flooding it with quangos yep yep yep 1.00

00:28:52.820 I'll ruin the actual demographic 1.00

00:28:56.120 By flooding the country with foreign people 1.00

00:29:01.340 And gaslighting anyone who's got any problem with it 1.00

00:29:03.460 Rub their noses in diversity

00:29:05.040 So that you don't have a higher trust 0.99

00:29:07.100 Low crime society anymore

00:29:10.220 And then I'll accept an order of the garter

00:29:16.940 And pretend I'm some sort of brilliant statesman

00:29:19.260 I did great things 1.00

00:29:21.000 what a scumbag 1.00

00:29:25.020 scum 1.00

00:29:25.520 scum 1.00

00:29:28.820 why Labour must return to the radical centre 0.99

00:29:32.640 to reverse Britain's decline

00:29:34.380 like you've got the answers

00:29:38.320 Tony

00:29:38.820 like you didn't

00:29:42.220 mismanage nearly everything you did

00:29:44.440 you gave the impression

00:29:46.640 the veneer that you were a great leader

00:29:48.500 that you ran

00:29:50.480 government well, but in fact it was disastrous, sir. Why Labour must do anything? Shut up,

00:30:00.060 Tony. In a damning verdict on Starmer and his leadership rivals, the former Prime Minister 0.99

00:30:06.760 makes a bombshell intervention to warn that his party is playing with fire, quote, playing

00:30:13.020 with fire, and the country now risk relegation from the Premier League of Nations. One thing

00:30:19.380 said you're playing with fire and the party and the country all right the guardian

00:30:29.700 harry

00:30:32.740 the guardian

00:30:37.780 russia relentlessly targeting uk infrastructure spy chief walls quite interesting

00:30:42.500 The head of GCHQ 0.72

00:30:46.840 A woman 1.00

00:30:48.400 It's so little 0.99

00:30:51.260 It's a double-barrelled name

00:30:52.420 Something Butler

00:30:53.000 Something Butler

00:30:55.560 I find it weird

00:30:59.940 When the head of MI5 or MI6

00:31:02.160 Or GCHQ

00:31:03.240 I've just sort of

00:31:05.200 Got a Twitter account

00:31:06.800 I don't know if she has

00:31:07.520 But I think the leaders of MI5 and MI6 have

00:31:10.000 They've just got a Twitter account

00:31:11.240 Or

00:31:12.000 The head of GCHQ will just make a speech

00:31:14.600 An inaugural lecture

00:31:17.760 They're starting an annual lecture

00:31:20.900 Doing a speech

00:31:22.660 Again, call me old-fashioned

00:31:27.120 But aren't these organisations supposed to be secret?

00:31:34.800 If not entirely secret

00:31:36.480 At least secretive

00:31:38.380 It blows my mind that the head of MI5 or MI6

00:31:42.560 Has got a Twitter account

00:31:43.860 Or that the head of GCHQ will make a speech

00:31:47.040 No, no one's really supposed to know who you are

00:31:50.220 You're supposed to be entirely secret

00:31:53.140 Pretty much entirely secret

00:31:55.020 We're just abandoning all of that

00:31:58.040 I guess so, I guess so, yeah

00:32:01.040 Yeah

00:32:02.920 Okay

00:32:05.340 The head of GCHQ

00:32:07.180 anyway doesn't know gchq is like um signals intelligence right um they're they're the

00:32:14.540 ones that actually do a lot of the spire work basically electronically you know they're

00:32:21.580 intercepting things like if mi5 or mi6 wanted intelligence or something they quite often go

00:32:28.140 to gchq and say can you bug this or that for us the gchq is sort of you know really is the heart

00:32:36.380 of british intelligence in various ways those three things mi5 mi6 and gchq are like work

00:32:43.100 together are supposed to work together um to get things done to paint a sort of an intelligence

00:32:49.020 picture okay maybe the equivalent american is like um well anyway anyway the america's got

00:32:57.660 loads and loads of different intelligence things going on but um the ns the nsa

00:33:03.820 absolutely anyway all right the point is i was trying to make get into the weeds there the point

00:33:10.220 is is that it's really weird to me that this person would just do a speech and just talk about

00:33:16.300 okay they're talking about russia and china they're saying that russia is well as the headline

00:33:20.460 there it says relentlessly targeting uk infrastructure they made a they made a couple

00:33:25.020 of specific points about some bomb went off in germany in leipzig in germany that the russians

00:33:32.380 did that like sort of set fire to a warehouse or there was that they mentioned some warehouse in

00:33:37.980 britain that got there was a fire or got burnt down because a parcel was sent from russia to

00:33:45.580 britain and it was like a bomb or an incendiary or something and okay and that the russians are

00:33:52.140 again um sort of in all sorts of ways trying cyber attacks lots of cyber attacks from the

00:33:56.060 russians according to them who am i to naysay them if that's what they're saying

00:34:02.780 a reckless sabotage from the russians all over the place they're saying

00:34:06.700 and china it's weird and they're basically saying uh and china also doing all of that

00:34:14.140 classic isn't it going on and on about russia and then um oh uh you know also also china

00:34:22.620 that was the way this print the guardian has presented it so um the number of espionage

00:34:30.900 cases against the chinese in britain just going up and up and up and up and up

00:34:34.380 okay all right i mean

00:34:38.540 we're engaged in uh espionage encounter espionage war with the russians and the chinese yeah

00:34:48.680 yeah we are aren't we wonder if we'll do anything about it really

00:34:53.400 i mean in terms of counter-espionage

00:34:56.720 it seems to be just letting the troops specifically the chinese doing anything they want

00:35:03.280 looks like doesn't it at least with the russians something within our establishment within our 0.88

00:35:08.880 deep state is belligerent about it right at least they do talk about it and go on about it 0.99

00:35:15.100 They're on the Chinese side 0.93

00:35:17.700 Not really, do they? 1.00

00:35:21.040 It doesn't seem like they do

00:35:22.040 I don't think this government

00:35:24.620 Well, this government did greenlight their giant

00:35:27.640 Giant super embassy, didn't they? 0.99

00:35:33.920 Whenever the Chinese say 0.99

00:35:35.460 Jump

00:35:36.760 The British government does, for some reason

00:35:38.800 Alright

00:35:41.120 Blair blasts Labour with call

00:35:44.580 To move firmly right

00:35:46.060 Well right within the paradigm of the Labour Party

00:35:48.500 Not actually right

00:35:49.800 Yeah

00:35:52.160 Alright the heat is on

00:35:54.340 Record broken for second day running

00:35:55.980 St Paul's Cathedral there

00:35:59.540 Chinese people in front of the

00:36:04.420 St Paul's Cathedral

00:36:07.060 Social media crackdown

00:36:08.520 Expected in weeks

00:36:09.500 Yeah because the government are trying to guilt everyone 0.97

00:36:12.640 with bereaved parents into seizing more control and power 1.00

00:36:18.260 great the express it's it's a good paper

00:36:24.000 jk rowling's chimed in she cussed out on uh we jimmy cranky story jk rowling takes aim at

00:36:35.020 nicola sturgeon i think she just tweeted i think i don't think as much on that she just like the 0.92

00:36:40.940 Most normal people just said, yeah, right, Nicola.

00:36:44.440 Yeah, right.

00:36:45.100 You didn't know anything about it.

00:36:46.480 Mm-hmm.

00:36:47.080 Sure.

00:36:47.860 Mm-hmm.

00:36:48.620 I reckon, as if.

00:36:50.760 Right. 0.56

00:36:53.220 Bereaved parents tell PM to show courage and restrict children's social media use.

00:36:58.120 Step up, Keir, to stop kids dying.

00:37:01.920 How cynical is that?

00:37:05.580 How cynical?

00:37:08.280 That's my stomach.

00:37:10.940 Step up, Kier. Destroy the ability to be anonymous online and increase censorship, which is a slippery slope to true, true, full-blown censorship. 0.97

00:37:21.720 Step up, Kier.

00:37:28.140 People find it socially awkward to question me, a bereaved parent, so I'm telling you to step up, Kier.

00:37:35.140 Steal more of our freedoms and liberties, Kier.

00:37:40.940 At the sun, what utter slop 0.99

00:37:44.480 That mayor, I can't even remember what her real name

00:37:48.000 I don't care about her, I don't care 0.59

00:37:49.260 At the sun, complete slop 1.00

00:37:50.800 It's 35 degrees centigrade and water chiefs moan about kids pools being filled up 0.99

00:37:55.040 Paddling fools 0.69

00:37:56.800 Yeah, some of the water companies are saying 0.99

00:38:01.820 Don't waste water

00:38:03.720 A bit rich, isn't it?

00:38:07.080 Considering we're most of the year round completely waterlogged

00:38:10.940 we've got all sorts of serious serious problems with our water and reservoirs serious problems

00:38:17.820 a couple of hot days and there's not enough water to fill up a paddling or kiddies paddling pool

00:38:22.300 or you can only fill it up they say at their advice is only fill it up halfway what is there

00:38:27.820 enough water or not like a few thousand half filled paddling pools will make the difference

00:38:33.260 financial times again it's been hot yeah

00:38:41.580 bp unseats manifold that was their chairman or ceo or whatever the the head of bp which is

00:38:49.680 petroleum they unseat uh after serious concerns over his conduct so as i can tell he was just

00:38:55.440 a little bit of a bully like he shouted a bit there's so many snowflakes these days

00:39:03.040 And there's so many snowflakes

00:39:04.700 Imagine if you went back a few decades

00:39:07.260 And you told them

00:39:08.080 That a boss or senior civil servant

00:39:10.720 Or anything

00:39:11.500 They could get in trouble

00:39:13.480 And even get fired over

00:39:15.140 Being a bit shouty

00:39:17.540 That shouty style jars with staff

00:39:20.560 Does it?

00:39:27.360 I've had bosses that were like

00:39:29.000 Psychos basically

00:39:30.220 They would raise their voice

00:39:32.100 All the time

00:39:33.300 All the time

00:39:34.100 Literally shout in people's faces 0.98

00:39:36.680 And fire them

00:39:37.700 In the private sector

00:39:39.940 Where there's loads and loads of money

00:39:41.280 And reputational risk

00:39:43.240 On the line

00:39:44.460 And someone buggers up

00:39:46.340 And the boss shouts in their face

00:39:47.720 And fires them

00:39:48.440 Kind of not that mad

00:39:54.220 Kind of not that crazy

00:39:55.480 The idea that

00:39:56.540 Like a Malcolm Tucker type

00:39:58.620 A really really senior

00:40:01.100 a civil servant or even a government minister or something that they bully people

00:40:06.140 or ceo and bullied he raised his voice once i'm bullied he should be fired what kind of kind of

00:40:15.680 weak wristed world are we creating here there's where there's no there's no repercussions for

00:40:23.060 anything that no one's striving for greatness like you know

00:40:29.860 i think it's mad is it we're creating a terribly terribly weak

00:40:33.620 world where the weakest among us have got the

00:40:36.820 whip hand over people with gumption like the

00:40:41.860 the allegations as far as i can see are not like serious concerns

00:40:45.380 he didn't do anything particularly anything really as far as i can tell

00:40:48.980 he was like an aggressive boss that's it and it's like they didn't commit any crime

00:40:56.580 right any proper crime or anything it's just

00:41:03.620 it's just the pansies below him didn't like that he was sort of quite aggressive

00:41:10.660 you always get that don't you like ah the mirror some of the very very very

00:41:17.460 worst slop on fleet street the mirror isn't it some of the very worst a time for heroes

00:41:26.500 heroes pride of britain award

00:41:33.060 not subversive at all not subversive this is like you have pride in britain 0.70

00:41:39.060 okay teen rapists case review good the right decision says sir queer starlin appeal court 0.67

00:41:48.780 will now rule after attackers let off sparks outrage yeah good pm confirms move and raises 0.73

00:41:55.980 bravery oh and praises bravery of girls who came forward yeah good hopefully those kids will get

00:42:02.180 the book thrown hopefully they will get a very long custodial sentence they left that court with

00:42:08.740 10 or 11 sexual assault or rape convictions

00:42:12.520 between three kids. 0.54

00:42:15.020 They're monstrous. 0.97

00:42:16.780 Monstrous. 0.96

00:42:18.480 I don't care that they were 14 or 15. 0.98

00:42:22.880 They're a danger.

00:42:23.980 They're a worry.

00:42:25.060 They can't be trusted, can they?

00:42:26.820 For a very, very long time, if ever.

00:42:30.620 In the pre-modern world,

00:42:32.160 it wouldn't matter that they were that young. 0.96

00:42:34.040 They would be put to death. 0.96

00:42:35.900 It just wouldn't matter. 0.96

00:42:36.640 And even not that long ago

00:42:38.960 People like that

00:42:39.600 Would be put in prison

00:42:40.220 For a very very very long time

00:42:41.880 Just as a matter of course

00:42:42.860 Of course they would

00:42:43.780 Of course they would

00:42:45.180 Very long time

00:42:50.360 Okay the metro

00:42:56.060 The metro

00:43:05.060 ripped dad's teeth pulled out with pliers in dubai just put in prison for no one knows why

00:43:13.460 and tortured in dubai funny i thought andrew tate said it's like dubai's brilliant there's

00:43:20.580 nothing going on there everything's brilliant in dubai innit or is it abu dhabi whatever

00:43:25.940 my bros seven month in dubai hellhole and family say they still don't know why ryan 27

00:43:34.600 is in jail

00:43:35.500 so the story in a nutshell

00:43:36.720 is that this guy

00:43:37.380 Ryan

00:43:38.280 27

00:43:38.940 went to Dubai

00:43:41.640 and according to him anyway

00:43:42.740 was thrown in jail

00:43:45.780 by the authorities

00:43:46.580 and

00:43:47.900 seven months ago

00:43:48.760 and he's still in there

00:43:49.700 and they've

00:43:50.860 beat him up

00:43:51.360 tortured him 0.94

00:43:51.840 pulled his teeth out

00:43:52.480 with pliers

00:43:52.920 and according to him

00:43:55.600 and his family

00:43:56.120 and I can believe them

00:43:57.500 they haven't even told him

00:43:59.760 why he's been arrested

00:44:00.540 and tortured

00:44:02.600 That's alright, loads of people will say

00:44:08.080 Just go to Dubai and Abu Dhabi, it's great 1.00

00:44:10.300 I wouldn't go to an Arab Emirate 1.00

00:44:15.620 I wouldn't go and live in an Arab Emirate 1.00

00:44:18.800 Are you kidding me? 1.00

00:44:20.240 I'll never abandon these islands

00:44:22.040 The islands of my ancestors

00:44:23.260 I'll never abandon Albion

00:44:26.080 People say that all the time

00:44:28.160 Maybe it's time to think about going to live somewhere else

00:44:30.800 This country is so bad I might just go and live in Dubai

00:44:33.980 Well go on then

00:44:34.660 Go on then, off you go

00:44:36.920 I'm going to go live in Australia

00:44:40.180 Or Canada

00:44:41.020 Well go on then

00:44:41.760 It'll catch up with you there by the way

00:44:44.840 Exactly the same problems we face here

00:44:47.140 It'll catch up with you there as well

00:44:48.440 I'm never abandoning these islands

00:44:51.060 I was born here, I'll die here

00:44:52.420 The Daily Star 0.86

00:44:55.020 This is insane slop

00:44:56.340 This is insane slop from the Daily Star today 0.62

00:44:58.920 lady boys in blue police in dragnet get it a dragnet drag in drag a dragnet yep

00:45:10.140 it's a story that some cops the undercover cops trying to trying to fight organized crime in some

00:45:17.440 way i guess what in like the the tire community or something i don't know oh lady boys

00:45:25.300 cops dom frocks to bust drug deal suspect so yeah and they're in drag there there you go 0.89

00:45:34.780 there you go there's not much more to say about it ridiculous insane insane slop on the front

00:45:43.460 page of the star today right let's have a look at our it's already cool to see let's have a look at

00:45:47.700 our poll what we got in the poll today what did we ask you guys okay we over over a thousand votes

00:45:57.140 nearly eleven hundred votes are you interested in tony blair's views on british politics

00:46:02.460 no the eyes the no's have it 86% say no 14% say yes yeah that's my feeling it's like

00:46:10.760 you know binary i agree with tony blair more than i agree with keir starmer on like the vision

00:46:16.560 for government stuff but do i want to hear from tony blair anymore no you shuffle off mate go and

00:46:24.420 enjoy your order of the garter and we'll will you out once or twice a year for remembrance day or

00:46:29.960 something there's a royal wedding you get trotted out for that other than that you keep your mouth

00:46:34.260 shut mate you've done enough you've done enough be lucky you're not put on trial for crimes against

00:46:41.480 to the nation. Scum. 86% of you saying no. Yep. 1,100 votes. My people, the glorious 1.00

00:46:54.240 band, the chosen few. Good people. The best among us. All right. Seeing as it's already

00:47:03.780 nearly 10 to, and I've got to do recording today, there was one other story, one other

00:47:09.680 big story i thought was of interest today in the mail in the mail was it because the legacy

00:47:17.440 corporate mainstream media have suddenly decided to recognize that restore is a thing

00:47:22.720 all right oh i thought it was maybe it's in the express

00:47:29.680 oh so it was in the mail but the mail seems to have uh refreshed its page

00:47:34.160 all right there will be a moment because i do want to talk about it find it

00:47:39.960 oh there it is here we go legacy couple mainstreamers decided they're going to

00:47:45.320 recognize that restore does exist they've got they've moved from just ignoring it

00:47:50.080 pretending it doesn't exist to now oh yeah there's something to worry about

00:47:54.760 Restore Britain faces anti-Semitism outrage

00:48:00.780 Does it

00:48:01.860 But rivals to reform insist they won't police their own membership

00:48:06.760 Alright, so here's sort of a fairly naked hit piece

00:48:12.700 Nakedly partisan

00:48:15.800 But they talk about Steve Laws, look, Stevie Boy

00:48:19.120 You alright mate?

00:48:21.740 Charlie Downs gets a mention, or quote even

00:48:24.680 should you read it real quick

00:48:27.400 is in a nutshell

00:48:29.500 what the legacy corporate mainstream media

00:48:31.500 is sort of going with at this point

00:48:33.000 okay

00:48:34.340 written by

00:48:39.580 Christian Calgi

00:48:40.900 okay

00:48:42.200 senior political correspondent at large

00:48:45.700 okay Christian

00:48:49.460 okay Christian 0.58

00:48:50.680 the Restore Britain party

00:48:53.340 Was last night told to address urgently

00:48:58.600 Claims of anti-Semitism

00:49:00.320 Among higher profile supporters and officials

00:49:03.200 They were told, were they?

00:49:06.160 Really, you're going to characterise that

00:49:07.740 They were told

00:49:08.400 You must address anti-Semitism claims urgently

00:49:12.940 No

00:49:14.780 They weren't told by anyone

00:49:17.760 It was just Jewish advocacy groups 0.83

00:49:20.040 Got their knickers in a twist 0.78

00:49:21.680 About nothing

00:49:23.440 About Steve Laws

00:49:24.300 Who isn't a part of the party

00:49:25.560 Restore Britain was told

00:49:29.080 To urgently address 0.98

00:49:30.120 Shut up 0.90

00:49:30.700 See this is the problem 1.00

00:49:32.880 You've been told

00:49:35.820 Naughty child

00:49:37.180 You've been told

00:49:38.020 What to do and think and say

00:49:39.420 I think we're starting to

00:49:42.800 Get a bit sick of that

00:49:43.760 The hard right rivals

00:49:46.560 Of Reform UK

00:49:47.580 I mean Restore isn't that

00:49:49.240 Hard right really is it

00:49:50.420 I don't think

00:49:51.960 Truly hard right

00:49:53.760 I don't think so

00:49:54.460 It's pretty

00:49:56.460 A lot of their

00:49:58.180 A lot of their policies are

00:49:59.840 Basically centrist

00:50:01.360 Basically common sense

00:50:02.960 30 years ago, 40 years ago

00:50:06.120 Just common sense stuff, really

00:50:07.720 Hard right

00:50:09.520 The hard right rivals to Reform UK

00:50:14.340 On course to help Labour candidate

00:50:15.940 And Andy Burnham win the Makerfield by-election

00:50:18.340 Because they're insisting

00:50:19.240 Restore only polling at 7% in Makefield

00:50:22.040 We could come second to even win it

00:50:26.000 But okay

00:50:26.700 We're helping Andy Burnham

00:50:29.160 Like that's a bad thing

00:50:32.500 Suddenly you care about Keir Starmer's career

00:50:34.360 I don't care about Keir Starmer's career

00:50:36.780 Okay

00:50:39.240 Helping Andy Burnham win the Makefield by-election

00:50:42.060 Well yesterday presented with evidence

00:50:45.220 Of vile comments made by those connected to the party

00:50:49.200 That's the classic thing in it

00:50:50.560 You're just connected to the party

00:50:52.580 Hilt by association

00:50:57.400 Someone who said they like your party

00:51:01.100 Or your organisation said something

00:51:02.660 Therefore it's your problem now

00:51:04.500 No that's not how

00:51:05.360 That's not right, it's not fair

00:51:07.740 That's not how the world should work

00:51:09.360 And like every party

00:51:13.560 If not every organisation suffers from that

00:51:15.720 Well you can't find a supporter

00:51:18.200 from the Green Party, let's say, that said mad things, mad and bizarre things, or any

00:51:24.640 party, Lib Dem, Labour, Conservative, every single one of them. You'll find someone that's

00:51:29.060 connected to the party, whatever that means, doesn't have to really mean anything, does

00:51:33.020 it? You can find evidence of them saying mad things, not that Steve Laws did particularly,

00:51:40.300 And now you can just smear the whole party with that

00:51:45.500 Or even social media

00:51:48.340 There's someone in your comments saying crazy stuff

00:51:50.400 And that's your problem now

00:51:52.860 No, you can't help it, can you?

00:51:55.680 How can you possibly prevent it or help it?

00:51:59.220 But the party, led by former Reform UK MP Rupert Lowe

00:52:03.680 Failed to disavow statements that included

00:52:06.720 Calling for the deportation of Jews

00:52:08.620 and insinuations that Nigel Farage has been balked by Jewish money.

00:52:17.160 Rupert Lowe doesn't have to jump when you say jump.

00:52:20.480 You've found something somewhere that you've decided is anti-Semitic

00:52:24.480 and Rupert Lowe immediately has to disavow everyone and everything connected with it.

00:52:28.580 No, no, I don't think so.

00:52:29.440 No, no.

00:52:31.680 One of the party's highest profile supporters, far-right activist Steve Laws,

00:52:38.620 Highest profile supporters

00:52:40.660 I wouldn't say that

00:52:42.480 There's loads more higher profile supporters than that

00:52:46.260 Loads more

00:52:46.880 Elon Musk, Duncan Ballantyne, Kyle Benjamin

00:52:51.260 Loads more

00:52:52.240 Oh but Steve Laws, alright Steve Laws

00:52:54.400 Who runs a group campaigning for the total deportation of those with non-white heritage from Britain 0.99

00:53:00.660 One of the earliest backers of Restore 0.79

00:53:05.800 He has repeatedly encouraged his 140,000 followers on X

00:53:10.160 To get involved in campaigning for the party

00:53:12.140 Yet he's at liberty to do that

00:53:13.480 Like Rupert Lowe may not

00:53:15.040 And doesn't agree with everything that Steve Law says

00:53:17.300 Rupert Lowe's made that clear

00:53:18.900 Rupert Lowe's made that clear

00:53:20.320 This article's going to claim that that's not the case

00:53:22.940 Rupert Lowe's made that clear

00:53:24.440 Steve Lowe's 140,000

00:53:29.580 Steve, Christian has been on your Twitter page, mate

00:53:35.800 they're on the case investigative journalism this weekend he sparked out

00:53:43.360 like Steve Laws sparked outrage or is it was it regular this weekend he sparked

00:53:49.660 outrage after interview comments yes Steve laws after interview comments

00:53:53.640 emerged of him calling for the removal of Jews from Britain who he branded

00:53:58.180 foreign emerged you mean you watch the Andrew Gold interview from months ago

00:54:05.560 What do you mean it emerged, Christian?

00:54:11.360 You mean someone sent you a link to that Andrew Gold interview that's months old, don't we mean?

00:54:19.040 Mr Laws has also branded Adolf Hitler a misunderstood politician.

00:54:25.960 I mean, I can't, I don't, I don't agree with that.

00:54:28.660 A lot of the people like Zuma Historian

00:54:31.320 And Steve Laws

00:54:34.200 They do go down that route a bit

00:54:36.500 I don't

00:54:38.040 I don't think Hitler's particularly misunderstood

00:54:40.760 I think it's quite clear

00:54:44.540 Anyway, that's me

00:54:45.500 I don't go down that route of

00:54:48.960 Playing defence for national socialism in any way

00:54:55.040 I really don't

00:54:56.580 I think it was bad 1.00

00:54:58.360 I think it was a stupid, wrong-headed political ideology 1.00

00:55:02.660 National socialism 1.00

00:55:03.760 I saw something the other day arguing with, I think, Carl about nationalism

00:55:06.420 They said something about nationalism is economically socialist

00:55:10.020 No, it isn't

00:55:12.140 No, it isn't 1.00

00:55:13.260 That's one of the most retarded things I think I've ever heard 1.00

00:55:16.780 You do get people on the right that genuinely argue 1.00

00:55:20.460 That there were great elements

00:55:23.040 That the fundamental tenets of national socialism were sound or good

00:55:27.980 I don't think they were

00:55:28.660 I really don't

00:55:29.220 I honestly don't

00:55:31.960 It was fundamentally flawed

00:55:35.100 As a political creed

00:55:37.620 I find

00:55:38.560 There you go

00:55:41.820 Steve Laws is allowed an opinion though

00:55:43.940 Isn't he?

00:55:45.000 He's not in the party

00:55:46.280 Rupert has made it clear

00:55:47.700 That Steve isn't in the party

00:55:51.020 He's merely just a supporter

00:55:52.900 Is Steve Laws allowed an opinion or not anymore in this country? 1.00

00:56:00.140 Christian

00:56:00.480 I imagine if you had your way, no

00:56:03.920 Steve Laws has branded Adolf Hitler a misunderstood politician

00:56:10.080 And cast doubt on the number of murdered in the Holocaust

00:56:12.500 Earlier this month, Mr Laws said he and his supporters are helping build Restore

00:56:18.680 Adding, Restore is the vehicle to a better future for our people

00:56:22.020 It's as simple as that

00:56:23.320 That's why I support them

00:56:24.640 He's not allowed to do that

00:56:27.120 Rupert Lowe has disavowed him basically

00:56:31.480 What more do you want?

00:56:35.120 What more do you want?

00:56:36.760 You want Rupert to just

00:56:38.300 What like

00:56:40.300 I don't know really what you would want Rupert to do

00:56:44.700 yesterday the party failed to condemn his deportation comments arguing we are not going

00:56:55.980 to police our membership what's wrong with that really because once you go down that slippery

00:57:03.280 slope you're just constantly playing defense because someone like this christian fella at

00:57:08.820 the mail said oh look here's someone else we don't like you've got to act you've got to get rid of

00:57:13.680 them. Every single day. There's a mad slippery slope to go down. If Steve Laws is committing

00:57:20.920 any crimes, actual crimes, then maybe. But otherwise, what can... They're asking for

00:57:29.420 like, effectively, articles like this. They're asking for really quite a bizarre and insane

00:57:38.200 level of gatekeeping. That if they decide someone said anything they don't like, it's

00:57:45.960 pretty much that isn't it, anything they don't like, you're not even allowed to be a member

00:57:51.500 of a party. They haven't said anything criminal, it's just an opinion they don't like. Is that

00:58:02.060 healthy, is that good for politics? Or is it just better if parties don't police their

00:58:07.580 own membership. Isn't that better? What if you insisted that the Green Party or the

00:58:14.400 Labour Party or the Lib Dems or whatever police their membership to the point where every

00:58:19.720 time you, the male group, say, found someone who had an opinion on anything you didn't

00:58:25.420 like and you just forced them to ostracise that person? How does this make for healthy

00:58:32.560 politics or a healthy society in any way a spokesman a restore spokesman added what steve

00:58:40.400 law says what steve laws says is up to steve laws it's absolutely nothing to do with us yeah yeah

00:58:46.640 i think it was going around twitter somewhere there's some sort of miscommunication that

00:58:51.960 someone i think rupert someone thought that steve laws was actually working for the party he's not

00:58:59.740 And has never done

00:59:00.860 There was some sort of miscommunication or something where

00:59:04.040 For a brief period

00:59:06.020 For like a few hours or a day

00:59:07.540 Or was it Lois Perry just lied about it

00:59:10.280 I can't remember

00:59:10.820 Said that Steve Laws was actually like an organiser

00:59:14.100 Or like a paid actress or an employee or something

00:59:16.260 He's not

00:59:16.900 You know he's just a member

00:59:20.300 He's just a fan

00:59:20.940 I don't even know if he's a member

00:59:21.980 I think he is a member but beyond that

00:59:24.140 He might not even be a member but

00:59:25.280 He's just a fan

00:59:26.920 Yeah

00:59:28.980 What Steve Laws says is up to Steve Laws

00:59:33.140 Yeah, is he a free person?

00:59:34.300 Is he allowed to have opinions?

00:59:36.220 Non-criminal opinions

00:59:37.320 Is he allowed to say them or not?

00:59:39.940 It has absolutely nothing to do with us 1.00

00:59:41.860 That's not good enough for the male group apparently 0.95

00:59:45.120 Christian Calgary, is it?

00:59:47.340 What was his name? 1.00

00:59:49.140 What was his snivelling little wretch's name?

00:59:52.960 Calgary 0.99

00:59:53.400 Christian Calgary

00:59:54.820 No, it's not good enough apparently 1.00

00:59:57.160 No, no

00:59:58.080 You've got to ostracise and ruin people

01:00:00.540 Who have an opinion he doesn't like

01:00:02.080 But they refuse to answer key questions

01:00:05.800 About whether Mr Laws is a member of Restore

01:00:07.940 And about his claims that he is in daily contact

01:00:11.400 With Mr Lowe's advisors

01:00:13.180 Anyone can at Mr Lowe's advisors

01:00:17.640 You can just at them on Twitter

01:00:22.980 If they follow you and you follow them

01:00:26.460 yeah you can just contact them that's not that weird or anything at all again you're trying to

01:00:32.820 make it out like it nor did the party condemn posts from one official that appeared to imply

01:00:40.000 Nigel Farage had been bought by Jewish money

01:00:43.320 replying to a tweet Mr Farage uh replying to a tweet by Mr Farage in which he said

01:00:55.040 he can't be bought

01:00:56.720 you did have a cameo account

01:00:58.860 didn't you Nigel

01:00:59.520 where he was quite literally

01:01:00.260 being bought

01:01:00.820 quite literally being bought

01:01:02.340 for like a small amount of money

01:01:03.640 so in a sense

01:01:08.060 in a certain sense

01:01:09.740 you really can be bought

01:01:10.660 replying to a tweet

01:01:13.180 that Nigel's tweet

01:01:14.120 Restore Britain's

01:01:15.380 campaign director

01:01:16.580 Charlie Downs

01:01:18.120 hey Charlie

01:01:19.740 I had him on the

01:01:21.680 breakfast show the other day

01:01:22.680 didn't I

01:01:22.960 a week or two ago

01:01:23.640 I'll get him on again

01:01:24.280 don't worry

01:01:24.740 Friend of the channel, Charlie Downs

01:01:27.460 Great lad, brilliant lad, future leader

01:01:29.860 Posted an image of Mr Farage at the launch event of Reform's Jewish Alliance Group

01:01:37.640 What's wrong with that?

01:01:38.740 What is an image?

01:01:42.420 Ooh

01:01:42.680 Mr Downs later said

01:01:44.920 MPs should serve their constituents and Britain's national interests

01:01:48.740 Not foreign lobbies and minority advocacy groups 0.97

01:01:54.180 Yeah, good. 1.00

01:01:54.640 What's wrong with that?

01:01:55.580 What's wrong with that line, that opinion, Christian?

01:02:00.920 What's wrong? 0.53

01:02:01.700 What's your problem?

01:02:04.640 You don't explicitly say in this article.

01:02:08.520 Restore Britain's spokesman are back to their official saying,

01:02:12.180 he's absolutely right.

01:02:13.340 Restore Britain will put the British interests first.

01:02:16.020 First, each and every time. 0.97

01:02:17.480 Lovely.

01:02:18.240 Lovely. 0.82

01:02:18.480 Is it too much to ask for the male group?

01:02:21.740 Apparently it is.

01:02:23.200 For the shill who wrote this article, apparently that's too much

01:02:26.200 That's beyond the pale

01:02:27.480 To put Britain first and British interests first

01:02:30.840 That's somehow wrong or wrong-headed the implication is here

01:02:34.200 Asked about other media reports of far-right activists

01:02:37.980 Signing up as Restore Britain members

01:02:40.100 And helping campaign for the party

01:02:43.160 The spokesman said

01:02:44.300 We have been very clear

01:02:46.500 We are not going to police our membership

01:02:48.400 The membership endorses our position

01:02:51.100 Not the reverse, obviously

01:02:52.800 That's a reasonable line to take, isn't it?

01:02:58.080 Rather than some nightmarish, censorious type of cancel culture that this article is effectively calling for

01:03:09.520 But the party was condemned by the campaign against anti-Semitism

01:03:14.840 Over its failure to distance

01:03:17.960 It's been told to urgently act by the campaign against anti-Semitism

01:03:22.480 over its failure to distance itself from those perpetrating offensive and anti-semitic reviews

01:03:27.880 in their opinion.

01:03:34.080 And so it starts, the attack.

01:03:37.420 The attack.

01:03:38.400 They went from ignoring us, a little bit of ridicule, and now fully on the attack.

01:03:42.960 First one, let's go with anti-semitism.

01:03:45.280 It worked a blinder against Corbyn, didn't it?

01:03:48.480 First one, try and hit him with being anti-semitic.

01:03:51.700 We'll move on to the other ones later 0.54

01:03:53.380 We'll line up all the things

01:03:55.960 We'll find like a misogynist thing

01:03:57.360 Or an anti-Islam

01:03:59.680 And there's an Islamophobia thing later

01:04:01.260 We'll find that

01:04:01.960 We'll go down the whole list

01:04:04.300 Let's start at the top 0.86

01:04:05.300 Anti-Semitism

01:04:06.120 A spokesman for the group told the Daily Mail

01:04:12.980 This rhetoric and these associations

01:04:16.320 Are gravely concerning

01:04:18.340 No they're not

01:04:18.900 No they're not

01:04:21.700 For you, maybe, but they're not really, are they? Not really.

01:04:25.340 At a time when some fringe parties are failing to show where they stand on anti-Semitism and extremism,

01:04:31.140 Restore should set itself apart and speak out. We don't have to do anything.

01:04:34.020 Rupert and the leadership of the party don't have to do anything you want or say.

01:04:40.700 Restore should set itself. We don't have to do anything.

01:04:44.020 Why are you telling us what we should or shouldn't do and think and say and act like?

01:04:47.040 It should set itself apart and speak out

01:04:51.480 If it fails to do so

01:04:53.100 That will send a clear message of its own

01:04:58.020 You just have to do as we're told basically

01:05:04.800 That's how they would have it

01:05:06.900 The campaign against anti-Semitism 0.86

01:05:08.640 Just get back in your box and do as you're told 0.94

01:05:11.120 Say what we tell you to say

01:05:17.040 If they fail to do so 1.00

01:05:19.640 Jews are not foreign 0.91

01:05:24.940 Does Restore accept that?

01:05:28.500 Saying that this is a matter for members won't cut it

01:05:31.240 Some of this is from people who appear to have formal roles in the party

01:05:35.300 Steve Laws hasn't got a formal role in the party 0.91

01:05:37.380 Many Jews will be foreign though, won't they? 0.94

01:05:41.120 I mean, that's just a matter of fact

01:05:42.620 Many, not all of them 0.63

01:05:43.540 Get Jewish people convert to Judaism 0.82

01:05:45.480 But those people are Semitic people, aren't they? 1.00

01:05:50.780 This is just facts, right? 0.59

01:05:53.360 They're from the Levant

01:05:54.380 They're from the Near East 1.00

01:05:55.620 So many of them, just many of them 1.00

01:06:00.500 Absolutely will be

01:06:01.580 Objectively, factually speaking

01:06:04.500 Judaism is effectively a foreign religion

01:06:10.220 Historically

01:06:11.180 This is a Christian country

01:06:13.200 Historically, isn't it? 0.99

01:06:15.480 Before that, before Christianity, Pagan

01:06:17.840 I mean, there have been Jewish people here for centuries

01:06:22.760 On and off

01:06:23.920 Historically, it's not a Jewish country

01:06:27.260 So that religion is effectively foreign 1.00

01:06:30.620 They just don't want you to deal with reality and facts, do they? 0.97

01:06:38.340 This is the difference between being a loose-knit, provocative protest group

01:06:42.060 And a serious political party

01:06:44.120 Which was

01:06:44.980 Which does Restore want to be

01:06:46.860 Don't worry about it

01:06:47.960 Campaign against St. Tim

01:06:49.200 Don't worry about it

01:06:50.020 Don't worry about it

01:06:50.760 We'll deal with what we want to do

01:06:51.780 And say

01:06:52.160 They're trying to just

01:06:54.900 Pile scorn on us

01:06:56.260 For not doing exactly

01:06:59.100 What they would like

01:07:00.020 Labour however

01:07:02.600 Is revelling in the rise of the party

01:07:04.720 As opposition to reform

01:07:06.240 I wonder if they'll be revelling it

01:07:09.300 If Restore actually win

01:07:11.720 That by-election

01:07:12.380 Will they be revelling in it then?

01:07:14.120 As it threatens to split the vote on the right

01:07:18.740 and pave the way for Mr Burnham to return to Parliament

01:07:21.260 at next month's make-a-field election.

01:07:24.080 Yeah, look, they're going with that.

01:07:25.360 They're sort of insisting that the polling is that still.

01:07:30.300 When it's not.

01:07:32.660 Probably polling more at 25%, 24%, 25% actually.

01:07:37.780 Let me just quickly read the last few paragraphs

01:07:39.800 because it's the other angle, the other thing

01:07:42.540 that the legacy corporate mainstream media are talking about.

01:07:45.660 Polling this weekend saw a reform trailing Mr. Bumham by three points, with Restore in

01:07:53.000 third place, mopping up a crucial 7% support.

01:07:58.520 Labour sources in Makerfield say they have found notable levels of support for Restore

01:08:02.500 in the constituency, backing up the weekend poll.

01:08:06.820 The reality on the ground looks like it's way more than 7%.

01:08:10.500 One Labour campaign source revealed that they have had to adapt their own campaign data

01:08:24.240 collection system to add a button for voters saying they're backing Restore, quote, as

01:08:29.300 it is coming up so often, quote.

01:08:33.620 Aim my vote low, millions must go from some Mr Boomer's.

01:08:36.000 A senior Labour MP said Restore is, quote, definitely a feature on the doorstep, quote, and the party is, quote, clearly very well funded, quote.

01:08:48.120 Okay.

01:08:50.240 One Burnham activist said they had encouraged one voter wavering between Reform and Restore to consider Mr Lowe's party.

01:08:58.260 He came as elections expert Sir John Curtis joined voices saying that Restore Britain's candidacy in the Makefield by-election is

01:09:05.620 Good news for Andy Burnham

01:09:07.340 He warned that Mr Lowe's party

01:09:12.860 Is making life

01:09:14.060 Much more difficult

01:09:15.080 For Mr Farage

01:09:16.380 Given the seat

01:09:17.440 Is on

01:09:18.060 An absolute knife edge

01:09:19.580 Restore Britain is intervening

01:09:23.480 And making life much more difficult

01:09:24.860 For reform

01:09:25.420 On the one hand

01:09:26.580 So far as Burnham is concerned

01:09:28.320 The intervention of Restore Britain

01:09:30.080 Is definitely good news

01:09:31.580 On the other hand

01:09:32.400 It also shows that

01:09:33.400 If reform are able to squeeze

01:09:34.760 this Restore vote

01:09:36.580 because they've lost

01:09:40.700 one in eight of their 2024 voters to Restore

01:09:42.920 then, even if this poll is accurate

01:09:44.880 Reform would still overtake

01:09:46.880 Andy Burnham

01:09:47.380 It's a three horse race in that

01:09:52.660 constituency, absolutely

01:09:54.080 a three horse race

01:09:55.360 and if

01:09:58.640 Restore come third

01:10:00.600 which it looks like they almost certainly

01:10:01.880 at least certainly will do that, that's great

01:10:04.760 that's great if they come second that's amazing and if they win it well game on

01:10:13.480 game on all right the other part is just just not turning up i mean quite literally i think

01:10:19.800 the greens are literally not turning up the tories and the late and tories and lib dem

01:10:24.260 polling at nothing i say nothing like one two percent

01:10:28.200 It's a three horse race

01:10:31.440 Alright, should we have a look at

01:10:36.340 On this day in history

01:10:39.140 On this day in history

01:10:42.840 I like doing the segment, you like doing the segment

01:10:44.300 Let's have a look down through the

01:10:47.120 Through the centuries

01:10:50.440 On the 27th of May, what happened of note

01:10:52.460 Right, let's see what we've got

01:10:53.700 On this day in 1679

01:10:56.880 The habeas corpus act

01:10:59.120 Passes in England 0.90

01:11:00.780 Strengthening a person's right to challenge

01:11:02.660 Unlawful arrest and imprisonment

01:11:04.180 Yeah, very important thing of course, habeas corpus

01:11:06.420 Anyone knows anything about law, the history of law

01:11:08.600 Jurisprudence

01:11:09.580 The idea

01:11:11.820 I think it always works in practice

01:11:15.080 The idea

01:11:16.260 That you can appeal against

01:11:18.380 If you think you're

01:11:20.280 Unlawfully detained and arrested and imprisoned

01:11:22.840 To try and stop

01:11:25.000 Tyrants basically

01:11:26.240 Trying to stop the star chamber

01:11:28.900 Anyone who doesn't know at the moment, Harry

01:11:31.760 At the moment, on my history show, Bodegas Epochs

01:11:36.660 Logistics.com behind the paywall

01:11:38.260 Consider signing up for this £5 a month bronze team membership

01:11:40.540 I'm talking about the Tudor age at the moment

01:11:42.980 I've done Henry VII and I'm now on Henry VIII

01:11:45.140 Talk a fair bit all the way about the star chamber

01:11:48.280 I.e. that the crown can just arrest anyone they want

01:11:52.180 And do anything they want, basically

01:11:56.240 so obviously 1679 is much after that isn't it I mean that's after the Civil War but

01:12:02.360 habeas corpus to try and prevent tyrannical governments doesn't always work sometimes

01:12:08.100 it's deliberately suspended during times of war as well even in modern times

01:12:12.620 okay on this day in 1703 St Petersburg sometimes known as Leningrad or Petrograd it's all the

01:12:21.240 same place, or just Petersburg, it's all the same city, is founded by Russian Tsar Peter

01:12:26.200 the Great, and so that city isn't all that old relatively in the scheme of things, right,

01:12:33.140 a lot of people died making that city as well, slave labour effectively, St. Petersburg is

01:12:43.260 the bodies of quite a lot of slave labourers underneath that city, okay, on this day in

01:12:50.620 In 1873, Heinrich Schulman discovers, quote, Priam's treasure, quote, a cache of gold and other objects in Anatoly, in Turkey

01:13:02.340 Yep, fascinating, know all about that, that's a classic history nerd thing

01:13:06.620 Shuleman, a German amateur archaeologist

01:13:12.780 And a businessman with money of his own

01:13:16.240 Was fascinated by the ancient world

01:13:19.960 Particularly Homer

01:13:20.780 When he did loads of amateur archaeology

01:13:24.820 Paid for by himself in Greece

01:13:26.760 And then decided he knew

01:13:30.220 He thought he knew where Troy was

01:13:32.000 Back in the 19th century and before

01:13:33.840 People thought Troy

01:13:35.060 Priam by the way

01:13:37.740 Priam is the king of Troy in the Iliad

01:13:39.840 Hector is his son 0.63

01:13:41.800 But the king is an old man

01:13:43.060 Old man Priam 0.99

01:13:43.880 Priam's treasure is

01:13:46.680 The treasure of Troy basically

01:13:48.760 Trilliman decided

01:13:50.640 He knew where it was

01:13:53.340 He'd read the text well enough

01:13:54.680 Knew where it was

01:13:55.280 Somewhere in Turkey on the Anatolian coast

01:13:58.020 And went there

01:14:00.820 Did loads of archaeology of his own

01:14:02.940 Really really crude archaeology

01:14:05.040 digging stuff up this is the main criticism of digging stuff up and destroying the layers above

01:14:09.440 what you're trying to get to like sort of using dynamite imagine that modern archaeology where

01:14:15.040 they sit there delicately with like a little toothbrush and delicately pick away every tiny

01:14:19.040 little thing that's quite new that's that's firmly a 20th century thing children was just using

01:14:25.600 dynamite to blow up the side of a hill well what's there is only gold that was how he was doing it

01:14:30.800 a bit but he did find some remarkable things boom

01:14:41.760 it is that helen's headdress almost certainly not none anyway they found it did find loads

01:14:48.080 of treasure golden treasure treasure golden things look at that wow whether they're truly

01:14:58.080 whether this that site is truly troy people think i think i think the consensus among serious

01:15:02.320 archaeologists these days is that yeah it is for a long time people said like good find cool find

01:15:08.240 bro but that's not sure troy's fictional um the the epic poems of homer are talking about a

01:15:16.800 fictional thing and even if it isn't entirely fictional you an amateur archaeologist didn't

01:15:22.320 find it i think they most archaeologists these days think it is or it is basically i think

01:15:29.600 yeah he found one particular sort of burial chamber which had obviously hadn't been

01:15:35.680 clundered in ancient times all sorts of stuff particularly that headdress

01:15:42.480 um and then he smuggled them out of turkey so because it was the ottoman empire at that time

01:15:48.000 still and really the object should have belonged to them i suppose right but he smuggled them out

01:15:54.560 took them back to germany after world war ii after the the soviets conquered germany the

01:16:04.160 soviets took them back so now a lot of these objects are in russian museums

01:16:12.160 there's his wife he put his wife in them as sophie or sophia shuliman his wife

01:16:18.000 He's just going to go to Turkey, Ottoman Turkey

01:16:21.720 Do really, really 1.00

01:16:24.660 Crude archaeology

01:16:26.100 Smuggle the golden

01:16:28.260 Fabulous golden objects out 0.94

01:16:30.300 And put them on his wife

01:16:32.180 And take a picture

01:16:32.760 You can see why some people

01:16:36.060 Feel like

01:16:37.900 You know, he wasn't

01:16:39.600 A particularly serious archaeologist

01:16:42.400 Nonetheless, nonetheless

01:16:43.820 Remarkable finds, right?

01:16:46.720 Can't deny that

01:16:48.000 Alright, enough about Priam's treasure

01:16:51.360 The Battle of Tsushima

01:16:55.000 Really important one

01:16:56.180 1905, on this day, 1905 0.53

01:16:57.780 The Japanese fleet destroys the Russian East Sea Fleet

01:17:01.000 In the Battle of Tsushima

01:17:02.260 The only decisive clash between modern steel battleships in history

01:17:06.480 Was Jutland, is it there?

01:17:10.560 Battle of Jutland, no?

01:17:13.060 I know there's very few

01:17:14.200 Anyway, that was a turn up for the books 0.96

01:17:17.400 Nobody expected the Japanese would defeat the Russians at sea 0.98

01:17:20.940 No one expected that 0.99

01:17:22.620 I mean, this led to

01:17:24.200 This was the beginning of the end for the Tsarist regime in various ways

01:17:28.420 Right? 0.88

01:17:29.200 You've got the 1905 revolution off the back of this

01:17:31.540 The whole Tsarist regime almost collapsed

01:17:34.020 It was certainly mortally wounded after that

01:17:38.360 Just because it doesn't collapse until World War I

01:17:40.880 After World War I, 1917

01:17:42.300 But

01:17:43.020 Still got 12 more years

01:17:46.780 But it was mortally wounded by that 1.00

01:17:48.320 The Russians and the rest of the world 1.00

01:17:50.360 Couldn't quite believe it 0.95

01:17:51.640 It's like, well, we thought

01:17:53.640 Not that long ago, a generation or two

01:17:55.600 Two generations before that 0.95

01:17:57.300 Japan was like nowhere near 0.99

01:17:59.640 Would have been nowhere near capable of such a thing 1.00

01:18:02.320 It's actually the British

01:18:04.420 Helped them out in naval matters

01:18:06.460 Very, very heavily 1.00

01:18:07.320 The Japanese were like, who's the best navy in the world? 1.00

01:18:09.920 Well, it's the British, obviously 0.99

01:18:10.700 Can we learn everything? Can you send officers over and teach us

01:18:14.220 How to do modern

01:18:15.400 Modern professional navies

01:18:17.180 Can we like buy

01:18:18.960 Battleships off of you guys 1.00

01:18:20.880 And the British were like 1.00

01:18:22.700 Yeah alright then 1.00

01:18:25.560 Yeah

01:18:28.280 Okay battles you see

01:18:30.940 There was another battle as well not long after that

01:18:32.820 The Russians were like well we can't have that 1.00

01:18:35.260 We'll send a whole other fleet 1.00

01:18:36.320 We'll get together a whole other fleet

01:18:37.440 Everything we can 1.00

01:18:38.160 Send it out and we'll get revenge on the Japanese for that one 1.00

01:18:41.060 And they tried that and lost again 1.00

01:18:45.400 Okay, Miracle of Dunkirk, someone yesterday said it didn't they, Operation Dynamo, yeah, Dunkirk

01:18:51.940 On this day in 1940, British and Allied forces begin the evacuation of Dunkirk, Operation Dynamo, during World War II

01:18:59.300 These are largely British troops on the beach

01:19:01.840 The French and British Expeditionary Force have been beaten in the field by the Germans, the Germans

01:19:09.120 Came steaming through the Ardennes Forest, we didn't expect that 0.83

01:19:13.240 You have to go round the Ardennes Forest

01:19:15.740 You can't drive armoured vehicles through

01:19:17.580 The impenetrable Ardennes

01:19:19.260 Oh no you can, oh wait, oh

01:19:20.740 No they did

01:19:21.540 We've been flanked

01:19:24.680 It's not funny is it

01:19:28.740 But

01:19:31.280 We did get nearly all of the men 0.97

01:19:34.100 Off of the beach at Dunkirk 1.00

01:19:35.400 You know, classic thing

01:19:37.020 Everyone pulled together in Britain

01:19:40.320 To get as many boats, launches

01:19:41.960 Even very, very small boats

01:19:43.600 Across the Channel to ferry men back 1.00

01:19:45.480 They just, they denied the Germans 0.98

01:19:48.220 If they wanted to, if they wanted to be absolutely ruthless 0.99

01:19:50.860 Could have caused a giant massacre

01:19:54.360 On those beaches 0.99

01:19:55.320 If they wanted to

01:19:56.420 But they didn't

01:19:58.700 Thank heaven

01:20:00.760 Alright, on this day in 1963

01:20:02.920 Komo Kenyatta

01:20:04.700 Is elected as the first Prime Minister of Kenya

01:20:07.300 Huh?

01:20:11.240 I've heard of him

01:20:11.960 In this year, on this day in 1999, International Criminal Tribunal for the former Yugoslavia indicted Slobodan Milosevic and four others for war crimes and crimes against humanity committed in Kosovo.

01:20:26.080 It's one of those things I've threatened on Epochs for a long, long time to talk about the Yugoslavian wars.

01:20:30.940 It's one of those things I've been fascinated in my entire adult life.

01:20:35.720 Because I remember the Yugoslavian was happening when I was like a teenager 1.00

01:20:40.720 I sort of lived through it effectively 1.00

01:20:42.060 It's one of those topics, I think I've said this before

01:20:45.780 It's one of those topics where

01:20:47.880 And it's not a cop-out, it's really true to say

01:20:51.780 It's sort of insanely complex

01:20:54.500 The more you read about it and learn about it

01:20:58.280 The more you realise you don't know

01:20:59.900 The more you realise you don't understand

01:21:01.660 It's not just a straightforward thing

01:21:03.120 Like the Battle of Cressy

01:21:05.000 Where there's a very small number of accounts

01:21:06.520 You read all those accounts

01:21:07.820 You read half a dozen people, historians

01:21:10.100 Talking about those accounts

01:21:11.280 That's it, you've got it

01:21:12.060 It's not that

01:21:14.320 It's really, really complicated

01:21:16.760 Effectively, like

01:21:17.880 Centuries of history wrapped up in

01:21:20.520 How they ended up there

01:21:22.220 Yeah, the Balkans is extremely, extremely complicated 0.67

01:21:29.280 That's why I've never actually done it yet 1.00

01:21:32.080 I do want to do it

01:21:33.380 I will do it at some point

01:21:34.360 Also it's extremely divisive

01:21:36.500 People

01:21:36.820 You'll say certain things about it

01:21:39.420 And people will immediately get angry

01:21:40.900 You know

01:21:41.320 No you've got it wrong

01:21:44.140 That's not what it was

01:21:44.800 That's not how it was

01:21:45.580 Well why are you shilling for that angle

01:21:47.740 And not the one I like

01:21:49.680 All that sort of stuff

01:21:50.880 Fascinating though

01:21:54.480 Absolutely fascinating I think

01:21:55.680 Alright

01:21:57.360 On this day in 2006

01:22:00.220 An earthquake strikes Java in Indonesia

01:22:03.080 Killing 6,600 people

01:22:07.380 That's bad, I'm not sure if I even remember that one 0.93

01:22:10.460 That whole Pacific Rim though, yeah

01:22:14.440 The number of volcanoes and earthquakes they get in that region

01:22:21.100 A lot

01:22:22.280 Alright

01:22:22.740 Shall we do the Rumble Ramps and Super Chats?

01:22:25.960 Shall we see what we've got here?

01:22:27.440 Let me do this with my mic boom

01:22:29.680 So I can see the left-hand side of my screen for the rumble rents.

01:22:33.300 Here we go.

01:22:34.180 Here we go.

01:22:35.300 Yes, global church history is still at number one.

01:22:39.020 Still at number one.

01:22:40.000 Reigning, defending, undisputed.

01:22:42.160 He says,

01:22:44.200 Today in 1199,

01:22:46.880 John crowned King of England.

01:22:50.220 John Plantagenet,

01:22:51.620 the son of Henry II,

01:22:53.180 little brother to Richard the Lionheart.

01:22:55.720 He's crowned King of England.

01:22:57.660 Oh, just that, you just say that.

01:22:58.600 I've got long form content all about

01:23:00.880 All of those people I just mentioned there

01:23:02.580 Long form content

01:23:03.600 I've got a few hours of me

01:23:06.820 Just chatting about John

01:23:08.540 I think when I was talking about John

01:23:11.440 It was more than one episode even

01:23:13.040 I'm pretty sure I did one

01:23:14.420 Just on Magna Carta

01:23:16.200 Anyway

01:23:18.440 I've certainly got loads of content about

01:23:20.600 Richard Lionheart was at least a three parter

01:23:23.440 I talk about the third crusade somewhere else as well

01:23:26.720 Richard Lionheart's crusade

01:23:28.160 He was the second, loads of content on him

01:23:30.760 I've got one all about William Marshall

01:23:32.900 One all about Thomas Beckett

01:23:34.500 One all about Eleanor of Aquitaine

01:23:36.180 There's loads of hours

01:23:38.980 Of me talking about this stuff

01:23:40.500 Check it out, £5 a month

01:23:42.880 If you're so inclined

01:23:45.540 Alright, and the second factoid we get

01:23:47.240 From Global Church History

01:23:48.060 On this day in 1603

01:23:50.600 France signed

01:23:52.880 Le Grand Alliance

01:23:54.220 It's first native treaty

01:23:57.300 where extramins, apologies if I'm not pronouncing that right,

01:24:01.480 and Algonquins, Native American or Native Canadian peoples,

01:24:07.760 First Nation peoples,

01:24:09.600 they let the French to settle in Bay Saint-Catherine in Quebec.

01:24:16.660 Right, there you go.

01:24:18.080 Story of French colonisation of Canada.

01:24:22.040 okay on this day in oh no sorry you haven't got another one sorry the next rumble rant is

01:24:30.280 tf2 is better says previously on the show you said you have content on the rescue of

01:24:37.740 mussolini and operation market market garden i went and watched them and highly recommend

01:24:43.360 for any world war ii buffs oh thank you very much that's kind thank you very much i appreciate that

01:24:49.880 what else have I got World War 2

01:24:51.940 yeah the Operation Market Garden

01:24:53.340 multi-part series with Josh Firm

01:24:55.080 in conversation with Josh Firm

01:24:56.160 yeah the Mussolini Operation 0.59

01:24:58.820 I've got Kursk 0.85

01:25:02.560 the Battle of Kursk

01:25:03.600 I think a two or even three part series

01:25:06.160 about the Battle of Kursk

01:25:07.200 I've got more World War 2 stuff

01:25:11.520 what else have I got

01:25:13.020 oh one all about

01:25:15.260 the raid on St. Nevers

01:25:17.960 the british special forces raid on the center of air

01:25:21.840 um i've got more i can't think of the top of my head what else have i got

01:25:29.200 harry while i'm talking can you bring up the epochs page yeah all right cheers uh i'll come

01:25:38.900 back to you on that but i've got more as well there's more all right fallen firebird says

01:25:43.780 Blair says we risk being

01:25:46.160 Marooned on an island of irrelevance

01:25:48.720 The absolute brass neck

01:25:51.100 And cheek of it

01:25:52.140 Yeah

01:25:52.400 Yeah

01:25:54.720 The brass neck of it

01:25:57.980 When he

01:26:00.320 Set the heading

01:26:01.420 And then broke off the will so nobody could correct it 0.61

01:26:04.560 What a demon

01:26:05.400 Yeah I completely agree with you there

01:26:07.520 Yeah what a demonic 0.89

01:26:10.040 Person Tony Blair is

01:26:13.780 yeah okay jc warlock says make albion great again make alba great again yeah

01:26:24.420 we'll take our country back and then you sent in another one saying loch ness castle monster

01:26:32.100 jc warlock always bangs that drum credit credit tenacious

01:26:37.300 okay for tea and barber morning sir you say morning mate you're right yeah i'm all right

01:26:44.360 you're right this dreadful social media ban is a slippery slope indeed they're going to come for

01:26:52.060 your there must be a typo they're going to come for your something pouches as well i don't know

01:27:02.700 what that is sorry i'm general genuinely furious about that news aim high vote low yeah it's

01:27:09.580 obviously a slippery slope isn't it really really obviously a slippery slope

01:27:13.220 oh more world war ii things on epochs origins of the sas harry bring it up so people can say

01:27:21.720 harry harry can you do that there you go

01:27:28.500 Origins of the SAS, obviously the North Africa campaign

01:27:34.140 David Sterling there

01:27:36.460 There's the one, Daring Raid's Operation Oak

01:27:40.260 That's where the German Special Forces rescued Mussolini

01:27:45.240 Who was being held by Italian partisans

01:27:48.000 This is the box page

01:27:53.440 So much good content

01:27:57.180 So good

01:27:59.240 I've got more World War 2 stuff haven't I

01:28:01.800 There's the old thumbnails

01:28:03.000 Lawrence of

01:28:06.460 Lawrence of Arabia is World War 1 isn't he of course

01:28:08.760 Alright I haven't got time to whip through it I'm afraid 0.99

01:28:13.640 There's too many

01:28:14.400 There's too many

01:28:15.160 260 odd plus

01:28:16.400 Got to get back to these

01:28:18.700 Logan17pine

01:28:24.480 Says

01:28:24.980 morning

01:28:25.920 it's 1am here in California

01:28:28.020 glad to catch you live

01:28:29.140 oh cheers

01:28:29.680 for the late late Bo show

01:28:31.440 the late late show

01:28:34.220 with Bo Dade

01:28:34.800 actually get rid of

01:28:37.820 get rid of that

01:28:38.380 because I'll just keep

01:28:39.040 scrolling through it

01:28:40.120 cheers 0.89

01:28:40.720 cheers

01:28:43.900 no you stayed up late

01:28:44.580 in California

01:28:45.120 thinking about heading out

01:28:46.780 California way

01:28:47.520 thanks for watching

01:28:49.980 from the other side of the world

01:28:51.380 appreciate it

01:28:52.520 it's remarkable really thank you sir all right harry can you bring up the youtube ones because

01:29:00.120 you have to do that for me i'm afraid if you wouldn't mind bring them up on my screen let's 0.90

01:29:04.100 see what we got today how many do we have about a dozen or so okay kick you in the throat regular 0.85

01:29:12.340 youtube super chat thank you at kick you in the throat says says sheffield's tony folds

01:29:20.640 came to the us this week to visit the grave of the b-17 pilot who sacrificed himself and crew

01:29:25.920 to avoid harming him and children in in end cliff park after aborted emergency landing

01:29:34.240 oh okay i've never heard of this incident but well b-17 pilot

01:29:41.660 crashed his plane in order to save some children amazing amazing i've never heard of that but

01:29:48.820 Okay, go on, cool, good

01:29:51.220 I'm sad

01:29:53.740 Brendan Lucas 9732 says

01:29:57.860 UK has a lower GDP per capita than Mississippi

01:30:02.900 And has a comparable military to Holland

01:30:09.220 Aside from two slow super carriers and 150 nukes

01:30:16.140 And they're not sure if they work

01:30:18.040 You're alright mate, you're just dunking on Britain there

01:30:21.060 Oh thanks, yeah

01:30:21.800 Our GDP isn't great

01:30:24.720 Our military is

01:30:28.820 Sub-par and underfunded

01:30:30.800 What do you want?

01:30:40.720 Well done, well done

01:30:41.860 Your country is the size of a continent

01:30:43.500 And extremely, extremely resource rich

01:30:48.040 And the wealth of empires flooded to your country during two world wars

01:30:55.960 Yeah, well done

01:30:57.020 Yeah, great

01:30:57.820 Well done, good for you

01:30:58.680 Alright

01:30:59.040 Daniel D. King says

01:31:06.540 The arch traitor should have been tried for his crimes against the country

01:31:10.520 I guess you're talking about Blair

01:31:11.500 The Dark Lord

01:31:12.920 The least he could do is crawl back into his crypt and stay there

01:31:17.480 Yeah that's what I feel

01:31:18.460 Just enjoy your retirement Tony

01:31:21.480 Go and sit on the board of a load of companies

01:31:23.840 And make a load of money

01:31:24.840 But just keep quiet

01:31:27.680 In the public square if you would

01:31:29.180 He won't

01:31:29.560 Yeah that's how I feel

01:31:33.100 Absolutely Daniel D King

01:31:34.440 Adam Waller says

01:31:37.100 OTDIH

01:31:40.100 I don't know what that means

01:31:41.080 I'm sorry I don't know what that means

01:31:45.020 But it looks like you've got a factoid for us here

01:31:46.920 You say, in 1796

01:31:48.940 Died Lord Charles Townsend

01:31:52.400 He's been elected MP for Great Yarmouth

01:31:55.760 On the 25th

01:31:57.820 Oh, on this day in history

01:31:59.240 Oh, sorry 0.99

01:31:59.620 O-T-D-I-H 1.00

01:32:02.700 On this day in history 0.73

01:32:03.660 Okay, sorry, got it

01:32:04.820 You say, also, on this day

01:32:07.540 He was murdered by his brother

01:32:09.680 Who was a vicar

01:32:10.880 Oh, well, there you go

01:32:11.920 I never knew that

01:32:13.340 Never knew he was murdered by his own brother

01:32:15.060 Who was a vicar

01:32:15.700 and then something new every day thank you for the cheers for that on this day in history i like 0.98

01:32:21.120 these factors i'm a history nerd always will be second one from kick you in the throat says

01:32:27.260 anglosphere fun fact the largest single expansion of u.s territory

01:32:32.500 the la purchase of 1803 oh louisiana purchase i was gonna say la purchase i'm not aware of this

01:32:40.660 like the louisiana purchase the famous jeffersonian louisiana purchase yeah i've

01:32:45.540 talked about that before uh oh no on my own channel he's harry

01:32:54.340 on history where i've got long-form content all about jefferson in conversation with benjamin

01:32:58.420 boyce or i see he's well all right if you don't like boyce there's something wrong with you he's

01:33:03.940 well all right got long-form content all about jefferson there talk all about the louisiana

01:33:08.660 Purchase on that

01:33:09.300 It's largely attributable

01:33:12.800 To the Brits

01:33:14.840 War threats to Napoleon 0.91

01:33:16.300 Yeah, thanks to you I live in Missouri 0.82

01:33:18.720 Instead of France, yeah, it's interesting

01:33:20.420 All those people that lived in that part of the world

01:33:22.940 The bit of land that the United States

01:33:24.980 Jefferson bought off of the French

01:33:26.480 In the Louisiana Purchase 1.00

01:33:28.340 They

01:33:30.520 In a few short years

01:33:33.060 They were supposed

01:33:35.020 To be French, nominally

01:33:36.740 And then suddenly 0.70

01:33:40.700 Suddenly there

01:33:41.760 But Napoleon realised

01:33:45.240 Of course I talk about it all in my Napoleon thing as well

01:33:47.520 Harry

01:33:49.320 My Napoleon thing I talk about it as well

01:33:55.340 From the French side of course

01:33:56.360 Napoleon realised he couldn't control

01:34:01.660 That big swathe of land

01:34:03.160 That either 0.91

01:34:05.180 The United States or the British 0.96

01:34:07.260 Would 0.93

01:34:09.120 Conquer it and colonise it 1.00

01:34:11.780 The French just didn't have the resources 1.00

01:34:15.260 And the political capital 1.00

01:34:17.080 And a whole number of reasons

01:34:18.180 So instead of just letting it be taken off him

01:34:20.960 Piecemeal or by conquest

01:34:23.020 At least make a little bit of money out of it

01:34:25.240 At least sell it 1.00

01:34:26.520 He didn't want to sell it to the English

01:34:28.340 Of course not

01:34:31.140 He was his main rival

01:34:32.680 The English

01:34:33.280 So he's like, ah, Mr. Jefferson

01:34:36.260 Let's sit down and talk turkey

01:34:38.460 Let's make a deal

01:34:39.880 And Jefferson's like, how much are you asking for the land?

01:34:46.600 Yeah, that's a good deal, okay, sold

01:34:49.100 Crazy story

01:34:53.140 Yeah, the greatest England expansion in US history

01:34:56.620 One of the greatest land purchases of all time

01:34:59.020 Okay, Brendan Lucas then says

01:35:02.560 Are Irish immigrants who came in their tens of thousands in the 1950s to England

01:35:08.480 More British than Russian Jews who came to England in the 1900s? 0.88

01:35:15.640 Well, neither of them are British, are they? 0.97

01:35:19.500 Ireland, the Republic of Ireland 0.79

01:35:21.660 Is not Britain

01:35:24.560 They've been very clear about that, haven't they?

01:35:27.720 They've been very clear about that 0.84

01:35:29.020 And Russian Jews aren't British either, so 0.97

01:35:32.560 You want me to rank one more than the other? 1.00

01:35:37.100 No, they just both aren't.

01:35:38.180 How about that?

01:35:41.840 Brendan Lucas said,

01:35:43.060 British fleet collided with German fleet at Jutland.

01:35:45.660 Yeah.

01:35:46.720 Germans sank more ships,

01:35:48.280 but Britain had effectively confined the high seas fleet to port.

01:35:52.740 Yeah.

01:35:54.120 Yeah, the Battle of Jutland is very, very interesting and important.

01:35:56.820 Very.

01:35:56.980 i talk about it a little bit with um god free bloom in one of my conversations

01:36:03.320 um i've threatened to do a whole long form piece of content just on jutland

01:36:08.500 admiral bt in jutland and how it all went down how bt crossed the t all that sort of thing

01:36:15.320 i think we lost a few well we did lose a few more ships than them so maybe you could say it's a

01:36:20.420 tactical victory for them but it was an absolute strategic victory for us absolutely the german

01:36:25.640 fleet went back into port and never left again and we could blockade germany from the north 0.98

01:36:29.900 and half starve that country so strategically an utter victory for us

01:36:36.040 okay and the last one here today says ac1d helm says nothing better than being a 17th

01:36:47.600 upper ladder trimming a hedge listening to the hashtag the real bbc

01:36:52.280 oh sorry 17 foot sorry nothing better than being 17 foot up a ladder trimming a hedge

01:37:00.320 listening to hashtag the real bbc post breakfast club bbc the real bbc uh best way to start the

01:37:09.200 day shall we bring back british empire question mark um i don't think the british empire particularly

01:37:18.580 did much wrong. They did do some things wrong. Is it bring it back? No, no. Don't buy the

01:37:24.780 lie that all colonialism is intrinsically evil. We brought them lots of great things. Literacy,

01:37:32.860 newspapers, railroads, education, a functioning political system, loads of things. But would

01:37:39.820 I want the empire back again? No, it's more hassle than it's worth. No. Much, much more

01:37:44.860 hassle than it's worth

01:37:45.720 it's my opinion

01:37:47.120 alright there you go

01:37:50.140 that's the show

01:37:51.000 it's now 38 minutes past 9

01:37:53.880 in the AM British summertime

01:37:54.980 went on a little bit longer

01:37:56.200 than I suspected

01:37:57.540 on Wednesday 27th of May

01:38:00.640 in the year of our Lord

01:38:01.300 2026

01:38:02.020 thank you for watching

01:38:03.300 you've been the glorious band

01:38:14.860 Thank you.

01:38:44.860 Thank you.

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - May 27, 2026

Breakfast With Beau ｜ Wednesday 27th May 2026

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