The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1370

00:00:00.920 Hello, and welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters, episode 1370 for Monday, the 9th of

00:00:09.680 March, 2026. I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Josh and Firas, and today we're going to

00:00:16.180 be talking all about the absolute state of the British justice system, and why if there

00:00:22.780 is one consolation we can take from it, it seems to have humiliated David Lammy and his

00:00:28.280 plans for it. We're then going to be talking about the American murder paradox. That's

00:00:34.720 what I've dubbed it. Pretty dark, dark theme by the sounds of it. Yeah, but it's going off

00:00:41.000 of the back of murder rates falling, so actually it's positive-ish, I guess. I'm going to break

00:00:47.360 it down because it seems paradoxical. Pot thickens. And then we're going to be talking about Britain's

00:00:52.780 new anti-Muslim hate czar. Yeah, they couldn't call it an Islamophobia czar, but it's an Islamophobia

00:01:01.060 czar, and the idea is completely stupid. Was only a matter of time. It was, I mean, next

00:01:07.520 step is a Muhammadan inquisition, and then it can only get worse. Oh, goody. I'm surprised

00:01:12.780 they called it a czar. Isn't that quite sort of imperial and clothing? It is, it is, but

00:01:17.440 technically the Ottoman caliph called himself the czar of some sort. So, yeah.

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00:03:54.780 details about it all, head over to the website. It's all there for you now. So shall we start talking

00:04:02.780 about British justice and what it all means? Because there is, there does seem to be a disagreement

00:04:09.980 between people like us who think that, and it sounds trite, but the process is a large part of

00:04:17.420 the justice itself and how we operate in Britain, that it's not simply about tidying up and polishing

00:04:26.160 the bureaucracy. So we can simply sentence as many people as fast as possible. This is something that

00:04:32.800 we covered back when David Lammy first announced that he was going to be scrapping a huge part of

00:04:39.360 the jury trials. And this probably serves to talk about the three distinctions of types of crime that

00:04:47.280 are categorised here in Britain. So we have the summary only, which are very, very minor offences,

00:04:52.160 which are all handled by a single magistrate in the magistrate's court. Then we have the indictable

00:04:58.160 only, which are the very, very serious murders. And these are the ones, sorry, and other serious

00:05:03.280 crimes such as murder and sexual assault. These are heard in the Crown Court, and these are given

00:05:08.640 with juries. And then you have the either way, and it's these ones, which generally it is up to

00:05:17.120 the conscience of the people. You know, you say, I would like to be tried by my peers on this

00:05:22.000 case. And it's this particular section of people who've, you know, obviously either received,

00:05:29.200 are going to be prosecuted or need defence in Britain, that Lammy is strictly targeting here.

00:05:35.120 And there is a reason why, just on the face of it, on the facts, it seems that the British public are

00:05:41.440 more tied. You know, they've got more emotional trust, I suppose you could say, in the jury trials,

00:05:47.840 which is that they have a 60% lower, they have a 60% low, sorry, they have a 60% conviction rate,

00:05:57.920 as opposed to an 80% conviction rate, when someone is tried by a magistrate, just entirely by the judge.

00:06:05.520 And we also have to address as well, the fact that all of this is coming in, and our justice system

00:06:11.360 seems to be overburdened with a colossal queue of about 80,000 cases. And we're obviously just not

00:06:19.280 going to spend much time addressing the fact that we've had quite a few new arrivals in Britain

00:06:27.200 over the past few decades that have certainly contributed to why we would possibly need to have

00:06:34.480 so many trials and so many investigations into criminal behaviour, especially when those more

00:06:40.000 recent arrivals seem to purposefully avoid understanding per capita, whilst continually

00:06:46.480 contributing to its relevance. That's an excellent way of putting it. That's an amazing way of putting it.

00:06:53.520 So this is where we were, and this is obviously, Lammy proposed, we're going to scrap jury trials for

00:06:59.760 these. And he goes on to point out as well that this is only something that 3% of the British,

00:07:05.760 you know, convictions are actually really tried on. So it's not even a huge section of the trials.

00:07:12.160 So the idea that this is being done for expediency, and that this is going to, you know, rapidly cut

00:07:18.640 through and just get the bureaucracy going smoother, it just doesn't seem to hold much weight on the face

00:07:24.960 of it. As a Fabian, what he would do is introduce this idea

00:07:29.680 to this 3%, and then say, well, it was a stellar success. Let's expand it further.

00:07:36.480 That's what all things in the British state seem to expand. Yes.

00:07:40.400 They have a little pilot study, and then they can sort of see how it goes, see if they can get away

00:07:45.040 with it. And then they can expand it. Everything has scope creep in the government.

00:07:49.760 Exactly. And the purpose of this at the end of the day is to scrap jury trials completely, because you

00:07:55.200 can't assume that these people have any kind of good faith. You can't assume that it's just David

00:08:00.720 Lammy, because he's absolutely brainless. And we know that for a fact. I'm not exaggerating.

00:08:07.360 Check out his performance on, what was it? Oh, Mastermind. Mastermind. Well, he proved that he wasn't.

00:08:12.880 Type of blue, red, red Lester. I mean, who came after Henry VIII and Henry VII.

00:08:19.120 Yeah. It almost feels compulsory to just remind people of those two anecdotes every time Lammy

00:08:26.080 comes up. Because it shows that it isn't him. Yes.

00:08:29.760 Because what it demonstrates in this case is that it isn't him. And so if they succeed,

00:08:35.200 he's just sort of being used as a mask, as cover, as a puppet. And if they succeed, they're going to just

00:08:41.200 go further and further and further. Because that is the nature of Fabian's.

00:08:44.480 Yes. And none of this is to mention how tasteless it is to have a man who is not of British origin,

00:08:54.560 just radically changing the British justice system in such a way.

00:09:00.960 Well, the way he said it in that previous tweet that you had there, that tradition for tradition's

00:09:05.760 sake, basically. But it's not even for tradition's sake and let alone the sort of sacrilegious aspect

00:09:14.640 of the British way of governing ourselves and saying that, oh, it's just a worthless tradition.

00:09:21.280 No, it existed for a very clear purpose and is not stayed around because it is just a tradition.

00:09:29.840 It makes sense that your peers assess whether you are wrong because then it is an effective

00:09:35.360 check on the government. If the government is the sole arbiter of guilt, then there's a very strong

00:09:39.840 incentive to abuse that. Yes. Having said this, one of the things that we did talk about in the

00:09:45.440 original segment that we did when we covered this is we did talk about the fact that though there is

00:09:51.120 both a practical, moral and emotional attachment, by and large, from the British public to jury trials,

00:09:59.040 they, of course, themselves are not infallible. And they are, as a procedure, being corrupted

00:10:06.320 by the more and more multicultural state of Britain and its societies as we basically get into

00:10:13.680 group preference.

00:10:14.560 Students refusing to convict their own.

00:10:16.000 Yes.

00:10:16.320 Essentially.

00:10:17.120 Which is something that I'll come to a little bit more in a moment. But I want to start by

00:10:22.000 using this particular article by Stuart Wallace. You can see this from towards the end of last year,

00:10:28.080 just, you know, ruminating on the fact the end of trial by jury in the United Kingdom.

00:10:34.080 And I want to say as well that so looking into this particular chap, Stuart Wallace's credentials

00:10:40.800 and where he's come from, get a load of this. So Stuart is an associate professor at the

00:10:46.560 University of Leeds, where he teaches constitutional law and international human rights law. Prior to

00:10:53.120 joining the faculty at Leeds, he worked as a lecturer and director of studies at Homerton College in

00:10:59.440 Cambridge and affiliated lecturer in the Faculty of Law at the University of Cambridge, lecturing on

00:11:04.960 civil liberties and human rights. And he's also held posts working at the European Court of Human Rights

00:11:11.840 and the International Criminal Court prior to entering academia. Now, the reason that I say all of this

00:11:18.640 is to show you that from his pedigree and of his credentials, it's voices like Stuart's that you would most

00:11:27.200 naturally expect the Starmer government to just kind of have towing along with it, right?

00:11:32.640 Right. These are they totally exist within the same ideological framework. They both believe in the

00:11:38.560 exact same principles and, you know, the sort of progressive quote unquote values that are obviously

00:11:45.120 mangling Britain. However, Stuart, like many, many other voices from within those institutions have

00:11:52.240 absolutely come out against this. And so it's not just that he's Lammy and, you know, Starmer,

00:11:58.720 by putting this forward, have annoyed the really, really radical left, like Corbyn, you know, hated

00:12:04.480 this as well, and us on the sensible centre of politics as well. It's all those in the liberal

00:12:12.000 middle as well, who just look at the practicality of this. And it seems like from what Lammy is trying

00:12:18.400 to do with the jury trials, it just doesn't sound like for the amount of things it's going to sacrifice,

00:12:25.280 that it's actually going to smooth over the system in any meaningful way that justifies that in and

00:12:31.440 of itself. So he goes on to talk about the fact that, yet, sorry, he goes on to say about the

00:12:39.840 backlog. So rather than making high-minded claims about the sanctity of Magna Carta, which, you know,

00:12:45.360 he's not particularly sentimental about, opponents of these measures should focus on the real issues of

00:12:51.600 them. They will not fix a problem. Beyond this, the government should have an electoral mandate,

00:12:56.640 not to mention a damn good reason before altering rights protections, regardless of whether this

00:13:02.080 takes a form of nudging the lines on jury trial or reducing more fundamental constitutional protections.

00:13:08.880 It has neither, and for that reason, the changes should not go ahead.

00:13:13.120 That's good. I mean, it's just such an extreme position to take for a parliament that is

00:13:20.560 effectively a zombie parliament. They all know that they're going to lose their seats come the

00:13:24.960 next election. They know they have zero public support, zero legitimacy, zero credibility,

00:13:30.880 and yet they're engaged in this constitutional destruction.

00:13:36.080 It speaks to me of a party that is just trying to throw everything at a wall and seeing what

00:13:41.360 sticks once they're out. Because I think they've accepted the fact that they're not going to win

00:13:46.400 the next election. And so they're just going for sheer quantity of their agenda. And I think that that's

00:13:54.800 not a good thing at the best of times, let alone considering how bad their agenda will be for the country.

00:14:00.080 Absolutely. But the other thing as well is that, you know, the three of us can sit here, we can appeal

00:14:05.360 to Magna Carta, we can, you know, appeal to all of the things that we do when we talk about the

00:14:10.480 defensive jury trials. But, excuse me, such criticisms coming from us don't in fact mean an awful lot to

00:14:18.400 those in power, of course. They don't give a damn about our point of view on any of this. But the entire

00:14:24.400 project of modern Britain has been set up in such a way that it is designed to defend minorities,

00:14:33.120 not against themselves, of course, but against just the old British institutions and the old culture in

00:14:41.280 its own morals and standards, one could say, its old value system, right, the actual older British

00:14:47.440 values that used to make this a very safe and secure place that, you know, contributed to our

00:14:52.560 own prosperity. But you can see here, again, so this is from just last month as well, this particular

00:15:02.960 substact was from the Black Current, which is just one that goes talks entirely about black affairs.

00:15:08.640 And they talk about the fact that for their, from their point of view as well, they're horrified by

00:15:13.040 the loss of the jury trials because they know in many cases that because a lot of the magistrates

00:15:18.960 and British judges are white, often from more privileged backgrounds, you know, they've been

00:15:24.800 through all of the proper channels and everything, that they feel like that disproportionately affects

00:15:30.640 them. And so they're not happy about it either. And they go on to point out that, look, we're not going

00:15:36.160 to be able to receive, to address these racial imbalances in society if we can't have juries

00:15:43.600 where we can basically stack them with our own communities to make sure that we arrive at the

00:15:48.320 proper verdict, which is always innocent. It happens a lot in the United States, doesn't it? Like,

00:15:53.280 there are a few prominent cases. I know in the Derek Chauvin trial, there are a few people that were

00:15:58.480 provable supporters of Black Lives Matter, who I feel like would not be impartial.

00:16:03.920 Right.

00:16:04.480 Um, but it is enough to sway conviction. So I think that that might be part of the reason

00:16:10.640 here they understand.

00:16:11.280 You'd forget the old age of Simpson trial, right?

00:16:12.960 Well, of course, yeah.

00:16:13.840 Very infamous.

00:16:14.480 It's one of the best examples of it going, really.

00:16:17.120 Yep.

00:16:18.240 Sorry, you were just about to answer?

00:16:19.920 No, no, no, you carry on.

00:16:21.200 All right. Okay. Uh, and so we end up in a position now where judge only trials in England

00:16:27.360 and Wales will not wipe out the Crown Court backlog, which, and this is coming from, uh,

00:16:32.800 the Institute for Government as well. And all of the, the, you know, the arms and the quangos around

00:16:38.160 government, even they're saying, this isn't going to work, David, this isn't going to work.

00:16:42.320 And David Lammy being David Lammy has just said, well, we, you know, we've looked at it all

00:16:47.600 ourselves and we're, we're pretty confident that it will. Because every time we look,

00:16:52.320 the government looks at things, we always diagnose it exactly right. And, uh, you know,

00:16:57.600 we have a really good track record with all of this.

00:16:59.760 He's very perceptive, isn't he? I remember that time when he was saying,

00:17:02.400 I haven't seen the police officer all day and there was one stood right behind him.

00:17:06.400 Um, proper panto moment. He's behind you. Um, and so we get to, uh, yeah,

00:17:13.040 the Institute for Government says, uh, the proposed plans, which will slash the number

00:17:17.360 of jury trials will produce marginal gains of less than 2% of the time saved, uh, against David

00:17:24.400 Lammy's claim that it will be 20%. Uh, a just society would be talking about justice as in

00:17:33.520 the sense of, we want there to be as much of it as possible. If you start talking about it in terms

00:17:38.080 of time, then you sort of instrumentalize the process itself. And there's a point that David

00:17:43.520 Lammy will never understand. Yes. And, and by talking about efficiency, all you do is erode

00:17:49.680 justice in the true sense of the word. And also as well, um, it goes on, there was a point, uh,

00:17:57.520 made where they, he keeps talking, the way that Lammy frames it is constantly in this state that,

00:18:03.280 oh, well, we have to do this because the victims are being denied justice. The victims are being denied

00:18:07.920 justice. It's like, David, you don't know if they're victims yet. That's what the trial is

00:18:12.560 for. But so it's all built on these preconceived ideas of just rushing people through just, and

00:18:19.840 obviously none of the, sorry for us, none of this is to even touch on the prison system and how

00:18:26.320 overburdened the prisons are right about now. Sorry. And any claim of wanting justice for the victims

00:18:33.600 springs completely hollow when it comes from the Labour Party, given their cover up of the rape gang.

00:18:38.960 Yes. Yes. The, the audacity involved in pretending to care for justice while also covering up the

00:18:47.040 greatest injustice in the last century is insane. Yeah, of course, uh, there's no mandate and it's

00:18:56.080 all done by an entirely illegitimate government, which is only in power because the Tory party collapsed.

00:19:03.200 Yes. And never had a mandate to do this in the first place. And going further through the Guardian

00:19:08.800 article here, it says that, um, it said while the number of jury trials would fall by about

00:19:13.440 50% under the proposed measures, there would probably be about, uh, be only a seven to 10%

00:19:19.680 reduction in total time taken in the courtroom as a result of the entire package of changes with

00:19:25.680 judge only trials contributing to a fraction of that. And Cassia Rowland, uh, who authored the report

00:19:31.760 said the government's proposed reforms to jury trials will not fix the problems in the crown court

00:19:37.520 and goes on to mention, you know, the statistic about 2%. Uh, and it goes on to say in this article,

00:19:43.760 and bear in mind, this is from January and there's a reason I've laid these out in the way I have.

00:19:48.080 So in January, it mentions in this article that there are dozens of Labour MPs and peers from across

00:19:54.240 the upper chamber who are going to rebel against this, right? That they, they don't like it on the face of

00:19:59.680 it, whether it's because they feel like the proposed legislation would endanger minorities

00:20:04.720 or because they simply feel it's too radical or they're worried about electoral ability for some

00:20:09.760 reason, you know, whatever it may be, they do have grievances with it. You also have the criminal

00:20:15.440 bar, which is a strong association, uh, of, in terms of, you know, the constellation of its voice,

00:20:21.680 you know, and what it projects out into, into parliament. And obviously it's not in, um,

00:20:27.680 favour of these either. It said that it will oppose the government's plan. Uh, it says a

00:20:32.000 proposal for judge only trials has been missold on the false promise of swift to justice.

00:20:36.880 And it does nothing of the kind. The government's own impact assessment glosses over the fact that

00:20:41.760 even on its own figures, it'll be negligible. And so the government have not been able to provide

00:20:47.600 really in the three months that this has been proposed, any concrete evidence, well, that this

00:20:54.080 will do the thing that they claim it will do. They've been caught in a sort of pincer really

00:20:58.480 from both sides of the political aisle, then the sort of left of the Starmer government and,

00:21:03.920 you know, the left of the Labour Party have been very critical of this. I've seen Labour, um, MPs

00:21:09.280 going just as hard against this using the same language that I might use, which is refreshing.

00:21:15.600 It is to see. Um, but at the same time, I think the government is just far too unpopular to waste

00:21:22.400 its political capital on something like this. Um, you know, if, if I were Starmer, um, I wouldn't

00:21:28.960 be doing this sort of thing. I'd be focusing on other areas that you might have more success, but

00:21:34.160 thankfully they're making a mistake that is going to harm them further. Whether there's going to be any

00:21:38.560 consequences, I don't know. It could be that the insanity is a sort of defense in that what they

00:21:46.880 did with the assisted suicide bill, which was completely, completely unjustified to turn the

00:21:52.720 NHS into a medical murder service, what they did with the, uh, removing limits on abortion,

00:22:00.080 and what they are, what they did with Chagos and what they're doing here, it just seems that maintaining

00:22:07.120 a level of madness just lets them get on with things that they're doing, which just seems strange.

00:22:14.480 Right. Um, could be a tactic, could be that they're just stupid, but who knows?

00:22:21.120 I think it's just that they've accepted that they're not going to win the next election.

00:22:25.280 Maybe. Um, but though obviously everything and the, uh, the mutilating of the system and the jury

00:22:31.680 trials is a travesty, there are other darker aspects actually hidden in this bill, and that's

00:22:36.960 something that we'll need to address now. So we can see here from the, uh, Gazette of the Law Society,

00:22:42.160 they just summarise that part one of the bill, which deals with proceedings in the criminal courts,

00:22:47.200 amends the Magistrate Courts Act 1980 to remove the right to elect trial or, and the Senior Court

00:22:54.160 Acts 1981 to enable cases to be allocated for trial without a jury. Another provision creates a power to

00:23:01.440 order certain complex or lengthy cases to be tried without a jury. So, if they decide that,

00:23:10.080 oh, this is just taking too long, they have the power to just take the jury away after someone has

00:23:17.520 already been given the right to the jury as well, from the sound of it. And I-

00:23:22.640 As usual, it's Fabian.

00:23:23.760 And what's more, and this is another dark aspect that was found, um, I- sorry, I mean to credit the

00:23:30.240 chap, I can't find his name in it. I'll, uh, I'll, uh, retweet it afterwards. But another part from

00:23:35.280 part two as well, which is welfare of the child, repeal of presumption of parental involvement.

00:23:41.600 In section one of the Children Act 1989, amid subsections, uh, the ones named, uh, which provide

00:23:49.440 for a presumption in certain circumstances and for certain purposes that the involvement of each

00:23:55.760 parent in the life of a child will further the child's welfare. Wow. So they're still doubling

00:24:02.560 down on transing children. This is really- Among other things. This is really, really dark.

00:24:07.280 This is quite radical. Yes. This is very- And notice how- How dare you? But all of the, the light has

00:24:12.800 been on jury trials, jury trials. And so they've tried to sneak stuff like this through-

00:24:19.120 That's you, that's evil. Through the legislation.

00:24:21.520 Yeah. How, how could a parent's involvement not further a child's welfare, assuming that

00:24:26.480 that parent is at least somewhat competent? Well- Which most at least qualify.

00:24:31.840 The generous answer, and it's not what I believe, but the generous answer would be to simply say,

00:24:38.160 well, if a child is in an abusive home, then it cannot always be guaranteed that being, you know,

00:24:44.480 uh, with each parent's life, involvement in the life of that child is, um, good for the child's

00:24:50.080 welfare. However, we know from the way that the British state works, that what they will be trying

00:24:55.600 to do here is they will use this and the repeal of this basically as the child isn't particularly

00:25:02.240 safe with these people because they have these particular political beliefs. Yeah.

00:25:06.800 Paired with the extremism definition and just, you know, leading to your child,

00:25:12.400 certain books can become a crime. Well, it's basically saying that

00:25:15.520 children belong to the state, isn't it? Yes. It's furthering that argument, which is insane.

00:25:20.480 Uh, which is something they're trying to smuggle into the bill, and this has all come to light after

00:25:25.200 the recent first reading. Uh, another thing as well, uh, uh, Matthew Scott brings up here,

00:25:30.960 is that it's not just about juries. The Courts and Tribunals Bill will institutionalize injustice

00:25:37.680 in the Magistrates' Court as well, and this is worth just showing you here. The Courts and Tribunals

00:25:42.960 Bill will abolish the right of appeal from the Magistrates' Court. Instead of the proposal,

00:25:48.560 uh, instead the proposal is that anyone wishing to appeal against either conviction or sentence

00:25:55.200 will have to apply in writing for permission to appeal from the Crown Court judge, uh, prospective

00:26:01.760 applicants would need to show that they had arguable grounds of appeal. Presumably, in most, uh,

00:26:07.680 most cases those grounds would have to be that the Magistrates had got the law wrong, and that

00:26:12.880 mirrors the position... Sorry, that mirrors the... I've lost my playset. That mirrors the position, uh,

00:26:19.040 for those wishing to appeal from the Crown Court to the Court of Appeal. Uh, difficult,

00:26:23.200 though appealing through the Crown Court is, these proposals would make appealing from the Magistrates

00:26:27.760 far more difficult, and for the many defendants, nearly half of the total, who are not legally

00:26:33.280 represented, um, appealing against convictions. That's insane. So you've got to appeal to a higher

00:26:39.280 court as well? Yes. Which, presumably... Got to appeal to a higher court to have the right to appeal.

00:26:46.240 So that actually adds a new burden on the system, as the various... Right. ...petitions for

00:26:51.440 right of appeal are being adjudicated. So it doesn't actually reduce the stress on the system. It

00:26:57.600 arguably increases it, but it just means that if you're sufficiently broke, which they will do to

00:27:03.600 you if you're right-wing, you can't actually go through the process and argue that you have a right

00:27:09.920 to appeal. And it does also make... That's deeply evil. Yes. And it also makes sure that those who are in

00:27:16.320 these positions, who are, you know, very much friendly to the institutions, have more of a

00:27:21.360 final say on those verdicts, and then the attempts at retrials are made far more difficult for the

00:27:26.640 accused in all of this as well. So it is really, really dark stuff and really, really seismic.

00:27:33.120 So where does the humiliation of Lammy come into the title? Where am I going with all of this? Well,

00:27:38.960 unfortunately, and though it is still a little bit hazy, it does seem like there has been significant

00:27:45.200 enough pushback that particularly Carl Turner, a Labour MP, has basically rallied the Labour backbenchers

00:27:53.600 in such a way that he now has a rebellion of up to 80 MPs, he believes. Now, this kept snowballing and

00:28:01.920 snowballing. And for the sake of time, I'll conclude everything now. But the point is that

00:28:08.720 with these 80 MPs, it is going to give more bargaining power to those backbenchers. It means

00:28:15.280 that perhaps some of the more extreme stuff which is being pushed through, particularly with the jury

00:28:21.040 trials, may well be diluted. The problem is, I don't trust the Labour backbenchers enough and their

00:28:29.440 intuitions on what is moral and what is goodness or fair to basically abolish the the larger points

00:28:37.760 that I've brought out about children and about rights to appeal in this as well. So all of this

00:28:44.640 is very much in flux. It doesn't seem like the bill is going to be able to pass in its original form,

00:28:50.960 but we are, it seems for the time being, kind of just left at the mercy of whatever the prejudices are

00:28:58.240 of the Labour backbenchers. But it is still a great embarrassment to be the justice secretary

00:29:06.320 and to have these radical plans. He's used to it.

00:29:11.040 But for your own party to go, no, no, no, no, no, you know, when you have a license as big as you do.

00:29:18.720 So yes, another humiliation for David Lammy and another episode of us, the British people,

00:29:26.000 just hanging on by the skin of our teeth as we watch our country and its way of life bastardised

00:29:32.400 before our eyes. I think there's one last point to make here, which is the fact that it represents

00:29:37.200 a complete breakdown in the authority of the Prime Minister. Slowly, his authority is just being

00:29:43.760 completely destroyed. And he can't hold on like this. And we have no idea what kind of backbench revolt

00:29:51.920 is going to deliver a different leader. So that's the last one.

00:29:55.920 It won't be Andy Burnham, will it? At least not him.

00:29:59.440 I mean, there have been more U-turns from the Starmer government now. What is it, 15, 16?

00:30:03.920 It's like an Indian heavy goods driver on an American highway. Not many U-turns.

00:30:08.880 Well, this was a frustrating thing. Obviously, the Tory party deserved zero seats.

00:30:13.360 But there was just something really frustrating about the Labour Party being like, oh, you're

00:30:18.160 U-turning, you're U-turning. It's like, you will be no better in government. And now, you know,

00:30:23.600 so it surprises absolutely no one, apart from the Labour Party, it seems.

00:30:29.200 What's a random, that's a random name says, what would someone whose ancestors, yes,

00:30:34.560 cannot read, but point taken random.

00:30:36.880 My last invention from that part of the world was, I believe, a special kind of harpoon used to hunt,

00:30:45.040 maybe sharks, around 10,000 years ago.

00:30:47.680 Very industrious.

00:30:49.280 Just, just saying.

00:30:50.160 We should learn more from them.

00:30:52.000 O-punk, yeah, okay. Other points, right. We, yeah, okay. Message received. And that's a random name.

00:30:58.960 Also, points out more inventions. Can't read them, but very amusing, boys. All right, okay.

00:31:06.480 Over to you, Josh.

00:31:07.360 Hang on.

00:31:08.560 Okay.

00:31:08.880 I need to get to my segment. There we go.

00:31:10.080 Put all thumbs.

00:31:11.360 Cool.

00:31:11.440 May I, may I please have one of those?

00:31:13.840 You may.

00:31:15.360 How very gracious.

00:31:18.640 So, the United States has what I have dubbed a murder paradox, because I saw this, and I

00:31:25.520 found it very interesting, because it seemed very counterintuitive. U.S. murder rate hits lowest

00:31:30.560 level since 1900. And this was looking at 35 major cities across the United States, which you would

00:31:37.840 expect to have the highest murder rates. And so, I don't necessarily think the sampling has, you know,

00:31:44.560 done anything wrong here. And also, I think actually I've had a little look at the data. I don't think

00:31:49.440 that the data has been misrepresented. And so, this seems to be an actual true statistic. And it

00:31:57.200 doesn't feel right, though. And I want to get to the bottom of this. And it talks about, I'll just

00:32:03.120 scroll down so you can see. Oh, sorry. There we go. I'll scroll down here. And it says,

00:32:09.760 murder fell 21% last year in 35 large U.S. cities, the biggest one-year drop ever, and likely the

00:32:16.640 lowest rate since 1900. And it does acknowledge that there was a COVID-era crime wave. I wonder,

00:32:24.480 I don't know whether it was the COVID era. Yeah.

00:32:27.040 The COVID crime wave, or the BLM crime wave? It was the BLM crime wave, obviously. Just checking.

00:32:33.200 I wish I'd known about this. I'd have brought my deer stalker in, and I'm sure I almost did it for a

00:32:37.520 segment. But the one thing that is up, relative to all the other crimes that are down, is drug

00:32:44.560 crimes, which are up 7%, the lone category to increase, apparently. And this pattern actually

00:32:50.960 is the same as lots of other countries as well. It's the same as the UK, where the murder rate has

00:32:54.720 been falling for quite some time, and lots of other European countries. Basically, most Western

00:32:59.840 countries have seen some form of decline. And I originally put this down to, well, they're obviously

00:33:06.400 hiding the numbers, aren't they? But actually, there's a complex, multi-layered thing going on

00:33:11.120 here that I want to break down, because it's a little bit more complicated. And when talking

00:33:14.720 about these things, actually, I think it's important to characterise them as accurately as you can,

00:33:19.760 because, obviously, murder is very serious. It's something you don't want happening in your

00:33:23.520 society. And so having an accurate picture of what's actually going on is integral to tackling the

00:33:29.440 problem head on and, you know, reducing the murder rate even further, because ideally you don't want

00:33:35.120 any. You want it to be like Samford, just safe and... Exactly, nothing going on. Here's Britain,

00:33:44.000 homicides at lowest level in nearly 50 years, the ONS says. And I wanted to look at some explanations

00:33:50.720 for this, because I am then going to go into why we think it is very counterintuitive. And I think

00:33:57.600 there's a good, neat explanation for all of it. So the most plausible explanation for me is that

00:34:04.000 there's a compound of multiple different factors that are small, but if you add them all up together,

00:34:09.600 it leads to these significant changes. The first of which, of course, is the massive expansion of

00:34:14.880 the surveillance state. It makes it easier to monitor people's movements, makes it easier to catch them

00:34:19.520 for crime. The CCTV pretty much everywhere. I know at one point, Britain was the CCTV capital of the

00:34:26.560 world since been overtaken. Just like Hallwell would have wanted. Exactly. Well, it's since

00:34:32.000 been taken over by two countries. Can you both guess what countries those are? China and Canada.

00:34:38.080 Close. China. China. North America is correct as well. Okay. United States. Yes. Wow.

00:34:45.360 There's China and the United States now have more CCTV per citizen than Britain,

00:34:50.720 who led the way in the 90s. And everyone copied us. Sorry about that. But it's obviously easier to

00:34:58.000 monitor citizens than ever, which means you're going to catch more murderers. There have also

00:35:02.960 been developments in policing and forensics since, say, 1900 or the past 50 years. You've got DNA databases.

00:35:09.040 I know in Britain they were introduced in the 90s. Digital forensics. So, you know, checking phones,

00:35:14.560 laptops, being able to track people's location with those. And ballistic fingerprinting systems

00:35:20.320 and things like that. All of this technology makes it easier for the police and forensic scientists

00:35:26.720 to catch people. The lethality decline, which is something that very few people actually think of. But

00:35:32.960 medicine is better now. So what would have been fatal in the past is now not as fatal. And so

00:35:42.160 because medicine's got better, there are fewer homicides, which is actually quite important. Also,

00:35:47.280 there's an aging population. So there are fewer young men who are typically the demographic to commit

00:35:53.680 murder as a percentage of the population. Although there are certainly some young men that commit a

00:36:00.960 disproportionate number of the murders. And the final thing I wanted to mention was the organized

00:36:07.360 crime, particularly in the United States and Britain, is pretty well established. There's no

00:36:13.760 instability and vying for territory, or at least not as much as there used to be. An organized crime

00:36:21.200 cracks down on street crime because it's, you know, a competitor. Exactly. And then also,

00:36:28.080 this might sound a bit weird, but if you apply economic theory to organized crime,

00:36:32.320 well, monopolies reduce output. And if your output is violence, then violence is reduced.

00:36:38.400 And we've talked about this. I had an episode of my series Contemplations on the website where we

00:36:43.280 talked all about how organized crime actually reduces crime rates, which is not advocating organized

00:36:49.280 crime. It's actually a statement about economics, but still. That's why the Japanese state doesn't bother

00:36:54.560 they accuse it too much. They sort of cooperate. That's arguably one reason why the Chinese

00:37:00.400 cooperate with the triads. They keep the criminal element in line, essentially. And yeah, you will

00:37:07.440 always have a criminal element. Can you think of any other potential explanations before I go on to the

00:37:12.480 paradoxical aspect? Go on then.

00:37:17.440 How? Well, that was it. I was just done with the ones I've said. The aging population was the first

00:37:24.960 thing that occurred to me. And I would argue maybe, what's it called? I was going to say Game Boys,

00:37:32.960 which sort of shows my age. Right. But video games, you could sort of express your violence

00:37:39.360 in other ways and also be more socially isolated. And if you have, you know, more of a drinking

00:37:46.080 culture, well, no, that'll be much more crime. Yeah. Well, alcohol consumption has gone down.

00:37:51.120 Yes. I think that'll have more of an effect in Britain than America because they're not quite

00:37:56.000 as big drinkers. And that, you know, I've seen Americans on our sort of high streets at nighttime,

00:38:02.320 and they're amazed by the amount of violence and drinking. Terrified almost. So where is the paradox?

00:38:09.280 So despite murder going down, the nature of crime has got more brutal, I would argue. So it's more

00:38:16.560 random in nature. It's not really as targeted as it used to be. Because in the past, I, at least,

00:38:24.720 you know, where I grew up and talking to people, sort of that formed my attitude on it,

00:38:31.200 it was sort of seen as premeditated and targeting those who had somehow involved themselves with bad

00:38:38.640 people to some degree, or at least that idea was more prevalent back in the past. And perhaps it was

00:38:44.400 more true. It's a difficult thing to necessarily establish. It's what you get in a gang war,

00:38:50.240 right? If you're in a gang, you're going to be in a gang war. If you're going to be in a gang war,

00:38:54.080 you risk getting killed or killing. Whereas if you were a normal person in the street,

00:38:58.480 you didn't really have to worry because you weren't involved, unless you were really unfortunate and in

00:39:03.280 the wrong place at the wrong time. And that's sort of like one in multiple million scenario. But what

00:39:09.120 actually happens with this random nature of brutal crime is that it creates maximal fear in the

00:39:14.320 populace. And this is warranted as well, because if people just come out of nowhere and murder you

00:39:20.720 for no reason, then your sort of fight or flight has to be going constantly in the back of your head

00:39:26.320 whenever you're in public. And so the actual social consequences of the nature of this sort of crime

00:39:32.960 are far more destructive to ordinary people, even in the past when the murder rate might have been

00:39:40.160 higher, but it was more within certain communities, let's say. And that's all changed as well by the

00:39:48.400 fact that you're supposed to have a normal human sort of fight or flight, you know, survival mechanism,

00:39:54.560 and all of it is being mutilated and, you know, repressed by numerous arms of government and then

00:40:00.800 propaganda telling you that certain things that are dangerous to you are actually benign and good

00:40:05.600 for you. And that some things that are actually good for you are obviously beyond the pale.

00:40:10.080 But what it ultimately does is mute people's instincts and further make them anxious because

00:40:14.800 of the uncertainty, because uncertainty maximizes anxiety. And so you just create a low trust,

00:40:24.640 deeply suspicious society, which further compounds the problem to begin with. And I think the best

00:40:30.640 example of this being the case was this story. So I'm going to just tell you the story rather

00:40:38.560 than read the article. So there was a guy last year, this happened, called Rinaldo Lefonce, who was 68.

00:40:48.240 He'd recently retired and liked visiting the library in his spare time. He was charging his Tesla at an

00:40:55.600 electric vehicle station outside of the library. And whilst his back was turned, a homeless person,

00:41:01.520 Giovanni Navarro, emerged out of the shadows and stabbed him. Bystanders called an ambulance for him,

00:41:09.120 and then the ambulance arrives and he starts getting treated for his injuries. Then another homeless person,

00:41:15.120 Nicholas DiMarco, climbs into the ambulance and drives off. He leads police on a high-speed pursuit

00:41:21.040 before crashing into a parked car. And so the recently retired Lafonce died outside of this library

00:41:29.520 without an ambulance to take him to hospital because of these two people. And then it emerged that the

00:41:36.560 man who stabbed him had been arrested for trespassing on the same library that he had stabbed him the day

00:41:42.960 before. And also when they caught him for the stabbing, he was arrested at a high school which caused the

00:41:51.360 entire high school to lock down as well. And so, you know, one person seemingly massively occupying the

00:42:00.080 work of policing and justice when in reality this person shouldn't be out roaming in public because

00:42:08.400 they're obviously a danger to the people around them because he stabbed someone randomly.

00:42:12.320 And committed multiple other crimes as well. And now Lafonce's family is suing the city for negligence

00:42:20.080 for not having locking, you know, steering and basically being able to drive the ambulance away

00:42:26.720 without being the ambulance drivers.

00:42:28.480 It shouldn't need to be locking ambulances, right?

00:42:32.080 No.

00:42:32.720 No.

00:42:33.360 You should assume that there is a basic level of human dignity that says,

00:42:39.440 well, this is an ambulance. I'm not going to mess around with it.

00:42:42.960 Somebody might get killed exactly as has happened in this case.

00:42:47.600 And so the argument of the family, I understand, but, you know, that's...

00:42:54.000 Doesn't address the underlying issue, does it?

00:42:57.040 Exactly.

00:42:57.520 That someone would want to do this.

00:42:58.960 But the underlying issue here is that there are people who are allowed on the street that

00:43:03.600 clearly should not be allowed on the street and that even if the crime rate truly is falling,

00:43:10.240 these people aren't being addressed because there's this view of mental health issues and

00:43:14.560 the like where they need to be in the community, they need to live a normal life when actually

00:43:21.040 the reality is there are many people beyond saving.

00:43:24.160 And actually, why don't you think of the innocent people that have to interact with them?

00:43:28.800 It's the same thing with the Nottingham attacker who killed three people.

00:43:33.920 He was sectioned four different times and was released every time after about a month.

00:43:40.800 And he kept on doing the same violent crimes over and over again and they just kept on releasing him.

00:43:46.000 Same sort of thing here where insane people are just being released.

00:43:51.040 But the paradox is, just in summary really, that crime rates might be falling, homicide might be falling,

00:43:59.360 but the nature of the homicides that still occur are even more concerning than the previous ones.

00:44:08.000 And this happened in California, sure.

00:44:10.320 Is there something you can do about it?

00:44:11.920 No.

00:44:12.400 I mean, the argument would have been, okay, it's a bad neighborhood, but if you keep your nose clean

00:44:16.880 and you do your own duties, you're not going to get involved and you'll be safe.

00:44:23.120 Whereas here, it's sort of just random crazy people stabbing decent citizens.

00:44:28.880 And what's more as well, you have an ever-diminishing list of places you can relocate to

00:44:34.960 that aren't going to be affected by these problems.

00:44:37.440 Like nobody expects to get murdered at the library.

00:44:39.840 No.

00:44:40.240 No.

00:44:40.720 And it might be California, but it's not even an especially liberal part of California,

00:44:46.800 because the same place where this happened announced in 24 that they would no longer

00:44:54.080 fly the pride flag, which for California is quite conservative, to be honest.

00:45:00.400 But you've got to remember that there are lots of mentally ill people.

00:45:03.760 This happened two days ago in California.

00:45:06.480 A man dies after allegedly cutting off his own penis in downtown Los Angeles.

00:45:10.800 So not only will you have these insane homeless people, but you'll have mentally ill people

00:45:16.080 like this just walking amongst you, which I think needs to be taken seriously because

00:45:22.880 crime might be falling, but the nature of crime is clearly getting worse.

00:45:27.280 Thanks for that.

00:45:30.640 You're welcome.

00:45:32.000 I'll get that mouse if you don't mind.

00:45:33.360 Sure.

00:45:34.000 Thank you.

00:45:34.960 Um, that's a random name says, oh, sorry to interrupt you.

00:45:44.400 Um, instead of wasting money on all those cameras, they should employ a bunch of notices.

00:45:47.920 I can tell you exactly who's the purpose at a glance, whether the glove fits or not.

00:45:51.520 You can't do that.

00:45:53.760 You're on the roll, aren't you, today, random name?

00:46:00.480 And they've said again, to summarize, the crime levels may be down on paper,

00:46:04.320 but the new patch has become an open PvP zone.

00:46:07.440 Finally, a comment that is okay to read.

00:46:09.760 About time.

00:46:11.040 Thank you.

00:46:11.520 Well played, sir.

00:46:12.320 Um, so first I want to remind you, please go and watch Harry's documentary.

00:46:19.680 It is amazing.

00:46:20.800 It's very good.

00:46:21.920 I also want to mention to you, there's going to be a Realpolitik in around an hour.

00:46:25.680 Come and check it out.

00:46:26.720 And it's going to be a freemium this time.

00:46:29.120 Um, but now the question that must be asked, have you got a license to be Islamophobic, mate?

00:46:37.520 Why, yes, it's my English passport.

00:46:39.280 You have no idea how qualified I am.

00:46:44.960 The Labour government disagrees with you.

00:46:48.080 Because the Labour government is going to appoint an anti-Muslim hostility czar.

00:46:56.240 Pick me, pick me.

00:46:57.200 Because this is absolutely necessary, you see.

00:46:59.840 And their reasoning for this actually betrays something important,

00:47:04.080 which is that the Blairite consensus is falling apart,

00:47:07.520 but they have no idea what to do about it other than trying to double down stupidly.

00:47:12.480 I think moving around bureaucrats into different departments and trying the same thing in different ways

00:47:18.880 is going to inevitably collapse.

00:47:21.120 And it's going to basically result in them having to rely on more and more heavy-handed measures,

00:47:27.040 which I presume this is going to be.

00:47:29.280 They understand the Blairite goals and they believe in the goals.

00:47:33.120 They simply can't achieve the goals because their goals are ridiculous.

00:47:36.480 Exactly. Exactly.

00:47:38.800 And so, um, the Telegraph got a leaked draft of this strategy,

00:47:44.480 and it cites Islamic extremism as the biggest threat to community cohesion.

00:47:49.200 Who would have guessed?

00:47:50.720 Who would have guessed?

00:47:51.280 I mean, good on them for noticing.

00:47:53.360 But clearly their reaction to Islamic extremism being the biggest threat is going to be

00:48:00.960 to a point an Islamophobic czar.

00:48:04.080 I mean, the two things are so contradictory.

00:48:06.160 Yeah.

00:48:07.040 You would assume that there's going to be some kind of counter-radicalization czar,

00:48:11.280 or you would assume that there is going to be changes to prevent

00:48:14.720 so that people who read Tolkien aren't at risk of having their children taken away,

00:48:19.120 which seems to be the plan in the in the jury trial bill.

00:48:23.200 But no, no, the answer is, to a point, an anti-Muslim hostility czar.

00:48:29.840 It's sort of like that there was some sort of wave of drownings,

00:48:34.640 and instead of the government, you know, doing anything about it,

00:48:39.040 they say, you can't criticize the ocean.

00:48:42.560 Exactly. Exactly.

00:48:44.640 And also a banning swimming pools.

00:48:46.320 Yeah.

00:48:48.400 Exactly.

00:48:49.360 So a draft of the strategy cites Islamic extremism as the biggest threat to community cohesion.

00:48:54.800 It warns that anti-Semitism is becoming normalized in the UK,

00:49:00.960 and accuses right-wing groups of using the Union flag and Cross of St. George as tools of hate.

00:49:07.920 How would they know that?

00:49:08.880 They never talk to us.

00:49:10.320 They never ask us what our reasons for waving the flag are.

00:49:13.520 There's no dialogue between the state and the people.

00:49:16.400 And, like, from the outset, they admit that the problem is Islamism,

00:49:20.880 but it's the nativists who are the enemy.

00:49:23.040 Well, this comes back to in the recent by-election, doesn't it?

00:49:26.080 When Hannah Spencer basically just accused Matt Goodwin of being responsible for the Manchester Arena bombing,

00:49:33.520 for calling out the fact that there were problems amongst the Muslim communities.

00:49:37.120 Exactly.

00:49:37.680 Like, if you just didn't criticize them, Matt, they wouldn't do this sort of thing.

00:49:41.520 Yep.

00:49:41.840 So I think they would.

00:49:43.760 If you didn't roll over and, you know, didn't lay out a red carpet for people who want you killed,

00:49:50.240 then you're somehow responsible for it.

00:49:52.160 Then your community cohesion might actually improve.

00:49:55.520 Shockingly enough, I didn't have this problem.

00:49:57.520 Have you tried just rolling over and submitting?

00:50:00.240 Exactly.

00:50:01.360 Exactly.

00:50:02.320 The document warns that cohesion in communities has been broken down by mass immigration

00:50:07.760 and the use of social media to spread hate.

00:50:10.160 Notice how they pair these two together.

00:50:13.760 Mass immigration is a problem, but really, Josh, you have to be careful in how you use social media.

00:50:19.840 That's true.

00:50:20.320 The question is, do Muslims maybe spread hate sometimes?

00:50:26.160 I've never noticed it.

00:50:27.120 Do you think they do?

00:50:28.000 I mean, let's sort of…

00:50:29.120 They're really nice and friendly.

00:50:31.280 Let's watch Muhammad Hijab here, who just recently lost a couple of libel trials.

00:50:37.280 So let's pick on him more.

00:50:39.360 Prepare for them what you can from strength and from horses that you will terrorize.

00:50:50.960 You'll frighten and terrorize the adou Allah.

00:50:54.960 The enemy of God.

00:50:55.920 The enemies of Allah and your enemies.

00:50:59.120 I will, subhanAllah, I will put fear and terror in the hearts of the enemy.

00:51:03.760 So ulqee fi qlubil ladheena kafiru ro'b, ro'b, terror.

00:51:10.880 Hit them above the necks.

00:51:11.920 How do you think this rates in terms of community cohesion?

00:51:22.640 I don't see it helping much.

00:51:24.320 Do you think this looks like successful assimilation?

00:51:27.520 No, not in the slightest.

00:51:29.920 And I also find it preposterous.

00:51:31.920 Because, you know, the implication with the new Tsar, which, again, to come back to it,

00:51:36.480 is a really weird title to give it.

00:51:38.720 But, you know, the framing for it is that if you have any problem whatsoever with this,

00:51:44.480 if you think for a second that this man maybe shouldn't be in the country,

00:51:49.600 then you need to be investigated.

00:51:51.280 Then we need to check your thinking.

00:51:53.280 Then we need to re-educate you.

00:51:55.200 And then you are the extremist.

00:51:57.120 Yes.

00:51:57.760 The problem that they have is that this guy is just reading from the Quran.

00:52:02.400 The problem that they have is that he's not coming to these conclusions out of a vacuum.

00:52:08.000 He's just reading the Quran and explaining it in the most mainstream way possible.

00:52:14.480 And the conclusion is, I need to terrorize you and threaten to behead you.

00:52:18.960 And that is a good thing from God.

00:52:21.120 I like to quite often play a game with people who deny the violence baked into Islam.

00:52:28.720 I have a copy of the Quran and I say, open this at any page you see fit

00:52:34.880 and see if you can find no mention of violence to unbelievers on the page.

00:52:40.720 And you'll be hard pressed.

00:52:42.320 It is a challenge.

00:52:44.640 It is a challenge.

00:52:46.640 How about here?

00:52:48.400 What message do you want to give to the far right people?

00:52:51.680 That would be the sensible center.

00:52:54.240 We are here to take over your country.

00:52:56.720 You can't stop us.

00:52:58.000 We are here to uphold Sharia law.

00:53:00.800 And that's exactly what they say on the video.

00:53:02.800 Now, their accents are annoying and their faces are ugly.

00:53:04.960 So I won't bother you with watching the video.

00:53:08.160 But that is precisely what they believe.

00:53:10.800 And that's precisely what they're saying.

00:53:12.400 And, you know, they're putting up these videos on TikTok.

00:53:16.560 Is that use of social media that should be concerning?

00:53:20.720 Or is that use of social media that should result in the appointment of an Islamophobia czar?

00:53:26.080 What I find interesting about what you said here for some of the sort of justifications for it,

00:53:30.480 or at least the ones they've stated, it's all of the things that the Labour Party see as problems for their political paradigm.

00:53:39.600 The far right people putting up flags, social media, and there was something else as well, like, was it radical?

00:53:47.360 Mass immigration.

00:53:48.640 Well, yes.

00:53:49.200 But then I'm going to point that.

00:53:50.400 They mention it, but the problem is your reaction to mass immigration.

00:53:56.640 Yes.

00:53:57.040 Yes.

00:53:58.080 That's exactly the argument.

00:53:59.920 So they're starting to admit the problem, which is kind of them.

00:54:03.600 But if you take all of these things together, it basically amounts to criticism or things

00:54:09.120 that are inconvenient for the Labour Party.

00:54:11.040 Exactly.

00:54:11.600 It's just entirely a problem with perception management.

00:54:14.480 What the Labour Party don't appreciate is that behind every video, like whoever took this video here in Tower Hamlets,

00:54:21.280 you know, if it was a British person or whatever, don't know who it was.

00:54:24.400 But the point is, behind every single one of these videos, there is an actual human being witnessing this.

00:54:30.160 Yes.

00:54:30.480 And then there are millions of people online, hundreds of thousands, who also witness it.

00:54:35.440 And once you've seen it, with your own eyes...

00:54:39.200 Exactly.

00:54:39.680 No amount of legislation, no number of Tsars is ever going to take that away from you.

00:54:46.000 Nope. Nope.

00:54:49.200 Here they are.

00:54:53.760 Rioting.

00:54:54.400 Yeah.

00:54:55.440 And you're supposed to go, oh, this isn't a threat to my entire civilization.

00:54:58.400 I'll just carry on, you know, going to Marks and Spencer's or whatever he's working to.

00:55:02.640 It's like, obviously not.

00:55:04.640 Exactly.

00:55:05.120 Obviously not.

00:55:05.920 Exactly. Exactly.

00:55:07.840 And it just keeps on repeating.

00:55:09.440 And you see that the Muslims are organizing in networks throughout the British government

00:55:14.240 and to silence British people.

00:55:16.640 Be it the civil service network or the network in the Home Office or in the NHS or what have you.

00:55:23.520 And you see that they are using nepotism to promote each other,

00:55:26.560 because that is exactly what, for example, the civil service network states as its objective.

00:55:31.520 It's to help Muslims advance in their careers in the civil service.

00:55:35.680 And they're all pushing at open doors anyway.

00:55:39.360 And they're pushing at open doors anyway.

00:55:41.360 And you're supposed to say that, no, no, no, no, no.

00:55:44.240 It's your fault.

00:55:45.520 I've actually written about the Muslim infiltration of the Home Office.

00:55:50.240 And they've done such damaging things.

00:55:51.920 Like, they've been pushing for prevent to target the far right rather than Islamic terrorism.

00:55:57.680 And they're trying to argue that, actually, the focus should be the far right and not Islam,

00:56:03.680 even though the vast majority, over 95% of terror-related fatalities since 2005 have been due to Islam.

00:56:12.960 Exactly. And you sort of see them protesting and saying, World War III is near. Are the Imam Mahdi soldiers preparing?

00:56:25.120 It seems like a problem.

00:56:27.360 It seems like a bit of a problem that they think that they're going into World War III.

00:56:31.600 Here's another guy saying that you should have a state within a state in Britain until you're strong enough to take over.

00:56:40.960 Do you think that that causes some anti-Muslim hostility?

00:56:45.520 If I were to tell you, Josh, I'm coming here to take over your home, would you be a bit hostile?

00:56:52.000 I think I would be.

00:56:53.040 I think it's quite different from saying, you know, please can I spend the night because whatever.

00:56:59.040 It's, no, no, I'm here to take over your home and I'm going to take, you know, half of your house.

00:57:04.560 And when I'm strong enough, I'm going to take the rest of it.

00:57:07.200 That's exactly what they're saying.

00:57:08.800 And you, British person, just watching your country, your entire civilization, everything that you love,

00:57:15.120 just slowly in this hourglass of sand, just pouring through it.

00:57:18.800 And you say, we're running out of time, we're running out of time.

00:57:21.600 And the British state tells you, shut up, go to jail.

00:57:24.560 Exactly.

00:57:25.040 It's like, that is not going to, you know, get rid of anyone's anxieties on the situation.

00:57:31.600 And after Khamenei was killed in Iran, you had these Shia lunatics patrolling the streets on horseback

00:57:37.920 and charging protesters who were against them.

00:57:42.400 The video doesn't show the charge.

00:57:44.360 Totally not allowed to chase people with horses.

00:57:48.800 They just chase someone with an horse?

00:58:01.280 They just chase people with horses?

00:58:04.800 Are they part of Greater Manchester Police?

00:58:07.600 How come they're not being knit for chasing them people with horses then?

00:58:11.760 They've just been chasing people with horses, officer.

00:58:14.000 Yeah, we've, um, we've seen a lot of people.

00:58:19.440 So according to the British government, the person who took this video is the problem.

00:58:27.760 Isn't that slightly mad?

00:58:30.880 I mean, the piece goes on, the document goes on and it says that Britain's historic social cohesion

00:58:37.920 that has kept us united in the face of adversity is now under threat.

00:58:42.400 But the threat is people on social media.

00:58:46.480 And not the Muslims on social media saying that they're here to take over.

00:58:49.840 And not the Muslims in mosques saying that they're here to take over.

00:58:53.520 It's the people who are noticing that the Muslims are saying that they're here to take over.

00:58:57.920 These guys are supposedly the problem.

00:58:59.600 Well, and the next step, of course, is simply to crack down more, you know, with the Online Safety Act and things on videos like this,

00:59:06.160 where you simply won't be able to view it in this country.

00:59:08.720 Exactly.

00:59:10.080 I mean, the social cohesion of Britain relied on this being a settled society

00:59:17.840 with a strong sense of history and identity and values.

00:59:20.960 It didn't, it would have never survived this kind of demographic change because no society can survive this demographic change.

00:59:31.520 But according to the Labour government, making that observation is what's breaking social cohesion.

00:59:38.160 I mean, they sort of mentioned mass migration as a, yeah, it's part of a problem.

00:59:42.480 But really, it wouldn't be a problem if you weren't reacting to a city like Manchester having patrols on horseback in supports of frickin' Germany.

00:59:55.120 That seems to be the brain damage take that is coming from the British state.

01:00:00.160 Yeah.

01:00:00.640 And it's not, they can't even claim, oh, well, you know, it's just ignorance because actually the problem is too remote for us parliamentarians.

01:00:08.480 We're all sat in, in Westminster, and it's just happening outside to ordinary people.

01:00:13.440 And we're just not as aware of it as they are because Sir David Amos was murdered.

01:00:18.960 Yes.

01:00:19.520 In his own constituency, in his own clinic, just by an ISIS fighter.

01:00:25.360 Yes.

01:00:25.840 And so it did happen to them.

01:00:27.440 And all they did was use it to clamp down on online censorship more.

01:00:32.000 Exactly.

01:00:32.720 And who can remember, who can forget Lindsay Hoyle saying that he's worried about the safety of MPs if they vote the wrong way on Gaza?

01:00:43.280 I bet he was.

01:00:45.040 And you then end up in this situation where actually you know what the problem is, but your policy is to continuously crack down on anybody who notices what the problem is.

01:00:55.600 That's the policy.

01:00:58.000 But parliament also can't be a 650-person hostage situation here in that they're voting in particular ways because they're worried about a violent backlash.

01:01:08.640 Well, get rid of the violent backlash then.

01:01:10.960 Exactly.

01:01:12.240 And the idea that they wouldn't do something that elementary kind of shows you the lack of backbone and the fact that ideologically they don't see these guys as the problem.

01:01:22.880 They don't see Shia Muslims on horseback attacking other people in Manchester as being the problem.

01:01:30.480 They see people in Manchester being attacked and objecting to being attacked as the problem.

01:01:36.000 So the whole thing has a completely ridiculous air to it.

01:01:40.720 And the document that they're using, I mean, just to read a couple of more lines from it.

01:01:46.720 For many living in the UK, the changes brought about by mass migration have been too much too quickly, leaving people's feeling as though they are losing their local and national identity.

01:01:59.200 Then they call integration a two-way street, calling for respect of different cultures and that newcomers have a basic responsibility to engage with and embrace what it means to be British.

01:02:11.840 Here's the thing.

01:02:16.800 All politics is identity politics.

01:02:20.560 You can have a slight exception to that when you have such a cohesive identity that everybody agrees on who we are in the national sense and what is good in the sense of shared values.

01:02:37.760 If you don't have these things, what you end up with is a fundamental division on who is the us, who is the collective, who should politics serve, and you have a disagreement on what is good, what is the definition of good.

01:02:56.100 And in these people's case, what is good is the establishment of a global Islamic caliphate.

01:03:01.940 And the documents from the Muslim Brotherhood and from pretty much any mainstream Muslim thinker confirm that the objective of Muslims should be a global Islamic caliphate where everybody who isn't Muslim is subjugated and subdued and broken.

01:03:16.620 So, to say that all of a sudden values of diversity and tolerance will be quite immaterial and I imagine we get much leeway on those things once we are a minority.

01:03:32.620 I doubt they care very much.

01:03:34.000 No, obviously.

01:03:35.400 Yeah.

01:03:35.740 Obviously.

01:03:36.780 And so, there is no pathway to integration here.

01:03:41.020 There is no pathway to assimilation.

01:03:42.780 You could argue that over generations, if enough people convert, you can get there.

01:03:48.780 Maybe.

01:03:49.660 Maybe.

01:03:50.600 But you will always have people identifying as different national groups because they are different national groups.

01:03:57.200 And also, Islam has been very bad at converting people outside of the Islamic sphere.

01:04:03.300 Exactly.

01:04:03.980 And the way that it does it is by slowly grinding them down until, okay, screw it, I'm giving up.

01:04:12.780 So, the idea that there is going to be a two-way integration.

01:04:19.420 Firstly, again, if I go into your house and say, well, from now on, everybody in this house has to wake up at three in the morning and everything in the house has to be done my way and the meals have to be halal and we won't be using medicine anymore.

01:04:40.780 Or we will be using enchantments against djinn and so on and so forth.

01:04:46.240 I can't imagine anybody being happy about this.

01:04:50.180 But for that to be applied to the national level, you must understand that the nation is a family of families.

01:04:55.800 And that's what makes it function, this blood relationship between people that makes them believe, actually, we are deeply connected to each other.

01:05:05.600 Our relationships to each other must take precedence.

01:05:09.120 And we will work to preserve these relationships and make them more cohesive.

01:05:13.540 And Islam's answer to that is to just, well, you can just get there by marrying your cousin.

01:05:20.200 Which isn't especially appealing.

01:05:23.940 To carry on the sort of house analogy there, though, when you actually visit someone's house, realistically, you are the one that compromises.

01:05:33.580 Like, you say, oh, would you like me to take off my shoes?

01:05:36.020 And even if you personally don't take off your shoes when you're at home, you abide by the laws and standards of the household, lest you expect to get kicked out for being an unwelcome house guest.

01:05:47.700 But when we expand that to the level of a country, all of a sudden, those rules go out the window, despite them being just as applicable.

01:05:55.320 Because human nature hasn't changed when you scale it up.

01:05:58.940 It's still the same.

01:06:00.540 Exactly.

01:06:01.480 Exactly.

01:06:01.880 And the thing is, as well, on that, that when you have people like Mohammed Hijab, it's like, okay, the government are going to put forward these anti-Muslim hate czars.

01:06:11.360 And, you know, they're going to police the criticism that you can have of Islam.

01:06:15.260 It's like, but wouldn't it also, like, if that is their stated goal, you know, in terms of defending multiculturalism and making sure that all these different diverse groups have to continue to exist,

01:06:27.220 just slogging out in Britain together and just, you know, taking the destiny and sovereignty of the British people away from them.

01:06:35.080 So we have to constantly devolve into sectarianism.

01:06:37.900 If we have to do all of these things, would it not be conducive to that vision?

01:06:43.400 Exactly.

01:06:43.800 If we could just remove the most, like, if Mohammed Hijab was just deported.

01:06:49.380 Like, if the killer who, you know, David Amos was just, you know, and so on and so forth, just all the worst people, you know, just the members of the Muslim Brotherhood, all of them,

01:06:59.860 if they just went, wouldn't that help?

01:07:01.800 But no, it's not that.

01:07:03.120 It's never, it's never the concession either.

01:07:06.140 And obviously, I don't want the concession.

01:07:07.880 I want, I want proper remigration.

01:07:10.400 The point is, sorry, just to say that they never give an inch.

01:07:15.440 No.

01:07:15.540 They never give an inch.

01:07:16.520 And so long as they're never going to give an inch, they will never solve this because...

01:07:21.140 I was just going to say that unwillingness to compromise is what makes the system so brittle in the first place.

01:07:26.080 Yes, yes.

01:07:26.700 And so...

01:07:27.400 It's why Nigel Farage is stepping in to save it.

01:07:31.700 Oh, dear.

01:07:32.320 And to just add to that, from Muhammad Hijab's perspective, appointing an anti-Muslim hate czar or anti-Muslim hostility czar is a victory.

01:07:44.960 And it encourages him to continue down the same path that he is on because he believes that he's being rewarded.

01:07:51.500 He's being given more and more concessions, meaning that he doesn't think that there's anything about his behavior that should change.

01:07:59.720 Because it confirms his narrative that he is taking over and that people like him are taking over.

01:08:05.880 So, they're admitting that mass migration is a problem.

01:08:10.300 They're saying that Islamic extremism is the biggest threat to social cohesion.

01:08:14.380 Then they are rewarding the Islamic extremists.

01:08:17.940 That's labor policy.

01:08:19.760 And we can see that with every concession, nothing good ever happens.

01:08:23.380 I mean, this is the family of Salman Abidi, who blew up the children in the Manchester Arena.

01:08:30.560 His whole family were a bunch of radicals.

01:08:34.600 And they had been saved from Gaddafi and given asylum in Britain and naturalized.

01:08:40.380 And what did they think of all of these concessions?

01:08:45.500 They thought, well, maybe one of us should go and kill a bunch of children.

01:08:49.400 And that would make him a good Mujahid and guarantee him a place in paradise with 72 virgins.

01:08:56.180 And despite being a suspicion to one of the members of staff at the arena that night,

01:09:02.740 the member of staff decided he wasn't going to say anything for fear of being called racist.

01:09:07.840 Exactly.

01:09:08.840 And so people died on it.

01:09:11.620 Like, this sounds like one of those stupid AI models that have been made too woke.

01:09:17.720 Which is better, to be racist to one Muslim or to risk the lives of tens of children?

01:09:22.380 No, no, no, no, no.

01:09:24.080 You'd better not be racist.

01:09:25.980 Well, obviously, it's better to be racist.

01:09:29.000 I mean, what's the argument here?

01:09:32.680 And you keep seeing these kinds of pushes.

01:09:36.160 So Anjum Choudhury's right-hand man is out of jail.

01:09:41.340 And he says that, no, we should have all of Britain submit to Sharia law.

01:09:47.220 And this is a guy who's probably born in Britain.

01:09:50.620 And according to reform, he's just as British as everyone else.

01:09:54.940 No one with British citizenship can be questioned.

01:09:57.180 But explain how has this person built any relations with the British that would be conducive to the well-being of British people?

01:10:05.820 Also, sorry, if I may just return to that point I was saying about Nigel Farage as well.

01:10:10.440 Because, you know, under Farage's, you know, if a reform government, hypothetically, were to deport this man, right?

01:10:19.060 Like, all of us would, like, even if we're not fully on board with reform, we'd be like, well, that has obviously made Britain a safer country.

01:10:27.060 That was a good thing to do.

01:10:28.540 Well done, reform, right?

01:10:30.180 But an act such as that would invoke what Nigel called alienating the Muslim vote.

01:10:36.280 And so we have to ask ourselves, well, if such things as just deporting the most radical people would be alienating to that entire voter bloc, what does that say about the voter bloc?

01:10:48.180 Exactly. Exactly. Exactly. Exactly.

01:10:51.820 To continue with the government's document, the new Tsar will champion efforts across the UK to tackle hostility and hatred directed at Muslims and those perceived to be Muslim.

01:11:03.960 The appointee will be expected to engage with communities and stakeholders and support action to strengthen understanding, reporting and response.

01:11:13.720 We know how this is going to play out.

01:11:16.080 These Muslim networks are going to start braying, demanding that this not be considered extremism, that there should be more respect for Muslims, that actually there is nothing wrong with non-stands slaughter.

01:11:31.500 There is nothing wrong with calling for jihad.

01:11:33.280 Actually, jihad is a spiritual phenomenon first, which is complete BS, which is complete BS.

01:11:40.120 And we know what kind of response they're going to get from this Labour government, which is, yeah, let's give them more.

01:11:46.900 Let's give them more.

01:11:48.140 And of course, one of the worst things about this as well is that Britain has mopped up a lot of the radicals that have been cast out of Islamic society.

01:11:56.200 Yes.

01:11:57.180 There's a bunch of Egyptian and Jordanian and Saudi people who are living in Britain who would be executed in their home countries for being so deeply subversive and destructive.

01:12:07.560 In Britain, they're on welfare.

01:12:09.060 And the government's reaction to noticing this is, well, you're using social media to sow hatred and expand communal divisions and you're not being understanding enough.

01:12:21.320 No, no, sweetheart.

01:12:22.160 It's because I understand Islam that I'm saying this stuff.

01:12:25.380 This is deeply destructive and giving these people more concessions isn't going to end well.

01:12:31.760 Well, the document says that no, more people in Britain should speak English and this is necessary for them to be able to function.

01:12:40.520 How did you let them in if they didn't speak any English?

01:12:44.700 Why did you let them in if they couldn't communicate?

01:12:48.220 How did that happen?

01:12:50.120 And what's the answer to Rupert Lowe saying, if you can't speak English, you get deported?

01:12:54.800 According to the census, there's a million people in Britain who can't speak English.

01:12:59.500 Well, that's a million.

01:13:00.200 They're probably on welfare.

01:13:03.500 You can't navigate a workplace, can you?

01:13:06.580 Exactly.

01:13:07.740 So it just seems like it's a completely desperate document from people who know that they've lost the argument, but who insist.

01:13:19.460 Sorry, and who are losing the Muslim vote.

01:13:21.600 And who are losing the Muslim vote to the Greens, but who insist on continuing to be cucked and to give more and more concessions to people who literally want to behead them and subjugate them.

01:13:32.960 Whilst at the same time arguing against people talking about, say, Russia, the analogy is like, yes, if you make concessions, you're like Chamberlain.

01:13:42.740 We've got to be strong.

01:13:43.960 Exactly.

01:13:44.840 Exactly.

01:13:45.580 Well, we can't have foreign influence, can we, in Britain?

01:13:48.580 Unless it's Pakistani or Bangladeshi or Indian.

01:13:53.780 It always makes me laugh when they say that.

01:13:55.420 It's like, really?

01:13:57.280 And they keep saying, we are here to take over.

01:14:00.440 We are here to take over.

01:14:01.540 Leave them.

01:14:01.960 And then they say, well, more Pakistanis should be in politics and should be in the highest positions of politics.

01:14:08.320 And you have Labour leader in Scotland, Anna Sadwar, at a conference only for Muslims, saying that we should have more Pakistanis in positions of power and this is how it should work.

01:14:21.240 So these guys are pushing against an open door.

01:14:23.600 And what is their reaction from the Labour government?

01:14:25.420 It is to acknowledge that this might be a problem, but to say that the so-called far right is an even bigger problem.

01:14:34.340 I mean, there is no argument here.

01:14:37.500 But the far right is, I mean, just going by the polls as well, they would characterize reform as far right.

01:14:43.780 So the far right is just the majority of British people at this point.

01:14:47.600 Exactly.

01:14:48.880 Exactly.

01:14:49.620 Exactly.

01:14:52.060 Preacher in the UK speaking at an Islamic festival in Norway.

01:14:55.840 Muslims have a right to kill non-Muslims.

01:14:58.580 And what the hell did the Norwegian people ever do to deserve to have to navigate their way through this?

01:15:05.720 Well, they allowed open door immigration.

01:15:09.980 And so they will say that they're going to pass a new Islamophobia definition of sorts.

01:15:16.380 And they're going to crack down on Muslims who have supposedly had hate crime convictions that have not been spent yet or been, whatever, allowed to roam.

01:15:28.880 But the definition will, however, still condemn the prejudicial stereotyping of Muslims as part of a collective group with set characteristics to stir up hatred against them, irrespective of their actual opinions, beliefs, or actions as individuals.

01:15:44.440 Here, I want to talk about the value of generalizations.

01:15:47.980 You can't have a conversation about religion or nationality or so many other things without generalizing.

01:15:59.640 And everybody who is intelligent knows that generalizations do not apply to every single individual, but that they are valuable.

01:16:09.280 And if we hear an endless cohort of Muslim imams and people who have genuinely committed their lives to studying Islam say the same thing,

01:16:19.820 we are under no obligation to ignore what we know and what we can see just because some guy is Ahmadi and his version of Islam is slightly nicer.

01:16:32.700 That's just stupid.

01:16:34.100 That's anti-survivalist.

01:16:36.780 And you must be able to generalize and say that, okay, two-thirds of mosques in Britain are probably radical,

01:16:44.400 and there's a bunch of them that are affiliated with the Deo Bandis or with the Muslim Brotherhood or with the Salafis or what have you,

01:16:51.580 and that is genuinely a threat because these people do believe they want to take over and conclude from that that I want less Muslims in the civil service.

01:17:00.180 And that's a good thing to have far less Muslims in any position of power.

01:17:05.400 And it's not an attack on every single individual Muslim.

01:17:08.280 It's merely the precautionary principle in action.

01:17:10.680 That's how you should generalize.

01:17:13.700 And you should say that, on average, this group hates me, meaning that I'm going to exclude that group from the decision-making process for things that deeply affect me and my children.

01:17:23.720 You should be able to say that in Britain.

01:17:26.600 And they want to pretend that this is some kind of extremism.

01:17:30.380 No, no, no.

01:17:31.120 I insist on generalizing.

01:17:33.000 Thank you.

01:17:34.880 In essence, Islam is a hostile faith.

01:17:37.380 To Christianity, to Judaism, to Paganism, to every other religion.

01:17:42.600 In essence, all religions are naturally in conflict because their truth claims are mutually exclusive.

01:17:48.740 And in essence, Islam is a religion of government and power and seeks power wherever it goes.

01:17:55.140 These are generalizations that are true, even if they are not necessarily true of every single Muslim everywhere.

01:18:02.360 And no amount of social engineering from the British state is ever going to change that.

01:18:07.700 And absolutely no amount of tinkering is going to change that.

01:18:14.460 And they will present you with a polite face sometimes, but you shouldn't fall for it.

01:18:18.960 You should be suspicious and mistrustful.

01:18:20.580 If you want to see the true face of Islam, look at how many churches are in Islamic countries.

01:18:26.560 Or, you know, if you really want to be ambitious, look for synagogues in Islamic countries.

01:18:32.340 You're not going to find many.

01:18:34.440 And that is the easiest way to see the double standard that we'll bend over backwards.

01:18:38.960 There'll be a mosque on every corner, but you go to an Islamic country, you won't find a church.

01:18:43.000 Then the government document pretends that, you know, they're going to allow legitimate criticisms of Islam and they have no intention of imposing a blasphemy law.

01:18:54.760 But then you see that when this guy burnt the Quran outside the Turkish embassy, he was convicted and the prosecution, sorry, he was tried and the prosecution service tried to overturn the verdict of innocence and actually impose a blasphemy law.

01:19:16.340 So when they say they're not trying to impose a blasphemy law, no, no, no, we see your actions and we see your words and your actions suggest that you are.

01:19:27.640 And they're going to use this Islamophobia czar in order to impose exactly that in the Fabian way.

01:19:35.620 Wasn't this guy as well, didn't someone come out of the Turkish consulate and try and stab him and got pretty close to him?

01:19:42.960 He did stab him.

01:19:43.560 He did stab him and got away with it.

01:19:45.480 And got away with it.

01:19:48.300 So thanks, home office, but this is all stupid.

01:19:54.780 And I'll let it go here and then we'll go through some of the comments and some of the video comments.

01:20:03.180 Fiktagius says, hope you guys vet people buying tickets and have adequate security.

01:20:08.340 Well, that's why the early sales are limited to subscribers.

01:20:11.200 And if you are a subscriber, try to fill it up with subscribers.

01:20:14.540 And then we won't have to worry because we love you guys and we trust you.

01:20:20.360 GLE777, Forfidas, those pro-IRGC horse riders, are they Shia lunatics or Shia lunatics?

01:20:27.860 Yeah.

01:20:28.860 Good one.

01:20:29.240 What's the difference?

01:20:33.260 That's a random name.

01:20:34.340 Once again, all of this just sounds like yet another segment of women having suffrage far too much.

01:20:43.400 Yeah.

01:20:44.520 Opa Hook says, not all of them, but too many of them to let them stay here.

01:20:48.520 Yes, exactly.

01:20:49.560 Yes, exactly.

01:20:50.200 Again, Opa Hook, I didn't start out Islamophobe or Muslim-phobe.

01:20:55.360 Islam and Muslims made me that way.

01:20:59.520 It's a silly word as well.

01:21:01.520 It's so dumb.

01:21:02.520 It's like, also, like, if you're flying and someone says Allahu Akbar on the plane, I think you're right to be scared as well.

01:21:14.800 So not only is it not a phobia in everyday life, but also when you are genuinely afraid of it, you're right to do so.

01:21:23.060 Yep.

01:21:23.240 That's a random name with a very good comment.

01:21:26.500 Every abuser I've met was an extremely weak person that is being enabled by the cowards around them.

01:21:31.980 Pretty much.

01:21:33.200 Yeah.

01:21:33.400 Pretty much.

01:21:33.860 Yeah, well put.

01:21:35.000 Do not fall for the demoralization.

01:21:37.180 The invaders are the weakest people on earth.

01:21:39.200 They only target the vulnerable and only ever attack one in great numbers.

01:21:43.100 The traitors are the real danger.

01:21:47.300 Hapsification says, the most Islamophobic thing to do is to quote the Quran and the Hadiths.

01:21:53.240 In full context.

01:21:54.480 And then use historical examples from the life of Muhammad.

01:21:58.680 Yeah.

01:22:00.440 Exactly.

01:22:01.460 Yeah.

01:22:02.340 Exactly.

01:22:03.660 Let's look at the video comments.

01:22:05.440 Let's look at the video comments.

01:22:08.080 A short quote from layman's brute.

01:22:10.420 I'll just turn it up a bit, please, Samson.

01:22:12.000 11, 19, and 12, 15.

01:22:14.120 Of England they came and then.

01:22:17.160 Thanks, Sarge.

01:22:17.840 A short quote from layman's brute.

01:22:24.340 Written sometime between 11, 19, and 12, 15.

01:22:27.740 Of England they came and thereof they took their name.

01:22:31.040 And let themselves be called certainly that folk that was English.

01:22:34.940 And this land they called England.

01:22:36.940 For it was all in their hand.

01:22:38.560 I think we've found the source of ebonics here.

01:22:44.280 Of England he coming.

01:22:47.160 He a coming.

01:22:49.640 No, that was very interesting.

01:22:51.480 I love these sorts of things.

01:22:53.360 Is that, that's all the video comments, is it, Samson?

01:22:56.300 Yes, well.

01:22:57.100 All right, okay.

01:22:57.980 I'll go through some comments from my segment.

01:23:00.340 Zesty King says,

01:23:01.160 Luca, you mentioned the importance of Magna Carta in jury trials, but that importance is denied by leftists.

01:23:07.460 There's a book by two Blairites all about the myths that shape English identity, one being Magna Carta and how it meant almost nothing.

01:23:16.260 I'm thinking of writing a book of my own to codify a right-wing English identity.

01:23:21.800 Well, I'd encourage you to do that, Zesty.

01:23:23.800 Eaked into that is something I find quite interesting, that they dismiss it because it's a myth, but myths actually are very important for the preservation of a people's identity, right?

01:23:37.500 Even if they're technically not true, they're still encapsulating some sort of animating principle that is meant to be held in common with inner people.

01:23:46.940 They're basically moral in nature, and by saying that they're not true,

01:23:50.560 you're basically saying that the morality that binds your people together is not true.

01:23:56.580 I don't think enough has been said about how incredibly subversive that is to the point of almost an absurd degree.

01:24:06.580 Like, I can't think of anything more subversive.

01:24:08.880 And also, as well, on the one hand, it's stripping and deconstructing and basically just rendering illegitimate your own myths,

01:24:16.500 whilst also, of course, employing their own as such as with the Windrush.

01:24:20.720 Yep.

01:24:21.000 Stonewall.

01:24:21.760 Stonewall.

01:24:22.520 Yeah.

01:24:23.340 Go watch Harry's documentary.

01:24:25.040 I want to watch Harry's work on the culture of critique, which should be particularly interesting in this whole idea of, you know, destroying native myths.

01:24:36.960 Definitely.

01:24:37.640 Thane Scotty of Swindon says,

01:24:39.100 I studied law at university.

01:24:40.720 In my third year, I studied criminal justice, which covered things such as recidivism and prison effectiveness throughout history.

01:24:48.700 In the late 1800s, the UK appointed someone to the UK's prison management who instated a policy of very short prison sentences with very hard work.

01:25:02.020 The slogan was, hard labour, hard fare and hard board.

01:25:05.820 Oh.

01:25:06.420 And recidivism dropped through the floor.

01:25:10.120 The lowest it's ever been in English history.

01:25:12.180 We already have the solution.

01:25:13.980 Unfortunately, that course also informed us that criminal reform is always a cycle and we keep trying the same failed policies over and over and over.

01:25:23.980 That is something that the Americans do better than us, is that they actually put their prisoners to work, which I think we should.

01:25:30.620 I mean, if it were up to me, we'd be sending people out to break granite with mallets out on Dartmoor in rough, harsh conditions, even though we've got technology to do it.

01:25:39.980 But, you know, the process is the punishment.

01:25:42.420 Getting building railways again.

01:25:44.700 Well, yeah, there's lots of dry stone walling that needs done.

01:25:47.380 There's lots of litter on the floor that needs picking up.

01:25:49.380 There's lots of things that prisoners can do.

01:25:50.740 Printing the graffiti.

01:25:51.460 And, you know, if people are proven to cooperate, actually, I'm going to ignore that point.

01:25:58.180 There's a much better one to make here.

01:25:59.900 You don't care if they cooperate.

01:26:01.600 They will.

01:26:02.960 You habituate them into pro-social behaviour that also habituates them breaking out of a cycle of bad behavioural patterns by making them do good things, hard work that is pro-social.

01:26:18.320 And whether it works on everyone, of course, is not going to be the case, but it could on some people.

01:26:24.260 And if it doesn't work, there are other solutions, right?

01:26:26.480 Exactly.

01:26:26.900 That's the thing.

01:26:27.540 And Michael Dribelbo also says from my segment, liberal practicability is just a high-minded term for totalitarian bend.

01:26:37.760 Yes.

01:26:38.160 Yes.

01:26:38.840 All right, you want to go through yours, Josh?

01:26:40.960 Omar Awad says there must be a type of laugh occur for violent crime where fatalities decrease as danger increases because most people don't want to die.

01:26:49.120 I think that's probably true.

01:26:52.760 I'm pretty sure aversion to death is a pretty strong drive of human behaviour.

01:26:56.900 Damn good motivator if ever I saw one.

01:27:00.000 I'm going to go out of the way as an armchair psychologist and say that.

01:27:03.520 The statistic almost deliberately misses the massive lost opportunity cost of not going outside after sundown.

01:27:10.180 That's true.

01:27:11.460 You know.

01:27:12.700 As you adjust to the fact that there is a lot of random crime, there are all kinds of costs to that adjustment.

01:27:19.540 Yes, absolutely.

01:27:21.320 I'm going to try and butcher this name.

01:27:23.720 I'm sorry if I mispronounce it, but isn't it Tulane Sloan?

01:27:28.000 Is that right?

01:27:29.140 Luca, you might recognise that.

01:27:31.580 It's Irish, isn't it?

01:27:32.680 I can't help you.

01:27:33.600 I'm very sorry.

01:27:34.480 Many of the worst cities in America don't report their crime statistics correctly.

01:27:38.400 This is part of the reason for the murder rate dropping.

01:27:41.500 Many murders are classified as assaults and accidents.

01:27:44.440 I knew this comment would come up, which is why I mentioned that it's also a trend across the entire developed world.

01:27:50.580 So even if that is the case, maybe it's a little bit worse.

01:27:54.320 Maybe it's not dropped as much.

01:27:56.460 But I think the overall trend of it dropping is probably true, given all of the different things making it so.

01:28:04.860 I'm not saying it's entirely a good thing, because of course, as we've addressed, there are opportunity costs.

01:28:09.860 But anyway, that's enough.

01:28:10.760 Kevin Fox says,

01:28:40.760 J.D. Vance was wrong.

01:28:45.520 Britain is already a nuclear-powered Islamic state.

01:28:48.840 Not already, no.

01:28:49.920 But if something isn't done, that is the natural conclusion.

01:28:56.340 And part of the government's plan to tackle anti-Muslim hostility is to toss a huge amount of money at all kinds of community centers in Muslim areas, basically trying to bribe them.

01:29:11.200 Which the Muslims will see as paying jizya and will again make them double down.

01:29:16.720 So everything the Labour government doing is to the detriment of the British people.

01:29:21.480 I was just going to say that in the 2021 census, Muslims were only 6.5% of the population.

01:29:29.100 Resume, you know, subsequent arrivals and illegals, it's still a small minority that is being pandered to here.

01:29:37.460 So the idea that they've taken over is not necessarily true.

01:29:42.880 It just makes people feel like they're going to be unable to reverse the problem here.

01:29:47.600 But who knows as well how much the problem will be exacerbated when we inevitably end up taking in a lot of Iranians as well, who are probably on the way to Europe right now.

01:29:58.220 Yep, yep, yep, yep.

01:29:59.880 Michael Dribelbis says, studied the Middle East and Islam in the 80s and the 9th grade.

01:30:05.320 The Middle East is predictable if you simply think like a Westerner.

01:30:09.160 Then just ignore accountability, logic, individual responsibility and autonomy and civilization beyond tribal relations.

01:30:17.500 Remember, Islam does not mean peace, it means submission.

01:30:21.680 Yeah, well said, Michael.

01:30:23.680 All right then.

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - March 09, 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1370

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