00:00:00.000Hello and welcome to Podcast of the Lotus Eaters. It is episode 1423. On Wednesday, the 2nd of June, year of our law, 2026, I'm joined by Harry.
00:00:10.600Hello! And also a special guest, Harrison Pitt.
00:00:16.260We've assembled a top team, and we're going to be discussing various aspects of the Henry Nowak case.
00:00:23.420So we're going to talk about the Southampton protest just down the road from me last night.
00:00:27.140um then we've got a bit of uh bit of speculation on why is this happening now why is the regime
00:00:32.640getting squeaky bums yeah why why is this story exploding now whereas similar stories get swept
00:00:38.440under the rug almost immediately and uh then we'll be asking um why why are the police even like this
00:00:44.940why is the state like this how did we get to this point so we're beginning coming at it from all
00:00:49.420angles so uh with that let's talk about the um protests down the road from me in southampton
00:00:55.600last night i i i was very tempted to go along but i thought well better not better not but it better
00:01:02.540stay on the commenting side facial recognition and everything being what it is well and having a
00:01:07.080slightly recognizable face yeah and provocateurs and showing up and throwing like i'm sure i saw
00:01:13.060people throwing romans at the front of some of the crowds which just seemed like yes provocation
00:01:18.560some of that was a bit silly but we we get into that um so i mean first of all if you are a uh0.95
00:01:25.520massive shit lib and you are for some reason watching this stream you may be wondering why0.95
00:01:29.520were the people in southampton protesting and i can answer that question with these are yesterday's0.99
00:01:34.820newspapers um as you can see no mention of um two-tier policing um anti-white bias um henry
00:01:44.640at all just just nothing yesterday i will say it's a bit that is very different today
00:01:49.600uh funnily enough yes let's have a look at today there we go every paper is now covering the story
00:01:59.060so if you're wondering why there we go the iconic photo of the boy being arrested moments before he
00:02:07.460dies um so if you're wondering why people were protesting well that's your answer because uh
00:02:12.840the british state would love to have this covered up forever yes um if people didn't push back in
00:02:18.900anyway um so yes what what's what's going on here so um this is an area I know quite well because
00:02:27.100look basically the way Southampton works is you've got the you've got the university up here
00:02:31.540um and then is a sort of short walk down to Portswood and Portswood is basically the cheapest
00:02:38.020bit of Southampton and so that's where all the students lived so I actually lived uh where was
00:02:44.400it um about here um and the murder took place here so it was just it was just one street away
00:02:51.080so i'm sort of rather familiar with this area um what i did do is i did watch most of the uh well
00:02:57.920i watched pretty much all of the protest actually in real time let me let me just start this rolling
00:03:03.020because we're just going to talk oh dear there we go do i do i max screen that samson does that
00:03:08.400come out clean good that should be okay so um here we are down um in southampton town this guy got
00:03:16.800here a bit early there we go there's the uh the police building now people start trickling so the
00:03:24.680police they've they've got a handful of them up there a few more turning up they know there's
00:03:29.340going to be a protest at six they clearly didn't quite realize what they're in for they thought it
00:03:34.220was probably going to be something like this um for the rest of the evening so so there we are um
00:03:39.860a bit before six crowd starts to grow a bit um a bit more quite a bit more
00:03:51.160um and then it just becomes throngs and it keeps on basically it keeps on growing the police really
00:03:59.760had no idea what they're up for i mean they actually start off um at at the beginning they're
00:04:05.700sort of holding their line at the bottom of the stairs and as you can see not very not very long
00:04:09.980in um they kind of push back to the stairs because of the sheer depth of bodies that have turned up
00:04:14.880for this thing um thoughts on the on the protest before we dig into any of the interesting bits
00:04:21.540well i mean this i mean this is to be this is to be expected the only surprising thing is that it
00:04:26.880it's taken obviously we have a you know the occasional like south port was an example there
00:04:31.860are times when the the rage of the host population does reach boiling point and it needs to find
00:04:37.460some way uh of expressing itself but we can only expect to see more and more of this uh intensified
00:04:43.240further if our elite class continues to force a sort of demographic experiment on the host people
00:04:50.460peoples of these islands a sort of sociological bio sociobiological wager on human nature
00:04:56.280sooner or later people are going to to respond in this fashion and particularly when you throw in
00:05:01.240the kind of politicized two-tier nature of the case too it is more or less everything that they
00:05:05.260told us george floyd was times a times a hundred as well with the advantage of actually being a
00:05:10.860real case i mean yeah i said what they told yes what they told us that was and there's just been
00:05:14.800a book published by passage press which is called american scapegoat which digs into the george
00:05:18.340floyd case i haven't had a chance to read it yet in granular detail uh but you know this is a sort
00:05:23.480of slam dunk case of genuine uh um prejudice influencing the behavior of of the police yeah
00:05:30.020there's there's no question to the actual cause of henry novak's death nor and nor is there any
00:05:35.500sort of um checkered past that we have to dig into exactly he was just a good kid who was going to
00:05:41.680university i mean to put it this way he never held a loaded gun to a pregnant woman's um stomach no
00:05:47.100But crucially as well, even if people do think that Derek Chauvin killed George Floyd either through manslaughter or murder, no one actually ever, not even the prosecution in the George Floyd case, ever sought to establish any kind of racist motive.
00:05:58.620Oh yeah, that's always something that's left out.
00:06:00.480It's something that's always forgotten, whereas in this case, because the police is an institution,
00:06:06.300all police forces is an institution, but it seems Hampshire police as well,
00:06:09.460are so marinated in sort of anti-racist TM ideology,
00:06:13.360they see their own institution as already being compromised and checkered by McPherson and Stephen Lawrence and all the rest of it.
00:06:20.520So rather than policing without fear or favour, they see it as their way to be sort of active in correcting for previous injustices.
00:06:28.420And Henry Novak has proved a victim of exactly that diversitarian drive.
00:06:34.800It's not just the police, though, as well.0.57
00:06:37.120One of the other racial aspects of this,
00:06:39.960the ways in which this case was inherently racialised
01:06:58.540now acts murder perfectly illustrates how in the past decades british state apparatus have been
01:07:02.780fine-tuned to see the outsider to the british as the client and the englishman as the enemy at all
01:07:09.980levels of society and it's been deliberate open eyes and it's been ostensibly to combat racism
01:07:16.140and he points out look it's it's everything from criminal law to employment law
01:07:20.060there were a whole bunch of examples in i mean bbc um internships stuff like that i mean0.53
01:07:25.020Basically, all internships in large bodies these days, they're open to non-natives.0.99
01:07:32.020It's another reason why it's so stupid to describe our protesting this state of affairs as politicising it,0.94
01:07:37.160given that it is already political because this situation was politically engineered by our adversaries.0.97
01:07:41.800What they're basically saying is, stand down. You do not have a right to pursue your interests.
01:07:46.240We have a right to pursue ours. When we pursue ours, we'll call it neutral politics.
01:07:50.380When you pursue yours, we'll call it vulgar politicisation.
01:07:52.920that has always been um tony blair's one of his main rhetorical tricks is that he
01:07:58.920occupies the neutral frame yeah everything that he does is just the sensible normal thing to be
01:08:06.140doing right now because if we don't do it then we won't be catching up we'll fall behind the
01:08:11.160rest of the world and he'll do his like little weird hand gestures it'll do his blades yeah
01:08:15.600oh we know the blades are that aren't that's exactly right that's exactly right like like
01:08:19.540like as i think i put it before like blairism was basically um like like a political maneuver
01:08:26.900posing as a sort of as an anti-political um like merely bureaucratic merely technocratic
01:08:32.420merely commonsensical operation which is which is why sorry i'll say one more one last thing i'll
01:08:36.500say whenever a blairite person or a blairite aligned institution i would include reform uk
01:08:41.380in this now use the word unaccountable sorry use the word no sorry use the word independent
01:08:46.660be very wary because if you were to substitute the word unaccountable for independent whether
01:08:51.460we're talking about the independent supreme court or the independent body of whatever or
01:08:55.460the independent commission on this or the independent quango on that if you put in the
01:08:58.740word or independent obr or the independent bank of england you know substitute the word unaccountable
01:09:04.420for independent that makes a lot more sense yes exactly right i i'd also note that um it's actually
01:09:11.220the it's the police that i've seen the ex-police who are the fiercest critics of that arrest of
01:09:17.500henry novak um yeah it's always it's always ex-police people who people who come out of the
01:09:22.800force or have certainly been in it for a long time that recognize what it is i mean i'll break out my
01:09:27.760anecdote that i did on my chat with karl last night i so as i mentioned i know a number of
01:09:31.780people in police i'm thinking of one guy he wasn't he was in sussex police and he transferred over to
01:09:35.960Hampshire police and I remember and this was this was maybe 10 years ago and he was going for a job
01:09:41.680within the police a specialist role and in order to get the job you had to sit three exams
01:09:46.860two of those exams were focused on skills for the job and the third one was basically race relations
01:09:54.440it was DEI and he said to me in advance and and I wasn't doing I didn't have any public profile at
01:10:00.020the time so it wasn't this isn't for effect he was just basically wanted to prove it to himself
01:10:03.320he said i'm going to go and flunk the first two exams and i'm going to do all of my revision for
01:10:08.040the third exam and i'm going to race it and that's exactly what he did and out of 12 candidates for
01:10:13.320that internal police role he came 12 out of 12 for the two exams which was skills related to that
01:10:19.960specialist role and first out of 12 for the race stuff they gave him the job now he did that
01:10:27.260deliberately because he wanted to prove a point to himself about how far the police had fallen
01:10:30.900and and bear in mind this this was not a senior role it was especially his job within the police
01:10:35.280but it's not a senior role obviously everybody in the leadership of police only got there because
01:10:43.180of their adherence to one consideration only and that is race relations hence this sort of
01:10:50.140bollocks being why friends of mine who've been police officers have just decided no
01:10:54.020if this is the institution i'm part of yes i'd rather drive a lorry because i don't want to
01:10:59.620uphold these standards well i mean it explains why that that weird effect it's like why are so0.99
01:11:05.620many senior police lesbians it's because they know how to pass the exams well that was one of that1.00
01:11:10.980was one of the people i was listening to on the radio this morning he was talking about this whole1.00
01:11:14.320thing and it was like um some some woman who was part of some like anti-racist department within
01:11:21.340the police was trying desperately to justify all of this with stephen lawrence stephen lawrence
01:11:26.100and i just thought what an awful harpy what an awful harpy you are and again my one of my friends
01:11:32.140who signed up for the police he did so he trained from a very young age for it because when he was0.83
01:11:36.560young he was stabbed and he decided he wanted to uphold law and order so that could never happen
01:11:43.700to anybody he must have been disappointed yeah exactly exactly and now he's seeing things like
01:11:48.200this where it's like oh if you've been stabbed they're gonna throw the cuffs on you yeah this
01:11:52.300is one of the reasons why i really unfortunately it's been dying down a bit but i really dislike
01:11:56.320that sort of 2015 era slop line wheeled out by many let's be frank boomer cons where they'll say
01:12:03.500you with your sort of wokey cokey gender studies degree good luck getting employed on that no no
01:12:08.240they're going to they're going to be they're going to be handcuffing you in 10 years time0.91
01:12:11.720because they're the only people who are now entering these institutions if you don't have
01:12:14.500you can't get to the top of the police exactly so you get one of those and you can be chief
01:12:18.960superintendent exactly so you know like yes given that every every other part of our society is
01:12:24.700organized in order to in order to accommodate this ideology people who are specialists in that
01:12:29.680in in that field of studies absolutely right obviously it's a prima facie absurd degree but
01:12:34.040you know the employment market the employment market won't have any trouble soaking them up
01:12:37.760at all no no and what you do is you go to the top of the institution off the back of that and you
01:12:42.000say don't worry i've trained to be as racist as possible i'm a specialist i've got an advanced
01:12:49.060degree from the edward dutton university and yeah exactly so i at this point i was going to
01:12:55.380introduce various arguments to smooth us into the mcpherson report um you know david betts and
01:13:01.280rafe are particularly eloquent on this uh but but you guys have already got there so i'm just i'm
01:13:05.640just going to jump straight into it um so let's just remind us of william mcpherson who died
01:13:10.800peacefully in his bed age 94 um the very senior judge who did the response to the stephen lawrence
01:13:18.380case um that was a few years ago he passed away so we didn't have to see what what britain became
01:13:24.660um but nevertheless william mcpherson he was um you know he was a good man he was a world war ii
01:13:30.700veteran um very high intelligence um and basically he needed it to write the mcpherson report because
01:13:37.960it is so full of contradictions that only somebody of remarkable intellect can make it hang together
01:13:43.340in any way whatsoever now this article here i mean this is an old one now this is spring 2009
01:13:49.940fantastic article yeah it is and i'm just gonna i'm just gonna pick out a few sections from here
01:13:54.820um because it kind of does it so well so so one part of it says the report's real effect however
01:14:01.000was to demoralize further an already demoralized police force which after the immediately after
01:14:06.820the report appeared retreated from stop and searching people behaving suspiciously and watch
01:14:11.900street robberies increased 50 percent so i mean even within a couple of years of this report you
01:14:18.860were seeing the the negative downstream consequences he talks in one bit about how the public gallery
01:14:23.980was overflowed with extremists who would every time somebody was posing a counter point of view
01:14:29.720they would be shouted down and mcpherson basically let them get away with it so it created a very
01:14:33.900hostile environment during the thing um and and to my point a moment ago uh poor sir william
01:14:40.400tied himself in knots trying to explain the notion of institutional racism relying in part
01:14:46.360on great moral authority and race relations as mcpherson admitted he could point to no actual
01:14:52.280instances of racial racial behavior by the um officers involved in the case um but uh yeah
01:15:01.140So thus Macpherson's redefinition of racism, failure to adjust policies and methods to meet the needs of policing in a multiracial society can occur simply because police officers may have mistakenly believed that it is legitimate to be colourblind.
01:15:17.480So going back to your segment, they're trying to go back to being colourblind.
01:15:22.260Well, the Macpherson report was saying it's not legitimate to be colourblind.
01:15:25.600Yeah, because it was predicated upon the assumption that Britain was already institutionally racist and structurally racist and compromised with all sorts of pathologies, such that formal equality before the law was really just a covert way of continuing the unjust state of affairs.
01:15:42.180What you actually need is proactive, curative measures fed through the capillaries of institutions like the Metropolitan Police.
01:15:48.780And so it's just a kind of perpetual revolution that's constantly going.
01:15:51.980you have basically in short you you in the name of correcting for past injustices and
01:15:57.240invisible present racial injustice we need to treat different groups unequally in order to
01:16:02.380make them equal that is that that is the that is that is the pitch it's distilled intersectionality
01:16:06.820think back to the smithsonian like what is whiteness display and it's things like objectivity
01:16:12.840and individualism and all of these different standards which just come naturally to someone
01:16:17.300like you or i where the mcpherson report said well actually if we apply my new article of faith
01:16:23.140because that results in disparate outcomes because shock of all shocks different groups
01:16:28.720have different behaviors that lead to different outcomes when they're all put through an objective
01:16:33.100system uh that's racist and that's bad yes it's also it's also an implicit rebuke to the whole
01:16:39.280line about like post-war immigrant populations considered as wholesale populations having
01:16:45.280integrated and assimilated wonderfully into the fabric of our national life no doubt there will
01:16:50.020be individuals who have done a fairly good job of integrating but you know you will often see for0.92
01:16:56.500instance that the Windrush generation presented as oh just the latest iteration of a process that's
01:17:02.180been going on for hundreds of years think about the Huguenots well when the Huguenots came in the
01:17:05.78017th century we didn't have to reorganize our whole system of law enforcement in order to accommodate0.99
01:17:10.940uh their presence here so it's an implicit rebuke to the idea that so you two are absolutely right
01:17:16.320and and we know and with your characterization there so mcpherson has made it very clear
01:17:21.280that if you are colorblind you're racist okay what does it say on the very next page of the report
01:17:27.740on the very next page however sir william quoted approvingly the assertion of the association of
01:17:33.920black police officers institutional racism leads to officers to act albeit unconsciously and for
01:17:39.460the most part unintentionally to treat others differently um differently because of their
01:17:44.600ethnicity and culture so basically we've just established that if you do see no color you're
01:17:50.780racist but here on the very next page of the report we're saying but if you if you don't well
01:17:56.460you're also racist and that's a shred of evidence presented for any of it it's all just magical
01:18:02.600thinking yes there's no evidence for any of it people now just take it as an article of faith0.97
01:18:08.180that the mcpherson report uncovered this den of vipers that the police were who were going around0.92
01:18:13.640like the kkk hog tying black people and abusing them and lynching them in the street whereas when0.97
01:18:20.320you actually read the bloody thing it's just incredibly confused yes exactly you know he was0.99
01:18:26.080actually as a witch finder general it was him saying look if you do this thing you're racist
01:18:31.100also if you don't do this ring you're racist right now police um you get on with figuring out how that
01:18:37.660works now um you know i would also make the point because you know i i have to listen to people
01:18:43.300ringing into radio stations and hosts saying you know basically stephen lawrence he was an angel
01:18:47.540wasn't he um and all of that stuff well um let me i mean quite another little bit from this
01:18:53.020um for example when the police arrived at the murder scene because it wasn't just stephen
01:18:56.680lawrence there was uh i think michael brooks who was there at the same time a friend dwayne brooks
01:19:01.840dwayne brooks sorry that's that's a more there was a number of people involved in this situation
01:27:18.100hey lotus here's just to give you guys some friendly advice um just you guys don't like
01:27:23.700cover the same like four to five many topics all the time
01:27:31.060it might be a good year to branch out sometimes and do what you normally did sometimes and do some
01:27:36.820other topics like in america because in oregon they have a bill they want to they dispensed
01:27:43.220that bands all agriculture and california you have a guy writing for governor that seems
01:27:47.940chad come on guys there are subjects that i've been looking at like that uh like uh there's a
01:27:55.900guy in i think it might be the uh the guy in california there is somebody who's running for
01:28:00.500the democrats in america soon who's like talking about how oh i'm a chad who loves to go out
01:28:06.000hunting i love guns and i love freedom but i'm a democrat so is this an interesting rebrand from
01:28:11.240at least one of them going on right now i do see like generally across the west there seems to be
01:28:16.940a rebrand of the center left where they want to go like um those those far right people
01:28:23.620they're insane we're the sensible people men you can love us too we don't hate you anymore
01:28:29.760we're not going to replace you quite as quickly you can come over and you can trust us yes i'd
01:28:34.980just like to point out the chat is now getting highly excited because i said that something is
01:28:38.880starting to happen down there don't take me out of context behave yourself next video please
01:28:42.980In regards to Vikram Digwa, I'm thrilled to see a guilty verdict and a non-inconsequential sentence, but it's clear we're dealing with a cultural issue here.
01:28:49.980Those who forget the past are doomed to repeat it, so let's look at precedent.
01:28:52.980In India and Pakistan, blowing from the gun was a capital penalty employed by the Mughals and more, and was adopted by the East India Company and the British Empire.0.77
01:28:58.980The reason was practical. It was a deterrent because it was so dramatic, and also because it interfered with the religious death rates of Indians who required an intact body.
01:29:06.980It was highly effective and so we kept using it. Maybe there's a lesson to be learned there.1.00
01:29:12.980i'm all in favor of that why not make it dramatic
01:29:18.820well the rest of the world may call it pride month but well this is what we're proud of
01:29:26.100it's that time of the year again boys going to be spending a week here with the
01:29:30.820former alerts and maybe enjoying a few beers together and telling tall tales