The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1489

00:00:00.000 Hello, everyone. Welcome to the podcast of The Lotus Eaters. Today's Friday, the 21st of August,

00:00:05.380 2026. And I'm pleased to be joined today by Brother Nick and Brother Luca.

00:00:10.460 Thank you, Brother.

00:00:11.620 Thank you, Brother. Thanks, Brother Luca.

00:00:13.200 The inner sanctum of The Lotus Eaters is awesome. 0.98

00:00:15.540 Absolutely. And also, Brother Nick, it's always a joy when you're here.

00:00:19.280 Thank you, sir. Always a joy to work with you.

00:00:21.400 Right. Today, we are going to discuss topics such as the invasion of Portugal,

00:00:25.860 the cancellation of Nathan Kofnus

00:00:28.880 and mindless zombies taking to the streets

00:00:31.480 to protest against a right to free speech 0.92

00:00:33.820 and the race grifting that has gone insane. 0.53

00:00:38.220 It's off the charts.

00:00:39.720 Right, we have some announcements to make.

00:00:42.500 Three o'clock today, lads hour.

00:00:45.120 This is Dan, by the way.

00:00:46.920 He's talking about ye olde words.

00:00:49.480 He's going to talk to us a thing about olde words

00:00:52.060 and what they mean.

00:00:52.980 yeah i imagine it'll be uh some sort of quiz like guessing whether or not we know and so

00:00:58.460 just a great opportunity for nick and i to show i mean a bit like a quiz right getting a bit

00:01:03.560 humiliated i like words but i don't like the old part so i might just be humiliated again but i

00:01:07.760 like the idea it's just a lecture from dan about all he's got the top hat and everything and we

00:01:12.820 have to say something before we begin our beautiful topics for today islander six it's selling really

00:01:19.240 fast the uh final roll call for islander sales was going to be monday the 31st but because it's

00:01:27.440 selling fast we are going to shut down sales next friday the 28th so if you haven't bought your copy

00:01:34.240 yet you could just do it um asap because after next week bye bye bye you'll never get it again

00:01:43.740 Unless you want to buy it on eBay for like £500 in both your kidneys.

00:01:49.100 And also it's just £14.99 and it's really great.

00:01:52.460 It has your article in, it has Rory's excellent interview of the economist Michael Hudson.

00:01:59.120 It has, I think, articles by many, many great people and great thinkers.

00:02:03.840 And the most important thing, the most important thing isn't just whining,

00:02:08.260 boo-hoo-hoo-hoo-hoo, how bad, S-H-I-T-R, how bad things are. It's also about what is to be done.

00:02:16.100 It's about solutions, not just endless whining. And that's why I like it and that's why I'll read it.

00:02:22.180 Right. So, should we go to the first segment? Yeah, okay then.

00:02:28.340 All right, ladies and gentlemen. So here at the Lotus Eaters, obviously, being based in Britain,

00:02:32.980 And, you know, we cover British politics the majority of cases of the time, and we also cover America as well.

00:02:40.180 But I think it's very important that we also keep an eye on the continental situation as well.

00:02:46.540 You know, and we often make segments just talking about the plight of Germany or how things go into the dogs in France.

00:02:52.880 I mean, you know, more than usual in the French Revolution sort of way. 0.75

00:02:57.260 And of course, just the demographic problems facing Europe, in which the Europeans find themselves being replaced in their ancestral homelands.

00:03:06.780 And this led some of our Portuguese followers to kind of reach out on Twitter and say, well, would you mind doing something to cover the situation going on in Portugal right now?

00:03:18.240 And as a man who is very proud of the Anglo-Portuguese alliance, the oldest alliance between two countries in the world, having begun in 1386,

00:03:29.200 yes, I will be more than happy to do my Anglo duty and support my Portuguese allies in this struggle.

00:03:37.180 And I've done a little bit more as well when it comes to the literature series as well,

00:03:41.800 because in part one of Lord Byron's Childe Harold's pilgrimage, Byron spent a lot of time

00:03:48.120 during the Napoleonic Wars traveling around Portugal and Spain. And one of the things that

00:03:54.480 is common in the philosophy of Childe Harold's pilgrimage, and something that I think can really

00:04:01.820 resonate with those these days, is the idea of no more brother wars. Let's not just have loads

00:04:08.380 of Europeans stacking up armies against one another

00:04:11.120 and trying to constantly cripple one another. 0.94

00:04:13.660 Let's recognise the fact that we actually have

00:04:15.940 a shared common Western heritage 0.86

00:04:17.760 and the fact that, unlike America,

00:04:20.200 we are all a part of the old world, right?

00:04:23.440 That's what the EU's all about, of course.

00:04:25.460 Yes.

00:04:25.840 European Union.

00:04:26.860 Yeah, you see, but the European Union

00:04:29.660 has a slight problem with the fact 0.65

00:04:31.760 that the Union consists of Europeans

00:04:33.720 and they obviously seek to change that.

00:04:37.460 They think European identity is world identity, which is just not how it works.

00:04:42.900 You can't have an identity that is completely all-inclusive.

00:04:46.940 An identity has to exclude something.

00:04:49.480 Yeah, of course not.

00:04:50.380 But one of the things that Byron invokes in the first canto of this poem is the fact that the Portuguese really need to return to their old strength.

00:04:59.580 And this was something that was said 200 years ago.

00:05:01.960 And it's something that is also true now, though, of course, in very different circumstances to when Byron was writing about it.

00:05:10.040 And so the question is, OK, well, what is the quantity of foreign residency in Portugal?

00:05:17.980 Now, as you can see from the space of 2021 up to 2025, this rose very, very rapidly.

00:05:26.240 This rose very, very rapidly indeed.

00:05:28.380 And for the longest time, even as Germany and France and we here in England were going under with enormous demographic transformation over a prolonged period of many, many decades, well, Portugal hadn't quite been there yet, actually.

00:05:45.380 Portugal had kept something of its homogeneity.

00:05:49.160 Now, there are problems with the data, because so as we see here, it's basically pointing towards the fact that, well, as of 2025, you had a foreign population of about 14%.

00:06:02.880 This is, of course, not taking into account the fact that not everyone who was already there was ethnically Portuguese, because the Portuguese constitution prohibits them from taking ethnic and racial data in that way.

00:06:20.200 And so that leaves us a little bit in the dark as to we know for a fact that there is 14 percent of the population that are foreign nationals.

00:06:28.680 But that doesn't speak to all of those people who have been given Portuguese citizenship, who are obviously from many, many disparate places, with the largest quantity of those being from Brazil for obvious historical reasons.

00:06:45.620 But as we go into it, it is genuinely dizzying to consider.

00:06:51.420 Obviously, as you can see there, it was going up, and Portugal is a country of only about 10 to 11 million people.

00:06:58.000 So if you're bringing in 300,000 every single year, or at times it was climbing as high as about 350,000,

00:07:08.100 then that's going to be felt very keenly, very quickly,

00:07:12.420 in the same way that it was noticeable to us

00:07:14.940 when the Boris wave arrived on our shores

00:07:17.380 and we finally let out of our homes.

00:07:19.360 The Pittington of Europe is what you're saying.

00:07:21.500 Yes.

00:07:22.220 Yeah, the Grand Republic.

00:07:23.700 It's also roughly the population of Greece.

00:07:25.660 And I remember in 2015,

00:07:27.120 where we just had an influx of 1 million people alone

00:07:30.800 from Turkey and Syria, basically.

00:07:34.740 and it was 10% of the population just came there in a year.

00:07:40.040 It's huge.

00:07:40.860 Yeah, enormous.

00:07:42.040 And also, of course, something as well that overnight

00:07:45.960 is just not something that you actually have the ability to actually,

00:07:53.000 yeah, of course, in terms of the welfare,

00:07:55.200 in terms of the hospital placements, school placements,

00:07:59.080 housing placements, all of the other things

00:08:01.420 that are obviously we're very familiar with.

00:08:03.240 And economic, because don't forget the EU's negative influence here.

00:08:08.620 If the EU is strangling you and strangulating economic activity and you can't open businesses

00:08:15.920 because it's constantly regulating you, where are they going to find a job if they are to stay?

00:08:22.200 Where are they going to find a job?

00:08:23.600 Yes, quite.

00:08:25.080 And as we can see here, this information, it's actually not relevant to the graph at the top.

00:08:29.940 But as it says, in terms of country of citizenship, there is a marked predominance of non-European

00:08:35.200 Union countries, which has increased over a period, under the period under analysis.

00:08:41.100 In 2025, among the total resident population of foreign citizenship in Portugal, one and

00:08:46.740 a half million, so roughly 90%, were nationals from these non-EU countries, whilst merely

00:08:53.020 168,000 were from EU member states themselves.

00:08:58.200 Now, obviously, as I say, Brazil has a great deal to contribute to this.

00:09:02.820 But, of course, it also comes from regions like Angola and also, to the surprise probably of absolutely no one,

00:09:12.100 India is quite ascendant as well in terms of the influx of people arriving in Portugal.

00:09:18.920 In fact, I lay it out here.

00:09:20.840 And so you can see they're coming from Cape Verde as well, from Nepal, from Bangladesh, Guinea and Bissau.

00:09:27.100 and obviously Ukrainian refugees as well.

00:09:30.600 But this has all meant that this huge drive in population

00:09:35.040 that has come in in the past five to six years,

00:09:38.760 well, beforehand, it was the case that, okay, fine,

00:09:42.680 well, Lisbon or Porto, you know, the main cities on the coastline,

00:09:48.440 yeah, they would have been very, very diverse and multicultural.

00:09:51.920 But a lot of the Portuguese heartlands on the countryside

00:09:55.280 and those smaller regions would have not felt it as keenly.

00:10:00.640 But now, of course, they will, in the same way that here we find the countrysides becoming more diverse,

00:10:07.980 and those small towns that you think, well, how on earth have you even discovered this place?

00:10:13.020 They're figuring out their way into these positions as well.

00:10:16.460 And so as Diario de Noticias here, which I believe translates as daily news, but I'm going to refer to it as a diary of noticing, because that's what it seems to signal in my mind, is an average of 581 migrants enter Portugal every day between this period.

00:10:38.860 Every single day. 0.72

00:10:40.820 Now, what obviously caused all of this?

00:10:44.280 Well, first of all, let's just talk about the fact that, yes, it's obviously overburdened the public services to no end.

00:10:52.660 And, you know, I think that's all quite self-explanatory for people who, you know, you bring in a population without the infrastructure to manage them.

00:11:00.320 Then it's obviously going to put an enormous burden. 0.85

00:11:04.040 That's the real problem there, the failure to invest in immigrant communities. 0.99

00:11:06.840 Right. 1.00

00:11:07.740 Well, but I'm glad you brought that up because, again, that's the angle now.

00:11:11.640 All of a sudden it's, well, you know, we know that we have an actual native Portuguese population here, but because of these arrivals that once again, I'll come into this in a moment, but were brought in under a socialist government between the years of about, well, since he got into power in 2015.

00:11:30.460 But all of this is pointing towards the fact that you can tell from the way that they write about these things and the way that it's spoken of in major Portuguese papers and the way the entire argument is framed is entirely in the way that the foreigner gets precedent over the native, whether that be in terms of economic gibbs and whether that be in terms of, you know, just, as you say, preventing the social risks of inequality within their communities.

00:12:00.200 Okay, so why are there social risks? Isn't diversity supposed to be a strength, Luca?

00:12:07.240 Oh, yes, Stelios. Anything you say, Stelios.

00:12:10.760 Yeah, that's me told.

00:12:11.880 I love the phrase economic Gibbs, because I know the phrase Gibbs. When you said economic,

00:12:15.480 I thought you were going to say it like a serious word.

00:12:17.640 It's like diversity is a strength. All this is enrichment and all this is for social cohesion.

00:12:23.800 But also, unless you pay, there are going to be social risks and the risk of social cohesion

00:12:28.760 and collapsing. And we'll punish areas by distributing them around the country. It's

00:12:35.000 like, why is it a punishment? We've talked about this. The language is slipping a bit on all of

00:12:38.920 this. Yeah. So actually, to this paper, just to go back to it, researcher and sociologist

00:12:46.080 Katerina Rias, a specialist in the subject, sees the number as an inverse logic. We had schools

00:12:52.800 closing and now they are no longer. The same report shows that the aging population, which

00:12:58.800 is always what they fold upon. If we look at the social security figures, foreign labor already 0.93

00:13:05.120 represents more than 14% of the total. So it is this need for the labor market to keep the economy

00:13:13.160 running. So basically they've arrived at the position which has kept us trapped in this

00:13:20.880 paradigm for decades now, which is we need them. And the moment that you close off the tap

00:13:27.480 of infinite foreign workers, we've tied them up, our model, our economic model for prosperity and 0.99

00:13:34.020 the GDP growth, so inextricably to them that, well, we just can't stop it now. It's too late 1.00

00:13:40.480 to stop it. It's like, but you have to stop it. Because if you don't stop it, you won't have a

00:13:45.040 country anymore. So pay because you risk economic loss. Yes, basically, that's what they're saying.

00:13:54.780 And so to move on from this as well, well, when did the majority of all this immigration arrive?

00:13:59.900 Well, it arrived under the prime ministership of Antonio Costa, who, as Wikipedia helpfully

00:14:05.740 tells us there, just so now happens to be the president of the European Council since 2024.

00:14:12.200 And yeah, he was the Secretary General of the Socialist Party, who, as we know, socialists are always the most patriotic people.

00:14:21.820 But there's also the fact as well that this is the same man.

00:14:24.640 I thought, well, I know him. Where do I know him from?

00:14:27.620 And it was back when the EU were negotiating the EU-India trade deal.

00:14:33.860 And Antonio Costa got up and basically just did this.

00:14:38.620 I'll just play it.

00:14:42.200 then as you can imagine for me just turn it up a bit samson please special meaning

00:14:51.120 i'm very proud of my roots in goa where my father's family came from

00:14:59.620 and the connection between europe and india is something personal to me

00:15:07.360 also because we conclude today our trade negotiations so that um that nice blue book

00:15:19.140 that he was holding up was an overseas indian citizenship um so basically he can just go and

00:15:25.100 be a citizen of india anytime why because of his ethnic ancestry and yet so for him there's this

00:15:32.200 proud heritage, like this blood and soil heritage of the fact that, well, my father's side of the

00:15:37.400 family are from India. And so it's wonderful to be able to bridge the Indian and European markets

00:15:43.640 together. But at the same time, so there's that ethnic loyalty there, but Portugal gets

00:15:48.820 like an economic zone. You know what? On this bit, you had me at socialist because you can

00:15:56.020 understand that there can be relations between two countries, international relations that are

00:16:01.860 in some respects or can be win-win relations. But what I don't see particularly consistent here is

00:16:09.900 him saying that he's proud of his roots while also being a socialist. Because if you're a

00:16:15.800 socialist, you're an internationalist. So you can't say I'm proud to be Indian or I'm proud

00:16:21.000 to be Portuguese or I'm proud to be Indian Portuguese. You're a socialist. You're not

00:16:25.920 proud of anything. Well, two things I want to describe. One is, I've said this before when it

00:16:30.260 came to people like Shabana Mahmood when they say that they're English they they take your identity

00:16:35.900 because if it's if anyone can be English it's meaningless but they retain both their identities

00:16:40.160 so she's still going to say oh I'm proud to be from Pakistan and so on so they get two identities

00:16:44.520 and you get zero that's how it works yeah that's exactly what he's doing there he's absolutely I 0.92

00:16:48.120 maintain my Indianness I'm also Portuguese but being Portuguese means nothing when it's you

00:16:52.220 well being Portuguese means diversity right but for some reason for him he can they allowed

00:16:57.320 identities and you're not, is basically what it comes down to. As for socialists, I mean,

00:17:00.920 weren't old Labour people socialists, but patriotic? That did used to be a thing.

00:17:05.000 Obviously the globalist version is quite different. But if you want just to keep the

00:17:09.560 minds open, you could be a patriot in principle. I don't know if we could make a distinction

00:17:14.600 between the social democrats and others, but generally speaking, I'd say that I find socialists

00:17:20.680 to be internationalists, as temperamentally speaking. And I think also in the old days,

00:17:26.120 But yeah, I mean, you could find people who would say that they're not.

00:17:31.220 But they do have carve-outs for that principle,

00:17:34.780 such as the immense ethno-nationalist sentiment that they have for the Palestinians.

00:17:39.980 So it's not that they're against these things for the people that they choose.

00:17:44.540 It's just that it always comes against the Europeans.

00:17:47.840 And they have zero problem with reactionary Islamists. 0.82

00:17:51.080 Of course.

00:17:51.500 I mean, in fact, in 2017, when Narendra Modi gave him this overseas citizenship, Modi was quoted as saying, Prime Minister Costa represents the best of the Indian diaspora across the world.

00:18:06.580 Nothing about him being Portuguese, like his Portuguese identity, if there even is something of it, doesn't factor in whatsoever, because Modi is actually very aware of how these things work out.

00:18:19.020 Now, this is in Portuguese, which obviously, though I know I'm doing a segment on it, I cannot actually read.

00:18:26.080 You had the whole morning to learn Portuguese.

00:18:28.280 I'm sorry, I did. There we go. Right.

00:18:32.520 That's quite all right, mate. I'll just become bilingual very quickly.

00:18:37.460 So we have this entire other part of it, though, as well, which is a case of, OK, well, why did the numbers ramp up so quickly?

00:18:46.360 Besides the fact that they're obviously being governed by someone with a very globalist mindset, what mechanisms were actually activated to allow this to happen?

00:18:56.480 And we can see the answer here. The government confirms that more than half of the new immigrants in Portugal arrived via expression of interest.

00:19:04.460 So, I mean, this was a great number of people coming in here. And basically what it allowed to do was it allowed for over the past several years, those coming who expressed an interest in settling down in Portugal and finding a home and putting their children to school there and going into the markets or whatever it may be, you didn't have to apply for a visa in your country of origin.

00:19:31.400 You could simply get a tourist visa or become a tourist, go to Portugal, and then once you're inside the country itself, you could just claim that you now wanted, you were expressing this expression of interest and that you could settle down there.

00:19:48.780 And they found that as soon as they did that, well, all of the claims went over out of the roof.

00:19:54.440 And so even now, there is a backlog of these applications, even after this mechanism has been closed.

00:20:00.780 But it resulted in, as I say, an inordinate number of people coming into the country.

00:20:07.680 And as I say, this has now been reversed after the centre-right coalition came into power back in 2025. 0.97

00:20:16.520 But the other thing just to add is the fact that, of course, like so many things, and for example, it's very, very close to our own experience here in Britain, you could say, well, Tony Blair allowed in record numbers of migrants into the country.

00:20:35.960 And then, apart from the fact that the Conservatives actively ramped it up,

00:20:40.220 they weren't going to send any of them home.

00:20:43.260 It's like millions of people have just arrived in your country

00:20:46.100 as a result of socialist subversion.

00:20:50.000 And you're now like, oh, and I guess they're just here forever.

00:20:53.240 It's like, no, you can actually reverse these decisions.

00:20:55.800 You can actually say, sorry, that was something done nefariously

00:20:58.580 against the interests of the Portuguese people.

00:21:01.440 And actually, it's time for them to go home, right?

00:21:04.220 I mean, the Boris wave, for example, is something that should obviously have no place in Britain whatsoever.

00:21:11.140 It's entirely illegitimate.

00:21:13.360 Can you please go back before on this?

00:21:15.760 Because I think that this is important, and I see this throughout Europe.

00:21:19.160 The left now constantly tries to say there is a firewall, a cordon sanitaire.

00:21:25.740 And if you team up with the far right, which means that basically if you want to have a country,

00:21:32.360 you're a bad person and you're not Portuguese or you're not French or you're not German.

00:21:36.620 And it looks like this is precisely what the article you show says.

00:21:42.900 Yes, there does seem to be more cooperation between the two.

00:21:46.220 I mean, right now, Chega is actually, from what I understand, the leading main opposition party.

00:21:52.840 It's been doing very, very well.

00:21:54.500 In fact, I was just coming to that. 0.89

00:21:56.400 You can see them rising in the polls down here as a white line.

00:22:01.800 And also as well, the fact that both of the other two major parties are actually descending while Chega, which I believe, again, sorry if I'm translating it wrong, basically just means enough. 0.82

00:22:16.500 The enough party, which is very on the nose.

00:22:20.680 And I think he's stopped. Stop the madness.

00:22:23.400 Yeah. Just the pack it in party.

00:22:26.580 Leave it out.

00:22:27.240 Yeah, leave it out party. Pull the other one. 1.00

00:22:31.800 And this has obviously put them in a very, very powerful position in the Portuguese political landscape.

00:22:38.960 But the other thing as well is that there's kind of a...

00:22:41.540 It's funny how that graph matches almost exactly the graph you showed before, right?

00:22:46.200 Chega's the white one, right? 1.00

00:22:47.540 Yeah. 0.97

00:22:47.900 And they're rising almost exactly in direct proportion with that one you showed before that went from 7% in 2021 to 14%.

00:22:54.980 Right.

00:22:55.400 Just funny. It's almost like that match.

00:22:57.000 Almost like as more and more immigrants came into the country... 0.99

00:23:01.280 I'm not like a stats guy or a graphs guy, but I did know the line go up.

00:23:06.180 And also there with the parties you show, which I think are the big parties,

00:23:12.900 the blue one, the AD, doesn't have that huge a fluctuation.

00:23:17.080 So it starts from about 27 and now it's on 25, but it's the S&D,

00:23:23.420 which I suspected social democrats, socialists, which started from 40 plus and went to 28 now

00:23:31.380 and took even a dip below 25 now, which is interesting.

00:23:38.660 It is. But there's something as well, and it's not something I've actually put in the planning

00:23:44.360 of the segment, but something as well that I think is really important to talk about

00:23:48.720 is the fact that, of course, Portugal is a member of the EU.

00:23:52.740 It exists within the Schengen zone.

00:23:55.140 And having your neighbours over in Spain under Pedro Sanchez

00:23:59.020 just legalising, what is it, between...

00:24:02.920 I mean, I thought the Conservative estimate was half a million illegals,

00:24:07.280 but it ended up being way more than that.

00:24:09.100 Well, that's a frictionless border between Portugal and Spain.

00:24:14.560 And so not really that considerate of your neighbours, Mr Sanchez.

00:24:18.720 And also, as well, we get very strange things like this, and this is just being reported today.

00:24:24.940 And this is from a tweet from Andre Ventura, who is the leader of the Chega party.

00:24:32.800 It says that the headquarters in the Vora district were completely destroyed by fire under particularly strange circumstances.

00:24:40.760 Everything was left destroyed and the authorities are investigating Chega at the national level.

00:24:45.320 will join this investigation to ensure that the full truth of it

00:24:48.620 is effectively uncovered, a heartfelt hug to all the leaders

00:24:51.940 and the militants of Evora.

00:24:54.220 By militants, I'm not quite sure if that's a language translation.

00:24:58.800 From what I understand, one of these democratically elected parties

00:25:01.820 doesn't have a paramilitary wing, so I'm not quite sure what that means.

00:25:06.060 But whilst all of this is going on, you also have the fact that

00:25:12.020 It seems that, again, I don't profess to be a grand expert in this after looking at it over for a few days as I have.

00:25:22.340 But the fact that the centre-right party have basically closed a lot of the more piss-taking loopholes that the socialists have put in, for want of a better way to put it, well, that has kind of contained it.

00:25:38.780 And in the same way that when you think back to Brexit, there was that dip in voter concerns about immigration because they could see that measures were being taken and things were being done.

00:25:51.960 And so then it became a case of, oh, well, we don't need to worry about it now that they understood the message.

00:25:57.900 But those huge numbers of foreign inhabitants that you've brought into the country are obviously going to grow up, start families of their own.

00:26:06.600 And they're going to have their own cultural identities, as indeed Antonio, a good man who was formerly prime minister and is now head of president of European Council, feels for India. 0.83

00:26:18.360 I'm sorry, if only 4% think of immigration as the most important political problem, that doesn't mean that they don't think it's a problem. 0.98

00:26:27.720 Why does the Chega party have such a big rise 0.98

00:26:33.740 If people don't think that migration is a problem 1.00

00:26:37.300 But that was something that I wanted to talk about

00:26:39.440 Because as well, you can see the way it's framed here

00:26:41.920 65% of Portuguese respondents believe immigrants are good for the economy

00:26:48.560 It's like, okay, they believe it's good for the economy

00:26:52.140 But Portugal is not just an economy

00:26:55.800 It's a place with a history and the people.

00:26:59.200 In fact, a very, very old history that led them to have very powerful deals with very, very wonderful Anglo people all the way back in the medieval era.

00:27:12.580 And Portugal back then was not merely an economy.

00:27:16.800 It was a homeland.

00:27:18.400 And so it is today.

00:27:19.480 And so to frame it only as whether or not the Portuguese believe it's good for the economy, which again is not exactly a settled issue.

00:27:27.820 Now, I can't speak to the way that the Portuguese handle their social welfare system to the same degree that I can speak to when it comes to Britain.

00:27:36.980 But obviously it comes down to the fact that this cannot go on indefinitely.

00:27:42.280 And if 14% of the population now are foreign nationals and we're not even taking into account data that doesn't exist on those who are second generation, third generation, the fact of the matter is that a lot of the Portuguese cities are already starting to feel very alienating for the Portuguese people. 0.97

00:28:02.300 And we know this because, as you say, Stelios, it's being responded to in the political climate with the ascendancy of the Chega Party. 0.82

00:28:11.540 Is it possible they're just behind? As you said, they were a little bit later to the immigration problem. So they'll be a bit later to the realization that it doesn't help your economy. Because Keir Starmer eventually admitted it, even in this country, it's lagged many years behind the reality here. And even now, probably your average normie probably thinks it is good for the economy still. They're probably a bit behind on that realization. That's my guess. 0.62

00:28:30.420 It could also be an issue of the population breakdown of migrant communities because,

00:28:36.180 according to all data, not every community is as, let's say, peaceful as every other.

00:28:46.100 Controversial.

00:28:48.260 Hot take. But as you can see here as well, this was just from the other day,

00:28:52.740 Portugal bans face coverings in public as the president signs the Chega bill. So once again,

00:28:57.700 a bill that Chega had pushed through working in cooperation

00:29:02.320 with the centre-right government.

00:29:05.560 But obviously, when it comes to stuff like this,

00:29:08.480 on the one hand, it's acknowledging the fact that there is a problem,

00:29:12.700 but again, it's not addressing the root cause.

00:29:15.600 You didn't need a bill like this for all of your history

00:29:20.160 because there was no one in Portuguese society

00:29:23.000 who felt the need to put a burqa on. 1.00

00:29:25.440 Right. The problem is the people being here who have the impulse to behave in ways that are totally discordant with the Portuguese character. 0.58

00:29:37.080 And though, having said that, even when it comes to bills like this, from what I understand, the Muslim population are not the highest number of migrants. 0.92

00:29:46.140 So there is a little bit of slop to this particular story.

00:29:49.900 And obviously, the actual thing that needs to be done is to reverse the demographic change of Portugal.

00:29:56.420 Because if it isn't reversed, then they're going to find themselves very, very quickly hurtling into the problems that we now find ourselves almost paralyzed by.

00:30:07.600 I think what I get from what you say here in the segment is that essentially Portugal isn't in as bad a state as some other countries.

00:30:17.060 but there is absolutely no reason for them to think that things can get bad in the long run.

00:30:23.300 No.

00:30:23.820 Or even in the short run.

00:30:25.360 Especially if current trends continue.

00:30:28.360 Now, look, I'm not a Portuguese man, as you probably noticed from my regional accent,

00:30:34.400 but I'm also as well not someone who is going to turn around and tell you, 0.58

00:30:39.060 and yes, because I've spoken about this for 20 minutes, you should all go and vote for Chega. 0.55

00:30:44.280 I'm very cautious of a lot of the populist parties on the continent, and I wouldn't want to see your efforts and your awareness channeled into a party that is actually just another containment mechanism and something that's not going to commit to remigration, which it seems that Chega isn't.

00:31:03.040 However, I will say what I always do when it comes to these sorts of questions, you need to make the calculus over whether or not supporting Chega in the short term allows you more time to deal with these issues and stall the problems before they exacerbate and get truly out of hand.

00:31:23.000 So I leave that up to the general knowledge of the Portuguese audience that are watching this.

00:31:28.940 But I hope that this segment has been generally helpful for raising awareness for what's going on in Portugal.

00:31:36.500 Do you want to read these? Because I need to find a link.

00:31:41.240 Yeah, yeah. Just let me...

00:31:43.960 All right. That's a random name for a doll says when we win and we will invest in migrant communities by building re-migration centers and paying for their flights home.

00:31:54.980 Yeah, I mean, how generous, how generous.

00:31:57.740 Archidoff, two dollars says, why can't all doctors and engineers build their own infrastructure?

00:32:02.400 That's a great question. Two dollars.

00:32:05.160 Fictagius says, these newcomers

00:32:07.320 didn't 0.96

00:32:09.540 sorry, don't find these

00:32:11.180 small towns or villages. Those in

00:32:13.140 power designate those newcomers to the

00:32:15.060 area. Well, that's certainly the case in England. 0.98

00:32:17.280 Definitely. For $5

00:32:19.120 Zitonto says,

00:32:21.240 Dan was propping up

00:32:22.340 episode yesterday

00:32:24.180 replaced by, oh right, I see.

00:32:27.540 Yeah, well, hope you all enjoyed the

00:32:28.980 episode with Ann Coulter, by the way.

00:32:31.460 And that's a random name says,

00:32:33.060 Luca, you're obviously not Portuguese because

00:32:35.120 of your accent, but because you have

00:32:37.140 the physiognomy of a British explorer

00:32:39.000 and phrenologist. Well, that's

00:32:40.500 very, very reasonable of your random name.

00:32:43.040 How kind. Thank you.

00:32:45.260 All right, then. So, Nick,

00:32:47.060 you've got a mouse, have you? Great. I believe I have.

00:32:49.140 Yes. Next segment,

00:32:51.100 then. Thank you, Samson.

00:32:59.040 Great.

00:32:59.540 Thank you, mate.

00:33:01.260 All right. Before we get on to

00:33:03.100 my segment, I believe we should probably plug Ireland's

00:33:05.060 since it's on the screen.

00:33:06.960 And Luca's got an article in here.

00:33:08.080 What's your article, Luca?

00:33:09.020 Talking all about Samwise Gamgee.

00:33:11.620 Obviously, I've written for every single issue of Islander now.

00:33:14.560 I've been writing an ongoing series about Marshals of Middle Earth,

00:33:17.840 writing about a different character from The Lord of the Rings.

00:33:21.320 And in this one, the theme of the magazine was what needs to be done.

00:33:25.380 And so I thought that Sam was a very appropriate choice to talk about

00:33:29.080 in this particular magazine because, in a way, he is not...

00:33:34.340 Well, obviously, he's not some remote, grand, wise power like Galadriel, Elrond, or Gandalf.

00:33:40.940 He represents that call to servicing duty that Tolkien obviously observed in The Common Man.

00:33:48.840 Sam has a very accessible, very down-to-earth level of bravery, and he does things that really surprise him,

00:33:56.120 even as the odds of success seem incalculable because he's so driven by his love of home,

00:34:02.820 his love of the Shire, his love of his people, and all of these things.

00:34:06.140 And so, yeah, it's one of the longest articles I've written,

00:34:09.520 but it's very thorough, and I bring everything to it.

00:34:12.920 Yeah, he was inspired by Tolkien's Batman in World War I,

00:34:16.900 just the bloke that helped you out, sort of didn't have a rank,

00:34:20.040 really very low rank, but a lot of the best people he met were in that.

00:34:23.440 Yeah.

00:34:24.040 He's the unsung hero, a bit like you're the unsung hero of this podcast,

00:34:27.420 whereas I'm the ostensible hero.

00:34:29.380 Which is ridiculous, because I can't sing.

00:34:32.820 All right, well, let's crack on then. So Nathan Kofnus has been suspended by Ghent University,

00:34:38.660 obviously in the wake of the Jason Arde saga, who obviously very sadly died, but people are now

00:34:44.200 blaming Nathan Kofnus because he had a large part in exposing it. He wasn't the only one,

00:34:48.440 but he picked up the story. He's now been suspended, and he says they'll almost certainly

00:34:52.480 fire him. Interestingly, the decision was made by Petra de Souter, however you say that,

00:34:58.260 a former leader of the Green Party who also happens to be a trans person who also happened

00:35:04.580 to get in trouble for using AI fake quotes in an inaugural speech. So using chat GPT and you know

00:35:11.680 how it comes up with fake hallucination quotes. So as Andy Nose says, the person who announced

00:35:16.360 the investigation is the trans rector. He was recently forced to admit that a speech he gave

00:35:19.780 at the university was written with AI and included fake quotes. A very original person.

00:35:23.520 Yeah. With original ideas.

00:35:25.500 There is no moral universe in which this person should be making decisions about Nathan Kofnus, who has just exposed a deep part of corruption in Cambridge University.

00:35:41.380 They're basically saying, yeah, you expose those academic standards or lack thereof.

00:35:47.380 And we didn't want that. We were actually all right with the degradation of academia.

00:35:53.520 Yeah, it's the ultimate war between reality and an entirely fabricated world because Kofnus has

00:35:58.180 exposed fraud. The person investigating him is claiming to be a different sex and used fake AI 0.51

00:36:04.720 quotes. It's like, which reality do you want here? They're going further and further into

00:36:08.840 simulacrum. So as Toby Young said, this is playing out like a woke retelling of the Emperor's new

00:36:14.860 clothes. In this version, the Emperor commits suicide and the boy who pointed out he wasn't

00:36:18.160 wearing clothes, even though it was true and everyone knows it was true, is banished from 0.93

00:36:21.000 the kingdom. Quite apt. And here's the statement. Before he was suspended, he released this,

00:36:27.420 Kofner saying he's under investigation. If you look at the statement, there's some pretty

00:36:31.540 shocking stuff in here. I mean, what's he actually done wrong? Well, they say things like,

00:36:36.260 Gain University stands for respect for human dignity and imposes discrimination, hatred,

00:36:39.920 and racism. Well, one, the usual nebulous nonsense, as if Kofner's going to stand up and say,

00:36:44.920 well, I'm pro-hatred. And the other thing is, it's sort of implying that he's already guilty,

00:36:49.400 that he's done all these things,

00:36:51.740 whereas really all he's done is expose

00:36:53.060 someone who was obviously fraudulent,

00:36:54.760 even though it's sad that he died.

00:36:56.000 Go on.

00:36:56.400 Sorry, also as well,

00:36:57.900 I mean, obviously this is speaking

00:36:59.260 specifically to Ghent University, 0.89

00:37:01.340 but obviously by Kofnus exposing

00:37:03.560 the fraud of Ardeh,

00:37:06.220 well, Ardeh dedicated a lot of his career

00:37:10.000 to racism against white people,

00:37:13.660 to just saying,

00:37:14.680 oh, we have to tear down

00:37:15.700 these systemic structures of oppression.

00:37:17.920 Everything's racist.

00:37:18.640 everything's racist 1.00

00:37:19.620 just another race grifter 0.99

00:37:21.500 yeah 0.97

00:37:22.140 and there's this claim

00:37:23.760 you know

00:37:23.960 the death of Professor Rade

00:37:24.820 should prompt reflection

00:37:25.960 and it's all like

00:37:27.120 yeah but what is this statement

00:37:28.980 I mean

00:37:29.360 what's that got to do with

00:37:30.320 you can reflect if you want

00:37:31.640 but I don't really see

00:37:33.120 what Ghent University

00:37:33.920 has to do with it

00:37:34.620 or what

00:37:35.420 I don't

00:37:36.480 go on

00:37:37.420 no I'm just saying

00:37:38.100 that the outcome

00:37:38.940 of the reflection

00:37:39.700 is let's have a witch hunt

00:37:41.100 against Nathan Kofnus

00:37:42.220 right

00:37:42.500 if anyone should reflect

00:37:43.380 even though they've been like

00:37:44.200 witch hunt bad

00:37:44.980 if anyone should reflect

00:37:45.900 it's Cambridge University

00:37:46.940 right

00:37:47.220 yes

00:37:47.460 and it's like

00:37:48.640 What has Ghent's University got to do with that reflection?

00:37:51.760 You know, you get these yanked, brained people on Twitter.

00:37:54.540 Someone replied, oh, the UK just needs to be cut off completely.

00:37:57.060 It's like, this isn't Belgium involving an American.

00:38:01.460 Can we chill out with the UK thing?

00:38:03.480 This is getting less and less to do with it.

00:38:05.080 Well, to be fair, Nick, you might think that a fentanyl-addicted criminal

00:38:10.420 dying in Minnesota was totally unrelated to European institutions,

00:38:16.180 but that didn't stop the cultural revolution did it so point how naive i was so let's have a look

00:38:22.640 at this which is just a good take on this statement we do not wish to preempt any decisions

00:38:28.100 at this stage in order to maintain objectivity which is why we've issued a public statement

00:38:31.560 that abandons all objectivity and falsely implies that one of our own employees does not respect

00:38:35.360 human dignity and promotes discrimination hatred and racism and we hope lessons will be learned

00:38:39.980 about how we treat people who become the subjects of public controversy these lessons naturally do

00:38:43.780 not apply to Ghent University. When one of our employees is targeted by intolerant postmodernist

00:38:47.980 mobs, we reserve the right to join the mob and issue a pious public statement that loudly

00:38:51.660 signals our commitment to principles that the statement itself demonstrably fails to

00:38:55.120 uphold. Hugs and kisses, rectum and vice rectum, Ghent University.

00:38:58.540 That's a banger tweet. 0.96

00:38:59.560 That's a banger, isn't it? Well done there, Breezy. I found that one. I thought it perfectly

00:39:03.120 says what I wanted to say, so let him do it. Yes, very postmodern, as I said, the whole

00:39:07.080 thing. I mean, a trans person who uses AI investigating a guy for doing his job. 0.94

00:39:13.780 And Rod Dreher says something that I said, which is that the universities will just double down. 0.79

00:39:17.580 So he says, they're going to sack offness you watch rather than cause academia to reflect on

00:39:21.140 its DEI policies. Our day suicide may well cause universities to double down on them on the grounds

00:39:26.020 that if anyone questions them, people might kill themselves, God help us. And I did see it going

00:39:30.060 that way when it first broke. I was like, Cambridge is just going to double down. Even before he die,

00:39:34.100 they're going to learn nothing. After he died, even less chance of learning. The only thing is

00:39:38.080 the pushback against this is now so great. See, this narrative is, aside from the sad death of

00:39:43.520 the actual person. It's a very strange, the narrative keeps shifting. It was like, DEI is

00:39:48.240 ridiculous. We're exposing it. Then when he died, it became, you're racist. This is a lynching. And 0.92

00:39:52.700 they sort of, in the crudeness of the culture war, you could say won some ground back. But now with

00:39:57.220 this response to Nathan Coughness, they've kind of overplayed their hand and everyone's pointing

00:40:02.020 out how absurd it is. So they started an investigation on him from Cambridge and then

00:40:07.900 he committed suicide. So what they're going to say is all this was psychologically harmful

00:40:13.820 for him. And we are going to atone for a sense by being against, by acting against, in opposition

00:40:23.620 to the people online who criticized him. So we are going to double down the DEI policies.

00:40:29.920 And as you say, it's about, I can't remember the word to use it, but it's a collective,

00:40:33.620 Carol Codwell, or whatever she's called, was talking about collective guilt. Everyone in the

00:40:37.920 media, she says, needs to be aware of our collective guilt. So there's this religious 0.92

00:40:40.960 language coming in and this weird self-flagellation that they seem to enjoy. 0.87

00:40:44.060 Yeah, hypophobia.

00:40:45.260 Yeah. Yeah. And Anatoly Carlin said, in a reasonable world, universities would thank

00:40:51.120 Kofnus for exposing our day and investigate how a fraudster got hired in the first place.

00:40:55.200 In the real world, they're going to punitively investigate Kofnus for his temerity in ratting

00:40:59.020 their cozy DEI bubble, this they will continue doing until the authoritarian populists they

00:41:06.040 enable come to power and finally do away with them and much else that's actually useful and

00:41:09.720 valuable besides, possibly up to and including academia as an institution. So he's saying that

00:41:13.540 in the backlash, a hypothetical backlash, you end up losing even the good parts of university

00:41:17.900 because the universities have gone so wrong and overshot. This was interesting as well.

00:41:24.520 on the sort of witch hunt of Nathan, no one's thinking about his autism. So he says,

00:41:29.840 hey, Simon Baron Cohen, before telling lies about me, that I made false plagiarism accusations and

00:41:34.420 said without DEI, there'd be no black professors in universities. Did you inquire about my mental

00:41:38.560 health? I'm more autistic than Jason Arde was. Good point. I believe in. No one cares about

00:41:44.360 his mental health, of course. This is how it works. But that's how the extremists work. They

00:41:48.720 constantly frame anything they do as, I'm justified in using violence because I'm in

00:41:54.100 self-defense, whereas you are not.

00:41:56.660 Yeah, the hound, I know, and when they're self-righteous, they're a morally righteous

00:42:00.440 cause, so it means that they're against the hounding of academics, which they're going

00:42:04.620 to express by hounding an academic.

00:42:06.660 It's pretty incredible.

00:42:07.320 Well, there's their academics and there's our academics, that's the way they see it.

00:42:11.340 Right.

00:42:11.600 Whereas from your point of view, I'd imagine Stelios are just sort of the general standards

00:42:16.620 of academia that everybody contributes to, and everyone has a duty to uphold, irrespective

00:42:22.840 of their political persuasion.

00:42:24.400 But this isn't even DEI. No, no, this is DEI, but this isn't remotely sensible, because

00:42:30.760 they could say, well, he was a fraud, we need black people, let's put another black person 0.99

00:42:35.220 there. No, they wanted to stay with the fraud. 1.00

00:42:37.860 Yes, they doubled down, defended fraud at all costs, which is insane. Don Butler, they

00:42:43.120 said you're holding black people's impossible standards.

00:42:46.000 I thought that was a...

00:42:46.800 Yeah, we'll talk about this in my second.

00:42:49.540 Well, to be fair, Don Butler would say that, wouldn't she?

00:42:52.200 Well, it seemed like a pretty far-right tweet to me,

00:42:54.480 but she's saying lying and cheating is an impossible...

00:42:59.600 not lying and cheating is an impossible standard.

00:43:01.760 So this, of course, was after the...

00:43:04.840 This comes after the anti-Coughness hate rally,

00:43:07.280 as Coughness called it,

00:43:08.540 vigil in Trafalgar Square,

00:43:09.640 people like Diane Abbott ranting about Coughness, 0.97

00:43:11.920 and he pointed out how he'd be in danger if he was in London, and I absolutely agree that he would

00:43:15.980 be. Then he got onto this question of, is he actually racist, which is a claim that's being

00:43:20.320 made. Now, Dan Needle, who was quite good facing off against Gary's Economics, who's a tax lawyer

00:43:25.600 and an investigative journalist, he says he thinks black people, meaning Coughness, are genetically 0.99

00:43:29.780 less intelligent than white people. That is literally the definition of racism, which I would 0.98

00:43:34.140 question because I think if he persecuted him or hated him because of it, it would be. But if he

00:43:39.960 just thinks that. That, I don't believe on its own, would qualify. But J.K. Rowling also says,

00:43:44.860 Nathan Kofnes is a racist. No argument there in replying to someone. So that was interesting as

00:43:50.940 well. So Rowling and Needle both saying he's just definitely a racist. Kofnes replies to Rowling

00:43:58.000 and says, Rowling, who is smeared for sex realism, calls me a bad word for applying the same logic to

00:44:02.920 race. This is where we get into the very sticky argument. Is that what she's doing?

00:44:09.280 because Kofnitz says that groups have different average IQs. Is that just racism on the face of

00:44:13.920 it? Rowling says it is. He says, no, you're doing the same as people who say trans women can be

00:44:17.820 women. And interestingly, Helen Joyce, even though she's sort of in the TERF movement,

00:44:23.900 came out on Kofnitz's side saying, this is outrageous. Kofnitz was a whistleblower

00:44:27.240 against Cambridge. Now his university is investigating and whatever the outcome,

00:44:31.260 we all know the process is the punishment. But more on the Rowling thing. So this is interesting.

00:44:36.680 She says, in my view, Kofnus' race realism is racism.

00:44:42.140 Now, the problem with that is it becomes semantics.

00:44:44.680 It's a bit like trans women are women.

00:44:46.340 You haven't actually said anything.

00:44:47.720 All you've said is you've reframed race realism as racism.

00:44:50.880 But what does that actually mean?

00:44:52.600 Is she saying, for example, the study of these issues alone constitutes racism?

00:44:57.240 Or is she saying if the findings were different and the findings were all fluffy kittens and rainbows, would it then be racism?

00:45:04.180 is it because of the what the findings are are uh controversial but obviously the ultimate thing is

00:45:11.760 okay but is it i'm not saying one way or the other but is it true is what the evidence bears out does

00:45:18.240 it seem to be true and that's the question because it doesn't seem a very enlightenment liberal view

00:45:23.780 you know in other areas at least in one area rolling is known for a pursuit of truth even

00:45:28.080 where it's uncomfortable here she seems to be throwing that out completely and it does make

00:45:31.960 think that her relation to the trans issue is more a leftist approach based on rights

00:45:39.160 than it is based on a search for empirical truth. Go on.

00:45:42.280 I think that she is trying to change the subject here and the subject is his consolation.

00:45:50.120 If that's the case, the Ghent University had no problem with his views up until now.

00:45:56.680 So why does JK Rowling think that she has to bring this up now?

00:46:01.160 Well, I mean, okay, it's her view. I haven't read this post by Kofnas, I'll read it and 0.98

00:46:07.240 then I'll say what I think. I have read it and I can give you, 0.96

00:46:11.880 just let me give you this. Just saying that there are average

00:46:14.840 IQ differences between groups on its own doesn't qualify as racism. It's not enough.

00:46:21.560 Yeah, well, I read the whole piece. It's from Feb 24.

00:46:24.280 I have some of my relatives who are less smart than I am. I don't think they are,

00:46:29.160 let's say, less for people because I have a higher IQ.

00:46:33.480 I was surprised that she read that whole piece and just got that he's racist. But this was quite

00:46:37.000 a good summary. I often wonder if people realise they're caught up playing silly word games. This

00:46:41.320 is just defining Coppess's restatements of Harvard's finding to be racism. It's not evidence he's racist

00:46:45.720 by any traditional or sensible definition. Does she know she's not being coherent? And

00:46:50.040 her post hasn't gone that well because lots of people have stepped in and said,

00:46:52.280 I'm not sure you really know what you're talking about in this area.

00:46:55.000 One thing she did was she quoted this summary, which she said she believed it was a fair summary

00:47:00.440 of the article. There's a few things in the article. I mean, one, he published a post in

00:47:05.000 which he claimed that race is linked to intelligence and without DEI initiatives,

00:47:08.760 there would be no black academics at Harvard. So we'll get onto that claim because that actually

00:47:11.880 came from Harvard themselves. It also says he called for a revolution against the DEI devil.

00:47:18.200 And this is also bad faith because in the piece, he talks about maybe some might say better the

00:47:23.320 the DEI devil we know. So he's using a popular idiom, which doesn't really mean devil. Then

00:47:28.240 he refers to it later as the DEI devil, calling back to the earlier point. He was saying,

00:47:32.920 if we start to take my findings seriously, it'll lead to a very different society,

00:47:36.680 which some people might be worried about. But he says, but look at what we have with DEI.

00:47:40.700 He goes on to say, why DEI is so bad, how it's destroyed the arts and many different fields.

00:47:44.820 And then he says, that's the DEI devil we know. So to call it the DEI devil, it's disingenuous.

00:47:49.160 So Rowling says, this is a fair summary. I already don't think it's a fair summary.

00:47:52.800 one on that point and more on this point that he claimed that race is linked to intelligence

00:47:57.880 and without DEI there'd be no black people but then if you actually look at where he got that from

00:48:01.720 he got that from Harvard's internal study which I'll show now so as soon as I can get the mouse

00:48:08.620 working so he actually was quoting in the piece that the Rowling's referencing from

00:48:15.920 Coughness he was quoting from New Criterion which was quoting from Harvard's internal study so it's

00:48:21.640 a bit complicated but I'll just give you the quote because it's so far down which is if Harvard

00:48:25.800 admitted students based on their academic qualifications alone Harvard would be 43%

00:48:29.960 Asian 38.4% white 0.7% black I think it was actually 0.67 and 2.4% Hispanic according to a

00:48:37.720 2013 study by Harvard's Office of Institutional Research so it's their own study instead Harvard's

00:48:44.320 undergraduates in 2013 were 43.2% white 18.7% Asian 10.5% black and 9.5% Hispanic

00:48:51.220 and I think now Kofner said their undergraduates were 14% the other day so it may have gone up since

00:48:57.780 2013 but this is all from Harvard's own data and we all know and this only came out because there

00:49:05.120 was a case where Harvard were seemingly discriminating against Asian candidates

00:49:09.540 because there were too many Asians so to speak so they had to then mark them down for their

00:49:13.400 personalities and this all comes out this data from that case so when Rowling is talking about

00:49:19.920 that's just racist. Like, well, are you calling the Asians that protested this racist? Are you

00:49:24.620 calling Harvard racist? Are you saying that Harvard is racist for its own study of itself,

00:49:29.340 its own internal study in 2013? You see, so it doesn't really, you know, you can, perhaps there

00:49:34.200 are people, you can make a case about Kofnus, but based on the evidence she's presented,

00:49:38.360 I don't think it's alone is enough to say. Sorry, go on, Stelius. Please. Oh, I was just

00:49:43.240 going to say that this whole thing about whether or not Kofnus is or is not racist, it's like, 0.57

00:49:49.320 is immaterial. He performed a public good to academia by highlighting a fraud that the rest

00:49:56.460 of the establishment were desperate to hold in place, even as it was going to lead to, I mean,

00:50:03.480 in what position was he to critique the standards of his students? In what position was he to lecture

00:50:09.480 them and take money from them for the university? All of these things. So irrespective of any of

00:50:15.940 that to do with Kofnus, it doesn't make it illegitimate. 1.00

00:50:20.860 Illegitimise, yeah. 1.00

00:50:21.560 Yeah, to be fair.

00:50:22.320 Illegitimise what he did.

00:50:23.300 To be fair.

00:50:23.600 Which feels like the angle that a lot of them are trying to do.

00:50:27.600 Yeah, and Rowling did point that out, but a lot of them haven't.

00:50:29.280 Yeah, she said two things can be true at once.

00:50:31.800 He can be racist and he can also, and it's also true that Arde made all these claims.

00:50:37.700 So she is aware of that, but lots of people are just going all in, he's racist, so it 0.92

00:50:40.760 doesn't matter, he's evil.

00:50:41.760 But it also shows something extra that there are many more people within academia who have plagiarized and they want to make an example out of Kofnas in order to tell others to send the message across to other academics, do not investigate for plagiarism.

00:51:00.440 So I would say that they could look at this as a good thing and unleash the AI programs that, yes, are not fail-safe, but in this case, yeah, I mean, when you have 100 plus passages that are just copy-pasted, there's zero doubt. Let's be honest, zero doubt. So yeah, let's start checking people.

00:51:19.580 They're closing ranks on DEI, but also on plagiarism.

00:51:21.940 That's interesting.

00:51:23.880 So one quite funny thing.

00:51:25.660 I know it's like a sidebar from the whole R.D. Kofnus thing, the Rowling thing.

00:51:30.800 It's a side quest.

00:51:31.420 It's just an interesting side quest that Harry Potter lore is deeply hereditary.

00:51:37.080 So Carlin says, J.K. Rowling named the only Chinese character in Harry Potter Cho Chang.

00:51:42.320 I had to check that because I'm not a Harry Potter guy. 1.00

00:51:44.280 It's true. 0.73

00:51:45.520 J.K. made her goblins a walking anti-Semitic caricature.

00:51:47.880 that's debatable

00:51:49.180 I've heard that debated

00:51:50.160 JK made magic abilities heritable

00:51:52.300 and had all the most powerful magic users be men

00:51:54.320 that is actually

00:51:55.280 I also had an Irish character

00:51:58.160 Seamus O Finnegan

00:51:59.340 being interested with pyrotechnics and explosions

00:52:02.660 so I'm a big fan of your work

00:52:05.540 Miss Rowling

00:52:06.160 I really am

00:52:06.840 I love the stereotype

00:52:06.980 but yeah

00:52:07.360 I mean the fact that only certain men can have magic

00:52:09.940 and this has led someone to say quite amusingly

00:52:13.380 Rowling's next book 0.91

00:52:14.240 Hogwarts implements a DEI program for muggles 0.99

00:52:16.360 because it's only prejudicial attitudes

00:52:17.700 holding them back from learning magic. They can't learn magic by genetics. So it's pretty funny that

00:52:23.320 her world is so rigorously hereditary. Anyway, on this point of Coughness, what does he actually

00:52:31.520 believe? In a recent interview with Winston Marshall, he advocates a quota system, which I

00:52:37.980 think in 2024, in that article, it sounded like he wasn't, but he may have revolved on this. But

00:52:41.900 it doesn't sound like a straightforward racist, because why would he bother to try and ameliorate

00:52:46.780 his own findings, much in the way that Charles Murray did. So here's what I mean. He ends up

00:52:52.120 suggesting a quota system. Historical injustice. Now, what I would advocate under certain

00:52:59.560 circumstances for certain positions is a quota system. So affirmative action?

00:53:05.980 You can call it a... But affirmative action, the way that that policy normally... That normally

00:53:13.460 means you kind of engage in funny business to to give people extra points i'm saying just

00:53:20.300 if you make a decision what level of representation you want if it's really important to have some

00:53:27.220 level of representation of different racial groups so that everybody feels that they're

00:53:33.060 participating in society that every group feels that they're they have a stake in our collective

00:53:39.840 fate then just say we're gonna have this x percent set aside for this group but what do

00:53:46.920 i obviously have philosophical differences uh with coffee i'm obviously not very familiar with

00:53:53.220 his work and i'm i'm not here to like you know be confrontational with the gentleman but the idea

00:53:58.440 that there is some sort of like collective uh unity that all of these different minority groups

00:54:04.580 and the majority population are working towards just doesn't seem to hold true,

00:54:09.760 especially given the case with Arde, where what we're just seeing is a bunch of people of African

00:54:15.760 heritage in Britain siding with him, irrespective of the obvious standards that he was failing at,

00:54:21.840 just purely out of ethnic solidarity. And that speaks to the fact that there isn't actually a

00:54:26.480 common vision here and that representation within academic circles isn't all done for the same

00:54:34.060 reason of upholding these standards. Can we scroll down just a bit to see

00:54:38.700 when this was published? Well, this is very recent.

00:54:40.780 Because I'm sure- I watched it just a day.

00:54:42.300 But I'm sure, yeah. Okay. So it's 12 days ago. I think if you ask him now, most probably it's

00:54:48.220 not going to be his position. So I'm not trashing him. I'm just saying that-

00:54:52.460 It's 12 days ago.

00:54:53.500 Yeah. It's not yesterday. He was sacked yesterday. So it's totally understandable

00:54:59.820 from the perspective of an academic who doesn't have tenure, I don't think he had tenure in Ghent,

00:55:05.900 to try to be a bit diplomatic when especially he is in the center of public attention.

00:55:13.660 Honestly, I don't think that there should be any quota system, but I think right now,

00:55:19.580 he says this to be diplomatic. And I'd understand that I wouldn't hold that against him. But if

00:55:24.700 people ask him now, there is a chance that this isn't going to be his position.

00:55:29.180 I was just saying he, well, two things. I mean, one, I don't think his quota system would

00:55:33.260 work because the one issue with DEI is people say, well, you're just a DEI hire,

00:55:37.420 so it has no prestige and people think it's fraudulent. But if you had an explicit quote

00:55:41.500 system, surely people would just say, well, you're just a quota hire and it's the same problem. So

00:55:44.860 I don't think it solves that. It may solve all the problems. It is the same.

00:55:47.020 But the other thing is my point was merely what I see in a lot of his writing is it's not a

00:55:52.860 straightforward racist. You're just like, ah, I'm better than you. It's how can we ameliorate

00:55:57.500 these problems. That's the only reason I brought this up. Much as Charles Murray had certain

00:56:00.940 findings, he said, right, what can we do in society to ameliorate this? But that didn't

00:56:05.600 matter. He still got cancelled. Everyone screamed at him. Now, I'm not that familiar with Coffs'

00:56:09.540 work. And as an English graduate, I can't understand stats and things anyway. But what

00:56:13.100 I can do is, look, are people bad faith when they're just automatically calling them racist?

00:56:17.200 Would a racist bother to be saying, right, what can we do about this? Perhaps not. So,

00:56:22.160 you know i'm just gonna make a fair case anyway the future of academia um is is interesting in

00:56:29.680 light of how they're responding to all this so academia this person says faces a potential

00:56:33.780 extinction extinction level event if it's established exposing academic plagiarism

00:56:37.820 in a public article means you're fired it would be like a fired department firing the guy who

00:56:41.740 points out they don't have any water so they're blaming the people who are coughing this he's the

00:56:46.200 one saying hey look at all the plagiarism and they're like right we're getting rid of you

00:56:48.900 That's a disaster for academia.

00:56:50.840 And someone else in the same thread added to that and said,

00:56:54.460 if conversations here are at all indicative,

00:56:56.540 a clear majority of the Oxford humanities professor remains somewhere on the DEI to RDA spectrum.

00:57:01.660 They feel the only lessons to be taken from this are more pastoral care for professors,

00:57:05.780 bans on research like conferences, and a redubbing of DEI efforts to oppose the forces of racism.

00:57:10.880 They're not serious people.

00:57:12.200 The old institutions, no matter how beloved, aren't salvageable.

00:57:14.800 We need new institutions.

00:57:16.580 That's correct.

00:57:17.220 And Carter, John Carter adds, underappreciated dynamic blocking talented white male scholars from advancement lets untalented party hacks occupy their positions, which works great for them in the short term.

00:57:27.080 In the long term, it just created a reserve army of talented white men whose hearts are full of resentment and whose hands are full of free time, or as I call them, my WhatsApp group.

00:57:35.480 But that is, I mean, there are millions of white men excluded from the system now. 0.57

00:57:39.900 Massive problem. 0.56

00:57:40.700 But over the long term, he's saying, well, then you'll come up with new institutions.

00:57:43.520 I mean, Elon Musk could do the funniest thing. Start Nathan Kofnish University. Every topic is race realism. We also do race realism in literature, race realism in history and race realism management. Kofnish is the only lecturer.

00:57:57.220 Go watch my Chronicles on Heart of Darkness, folks.

00:58:00.220 anyway so that's what's going to happen in academia if we're not careful uh if we follow

00:58:07.140 all this if that's the conclusion that we're getting rid of the person that whatever you

00:58:10.860 think to kofnes he was the guy that exposed him along with others and if your conclusion is

00:58:16.260 sack the guy that did that academia is completely lost sad death of jason arday notwithstanding

00:58:22.380 right that's a random name says transrector sounds like a torture device scared emoji 0.56

00:58:29.520 true uh base tape says every leftist cause is based around a collective life lie true your

00:58:36.220 piety is judged by your allegiance to the lie true detractors from it are heretical and evil

00:58:42.280 you committed the sin of truth against the shared lie and this my friend base tape is going to be

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00:59:02.080 Could we please load it as well as the other ones?

00:59:06.580 Are you alive? I can't see you there.

00:59:11.060 Well, stuff's going on.

00:59:12.320 Samson, are you alive?

00:59:14.540 Give us a thumbs up.

00:59:16.200 I might be dead. I don't know.

00:59:18.080 No, he is alive and kicking. 0.85

00:59:19.820 Zed's dead, baby.

00:59:20.520 He is alive and kicking.

00:59:22.240 Samson, the great producer.

00:59:25.400 Excellent. Thank you very much.

00:59:27.500 May I have the mouse, please?

00:59:30.220 Thank you.

00:59:31.640 Right.

00:59:32.940 Okay.

00:59:34.220 Let's talk about this.

00:59:38.260 Right.

00:59:38.480 So, the race grifting in the wake of the Jason Arde saga is off the charts.

00:59:47.080 Literally, why are they like this?

00:59:49.180 It's insane.

00:59:50.040 and the calls to ban free speech are rising,

00:59:56.140 especially in the left.

00:59:57.480 And they are trying to,

00:59:59.080 no, actually only in the left,

01:00:00.860 but they are trying to get,

01:00:03.800 to shame people who talked about Jason Arday,

01:00:06.480 people who judged him and criticized him.

01:00:08.340 And some journalists are literally bending the knee

01:00:12.320 and it's shameful.

01:00:14.120 Now, when it comes to criticism,

01:00:15.960 criticism involves judgment.

01:00:17.280 And I have a quote here from Martin Luther King Jr.

01:00:22.280 You may have heard the quote from his I Have a Dream speech where he says,

01:00:27.000 I have a dream that my four children will one day live in a nation

01:00:30.540 where they will not be judged by the color of their skin,

01:00:34.040 but by the content of their character.

01:00:36.880 Right. So I think...

01:00:37.960 Catchy. Catch on.

01:00:40.480 That's a catchy quote.

01:00:41.820 And we are going to talk about how this quote pertains to the Jason Arde saga.

01:00:48.900 Right.

01:00:49.400 So what I think is that essentially the left has done a complete 180 on it.

01:00:55.180 And I'm happy to see that not everyone has bought it.

01:00:59.160 And I'm happy to see that the attempt to turn Jason Arde into a saint doesn't seem particularly popular.

01:01:05.080 And also, I'm very happy to see that several journalists are bending the knee and they are asking for, they're apologizing for literally doing their job and criticizing someone who was a career fraudster.

01:01:20.780 Right. So what I think is the case and what we see here is the following, insisting that

01:01:26.380 criticizing Jason R. Day for his actions was racism and that he should have been given a free

01:01:32.220 pass because he was black, is to insist that it is racist to judge people by the content of their

01:01:38.420 character and that we should judge them instead by the color of their skin. Because this is precisely 0.98

01:01:43.860 what the race grifters are trying to do. They are constantly talking about Jason Arday as Black, 0.97

01:01:51.780 and they aren't making it about Black representation, whereas they could just 0.95

01:01:56.800 easily say, he was a fraud. Let's get another Black person and put him to his position. 0.99

01:02:05.040 But they didn't say this. So all that he was for them was a Black person. The content of his 0.98

01:02:12.480 character, and we aren't talking about one or two mistakes or lies here, we're talking about

01:02:16.560 a career of lies. The content of his character is completely flying under the radar of the left

01:02:23.880 for them. And I think that this is insane race grifting. Here we have this Simon Woolley.

01:02:31.960 I've been told that he's in the House of Lords. Yes, he's a baron.

01:02:36.000 Yeah, I think basically he's a fool. And he's talking about Jason Arday being lynched, 1.00

01:02:43.600 along with the other fool, Diane Abbott close to him, Diane Abbott MP, both of them fools, 0.99

01:02:49.280 talking about Jason Arday being lynched and being assassinated. Right, so… 0.99

01:02:53.360 The thing is, it's like clockwork with these people. You know what opinion they're going to

01:02:58.400 form before they even say it. Yes. So maybe this person,

01:03:04.080 these two people there need to be reminded that a person who commits suicide commits suicide.

01:03:12.000 Suicide and assassination are not the same thing. Typically speaking, assassination involves

01:03:17.760 someone, A, assassinating someone else, B. So technically speaking, a suicide is a suicide

01:03:25.380 and an assassination is an assassination. And the thing here is that they wouldn't say the same

01:03:32.400 thing if the person who was criticized and received negative public attention was white.

01:03:39.800 And here is an excellent post by J.D. Haltigan, who constantly reminds everyone of this case.

01:03:46.960 He says, to be a prominent anti-racist black scholar is to know you're a target,

01:03:51.720 almost totally surrounded by resentments.

01:03:54.400 Elemao, he is obviously quoting Ibram X. Kennedy, who said-

01:03:59.840 The most resentful man on earth.

01:04:01.640 Yeah, who said the media lynched Jason Arday.

01:04:04.200 And it says, apparently, Ibram X.

01:04:06.500 Kendi doesn't recall when the media and his lunatic DI colleagues lynched Richard Bilkster.

01:04:14.680 But the question is, what would someone like Simon Woolley and someone like Dan Abbott

01:04:22.220 say if we said that Richard Bilkster was assassinated?

01:04:29.680 they would say that we are race grifters that that we would be race grifters right here we

01:04:37.180 have this vigil where everyone is saying let's remember uh his name was jason arday and this

01:04:43.200 reminds me fight club it's like his name was robert polson his name is robert polson it's

01:04:48.760 there's literally a sort of track like state they are going to it's a cult about to sacrifice

01:04:56.940 a goat or something. It's complete madness. Yeah, I covered that on my podcast. I said the same

01:05:01.340 fight club. His name is Robert Paulson. Derangement. Mass derangement.

01:05:05.460 I want to say that I don't see the same energy in this crowd as the energy I would expect.

01:05:13.580 So yeah, it seems to be the case that generally speaking, there are some sensible people out there.

01:05:18.900 Right, so that's a good thing. But what I want to say is that these people there go out and they participate in a ritual that they think is going to purify them, where for them, Jason Arday was only a black man. The content of his character matters not for them. All that matters was that he was a black man. 0.79

01:05:46.360 Well, in the same way that all of the victims that BLM would go on about. 0.96

01:05:51.800 It almost becomes an asset the worse the character is, because then the more pure

01:05:55.480 their dedication and devotion to the cause. Because if it was someone who's obviously

01:05:59.000 admirable, there's not much to supporting them. But if someone that isn't admirable,

01:06:02.120 like George Floyd or Jason Arde, in a way, isn't it more devoted to praise them? 0.91

01:06:07.160 Yes, because you could easily say that, yeah, we do push them forward because they're black,

01:06:13.800 not because they're great. And I'll mention the same thing again. These people would literally 1.00

01:06:20.660 lynch Thomas Sowell in academia, because Thomas Sowell is not a progressive. They would absolutely

01:06:28.220 try to destroy him, as they have done in the past, because he's guilty of wrong think. And again,

01:06:35.200 it isn't about, if they care just about black representation, they would say, well, listen, 1.00

01:06:40.020 this black person was a fraud. And he made us look terrible. And also he deprived this position, 0.99

01:06:49.380 not just from everyone else, but also from black people. He took this position 0.95

01:06:55.860 and deprived it from other capable black people. And I do think that there are more capable black

01:07:03.760 people than Jason Arday. These people may think otherwise. That's the issue. And that's why I call

01:07:10.040 them insane race grifters. And here we're going to mention the bigotry of low expectations. Dawn 0.99

01:07:16.320 Butler, she says, the tragic death of Professor Jason Arday forces us to confront the impossible

01:07:22.880 standards placed on Black people and their devastating consequences. Is she saying that

01:07:30.740 black people can't copy-paste their entire research? Is she saying that black people can't 0.98

01:07:38.020 be fabulists? It looks like this is exactly what she's saying. That's why I said, again, 0.99

01:07:45.060 the race grifting is off the charts. I'm really happy that she got a very brutal community note.

01:07:53.540 And yes, she shouldn't play the card of being a victim because this is a direct response to her

01:08:00.720 point. The Telegraph identified more than a hundred examples of identical or near-identical

01:08:06.080 wording. Between Apola's was the Akhmar's thesis that was passed in 2009, and Jason Arday's thesis

01:08:13.060 that was passed 2015. And to be honest, and correct the community note, the Telegraph published these

01:08:19.460 articles after several academics, Nathan Kovnas included, highlighted it. So it wasn't the Telegraph

01:08:25.680 that identified it.

01:08:27.460 Right, let's move forward.

01:08:29.880 The Committee for Academic Freedom

01:08:31.860 had a really great response

01:08:34.140 against the race grifting of Diane Abbott

01:08:36.980 and people like Simon Woolley.

01:08:38.820 And they said,

01:08:40.060 the Committee for Academic Freedom

01:08:41.560 was troubled to see academics

01:08:43.320 smeared from the stage

01:08:44.840 at last night's vigil for Jason Roday

01:08:47.440 in Trafalgar Square.

01:08:49.160 As reported by several national media outlets,

01:08:52.360 Diane Abbott claimed that other professors

01:08:54.880 had waged a three-year vicious campaign against our day because they just didn't believe that

01:09:01.600 a black man should be a Cambridge professor. Honestly, I've had it and I'm really negatively

01:09:10.160 disposed toward her because she's an idiot. She's an absolute idiot. She doesn't have a brain, 1.00

01:09:18.640 honestly. She's an absolute idiot. It speaks to the psychology of everything 1.00

01:09:24.160 back from the time of BLM as well, when they were issuing their demands to us, to the Western

01:09:29.080 people, in terms of how we had to transform our institutions to better serve them. 0.99

01:09:33.980 There was never once, in those entire years of madness, an attempt from the black community 0.94

01:09:42.140 who were a part of BLM to say, what are we doing wrong?

01:09:46.980 What could we do better in our own communities, in our own standards, to actually garner a

01:09:53.420 better impression of ourselves amongst the other communities that we have to live amongst and it's

01:09:58.340 exactly the same thing here it's no no there is nothing nothing wrong with what our day did

01:10:04.980 whatsoever and the only possible reason you could think so yeah is because you're a racist

01:10:11.140 they've reduced the narrative to its absolute simplest form ignoring all nuance for example 0.50

01:10:16.660 they're basically saying the right wing brackets white media lynched a black guy right what actually

01:10:21.900 happened was The Guardian, left-wing media, exposed him. Many people exposed him. They've

01:10:26.760 got an arch-villain, which is Kofnus. They've got this whole narrative. Arde caused problems 1.00

01:10:30.960 for himself. The left-wing media exposed him as well. Cambridge are more to blame than

01:10:35.240 the media. But these are all factors that are too complex for them. They go, no, white

01:10:38.780 media, evil, lynch, black man. It's gone. 1.00

01:10:41.840 Yeah, we will go back to The Guardian, definitely.

01:10:45.140 We don't need to apply any introspection whatsoever for the fact that we wanted this

01:10:50.820 state of affairs in which he could get into Cambridge, irrespective of the fact that his

01:10:56.360 credentials were entirely fraudulent. And they were happy with that settlement. They were happy

01:11:01.900 to degrade one of the oldest and most prestigious universities in Britain just to get what they saw

01:11:09.460 as one of their guys on the inside of it. That's it.

01:11:13.440 Zach Polanski here calls for the regulation of the free press. And he says,

01:11:18.700 freedom of the press should never have been freedom to own and dominate the press and push

01:11:23.880 constant misinformation and lies. Yeah, I wonder who is guilty of doing this. And I wonder also

01:11:30.240 what Zach Polanski would say if his right to speech was curtailed. He would scream tyranny,

01:11:38.580 tyranny, tyranny. Poor me. I can't subvert the UK. I can't destroy the country from within.

01:11:45.800 poor me, tyranny, tyranny, tyranny. This is where he loses normal people the more he speaks. I mean,

01:11:51.300 did you also see Will Self saying journalist computers should be impounded? Yeah. This is

01:11:55.380 how insane they've gone, but they want press censorship. Yeah. And here we have this guy here

01:12:00.940 trashing The Guardian after he tries to appear as sort of a centrist moderate who is a sort of

01:12:07.860 sensible guy. And he is Jolion Mogham, who's blaming The Guardian for declaring open season

01:12:15.180 on Jason Arday. And he says essentially that they legitimized right-wing discourse against Arday

01:12:22.840 and that they shouldn't criticize Jason Arday because this is up for the right to do. Let's

01:12:30.740 look at this here. It's all of the reporting and inquiry to be done by the right, by those who

01:12:36.440 coveted a scalp, by culture warriors. And to that question, I would answer unequivocally yes,

01:12:43.320 because this was a culture war story from its very inception.

01:12:47.700 And it was the Guardian that legitimized those right-wing attacks.

01:12:52.520 It kicked off what Lord Smith described as a racist feeding frenzy.

01:12:57.180 It was the Guardian that declared open season on Professor Jason Arde.

01:13:03.260 Right. So this is what the left is trying to do now and what they are doing.

01:13:09.100 And this is why what we have seen also with the Democrats,

01:13:12.680 the Democratic Party in the US. If you give an inch to the radicals, they'll take a mile.

01:13:19.480 So what we see here is a completely extremist attempt to shame everyone who had a modicum

01:13:27.480 of self-respect and talk about the truth instead of subordinating it to the purely postmodern

01:13:34.540 concern with power. And actually, it isn't just postmodern, but they want blood.

01:13:42.680 essentially. They want to shame every person on the left who spoke against Jason Arday.

01:13:48.540 Can I just say, I know you've got stuff coming up about the Guardian not being left-wing enough,

01:13:52.520 which is hilarious, but also the idea that Jolly and Maughan is not a culture warrior

01:13:56.500 is pretty absurd as well. These are, oh, it's culture warriors. They made it a culture warrior

01:13:59.980 issue. What do you do? You're the ultimate culture warrior. Anyway, go on.

01:14:02.900 So Helena Horton here says, it was right for the Guardian to publish its investigation and

01:14:08.340 it is wrong that the journalists who did their job responsibly are now being subjected to an

01:14:13.820 onslaught of abuse. This is a correct post, but I suspect she's writing a Guardian article.

01:14:21.680 Yeah, she's a reporter for The Guardian. Yeah, it's a rare W for The Guardian.

01:14:24.960 It's a rare W for The Guardian, but the point is, to Helena Horton, and I agree with what she says

01:14:32.080 here, is that if you cultivate an audience of deranged extremists, and this is what they are,

01:14:40.260 they will persecute you for telling the truth. I saw Carol Codwell having a go at Helena, 0.99

01:14:45.840 and then she had to reply to her. For one, she called her Helen, and she was like,

01:14:49.220 my name's Helena. And then lefties were going, oh yeah, make it about yourself with your name. 0.83

01:14:52.700 It's like, it's her name. And then she went on at length about how she shouldn't be doing this.

01:14:56.100 And so she's having to be like the normal one going, these people are mental.

01:14:59.020 This is common sense. This is common sense, right? This is civilization. But the people

01:15:05.560 that The Guardian is repeatedly flirting with, and the people that Novara Media, for instance,

01:15:10.800 are flirting with, they are radicals who are really problematic people.

01:15:15.700 They made their bed in that sense.

01:15:16.840 Yeah, they made their bed. Right. So let's move forward. So here we have this excellent post by

01:15:22.020 Nick Dixon, who is completely exposing the lunacy behind this. There's a whole new strand of the

01:15:29.000 left emerging who think Aron Bastani and The Guardian are agents of white supremacy.

01:15:36.120 It's true. They were essentially calling Bastani that.

01:15:39.400 It looks far-fetched, but it's actually true. 0.85

01:15:42.520 But what does white supremacy mean in this example? It just means standards.

01:15:48.280 It means that you failed to criticise Jason Arde for the colour of his skin.

01:15:53.720 That's what it is.

01:15:54.680 I saw someone saying almost exactly that to Bastani in a reply. That's where I came up with that idea.

01:15:58.600 It's unbelievable. Again, they do the far right meme. Let's look at this here. So

01:16:03.960 Bastani is having this, and some other people from Navarro Media are essentially apologizing

01:16:11.080 to their people. It looks like they're about to be sent to the gulags by their audience.

01:16:18.040 And because now the radical left is proposing the Islamo-communist alliance, I think we could 0.79

01:16:24.360 definitely hear or imagine, you know, the Islamic chants behind it, the one that they had in the

01:16:31.140 ISIS capture video. So he says here, professionally, I heard, but ethically, I really screwed up.

01:16:37.840 Right. So what did he say? He said, watch this presentation by Jason Arday at UCL.

01:16:44.640 He says nothing for over 40 minutes. It's genuinely impressive to talk for so long and say nothing.

01:16:51.160 This isn't someone who was overpromoted.

01:16:53.180 You can still be smart and have that happen.

01:16:55.260 This is a con man.

01:16:57.120 Right, this was a W by Bastani.

01:17:00.080 And he says here also, I'll be honest,

01:17:02.620 I was barely aware of who Jason Arday was until this week,

01:17:06.040 learned a lot covering the story on Tuesday.

01:17:08.820 And he says, essentially,

01:17:10.720 the liberal intelligentsia like to think

01:17:12.980 they're smarter than everyone else,

01:17:14.680 but most people would hear that and think,

01:17:17.560 hang on, this doesn't really sound very possible.

01:17:20.600 does it. So let's hear this clip here and William Cluston really owned Bastani here.

01:17:30.240 Let's look at this discussion between Bastani and another journalist from Navarra Media.

01:17:36.620 Michael Walker.

01:17:38.300 Yeah. Let's play it from the beginning. It's going to play.

01:17:45.020 okay i would i would weaponize homophobia against the tories right well it depends if we have right

01:17:54.000 it depends if it's real or fake right so i mean if if would you fabricate uh homophobia or racism

01:18:01.320 on the part of the tories yeah no i think that would probably be well immoral to do that but

01:18:07.140 more it would muddy the waters if it was found out that what you were doing was fabricating it

01:18:10.780 that's going to make people very suspicious of any moment when someone makes a claim that

01:18:15.100 someone's homophobic or someone's racist. You're going to force me to defend Bastani,

01:18:21.240 because his hostage video, the struggle session, is absolutely shocking. But this,

01:18:24.840 he's not agreeing, I don't think, with Walker. He's just saying, yeah, I get your point. He's

01:18:29.360 not literally saying, in my opinion, that he would literally fabricate information. He's just

01:18:33.700 agreeing with Walker in general. So I think, as absurd as it is, as terrible as those hostage

01:18:38.560 videos are, you're going to force me to defend him on this one bit of my new show.

01:18:42.840 Well, I'm afraid my condition has left me cold to please with mercy.

01:18:47.760 Right, let's move forward. This is the other, honestly, Stephen Methvin, please blink twice

01:18:54.460 if they're trying to send you to the gulags. Look at this.

01:18:57.660 It's that I wrote, a cortado, and I would like to say something about that now. I've

01:19:06.460 written it down i don't want to get it wrong um so i want to start by offering you know my really

01:19:14.000 very serious and serious apologies to professor jason arday's family his friends and supporters

01:19:19.720 for this piece that i wrote i also want to apologize to you our audience um and i wish

01:19:26.120 i could apologize to jason but but that sadly is is not possible in the week before jason arday

01:19:32.980 tragically died um i wrote a cortado that piece contained many failures of judgment and i want to

01:19:39.380 list them in in some detail here the first is that i was led by the tone of the cortado which

01:19:45.060 is supposed to be ironic and spiky rather than by the topic which really required um sincerity and

01:19:50.940 care and this showed i think four minutes he cries at the end yeah okay let's let's look at the end

01:19:56.880 then.

01:19:57.880 It really doesn't want you to.

01:20:01.200 Yeah, it really, no, but we will watch it.

01:20:04.000 Can I just say, he kept saying Cortado, and I started thinking, is this something like

01:20:06.380 a sonnet form or something, just the name of their newsletter, their potentially named

01:20:09.860 newsletter.

01:20:10.860 He is just apologising for saying the obvious, Matt, come on, Matt.

01:20:13.860 That I wrote of judgement again, and I hope that it will allow me to help others also

01:20:20.080 to avoid-

01:20:21.080 Okay, listen-

01:20:22.080 Get the idea.

01:20:23.080 Okay, you can get the idea, right?

01:20:24.580 So this is not the way to live.

01:20:26.880 right? This is not the way to be. So just come out and say, I criticized him for being a fraud

01:20:33.560 and I was right. And I'm not going to bow down to the mob because that's what it is, right? If you

01:20:40.880 have this emotional reaction and you're about to break down crying from this is just, yeah,

01:20:47.740 it doesn't look right. But also- It's sad that he died, but not that you've just been caught out

01:20:53.340 the mob and is it their sponsors? For some reason they've had to make these weird apologies.

01:20:58.540 Yeah. You wonder why,

01:20:59.740 is it audience capture? Is it their funding? Who is it? I don't know.

01:21:02.940 But also, if it's okay to fabricate stories as the video we saw before,

01:21:11.340 why is it not okay to fabricate apologies? Just a question out there.

01:21:18.140 Here, Novara Media is hosting and platforming investigative journalist Robert Malone,

01:21:26.300 who is asking journalists at Novara Media to stop investigating. He changed this. Honestly,

01:21:32.300 this is funny. Yesterday, he had investigative journalists, but he does say here, you had all

01:21:38.300 the other options. I think that one of the options was not to cover it at all. Right. So,

01:21:43.740 So let's, at the end of the day, I want to end up-

01:21:47.240 That was shocking, by the way, and it got a brutal community note as well, but the conclusion

01:21:51.320 that you just shouldn't cover a story if it's damaging for your side, and this is good for

01:21:55.420 journalism.

01:21:56.720 Yeah, right.

01:21:57.900 So I want to say something here now, because it seems to me that we really need to say

01:22:03.460 this, right?

01:22:04.220 Because we are talking about communities and thriving and minorities and stuff.

01:22:08.820 It's really basic, right?

01:22:11.280 So what I'm going to say is common sense.

01:22:13.240 it's not racist. For a community to thrive, its members must be responsible human beings

01:22:21.920 who act responsibly, right? That's not particularly hot take, not particularly controversial.

01:22:28.640 One of the ways in which, in fact, an essential way in which people grow up to become responsible

01:22:37.300 people is by being constantly held to standards. Now, if people fail to do this, they will not

01:22:45.280 become reliable, trustworthy individuals, and they aren't going to be responsible. They are not going

01:22:53.100 to act responsibly. So what the left is doing, what the progressives are doing by constantly

01:23:00.020 framing every black person as a victim, because this is what wokeness is, it's a hierarchy of

01:23:06.880 groups from the oppressed to the oppressor. It's a hierarchy of groups. If you treat all black 0.64

01:23:15.980 people as victims and you try to tell them that them being black is a constant get out of jail 0.99

01:23:24.420 for free card or a constant, you will have mobs of leftists, of deranged zombie leftists calling 0.87

01:23:31.920 you for having no consequences no matter what you do. It's this environment that is harming

01:23:38.940 also the black community, right? This is treating the black community as a constant victim in a way

01:23:47.840 that hinders people who are black from growing up to be responsible individuals. I'm not saying

01:23:55.500 that this is the only cultural force behind it. Luckily, it's not. There are many Black people

01:24:02.100 who are good, responsible people, and they can be held accountable. And yes, it's not as Don

01:24:09.380 Butler says, that demanding from them to not copy-paste everything and not lie throughout

01:24:16.880 their whole career is an impossible demand. No, that's really not the case, right? So it seems to

01:24:23.020 that we really have to not be allowed, to not allow ourselves to be shamed by the censorious

01:24:30.880 left that tries to tell us that criticizing someone for being a serial fraudster and fabulist

01:24:36.980 is racism. It's not, right? So I will not allow leftists to try to shame me. And yeah,

01:24:43.120 you shouldn't do either. And this is the bigotry of low expectations. This is the progressive

01:24:50.040 mindset that has completely left from Martin Luther King's quote of judging people by the

01:24:59.880 content of their character, and instead does the exact opposite and says, well, Jason Arday was

01:25:06.240 black. Look at the color of his skin. It doesn't matter what he did. Look at the color of his skin.

01:25:12.780 Well, treat him as a black person. And if you don't treat him as a black person, we're going 0.99

01:25:18.360 to call you racist, and we are going to demand apology videos at the least from you. So yeah, 0.81

01:25:26.140 the race grifting is insane. It's off the charts, and people of all races should completely dismiss 1.00

01:25:34.220 it. Right, so Fictagius says, the left are trying their hardest to flat the media with a racism

01:25:43.620 narrative. So normies are shielded from Jason's fraud and lies." Yeah, it's sad that he died,

01:25:50.900 but being sad that he's died doesn't mean that people who criticized him fairly

01:25:57.460 are responsible for it. Let's move to the videos.

01:26:02.580 If we have any today, Samson. Do we have?

01:26:07.620 Okay. Samson requires a second.

01:26:09.780 I can just go through comments from my segment until then. 0.98

01:26:13.260 Sophie Libs says, I just love gimmigrants. 1.00

01:26:15.740 I mean, I'd be interested to see how many you have in Denmark, 1.00

01:26:18.340 because hopefully your country is a bit more sensible about that.

01:26:21.860 Michael Dribelba says, Luca discusses the presence of Brazilians in Portugal.

01:26:27.140 Me, nodding in agreement, stock MPC, thousands, millions, billions.

01:26:32.580 Okay, but how many is a Brazilian? 1.00

01:26:35.060 Good one. 1.00

01:26:38.040 None today.

01:26:38.780 None today, okay.

01:26:39.780 All right. Okay. And also as well, Mr. Tonto says, Chega as a party is similar to reform, but with much more welfare state spending proposals.

01:26:54.560 Yeah, this is why I didn't want to endorse some, because, you know, I imagine there is a lot of wiggle room for them to become a little bit more sensible on the immigration question yet.

01:27:05.420 It's important to make a start.

01:27:06.900 It is, of course.

01:27:07.620 Of course it is. Yeah.

01:27:10.560 Okay, do you want me to...

01:27:11.800 Right.

01:27:12.240 Can I read a couple?

01:27:13.060 Yeah, yeah, of course.

01:27:13.740 My bit, just quickly. 0.87

01:27:15.280 Alex, Rowling also came up with the best racial slur ever, Mudblood. 0.98

01:27:18.660 I mean, I suppose it is true, the eugenicist world of Harry Potter. 0.94

01:27:22.560 Jimbo, of course, it's a trans who led the challenge against Kofner's self-idea 0.55

01:27:25.900 as a key component of wokeness. 0.62

01:27:27.200 If you aren't the performatively anointed,

01:27:29.320 then you may not be who you think you are, 0.99

01:27:30.660 and your perception of yourself will collapse like a house of cards.

01:27:32.580 They see themselves in Jason Arde.

01:27:34.380 Good point.

01:27:35.340 I think Steados said something similar.

01:27:36.520 and Henry

01:27:38.700 if it feels like

01:27:40.000 it feels what

01:27:40.580 sorry

01:27:41.200 I'm struggling with my

01:27:42.060 gum today

01:27:42.740 it feels like what the left

01:27:43.700 are asking for is

01:27:44.480 if someone meets our criteria

01:27:46.080 they are completely free

01:27:46.960 of all accountability

01:27:47.620 because we worry

01:27:48.520 the delusion crashing down

01:27:50.200 will be too much for them

01:27:51.040 yes that is correct

01:27:51.760 that is what they're doing

01:27:52.680 and Jimbo says

01:27:53.920 a side note on Rolling

01:27:54.760 has anyone seen

01:27:56.060 the unlicensed

01:27:56.720 foreign Harry Potter shops

01:27:57.860 are popping up around the UK 1.00

01:27:58.920 as a new criminal fronts 1.00

01:28:00.440 like the Turkish barber

01:28:01.440 and vape shops

01:28:02.260 is that

01:28:03.020 huge if through

01:28:04.080 I'll look into it

01:28:05.900 Big if true. Yeah. Right. So let me read some of them. Derek Power, Lord and Master of Chippies says, academia has very high standards and should be respected. Also, standards are racist. Arizona, there's a rat. If you don't want to be subjected to public criticism, don't put yourself in the public eye. Public criticism is something I don't want to deal with. Therefore, I stay out of the public eye.

01:28:29.480 This is what I said in the previous segments I did about Ardy.

01:28:32.540 It's like, we can't get from this the idea that we should stop criticizing people.

01:28:38.640 They're criticizing Nathan Kofnus right now.

01:28:41.640 What we should take from this is if people can't withstand public criticism,

01:28:49.420 they shouldn't be placed in public-facing positions.

01:28:52.100 And it's not empowering to put them there.

01:28:55.200 It's not.

01:28:56.000 They also did so many articles about him, hundreds of articles about him promoting him.

01:29:00.500 Right. And let me just read the last one. Let me quickly do a Fed check.

01:29:07.880 Jimbo G, R.D. only got to where he was because a bunch of white people thought it was virtuous to promote him based on his skin color and the narrative he weaved.

01:29:17.240 Yeah. And I mean, that's the video we have. He sat there with someone in academia telling him

01:29:26.480 you're the best in the world, essentially a copy pasting. And I will say this again,

01:29:31.880 because it's important. I've said this many times, especially when it comes to academia,

01:29:38.460 DEI is not necessarily pro any particular minority. It's anti-whitism first and foremost. 0.93

01:29:45.780 you can destroy a space with wokeness even if it's a hundred percent white it really is more 0.50

01:29:53.980 anti-white than it is pro anything right three o'clock today we have lads hour and don't forget

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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters - August 21, 2026

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