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Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Theatre for the 28th of September 2021.
I'm joined by Leo.
Hello!
And today we're going to be talking about the BBC's Jimmy Savile drama.
They're deciding to publish a drama about what they did, which I'm sure is totally going to contain the facts and not be...
Something where they try and exonerate themselves.
Also, the government's...
Oh, sorry, we actually changed that to the Lancets.
Very bad two weeks.
They're not enjoying themselves.
Trying to admit...
Well, eventually admitting that, yes, they were hoaxed by Peter Daszak, it looks.
And also, the government promoted leftism, or Kemi Baden-Ock versus the NHS, essentially, in which the NHS and their diversity hires aren't very happy that there's someone based in the Tory party who's calling them out.
So, it's always good.
Yeah.
A couple of things to mention first on the website.
So the first thing here being the article from Josh called The Dumbest Country on Earth.
So this is the country that ranks lowest for average IQ. Where is this?
I think it's Equatorial Guinea, if I've got the correct.
IQ average of 59.
I've heard people say that the way that IQ is measured is racist.
I have heard that argument too.
Culturally...
It would have to be Asian supremacist if it was.
Anyway, but Josh goes into this and he has his arguments and the exploration in there.
There's also, of course, the audio there.
So the audio being for Silver Tears.
And the next one, the next article from Luna, being the normalization of unethical discrimination.
I believe this one also has audio.
Is that correct?
Yes, it does.
So if you'd like the list instead of reads, you can click that if you're a Silver or Gold tier member.
So there's that.
Anyway, further through, let's get into the BBC. Let's start with the nonces.
So the BBC apparently is going to take a look into Jimmy Savile.
The BBC are going to be the ones looking at Jimmy Savile, a man who worked for the BBC, was a nonce.
It's a shame that they're doing it now and not then.
Yeah, they could have...
Now then.
Done something.
Now then, now then.
Oh, for God's sakes.
Maybe we shouldn't have brought the comedian on for this one.
Anyway, so a lot of people may not know who Jimmy Savile is.
I'm a bit too young for Jimmy Savile.
Well, do you want me to explain who Jimmy Savile is?
Well...
Jimmy Savile was one of the original DJs back when music was invented in the 60s.
He was on Radio Caroline, you know, the ships they had off the coast of England broadcasting to the UK. Then he became a Radio 1 DJ. And throughout this time, he previously worked as a nightclub bouncer and stuff like that.
And he actually, apparently, he murdered people.
And he confessed to these murders.
He was never charged.
I mean, he got away with a lot of stuff in his life.
So noncing, obviously incredibly prodigious noncing.
So basically, when I watched his shows, he'd become this mainstay of Saturday night TV. And he always had children around him.
He presented Top of the Pop, so he's always groping young women on that.
You can see in the footage, he's groping young women.
And also, Jim will fix it, where innocent children like me would write in and say, Jim, can you fix it for me to meet Superman or eat some noodles or whatever it was?
And he'd call you into the studio, fix it for you, and then nonce you.
So it's probably just as well that he didn't answer my letter.
Although, to be honest, when I was a kid, I was about six foot two, so I don't think he'd want to nonce me anyway.
I'd be like an adult.
Did you actually write in?
Yeah, every child.
Every child in the 80s wrote to Jimmy Savile.
God, that's weird.
And it's just so weird that he was...
So then it came to light that after he died, all these...
I mean, there were allegations of his noncing before he died, but they weren't acted on.
And people said afterwards, all these BBC employees were like, oh, but he was so powerful.
He was so powerful.
It's like, he's not Godzilla.
I mean, he's not going to flatten Tokyo.
He's just sort of an old, weird guy.
I'm sure you could find another old, weird, pedo-looking guy to present these terrible Saturday afternoon TV shows.
You know what I mean?
There's plenty of old, weird, pedo-looking guys out there.
I feel the BBC has their number.
Yeah.
Anyway, so just to get through some of that, that's a good explanation, but to hammer it down a little bit, is just the first thing here, the first image being a timestamp from just one of the uploads on YouTube of Jim Will Fix It.
As you can see, as you mentioned, always surrounded by kids, which is telling.
And if we go to his Wikipedia page, there's something I found funny on here, which is that he goes through his life, and then it has the honours and awards section, and there's the papal knighthood, which, boy, great embarrassment for the papals who then, of course, apologised and said, yeah, we didn't know.
Yeah.
But he got away with it.
The way it's argued he got away with it is from giving loads of money to charity and having high connections.
Yeah.
And would argue to anyone who would try and expose him that he'd get them fired and shut down and sued.
Yeah.
And also they'd be stopping all these millions of pounds going to, I think, Stoke Mandeville Hospital.
But, I mean, it was really disgusting, the nonsense that he did.
He was given the keys to the hospital.
Yeah.
So he could just go in.
And all the nurses and things knew about it.
We'll get into that, yeah.
But the fundamental thing being that the people at the BBC knew and did nothing.
People in all the institutions knew.
Politicians knew.
He was a close friend of the royal family.
I mean, when have they ever been connected to nonces?
Grand Duke of York over there, I think.
Yeah, yeah.
And Rolf Harris as well.
Pretty much anyone.
If you spend five minutes in Buckingham Palace, you start nonsense.
I spoke to Karl beforehand because he's old enough for it as well.
My understanding is the public didn't really know.
It was just the people who were connected to these institutions and whatnot.
Is that correct?
Yeah.
I think most mothers who watched Jim Will Fix It...
Could tell that this weird guy who looked, I mean, because Jimmy Savile looked like, if you asked a seven-year-old to draw a paedophile from their imagination, they'd draw Jimmy Savile, this weird, long-haired, you know, sort of Willy Wonka.
Speaking of which, let's get to this footage here just to show, and this is what you were describing earlier, which is him live on Top of the Pops groping some women.
So he seems to grope the one next to him from the front, and then the one in front of him from behind as well, which is a thing.
We'll just play this without sound, just to make We're playing it without sound because we don't want to hear the terrible music that we're playing.
Also just weird.
But if you slow down the footage and this guy I think...
Oh yeah, you can see her jump.
You can see her jump and then his hand come around at the front and then the other woman in front of him having to pull down her dress and it looks like he's grabbing her ass as well.
So it's a surprise to me that fewer people knew than probably should have.
Whatever.
So it was an open secret and, you know, the BBC producers used to warn girls, you know, not to be alone in a room with them or to be careful around them and stuff, but...
I don't know why they couldn't just get rid of him.
Jesus Christ.
There's other terrible presenters out there.
Anyway, so we'll go into the reading I did just of the horrible stuff.
So this is a Guardian article reporting on this seven years ago.
And this was an inquiry into the situation.
Jimmy Savile's victims were aged 5 to 75 at Leeds Hospital.
Inquiry 5.
So he wasn't just a nonce, as in attracted to only children.
Apparently he seemed to do this sort of stuff with anyone.
And also, not just alive people, but he used to go down to hospital mortuary.
He had keys to that as well, and he'd nonce cadavers.
Anyway, so I don't know how to describe this, except maybe pansexual or something, but let's get into it.
That's very pansexual if you're also including dead people.
Well, I mean, it's like pan includes everything, surely.
Yeah.
I mean, traditionally, you don't have people marching in the Pride Parade, you know what I'm saying?
Well, tracing cadavers!
Traditionally.
2020-30s Pride Parades are going to be interesting.
So anyway, they say in this investigation...
Investigators say men, women, boys and girls were among the victims, and incidents included three rapes.
Jimmy Savile's victims at Leeds General Infirmary ranged from 5 to 75 years old in age, and included men, women and boys, blah blah blah blah.
The Department of Health apologised on Thursday for the, quote, wholly inadequate procedures, putting it lightly, that followed the former BBC DJ to hold a managerial position at a high security hospital in Broadmoor.
The Department of Health accepts that the procedures in 1998 were wholly inadequate for checking whether Jimmy Savile was a suitable person to be given a managerial role.
I'll put it lightly.
A literal nonce.
Yeah, not suitable.
Broadmoor, in which Jimmy Savile had an association from 1968 for three decades and a managerial role from 1988, there were allegations made by 11 people, six of them patients, two of them staff, and three of them minors.
Two were male.
Investigators believe this to be an underestimate of the true picture.
Patients were strongly discouraged from reporting the abuse at the time and carry that legacy now, the report said.
I mean, anything and everything, apparently.
Yeah.
Which also included kids, because the dude is also a nonce.
So the investigation included that at least five, possibly six, had been sexually assaulted, but were unable to speak in detail to the other five.
Savile had keys to the high-security hospital, accommodation, and unrestricted access due to his relationship with the medical superintendent, who hoped his fame would improve public perception of the hospital.
Well, that backfired at least.
He stopped visiting the hospital when a new security system was put in in 2004.
So all of a sudden he wasn't interested in hanging around there because he'd be caught.
Until the late 1980s, female patients were obliged to strip in front of staff and change into nightwear or to bathe.
Saville watched.
And also looked through doorways at female patients bathing.
The report states, there was no reliable evidence that any staff or patients' complaints about Savile at the time were reported to senior staff.
But the investigation found that there was a degree of under-reporting because patients' concerns about consequences to themselves.
So, yeah.
I mean, that's how horrible those people are describing.
This is just in the hospital that he was allowed to roam around in raping and noncing on people.
It's ridiculous.
I mean, then not to even go to the Top of the Pops, the BBC, as another place in which I imagine he did what he did.
There's also the obvious point of why didn't people speak out?
There are some people who apparently did a bit.
So we have this guy here, Johnny Rotten, and this is an interview with Piers Morgan in which they have some old audio that was never released, apparently.
in which Johnny Rotten in 1978 told the truth about Jimmy Savile and quote I would like to kill Jimmy Savile he's a hypocrite I heard he's into all kinds of seediness that we all know about but we're not allowed to talk about I bet this won't be allowed out and that clip wasn't and now has come to light again and David Ake as well David Icke spoke out about Jimmy Savile.
It was one of the things that is used to give credibility to David Icke because people say, well, he's right about Savile.
And that obviously destroyed his career at the BBC. Alex Jones and Jeffrey Epstein comes to mind.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
So, yeah, I mean, David Icke was a sportsman originally, and then he became a broadcaster on the BBC. So that destroyed his sporting career.
Also, the comedian Jerry Sadowitz, Glaswegian comedian, incredibly funny.
I think he's touring at the moment.
But he...
so he you know he had a the start of a tv career uh but he spoke out about about jerry sad about um jimmy savile uh and he actually on stuart lee's uh tv show he dressed up as jimmy savile and was talking about um you know nonsense stuff so he he came out and said you know jimmy savile is a total um and as a result of that his his career was uh you know curtailed his career um So there was some pushback if you did do the right thing?
Oh, absolutely.
I mean, the BBC is a cabal.
It's an, you know, unaccountable cabal.
I mean, I'm filming some stuff for them, so apart from that, that stuff's good.
But everything else...
But yeah, I mean, even as recently as 2014, so I was doing a show at the Edinburgh Fringe, a doubleheader, with my mate who's gay.
And he had a BBC comedy commissioner basically sort of trying to use his position to get my mate to sleep with him, saying, oh, I love your stuff.
Oh, come to my hotel room so we can discuss it properly and all this kind of stuff.
Just really sleazily sort of Weinsteining him.
And I thought that was pretty disgusting.
That was in 2014, you know, long after the Jamie Savile stuff had come out.
So I think any institution that's got sort of unaccountable power, you've got these people who can completely control.
I mean, obviously, the proliferation of different media channels means that the BBC isn't all-powerful anymore.
But certainly in the 80s, there was only like three TV channels, and two of them were the BBC. Right.
So if you wanted to be anything in show business or entertainment, you had to keep the BBC sweet.
So nobody's going to, you know, come out.
I mean, because you've got to understand, in comedy and in entertainment and in the media, everybody pretends to be a nice person, but they're an absolute scumbag.
Most comedians would let Jimmy Savile nonce their children to get a spot and mock the weak.
And anybody who's actually got principles and speaks out against things, you know, gets sidelined and blacklisted.
That's really making me think about the new people you get on Mock the Week these days.
A lot of the new folks on Mock the Week especially I just find particularly unfunny.
Yeah, yeah.
But they've gone to, you know, a candlelit vigil and drank goat's blood with the BBC Comedy Commissioner, eating the head of a bat.
That's the standard, is it?
Yeah, that's what you've got to do, you know, while other comedians stand around chanting.
Jesus.
Anyway, so let's move on from that, because there was a lady who went on Question Time and spoke about this, and she gave her defence of why she didn't speak up, because she was old enough to be around in a senior position.
Was that Janet Street Porter?
Yeah, apparently she was there in a semi-senior position in the BBC, knew about this.
She's a legend here in this clip.
We're not going to play it, but you can go watch it in your own time.
She says that she knew of rumours, but then she goes on to say that she knew other people who knew for definite.
So it's like, how does that work?
Like, if they know for definite, then you know for definite, surely, if you can take that word, but whatever.
So she also says that she never did anything, and then one of the members of the audience is like, why?
Why?
And she gives this defence, which is that at 10, she was molested by a hairdresser and her mother beat her in response.
So if she had spoken up, this is the culture, no one would have taken me seriously.
Not sure I buy that.
Yeah, I don't think her mum would have beaten her if she'd spoken up about Jimmy Savile.
I think once you're in a position of authority and you're an adult, people are going to...
The comparison she makes is like, well, it's a male-dominated area, no one will bleed me as a woman.
But I'm looking at Johnny Rotten and whatnot, and I'm like, you could have done something at least, surely.
Yeah, I don't know.
The excuses seem a little flat.
I mean, I don't know if, like, paedophilia and general noncing, necrophilia and stuff, was just seen as more accepted back in the day.
That seems to be how it is.
And also certain segments of society, as we've seen with the Rotherham victims, working class girls are just seeing, society just sees working class people as scum.
So it's almost allowed.
If Jimmy Savile had been going around announcing rich people's children in Highgate, then I think the authorities would have moved much more quickly.
And said he went to a psychiatric hospital.
The most marginalized, the most, you know, nobody's going to believe people in a psychiatric hospital.
Look at Terminator 2.
There's another aspect to those comparisons I find interesting, because a lot of people like to bring them up and compare them.
The grooming gang situation is at least an imported situation.
You know, the tactics, the aspect of racial bigotry involved there.
Whereas this is, let's say...
Homegrown, but within the BBC specifically.
I don't want them to get off on anything on this.
I think throughout the world, wherever people have real amounts of money and power and unaccountableness and power over other people so they can make them shut up, they start noncing.
So let's move on just to make the point even more stark.
So the next one is Radio 1 DJ who said that the BBC management knew.
So the idea that they don't is BS. And then we'll move on from this one and go to Steve Coogans to play for the BBC. As Jimmy Savile.
So this is the main story and why this was of interest to me, is because the BBC, after going through this history of basically keeping this nonce under their hat, protecting him, covering up for him, are now going to do a drama about it.
They're going to be the ones in charge of the drama.
You know, the TV show.
And I'm sure this is totally not going to be them trying to cover their arse.
Because...
Hmm.
Who trusts them?
Do you trust them, really, to do this?
Of course not.
I trust Steve Coogan.
I do wonder why on earth he applied for that role.
Because he looks like him.
I'm not alleging he's a nonce or anything, but I just find it like, come on, man.
I'd rather play George Floyd than do that role.
I feel like my career would have an easier time.
Whatever.
So, the Alan Partridge star said that the decision to portray Savile on screen was not one he took lightly, but the series had a, quote, an intelligent script tackling, sensitively, a horrific story, however harrowing it needs to be told.
I really don't think it needs to be told by the Beeb.
I would have thought some other station would be more appropriate.
Whatever.
Channel 5.
I don't know, just not the Beeb.
Like, not the place where he worked as a nonce.
So the creators say that the series will explore both Savile's rise to fame and his final years, fighting rumours about his private life, exploring how the presenter, quote, used his celebrity and powerful connections to conceal his wrongdoings and hide in plain sight.
Yeah, certainly did hide in plain sight by the looks of it.
So, aware from the potential for criticism that they are exploiting, Savile's hundreds of victims, the makers of the drama titled The Reckoning, say they have worked with some of those affected by the presenter's actions.
So that's how they're defending themselves as being like, we're going to do this properly.
I still go somewhere else, lads.
Like, don't do it with the beep, for Christ's sake.
So, when Savile died in 2011, he was initially widely celebrated as a quirky British eccentric who had entertained multiple generations of Britons through his appearances on BBC shows such as Top of the Pops and Jimmel Sixit.
Yet, within weeks of his death, the BBC Newsnight programme had prepared an investigation into the allegations that Savile was a serial sexual abuser.
And to be fair, that's the BBC's Newsnight.
It's...
You know, the BBC is...
Next line.
Alright.
Ha ha ha ha ha ha.
Only for it to be keeping off air by BBC bosses.
Oops.
That's why I had to stop you there.
Yeah, Newsnight did start doing it.
And then the BBC bosses, who have been around for as long as Savile, let's say, and will have been implicated in probably part of the people who covered up and all the rest of it, didn't want that airing.
Well yeah, I should imagine in Jimmy Savile's storage units there's various Polaroids of BBC bosses that perhaps explain why they're so keen to cover it up.
I'm not implying that BBC bosses are all nonsense too.
I'm explicitly stating it.
A year later, ITV went public with an investigation into the presenter, unleashing a cascade of allegations about an establishment cover-up.
Rather than an eccentric, a pictured emerge of Savile as a paedophile who had covered up decades of illegal behaviour using his charity work, links with the police and connections to the media.
He protected his reputation by threatening legal action against anyone who looked into So again, I mean, the Beeb set up the investigation.
The bosses shut it down because they knew it would presumably embarrass them personally or reveal things.
And they had to go to ITV to get it published.
They had to go to the opposition to get that done.
I mean, thank God we do have that plurality of media in the UK. But the point fundamentally being there, why the hell would you run a drama about his lifestyle with the people who not ever covered up for years, but even after his death were trying to cover it up?
Well, at least the BBC bosses now are allowing it to be made.
Yeah, I suppose, but I don't trust that they're not going to have some kind of editorial control.
Yeah, yeah.
I'm suspicious of it, to say the least.
That's true.
What's interesting about Jimmy Savile's fundraising, because apparently it was, you know, he'd said he raised millions, but apparently he was just burnishing that, and it wasn't as lucrative as he said.
But also he cheated.
He was famous for running marathons.
He was always pictured in his, like, gold Lammy tracksuit with a cigar, because obviously he can't participate in a sporting event without a large cigar.
It just helps clear the lungs.
But he cheated.
He'd just jump in a taxi, or, you know, somebody would pick him up and drop him off near the end, and he'd just hop out and run.
I mean, if you're going to be a dishonourable person in all other aspects of life, I mean, why not, I guess?
Yeah, I mean, I guess technically it wasn't the worst.
The only silver lining from any of this seems to be that, if we go to the next one, Rolf Harris was also charged with abusing young boys, which the alleges seem to have been spurred on by the charges against all the accusations.
Oh, yeah, can you tell what it is yet?
Is it your thumb?
The next one, we have Stuart Hall, another guy who was convicted of this sort of thing.
So he's the guy who presented it as a knockout.
So he's famous for this booming voice and laugh.
And, man, it's sort of destroyed all my icons from my childhood and my teenage years as well.
So, what's his name?
John, the Radio 1 DJ. John Peel.
John Peel, apparently.
Not this level of noncy.
He married a 15-year-old and, you know, in the 60s, 70s, he was quite noncy.
Right.
So there's that silver lining, I guess.
But we'll go on from this.
Why is it a silver lining?
The other people did get convicted.
You know.
Right.
The guys came out against Saville and then subsequently these two guys at least were taken down as well.
Yeah.
Yeah.
Rather than it all just swept under the carpet.
So if we go to the next one, we have the oldie reporting.
And this is a guy who apparently is the one who spent all his time going after Savile and getting information in the public eye.
So he gives a summation about this.
And you can go give his full account.
But he says there are three cover-ups in his mind.
So the abandoning of Newsnight's film was cover-up number one.
The Pollard Inquiry, clearing the BBC Director General Mark Tomlinson, was the second cover-up, because apparently he had been told about this, and then was just denying it in this inquiry, and the inquiry believed him for God knows what reason.
And also, Chris Patton, at the time the head of the BBC Trust, is responsible for a cover-up number three for threatening someone who sent him evidence of the abuse.
So he was sent evidence, and then he was like, yeah, I'm gonna sue you.
Yeah.
What?
Like, I'm literally...
So it's that bad.
It's that systemic.
And that's why there should be absolutely no trust, I think, of the handling of this.
And if I was the guys directing it, I would go elsewhere.
But let's move on.
Systemic non-sism.
Just the last couple of things here, which is not a great organization, which is why they're giving the Director General a £75,000 pay rise.
That's a pay rise.
That's not his salary.
That's on top of the salary he was getting before.
Not alleging he has any involvement in the Savile story, because I think he's newly appointed and whatnot.
No, and Tim Davey apparently wants to get me in some.
Tim Davey, great guy, deserves all that money.
Deserves it.
Tim Davey pay jumps to £525,000, almost three times as much as the Prime Minister amid the broadcaster's cost-cutting measures.
So they decided to increase the salary.
And I can't even be mad at him personally for this.
No.
Because the stupid thing is, it's fundamentally a problem with the organisation.
Because as we've said before, and will make the point, the reason this is pay rise probably taking place is because of an embarrassment about another person who gets paid far too much.
So if we go to the next one, we have the data mail reporting June Sarpong, the £267,000 a year job for three days a week, which if it was five days a week would be £445,000.
Yeah.
So this was reported and they showed that Tim was making less than her because she's the diversity inclusion officer.
I mean, this is just ridiculous.
I mean, because this is a publicly funded organisation.
It's not paid for by taxes, but it's paid for by a tax, by a levy on all homes.
Basically a tax.
Right.
Yeah, it's basically a tax.
Although apparently under the current government, one good thing that the Tories have done is you can't be prosecuted for non-payment of TV license.
Have they passed that?
I'm not sure if it's been passed, but I haven't paid my TV license in 15 years or so.
I've never paid it.
Well, they came to the door once.
We got all these letters.
And then they came to the door and I just opened the door.
I was really hungover.
I was in my underpants and opened the door and the guy's like, you know, you don't have a TV license.
And I'm like, oh yeah, just use the TV for watching DVDs.
He's like, come on in, I'll show you.
And he's like, look at me.
He's like, no, I'll just put it on the floor.
So that's if you want to know, if you want to know how to get away with not paying your TV license, you just got to answer the door hungover in your underpants.
But anyway, there's the point, which is that the solution to her getting overpaid was apparently just to overpay the guy even more.
I just thought, no, just fire June Sarpong and the entire diversity department.
But then who will make sure that they have enough diversity and equity at the BBC? Because it's very important, because at the moment, I haven't seen any.
I haven't noticed any people who aren't white men.
Not an anti-diversity department.
The thing with all these diversity and inclusion coordinators...
By the way, my mate was at Davos and he told me a funny story.
They've got a diversity and inclusion zone at Davos and June Sarpong's in there drinking Veuve Clicquot or whatever.
You can't get more absolute privilege than these people who are complaining about privilege.
Diversity zone.
Literally segregated off.
Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, 100%.
It's ridiculous.
Like, sponsored by, you know, probably BP or someone.
I mean, not sponsored by BP. I don't know who it's sponsored by, but...
Let's move on.
Let's move on.
Tell me about The Lancet.
Let's go on.
So it's been a bad couple of weeks for The Lancet.
The Lancet, if you don't know what it is, I think it's Britain's or the world's, possibly the world's oldest medical journal.
It started in 1823.
It's always been a bastion.
It's been one of those totems of free debate and discussion and scientific progress and research that you can completely trust.
Except you can't.
It's been...
It's been behind a few scandals and two of them have come in like the last week.
So if we scroll down here, this was the last issues cover.
So it says, historically, the anatomy and physiology of bodies with vaginas have been neglected.
Bodies with vaginas.
Do you know what they're talking about when they say bodies with vaginas?
Whammon?
They could.
I mean, like five years ago, they would have just said women.
I love how inhumane that sounds.
I mean, it sounds like corpses again.
Like the phrase black and brown bodies.
Yeah, no, this is like Patrick Bateman from American Psycho is writing for The Lancet.
It could be a series of bodies with the heads cut off, and it would still be a correct statement there.
Yeah.
And it manages to be transphobic and misogynist at the same time, which is something I've been striving to do.
In my work.
But yeah, the Lancet has actually done it.
So yeah, physiology of bodies with vaginas, they do of course mean women, although obviously now, you know, it's 2021, we've got transgender women who, you know, have penises.
Currently a Labour Party conference, I think Cervixgate has taken another game.
Oh yeah, or cervixes.
I don't know why they say cervix.
What even is a cervix?
You know, I mean, I thought it was something that you had to replace on a motherboard.
But I don't know why they can't.
At least the Lancet are saying everybody knows what a vagina is.
You know what I mean?
Well, maybe not everybody, but I think a lot of people do.
And there's, yeah, there's been a lot of criticism from feminists or TERFs, as they'd probably be called.
Trans-exclusionally radical feminists.
Just anybody who questions all this.
Being that they don't think chicks with dicks are...
Yeah, and they're just saying it's dehumanising women to bodies with vaginas, which is probably how Jimmy Savile saw them.
And yeah, there's been others.
So here's a doctor talking about the political erasure of women.
Yeah, particularly when they're talking about it.
Particularly when they're talking about the historic erasure of women, to continue it now with different verbiage is quite interesting.
And also, The Lancet for ages has been talking about the marginalisation of women and of trans people, which is true.
Historically, women, trans people in particular, have been marginalised, but...
They haven't spoken about the marginalisation of detransitioned people.
And this is a growing number of people who transition and then, you know, want to transition back.
And obviously, if you've been through the surgery, it can be very difficult because women transition to men.
What was interesting to me, I thought most trans people would be male to female because I guess they're the most visible ones.
apparently as many as like two-thirds or three-quarters are female to male but you know they pass much more easily than you know some six foot five bloke with hands like shovels and so so yeah it's very difficult for them to do transition because they've had surgery to have the you know breast reduction and some of the bottom surgery to either give them a penis or remove the penis and give them a vagina so it can be very difficult to de-transition
So, yeah, The Lancet issued an apology.
Dear readers, we're sorry we got caught.
We didn't realise we were being deeply misogynist and slightly transphobic when we were being deeply misogynist.
Block of text.
Slightly transphobic, yeah.
You know when somebody has that.
They can't just fit it in a tweet.
They've got to actually put it in a big, long thing like this.
They gave their apologies.
So that was bad for The Lancet.
And I think for a scientific publication, science shouldn't politicise the science.
If you're a medical journal, just steer clear from the politics.
Because this is something for society to debate.
Science should just deal with things that can be measured and verified.
Which brings us on...
To the big cover-up at the Lancet, the thing that's really blowing a hole in them below the waterline, the Lancet...
Originally, when coronavirus emerged, there was the lab leak theory, which was espoused by President Trump, and it seemed to make sense.
I mean, it seemed to make sense, seemed to be plausible that it could have leaked from a lab, given that Wuhan contains the Wuhan Institute of Virology, which is a bioweapons...
Corotaviruses.
Doing studies on viruses.
And there's been leaks from it before.
And, you know, it made sense.
I mean, one theory that was put forward in the New York Post was that researchers at the lab actually test the viruses on the animals.
Then the animals die.
Or are killed.
And then instead of incinerating them, which is pretty good practice, if you've got a monkey with, like, turbo AIDS, you don't want to then eat that monkey because you might get the turbo AIDS. So that would make sense to me.
But they were like, well, wait a minute.
I'm only getting paid, like, you know, so many whatever they use as the currency in China.
Anyway, they're like, I'm not getting paid enough, so I'm going to sell these dead monkeys that are, you know, absolutely hooch and absolutely riddled with turbo aids.
I'm going to take them down to the wet market and sell them to people.
And the wet market's in China.
It's not like when you go to the shops here and there's just, like, fish fingers.
Man, there's, like, anything, anything that moves.
So these are bats.
At the wet market, which is where coronavirus originally...
Originally coronavirus apparently...
Because bats, because they live in such tight colonies and they've got incredibly powerful immune systems, they are breeding grounds for really powerful viruses.
So a lot of viruses come from bats originally.
And the idea was that a bat...
Shat in a pangolin and the pangolin ate it, sneezed in a wildebeest and then somebody shagged the wildebeest or whatever it was.
Anyway, turns out that might be bollocks because you'd expect several vectors into the human population if it came from the natural world.
And that sort of gives credence to the lab leak theory.
So this is when we've got more pictures of stuff that's at the wet market.
So these are possibly dogs.
And everybody bought a dog during lockdown.
Now they're like, oh man, I've got to go back to the office.
I can't walk this thing.
Probably going to end up here.
The next one is...
I think this is more dogs.
These have been smoked with barbecue sauce.
Can be served with a...
Greek side salad.
These are pangolins.
You can see the scaly tails.
And the next slide is not a picture of...
Yeah.
So that's, you know, the idea is that the researchers...
There's one idea for it escaping from the lab was the researchers were selling animals down at the wet market, which is...
Pretty crazy.
That's not what you should be doing with animals that have been infected with coronavirus.
But there have been previous lab leaks in China.
So in 1977, the Spanish flu virus re-emerged in China and Russia.
And bear in mind, this flu virus killed 100 million people, I think it was about a century ago.
And it took three decades for this to be recognised as a lab leak.
So previously people thought that this re-emerged somehow in the natural world.
And there was another lab leak, or a series of lab leaks in 2004.
So the SARS, which is similar to coronavirus, so eight people were infected with this 2002 SARS-CoV virus after it escaped on two separate occasions from a laboratory at the Chinese Institute of Virology in Beijing.
And this is a virus that previously killed 800 people.
I don't know why it didn't kill more.
So yeah, and the WHO only visited the Wuhan lab once, and their report omitted any mention of the laboratory and its experimentation with bat-borne coronaviruses.
And there have been previous criticisms of the way Chinese labs are run.
So at a news conference in Manila, April 25th, 2004, sitting on a big brown envelope, because it's Manila, eh?
The regional director for the World Health Organization, Shigeru Omi, A Japanese guy criticised the laboratory's safeguards and declared that safety was a serious issue that has to be addressed.
Even in China, concerns around domestic laboratory safety standards remain present with a 2015 opinion piece in the Chinese government-owned newspaper.
So if the Chinese government itself is saying it, that's quite a big thing.
Normally I'd like to cover this stuff up.
So the Chinese government-owned paper noted that the government would have to tighten supervision and monitoring of research on dangerous and exotic pathogens and strengthen the management of the facilities where such research is carried out.
And in fact, I don't think we've got a picture of it, but after coronavirus came out, an email went round, or a memo went round, Chinese labs warning them to tighten up the handling of pathogens and also the handling of the animals that Which, again, all gives credit to the lab leak theory.
Obviously, China didn't want people to think it came from the lab.
It wanted them to think that it just came from nature.
So, you know, their propaganda machine went into overdrive.
And the cover-up has to be seen in the context of Chinese propaganda, which is incredibly sophisticated and powerful and well-funded.
And they've been doing it for decades on their own people, so they know what they're doing.
And now they're reaching out and doing propaganda overseas to sway the minds of people in the West, like you and me.
So they're directing it at the West.
I mean, obviously they can't do things.
I mean, in China, your internet's restricted.
If you mention Tiananmen Square on the internet in China, you're getting a visit from the stormtroopers.
But yeah, they're basically undermining our institutions, such as the BBC. They use false websites and fake accounts to spread lies.
And they even pay social media and YouTube stars.
So here we go.
Beijing funding British YouTubers to further its propaganda war.
So, I mean, it doesn't look like...
I mean, I don't know who he's convincing.
But I actually know somebody who's been caught up in this.
So the next tab is Nigel Ng.
So this is Nigel Ng, a Malaysian comedian.
He's brilliant, by the way.
Brilliant live comedian.
But he does this Uncle Roger character, which I'm not such a fan of.
If you get a chance to see him live, go see him live.
But his Uncle Roger stuff is just brilliant.
He's blown up to super.
He's got millions of followers on social media.
He basically puts on this sort of...
He pretends to be Uncle Roger.
Uncle Roger?
And he just complains about the way Western people make rice.
Yeah, 100% of the videos are him complaining about how Western people make rice.
It's a funny joke, so I'll give him that.
I'm not criticizing the joke.
It's not a funny joke.
Nigel, he's such a great comedian.
But I mean, man, he's buying yachts and stuff now, so who's to say what he should be doing?
But he collaborated with a New York-based other internet food guy, Who'd criticised the Chinese government.
I don't know if he's a Chinese expat or exile or second generation, but this guy based in New York is of Chinese origin.
And Nigel collaborated with them.
The Chinese government stepped in and were like, what are you doing?
And so the video was taken down.
Nigel condemned Mike Chen, the guy who'd been critical of the Chinese government.
And yeah, it just shows the power of the Chinese government.
It's such a huge market, because as we'll see on the next tab, it's such a huge market, people want access to it.
And so John Sena, from The Fast and the Furious, he said Taiwan is a country.
And Taiwan is a country!
But it's also a country that China wants to take over, like it's done with Tibet.
It wants to occupy.
And Taiwan, you know, democratic, hugely successful free market economy.
China wants to, you know, take it over.
And, you know, it's rattling a lot of sabres.
There's a big military build-up.
It's probably going to happen at some point.
And this is something that should worry us, because, you know, Taiwan's a democratic country.
So John Sena described Taiwan as a country, then after the Chinese government intervened and presumably said to the Fast and Furious people, if you want your films to be shown in China, you better start saying Taiwan, the country, is not a country.
You better start saying that down is up, black is white, you know, this is the Orwellian nature of communism.
So John Sena came out and said, yeah, sorry, you know, Taiwan, but Yeah, it's not a country.
It's not a country.
He also said it in Mandarin.
And he said it in Mandarin.
And then you can actually hear the electrodes being unclipped from his testicles at the end.
So, yeah, this is the level of soft power, and hard power, I guess, and medium power.
That China has.
So they've pulled out all the stops with coronavirus.
They've underreported deaths, they've spread misinformation, they censored healthcare workers.
The doctor, Li Wenlang, one of the first people to know what coronavirus was, he blew the whistle about coronavirus.
What he did was he messaged fellow doctors saying you should wear a protective environment because there's this new virus going around and we don't know what it is.
Which is good advice.
That's basically government advice.
And he was pulled in front of the various boards and he was censored.
He later died from coronavirus despite being 34, which seemed slightly fishy to me.
So yeah, he was summoned in front of the Public Security Bureau, which sounds very Orwellian, and he had to sign a letter, and in the letter he was accused of making false comments that severely disturbed the social order.
And he was one of eight people who police said were being investigated for spreading rumours.
So yeah, he later died.
And Chinese propaganda has been saying that coronavirus actually originated in the US Army in Maryland.
So...
I mean, everybody, the whole world was coming down on Trump for saying it could have leaked from a weapons lab, it could have leaked from the virology lab in Wuhan.
I mean, that makes a lot more sense than it leaking from a US army.
This is also the reason he came up with the term China virus and started making sure he said that all the time, was because they alleged it came from the US. It was not because he was bored, although it is funny, but also he did it because of this.
And it's not because it's racist.
We've traditionally named viruses after the place where the first...
Don't even want to waste my time.
Yeah, like the Spanish flu.
You know what I mean?
Oh, why are you being racist against Spanish people?
I'm not.
It's just...
Because they're Spaniards.
Why else?
Yeah.
But...
Although, I mean, in fairness, most of these things, you know, when you get the Kent variant or whatever, it tends to just highlight places that have really good testing and really good laboratories because they discover it first rather than it originating there.
The Russian flu coming from China.
Yeah, yeah, exactly.
So, yeah, so the Chinese propaganda reached as far as the Lancet.
This is supposed to be an untouchable scientific publication.
So, on the next tab, oh, it'll be the tab after that.
So on the next tab we've got...
This is the Lancet published this letter decrying the conspiracy theories that stated that the virus could have originated in a Chinese lab.
It says, and I quote, The rapid, open and transparent sharing of data on this outbreak is now being threatened by rumours and misinformation around its origins.
We stand together to strongly condemn conspiracy theories suggesting that COVID-19 does not have a natural origin.
So...
From a lab.
And they also said, we declare no competing interests.
Well, no...
I can see a name right there.
Peter Daszak.
Peter Daszak.
And in fact, 26 of the 27 scientists who signed this letter had links to the weapons lag.
By links, I mean they're all getting new Mercedes.
So, yeah, 26 of the 27 scientists linked to the lab.
Absolute conflict of interest there.
Daszak, who was the lead on this letter, is a long-time collaborator with the Wuhan Institute of Virology and the director there, Shi Zhengli.
Peter has continuously refuted claims that COVID-19 was the product of an experiment.
Xi from the Wuhan Institute of Virology has been involved in performing gain-of-function research, which is a controversial practice among virologists, involving the introduction of mutations to a virus that could potentially infect humans or animals with the goal to make it either involving the introduction of mutations to a virus that could potentially infect humans or animals with the goal So basically making bioweapons.
And you can see on the next tab, the Twitter tab, if we've got it, you can see, so this is a tweet from Peter Daszak, just showing he doesn't just collaborate, he's best mates with these people.
You know, joking with them about a party in a bat cave, and leaked emails from Daszak showed that he urged his colleagues at EcoHealth Alliance to sign and circulate the Lancet statement.
He urged eminent scientists to do this.
And Daszak also explained that he had drafted the statement with a careful formulation meant to avoid the appearance of a political statement.
So, you know, the idea was that instead of being a sort of prepared statement that they're signing up to, this just originated organically from the scientific community and his colleagues.
And not only that, but Daszak actively discouraged certain scientists from taking part.
So Ralph S. Barrick...
Is notable here.
Because Peter Daszak sent an email to him saying, no need for you to sign the statement, Ralph.
And it was decided that certain key figures should be omitted from the letter for strategic purposes.
So yeah, this is a total cover-up.
And the information of the involvement...
With the Institute came after Peter Daszak was removed from the United Nations Commission investigating the origins of coronavirus.
And also the whistleblower, Ralph, who was dissuaded from...
There he is there.
Man, have you ever seen anybody look more like a scientist in your life?
That's like my dream.
If I ever get heart disease or something, that is my dream.
I want a guy looking like that.
I trust that guy.
I trust that guy.
I like how he's wearing gloves before he gives me the anal probe.
I respect that.
So he expressed doubts.
So he helped draft the Lancet letter.
He was involved in it.
I think he was the one scientist who didn't have links to the Wuhan Institute of Virology.
So he expressed doubts about the virus's origin.
And in January 2021, he stated the coronavirus' hypothetical emergence from a strong animal reservoir would have been accompanied by multiple introduction events rather than a single outbreak.
So, you know, that suggests that it could have come from a lab rather than from the animal reservoir, which, you know, is, you know, from nature.
And then Science Magazine dropped the bombshell.
18 prominent scientists criticized DASAC and the World Health Organization's Thank you.
And what's interesting about this is this is where science became politicised.
I heard a scientist being interviewed on the BBC World Service and he was talking about how the scientific community, because Trump had come out and championed the lab leak theory, they said that they discredited it because they didn't want to be seen to be aligned with Trump.
But that's partisan politics.
That's not science.
Even if Trump was espousing the theory for the wrong reasons, he could very well have been right.
And we can't discredit the theory just because Trump likes it.
And this isn't the first time the Lancet have got in trouble for being wrong about something and creating a...
So the Lancet were behind the original MMR scare.
So this is back in 1998.
This started the whole, you know, the mainstream anti-vaccine movement.
So Dr.
Andrew Wakefield said there was a link between the MMR vaccine, which treats measles, mumps and rubella, and autism.
And he was, and this was published in The Lancet, and he was later revealed, Dr.
Andrew Wakefield, I think we've got a picture of him on the next tab, there he is there at a rally.
He's always with quite glamorous women, by the way.
There's obviously, you know, women find anti-vax guys attractive.
But, yeah, it turned out that Wakefield had fabricated events about taking blood from children, so he lied about the procedures he went through, and he also had a huge conflict of interest.
His research was secretly funded by personal injury lawyers whose clients were suing MMR vaccine makers.
So there's a huge, like, you know, a huge incentive for him, financial incentive for him to...
Yeah, I think.
Kill loads of people.
His actions probably led to children dying, because obviously it's that herd immunity.
It's not just about protecting the healthy children, but there's children with compromised immune systems and whatever.
So it led to Andrew Wakefield being struck off, and he's no longer a doctor!
He is no longer a doctor.
So, yeah, the Lancet, I don't know, I just think they've really sort of blown a hole in their own credibility.
Science shouldn't be politicised.
Science should always be something that's just logical and rational and, you know, you test the hypothesis, you can repeat the test.
And it doesn't matter if, you know, Trump says it's a bad idea or a good idea, you just do the tests and, you know, follow the science.
It just shows how, you know, when people say, when the Democrats say we're following the science, you're not, you're following the politics and the science.
And the politics leads the science as much as the science leads the politics.
And interestingly, I just thought I'd finish on this.
Sorry if I've overrun a bit.
But I was actually in Wuhan on the 31st of October 2019.
So this is from Google Timeline.
It shows where I was.
So yeah, I had like a...
When was I? From 1648.
I landed and I didn't leave until 7 minutes past 10 at night.
So I was there.
Yeah, I don't know.
So you're the one to blame.
Yeah, so basically, I mean, I always try, first thing I do when I land in a new country is I go and shag a pangolin.
So, stick a bat up my arse.
So yeah, that could have been me.
I love the idea of it is.
Anyway, but let's move on to the NHS versus Kemi Bainock.
There's a lot of state-funded leftism, and we spoke about it before, so this is just something we spoke about before, but to get into it, so the first thing here, Black Lives Matter training among new diversity courses offered to NHS staff.
So they were going to indoctrinate the staff into loving BLM, because BLM didn't do nothing.
Could never have done anything wrong, ever.
What did you expect from diversity hires that Boris paid for?
Oh, no, no, he didn't.
We paid for him, of course, with our new tax rise.
Fantastic.
Thanks, conservatives.
So the course cover white privilege, unconscious bias, authentic allyship, and the intersectionality between race and gender.
You know, this is stock crap.
But we'll move on from this.
Let's go to the next story, which is Rab's department, so Dominic Rab, on critical race theory social justice drive.
Fantastic.
And Guido is not exaggerating here, I don't think.
So Dominic Raab, obviously, they write, Dominic Raab obviously had a cracking start to his new job on Wednesday, just as he settled into the new office chair at the Ministry of Justice.
One of the first items to arrive in his inbox was a polite reminder for all Ministry of Justice civil servants to brush up on their critical race theory, linking to an article that suggests, quote, There is no single objective truth or reality.
Very postmodernist.
And even criticises Equalities Minister Kevin Babenock for controversial views on the subject.
The round-robin email recommended everyone give it a read because it might be illuminating useful sources for a department currently grappling with a backlog of 60,000 cases.
Because, of course, they've got better things to do.
But I love how they're upset about Kemi Badenoch.
That's the best part in there.
Like, even in the internal parts of the cathedral, they're all very mad that Kemi is going out there and just BTF-ing them every single day, that you need to grow up.
Well, yeah, and they keep trying to drag her down.
I don't know if we were talking about it last week, but somebody released WhatsApp conversations they had with Kemi, and these are the bombshells.
They just made her look better.
Yeah, they just made her look better.
I already liked her.
And also whoever releases, if any of you ever think of releasing WhatsApp conversations, oh my god, the WhatsApp conversations are the last place we've got to be free.
They're the down-the-pub time.
So you can't release them.
You try to embarrass me, I'll embarrass myself worse.
Anyway, so this is the link they have in here that apparently was part of the email, so included, and this is the thing in here.
So they talk about critical race theory, openly, because this is what the British government's up to.
So, Critical Race Theory is a movement led by academics, activists, and politicians that critically examines how race and racism affect people in different ways in society.
No, it doesn't.
No, I'm just talking absolute crap.
No, it is a new way of thinking about the world through a specific racial lens that leads you to some absurd conclusions, as Carl's speech at the live event was very illuminating too, such as that you should be able to have a crack baby, and if the government doesn't let you, that's racism.
So I'm not going to waste my time discussing critical race theory right now.
Well, I think the worst thing about critical race theory is there's no solution.
There's no...
You can't...
Oh, there is.
It's just black nationalism.
Yeah, but the old thinking about race was, yeah, don't be racist.
And then there's a solution.
Don't be racist.
You know what I mean?
So it dealt with the sort of individual rather than, you know, an objective racism rather than, you know, this daftness, everything's racist that you can't ever, this systemic racism that you can't ever fix.
There are no white people, there's still white supremacy, that kind of thing.
Yeah.
Anyway, well, we're going to scatter through this just to save time to get the bit about Kemi.
In 2020, though, there was a resurgent controversy around critical race theory.
after they defined it as good and fluffy and would never do anything we swear both US President Donald Trump and UK's Equality Minister Kelly Baden-Ock love that put the two base people together brought up critical race theory as ideas that should not be taught in schools or any government programming I love that this is the Ministry of Justice they They are handing out to each other, oh, imagine thinking that we shouldn't talk to each other about critical race theory.
I mean, this is how embedded it is within Britain, America just being a few years behind on these things, which is weird considering it came from America, but, you know, bigger government, I guess.
President Trump called for the cancelling of funding for any programs that even mentioned white privilege or critical race theory because they were divisive un-American propaganda.
Yes, they were.
Thank you, Mr.
Trump, the official president.
So, Minister Badenoch went into more detail, echoing the criticisms aired decades earlier by critical race theory critics.
Quote from Cammie.
We do not want to see any teachers teaching their pupils about white privilege or inherited racial guilt.
Any school which teaches these elements of critical race theory, or which promotes partisan political views, such as defunding the police, without offering a balanced treatment of opposing views, is breaking the law.
Clear cut.
You can't do this.
You can't teach racial guilt to the white students that they're evil for being white or the black students are inferior for being black.
Yeah.
Apparently that's the controversy, and the Ministry of Justice civil servants at another part of the cathedral are very upset.
So if we move on from this, I want to go to the NHS also being called institutionally racist by the Labour Party, which I find funny, because, sure, why not?
Okay, like, they're literally going to be sending stuff about critical racery to each other all day, every day.
Yeah, okay, I ought to confirm it was institutionally racist, and we can just stop, can't we?
Stop wasting our money on this.
So, in here we have Labour MPs, Dawn Butler, for example.
So, Labour MPs on two parliamentary committees investigating the coronavirus crisis push for an official inquiry to declare that the NHS is institutionally racist, the Sunday Telegraph has learned.
Dawn Butler and Sarah Owen, who sit on the Science and Technology and Health and Social...
Oh, fucking hell.
How many things do you need for that title of the committee?
They sit on some committee, alright?
Yeah.
Argue that Parliament's Lessons Learned inquiry into the COVID-19 pandemic should accuse the Health Service of racism.
But other MPs on the committee objected to the accusation of racism being levelled at the NHS on the grounds that no witnesses had ever made a claim of evidence in the session.
So nobody's accused the NHS of being racist.
But it still is.
But it still is.
Because it is.
Because we won it.
And also it's 2021 so we can just say it's racist and it's racist.
It's that magic word you can just throw around.
I love it.
You literally didn't need any evidence and yeah they still go for it.
In the same way the critical racists don't need any evidence.
There's just an outcome that are different and therefore...
So they mention here that essentially there are different outcomes of patient health, and there are differences among different racial groups on these outcomes, and therefore racism.
Even if no one in the chain of command at any single point was racially biased, even if the outcomes are different, which is by personal choice of the patient, that's still racism against the patient.
Yeah, and also there's, you know, in different cultures and different races, there are different health issues.
So certain black communities get sickle cell anemia because they've evolved to have sickle cell anemia because it gives protection against malaria.
Right.
So, you know, what are you going to say?
Oh, look, all the black people are getting sickle cell anemia, but the white people aren't.
That's because the NHS is racist.
But hey, we are suddenly progressives on this podcast, and I agree.
NHS, very racist.
Has to go.
Including all the diversity officers.
Let's get rid of them.
Anyway, but that's England wrestling with itself.
Could be worse.
Could be Scottish.
Britain.
No, no, that's specifically to England.
The Scottish government's doing something incredibly funny.
So this is in the education department.
So teachers are told pet and buddy stereotype genders.
So you can't call the kids this.
Teachers have been told to stop calling pupils pet, love or buddy and to consider adapting the storyline of allegedly offensive books such as The Tiger Who Came to Tea, I mean, when they say allegedly offensive books, I expect a sentence like that to end with Mein Kampf or something like that.
Not the tiger who came to tea.
Tiger who came to tea, Mein Kampf.
And Scotland's like, well, we'll take Mein Kampf, but the tiger who came to tea.
Is the hungry caterpillar, is that offensive to bulimics?
I mean, come on.
I don't know, he might have been a Soviet.
He was just sharing food.
Yeah, yeah.
How dare you stand in the way of the mass starvation?
So, separately, Education Scotland, the Scottish government, Quango, has linked male gender stereotyping to suicide, imprisonment and substance abuse.
Nobody, like, this is what, how did they link that?
Nobody in Scotland, I'm talking as a Scottish man, who feels quite suicidal because of the way all this woke nonsense is going.
It's not because of the tiger who came to tea.
It's because of the hate crime bill and all this other noise.
It makes me want to take some fentanyl and commit suicide.
She did say separately.
But the point there that stereotypes are what make men suicidal, make them commit crimes, and also abuse substances.
No, it's physiological differences between the sexes.
That is why we make up, what is it, like 90% of the prism.
Yeah, and also testosterone makes you more impulsive.
So, I mean, a lot of suicides, I mean, a lot of people have suicidal ideation or suicidal thoughts during their life.
And if you've got that impulsivity, there's this thing if you, I can't remember how long it is, but it's like a matter of seconds.
If you can stop somebody committing suicide within those seconds, they won't do it.
Interesting.
So the impulsivity means that men commit suicide more often.
Also the fact that we get a job done!
Yeah.
I think the...
I've had nine paracetamol and it says on the packet I shouldn't have more than eight!
I'm advocating this, but I think the rate of suicide among men and women is apparently similar, but the success rate is different.
Yeah.
So, moving on.
So, speaking at Scottish Learning Festival, Mihari Brody?
I don't know how to say that.
Do you want me to pronounce that?
If you can.
Mary.
Mary, it's Mary, is it?
Mahiri!
Mahiri!
Anyway, the official tasked with improving gender balance and equalities has urged patients to avoid dressing boys in clothes which stereotype them as trouble or messy, as monsters or heroes, or as dirty, loud, or avoiding responsibility for their actions.
What the hell does that even mean?
I mean, I get it.
I get the heroes are monsters.
I mean, fancy dress.
Okay, no fancy dress.
So who is left to dress up?
You're not allowed to be trouble.
You're not allowed to be messy.
You can't be a monster or a hero.
You can't be loud, dirty, or avoiding responsibility for your actions.
You can be a Labour MP. What's loud?
What's loud clothes?
I mean, I'm pretty sure that's the guy who plays Mr.
Bean.
I can't remember his name right now.
Rowan Atkinson.
There's a sketch from him where he arrests someone and he charges him with walking up in a built-up area with a loud shirt.
Oh my god.
That legislation isn't due to come into Scotland for another three years.
Well, it's coming now.
She said, clearly, superhero gives an unrealistic expectation of male success.
No S, woman.
That's why it's called a superhero.
But whatever.
I mean, I don't think...
Nobody...
I mean, even when I was, like, eight or whatever, I wasn't pretending to be Superman.
I'm literally going to be Hulk.
Thinking it's real.
Like, no.
That's why we didn't jump off buildings.
We just ran along with our arms out pretending we were flying, you know?
So Lindsay Graham, head of Saucy Early Learning Centre, I think you mentioned the next word as well, Clackmanshire.
Clackmanshire.
Yeah, we are.
Said schools must conduct an audit of books to ensure they include a range of diverse and inclusive cultures.
So this is exactly the same thing as that Canadian situation where they end up burning a lot of books, except we're just going to replace them.
So she said, the tiger that came to tea was recently identified as stereotyping.
The Tiger Who Came to Tea.
Do you know anything about The Tiger Who Came to Tea?
I just know that it got in trouble.
I can't be bothered reading it.
It looks like War and Peace.
I don't have time to read 48 words.
I read the summary on Wikipedia because it's a kid's book.
I think that'll do.
And apparently it's literally just a tiger that comes to the house and eats all the food.
And the Scottish government were looking at that and they're like, yeah, that's men.
Therefore, ban the book because they don't enjoy it.
The SNP felt personally attacked by this.
But in here, they also mention that the Wikipedia mentions there's speculation that the tiger might represent the SS because the author grew up in a period in which the SS were there and tried to hunt for her father.
And the SNP felt personally attacked by that.
Ha ha!
Yeah, because the SNP are like the SS. Yeah, so let's move on.
Let's go to the last bit of this.
So if we go to the next bit.
So Zero Tolerance, an Edinburgh-based group that campaigns to end male violence against women, recently carried out an audit of books in Scottish nurseries.
Yeah, that's how that happens.
You've got husbands beating their wives, and it's because of the books in the nurseries they read.
Yeah, I think not.
It singled out Judith Kerr's much-loved 1968 picture book, claiming it reinforces gender stereotypes by making the greedy tiger male, and making the father and the saviour who takes the family to a cafe after the tiger eats all the food.
And that's how you beat your wife, folks.
That's the pipeline between picture books and domestic abuse.
It's crazy.
The whole idea that these male gender stereotypes cause dissatisfaction or depression amongst males, the thing that's causing dissatisfaction and depression in Scotland is the SNP's government and its terrible handling of everything.
It's from books.
Those damn picture books that everyone keeps reading.
I mean, the SNP has really changed Scotland from like an outward-looking country that, you know, previously, I mean, you go to Singapore, I did some shows in Singapore, all the bridges there, built by Scots, Scottish names on the plaques and stuff, all around the world, like Australia, all these places, you know, Scots went out, they built the world, you know, we've been 25% of the UK military.
I know, it's literally an SJW. Now it's become this parochial, inward-looking state.
Sturgeon even bribes students, bribes young Scots to stay in Scotland.
So if they study in Scotland, they don't pay any tuition fees.
So instead they tax bus drivers to pay for their tuition, which seems fair enough.
Why shouldn't working-class people pay for middle-class people's gender studies degrees?
So bribes Scottish students to stay in Scotland instead of travelling down to England.
Sorry, I've got to crack on with this nonsense.
Anyway, I'll skip over a bunch of this because it's just ridiculous.
She keeps arguing that the picture books cause wife-beating or for men to just hate women in general and all the rest of it, and then goes on to blame male failings, so men ended up in prisons and whatnot, on culture.
So the link between poor male literacy and poor male attainment cannot be ignored, and the key difference between boys and girls is boys have less ability to explain their feelings and emotions, and as a result are more prone to anger and mental illness.
Cannabis and alcohol abuse are widespread among young men, and they make up 83% of school exclusions and 90% of the prison population.
Suicide is the biggest killer of young men between 18 to 25, and the second biggest killer of boys aged 5 to 18.
Jeez.
Yes, and it's the same for every country on bloody earth.
Every single country has a situation.
Jordan Peterson could argue this forever, but it's not the culture you retard, it's the physiological differences between the men and the women.
Men and women are different, but the SNP can't get that, can they?
But also, it's the constant, constant hammering of the message that being a man is undesirable.
The media and society and all these woke people, the Guardian, they're constantly hammering.
Like, straight white male has become an insult.
It's become a pejorative.
Anyway, I thought we'd end this off with just some other state-funded leftism, so we go to the next one.
Of course, there's something else going on with the police.
Oh, I love it.
Is this the new Dee Snider video?
Oh, I don't get that reference.
So anyway, this is Birmingham Police.
Verified checkmark.
Birmingham Pride.
PC Skylmorden is there.
And if you scroll down, they get really salty about this.
They end up responding to people criticizing them.
And they say, they were not on duty.
They were either on their rest days or annual leave.
You know when you're on your rest days and you wear a police uniform?
Still.
No.
Anyway, so we will never accept or tolerate social media attacks of any of our employees simply for being who they are.
Crimes motivated by hostility or prejudice towards people based on their race, religion, sexual orientation, blah, blah, blah, blah, blah.
Like all hate crimes, we will investigate and pursue the offenders with vigour.
So threatening the people who are daring to be like, yeah, this is dumb.
Like, why are the police going to Pride?
And it's the continuous response.
But I'm sure there were horrible, horrible comments as well, except I couldn't find them.
So I found one, which is from Faircop, you know, one worth responding to, which is, can a woman refuse an intimate search from this officer, or would you also deem that to be a hate crime?
You know, that's Harry Miller.
The Faircop guy.
Yeah, yeah, yeah.
That's a great point.
And also, could I pay for an intimate search from this officer?
Oh, that'll also be a hate crime, in which you get the extra one.
But yeah, the state, British state in particular, is still not getting over itself, no matter who gets in charge, apparently.
And also Scotland killing itself, because SMP. Let's go to the video comments.
Not really.
I have no idea what that's about, but I assume it's all good-natured bants.
Well, Carl, if you want to know, I'll be brief on this, the Loads Eaters live chat, when I used to watch the show live, but I've got other things to do nowadays, so I don't watch it live, the Loads Eaters live chat all were the biggest internet tough guys you've ever seen in the world, and then you see them simping over the different girls in the video comments, and it's so obvious it's just overcompensation, and this, this is what the Loads Eaters live chat looks like to me.
I'm not an incel!
My internet friends called me king, see?
Alright, yeah, that's a funny joke.
You got me there.
That's good.
I don't know how the chat is because I don't get enough time to watch it.
But let's go to the next one.
So, I like to play Stellaris and I commonly roleplay.
Now...
America Today...
Or last year.
America.
Very soon.
Do you play Star Wars?
No!
It's a paradox game where essentially you run a space empire and have to survive or win.
But I've never actually even taken over the whole galaxy.
You know, Trump's actually ranking higher in opinion polls at the moment than Biden.
Good.
I mean, to be honest, not too hard.
Remember when Biden came in, it was supposed to be this, oh, this new turn, this amazing guy, he's going to be competent, he's going to be nice and all that.
No, he's got guys at the border whipping migrants.
Was it a whip?
Because from what I saw, it was like the rassels, what are they called?
The bits on the horse, you know, when you hold on, when you're riding the horse.
Right.
From what I saw in the footage, it didn't look like...
The reins.
Reins, there we are.
Right.
Rassels.
Yeah, I just read that it was whips and I instantly believed it because it suited me.
Oh, alright.
Okay.
But...
I mean, the thing with this, I have to wonder as well, you know, most popular president in US history.
I don't know if there has been a bigger nosedive for popularity, let's say.
Biden was the most popular in US history.
Well, according to the votes.
Oh, right.
I mean, just on the number of votes.
Right, right, right.
The thing there as well, I have to wonder, like, I wasn't around for George Bush.
Like, I know a lot of people hated him for a bit, and then 9-11 happened, and then country changed.
Yeah.
I don't know if it was ever as bad as this.
Anyway, let's move on to the next one.
Hello, Lotus Eaters.
Here in Australia, there is a large number of Anglo-Australians who fetishize Aboriginal culture and spirituality.
I think the reason for this is that the Enlightenment led to the demolition of the sacred in the English-speaking world, and people will turn to other foreign sources of the sacred because for many it makes up a large subconscious source of meaning in their lives.
How can we get to work in bringing back the sacred into people's lives from our perspective, or do you think this goal is unnecessary?
No, I think you're right.
I think the goal is necessary, and Carl's spoken about this a lot.
So how do we think of England in mythical terms, like the mythology of England, right?
And this is something he spends a lot of time thinking about and trying to learn about, and it's something that we should bring to public consciousness again.
Because you can do this very commonly with foreign cultures and think of the mythical, interesting things they've got, but we rarely do it with our own.
It's interesting that people, especially the woke left, it's fashionable to take an interest in other esoteric religions or support Islam or whatever.
But if anybody's a Christian, which is basically like being a Muslim, it's another religion, they're both based on the same people and books and stuff a lot.
And then, you know, Christianity sneered that as, you know, some sort of straight white cis male religion.
But I think wokeism, the danger is that, you know, post-enlightenment, you know, over the last sort of century, particularly, we've had this sort of move to mass atheism.
And I think that's left a void in people's lives that wokeism is now filling.
Much as, you know, in the Soviet Union, you know, communism replaced religion, became a state religion, so wokeism is becoming...
It's the same as...
It's got all the things that religion has, you know, these strict tenets that have to be followed.
It just lacks the sort of redemption and forgiveness that religions have.
You know, you can't ever redeem yourself if you...
It's also not just on a religious basis, but I think he's more kind of trying, I assume, trying to refer to the mythical nature of a group or a country or an ethnic group or whatever, right?
Yeah.
So, like, there's a funny thing.
I might be remembering this wrong, but, like, the Korean people, like, mythically are meant to come from, like, Mount Paektu or something.
Oh, right.
And then they've grown out, and then, you know, the history of Korea and the aspects of being Korean or whatever.
Yeah.
And we don't seem to have that kind of mythical nature to England, or at least we don't talk about it enough.
Is Korea a much more homogenous, racially homogenous country?
The North especially, South I'm not so sure about, but I think yes.
Yeah, yeah.
I can't imagine there's a lot of immigration in the North.
Let's get in this dinghy in North Korea.
During the Korean War, loads of Eastern European advisors or people to fix things or medics or whatever came over to help the North.
And after the war, they literally expelled them.
They had Korean wives and children.
They would just get out.
Not enough.
Let's go to the next one.
Callum, you really need to go out and meet new girls.
Just go out there.
Just meet girls.
Just go anywhere and just pick up girls.
Just talk to them.
Keep doing it.
Make sure you build up your self-confidence.
Even if you're getting rejected or knocked down, just keep going and you'll get it.
I was working and I already picked, I got like three goals numbers and that would just be working.
So stay on it, be a good boy. - Is he talking to you there?
I assume so.
Are you going out and trying to meet women?
I should be.
I'm not making a particular effort at the moment, which is just busy.
He's sort of talking about...
The live event was good fun.
Remember the pick-up artist craze of the early 2000s?
Neil Strauss wrote The Game, which is actually a great book.
But he's right.
He's right.
Go out, chat to women, and then it's scary.
It's like getting on stage with stand-up.
When you do it, it's scary, but then you keep doing it, and eventually...
You get not as bad at it as...
But yeah, there were quite a few cute girls at the live event, which I should have spent more time talking to.
But there's a lot of people, it's a weird environment, because you're trying to talk to like a hundred people.
But yeah.
Let's go to the next one.
Okay, then.
Since you refuse to actually engage in anything you say about Star Wars, then you lack the courage of your own convictions, and anything you say about Star Wars can be safely discarded as commie bullshit.
Thank you.
Did you say me or Carl?
Carl.
Okay.
Well, Carl's not here, so sorry.
Also, Star Wars is racist.
I read it in the Guardian.
The mining.
All mining.
Modern mining.
Abandoned mines.
Danger of falling in shafts.
The danger of collapse.
Mines.
What?
That's just policy.
And a cry for help would just not be heard in this remote location.
Jeez.
I don't know what the point that was, but you paid for it, so whatever.
Let's go to the next one.
Hello and welcome.
Hello!
I'm Scottish comedian.
I'm not racist.
Whereas in socialist communist countries, papers please!
I'm officially non-racist.
And in exchange, they all rotted and were eaten by insects.
Yeah, it works so well.
Anybody who's worked in the public sector can say there's been a murder.
I just wanted to see, like, where would you take it?
Do it myself, by hand.
I'm Callum, right?
I'm definitely, like, autistic and stuff.
Yeah, but why?
Because I'm a Scottish comedian.
Is that Bay State again?
That guy said it.
That was a man with a live event.
Good guy.
Next one.
Hello lads, hope you're doing well.
I just thought as my first video interview guys, I'd ask you who are your favourite political commentators from America and in the UK. Obviously for the UK it's you guys and then in America I think maybe Andrew Clavin and Matt Walsh are my favourite.
I think Matt's a bit further to the right than me.
But Andrew, I like his, he's kind of very philosophical and I like that a lot about him.
So let me know what you think.
Cheers guys!
Did he ask us for our favourites, US and UK, or did he just mean of his view?
I missed the start of it.
I don't know.
Sorry.
Of Matt Walsh?
I don't watch enough Matt Walsh.
I should.
But then again, I don't really watch enough political people at all anymore, because it's a long day.
There's a lot of stuff, and when I go home, I want to switch off.
Yeah.
I don't know about you.
Yeah, I just, I mean, what I like about The Economist is it's kind of anonymous.
So The Economist is, you know, sort of political, well, it covers everything.
It's basically all you, it's so concise and tells you everything you need to know and I think the articles are anonymous.
Yeah, cool.
Let's go to the next one.
Good evening, gentlemen.
It surprises me just how much the part sincerity plays in fashion.
For instance, I am, as you can tell, a fat bastard from Texas, and so I've started dressing as a fat bastard from Texas, and I feel good about myself.
So keep that in mind.
Dress the way that you are, not the way that you want to be.
Isn't that the opposite of the advice, you know, dress for the job you want?
I don't know, it's an interesting idea though, because I feel like Americans especially can get away with that look.
Right.
From the people I've met doing work, like when you meet an American who just doesn't have that look, and it just seems to work in a weird way that I don't think for British people it does very well.
Yeah, yeah.
Maybe that's just because they're foreign.
Yeah, and to be fair, he describes himself as a fat bastard, and for America, he's not.
Yeah, there's that as well.
Let's see the next one.
I'm up to three chads, eight weebs, one potential school shooter, transsexual Jedi and a guy who sells dildos.
Really?
That's going to be my legacy within the community?
The guy who sells dildos?
I put a lot of effort into my videos, just to make you guys giggle a little bit.
But no, I'm just going to be known as the guy who sells dildos.
Well, I guess it's better than being a weeb.
Also, now that I know that it's Michael that has to go through the videos and censor out all the swear words, I think you should give that little sh** a raise.
That'll keep him busy for a while.
Oh yeah, we're gonna have to change the name on that as well to that dildo guy, like big oil guy.
Everyone just gets to find by their job from now on.
Let's go to the next one.
Hey Carl, thanks for your feedback on hate and love, but I thought I'd follow up.
There is precedent for the concept of love, for example, being treated not as an emotion at all.
Example, when Jesus says to love one's servants, it's scandalous at the time because it describes how one treats people.
Also, Greek has many different words for what in English is love, and they tend to focus more on the relational aspect, that is the action one takes towards someone, more than the emotional aspect.
The emotional aspect is usually described as passion, which is different.
All these same non-emotional concepts could be applied to hate as well.
It's an interesting point.
I re-listened to the clip we did up about this.
It was me and Carl arguing about whether or not hating your enemies, essentially, should be done or not.
And the thing that came to me, I still hold my position because I kept listening to Carl's position, but he kept having to say, what was it, rational hatred?
Irrational hatred.
The problem there is the irrational part, surely, but, you know, disagreement.
And also he's not here to respond, so let's go to the next one.
Hey Lotus Eaters, Tony D and Little Joan here with another Legend of the Pines, the Emlyn Physics Estate, a haunted mansion down at Cape May, New Jersey.
Cape May is sort of a bed and breakfast place down the shore.
It's really nice and this is one of the many haunted Victorian era places.
You can't stay there anymore.
No families lived in it since the last of the physics died in the 1930s.
The ghosts seem to be happy with the house the way it is.
Alrighty.
Well, I suppose they're having a good time.
They're having as good a time at Joan, by the way.
Let's go to the next one.
This pathologizing of hatred itself is a problem.
Bible verse, Romans 12, 9.
Let love be without hypocrisy.
Abhor what is evil.
Cling to what is good.
It's not about hatred.
It's about developing people that love good or virtue, intertest evil or vice.
To pathologize hatred means inhibiting your own good judgment.
You don't have morals or aren't confident using them to perceive reality.
To affirm, evil is in fact a form of punishment.
If you want to ruin a person's life, would you spoil them or teach them to be a virtuous person?
Carl Cullen, thoughts?
Yeah, just the sort of moralisation of actions, like vice.
What does he mean by vice?
Does he mean like shagging and having fun, drinking and stuff?
Because they're all fun things, and I think they're morally good, and they're morally acceptable.
Just because it says in the Bible, just because some nerd, some old guy in a dress says it's bad, I'd say the stuff, all these Bible thumpers, with their massive paedophile networks, I'd say that's worse.
Sure, but you don't need a bible or a monotheistic religion to know what a vice or a virtue is, surely.
I mean, like, you know, having sex with everything that moves is probably a vice, if you have it, right?
Jimmy Savile style.
Well, he actually moved on to things that didn't move.
Okay, even if we're not doing the illegal part there.
Yeah, yeah.
You know, having endless sex and no real relationships, that's a vice.
Would you not see that as a vice?
Yeah, well, maybe it can be something that somebody does for a while.
Or if somebody wants to do it, I don't see any sort of moral reason.
Oh, they can be free legally to do it, but, you know, everyone's free to judge them as well.
Yeah, but the judgement for something that's like playing tennis or hang gliding is a vice.
I mean, hang gliding has risks built in.
You might, you know, break your legs instead of get chlamydia.
Well, it'd be like your relationship with that hobby, let's say.
I mean, if you're obsessed with a hobby to the point of absurdity, then that's probably a vice.
You should probably cut down on it.
But if you've got a healthy relationship, that's probably a virtue.
Yeah, what if you just like shagging?
I mean, look at Motley Crue.
Maybe that's a bad example.
Maybe Motley Crue are a bad example.
Anyway, let's go to the next one.
So it's been really smoky with the fires lately so I just wanted to show you like a side-by-side of what it's like now and also some red did.
So was that in California?
I don't think she's- OH MY F- I see that last part is just more badly riding a horse, but uh- I've forgotten precisely where she lived, but somewhere in a desert, if I'm remembering correctly.
And it does look idyllic for a visit.
My high.
Sargon, come on.
Drugs are cool.
Adam just made a 12-year-old's voting argument that actually kind of makes sense.
I think the idea of letting the parents vote for the children solves the problem instead Instead of disenfranchising kids, let the parents have the vote for the kid until the kid turns 18.
So parents act sort of like representatives for their kids.
Why should the Virgin Spinster have equal say in education as the Chad Dreadwife?
Proportional representation.
It's not a perfect analogy, and I'm not sure I agree, but it's far more thought-provoking now.
No, and I imagine Carl would probably end up agreeing with it, because, you know, parents and whatnot are getting more say in the society, because they're the ones who at least, you know, make up the future of the society by having kids.
Oh yeah, I guess that makes kind of a point.
I imagine that's what Carl would be looking at, but also because he gets three more votes now.
Yeah, but I don't have any children, and other people's children annoy me, and I don't want them to have a say.
No, especially 16-year-olds.
I've been watching more Labour Conference, and I've got a clip from day two.
It's just a 16-year-old who gets up and gives you the worst argument ever about how the planet's going to die in 12 years, so I need to destroy the entire economy.
And I'm just listening to her.
I feel bad watching it, because it's child abuse for her.
I feel like she's going to look back on this and cringe.
But also just everyone in that hall having to listen to this.
It's hard to feel bad for these people who have willingly gone to that environment after years of all the other conferences, but still.
I'll have to show you.
It's insufferable.
Let's move to the written comments on the site, if that's the final one.
So MEP Flyerboy says, BBC commenting about pedos is a bit like listening to Chairman Mao discuss farming techniques.
Yeah.
Sardock Spamfish.
No Callum, you're not too young for Savile.
If anything, you're too old.
I'm here all week and you're not getting your money back.
Although apparently not, because he went up to 75.
Oh yeah.
And beyond.
People from the grave?
People from the mortuary?
Oh god, yeah.
From the fridge.
There's 105.
So Alex Ogle says, The trouble with the BBC top brass offering excuses for not getting rid of Jimmy Savile is not their weakness of their excuses but the robustness of their actions against anyone who spoke out against Savile.
That is the true measure of their corruption.
Yeah.
I mean, how you act is far more important than how you speak.
Absolutely, yeah.
Robert Longshore, the doc is only for the BBC to control the narrative around the events over the cover-up as a very late damage control.
If Steve Coogan isn't careful, this will ruin his TV career.
Wouldn't be surprised at all if it does.
Maybe.
I thought it was a weird choice.
If I was him and your agent called you for that position, I'd be like, what are you saying?
Yeah.
I mean, he's played a lot of serious roles in the past.
Like, he played Tony, the head of Factory Records, Tony Wilson.
So, yeah, I mean, I think he's an amazing actor, particularly, you know, when he gets into the bodies of these characters.
I should rephrase that, because that's what Savile liked doing, getting inside the bodies.
Well, maybe he's just a broth.
I think it could be really good.
We've got to remember, even though the BBC is a nepotistic Oxbridge cabal that closes ranks and protects its own and covers up, it's also a fragmented organisation.
There are people in there doing amazing work, so maybe it'll be some of the amazing work.
Along with the World Service.
It's like a Catholic church for me, where I'm just like, nah, it doesn't make it up.
Anyway, so we'll move on to the questions on your segment.
So, Chad Koala says, You'd think after publishing Andrew Wakefield's BS linking vaccines to autism and taking 12 years to retract it, The Lancet would be more careful of what they publish, not bowing to the anti-scientific woke mob.
Oh well.
100% agree with that.
12 years?
Yeah, yeah.
Jesus.
Yeah, it's crazy.
Benjamin Charles says, someone should ask Sina how to say bite the pillow in Chinese.
Northamptonian Knight says, here's a puzzle for you.
Which of the following is the most corrupt government, including the Civil Service and both House of Parliament, NHS or BBC? I think it's probably the BBC. Yeah.
Because the NHS, you know, at the end is doing work that...
It's more of a gravy train, is their problem.
Yeah, the BBC is a total gravy train.
I know, I mean, the NHS with the diversity hires getting...
Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
Well, the diversity hire is a gravy train everywhere.
Every company likes it.
It's a statutory requirement now, isn't it, for companies to, you know, address all this diversity stuff.
Thanks, Conservatives.
Yeah, yeah.
Conservatives as well.
I mean, who can you vote for?
Not Labour.
If you want to see why, check out the conference.
So Shaker Silver says that China is not as big a market as they let on, being propped up largely by central investment and speculation with massive public works that bring no return.
See roads to nowhere and ghost cities and the looming Evergrade stock crash.
They also have a democratic time bomb with a lot of people going to become elderly and not enough kids to replace them, as seen with their rush to implement a three-child policy.
And they seemingly reach their cap for population density.
Yeah, and also, I mean, the thing with the sort of autocratic, unaccountable government, traditionally, when you've got a government like that, it rots quite quickly.
China has been, you know, Xi Jinping has been, and the previous guy, whatever his name was.
Deng Xiaoping?
Yeah, that guy.
Has been pretty disciplined.
And they've done a lot to sort of eliminate corruption, but it's just, it's one of those things that's endemic.
To this style of government.
It turns into this feudal thing where people favour their children and it'll just rot like the Soviet Union did.
Good.
At some point.
I've been hoping for that.
Keep looking at their GDP numbers and I get a bit scared.
I'm always reassured people are like, eh, maybe not.
Yeah, well, I'm more worried about the military build-up.
The military build-up is the biggest military build-up ever.
Like, you know, dwarfs Germany in World War II. It's crazy.
We've run out of time, so I don't have time for comments on the chemi section, but I imagine people are just going, orcs, orcs, orcs, just chemi, chemi, chemi.
But anyway, if you want more from us, go to lotusdears.com.
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