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	Hello, and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 305 It is the 12th of January 2022.
	I am Thomas, your host for today, and I am delighted to be joined by Leo.
	Hello!
	Hello, Leo.
	So today we're going to be discussing whether it is actually over for Boris Johnson's premiership this time, Leo's top COVID fascist, which he's amazingly narrowed down to just 13, and the Pope's unpresented attack on cancel culture.
	13 is lucky indeed.
	But first we have some announcements to share with you.
	The first is this article by John Wheatley, where science becomes faith.
	And I believe what John is talking about here is the left's ongoing attempt to try to make, shall we say, dogmatic presuppositions look more factual than they actually are.
	So please give that a good read.
	Very, very interesting stuff.
	And we have Rory's article, which of course we're going to be dabbling into today, which is Johnson's leadership at minutes midnight over the Partygate scandals.
	It's a very, very good summary of the utter facade that Downing Street has become, to be perfectly honest.
	So if you want a summary, please do check that out.
	And then we have a new writer called Kodrin Stavri, who has written about feminist writing.
	Now, I'm not, of course, really into comics or any superhero stuff in general, but I can imagine what this is alluding to, namely that if you start, I suppose, like Star Wars, developing characters around certain ideas of how people should be and transmitting characters, Or trying to incorporate gender politics into superhero films or concepts, it doesn't end up going particularly well.
	Well, so many films do it as a sort of, like, if you look at the Alien franchise, the Terminator franchise, they do it without making it an obvious thing that they're trying to do.
	Like, they've got, like, strong female characters, but they're not saying, this is a strong female character and that's all.
	It's just, you know, they've got a strong character who happens to be a woman.
	Like, with the new Star Wars films, They're just trying to wedge it in so hard and it's so obvious and they're missing the sort of aspects that make Han Solo and Princess Leia and all the other people from the original Star Wars the great characters.
	They're just collapsing everything that was good about the franchise into this contrived idea of this Mary Sue-like superhero when they needn't have done.
	There are so many excellent female protagonists in sci-fi fantasy and whatnot that it was completely unnecessary.
	But nonetheless, Cogen articulates all of this very, very well, so please do give that a read.
	And of course, we've got another video from John Wheatley called The Most Relevant Villain in Lord of the Rings, Saruman the Woke.
	How much do you know about Lord of the Rings?
	Not much.
	I watched...
	What did I watch?
	I tried watching the first one.
	It was boring.
	Fair enough.
	All the goblins running about.
	Yeah, I was about eight when I saw The Fellowship of the Ring.
	I was kind of amazed, I suppose, just by the visual scapes on display.
	Yeah.
	Didn't really grasp the political, I suppose, the political content you can actually identify in Tolkien in retrospect, but nonetheless, I'm certainly going to watch this when I get home.
	You probably should too.
	John's videos on Lord of the Rings are absolutely excellent.
	And last of all, please do follow us on Getter.
	This is a growing site.
	Twitter is going to become increasingly less relevant now that I believe Joe Rogan is not on it anymore, is he?
	I don't know if he's left completely, but he joined Getter.
	I'm on Getter as well.
	Follow me on Getter.
	And me.
	I've only got literally four.
	I think four followers.
	Right, yeah.
	It seems to be growing quite fast.
	And yeah, it's great being on Getter.
	I've gone from worrying on Twitter, worrying everything I post, if it's going to get cancelled and taken down, or get me into trouble.
	Now I've gone to worrying how racist it applies to my tweets are going to be on Getter.
	So, yeah, I mean, you've still got that anxiety, but it's just a bit of a different thing.
	Yeah, but it sounds like a huge breath of fresh air for everyone.
	Anyone who's actually interested in free-flowing debates, please follow us on that.
	But that is Art Shields for today.
	So let us begin with whether it is over this time for Boris Johnson.
	Now, as everyone knows, PMQs, rather inconveniently for me, was taking place literally one hour before we went live on this podcast.
	So everything I've prepared might seem somewhat belated, somewhat behind, but we will get to the update at PMQs nonetheless later on.
	We've known for a while that whilst we were all confined to lives in lockdown, the Christmas before last, which led to many of us, myself included, spending time away from family at Christmas for the first time in our lives, our elected government were partying hard and laughing at our expense or so it seems.
	To be honest, they've been laughing at us all along, really, haven't they?
	They weren't partying that hard.
	It was bring your own booze.
	It sounded like a Scottish party, to be honest, where everybody brings their own carry-out and sits with it between their legs.
	In England, people seem to be much more trusting of other people.
	They're going to bring decent booze and everybody shares their booze.
	To be honest, even under the circumstances, that sounds like a pretty fitting way to spend Christmas anyway.
	Had they not locked us all down, I would have no issue with them having any sorts of parties.
	But that was an absolute rave compared to the Christmas that I had, basically spent in front of my blimmin' simulator.
	So, yeah.
	What does it simulate?
	What does it simulate?
	Racing.
	Car racing.
	I probably shouldn't advertise.
	I thought it might be one of these Japanese sex dolls.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, but yes, the clues were everywhere, really, that the government didn't really believe their own policies.
	Dominic Cummings, of course, travelled all the way to Durham to spend a slightly better time in lockdown than the first lockdown.
	And, of course, in June last year, our own health secretary was found cheating on his wife with his political advisor at a time when we were still...
	It's supposed to be socially distancing.
	Neil Ferguson as well, the guy who, like, advised, you know, the doomsday merchant.
	So he's, you know, the guy at UCL who, you know, has the models.
	They've actually been over-engineered.
	Everybody that comes in changes the code, and then they can't actually reconstruct them.
	You put in the same values, get different results each time.
	But, yeah, these models, he's used these models to predict about 15 of the last two pandemics.
	So he's always saying we're all going to die.
	He's got a little bit lucky with COVID. But he cheated on his wife and he cheated with somebody called Antonia Stats.
	So he was leaving the house during lockdown to go and bone Antonia Stats.
	And I just thought it was nice because he obviously works in data and she's called Stats.
	Why is it always a lockdown enthusiast?
	It's almost as if they want their families to be locked up so they can do what they like.
	It's almost as if they know that it's all nonsense.
	I knew it was nonsense as well, so I don't know what everybody's complaining about.
	You should have just been partying as well.
	I was having dinner parties and all the rest of it.
	It was great fun.
	And it was brilliant travelling.
	I was on like three continents.
	I spent the first bit of lockdown in Australia, then I came back, then I went to Dubai to do some shows there because it wasn't lockdown then.
	Yeah, I mean, travelling was great.
	You got a whole row of seats to yourself on the plane, so every flight was like a first-class flight.
	Travelling on the train was great.
	It was always empty.
	So, yeah.
	This sounds like an absolute blast.
	It's a shame that they got to enjoy that, but we, of course, did not.
	I did.
	Oh, you did.
	Well, I'm jealous.
	But if we fast forward to the most recent Christmas, in early December, a video featuring the Conservative Party actually preparing their response in advance for when they were accused of having a party under lockdown.
	Party aide Angela Stratton was seen laughing and gloating at the fact that no social distancing measures were even in place.
	And even after the video emerged, the government still had the front to deny that such a party even happened.
	Then, of course, it emerged a week or so later, if we get the next one up please, John, that the then-candidate Mayor of London, Sean Bailey, had his own party at Tory HQ, which had been described as particularly raucous.
	It took place exactly one year before the feature was published, the 14th of December.
	And things got even worse for Boris Johnson shortly after this, if we get the next one up please, John, as it was revealed that Cabinet Secretary Simon Case removed himself from his role in heading Whitehall's investigation into claims of party being held in Downing Street over the lockdown period, obviously because there's conflicts of interest lying in the fact that the party is supposed to have taken place in his own office, and the inquiry was announced to be finished by Sue Gray.
	Second Permanent Secretary at the Department for Leveling Up Housing and Communities, who apparently has a strong reputation for conducting vigorous internal investigations.
	So, then there were the photos of the No.
	10 Garden Party, which emerged shortly after, which is here, which is believed to have happened under the first lockdown in May 2020.
	There they are, pictured with cheese and wine, apparently.
	You can see Boris alongside his wife, up to 17 staff in the garden, Number 10 has continued to insist that this was a work meeting and Boris has continued to be asked whether he attended the Number 10 party and he has responded either by saying no or dancing around the questions he does.
	Well, it seems like his leadership now is actually at minute to midnight as he said in his own terms.
	So if we get to the next clip up here, or the next page I should say, In light of a leaked email originally sent to 100 Downing Street staff by the Prime Minister's Principal Private Secretary Martin Reynolds.
	So this is a leaked email and if we scroll down we can actually see it.
	The email was reportedly titled with the subject line Socially Distant Drinks.
	Official sensitive number 10 only.
	Mmm.
	Oh dear.
	So if you've got good eyesight, which I don't, I've actually had to type it up here, but the email reads...
	Spent too long in your simulator.
	Yes, I certainly do.
	And after what has been an incredibly busy period, we thought it would be nice to make the most of the lovely weather and have some socially distanced drinks in the number 10 garden this evening.
	Mmm.
	So please join us from 6pm and bring your own booze.
	Walk us.
	Bring your own booze.
	That's the worst bit.
	Yeah.
	That's so, like, I mean, it's just so tight.
	These people are running the country.
	I know.
	They're working hard to come up with these rules that they then break.
	So I think the least the government could do is, like, get them a, you know, bottle of Echo Falls.
	Or perhaps get David Guetta to perform in the garden.
	At least, you know, there would almost be something less offensive about that because they're not hiding behind the fact that they have utter contempt for the taxpayers at this point.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, unless this is revealed as fake, which I highly doubt, it's pretty much case closed.
	It seems perfectly clear that these parties did indeed happen.
	And if we get to the next article up here, eyewitnesses are coming forward to admit that Boris and Carrie were indeed in attendance.
	Surprise, surprise.
	The two eyewitnesses have told the BBC that they saw Mr Johnson and his wife Carrie at the event in the garden.
	And even staffers at Downing Street were reportedly stunned by the arrogance, with one person saying that the idea was unwise, others saying "What the hell?" and "Is this for real?" With this considered, it's kind of amazing that this information didn't come out earlier.
	Yeah.
	In fact, it wasn't until Dominic Cummings was fired that all this information started coming out, like the angry ex-girlfriend just throwing everybody under the bus now.
	Of course, we've got to thank him for all of this.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I've got to say, everybody's on Twitter being like, oh my god, I couldn't go and visit my mum in hospital or whatever.
	And it's like, well, who wants to go and visit an old person in hospital?
	You should be thanking the government for these lockdown rules that stopped you from going and doing something boring so you could stay in and play in your simulator or something instead, you know what I mean?
	Yeah, that was perhaps my excuse for not visiting my den anyway.
	But the BBC has been kind enough to compile a list of all the parties that have happened over lockdown.
	Would you like to see them?
	Yeah.
	Yes, and they've actually compiled it to, in total there were nine, apparently.
	Nine and counting, because of course I'm pretty sure there were...
	More.
	But Boyce was reportedly in attendance at the party on the 15th of December after featuring in a photograph published by the Sunday Mirror, where he can be observed to be surrounded by aides in tinsel hats.
	He, of course, denied doing anything wrong, but as we can see, the chickens are really coming home to roost now.
	And it really is beginning to look like, well, Boris is on the cusp.
	So yeah.
	On the 15th, multiple sources have told the BBC that there was a Christmas quiz for number 10 last year, which would go alongside of the tinsel hats being worn, a photo that was...
	We saw two colleagues alongside Mr Johnson in his seat in Cabinet.
	I mean, if that's not a clue for a Christmas party happening, I do not know what is.
	We, of course, didn't see them.
	Christmas crackers.
	Christmas crackers, of course.
	Are also a clue.
	Yeah.
	I mean, if there was actually footage of Boris Johnson playing past the parcel...
	Did you play that at Christmas?
	Do I? Yeah.
	Yes.
	Past the parcel?
	Yeah, as an adult, yeah.
	You're playing past the parcel as an adult at Christmas?
	Yes, we started it as children.
	And what's actually happened is that we continued the tradition in anticipation that my side of the family would actually have children so that we could play the games for them.
	But none of us actually did, because as it turns out, we're all incels.
	So we're actually keeping up the tradition by playing it as adults, of whom I am now one of the youngest.
	Right.
	So you know when...
	I mean, I know that this is probably an exaggerated or a bad example for, suppose, conservative thinking, but...
	You could say, if it ain't broke, don't fix it.
	It's a ritual that seems to work.
	It brings families together, but at the same time, you are kind of an adult playing pass the parcel.
	I'm not entirely sure how I feel about that, but nonetheless.
	What was in the middle of the parcel this year?
	A notepad.
	Like a paper?
	Yes.
	Like a nice one?
	Yeah, it was relatively nice.
	Nicer than the ones I normally buy myself, and it had a nice pen in it as well.
	Oh, right.
	So yes, it's still worth playing just for that.
	But anyway, it is beginning to look like Boris is on the cusp a little bit this time, if we get the independent article up here.
	Because before this even happened, on Christmas Day, a poll revealed that a majority of Conservative voters at the last general election wants Boris Johnson replaced as party leader and Prime Minister next year.
	60% of all voters said they backed the idea of the Conservatives ditching Mr Johnson.
	35% were strongly in support.
	And in 2019, this figure of those who were from the same poll, who were in favour of Boris Johnson being ditched, was just 53%.
	Still not a particularly flattering figure for Mr Johnson, but this was in the midst of Brexit being the absolute S show that it was, I suppose.
	And, of course, since the news about the email emerged, if we get the next one up here, Senior Tory started to tell the PM that he should know that his own game is beginning to look a little bit up now, or at least he needs to offer some clarification on what he knows.
	and one of the most scathing in response to the emails was the ex-leader of the Scottish Conservatives, Ruth Davidson, who said the boys should not wait idly for the outcome of the inquiry before he confesses and Ruth said that the Prime Minister should not wait for the outcome of it before admitting his attendance.
	This line won't survive 48 hours, she said.
	Nobody needs an official to tell them that they are at a boozy shindig in their own garden.
	People are rightly furious, they sacrifice so much, visiting sick or grieving relatives' funerals.
	What the F were any of these people thinking?
	Yes, pretty much.
	They're that's probably mirrors the attitude of the entire country.
	Lord Barwell, Theresa May's former chief of staff echoed the sentiment saying, let me put this politely, it is not entirely clear why the Prime Minister needs to wait for Sugare's report and find out if he went to a party in his own garden.
	Basically, Boris, just admit that you misjudged this, is pretty much the message from the Conservatives at the moment.
	And it's getting worse and worse the more he, the more he puts it off.
	And some have got so fed up with it, if we go on to the next article, that they believe he should actually resign should it become, needless to say, obvious that he is lying about everything here.
	Nigel Mills MP said it would be a resigning matter if he was found to have been at the event.
	I would say to anybody who organised or willingly attended a party at that time, they can't possibly stay in his position.
	That's what he said to Times Radio.
	And he added, I just can't see how anybody who broke the rules in such a blatant way at the worst possible part of the pandemic can possibly remain in a position to have any influence over COVID policy.
	And another person who recalled for Boris's resignation was Douglas Ross, leader of the Scottish Conservatives.
	Well, not directly, but basically said, look, if this is the case, that Boris has proven to have been disingenuous here, he's got to consider his position.
	And the same applies to Peter Cardwell, former special advisor to Mr Johnson, who said the PM must level with the country today and explain whether he attended the drinks events.
	And you're probably all wondering where Keir Starmer has been in this, and this has been his position up to this point, saying that his deflections and distractions are utterly absurd, but of course we are now at a much more serious point down the line.
	So I'm going to fast forward in this debate, or in this segment, To give the update to cover where we actually are now with respect to Prime Minister's questions.
	So, in short, Boris has said, given these revelations that have come out, he's very, very sorry to the people who believe that he attended a Christmas party at 10 Downing Street over the aforementioned Christmas period.
	He admits that he was in attendance, but it was only for 25 minutes.
	And it was only for the purpose of showing how much he appreciated all the hard work people had actually done over that time.
	Are you allowed to break the COVID rules for 25 minutes?
	Yes.
	All right, cool.
	Yes, if you're the Prime Minister.
	And for as long as your sacrosanct judgment warrants that you believed the people working for you to have done a good enough job.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	So he started off a tribute to Jack Dromey, the Labour MP who died.
	They died this week.
	And then he went on to apologise, not very convincingly, saying that many have made extraordinary sacrifices.
	He knew the rage, why people were angry with him, the government he leads.
	Have not perhaps followed the rules as well as they should.
	And although he cannot anticipate the results of the Sue Gray inquiry, he knows that there are many things he and the government has not got right.
	He said Downing Street is a bit complex.
	Downing Street is a bit complex.
	I went into the garden.
	It was all in good faith.
	It was a work event.
	He left after 25 minutes.
	But now he knows he should have ended the event, which, of course, he didn't seem to have any intention of doing because he looked quite comfortable eating cheese and wine.
	And Keir Starmer, as you can see here, has now had the spine to call Boris Johnson to resign.
	This is about an hour after his performance at Prime Minister's Questions, where he said the following.
	There we have it, the pathetic spectacle of a man who has run out of road.
	His defence that he did not realise he was at a party is offensive to the British public.
	Is he now going to do the decent thing and resign?
	As for resigning, he doesn't think that Starmer should pre-empt the grey inquiry.
	So, yes, in short, Keir Starmer has now had the balls to call on Boris Johnson to resign and has said, if the PM is so contemptuous of the public that he thinks he can ride this out, he should have the decency just to admit he's got this wrong and not wait for, as I've said, the inquiry to come out and say that...
	Because this is ultimately going to destroy his legacy more than he already has, really.
	Yeah, yeah.
	I mean, you never want to be sort of pushed out.
	No.
	It's, you know, Tony Blair left.
	I mean, maybe that's a bad example.
	I was going to say with his head held high.
	It's not so high now, but I mean, at least he left rather than, you know, what happened to Thatcher getting hoisted out by your own party and crying in the Jaguar.
	The crazy thing about Boris is he's really managed to snatch defeat from the jaws of victory here because for all that everybody slams the UK government's handling of coronavirus, compared to other countries, they've done relatively well.
	So we're in a place now where we can just come out of lockdown and there aren't really restrictions in England.
	In the satellite states of the UK, so Scotland and Wales, there are restrictions, but that's because it's Devolution's fault.
	Devolution is a terrible idea.
	And if you look at other countries like Ireland, they're still very heavily locked down.
	And they've been heavily locked down.
	So the UK was doing really well.
	Boris did relatively well.
	And he's really managed to just hoof the ball over the crossbar at the last moment.
	Yeah, he has.
	I mean, I'm not sure how you think about this analogy, but with politicians, it's almost exactly the opposite to rock stars, isn't it?
	With rock stars, it's better to burn out than it is to fade away.
	With politicians, it's kind of the opposite.
	As you say, Tony Blair ended, I would say, what was a pretty scathing legacy on himself.
	of course people feel differently about that, by stepping aside when he felt the shadows looming over his head.
	Gordon Brown basically took the flak for the rest of his legacy, for the rest of New Labour's tenure.
	Boris Johnson is not doing that.
	He's almost burning out, burning and blowing up in plain sight.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And he's always been quite sort of Teflon.
	He's had so many scandals and all the rest of it.
	But he's always weathered them because he's got this popularity, but now he's lost the popularity with...
	If 66% of people want him to go, he's lost that popularity.
	He did lead the Tories to an unprecedented landslide.
	Yeah, but how much can we credit, what was it, Jeremy Corbyn for that as well?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah.
	And the state of the Labour Party in general, its fractured state of which still pertains, really, under Keir Starmer.
	If anything, it's arguably even worse, because they're still flirting with the same lunatic policies, but just not being able to define what a woman is, for a start.
	Well, they've lost the sort of the hardcore socialist...
	I think they're actually polling slightly lower than Jeremy Corbyn did.
	So it's around 36%, is it?
	Well, at least with Jeremy Corbyn, you had a proper opposition.
	As in, he actually went for the kill on socialist principles at five minutes' questions and didn't do so very well.
	But at least he was presenting a counter-argument.
	Yeah, the opposition now, Keir Starmer, with all the Covid policies, instead of, like, opposing them or questioning them, Keir's like, can we have more of them?
	Can we do them a bit harder?
	The de facto opposition, in fact, with the Tory backbenchers, who said, like, Boris, don't do this or we'll kick you out.
	It's like the 1922 committee.
	And ultimately, I think Boris' relationship with them at this point is going to be pretty unsavable.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And for that reason, I'm going to call this and say this is the beginning of the end of Boris Johnson.
	It does seem as if he's chosen the burnout option rather than the fadeaway option, as in he's willing basically to let his fate or his legacy be decided at the hands of Susan Gray, who's now leading the inquiry.
	Right.
	So we're going to have to see how this plays out.
	It's probably not going to play out very well for him.
	But yes, I suppose that is very much it until we hear more.
	So Leo, would you like to talk about COVID fascism?
	Yes, I would!
	I would.
	So, I mean, this is pretty much the direct result of the policies that our governments were making that thrust us into lockdown while they were partying and having their bring-your-own-bottle parties at 10 Downing Street or, you know, driving to Durham or having affairs with whoever.
	So, yeah, I mean, last week I spoke about the top sort of COVID bedwetters, so people who are, you know, being total crybabies about COVID. And this week I've got the top COVID fascists.
	Brilliant.
	So police and other jumped up little badge wearers who have, you know, overstepped the mark.
	So the first one, the first one made me...
	It really made me laugh.
	So the police, you know, the police were going around, you know, queering anybody who's outside the house.
	So many of my friends were, one of my friends was, he had the police try and arrest him for walking his dog.
	They said he was too far away from his house.
	And he said, well, the park near my house is like busy.
	So I thought it'd be safer to come to this park.
	And he managed to talk them out of fining him.
	Another one of my friends was fined for £200 for walking his dog with nobody around.
	And yeah, like, so the police were going around.
	You've got to understand, if you're a beat officer, you might not be the smartest tool in the box, and you're used to all these laws, and you've got a whole bunch of new laws to enforce.
	I wish they'd enforced the old laws.
	Somebody broke into my car last year, nicked my camera gear, and the police did nothing.
	They didn't even attempt to.
	I wish I'd said that the person also misgendered me, or wasn't wearing a mask, because then they might have put the riot gear on for that.
	Oh yeah, the SWAT team, you know, woo woo woo!
	But yeah, basically this woman was breastfeeding her baby in the park and the police came along and said she had to finish because it was a picnic.
	What?
	The breastfeeding baby was a picnic.
	I don't think it is a picnic.
	Unless you've got a bottle of Prosecco and some sliced chorizo and cheese and stuff.
	It's not a picnic.
	Breast milk is just one element of a picnic.
	But you definitely need some sort of artisanal bread.
	It's the only part of the picnic that her child can actually eat, I believe, at that age.
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's hardly a luxury.
	They're not allowed Prosecco.
	So, yeah, this was in Hove, which is on the south coast of England.
	Of course, Green Party territory.
	But this wasn't the only crazy thing that the police did.
	If we move on to the next one...
	So, people...
	People were going to this lake.
	So if you scroll down, you can see this beautiful lake.
	People were going walking there.
	So the police thought, well, we can't have people walking here.
	We need to dissuade them.
	So they decided to dye the lake black.
	Right.
	So we're actually resorting to pollution now.
	Purposeful pollution.
	Purposeful pollution.
	You can see it there.
	It looks like an oil slick.
	What is the matter with them?
	It's like the Exxon Valdez.
	And yeah, this is ridiculous.
	And obviously for any fish or any aquatic life in the pond, that's really going to change.
	Not only the chemicals in the paint, but also the ability for light to enter the lake.
	It's going to change the temperature of the lake because black is more absorbent of light, so it will raise the ambient temperature of the lake.
	It's really...
	A terrible, terrible thing to do.
	It literally looks like a family of octopuses has exploded on the coast.
	Yeah, yeah, it does.
	So yeah, and it says there, it's not the first time dye has been added to the pool.
	I don't know why they do that.
	I can't believe police resources are being diverted to put dye in lakes.
	It's just, it's bizarre.
	So yeah, I mean, these are some of the sillier ones.
	If we move on, the next one is kind of more sinister.
	So, police.
	Basically, this grandma, she's 82 years old.
	She had a socially distanced cup of tea in communal gardens with her friends, as somebody would do.
	There's no risk of coronavirus.
	Coronavirus doesn't spread well in the outdoors.
	Spreads well in enclosed spaces.
	And she lives in sheltered housing.
	She's probably lonely.
	She wanted to see her friends.
	Why shouldn't she be able to see her friends socially distanced?
	It's totally safe.
	No, the police turned up.
	Not only did they turn up, they turned up at 9.45pm.
	What?
	Banging down her door and accusing her of breaching lockdown guidelines.
	I mean, she was doing much less than Downing Street were doing.
	Yeah.
	She's just, you know, sitting in a little deck chair, having a cup of tea.
	And yeah, they turned up and they didn't show her any identification.
	And she was obviously terrified.
	She's never been in trouble with the police in her life.
	She's 82.
	She didn't think she'd be in trouble with the police now.
	And yeah, the worst thing is...
	The police received a report of a potential COVID breach.
	So somebody...
	Somebody must have grassed up these old women.
	Some curtain-twitching little nonce.
	What a bad sport.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	Like, man, this was the thing about lockdown.
	It really brought out the little snitchy side of people.
	The police had over 200,000 reports in, I think, the first week of lockdown.
	And...
	I remember somebody on my...
	I might have spoken about it last...
	Yeah, Matt Green, this comedian.
	I actually saw him in the gym once.
	Just the worst body I've ever seen on a man.
	It was like a teenage girl, like a 12-year-old teenage girl.
	Not that I've seen 12-year-old teenage girl bodies, but just no muscle definition, just total female body fat distribution.
	The guy doesn't have an ounce of testosterone in his body.
	Actually, an ounce would probably be far too much.
	He doesn't have a microgram.
	He doesn't have a nanomole of testosterone on his body.
	So, yeah, this little pink-faced, gimpy guy.
	Not a good comedian either.
	He posted on Facebook, we were like, oh, my neighbours are having a barbecue!
	There's more than six of them there!
	Oh, what should I do?
	Should I phone the police?
	It's like, no, don't just mind your own business!
	No wonder they didn't invite you, Matt, you little nonce.
	Just stay in your...
	stop twitching your curtains!
	He deserves to be called Karen for life.
	Yeah, yeah.
	He should be putting, like the end of Wicker Man, he should be putting one of those anyway.
	But yeah, so some little curtain twitcher grasped up these old women as well.
	So yeah, man, I just find...
	How much spare time must you have to stare outside of your window, look at these ladies and think, you know what, they don't deserve to have a chat.
	Yeah, an 82-year-old woman just having a nice cup of tea with her friends and somebody's incensed, phoning the police.
	Absolutely disgusting.
	Unbelievable, really.
	Absolutely disgusting.
	Also, man, she's 82.
	She probably doesn't care if she gets coronavirus.
	She's lived a life.
	As is her Right.
	What's the point of living in lockdown?
	So many people lived in lockdown and then just died.
	Because you die eventually.
	You're probably more likely to die if you don't have any social contact.
	So yeah, she's made a choice.
	This is the thing.
	I think we should be allowed to take responsibility for our own health.
	So yeah, fair play to her and boo to whoever reported them and boo to the police for not just...
	The police are allowed to exercise some common sense, and if it's an 82-year-old woman having a cup of tea, man, that is not crime of the century.
	But you know why the police went round?
	It's easier than tackling.
	They're going to want to do that instead of go and tackle some 18-stone guy who's just been in trouble for smashing up somebody's face.
	Or breaking into someone's car.
	Or breaking into someone's car.
	Somebody broke into my car, nicked my stuff, police didn't.
	They phoned me up, they gave me a crime record number.
	And I was like, yeah, but what about solving the crime?
	I don't just want a number.
	I want my stuff back.
	I want you to get whoever did it and apply electrodes to their testicles.
	I want to know who it is so I can go and raise their village to the ground.
	It's very, very hard to not call them cowards at times when you hear stories like this.
	They are cowards.
	They are cowards.
	And I reckon I could batter most of them.
	So the next story, this is, I mean, it made me sad in lockdown how children...
	You must have seen the pictures of children in the...
	They demarcated the playground into squares that were like two metres by two metres.
	Sadly, I haven't.
	And the children were like sitting in the squares on their own.
	And bear in mind, coronavirus...
	It doesn't really affect children.
	It has a very minimal effect on children.
	I mean, apart from Omicron's come out and has more symptoms in children.
	Thank God, because children deserve it, because they're annoying.
	But yeah, it's sad seeing them all.
	Think of the damage that that's going to do to young minds.
	You've got to socialise and interact with other children to grow up and become...
	Incels like us.
	But yeah, so basically, Chinese children had to wear one metre wide hats.
	I think they've got photos.
	One metre?
	One metre.
	The hats have got these sticks.
	What?
	On each side to make sure.
	To make sure.
	No, no, no.
	Someone's done this for a joke, surely.
	No, no.
	This is to stop them.
	Although the sticks aren't, like, staying out.
	They're just flopping down.
	They look like the car in Dumb and Dumber.
	Um...
	That is just extraordinary.
	Yeah, yeah, this is how.
	There we go.
	Oh, they're sticking it there.
	I mean, it looks like this is more like an arts and crafts club with masks.
	Yeah, look at that one on the right!
	They're compelled to wear these.
	The one on the right, he's going to run through a doorway.
	It's going to be like a Springer Spaniel carrying a stick in his mouth.
	He's going to give himself whiplash.
	This is ridiculous.
	I really felt it was a shame that children are having to do all the social distancing or stay at home away from their friends.
	I mean, how old are these kids?
	What, 8, 9, 10, something like that?
	Well, they're not 45, are they?
	Not 45.
	What gets me is that in between 0 and 5, the facial interactions that children have with their mothers or humans in general are, I think, the most vital, that they actually carry forward that social intelligence for the rest of their lives.
	If they grew up only seeing people wearing masks, that's going to have a serious knock-on effect, isn't it?
	Oh yeah, absolutely.
	and you know given that you know we're already in a society where children are sort of spending too long people everybody's spending too long on their phones and you know quite sort of isolated and you know loneliness is a growing problem for people not just for not just for old people but also kids and also for apparently male loneliness is a problem a lot of men report feeling lonely and a lot of men report not having any close friends Yeah.
	There's a serious male loneliness epidemic in both South Korea and Japan, which we're flirting frighteningly close with at the moment.
	Maybe we should become pen pals with people in, did you say North Korea or South Korea?
	No, no, South Korea.
	Well, is there no problem in North Korea?
	Apparently not.
	Right.
	Well, maybe the problem is having other things to worry about, like having enough food.
	But, yeah, so, I mean, yeah, I think this is ridiculous, you know, making children suffer for something that barely affects them.
	And if we move on to the next one, so the SNP, this was disgusting.
	The SNP... This is at New Year's.
	The picture on the left is there's all these grannies and old fellas eating and drinking in a bar.
	And the police came in under the orders of the SNP. Because at New Year's you weren't allowed to...
	They brought in all these regulations.
	So loads of Scottish people went down to Newcastle and Manchester and places like that to party for New Year's.
	Which obviously doesn't help It doesn't help stop the spread of COVID. You're cramming everybody onto packed train carriages.
	And the people who stayed in Glasgow got arrested for...
	You know, they're just out having a pint of lager.
	It's ridiculous.
	Absolutely ridiculous.
	Like there's no crime in Glasgow to deal with.
	They're going to arrest these law-abiding folk or just come out for a drink.
	And then, look, oh, but sometimes it's okay.
	Here's Nicola Sturgeon, who's the Führer of Scotland, praising...
	I was actually at this protest.
	I was protesting to get them back in the van.
	But it's right around the corner from my mum's house.
	But yeah, this...
	So this was...
	The Home Office came along to...
	To arrest or detain two illegal immigrants to deport them.
	And all the people in Glasgow came out to stop and lie down in front of the van and all the rest of it.
	Nicola Sturgeon, obviously, because it's a chance to fight against the UK government, came out and was all criticising the Home Office and praising the people who came out in the protest to stop these guys getting deported.
	But they're definitely not socially distancing.
	I saw this all the way through the lockdown.
	Anytime there was something that Nicola Sturgeon was against, let's say Rangers fans getting together, she'd come out and she'd condemn them for spreading coronavirus and disobeying lockdown rules.
	And it's like, well, then when they're doing something woke or doing something that politically suits you...
	We saw this with the entire George Floyd uprising, didn't we?
	Yeah.
	Where social distancing seemed to have become publicly unfashionable overnight as soon as the mobilisation started, the riots started, and then everyone thought that...
	The rejection of that principle was somewhat progressive.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it's ridiculous.
	Yeah, but if it's in virtue of multiculturalism to Nicola Sturgeon, then it's fine.
	Yeah.
	We've actually got a clip of the arrests and it's pretty sad.
	So yeah, you've got to click on see video because it contains sensitive events.
	You're under arrest.
	So people are legit arrested and bundled into vans for having a drink at a bar on Hogmanay.
	That's what they call me yours as well.
	Right?
	Made two arrests.
	They're a couple.
	Look, they're all like, 60.
	They're all like, 60 and 70.
	Are these people really a threat to civilisation?
	Yeah, is that me?
	Then you see like an old guy getting, and the police are really quite antagonising it.
	Weren't they focusing on the trend of mixing eye through Jägerlice?
	Yeah, and also, like, the policeman's, like, touching him, the policeman's, like, talking to him right in his face and stuff.
	That's going to spread coronavirus.
	If you add, like, 20 cops to a situation, you're increasing the number of bodies there, the amount of breathing and coughing and all the rest of it.
	You're not wearing masks, are they?
	I think some of them are, yeah.
	Oh, one of that ones, yeah.
	I'm not allowed to swear.
	I'm 64 years of age.
	64 years old.
	- He's a man in Glasgow.
	- No, no, you're a man in Glasgow.
	- No, you've got me full of... - You've got me in Glasgow in my face. - You've got me in Glasgow in my face. - I know, but you're full of me.
	Yeah, just, man, like, the police...
	Because obviously it's easier to intimidate a 64-year-old law-abizing citizen than it is to actually go out and deal with a horrible scum who actually commit crimes.
	Yeah, and to deal with someone who might actually have a knife.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The thing is, violent crime has been going up for a while, but because of the riots and everything, especially in America, violent crime has been shooting up, murders especially, and the police would rather do all this lockdown theatre than do their actual job.
	So that they can go home and still feel like the big men, but they're not?
	Yeah, yeah, totally.
	Shame on them.
	I got stopped by policing an Uber, and so I'm sitting in the back.
	So yeah, we can stop watching that.
	I got stopped by the police in an Uber and they said to me and my missus, the policeman stuck his head in the window.
	I'm like, what's going on?
	How long are we going to be kept here?
	We've been here like 15 minutes already.
	And he's like, your Uber doesn't meet the code or whatever.
	And the policeman was like, I wouldn't get in an Uber like this.
	Like, totally being antagonistic, you know what I mean?
	So, my missus is a barrister, so she jumped out of the car and was ready to rip his face off.
	And the other cops had to move him up.
	They were like...
	The guy was being a dick.
	You know what I mean?
	And also, man, I wish I'd got his name or whatever because he was trying to grow a beard and he couldn't grow a beard.
	And he's like criticising our Uber.
	And in the end, we were allowed to go about our business because the Uber turned out it was fine.
	So, yeah.
	Oh dear.
	Talking of masturbation, health officials also got involved in people's sex lives.
	Of course they did.
	This was in Canada.
	Who would have thought some nonsensical woke policy would come from Canada?
	It blew my mind.
	It said lovers should wear a face covering or mask during intercourse.
	The only mask you should wear during intercourse is a gimp mask.
	That is all.
	Or one of those ones that's got the dildo coming out the mouth.
	And choose sexual positions that limit face-to-face contact.
	I'm just waiting for Justin Trudy to announce state-funded porn at this point.
	Oh, man, if Justin Trudeau ever announces state-funded porn, you know it's going to be child porn.
	That guy's a turbo nonce.
	And if Justin Trudeau's lawyers are watching, like, man, since you called me a racist misogynist, I'm calling you a turbo nonce.
	Eye for an eye.
	Yeah, he won't even know what a turbo nonce is.
	Of course he won't.
	He doesn't know that many words.
	No, it's somebody who puts boot polish on their face at a party.
	So yeah, health officials were also recommending that people use glory holes while having sex to protect themselves against any potential coronavirus threat.
	So glory hole is like a hole that's cut in a bathroom, the wall of a bathroom stall, and it sort of adds a frisson of excitement because you don't know if your mum or maybe your dad's on the other side.
	And for people in Canada, for public health officials, for some reason they think this is going to limit the spread of coronavirus, even though it means you've got to go to a bathroom and touch the surfaces and all that, which is going to increase coronavirus.
	Also, coronavirus spreads in fecal materials, so bathrooms aren't a good place.
	Very well thought out, this, isn't it?
	Yeah, and also there's other diseases.
	There's other sorts of diseases you can get from sticking your hole through...
	Sticking your dick through a hole in a bathroom wall.
	Anyway, if we move on to the next one, we can see the lockdown policy was putting lesbians at risk.
	And that is not on in 2022.
	If we scroll down, you can see a hand.
	Oh, what's on the end of the hand?
	Just an arm.
	So, police in the UK caught a lesbian couple separated during lockdown, defying state home orders to have outdoor sex in sub-zero temperatures.
	Imagine how hard their nipples were.
	I can't.
	I can't.
	Man, would have cut diamond.
	So, yeah, I mean, this, man, like, they're...
	People want a bone?
	Just let them bone.
	Why are they going and arresting?
	I don't know.
	It's just ridiculous.
	I found it utterly, utterly ridiculous.
	This micromanaging of people's lives.
	So yeah, the next one goes back to we're away from the sex.
	And this is a police helicopter.
	Bear in mind, you know how much helicopters cost to operate?
	An awful lot.
	It's an awful lot.
	That is exactly right.
	That is the number I've got written down.
	So they used a helicopter to yell at sunbathers.
	What?
	There's a video of it, if you scroll down.
	There's a little TikTok...
	TikTok, there we go.
	This is in Australia.
	Have you ever heard a siren and warning from a police helicopter?
	That's a very annoying noise.
	I hate that TikTok robot voice.
	I'm not being funny, TikTok is a load of shit.
	It's bad.
	It was weird, man.
	I had lockdown, the first bit of lockdown.
	I came back because I thought lockdown was over.
	I got that one wrong.
	But I had the first lockdown in Australia and it was wicked.
	It was Western Australia and the police weren't doing anything because there wasn't any coronavirus.
	You could go to the beach and have barbecues and all the rest of it.
	It was like being in the Tory party.
	And yeah, this is a helicopter telling all the people to get away!
	You're going to get arrested for going to the beach!
	Even though going to the beach, you're going to boost your vitamin D and you're getting fresh air, so it's actually pretty healthy.
	And you're in the company with other rational beings who want the same, which is another reason why people go to public places.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, it almost says a lot about, I suppose, the inclinations of those who make such decisions, given that they're willing to go as far as wasting money on a helicopter to transmit such a pathetic message rather than being a man and actually living up to just how pathetic your voice sounds when uttering those words.
	But actually making a physical image on the beach in front of people, not hiding behind a bloody helicopter.
	I was at the beach in Perth.
	This was before a lot.
	This was like 2019, I think.
	Pardon me.
	And there was a shark in the water and the helicopter came along.
	So the police came down.
	There's a fisherman who said there's a shark out there.
	And you could see the fin, but they weren't sure if it was a dolphin or if it was a shark or whatever.
	The fisherman was certain it was a shark.
	And then the helicopter came down to scare it out further out to sea.
	It's quite scary because apparently a lot of shark attacks happen in quite shallow water.
	Oh, yeah.
	So...
	Bill Burr's got a great bit about shark attacks, about how people say they happen within 100 feet of the beach or whatever.
	And it's like, yeah, that's where the people are.
	I mean, nobody's swimming.
	They're not going to get somebody in the Mid-Atlantic.
	But anyway, next one is these women.
	Women on exercise trips surrounded by police.
	And if we scroll down, we can see that the women are attractive.
	And that's why the police surrounded them.
	They're just having a socially distanced walk with their lattes, a nice gingerbread latte for the cold weather, and they got surrounded by the police, because obviously the police would much rather surround some hot women than go and catch criminals.
	I mean, the whole lockdown thing, I think, part of the reason they had it was so the police could stop doing any work and just go and hang around, have an excuse to hang around with hot women.
	I wonder whether that courtship tactic actually works.
	They fined them £200 each.
	Yeah, probably not.
	And they said the drinks were not allowed as they were classed as a picnic, honestly.
	Man, picnics.
	It's not a picnic.
	I've been on picnics.
	You've got to go to Waitrose.
	You've got to spend a lot of money on calamari and olives.
	Yeah, and you've got to go to M&S for a blanket.
	Oh yeah, M&S do a good deli deal.
	Seven quid for three things.
	Here we've got a Brisbane man suffering a heart attack while he's arrested for not wearing a mask.
	Because of course all this is done for the good of our health.
	And what's healthier than bullying someone into having a heart attack?
	Putting them through that stress.
	So yeah, that didn't seem to improve.
	And also, man, all the times the police get involved and start grabbing people, that's spreading coronavirus.
	Yeah.
	And also the police, a lot of them could be asymptomatic because they tend to be young.
	So yeah, ridiculous.
	There really is something sick at the heart of Australia's governance, isn't there?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, the weird thing about Australia is, you know, everybody's so like, you know, everyone you meet is so down to earth and just up for a laugh and stuff.
	Yeah, and no nonsensies.
	But then, yeah, the government and the police are just so, so authoritarian and so strict.
	It's a weird...
	When this is all over, and it will be over, it really should be over now, to be honest, we shouldn't let the Australian government get away with the things that they have done.
	Nor the Dutch government at present that literally let dogs onto protesters.
	That is sick.
	The next time ISIS try and establish a caliphate stretching across the Western world, we let them do it.
	Because it'd be more fun.
	Everybody gets a pickup truck and an AK-47.
	And it wouldn't be any more authoritarian.
	The next one is supermarkets...
	I thought the whole reason for Brexit was we weren't going to get pop-ups about cookies anymore.
	I thought we were going to get rid of them, because we don't have to abide by Brussels rules about cookies.
	But no, I've spent my whole life, the amount of hours I've wasted clicking, accepting cookies.
	Anyway, so this is supermarkets across Wales wrapping up non-essential items.
	So people could go to the shops, but look at this.
	What is that?
	That is plastic pollution, is what that is.
	So they were saying, you know, no, you can't buy underpants because they're non-essential.
	No tampons.
	Yeah, they wrapped up the tampons so women couldn't get tampons.
	You tell me tampons aren't essential?
	That is like something the Taliban would do.
	Maybe ISIS did establish that caliphate.
	I would love to see the reaction of the person who, in the morning, was given that task.
	Oh, yeah.
	Of wrapping that crap up.
	Where are you going to get the cling film that's big enough?
	And also, what if the cling film's already wrapped up?
	Because it's a non-essential item.
	But, yeah, it's ridiculous.
	So, yeah, loads of stuff just blocked off.
	Waste of beer right there.
	You can go...
	Yeah, and who's to say what's essential?
	And if I'm in the shop anyway, what's the problem with me getting some stuff?
	There's an essential item right there, beer.
	The whole thing was ridiculous.
	Yeah, look at this.
	All the clothes fenced off.
	Yeah, they're turning what is literally into a prison.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, for mannequins.
	Yeah.
	Prison for mannequins.
	The next one is the police using drone technology.
	So if you play the video, it's quite nice footage.
	But this is Kerbar Edge, somewhere in Derbyshire.
	This is Derbyshire Police filmed this.
	So they're saying these vehicles shouldn't be here.
	Even though going to the outdoors, whereas these people aren't spreading coronavirus, there's no one near them.
	So, you know, and it's not like I can understand the argument with, you know, large scale events where even though it's in the open, people are using the same toilets.
	Like, no, you're just going to go and take a dump behind a bush.
	So nobody's spreading coronavirus.
	They're saying it's not essential.
	It's like just somebody going for a walk.
	What difference does it make?
	It looks like a nice place to go for a walk, actually.
	So, Derbyshire, which is somewhere in the country of England.
	This is just done by Mission Impossible enthusiasts who literally had nothing better to do at that time.
	Oh, man, yeah.
	Like, they've got a drone.
	There's nothing else going on, so they get to go for a walk.
	The police get to go for a walk and fly their drone and have fun like that.
	But not us.
	Of course not.
	So, yeah, the government advice is clear.
	You should only travel if it's essential!
	I mean, I wish the government would follow it.
	So, yeah.
	That's just beyond desperate.
	It doesn't look crowded, does it?
	Oh, no.
	Man, that was the other thing.
	All these people on my Facebook would be sharing photos of, like, crowded beaches or crowded parks.
	And they'd be like, look at all these idiots in the park!
	And it's like, you're in the park as well.
	You took that photo.
	You know what I mean?
	Yeah.
	But anyway, this is in Canada, where citizens, there's a van, you can't hear it, but there's a van going around telling everybody to go home before the curfew, or they're going to get fined 5,000 to 6,000 Canadian dollars, which is about 25 quid.
	So, yeah, curfews are important because obviously coronavirus can only spread.
	Coronavirus wears a watch and knows to only spread after 8pm or 10pm or whatever.
	Yeah, and goes to sleep when everyone has to go out to go to work, obviously.
	And it can count as well.
	So if you've got six people, it knows that it can't spread.
	But if you've got seven, if you had another person...
	Then it knows it can spread.
	And when you happen to be eating a hot dog on a train, it just leaves you alone for that moment.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And it can spread when you're walking through a restaurant, but not when you're sitting down at the table eating your food.
	Coronavirus is very clever for a virus that doesn't have a central nervous system.
	Curfews, of course, are a great idea because it forces everybody to come out during the same concentrated set hours, so everybody mingles together during that time, instead of spreading out people leaving the house over a wider period.
	So everybody knows that coronavirus can't spread when lots of people are mingling together.
	And the final one that I've got, if we go on to the next one, so this, if we play it from, I think it's about 50 seconds in.
	So it's Spanish police arresting someone.
	I just love it.
	I mean, at least in this country, the police tend not to do stuff like this.
	But yeah, look what it does.
	What?
	How did he do that for?
	Because he's a police officer in a country that's not the UK. Man, you don't want to get in trouble with the police in any other country.
	He's even slamming his own car door.
	He's annoyed.
	Policia.
	Look at him.
	Tom Cruise in Mission Impossible 5.
	I thought it was actually cheering him on, cheering the police on.
	Because people, this is the thing, people had huge support for all this lockdown nonsense.
	And they loved it.
	I think this is why it's going to bring down Boris Johnson.
	Because that support has been curdled.
	Everybody thought the government was upholding, upstanding and doing the right thing.
	And it turns out it wasn't.
	The government was doing exactly what I was doing, which was having fun and ignoring all the rules.
	Well, the only people who are having fun in all of this, really, are those who have inherited, really, or assumed to have such levels of authority that they never thought they would ever get to enjoy.
	You could see that in arguably Chris Whitty, who is almost now the overlord of the UK's destiny on COVID. Sir Chris Whitty.
	Sir Chris Whitty, yes.
	And it's no wonder that he wants to keep us all kind of suppressed into a culture of fear because he's never been so relevant.
	He's worked towards this throughout his entire life.
	Governments...
	And the pandemic's probably the best thing that ever happened to him for his career, to be perfectly honest.
	Governments love...
	Things like this because it increases government power and it gives them opportunities to graft money away.
	Look at Owen Paterson.
	So Owen Paterson was a Tory MP who was lobbying on behalf of Randox and taking backhanders from Randox as well.
	And that's why he had to stand down.
	And that really damaged Boris Johnson as well.
	But lots of them.
	Transparency International said that 20% of the fast-track VIP COVID contracts are dodgy, are corrupt.
	So that's all that money just going to the government cronies and obviously they're getting it handed back.
	So, you know, it's corruption and it's stealing taxpayers' money.
	And it has to end.
	It's absolutely disgusting.
	And it has to end.
	The government will now want to continue it because they don't want that gravy train to end for them.
	And they can increase power.
	And when you've got fear in the population, so the Nazis used fear to subjugate the population.
	Because when people are afraid, they denounce each other.
	So they'll grass each other up.
	And do all that kind of stuff.
	And they found that 42% of denunciations under the Nazis were actually baseless.
	So people were just doing it to settle scores or because they didn't like somebody.
	So all this is just an open door for abuse.
	Yeah, it is 100%.
	And on the subject of monolithic political forces, we do have one more thing to discuss.
	We don't have too long, unfortunately, but it concerns the Pope and the Pope's unprecedented attack on council culture.
	He is, of course, the leader of the Catholic Church and, as a result, probably the most powerful institutional figure in the Christian world, but he's been observed on many occasions to have been a little bit woke.
	As popes often go.
	We can get a summary of this from his Wikipedia page, which shows that he's maintained his traditional view of the church regarding abortion, clerical celibacy and the ordination of women, but has initiated dialogue on the possibility of deaconesses and has made women form members of the castries in the Roman Curia.
	He maintains that the church should be more open for members of the LGBT community.
	In international diplomacy, he's helped restore diplomatic relations between The US and Cuba and supported the cause of refugees between the European and Central American migrant crises.
	So he seems like a socially progressive Pope.
	Not all of this is a bad, of course.
	I would argue that more restoring diplomatic relations between the US and Cuba certainly isn't bad.
	And refusing to make a demagogue out of capitalism and consumerism isn't necessarily bad either, given that they both come to the detriment of nations and morals in general.
	But anyway, if we move on to the next one, he's been particularly critical of the EU's handling of the migrant crisis, basically saying we should do more to accommodate the refugees, I suppose, unilaterally.
	And if we move on to the next one here, he has continued to argue against same-sex marriage, but advocating for same-sex civil unions.
	Which, to be perfectly honest, is probably as liberal as you can probably be allowed to get as the leader of the Catholic Church, being that under the Catholic doctrine, gay relationships are referred to as deviance behaviour.
	So there's not really a lot of room for interpretation there.
	Yeah, you've sort of got a book.
	I mean, this is the thing with wokeism.
	It's progressive, so, you know, the tenets of wokeism change all the time.
	So J.K. Rowling, at one point, was completely, you know, right on and a model woke citizen.
	And then, you know, the shifting sands...
	Yeah.
	which she obviously actually isn't.
	But yeah, I mean, the thing with your traditional religions, so wokeism is a new religion, but traditional religions, they've got it all written down on bits of stone.
	So you can't really change, you can't really deviate that much And civilisations have been built and sustained on their tenets.
	There's much more to lose from attacking religion than there is, I suppose, attacking wokeness, which is an emergent religion, you could say.
	The weird thing is, though, woke people are always absolutely certain that their woke beliefs are the right beliefs, even though the woke beliefs are going to be different in a couple of weeks' time.
	Yeah.
	As certain as the West Pro-Baptist Church are about the sins of the American soldiers.
	They're just as much fanatics as anyone else, really, when you put it that way.
	But it does seem that Pope Francis is beginning to see the devil where it actually exists in woke cancel culture.
	And he expressed this as part of his annual State of the World Address, The Diplomats, which is covered by the New York Post here.
	And it says Pope Francis took aim at cancel culture, warning of the perils of those trying to rewrite history with dangerous one-track thinking.
	He made scathing remarks during his annual State of the World Address, The Diplomats, enunciating cancel culture in English during a long speech, otherwise in Italian.
	Without giving specific examples, that must be noted.
	He attacks agendas increasingly dictated by a mindset that rejects the natural foundations of humanity and a cultural route that constitute the identity of many peoples.
	Pretty based, I would say.
	What could he have in mind, I wonder?
	I think we both already have a relatively good idea.
	Probably intersectionalism.
	The entire philosophy of intersectionalism.
	Which, of course, is the gateway ideology I've tried to articulate many times.
	Some hedophilia, bestiality, racial and abstract gender essentialism, which is basically the formula for pretty much every bad idea that has ever existed.
	So the Pope is basically saying, without actually saying it, so he obviously, we can't speak for the Pope here, even though, of course, the Pope likes to speak for God when he's not elected his servicer, that biology is real, biological sex is real, and the very idea of separating sex from gender maybe is a bit farcical.
	And perhaps suggesting the idea that a young girl, because she may have, for example, or perhaps be predisposed to wear, shall we say, boyish clothes, may not necessarily be a trans man as a result.
	And like, well, somebody commented on one of my YouTube videos saying, I'm a gay man and I would have been, you know, I'd questioned my gender when I was a young teen.
	So I would have been sort of put into that process to transition.
	I'm so glad I didn't transition because I'm a, you know, I'm a man, but I'm a gay man.
	And, you know, I think there's a lot of, you know, the current fashion is for everybody that, you know, displays any sort of gender question or whatever to sort of almost be funneled into that process.
	Once you start the steps in that process, it's hard to step out or reverse it.
	But I've got to say, man, all this, like, you know, oh, biology and gender is the same thing.
	It's not the same.
	Like, a man isn't a man just by being male.
	You've got to, like, kill stuff.
	You've got to fire the gun.
	You've got to have been in a fight.
	You've got to drink, like, whiskey.
	There's loads of stuff you've got to do.
	You've got to have bought a fridge.
	There's lots of stuff you've got to do before you're considered a man.
	Yeah.
	When gender queer theorists say that, oh, but this is performers that are not actually releasing anything essentially males, you think that's entirely true?
	Because I would argue that actually all of these things are natural expressions of the division of labour between men and women.
	I am quoting Mary Beard here, I'm afraid to say, but men are like the penetrators, women are kind of the receivers, and she's being very, very literal in describing this, of course.
	Mary Beard, of course, is a pornographic film director.
	Let's put it nicely.
	But basically, you could say that there is a symmetry between the two.
	And that, I suppose, the inherent dispositions of one is always going to be mediated somewhat by the other.
	And from then, you actually have, you could say, extensions of the way that they behave in the real world that have rational correspondence to that sex.
	That's always been my argument.
	It's not the argument that feminists make.
	But I get the impression that when he talks about these unhuman forces trying to deform nature, he's appealing to this sort of thing.
	Or at least suggesting that progressivism is going too far with it.
	And he actually goes on to address what I think is this...
	And he goes on to say, He warned.
	And he goes on to say, And I don't think that he could be more explicit about actually being explicit here.
	Because we all know that there is this ongoing attempt to reconfigure the entire West's history into a dialectic of white supremacy.
	Yeah.
	Which, of course, we're not pretending that white supremacy never existed.
	We know perfectly well that, of course, it has, and there are niche groups very much committed to the idea of white supremacy.
	What's being contested is ultimately what has caused it.
	What Black Lives Matter are ultimately trying to do, and this is pretty much unashamed, and they're shameless in their gaslighting tactics, which we don't have time to go into today.
	But everything that goes...
	Everything fractured about the West, every single social class that exists is somehow as a result of this ideal of white supremacy.
	And that is...
	That's not...
	That demands a radical revision of everything that we value.
	Because if you're going to take whiteness as essentially bad in that way, then you end up at the conclusion that in order to have an unequal society that the American founding fathers actually wanted, or absolute equality, or equity in their case, the only way to achieve that, and Robin DiAngelo is explicit in this, It's to subjugate whiteness itself.
	Yeah.
	So it's removing the individual rights to actually forcibly redistribute.
	I mean, it's essentially communism.
	And where you end up with that is basically...
	Racist communism.
	Yeah, it's racial essentialism is what it is.
	I mean, you couldn't get more segregative than that.
	I mean, that's literally the opposite.
	It's the opposite of what communism actually wants, really, because communism is post-racialist.
	Yeah.
	It only acknowledges class divisions.
	As soon as you abolish class divisions, then they were all basically in this rainbow together to the communists.
	What Black Lives Matter are trying to do is worse than that, in that they want this economic equity, but they still want racial...
	They seem to just want racial segregation as well.
	You can only achieve the equity through segregation.
	And the real sinister part of this, and this is why I thought I'd credit the Pope here for his comments, is that where you end up is basically saying that, well, ethnic minorities assumed to be on the receiving end of white supremacy can look at their history and be proud of who they are, of what they've come through.
	But the white person, who has absolutely nothing to do with that history, no knowledge of it, has no intent back at that time because they weren't even born, has got to hate who they are, hate their history.
	They're basically denied a social good that everyone has.
	That, by definition, cannot be equality because that's a social good that you're denying to one particular group on the grounds of race.
	And so it is basically racism presenting itself as anti-racism.
	So it wouldn't be an exaggeration to say that this could be the devil doing its work through identity politics.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, that is my theological claim for the day.
	But yeah, he does seem to have finally come around to the gaslighting tactics.
	And I'm very glad that he has.
	I'm just scrolling down here.
	If we could actually get the GB News clip up, because we are running a little bit short of time...
	His comments have been, for the most part, very well received.
	Former chaplain to the Queen and Anglican Bishop, Dr Gavin Ashenden, praised the Pope for his comments on cancelled culture.
	And I think it's pretty much...
	The reason for doing so is obvious on Christian terms, really.
	Like, the self, really, is sacrosanct.
	Conscience is sacrosanct.
	We act in a way that...
	or at least we're encouraged to act in ways that not only that we would to ourselves, but in ways that actually kind of improve others as well as ourselves at the same time.
	Yeah.
	And to basically subject ourselves as, I suppose, identity politics does, and which cancel culture tries to actually do at a political level, to almost censor people from being able to make their own judgments on what good and evil amounts to.
	It's finally, what I'm trying to say, it's finally good that a Christian has actually stood up and the most powerful Christian in the world of that to actually say that, you know what, we need to recourse to our conscience a little bit more.
	And that's a principle that not only, I think, Should, of course, committed Christian state to heart.
	That should be recognised as a concrete universal.
	If the West cannot accept that, it's pretty much lost its entire fabric, I think.
	But yes...
	That's pretty much, unfortunately, all of the coverage we can give to this, given that we did one slightly late.
	But thank you very much for participating with me on that.
	Thank you very much for watching, as always.
	Thank you, Leo, again for being with us.
	We're of course going to say goodbye to our YouTube viewers.
	But please do watch us or subscribe to us on Getter, because it is of course growing fast.
	And yes, you can of course follow myself and Leo on Getzer.
	Leo's got three more people who you're following.
	You've got 2,562 more followers than me, I believe.
	So you're winning that.
	But yes, thank you very much for watching.
	We will now go to the video comments.
	Hi guys, you alright?
	I was thinking, with the issues that Boris Johnson's having with the media at the minute, the right of the party seems to be rallying around Liz Truss.
	And I was thinking, I don't really trust her.
	I feel like as soon as she gets into power, a bit like Richie Sunak, she'll just go bad, basically, just like Boris did.
	And I was thinking, if you were more of the view, like me, you have Peter Hitchens, which is the Conservative Party just needs to die, and die a horrible death.
	You know what?
	I don't disagree with anything you've just said.
	I do not trust Liz Truss either.
	And I don't trust her for the simple reason that she is...
	I actually think she's...
	Whilst she may be playing a good political game at the moment, she's expressed ineptitude all over the place over the years.
	Did you see her performance at party conference several years ago?
	No, but I think she's...
	The actual nuts and bolts of...
	Being a politician and running things, so as the, whatever it is, Department of Trade and whatever, she's struck loads of deals with other countries, post-Brexit deals with Australia and other places.
	So, you know, I think she's got this...
	She seems competent.
	Also, I like her vision.
	It's quite a dynamic vision for Britain.
	Yeah, but how much does she believe it?
	I don't care if she believes it.
	She's got it and she's saying it.
	You know what I mean?
	Politicians, I don't think...
	The last thing I want is an ideological politician.
	Ideology is the enemy of good government.
	Basically, you want a pragmatic caretaker who's going to stay out of people's business.
	As Ronald Reagan said, the scariest words in the English language are, I'm from the government and I'm here to help.
	Good afternoon.
	I'd be quite interested to find out your opinion on how the Isle of Man has dealt with the coronavirus compared to how the UK has, especially seeing as though we're so close to UK mainland and the Republic of Ireland.
	Thanks very much.
	I'm afraid to say I have absolutely no idea how the Isle of Man is doing, but I do like the Isle of Man solutions to many of its problems, and that is to go motorcycle racing and close everything down for it.
	I would very much join them if I lived on the Isle of Man and had a bike that was good enough.
	I'm sorry, I have no idea how they're dealing with it, but I imagine they're just living their lives as they otherwise would, because it's so sparsely populated, isn't it?
	Yeah, well I can tell you.
	I can tell you Isle of Man.
	Yeah, it's actually quite closely mirrored the pattern of the UK, the rest of the UK. In terms of new cases, what about deaths?
	Yeah, there's not been very many deaths on the Isle of Man.
	So they seem to be doing well.
	Fair.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I was meant to respond to this from last week, but I've been very busy with university.
	Labour has been in power in Wigan since 1918 and since Wigan is actually very close to Manchester and Liverpool, filled with mostly peaceful shankings and unintended sharing of goods.
	Yes, it's such a utopia here.
	Also, I appreciate the shirt, guys.
	It suits you, my friend.
	It suits you.
	Yeah, no, it's true.
	All these politicians and police that focus on all this woke stuff.
	Man, the real things, the violence and the acquisitive crime that's going on in all these places.
	Yeah.
	We should focus on that.
	We should.
	Let's go to the next one.
	I've watched Carl's superb book club on Burke's reflections.
	I caution that the version on Audible is well read, but has tracts in French and Latin that may not be translated.
	It reminded me of Callum's January 6 piece on the Colston statue miscarriage of justice, whose vandals appear outside the court in shirts designed by Banksy to help fundraising.
	You can tell the wrong side of history at any moment by looking at the artists.
	Those materialists with their grossly oversimplified messages are usually on the wrong side.
	Expose yourselves to Burke to sober up.
	I agree.
	Well, yeah, didn't the Nazis had a word for it, Eins Klintzart?
	I can't remember, but it was like art that was...
	Degenerous art.
	They hated modern art and stuff like that.
	Yeah, they called it degenerous art.
	Yeah, degenerate art, that's the thing.
	And, yeah, it's interesting, the art that gets attacked by regimes and by ideologies.
	It'll be interesting to see if someone had actually followed up.
	I'm not going to say his name because we'll probably get into trouble.
	Oh, I'm such a rebel, guys.
	I'm supposed to stay inside for another four days, but I don't really feel like developing depression, so I'm walking the dog.
	Watch out for the drones.
	Hello, doggie.
	What sort of dog is that?
	I don't know.
	It looks like a black lab door, but not quite.
	Chocolate.
	Chocolate lab.
	See, that's where Cadbury's make their chocolate as well.
	In a chocolate lab.
	Hey Lotus Eaters.
	Okay.
	I have a YouTube video idea that I've been thinking about for a while and I wanted to see if anyone else was interested in it and actually seeing it.
	I was thinking about making a video talking about a Christian answer to Frederick Nietzsche's idea of the death of God.
	I think he was accurate when he made the pronouncement.
	However, I think he was a bit wrong in the fact that I don't actually think he was correct about it being the Christian God that was dying.
	I think it was actually the God of the French Enlightenment.
	I'm not really familiar with what he's talking about, so I can't really comment.
	Yeah.
	Should we just move on?
	Yeah, I don't know what he's talking about.
	People are talking about anime again, so let me give you a recommendation.
	But first, let's play a game.
	Try to guess which anime it is.
	And you do know the name of this one.
	The main character is a cute and tomboyish young girl who is 7 years old and who loves freedom but isn't hive-minded like everyone else.
	Is anime Japanese cartoons?
	Yeah, I think so.
	Yeah, it's like manga, but anime.
	I don't know what this is, but I don't want to read anymore.
	I'm sorry.
	My other honeybee, dearie bee.
	Let's go on to the next one.
	It looks like there are two kinds of people in that some will identify where the truth is through observation and conversation.
	And the other kind of person will identify where the truth is in the consensus of other people's opinions.
	I don't mean that a person listens to a consensus to form their own opinion.
	I mean the actual definition of where the truth is.
	That is the consensus.
	That is the truth.
	Rather than what you can see.
	Let me know what your thoughts are.
	I've got some follow-up questions as well.
	Thank you.
	That's a really interesting point, because you can see the advantage in taking the consensus opinion, because it's probably likely to be right, because that's the average of what people are saying.
	And also, it's going to be the socially and politically expedient thing to do, because you're not falling out with people.
	You're going to be the...
	The same values and opinions as the maximum number of people.
	But it's not perhaps the objective actual truth.
	No, but the objectivity is realising those who dare to challenge their own concepts rather than those who don't.
	A lot of climate change science is absolute.
	The principles of it are consensus opinion, taking the average of what people think rather than objectively measuring and looking at it.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Before going to bed, I remembered that I didn't actually get to say something on the last gold-tier call, so I thought I'd bring it up here.
	It's about the NHS and how bad the NHS is.
	Once, after a parkour accident, I went to jiu-jitsu and my sensei saw my broken ankle, looked at how much it was swollen and said, we're taking you to the hospital to make sure that it's not broken, because it obviously is broken, Harry, you shouldn't train on that.
	Waited six hours at the hospital for the x-ray to come back and they said, Might be mainly broken, but we don't know for sure.
	Come back next week.
	Wait another 10 hours the next week.
	Turns out it was broken and I'd been training on it.
	Oh, God.
	That's rubbish, Harry.
	I'm sorry you had that experience, but I can't say it's the first time I've heard someone have an experience like that.
	Yeah, happened to a guy who was T-boned in America and shattered some of his vertebrae.
	Didn't shatter them, but cracked them.
	And he was all hyped up with the shock and stuff, so he didn't get in the ambulance when it came.
	Also, he was worried about the medical fees and stuff.
	And then, yeah, it turned out he'd broken his neck, basically.
	Goodness.
	Hey there, Lotus Eaters.
	This is me putting together my giant robot after taking her to a charity event.
	Built to be the cheapest giant robot possible to be both safe, affordable, and easy to build so you can get lots of people building around to have a competition.
	I'm also working with the charity this year to figure out a competition everyone would be happy with.
	But that's not what this is about.
	My question is this.
	Were there dreams you have that people thought were impossible or you thought were impossible?
	And did you fulfill them?
	Have a good one!
	I don't know.
	I've had many, many dreams.
	And I have fulfilled one of those because I am here speaking with Leo, obviously.
	But then again, I also dreamed about being a rock star and playing for Chelsea, which of course never happened.
	I suppose it's...
	People never really stop dreaming, do they?
	They readjust their dreams, and the more they know about the objective world and how it responds to them, the more accurate those dreams get.
	So still follow your dreams, but just do things in the real world as well.
	Depends what your dream is.
	If your dream is to have sex with guinea pigs, don't follow your dreams.
	Yeah, don't do that, or even try to dream about it.
	Yeah.
	I hope that's useful.
	Good evening, gentlemen.
	I'm a frequenter of a specific meme app whose name I will not mention as it would bring the attention of the federal government down upon my head.
	However, something very funny is that this specific meme app is a harbor for right-wing revolutionary LARP accounts.
	And one of the very funny discussions that they once had was...
	How to solve the crisis of a lack of mysticism in the average person's life.
	Their solution to this was, of course, to gaslight yourself into believing that gnomes exist.
	No, that's a pretty trepidising thought, isn't it?
	What exists?
	Gnomes!
	Gnomes?
	I thought you said no one exists.
	Oh, right, right.
	Which is basically where you end up with when you combine Cartesianism and Nihilism.
	Yeah.
	You can't prove that there are life forms outside of yourself and it could all just be a construct of your imagination.
	Right.
	The second you gaslight yourself into believing that, there is no way back for you, really.
	Right.
	Yeah.
	It doesn't sound like a particularly healthy exercise.
	Yeah.
	I hope that's addressed what you were concerned with.
	Let's move on to the next one.
	Hey everybody, Tony D and Little Joan and we're going to do some cooking of meatballs.
	Okay, I've got two pounds of meat and onion, three eggs, some garlic powder with parsley and breadcrumbs.
	These are going to be the ingredients of our meatballs.
	Mix them all together.
	As you can see, we have all the ingredients mixed.
	Now it's just a matter of making balls and frying them up.
	Two pounds of meat makes about 30 meatballs.
	Looks fantastic.
	I'd love to try one.
	They look tasty.
	It's a shame I've already had my lunch because I would have had that for lunch if I had the chance.
	Yes, I would have come to the US for it.
	Let's go to the next one.
	People who judge others based on race usually think that you can determine a person's culture based on which race they belong to, but that doesn't actually work in practice.
	And it seems like they sometimes try to work backwards and use cultural practices to decide how to categorize people into races.
	That would explain why they are able to think of Muslims as being a race.
	I fully agree.
	I think, as a matter of fact, we need to do everything we can, contrary to the left's intentions, to bypass the concept of race and start thinking about, I suppose, people of cultural affiliations, of which their skin colour ultimately has no metaphysical relevance.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I think when you meet someone, you make a lot of judgments.
	There's a lot of prejudice, and that's obvious, but...
	The woke left seem to think that that's all based on race, gender, sexuality and stuff.
	And actually, the big one's class and also how the person talks and is dressed and presents themselves.
	So, you know...
	Also, I think wokeists tend to look at demographic blocks as very homogenous.
	They don't look at the individual.
	So my mate Nico, that I do a podcast with, he's from Barbados, and he was telling me about the different strata in Bajan society.
	Now, they've even got like...
	There's the redlegs, so there are white people who went there as indentured servitude or whatever, and still have quite insular communities, but a lot of them are dirt poor, and they speak with the Caribbean patois, but they're just so sunburnt.
	They're like redheads, you know what I mean?
	So that's why they're called redlegs.
	And Nico's a red man, so he's like a lighter shade than other black people.
	And there's all these different strata.
	Whereas woke people would be like, oh, they look at black people and assume that they're all the same.
	Whereas even just from one island, there's all these different cultures and different strata.
	The concept of racial consciousness is essential for their entire political framework.
	And that's the dangerous thing about it.
	So yeah, we need to do away with that.
	And they will scream to the ends of the earth to stop it.
	But nonetheless, that's how you defeat racism.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Let's move on to next.
	I figured I'd show a picture of some family history here.
	This would be Lawrence R. Houston, one of the founding members of the CIA. He's actually my great-grandfather.
	So hey, some families have some rather big black shoes when you think about it.
	And I forgot to answer the question related to Chaos Knight here.
	He is, in fact, a Nergal Knight.
	I have three more Chaos Knights in the works, and then I have Imperial Knights up next.
	Well, thank you very much for sharing that.
	It's quite a specimen, though, actually.
	Yeah, that's like a little model of...
	So the guy that was on with the massive robot thing, I googled his stuff.
	Man, he builds mech robots.
	You walk in.
	They look like the loader in Aliens.
	It looks really cool.
	Yeah.
	Let's go to the next one.
	If we accept that trans women are women, why can't we accept that furries are actual animals?
	If I had to bet, there's probably a whole lot more furries than there are trans people in the world.
	They even use all the same arguments.
	Both were born in the wrong body, both identify as such.
	Arguably, both have historical and mythical precedent.
	And once again, there's a whole lot more human-animal hybrids and mythos than there are genderbenders.
	At the end of the day, furry rights are human rights.
	Don't be furphobic, or the only real animal here is you.
	But furries don't look like the animal that they're supposed to be, like the foxes.
	I can tell the difference between a fox and a furry.
	I can't tell the difference between Blair White and a woman.
	Pre-trans, what does he mean?
	Is that before they've actually...
	Transitioned it to being a fox?
	I don't think they're ever going to be able to transition it to being a fox.
	If they do...
	Yeah, but Blair White...
	They may acquire woman-like qualities or fox-like qualities, but that's not to say they are essentially, you know, that thing.
	I think that would be my conclusion anyway.
	I think the hot ones are.
	Right, let's move on to the comments.
	So Craig says, this is on Boris Johnson, Yeah, pretty much to save his own skin.
	Words can barely describe my disappointment.
	FreeWill2112 says, I'm not quite sure about that.
	I think that's too politically toxic for Labour.
	But Joshua Blythe says, I'm really sorry to hear that, but I'm glad that he's in recovery.
	Despite being vaccinated and regular testing, I'm not allowed to see him.
	The lockdowns should have been enough to kick half of Parliament out.
	Garden parties be damned.
	Yeah, yes, certainly.
	George Hap says, usually pointing out hypocrisy is useless, even though these parties shouldn't have been the reason Bison and the Tories are hated.
	Maybe it's a good thing that the Normans are finally questioning the narrative behind the lockdowns.
	absolutely but it's more explicit in countries like Austria, Germany, Australia where there does seem to be almost this unashamed desire to almost make almost submission to big authority a permanent feature in people's lives and that's what's concerning because the second you do that and you perpetuate a culture of fear where people wear masks
	even when the crisis is bloody over there are so many more ways you can you know melliate people into behaving yeah but Harry Ashman says, Boris Sage and the parties shagging around is just peak mask off.
	So much of the begrudging compliance with the rules in the early days of the pandemic was based on the idea that it was just for the good of the country, showing that they couldn't give a toss about what this undo is the gains the Tories made in the old Red Wall in 2019.
	Yes, a very good point.
	The working class North FC types value honesty and doing the right thing.
	Now it just shows to them that he's just another slimy Tory sleazebag.
	And yeah, that ultimately is what's going to kill him.
	Yeah.
	So would you like to continue with the COVID fascists?
	Well, yeah.
	I mean, what's interesting about Boris is I thought the dodgy COVID contracts would be the sleeves that brings them down.
	But no, it's this garden party thing.
	I guess because, you know, we weren't going to have dodgy COVID contracts anyway, whereas we did have to follow the lockdown rules.
	So that's something that's stinging for everyone.
	So yeah, the comments around COVID fashion, so almighty wizard, he's got the point, walking outdoors is incredibly good for physical and mental health, but they said it's non-essential.
	Absolutely true.
	I mean, it is, you know, it's one of the best things you can do.
	And coronavirus, you know, has a hard time spreading outside in the fresh air.
	Callum Dayton says, stuff like this really highlights my losing faith and trust in anything the police do.
	Not only these days, but when they started doing stuff like this years ago.
	I don't trust the police to look after anyone's safety here in Edinburgh.
	Nice, I'll be up in Edinburgh.
	We're starting a regular Hate and Live, this improvised hatred comedy show.
	It's really fun.
	The Three Sisters, which is being renovated right now.
	George Windsor says regarding post-Covid responses to fascism, there should be a Nuremberg-esque court.
	They should call it the Nuremberg-esque court as well.
	Or Ford-esque court.
	Convened to hold the heads of government, public health, police, etc.
	to account for the role in the infringement of human rights of vast swathes of humanity.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	Watch out, Holland.
	I don't think it's going to happen, though.
	No, but it shouldn't.
	It's not an exaggeration to suggest that it should.
	This is the level of authoritarianism we're talking about.
	But the trouble with the government is they have to do the best they can during a crisis while still trying to graft as much money away to their cronies.
	George Windsor says, as a Canadian being told to wear a mask during sex is as believable as follow the science.
	Yeah.
	Reece Sim, I lived in Canada for a year, it was great.
	Vancouver.
	I was super woke though, this was like back...
	Yeah, I can imagine.
	...turn of the century, it was like super woke then, so it must be unintolerable now.
	Reece Sim says, turns out all this time SMP didn't stand for Scottish National Party, it was Slimy Nicholas Party!
	That's right, Rhys.
	Our police force should be ashamed for allowing bullies to prosper in the police force and enforcing tyrannical policies produced in Holyrood Parliament.
	Just as a side note, stuck in Scotland, please send aid.
	We're going to send you a hamper with some marmite.
	Henry Ashman says, Leo's made a crucial oversight on the glory hole point.
	According to the governments of the world, COVID is the only disease that people shouldn't die from.
	Cancer, depression, suicide and any non-COVID nasties from glory holes are all acceptable to die from, apparently.
	Although, if you do have COVID, when you die from them, you will be recorded as a COVID death.
	And just to finish on the Pope and cancer culture, George Haps says...
	when it comes to Pope Francis, is the Pope Catholic?
	It's a legitimate question rather than a rhetorical one.
	That almost deserves an essay in itself.
	Thank you for that, George.
	And Almighty Wizard says that the new Pope just isn't canon.
	Well, I guess we'll have to see what he does from here.
	But that is all we have time for today.
	I thank you very much for tuning in.
	Leo, thank you very much for joining us today.
	Thanks for having me!
	It's been a very, very fun discussion as always.
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