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	Music Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters.
	This is episode 331 and today I am your host, Harry, joined by my good friend Thomas.
	Hello.
	And we're going to be looking at a few things including Novak Djokovic's continued dissent We're good to go.
	Very curious to see that.
	But before we get into any of that, we've got a few announcements, including a republished article from Dr.
	Michael Rechtenwald called State Corporate Convergence in the State of Emergency Society.
	So this asks the question of whether the mass media corporations are actually trying to kill us, given their continued insistence on quashing any reservations about the vaccine.
	Dr.
	Michael Rechtenwald is supposedly very good.
	And presumably this article has aged quite well, so we've decided to republish it with audio which is available for our Silver Tier members.
	Another thing we'd like to share with you is a new premium video from me and John talking about the politics of Watchmen.
	I really enjoyed this discussion that we had.
	Even though, despite being an hour long, I didn't get through even half of what I was intending to talk about, because there's just so much to discuss with a wonderful series like Watchmen, and it's what I would consider sub-par film adaptation, so I might be looking into organising some things for that for a potential part two, maybe not a discussion, but maybe a script or something.
	So if you're interested in Watchmen or comics and philosophy in general, give that a watch and I think you'll enjoy it.
	And before we finally get into anything, we've just got to say follow us on Getter at lotusetas underscore com.
	And if you want to follow any of us individually, you can follow Thomas here at Thomas Dowling on Getter, or you can follow me at Harry Lotus Eater.
	And there we go.
	Without any further ado, let's get into it.
	Yes, so let's talk about Novak Djokovic.
	He's arguably the greatest tennis player of all time, in probably the greatest era of tennis of all time.
	Himself, Roger Federer and Rafa Nadal are all fighting it out to see who can accumulate the most grandstands before they all retire.
	They're all, of course, chasing that title of being the objective GOAT. Before the pandemic started, Djokovic was number one in the ATP World Rankings.
	The last Grand Slam he won, if I recall, was Wimbledon in 2021.
	To my knowledge, there has been no top-down imposition of mandatory vaccine mandates from the tennis authorities.
	I did some research on this and couldn't find anything that suggested that.
	It's left entirely at the hosting country's discretion to manage how they contain the virus, the competitors, of course.
	And as so many of us know, Australia has been pretty fascist with its handling of the pandemic.
	Shown by the fact that they've effectively introduced COVID concentration camps, one of which Novak Djokovic sort of ended up in a hotel when trying to compete in the Australian Open.
	Yes, I'm aware of those COVID camps that they opened, that they constructed.
	I forget the name of one of them in particular, but there was a very notable effort by the authorities to try and sort of doll it up for everybody by having lots of influencers posting pictures of themselves in bikinis and other such things to say, like, oh, look at how much of a good time I'm having here, until videos leaked of people trying to just get off the front porch of the tiny little caravans that they'd been set up in and being told by people in full hazmats And the stuff that they have to endure is even worse than that, as I'll go into it.
	So what you were saying there, the tennis league itself hasn't got any strict vaccine mandates, but it's more an issue with Australia.
	Yes, as in this is an issue that the Australian government had.
	I don't think the ATP, or whoever the tennis board is in this case, actually had anything to do with why he was deported.
	I know for a fact that in Formula One they're now discussing mandatory vaccinations at the sports institutional level.
	I don't think this discussion has come to a conclusion in tennis yet, to my knowledge.
	If I'm wrong, please correct me.
	But in short, on arrival, his visa was rejected by border control.
	This is Novak Djokovic.
	And he was sent shortly after to a quarantine hotel, like the one I just mentioned, to wait and see if he'd be allowed to participate.
	The decision for him to be quarantined was...
	Originally revoked after he appealed, but then the Australian government cancelled his visa anyway to ensure that they could deport him.
	This, of course, made headline news and waves of people came out in support of Djokovic and many others came out in contempt of his decision to advocate for bodily autonomy.
	But anyway, he's continued to hold the line and in a recent interview with the BBC went as far as saying he would actually be willing to miss tournaments should it come to it.
	So the BBC reads, in a wide-ranging interview, his first since he was detained in Melbourne in January, Djokovic addressed speculation about the timing of his positive COVID case in December and discussed his own attitude towards the vaccine.
	Djokovic said he hoped vaccination requirements in certain tournaments would change, adding he was hoping he can play for many more years, but he also confirmed he was willing to forego the chance to become statistically the greatest male tennis player of all time because he felt so strongly.
	Djokovic's rival Rafa Nadal has won 21 Grand Slam singles titles at the most of any male competitor.
	When asked why, Djokovic replied, because the principles of decision-making on my body are more important than any title or anything else.
	I'm trying to be in tune with my body as much as I possibly can.
	Djokovic said he had always been a great student of wellness, well-being, health, nutrition, and his decision had been partly influenced by the positive impact factors of Such as changing his diet and his sleeping patterns had had on his abilities as an athlete.
	He said he was keeping his mind open about the possibility of being vaccinated in the future because we're all trying to find collectively a best solution to end COVID, as he said.
	And I was never against vaccination, he continues to say.
	I understand that globally everyone is trying to put a big effort into handling this virus and seeing hopefully an end to this virus, he said.
	So there we are in effect.
	He's not even an actual anti-vaxxer.
	But he was still awfully treated.
	He does bring up some great points there, which is that we're taking advice on general health, because there is a separation that you could make between medical care, which is generally speaking what hospitals and doctors trade in, and healthcare, which is something that realistically speaking, barring advice that you can get from people, is kind of specific to you.
	And that's one thing that we've not really seen from most global institutions throughout the pandemic, is an advocating of healthcare, saying you should...
	You should be losing weight, you should be exercising, you should be trying to eat more healthy.
	This is what people like Joe Rogan have been advocating the whole time, and the governments decided let's shut down the gyms, let's stop people going out, eat out to help out.
	Yeah, making people in turn more unhealthy, all in virtue trying to stop people from dying from someone that, well, isn't really killing anyone other than those.
	And in doing so, making themselves more at risk from the virus.
	I mean, the bodily autonomy argument, of course, stands up on its own, but there's a professional reason for Djokovic to do this, because in his early years, he did actually suffer from some, I don't know, energy deficits or something like that.
	I'm not an expert in sports science, so I don't know what this...
	He had a particular condition related to lactose intolerance.
	As soon as he changed his diet to a lactose intolerance, sorry, one that accommodated for his lactose intolerance, or was it gluten?
	I think it might have been gluten.
	Either way.
	Allergic to gluten, I think.
	It completely transformed how he performed on the court.
	And within years, he was beating Federer and Nadal consistently, and I think became the world number one in 2011.
	Went on to win Wimbledon several times since then, and is now, arguably, I would say, probably on balance, the best player.
	And probably, if this...
	If he's not actually ostracised from tennis by the countries not letting him participate, he probably would eclipse Nadal if I were to speculate.
	I'll take your word for it.
	Yeah, that's just my speculation.
	He said he initially could not get in touch with anyone in his family in this hotel, but was later allowed to access his phone when he was inside the detention centre.
	But it gets a lot worse if we get the Daily Mail article up here.
	As I said, he has special dietary requirements, and apparently he was served up food in the hotel that had maggots in it, which led to widespread criticism of the way he and, well, of course, people made this a broader case about refugees, about how they were being treated in there.
	And, well, shall we have a look at the Daily Mirror's framing of this, making him look like a complete prima donna, rather than someone who's actually concerned for his professional career?
	One of the things on that Daily Mail article as well, it said apparently there have been protests and fires there, and COVID outbreaks and rotten food being served to the people around.
	And remember, this is all for your health and well-being, of course.
	Jesus Christ.
	Yeah.
	But Novak Djokovic demanded, apparently of course, he demanded a personal chef and access to a tennis court and a quarantine hotel, not least because he's a professional tennis player.
	But during their address to the media, the article reads, the Serbian's mother, Diana, slammed the condition of her son's hotel, describing he was basically a prisoner.
	I spoke with him for a couple of hours ago.
	She said he was good.
	He didn't speak a lot, but we spoke for a few minutes.
	He couldn't sleep.
	And as a mother, what can I say?
	You just imagine how I feel.
	I feel terrible.
	I mean, he was basically going through what you could say is hell, really.
	Along with everyone else in there, of course.
	It does honestly sound like imprisonment, really, doesn't it?
	Just for his decision to not be vaccinated.
	That's what she said.
	They're keeping him in like a prisoner.
	It's just not fair.
	It's not human.
	His accommodation is absolutely appalling, as you can see over there.
	I mean, I've endured worse than that, but even so, if you consider that...
	With having, I don't know, maggots in your food.
	Yeah, I mean, honestly, that doesn't look too bad until you realise it's also spreading COVID, which you would assume, if they're all unvaccinated people, that the Australian government would see that as amongst the most vulnerable people to get COVID, and with rotten food as well.
	Other than that, it doesn't look too much different from my uni horse, to be honest.
	Come to think of it, you are absolutely right, and he's probably...
	But it's still the fact that you are put in there without being asked, without any choice of where else to go, and then you are kept in there by force.
	But anyway, having had his visa revoked, he appealed the decision, which was then brought back so he could stay.
	But then they decided the Australian government, that is, to deport the world number one by revoking the decision because he was, as they saw it, a symbol for the far right, pretty much.
	And this is what the article of The Sun reports here.
	Immigration Minister Alex Hawke used his powers to cancel Djokovic's visa on health and good order grounds and overturn an earlier successful appeal.
	He argued the staff's presence in Australia could trigger rallies and civil unrest and also encourage the citizens not to get vaccinated against COVID. I think?
	May lead to an increase in anti-vaccination sentiments generated in the Australian community, potentially leading to an increase in civil unrest of the kind previously experienced in Australia, with rallies and protests which may themselves be a source of community transmission.
	The minister noted in the court documents Djokovic was a person of influence and status.
	Is that his new identity?
	I identify as a person of influence.
	But they sound like they're treating Djokovic himself like a disease.
	Yeah, they are.
	The mere presence of Djokovic in our sphere might cause others to become infected with anti-vaccine sentiment, even though he's never said anything.
	Yeah, and of course, the disease they have in mind is probably not, first and foremost, COVID, the one that they're actually allegedly trying to quash.
	It's the fact that he's an anti-vaxxer.
	That's where the dirt lies.
	It's the disease of wrong things.
	Yes.
	That's what they're on about.
	Precisely.
	So that was their reasoning for doing this to him in the first place.
	But anyway, if we come back to the present today, Gillian McKeith, the presenter of UR Watch, we express her support for Nova Djokovic.
	Good for her.
	I haven't heard of her in years.
	Yeah, me neither.
	The greatest tennis player of all time is not willing to be coerced into taking that jab and will not take it in order to enter the French Open or Wimbledon if they require it.
	I really don't think it will get to that in the case of Wimbledon, but I wouldn't put it past Macron to prevent him from going to the French Open.
	So yeah, if we move on to the next, we can see Richard Taylor supports for Djokovic too.
	There's a video which we'll play in a minute.
	It says, principles over career.
	That's what I call a real man.
	Well said.
	But shall we have a look at this snippet of the interview that we discussed earlier?
	Yeah.
	Do you want to just click on that, John?
	We can just watch it that way.
	At the moment.
	And that's the price you're willing to pay?
	That is the price that I'm willing to pay.
	Ultimately...
	Are you prepared to forego the chance to be the greatest player that ever picked up a racket, statistically, because you feel so strongly about this jab?
	Yes.
	I do.
	But as things stand, if this means that you miss the French Open, is that a price you'd be willing to pay?
	Yes, that is the price that I'm willing to pay.
	And if it means that you miss Wimbledon this year, again, that's a price you're willing to pay?
	Yes.
	Most of the tournaments at the moment, that's a price you're willing to pay.
	Bodily autonomy and freedom is more important than any amount of trophies he could win.
	Yeah.
	Well, that honestly inspires a lot of respect to me, and I think it's very important for people with the kind of influence that Djokovic has to be the ones to stand up and take a stance against this, because as silly as it sounds, and as much as I'm going to start putting that on my business cards, he is genuinely a person of great influence across the world.
	I'm not a tennis player, I'm not a tennis fan, not even a sports fan, but I'd heard of Novak Djokovic.
	Yeah, but just to hammer this up, Nadawa's got 21 grand slams.
	Djokovic has got 20.
	So he's honestly that close.
	He could overtake it.
	If he subverted his decision and got the vaccine, he could quite easily overtake Rafael Nadal.
	The fact that freedom, in the broadest sense, actually means more to him...
	Than being regarded as the best tennis player potentially ever.
	That says a lot.
	Well, we've, in the sphere of public influence, for a very, very long time, I would say we've had an absolute vacuum of people with principles and integrity.
	So this is a very good thing to me.
	Everyone's got to find somewhere to stand their own hill to die on, and I respect him for choosing this one.
	The sad thing is, though, to my knowledge, he is the only professional tennis player, or at least of this magnitude.
	Who has actually made this stance.
	And he hasn't had a lot of support from his fellow tennis players, such as Rafa Nadal that I mentioned.
	That doesn't surprise me.
	No, so if we go on to the article on Rafa Nadal, The Guardian.
	Oh yes, there is, yeah, here we are.
	Yeah, so he basically, Nadal pretty much stated that Djokovic's prohibition from participating in the tournament is his own fault for caring so much about his political principles.
	Zledal reiterated that the clearest way to ensure participation in Melbourne was through embracing vaccination and that Djokovic had known the conditions for many months.
	Well, that's not entirely true because this was a pretty off-the-cuff reaction from Australia, really.
	They didn't give him months of notice that they were going to treat the tennis players like this should they decide to not go the way that they thought.
	Honestly, I'm not saying anything about the quality or the effects of the vaccination, but this kind of deification of the idea of just the vaccination in general, well, you should just submit to it, really comes across to me with the same sort of attitude as, well, you can't get on the spaceship if you don't drink the Kool-Aid.
	That's how it comes across to me.
	Yeah, very much so.
	But Nadal says, the only thing I can say is that I believe in what the people who know about medicine say, and if people say that we need to get vaccinated, we need to get the vaccine, that's my point of view, says Nadal.
	So he basically hasn't really been in touch with any, or engaged with any news source other than...
	The mainstream.
	I mean, have the tennis balls been, has he been using his head as the racket?
	Has he even been looking at the statistics, like the UK's COVID statistics, for example, and actually identified the complete overreaction, particularly over the Omicron variant?
	All you need to do is look at the spectators' graphs of predictions versus reality.
	It doesn't take very much, but he goes on to say, I think if he wanted, he would be playing here in Australia without a problem.
	He made his own decisions, and everybody is free to take their own decisions.
	But then there are some consequences.
	Of course, I don't like the situation that is happening.
	In some way, I feel sorry for him, but at the same time, he knew the conditions since a lot of months ago that he makes his own decision.
	And I'm sorry, but no.
	He hasn't known this is going to be the case for months.
	The Australian government basically just freaked out off the cuff, pretty much.
	Didn't know what to do.
	Wanted to make an example of him, and they did that.
	And now they look.
	They're being seen for what they are.
	Oh, we don't want a pandemic of independent thinkers.
	Oh, no!
	I'm not saying that he has unsporting intention here, Rafael Nadal, but Novak is probably the tennis player most likely to beat his record.
	So do you not think that maybe he's silently quite glad?
	There might just be a little bit of motivation.
	Interested interest going into here.
	Oh, thank God, my greatest competition's out of the running.
	Oh, sweet.
	I mean, oh, he knew the consequences, you know.
	Yeah, but I suppose if he was that way inclined, he would have said, like, you know what, Roger, why don't you do the same thing?
	And make us, you know, then again, Roger Federer had already had the vaccine, so it doesn't really matter.
	But anyway, given that...
	I mean, whether you're vaccinated or not, you can at least stand by integrity and respect the choices of the people who should be your contemporaries, you know?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	But if we get up the Daily Mirror's angle of this, again, it's pretty much, if we scroll down, we can see it's anti-vaccine Novak Djokovic would rather miss more tennis than take COVID-19 vaccine.
	Yes.
	Good.
	He's got his principles right.
	And as you can probably guess, the journalists at The Guardian haven't been all that supportive or sympathetic with Djokovic's position either, which he explained in the interview with the BBC. So if we get up The Guardian's...
	Never mind.
	The Guardian basically...
	Yeah, I forgot to include that link.
	That's my fault there.
	But I'll just read out what was said.
	Here he is again, his own worst enemy, as Djokovic attempts to navigate the world while unvaccinated.
	Literally.
	That is a direct quote.
	From The Guardian.
	That sounds like a threat.
	If you don't do what we say, we're going to make life hard for you.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, that's what they're saying, and that's what they're doing, but...
	And while his biggest rival, Rafael Nadal, took advantage of his absence to win a historic 21st Grand Slam title at the Australian Open, according to the ATP, 99% of the top 100 is now vaccinated.
	God, that's disappointing.
	He stands alone.
	Kudos to him!
	As the only tennis player to have a spine.
	Yeah, once again, I mean, I wasn't really that aware of him, I'd heard his name, but honestly, all of this is making me respect him as a man of integrity.
	I don't know, if there's other stuff, like maybe skeletons in the closet that I'm not aware of, then whatever, but for this, seems like a good guy.
	I know, yeah.
	The reality for Djokovic now is no different from the two excellent weeks of tennis in Australia following his deportation.
	The stop sports for nobody and the other 99 players in the top 100 will continue to compete around the world.
	And as long as Djokovic treads this path and vaccination restrictions remain, he will have to face the consequences of his decisions by being a better, I would say, advocate of human freedom than all of the other 99s.
	Again, win for Novak Djokovic.
	But just to summarise, look, I'm a lifelong Roger Federer fanboy.
	I've always kind of hated Djokovic, given the nature of the rivalry and the fact that he just keeps stealing Roger's titles.
	Are you a tennis hooligan?
	Yes, I am a little bit.
	He's won me over with his stance on this.
	And I really hope that he continues to hold the line, as I'm sure he will.
	Some things are more important than sports and the right to decide whether you want to be stabbed with an alien substance or not is definitely one of them.
	So hopefully he won't get to the point where he can't participate in the French.
	But at least we can be sure, fingers crossed, that he'll be back at Wimbledon this year.
	Hold the line, Novak, we're all behind you.
	Excellent stuff.
	Right, so, let's take a look at the Tories' performative anti-wokeness.
	Now, as we're all aware, the Tories have been very hit and miss on cultural issues and certain policy decisions that they've made, with some of the most strident defenders of freedom, shall we say, being left in the back benches and left to rebel against sweeping Tory policies to being left in the back benches and left to rebel against sweeping Tory policies to try and restrict freedoms, which, of course, thankfully have seemingly been pulled away recently, and hopefully
	But on the cultural stuff, they seem to try to present a united front.
	Certainly they have been recently, but we'll have to take a look at whether they actually stand up by their own words or if it's all a load of performative rubbish.
	So...
	Oliver Dowden, the Conservative Party chair, has recently made some speeches at the Heritage Foundation, which has got him in a little bit of hot water with the mainstream lefty press, who haven't particularly liked his condemning of what he was describing as painful woke psychodrama.
	So let's take a look at what it was that he said in this ITV article.
	Conservative Party chair Oliver Dowden has said the West should not be obsessing over pronouns or seeking to decolonise mathematics in a speech denouncing painful woke psychodrama.
	Good.
	Yep, excellent.
	Speaking to the influential right-wing think tank, the Heritage Foundation in the US, Mr.
	Dowden said that woke ideology was a dangerous form of decadence at a time where our attention should be focused on external foes.
	I think that's a great term to actually use for it there, decadence, because really, it is the sign of an immensely decadent society.
	That people here even have to have time to worry about this stuff in the first place.
	It's a great sign of the material wealth and material comfort that most people live in, especially those who espouse these kinds of woke beliefs in the metropolitan cities, that they have time to be able to read about all of this theory, to be able to complain about all of these things, whereas in other actually impoverished countries, you'd be too worried about where you're getting your next meal from.
	Rogue states are seeking to challenge the international order, and at the precise point where our resolve ought to be the strongest, a pernicious new ideology is sweeping our societies.
	Based.
	It goes by many names, importantly, In Britain, its adherents sometimes describe themselves as social justice warriors.
	I think that eventually became an insult to throw at them, but that's neither here nor there.
	They claim to be woke, awakened by the so-called truths of our society.
	But wherever they are found, they pursue a common policy inimical to freedom.
	So it is nice to see that Well, to be fair, I was going to say that some of the toys...
	All of the Tories at least seem to know how to spout these kinds of lines, as we've seen from Savid Javid, trying to say that they're going to eliminate woke ideology and root it out and other such things.
	But, once again, we'll see whether they actually live up to their promises.
	It's in our universities, but also in our schools, in government bodies, but also in corporations, in social science faculties, but also in the hard sciences, Mr.
	Dowden said.
	But, interesting point there, in government bodies...
	Who's got the big majority in the government at the moment?
	Perhaps the Tories?
	Perhaps the Tories should be doing something about this?
	But, never mind.
	But I tell you, it is a dangerous form of decadence.
	Just when our attention should be focused on external foes, we seem to have entered into this period of extreme introspection and self-criticism.
	And it really does threaten to sap our societies of their own self-confidence.
	Just when we should be showcasing the vitality of our values and the strength of democratic societies, we seem to be willing to abandon those values for the sake of appeasing this new groupthink.
	Mr.
	Dowden has said the West has become obsessed by what divides us rather than what unites us, which...
	All credit to him, it's a great point.
	When there's trouble elsewhere in the world, as there always is, we shouldn't be allowing ourselves to be torn apart internally, as we are recently.
	We need to be providing a unified front to present what Britain is, what Britain can be, and what we stand for.
	And we shouldn't let particular interest groups annex or monopolise that entire discussion.
	Yes.
	And what do you think the left's response to all of this was?
	Fascism.
	Almost certainly.
	I would go about doing the typical thing where we get a load of reactions up from Twitter of random people complaining about how, oh, it's just compassion and decency for other human beings.
	That's all that wokeness is.
	That's why we're teaching your children to hate themselves for being white.
	But no, I thought it would be great to get up LBC's favourite hunchback gremlin, James O'Brien, who I see as generally just the mouthpiece Yes, and that's exactly what he does here in this clip, just to sort of give you an idea of what the general thought process on the left is regarding this.
	We cannot be complacent about defending our values against this painful, woke psychodrama.
	It will take courage to resist it.
	Too many have fallen for the idea it is kind or virtuous to submit to these self-righteous dogmas.
	It is not.
	Twelve years in power, an 80-seat majority, a barefaced liar in Downing Street...
	Parties being thrown while the rest of us couldn't go to funerals.
	And Oliver Dowden wants us to be most concerned at this moment in our island history about the painful, woke psychodrama.
	And I don't know what he means.
	And it's possible that you do.
	Just help me out.
	03456060973.
	Here you go.
	Here are his examples.
	Of what is threatening the West.
	It is, when you pause for a moment, incredible, that Vladimir Putin's troops are mass on the border of Ukraine, and Oliver Dowden, the chairman of the Conservative Party, is arguing that the real threat to the West is obsessing over pronouns or seeking to decolonise mathematics.
	What?
	I don't often do this as a phoning question, but every now and then.
	It seems the perfect inquiry.
	What is he talking about?
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	Conservative Party Chair Oliver Dowden has said the West should not be obsessing over pronouns or seeking to decolonize mathematics in a speech denouncing painful woke psychodrama.
	What is he talking about?
	And what are the people he is talking to, because it ain't me, what are they frightened of?
	Or, final question, we'll go for the hat trick, what does he want them to be frightened of?
	Alright, that's the clip there.
	Yes, so there's some real bad faith argumentation right there, isn't there?
	Just a bit.
	Just a bit.
	Although I don't think we should expect anything else from Mr.
	O'Brien.
	He is, of course, accusing the right, the Conservatives, if you can call them the right, of fear-mongering, while fear-mongering himself about the scary situation over in Eastern Europe at the moment.
	But there is the point that could be made, James, which is obviously you don't want to see what is happening, or at least you don't want to acknowledge it, because when you see this stuff like obsessing over pronouns and decolonising maths, you see it as a good thing, but you recognise to a significant portion of the population that they see it as a very bad thing, because they recognise that it's going against British values.
	So you instead try to downplay it by going...
	What even is it?
	Hasn't he made our point for us in saying that, yes, we fully agree that obsessing over pronouns and seeking to decolonise mathematics does not matter, but we're not the ones who are starting this.
	It's quite literally the wokest.
	You should be telling them, why are you not focusing on the imminent Ukrainian invasion?
	If that's how you see that situation going.
	Which is...
	He's basically just saying, well, there's people having a spat over here, so why do you care so much that I'm just repeatedly punching you in the face?
	There is also the other question of which side is actually defending the West.
	What's your conception of the West?
	If you're talking about the West's cultural heritage, that would probably be on the side of Russia rather than, I don't know, the Pentagon, for example.
	Mm-hmm.
	So yeah, that's just a general summation of the left's reaction, because basically every talking point that you could get in there, barring the, oh, it just means that you're a good person, was held within that clip.
	But let's take a look at what some of the other things that the Tories have been doing, including Nadeem Zahawi actually saying something correct and possibly useful for once.
	Which is that education should not be indoctrination.
	I know, leftists shook in their boots at the very statement, but the education secretary has told schools to root out activist teachers after claims that concerning race theories were being taught in classes and pupils as young as ten.
	Good, about time.
	Yeah.
	So, I have seen, once again, O'Brien and many other leftists saying, well, why wouldn't you want to teach the children?
	The truth, as if the truth is this one-sided, very narrow, flattened interpretation of what went on in history, rather than the truth, the actual truth, which is that life is complex, history is complex, and you can't always paint it in the one way.
	And it's in the interests of history to at least consider other historiographies.
	And this is obvious nonsense when people say stuff like that because what they're actually appealing to is their right to paint history in their own ideological light.
	They want to put across, say, a dialectic presentation of history where they just view it by one way.
	And it's often politically motivated teachers who are doing this.
	So obviously this is something that we don't want being pushed on our children.
	And also, when you refer to the truth, that's kind of relative when it comes to the age that you're at.
	And whether you want children to know the truth.
	Do you want, say, eight-year-olds to know the truth about Santa?
	No, because hopefully, if you're a good person, you should recognise that there is some beauty in the innocence that children have when they're growing up that should not be disturbed by broad concepts like the truth in the way that they're using it.
	So it comes after Mr.
	Zahawi was forced to investigate a council over reports that concerning race theories were being taught in schools and staff at a Nottingham primary school.
	And once again, right there, what does a ten-year-old know about politics?
	Obviously kids are just going to see the teacher telling them what they need to think about politics.
	Seeing an authority figure doing that and going, okay, I will go along with everything there, because that's what kids do.
	They don't know any better.
	And I know the left have a certain Poor level when it comes to political discussions.
	But would it really be that much improved by a bunch of ten-year-olds?
	No.
	So the left are outsourcing ten-year-olds to do their political activism for them.
	It says a lot, doesn't it?
	Today, Mr.
	Zahawi said, children must be given the opportunity to shape their own views on political issues without being swayed by what others think.
	The Education Secretary said it's part of a democracy for children to shape their own political views as they grow up.
	Once again, children developing in a healthy way is the exact opposite of what the left wants, so it's no wonder they're so furious at this.
	The new guidance I will issue clarifies the requirement for teachers to make a balanced presentation of opposing views on political issues, so that the complexity of many of these important questions is understood.
	It's not for teachers to tell people what they should think on political issues, or how they should vote.
	The next generation is more than capable of making their own decisions.
	He said it was important for parents and carers to trust schools to be impartial, so that children can form their own independent opinions.
	It means education, not indoctrination.
	Which is, once again, when it comes to the long march of the institutions, the exact opposite of the left's mantra for the past few decades, although that's been the quiet part that they've not been saying out loud up until quite recently.
	Wellbeck Primary's Twitter account shared a picture of the children brandishing documents addressing a local Labour MP who supports the headmistress.
	Another showed a pupil scowling next to a whiteboard which said lies, mistrust and selfish next to Boris Johnson in an adult's handwriting.
	And one zoomed in on a letter allegedly written by a year 6 student using the phrase PMQs and breaking down the UK economy and pandemic response.
	So you're taking economic advice from a ten-year-old.
	That's what you want.
	Okay, I mean, yeah, I would believe that the Soviet economy was run by a bunch of ten-year-olds, to be fair.
	Meanwhile, the headteacher was tweeted a series of left-wing messages and used the phrase Tory scum online.
	Because, of course, more than 5,000 people signed a petition slamming the council for allegedly telling primary school children they are racists or victims of their classmates in lessons.
	Children as young as seven are being taught that they are not racially innocent because they view white at the top of the hierarchy.
	So you're traumatising children for the sake of your ideology.
	So empathetic.
	So beautiful.
	Wow.
	And there's other examples of this that Zahawi is railing against.
	For instance, we can go to the next article from LBC where there is a story of a woke headteacher forcing children to go vegetarian for climate reasons.
	Parents have hit out at Barreford School in Lancashire after they were told all meat had been banned from lunchboxes and the canteen.
	And there's a question to raise here.
	That's child abuse.
	Yes, that is child abuse.
	But if you're on the left, generally speaking, you consider yourself to be...
	Oh yeah, John's got up this other article from GB News.
	I'll just mention it.
	The teachers have been banned from promoting Black Lives Matter to pupils in classrooms, which is a good thing, because as much as you can say that it's a neutral cause, Black Lives Matter are themselves a political organisation.
	You should not be promoting political organisations in the schools, obviously.
	But yes, this teacher, the question I have is if you're on the left, surely you care, quotation marks, about impoverished people, you care about the underdog.
	Surely by removing any chance for these kids to eat meat in schools and potentially pushing meat, plant-based meat products or just vegetarian diets, you're probably going to be affecting the poorer students worse.
	Yes, pushing them even deeper into the poverty line.
	So, another contradictory policy advocated by the left, obviously.
	Justifying her reasons, Ms Tomlinson, Rachel Tomlinson is the headteacher, said, We made our school lunches meat-free to demonstrate how each of us making a small change to our daily habits can have a much wider positive impact.
	A small change.
	And that reducing meat consumption is just one way to do this.
	And once again, it's not that they've just stopped serving meat in the canteen, it's they've banned it from lunchboxes as well.
	So if your mum prepares you a ham sandwich and you bring that in, that's getting thrown in the bin.
	Don't have any money to buy any of the delicious and nutritious vegetables that they're offering?
	Sucks to be you, I suppose.
	We have been careful to approach this in a balanced way and teach that it is fine to eat meat, but the reducing our consumption can help our planet.
	They've literally banned it.
	Yes, so you have banned it, and this is not your right to force a particular diet on students.
	The school has previously faced ridicule after headteacher Tomlinson scrapped all punishments for bad pupils and banned teachers from raising their voices, insisting no child was ever to be considered naughty.
	Fire this headteacher, for the love of God.
	As with every policy that the left does, it has a superficial veneer of compassion and empathy over the top of it.
	But the long-term results of this will only be negative for the people that you are supposedly trying to help.
	Because if you're banning teachers from raising their voices and saying that no child can be considered naughty...
	Guess what?
	Those badly behaved students are going to run rampant throughout classrooms and destroy the educational and learning opportunities that the other students are there for.
	They don't really care about the kids though, do they?
	No, well, they care about the kids just in a different way.
	They care about brainwashing the kids, not about actually educating them.
	But...
	There are other things from schools as well.
	The Teachers Union has said to decolonise desks.
	This comes from last July, saying the 450,000-member union says there is an urgent need to decolonise every subject in the stage of the school curriculum, especially since last summer's BLM protests and the COVID-19 pandemic.
	A new NEU report sitting by The Telegraph discusses how specialists could train teachers and schools on whiteness, anti-racism.
	Oh, good.
	Creating the tools for critical self-reflection and understanding the system.
	Just teach them maths.
	And self-hatred.
	Just teach them grammar and maths.
	That's all you're there for.
	You are funded by the public.
	Stop using our money to brainwash our children.
	But yes, they want to make white privilege and colonialism visible in schools, from curriculum to routines to classroom layout.
	So just from the way that your desks are laid out, apparently our education system has been shaped by colonialism and neoliberalism.
	Right.
	Bring children up to hate themselves.
	That's very, very good for their self-esteem, isn't it?
	Yes, and it really shows how much they enjoy victimising the white children in particular, presumably if they're telling them that they are colonisers and inherently racist.
	Oh, because they're born from the off, being part of the problem.
	So overall, this may all seem like a good thing that the Tories are doing this, that they're actually putting forward a strong foot forward in the fight against wokism that is infiltrating our institutions, already has infiltrated our institutions, and running rampant across our country.
	But the problem is, if the Tories want to root out wokery...
	They might want to start with their own party.
	So, we've got many different examples here.
	Stephen Swinford on Twitter saying that Savage Javid briefly briefed the Tory MPs this afternoon, back in September, on national insurance rise for health and social care.
	He said that he'll be watchful for any waste or wokery from the NHS. And just a reminder as well that this next tweet we can see is that Sajid supports BLM. He did a rip George Floyd because supporting a communist foreign organisation is exactly what we want to see our conservative government doing.
	But, as was mentioned, there is no concrete commitment for what that national insurance hike that we're all feeling now is actually going to be going towards.
	And I think it's probably going to be spent on diversity quotas and bureaucrats, because that's what we all need in our lives.
	A little bit more bureaucracy in the NHS. The NHS is hiring an army of 42 new executives on salaries of up to £270,000 each as Boris faces, mounting anger over his tax rise to fund healthcare.
	More than $9 million will be spent employing dozens of chiefs of executives of new integrated care boards, each of whom earn more than the Prime Minister.
	On Wednesday, senior Tories said that they were appalled by the decision to hire the new executives, saying workers on low salaries would struggle to understand why they were having to pay more tax to fund mega pay packets for a legion of new managers.
	And I think it's important to point out that there is seemingly, well, very obviously, a division within the Tory party.
	and sadly we've got the wrong MPs in charge on the front benches.
	Which is obviously the political incentive structure run amok as far as I'm concerned.
	People in our democratic society get good optics from going NHS good and therefore the way to continue to get good optics is to go more NHS equal more good, give more money, throw more money into that bottomless pit and we're sure to get good results somehow.
	We may not get good results as far as our medical care goes but it'll look great for the next election.
	And there's also the diversity managers, so if Sajid wants to root out wokeness, he can start here.
	The NHS is on the lookout for the country's finest minds to tackle its biggest post-pandemic problem.
	It's currently advertising for 12 diversity, inclusion and social equity roles across the country, with salaries reaching up to £108,000.
	Set fire to the money.
	That would be money better spent.
	It would certainly be a better use of resources.
	This is on top of the eight diversity managers who were hired on £50,000 salaries at the start of this year and includes managerial positions with responsibilities such as leading and supporting the effective delivery and implementation of our equality, diversity and inclusion approach through multifunctional teams and playing the fundamental diversity and inclusion approach through multifunctional teams and playing the fundamental role in the development and lived reality of a truly diverse Right, so they're paid £50,000 a year to race baits.
	Yes, and I honestly don't understand how you can incorporate diversity, inclusion, and equity in healthcare and medical care, because surely you just hire the best people for the job and then treat the people who need treatment.
	I don't see how race needs to come into this...
	At all.
	But we can also see a bunch of the...
	We've got Callum's tweet up here pointing out that a bunch of the national agencies and governmental bodies run by the government all put up the Pride flag and the racially segregated Pride flag as part of Pride last year.
	Because you know that the best way to show inclusion is to separate out the blacks from the rainbow.
	That really says it all, doesn't it?
	Yeah.
	We've got another one here, if we go next.
	No, no, no, to the next link.
	Yeah, we are the NHS, all of them flying the racially segregated Pride flag.
	Carl and Callum have pointed out it does look like a kind of pincer manoeuvre, where the trans and the blacks and the browns are all teaming up against the LGB. I've never seen the symmetrical one before.
	It looks like it's being closed in on, doesn't it?
	It's very strange.
	So the NHS must really be struggling if we've got time for all of these sessions that they're talking about and the power of staff networks and ending with some wonderful wellness activities at 6pm when this was posted.
	So they must be really struggling if all of those nurses have all of that free time to engage in this sort of stuff.
	And just to point out as well, the civil service programme, which is a government programme, has a diversity hiring programme where the requirements are you're in your final two years at university with a 2.2 or higher in any degree subject, expected or rewarded.
	Fair, fair.
	Or you meet the diversity requirements, which are...
	Ethnic minority, socially or economically disadvantaged, or you have a disability and the right to work in the UK. Probably.
	Maybe.
	Unless you're just off the boat.
	But yeah, so obviously right there they're equating being an ethnic minority with having a disability or social or economic disability.
	Disadvantagement.
	So that's very interesting.
	But yeah, I have no real problem with sort of programs like this when it's like trying to give opportunities to maybe poor people who wouldn't have these opportunities otherwise.
	But doing it along racial lines just seems completely unnecessary.
	It's absurd because obviously not all white people are rich.
	Yeah, obviously.
	I mean, all you need to do is look at Liverpool, which we're going to talk about next.
	So perhaps all of this is due to divisions within the party, which we've definitely seen with the rebellion on the Plan B restrictions vote that went through a few months ago, where we had a hundred Tory rebellion vote against them.
	But if the party truly does want to do anything useful to help preserve our culture and the standards of our institutions that they are the ones in charge of managing currently, they need to present a unified front and get some bite to go along with that bark.
	So Nadim and Oliver, hopefully you can stick up for what you're saying.
	Yes.
	Alright.
	Okay, so some of our viewers from America may be familiar with a restaurant chain called Hooters.
	According to Wikipedia, which is up here, the Hooters name is a double entendre.
	I hope I've pronounced that right.
	It's referring to both a North American slang term for women's breasts and the logo a bird known for its hooting calls the owl.
	Yeah, I don't really like the sound of this already.
	Unfortunately, there's already one in the United Kingdom, there's one in Nottingham, and it was announced towards the end of last year that they'd like to open another branch in Liverpool, and people are not happy about it, as the Liverpool Echo observes.
	I'm not surprised people aren't happy about it.
	I mean, have you seen the women from Liverpool?
	I've only been to Liverpool once, didn't see many women there, but I have heard things.
	Oh no, you probably did, you just couldn't tell them apart.
	Ah, fair enough, that would make sense then.
	But news that a Hooters venue may be about to open up near to Liverpool's business district has not been warmly welcomed, the Liverpool Echo reads.
	It was revealed today that the US chain, known for offering beer and bar food served by scantily-clad waitresses, is applying to open up a new premises in the New Zealand house building in Water Street.
	The plans are being objected to by city centre councillors Nick Small and Maria Toulon, who are backing concerned residents.
	Chancellor Small said residents are very concerned about the impact the premises could have on noise and nuisance in Water Street because of the large numbers of stag parties and the like that this restaurant could attract.
	There is a mixed area with a large number of people living there.
	Many residents just feel like this is the wrong location.
	The night-time economy offer in Water Street, Castle Street and Nate...
	Neighbouring streets is very high quality and a real success story for our city.
	And judging by the social media reaction to today's news, Hooters could have a tough time convincing the wider public of the merits of the move.
	So I'm guessing that the council at this point focused on the proposed location of the restaurant so as to avoid being scrutinised for judging people based on their moral values and subsequent life choices may be.
	But the Labour MP for the city, Joanne Anderson, has decided to do just that through a tweet endorsing the council's position.
	So if we get this tweet up here, she says, I fully support Chancellor Maria Toulon and Chancellor Nick Small in objecting to this licensing application.
	Hooters has an infamous sexually objectifying and misogynistic environment.
	Under our VAWG strategy, whatever that means, we are committed to rooting out this behaviour no matter where we find it.
	And it has since emerged that Councillor Maria Thunen has taken this stance as well and started a petition that aims to prevent the chain from opening.
	I'm not a huge fan of Hooters or any sort of organisation like that.
	I find the whole thing creepy.
	I don't think it's a particularly good business practice.
	I'm not going to talk about sexual objectification, but I mean...
	It is kind of true, to a certain extent.
	If the women want to do that, they can.
	I just find the whole thing creepy from a male perspective, especially talking about going to a stag party at Hooters or something like that.
	What do you want to do the night before you're going to get hitched to a woman who you should supposedly love and admire for the rest of your life?
	I want to go and leer at a bunch of half-naked young women.
	It's really, really stingy.
	I think less of the people who would go, or considerably less of the people who would go to a place like that, for a start, and I think equally bad of the women, I'm afraid, who would choose to work at a place like that, unless it's literally the last job on earth, where they have no choice but to accept that job, to take their basic means of subsistence.
	But if we get the petition itself up in the next one, so here, say no to Hooters Liverpool.
	It hasn't actually been signed by very many people.
	Yeah, it's only good.
	Believe it or not, and this might actually shock you, I am one of the people that signed this petition.
	Oh, really?
	No, for the simple reason that I think, again, we need to make a conservative argument for this.
	The perpetuation of kumarism and votzdom is bad and degenerative and subversive.
	And to be quite frank, I'm...
	Of course, you can't entirely...
	You're not base or run a country based on how you feel about something.
	I understand that.
	And I understand that some people will want to make different choices, have a very different understanding of what, I don't know, morality amounts to, and in order to have a truly functioning civil society to a point, you need to let, or to have, I don't know, a moral order, if you like.
	You need to let people make their choices without being coerced into doing the right thing.
	Well, yeah, yeah.
	I mean, that's the thing, which is that, as with any business, if there is a supply of...
	if there's a building that you can fill up and there's a supply of women happy to you know let themselves be leered at like this and there's a demand of creepy coomers who are more than happy to go in and you know drool all over their chicken wings then you're going to have a business pop up like that and i don't think moral considerations really go into a lot of these sorts of business decisions
	but at the same time if you do have a significant enough population of the surrounding area saying we don't want this then that's that well not really but that's That says something.
	You have enough of a condemnation against it to get a petition up, even though it's not that well signed.
	I mean, it is different than, say, for instance, back where I'm from, you get loads of people moving around, moving right next door to a pub, and then complaining about all the rowdiness from the pub, whereas these are the people who already live in that area saying, we don't want something that's going to bring this level of rowdiness.
	Yeah, I mean, I'm not familiar with the streets, and if it is that out of character, then I get it, but...
	What does it for me, and at least what persuades me to sign this petition, is because if it was my daughter, for example, would I want this for her?
	The answer is absolutely nothing for that.
	And to be perfectly honest, if any father was fine...
	About their daughter doing something like this.
	They're all the worse for them morally, I'm afraid to say.
	Quite notoriously, this is the sort of job a daughter would hide from their parents.
	It'd be like if your daughter was a stripper, you wouldn't know that she was a stripper.
	I'm sorry, this is a gateway to that, isn't it, really?
	Well, no, because part of what they're being paid for is to be on displays.
	You've already started smashing that border of being paid to look a certain way.
	It's not much of a reach beyond that.
	I can see how the two could connect to one another, but I would say for a lot of women there probably still would be a line drawn between being leered at for wearing skimpy outfits and then, you know, stripping entirely.
	Yeah, the prevalence of, shall we say, the ongoing growth of OnlyFans would suggest that actually...
	You've got me there, to be fair.
	You've got me there.
	It turns out more women than I would expect.
	And the stories that I have heard of women, I'm afraid to say, who literally post that sort of obscene, those sorts of obscene images of themselves and don't think they've done anything wrong.
	Like something is going seriously, seriously wrong there.
	And this has a normalising effect.
	Yeah, they are devaluing themselves in doing so.
	Anyway, I will move on because there's something very, very funny about Labour's...
	the fact that the Labour Party's got angry about this, particularly in Liverpool, because Liverpool is a very left-leaning city, and it's because many of them are actually quite keen on decriminalising the sex industry.
	If we get this up here, we can see that Jeremy Corbyn was one, the darling of Labour's hard left...
	Well, here's the difference, which is that children aren't allowed in Hooters.
	Children aren't allowed to be employed by Hooters, so there's Labour's problem.
	Yeah, it's clear to be seen now.
	They're looking for raisins.
	Yeah.
	He openly said he would like to decriminalise sex work on the grounds that the illegality of it would have a knock-on effect on the sex workers themselves.
	Asked for his opinion on whether sex work should be decriminalised.
	He said, I'm in favour of decriminalising the sex industry.
	I don't want people to be criminalised.
	I want to be in a society where we don't automatically criminalise people.
	Let's do things a bit differently and in a bit more civilised way.
	I want to pay for my whores in a far more civilised manner, thank you.
	Like, what is your definition of civilisation, Jeremy?
	Complete degeneration.
	He is a socialist, you must remember.
	Yeah, but Corbyn's position appears to be to chime with that of Amnesty International, which last year provoked a mixed reaction when it called for the full decriminalisation of all aspects of consensual sex work.
	Well, no surprises there.
	I would not expect anything less of Amnesty International, to be honest.
	Like so many, this always just comes across as quite motivated for me.
	I just want to be able to pay for my hookers and not be judged for it, damn it!
	Yeah.
	Anyway, to be short, whilst working at Hooters is not sex work per se, it's, of course, I've argued it's on the trajectory, but if we move on, we can actually see on Labour Hub here an article by the movement Decrim, now published by them, Labour Hub, arguing pretty much the same thing as Jeremy, discussing a proposed revision of the system to veer towards a more Nordic model where sex work is decriminalised, apparently.
	And as you can see, it says, whilst sex work is decriminalised, the risk of exploitation is much grazer.
	That's pretty...
	I mean, I don't know whether to laugh or cry at that, to be quite frank.
	But if we actually move on to the next one, which is, I suppose, who they're working closely with, where you can see that there is or was an ongoing petition to refine the law to make sex work explicitly legal, which is what they're arguing here, or do argue in this video, which we will not watch.
	The English collective of prostitutes.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	So this has a place, so it seems, within the Labour movement.
	Communist prostitutes, for God's sake.
	Yeah, there's a real contradiction here, isn't there?
	The Labour left, or at least significant sections of us, are perfectly fine with, I don't know, brothels.
	Mothers working from home, working from home when their children are present, but are taking issues with women out of their own choosing, wearing skimpy outfits in a restaurant, working as waitresses.
	There does seem to be a weird double standard here, isn't there?
	It does, doesn't it?
	Why do you think that could be?
	I've already outlined why I think...
	It's because blokes like it.
	Oh my god, is that it?
	Well, who's buying the OnlyFans labour?
	Christ!
	I know, it's quite extraordinary.
	I find the idea that these women are being exploited actually quite amusing.
	I'm pretty sure that, as I've said, there are probably better paid job openings elsewhere.
	I don't know, maybe try working as a waste technician, or a bin woman.
	Well, there's no glamour in being a bin woman.
	Yeah, but there's more glamour in being a bin woman than there is working for bloody hoosers.
	Or at least more dignity, I should say.
	You forget there's much less attention given to you if you're a bin woman.
	Yeah, but most of them, I would suspect, know what they're getting into.
	And to be honest, they probably get tipped very generously as well.
	And why do you think they'd get tipped very generously?
	Because blokes probably get drunk enough to think they have a chance.
	Oh, absolutely.
	And of course the outfits are extremely inviting.
	LAUGHTER Well, I'm sorry, but it is.
	No, no, no, the whole thing's so ridiculous.
	It's ridiculous.
	Anyway, I'm going to stop being nasty about the potential employers.
	It's also bad on the men, of course, because they may have wives, and I'm sorry, but that's outright disloyal if you're going to a place like that when you have a partner.
	If you think otherwise, well, that's a reflection on how far we afford.
	And like strip clubs, there is an added disingenuous incentive involved in working at a place like this at Hoosers, and I'm sorry, we have to remind ourselves how much of a vice it is.
	To do that sort of thing for capital gain.
	But anyway, as it turns out, Hooters recently launched a new uniform.
	And this woman here decided to express how unhappy she was about it.
	Oh my god!
	Yeah.
	This isn't nearly skimpy enough!
	Yes, I know.
	But on October 17th, Hooters released a statement stating their employees were able to choose whether or not they wanted to wear the new uniforms or continue wearing the old ones.
	I mean, look, the absolute torture that she's going through here...
	The statement was, as we continue to listen to and update the image of Hooter girls, we are clarifying that they have the option to choose from traditional uniforms or the new ones.
	And of course, this picture was among many others, where women...
	John doesn't know whether to hover over it or not.
	The employers decided to express their discontent at this introduction.
	But it very much doesn't look like she's all that unhappy about it to me.
	I can't tell in the still image.
	No, no, no.
	But common sense...
	I mean, you're doing a job to get laid at.
	What do you expect your outfit to be?
	Well, look, she's an attractive woman, right?
	She obviously finds, I don't know, being on gays quite empowering.
	A lot of the women who really work at a place like this would find that.
	I don't know.
	You could say that's almost consistent with bourgeois feminism, isn't it?
	And this idea of bodily autonomy.
	You would think, given the Labour Party's position on brothels, I suppose the right to be a sex worker and to be economically independent in that sense would mean they would have little to no issue with this, given that they are, well, as consenting in their decision to work in a trade like this, dressed like that, as they would be literally selling themselves for sex.
	So what are they whinging about?
	Surely they would be supporting something like this or finding something progressive in it by their own logic.
	I mean, the whole thing is a gigantic contradiction.
	Yes, it is.
	But anyway, I'm going to start wrapping this up.
	If you are a father, and this is the sort of future that you want for your daughter, then I hope she runs away from you.
	That's how I'm going to wear it.
	Jesus Christ.
	I hope your daughter leaves home.
	No, to be fair, if you're a father advocating that your daughter should be doing this sort of stuff, good God, get Child Protection Services involved, because I don't know what's going on there.
	I don't know if you've seen it, there have been a number of images.
	Do you follow OnlyFans girls posting their L's online?
	Of course I don't.
	I don't want to depress myself any more.
	I find it hilarious.
	There have been a number of images that come up on it where it's like upset looking women posting photos of their faces looking angry with the text describing how they found out that their dad was one of their subscribers and only friends.
	Oh, Jesus Christ!
	What's happened?
	What is happening?
	Oh, my God.
	Right.
	This is this next-level clown world that we're in.
	This is next-level coumarism right there.
	Jesus Christ.
	Why am I laughing?
	This is so tragic.
	Well, you can either laugh or cry, and we're live right now, so I doubt you want images of you weeping.
	So let's move on to the video comments now.
	Yes.
	I'm fortunate enough to work in a fairly conservative environment, but the problem I run into is like half of them are completely oblivious to current events or any of the forces being marshaled against them.
	Sure, they'll vote in the presidentials and usually the midterms, but they take no interest in any of the local politics, or even the primaries definitely, and basically spend all their time watching football and football news.
	But then they are baffled and distressed when all their statues are being torn down and their team names are getting changed and don't understand why.
	I'd rather fight and regret it than not fight and regret it.
	That's a good point.
	I mean, to be fair, this is the whole reason why I decided to try and get involved in this sort of stuff because of the fact that when you see something like what we're going through at the moment with the woke takeover of society, I do think it...
	There is a certain duty, at least certainly I felt a certain duty, to at least try and come out and talk about it and try and do something to push back against it.
	I think with a lot of people, though, and being an individualist, I hold no qualms against people taking this, is that it's been pointed out the right can tend to be a bit more individualistic than the left can, so the left is much more effective in presenting a unified front of people who all just believe themselves to be part of a collective...
	Whereas the right, being more individualistic, tend to be like, leave me alone to grill, which is a position I respect immensely.
	It's just when we're in a situation like we are right now, it can be a little bit counterproductive when it comes to cultural issues.
	And then also there's the old adage, ignorance is bliss.
	And sometimes I wish I could go back to before.
	I paid so much attention to all of the rubbish going on now.
	A part of me does wish that I had just stayed asleep and not really seen the horrors of the culture war as they are unravelling.
	But nonetheless, I'm glad I didn't because I'm here now.
	Yes.
	And we know that we are doing the right thing about it.
	Or at least I try to do that most of the time.
	Yes, I have much more respect for myself since I started to actually speak up about things.
	I do do more than just insult people's dads.
	Although that is a fun pastime.
	Yes.
	Right, let's move on.
	The best part about having a bearded dragon is when they shed.
	So you can see the bits of their skin come off, kind of like dead skin.
	Not nice, that's not the right word at all, is it?
	You're not meant to peel it off for them.
	It can actually hurt them quite a bit if it's not ready.
	So you kind of just nudge it a little bit, and if it doesn't just disintegrate in your fingers, then you leave it be.
	But sometimes they end up just with huge bits just hanging off them.
	You can see the way he's looking.
	It's like, what are you doing?
	What are you doing?
	I don't know, he looks pretty chill to me.
	I do really want a bearded dragon or some kind of reptile, because I see...
	One, I've got terrible fur allergies, which is always bad, so they'd be an actual pet that I could own.
	Two, I'm pretty sure bearded dragons grow to be massive, and they just look like really cool, interesting pets to have, to be fair.
	I think he looks pretty chill, to be fair.
	He's like, yeah, whatever, just don't rip my skin off, please.
	Berzmanov's third book expands on his specific work within the Novosti Press Agency, outlining its activities that included neither news nor press, as we might understand them.
	The principal role was to disseminate stories that extolled the scientific truth of Marxism-Leninism.
	His descriptions of how sceptical the Indians were to Soviet ruses, but then how malleable they became after vodka and flattery, showed the skill set required for his work.
	The APM foreshadows the modern media that does not exist to entertain, educate and inform, but to excite, insight and provoke.
	Yeah, that is Angela Davis, I think.
	Yes.
	Herbert Marcuse's student who, well...
	She's still very influential in places like critical race theory circles at the moment, isn't she?
	Is she still alive?
	I actually don't.
	I actually do not know.
	I'm going to have to check that very quickly.
	Angela Davis.
	Because I know that you have your issues with James Lindsay, but you did recognise that one of his most accurate things was pointing at Angela Davis.
	Yeah, she's still around.
	She's 78.
	Oh, fair.
	The ideas that she took from Herbert Marquise, she basically reified into what, of course, Kimberley Crenshaw is the big pioneer, but everything that Kimberley Crenshaw You can trace the lineage.
	You can trace the lineage, yes.
	I would argue that Mark User may have argued against the direction that he has gone in, but that sounds like a good read.
	I'd like to dive into that at some point.
	Yeah, well, I'm not that familiar with Mark User.
	I need to watch yours and Carl's video talking about...
	What's the name?
	Repressive tolerance.
	Yeah, repressive tolerance.
	But from what I'm aware, that's basically just saying, if we on the left commit violence to those on the right, it doesn't count.
	More or less.
	So you can see how that has kind of become the mainstream focus of the left, which is that if we do it, it doesn't count, but if you do it, it's fascism.
	That for me was the moment when critical theory lost its genuinely revolutionary basis and reified itself, and it was that that gave rise to the forms of critical theory that we're seeing now.
	I suppose with something like that, Mark Hughes just decided to try and give himself an excuse for his own more radical political positions and ideas.
	He was very much seen as a darling of the new left in the public eye as well, and that, without question, had a manipulating effect on his own sense of self-worth.
	He ended up not particularly getting on with Theodore Adorno towards the end of his life.
	They exchanged a series of letters on the subjects of student activism, which I would actually recommend You have a look at.
	It's quite revealing.
	Adorno was basically in tears at what was happening.
	Oh, really?
	Yeah, Mark User was basically putting the line of F the police.
	Oh, a leftist abandoning and stabbing his friends in the back.
	I wouldn't be so shocked.
	I shouldn't be so shocked.
	But yeah, if you're interested in learning more about that sort of stuff, check out Carl and Tom's video on repressive tolerance.
	It's, I imagine, a very good watch.
	Hello, Lotus Eaters.
	As you can probably tell from my scruffy appearance and accent, I'm an archaeologist from Northern Ireland.
	I'd like to comment on today's final segment.
	I can say I find it rather ridiculous that a psychic could be transgender.
	I'm not surprised.
	This is something I have encountered with the universities, especially with students I've had to work with in their first and second years.
	But I suppose I can't be surprised as, well, they did try and teach us Foucault in critical race theory in university.
	That's very interesting.
	No, I find the whole trans-Viking thing quite interesting, because I think Carl probably made the point, even when the women are doing the fighting, it's still just men.
	I think it's just trying to reframe it, because I remember probably eight years ago at this point, they were trying to push this, oh, we found some women's bones around a Viking burial site.
	That means that all the Viking warriors were women, as like a girl power, you know...
	Do it for the whamming sort of thing.
	Except now, when that didn't really hold up, they were like, right, there were women, they were just trans women, okay?
	I imagine that's where it's going.
	Plausible correction.
	I was here the first day at Ground Zero.
	I actually spoke on stage.
	I actually saw the guy with the swastika flag.
	So it was a real thing?
	It was a real thing.
	But this is what they didn't tell you.
	He was going around with the flag saying, is this what you want for our country?
	This is what Trudeau is going to turn our flag into if we allow this draconian fascism to continue.
	This is what you want the Maple Leaf to be replaced by.
	This is what we're heading to people.
	And he was speaking with a European accent.
	So I'm thinking that he came from a country that knows about fascism.
	Yeah, I'd imagine so.
	I mean, the Eastern Europeans in particular know a lot about fascist dictatorships controlling their countries.
	They know a lot about dictatorships in general.
	They've had the worst of both worlds, both fascism and communism.
	You see Poland all the time with those flags where it's like a cross through the Swatsphere, a cross through the hammer and sickle, because they don't want either, because they've been under the boot, both.
	You hear that?
	Narc's balls go away.
	Yes, absolutely.
	Please do.
	But that's very interesting, isn't it?
	That's the power of just an out-of-context photo being shown to try and present a one-sided narrative of the story, because the fact that nobody before then, before this one comment, had made me aware of the fact that it was a guy going around, you don't want this for your country, says it all, doesn't it?
	Speaking of which, it's Fidel Trudeau.
	We will choose to stand with Canadians who deserve to be able to get to their jobs, who be able to get their lives back.
	The conservative politicians need to make a choice.
	Are they for the blockades or are they for communities, our economy, and regular Canadians?
	Mr.
	Speaker, we stand with Canadians.
	It is incredibly alarming that Trudeau refers to his own constituents as if they're a foreign occupying army.
	If you're a protester, you're not a Canadian and you don't deserve your life back.
	Violence will be Trudeau's next move.
	I wouldn't be surprised he's invoking the Emergencies Act.
	We've seen what Macron's been doing in France, putting, like, tanks and tear gassing the public who have been protesting against France's vaccine mandates.
	I said on Tuesday with Leo, I would not be surprised at all if that's what we're going to see in the next few weeks in Canada.
	I really hope not.
	Although I have seen some comments saying that happily there are lots of members of the law enforcement and possibly the military as well who are doing everything they can to not follow orders when they're told to disperse crowds of the protesters and stuff because they probably just see that these are probably their friends.
	These are probably the guys they go down the pub with at the end of the week.
	It would be beautiful to see the military actually refuse...
	What I would love, and I know this sounds idealised, it sounds like something in a film or something, I would love for them to show up and then...
	He's planting weapons as an excuse for not peaceful.
	This is something John's put...
	Apparently there's a video on the podcast channel talking...
	Oh, in our Discord, there's apparently a video talking about how he's planting weapons, because I do think that I heard about a few police finding 11 weapons, assault weapons, in the cars of one of the truckers, and I wouldn't be surprised if they were planted, and apparently there's a video discussing that.
	I forgot what I was saying, so let's move on to the next video.
	Great Canadian bank run on the horizon.
	Are any of you worried that this panic could spread to other countries as well, seeing as how globally connected we are?
	I've seen a lot of people talking about how this is just a push for a one-world currency of everybody uses Bitcoin and stuff, which I suppose would make sense if all of the institutions didn't hate cryptocurrency so much.
	I have to be honest, I don't see that happening or that being a project that's underway, not least because most governments don't seem to have a positive policy on Bitcoin.
	Yeah, I agree that there are issues that the institutions have with Bitcoin.
	I wouldn't really be able to say exactly why.
	I don't think this interest is planned particularly.
	I think it's just a result of terrible monetary management by the government, federal issues with federal currency in America, rampant inflation going on in the UK and everywhere in the West.
	Those who have the desire to centralise things to the point when you could say that nation-states would cease to be able to function as nation-states.
	That is what sort of introduces an element of doubt in my mind, is there seems to be a big push to go for that sort of centralised monetary system where I think you see places like the World Economic Forum...
	Yeah, that's what I had in mind.
	Who we know have big tendrils in all of the global institutions trying to push for cashless societies where they don't have to worry about it.
	Because that means they can track your every payment.
	That means they can track what you're buying.
	They can track if you're, say, potentially giving money to the Canadian truckers.
	That would lead you to think that maybe blockchain could be an attractive medium for them.
	I have no idea enough about blockchain or how any of the crypto stuff works to be able to comment on that.
	I don't think they're trying to do that, because I think there'd be too much resistance.
	But would they like to?
	I'm sure.
	Oh, I'm sure.
	The World Economic Forum would, anyway.
	They would love to go to the Cash for Society.
	I saw an article the other day from some banker talking about how they want to try and implement something into the actual cash as well, like an ID code or something on it, so they can track payments made by cash.
	Who was last in holding that cash casually?
	That would just make cash Yeah, well, it would still mean that you can carry cash around, but the benefits of cash, including anonymous payments, would be gone, so that's true.
	Yeah.
	Tony D and Little Joan with another Legend of the Pines from Casino City Times and the Gaming Guru comes the story of Atlantic City's resort hotel ghosts.
	They include a woman in black who wanders the beach, a bride and groom who haunt the second floor, and a strange little ghost that appears as Charlie Champlin's little tramp who most who see him mistake him for an entertainer.
	Ooh.
	That's really cool.
	It is.
	I love all of these stories.
	That sounds really interesting.
	I love the sort of, like, woman in black sorts of things that go on there.
	If I went to America, I would have to take a tour of all of the, like, little cultural myths and legends that are local to certain communities, because I think that would be really interesting.
	It's like, have you ever watched the film, I think it's...
	1408 is a Stephen King adaptation.
	It follows a writer who ends up in a hotel room that's supposedly haunted and unlike everything else he checks out, it actually is haunted.
	But he goes across all of the haunted hotels in America that advertise themselves as much to check out if they're legit.
	I would love to do something that of myself.
	That would be really interesting.
	Yeah, that would be really, really fun.
	Anyway, let's get on to the written comments.
	Yeah, let's do it.
	So Student of History says, this is on the Djokovic segment, general wellness can be described as advocating for the limiting of sweets and sugar to avoid adverse health effects.
	What national governments are doing is saying diabetes exists so no one can have sugar.
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I mean, that probably would help people with obesity and issues like that, but the question is, as a liberal, would I be happy with restricting people's freedom and freedom of association and freedom of choice to be able to do that sort of stuff?
	And I would say no.
	No, I would not, because the government should not be mandating what you do to look after your own health.
	If you want to eat loads of donuts and die of a heart attack at 35 You go for it.
	Djokovic is not just doing a great service to humanity.
	He's doing a great service to the professionalism of sport as well.
	And for the athletes' right to decide how, again, they look after themselves.
	It isn't much to ask, you would think.
	But Reece Sims says, Djokovic refuses to be forced to take a vaccine for an illness he already had, and that could affect his health.
	In both cases, these men chose principle over their sport, absolutely, and they should be respected for that.
	I didn't realise he already had COVID as well.
	That makes it even worse that they're still trying to force it on him in Australia.
	Yes, exactly.
	Rowan Alcock says the pitiful excuses offered up by Australia's alleged Conservative government.
	They are a Conservative government?
	For the removal of Djokovic, aged like so much sour milk.
	Long-range acoustic devices being used to target protesters at last weekend's protest at Parliament House seem to give the lie to the real scenario.
	Australia is in full-blown fascist mode and no amount of puff pieces of PM Scott, no mates Morrison playing April Sun in Cuba on the ukulele can distract from that truth.
	Godspeed Djokovic, kicking you out of Australia did nothing to prevent you from being an example for us to follow.
	That's excellent.
	Yeah, very, very well said.
	With the Conservative government thing, I don't know exactly how it works in Australia, but I'm pretty sure they probably have one federal government, like America, but I'm aware it's split up into different states.
	Yeah, I'm just completely miles away from...
	Being up to date with Australian, I suppose, political affairs.
	I think the national government has a conservative majority, but I think the individual local states have liberal majorities in places like New South Wales, which from what I'm aware is one of the ones worst affected by it.
	If I'm talking out of my arse right now, I'm sure you'll let me know in the comments.
	Either way, they don't sound either liberal or conservative.
	Justin B says if Djokovic sticks to his statements that he will skip tournaments if they insist he gets vaccinated then I will have great respect for him few other people that will put themselves out in order to stick with their moles yes and we need more of them George Hap says even though I don't like Djokovic's play style I have to admire his principles doubly so given that people on his level can easily forge certificates
	The way I see it, any tournament that bans the world's number one is invalid and should be ignored by the audience's yes, and to be honest, I didn't watch the Australian Open for that reason.
	Yeah, that makes sense.
	If you're interested about the beauty of the sport and the competition involved in it, you should let the people who are best at it take part.
	Yeah, and that point out forging certificates is a very good one as well, because he could have done that.
	He's got enough money and probably knows enough people, but he's doing his on the principle, and he's bringing that principle to the fore, almost using his position.
	This is almost good, positive wokeness, if you like.
	As in an actual awareness of an actual injustice that exists.
	You could make the argument, absolutely.
	I was going to say, I just feel like the word woke has been tainted.
	I do feel like a less moral person from using the word in a positive way.
	Shame on me.
	We still like you, Tom.
	Tom, don't worry. - Buck Swashiot says, "Can't wait for the era "where non-vaxxed athletes are considered to be blood doping "because they aren't hindered by the poison "that their peers have been injected with." We are edging there, I'm afraid to say.
	Oh, well, these parts don't go on YouTube, so you can be a bit more liberal with how you describe things, so that's fine.
	Yeah, yeah.
	And he says, again, tennis boy here ain't a threat, but it might encourage the rabbles to, heavens forbid, advocate for their human rights.
	Precisely.
	And that's what fascists hate the most.
	Yeah, we can't be having any of them their human rights.
	Free-thinking people.
	Good God, no.
	So, on to the anti-woke Tory facade.
	Baron von Warhawk says, I agree.
	You see, who is resisting that more?
	Russia?
	Or the Western alliance.
	Russia is condemned by so many Western institutions for the fact that they're nowhere near as woke as they'd like them to be.
	I think that's one of the reasons that so many are angry at Putin and want us to be able to go over and help out Ukraine against Russia.
	They don't want to help out Ukraine, they want us to go and culturally imperialise Russia.
	A part of me does hope, and again I wouldn't say this if you were on YouTube, But part of me does hope that Putin actually listens to that segment that Tucker Carlson did.
	He actually paints the tanks refugees.
	With the word refugee on it.
	The EU would be welcoming them through.
	Then the EU has absolutely no moral premise to resist them whatsoever.
	It's not an invasion, it's tolerance.
	I know.
	No human is illegal.
	And also, of course, just to reiterate it again, that wokeness as an ideology is a foreign import from other cultures, from America, from Europe, and we don't want it.
	We're English, damn it.
	Kuki Kouture says, self-selected pronouns are authoritarian in nature.
	No one ever uses their own pronouns.
	The individual only ever uses the terms me, myself, and I when referring to themselves.
	Are we going to go with the Matt Walsh point here?
	Because I do really like the Matt Walsh point.
	Demanding people use your self-appointed pronouns is claiming authority over them.
	It's an assault on free speech at best and potentially a master-slave relationship desire at worst.
	I agree.
	We didn't go quite into the Matt Walsh territory as much as I like that one.
	But yeah, pronouns are basically a value judgment from other people on you.
	This is what I think you look like.
	Oh, John's got a tweet up here saying, Russia has said the following, in the absence of the readiness of the American side to agree on firm, legally binding guarantees of security from the US and its allies, Russia will be forced to respond, including by implementing measures of a military technical nature.
	Very interesting.
	Very serious.
	Yeah, very, very serious.
	But yeah, so on the pronouns stuff, I agree with Matt Walsh's point, which is mandating people use your preferred pronouns is like mandating they use your preferred adjectives.
	And I will be known as powerful and handsome Harry from now on.
	And whenever you talk about me, you have to refer to me by that, or it's a hate crime.
	Yeah, otherwise I'm literally killing you.
	Mm-hmm.
	Well, it's like stabbing me in the heart.
	I can feel it.
	Whatever you don't refer to is powerful and handsome.
	Oh, the humanity.
	Ross Diggle says, James O'Brien being a disingenuous potato face smear merchant?
	I don't believe it!
	That cretin would sell us to China or the EU in a second, all the while having his pants around his ankles and bending over his desk to make it easier for them.
	Yep.
	100% agree.
	The funny thing is I left out some of the extra bits of that clip where he's talking about...
	Knowing the truth doesn't make me love England any less.
	Well, I agree, because you didn't love England in the first place, prick.
	Well said.
	Yeah, Sheep83.
	Here's another one about O'Brien.
	Has it ever occurred to James O'Brien that one of the reasons Putin feels like he can line his border with troops is that he knows that the West is preoccupied with race and gender?
	Yes.
	Don't you know?
	He does know that.
	That's exactly what he's wanting.
	That's why he thinks we're so pathetic.
	One of the reasons, anyway.
	SH Silver, don't ever be fooled.
	Tories and Labour are two sides of the same elitist coin.
	They may compete for who gets the reins, but they are united in their superiority to the plebs.
	These cultural war platitudes only go far enough to be red meat for the plebs on their side to fuel their power games, but they'll never solve the problems they can campaign against.
	I agree, because apart from the rebels who seem to actually care about the little guy...
	The Tories are basically Labour light, I think you should say.
	And they always put up a good talk, but they never actually follow it through.
	See also Preeti Patel.
	Free Will 2112.
	Many Conservative supporters are unimaginative and uninformed and are probably not aware of the political stance of BLM as an organisation or of other woke issues.
	They are also loathe to rock the boat within the Tory party, which has an iron grip on policy adoption and selection of candidates.
	trying to get this beached whale moving in the right direction is very difficult.
	And I do think when you describe it as a beached whale, there is some utility to having a certain level of bureaucracy in government to make sure that if a government who may not have the best intentions gets in, that they can't just immediately flip the country on its head and destroy everything without some pushback.
	But at the same time, if you're talking about the Conservative Party being unimaginative and uninformed, if Sajid Javid is unimaginative and uninformed on the position of BLM as an organisation, he's an elected official supporting them in public.
	he should probably educate himself.
	Not to use an insufferable leftist term, but it seems that they've kind of ruined a lot of go-to, all purpose.
	You've got to take these terms back.
	Yes, we need to recapture them.
	Miles Mitchell says politics, just like sexuality and relationships, should be left to the parents to teach rather than the schools.
	There's an important thing here, which is that I have seen many people when they're encountering the argument of parents should be the ones teaching their kids about sexuality, bring up something that's a rather valid point, which is that most of the time, parenting Parent and child relationships are very awkward when it comes to sexuality and talking to your children about sexuality, both on the parent side and on the child side.
	Many of us will remember when we were given the talk, which was not something any of us particularly enjoyed.
	I certainly dreaded it.
	I hated it while I was getting the talk and wanted it to be over.
	But it was very important.
	And I do think it's important that parents take an active role.
	However...
	What if there were going to be some parents who may be worse than the schools where they send their children?
	What then?
	I don't think that we have a legal right to be able to mandate how parents should teach their children's beliefs, whether or not we can judge them for it.
	But when we talk about Conservatives and wanting to take more control into how our children are raised and take it away from the schools to teach them about sexuality, I do think it is going to be one of those awkward things where we're just going to have to get over it and learn to be a little bit more comfortable around telling our children,
	when they're the right and appropriate age, this is something that will happen, you are going to hit puberty, there's this going to happen, and then when they're a little bit older and they're the right age, you're going to have to talk to them and be like, this is what sex is, and talk to them about maybe a bit of the...
	Awkward dynamics around it, and I can see on your face, it's an awkward subject.
	I don't want to have to talk to my kids about this either, but if we don't want the crazy leftist teachers teaching our children how to masturbate at age 12, then it is something that we're going to have to sort of take control of a little bit.
	Not that I'm going to be telling my kids about masturbating, dear God.
	Anyway...
	One more from this and then we'll go on to your comments as well.
	Callum Dayton says, Dear James O'Brien, we could explain and illuminate you to answer to your questions, but we all know you won't.
	One, listen.
	Two, acknowledge anything we say.
	Three, you believe you are superior and that we are nothing.
	And lastly, four, what does Putin have to do with any of this?
	And stop trying to dodge the question, you civil service punt.
	I'm glad you added a P there.
	I mean, I agree.
	I... I, shamefully, used to listen to O'Brien back when I was in university because it was one of the people my lecturers was pushing on all of us as a great example of political journalism.
	So that says it all, really, doesn't it?
	But he does have a way of, if somebody calls...
	I reckon it's the way they screen the callers for LBC. He either gets somebody who has no idea what they're talking about and has no way of articulating the ideas to him, so he gets to have a free win where he can just, like, intellectually own them live on air, or if they do know what they're talking about and he's unlucky enough to actually have to put up an argument, he'll just shut down the argument by going, well, by interpreting everything in the worst faith possible and just going, like, oh, so you're just afraid of immigrants, are you?
	You just don't like black people?
	Yes, pretty much.
	No, Labour's booby blunder.
	City Milan says Hooters is about as cringe as anime, but that doesn't mean it should be banned, but I'll judge those who go.
	Yeah.
	Again, I'm not sure whether I would go as far as outright banning it.
	I don't think I would.
	I think that would be a bit of an overstep.
	I think that would be overstepping boundaries of what businesses could be open.
	I think there needs to be more of an interest in where these places are located.
	In a town centre...
	Well, town centres are...
	A place for family day...
	Well, yeah, they're hot spots for industry and where you take, like you say, take a family day out.
	You don't want to be walking with little Jimmy down the street and see some Hooters girls.
	Although, to be fair, if you're in Liverpool, you'll probably see much worse anyway.
	Mm-hmm.
	Yeah, her X, Y, and Z says Labour and Labour...
	Oh, Zed, I should say, is a correction.
	Yeah, he got me last time as well.
	Yes.
	American imperialism must be resisted, that form anyway.
	Labour and Labour councils are concerned about the negative effects upon women and girls.
	If only they were to expend half as much energy on certain English cities and the harm to young girls.
	God, I didn't even mention that.
	That's a good point, actually.
	We should have brought that up.
	But Rhys Sims says, Weird how Labour are taking the Conservative view on Hoosers.
	Yeah, pretty much.
	Not even ten years ago, this scenario would beat the complete reverse.
	The Tories would get strung up about Hoosers promoting smut, and Labour would have cried its freedom of expression.
	It doesn't say anything about those wearing Hoosers clothing.
	Weird how things change, isn't it?
	Well, I'm certainly making the Conservative argument that they would have made ten years ago Now.
	Do you want to read the little critique-y bit?
	Yes, I do.
	Yes, Alex Ogle says, Thomas, you are a prude.
	I respect your position, but you are the modern-day Mary Whitehouse.
	The girls are well-paid, yes, I'm sure they are, the working environment is safe, and the restaurant only serves food and drink.
	If you go in looking for more, you'll be sorely disappointed, but I will not be going at all, so you needn't worry about that.
	That's fair.
	I'm glad that we don't exist in an echo chamber and our audience are more than happy to criticise us.
	I accept that I probably came across as Oliver Cromwell in a certain sense.
	Just a little bit puritanical.
	Maybe a little bit puritanical, but at the same time we have to take this more seriously than we are.
	I don't accept that that is an out-and-out prudishness.
	It's an acknowledgement of the consequences that that has, that places like that have, if you allow it, or at least you allow, I suppose, the barrier that I talked about to be broken down.
	Because there really isn't the distinction between that and sex work, as people think.
	It's no coincidence that...
	So many, shall we say, are even considering opening an event account.
	Yes, and it just depresses me to see it.
	That is all.
	That's why I feel particularly strongly about it.
	But anyway, Salih Midon says, establishing the idea of a prostitute's collective trade union is probably appealing to Labour because that's more people forced to contribute to the upkeep of their party.
	Yeah, I suppose it could be politically advantageous, couldn't it?
	And one last one, Student History says, wait a minute, ain't this the same left that was promoting Free the Nipple?
	Yeah, guess it is.
	And on that note, I think that's all we've got time for.
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