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	Good afternoon ladies and gentlemen Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 18th of August, 2022.
	I'm joined by Connor, and today we are going to be talking about candy store colonialism as Sadiq Khan's London continues to collapse.
	Could Afua Hirsch just go away?
	We're just kind of sick of hearing from her, and we'll explain why in great pedantic detail.
	And Graham Leinen's trans-blasphemy.
	Very interesting story behind Graham Lyndon, and it's very nice to see, actually.
	It's kind of wholesome as well, in a way.
	But anyway, let's get started.
	So, without further ado, I thought we'd just examine what's going on in Sadiq Khan's Lawless London.
	And I say this lamenting the fact that, as a lifelong Londoner, the city that I grew up in and probably didn't appreciate at the time has now fallen into utter disrepair and has been colonised by criminal gangs and American candy stores, of all things.
	But it turns out that the two are one and the same, which we'll get into very shortly.
	Before we do, I thought I'd promote your premium hangout on how Britain's changed.
	Man, it was actually quite harrowing doing this hangout because what I'd done is gone through all of the archived footage that you can find of just London streets and streets in Oxford and things like that and just see how things were.
	And you can see that back then, like 100 years ago, 80 years ago, 60 years ago, 40 years ago...
	We had a coherent and cohesive civilisation.
	We understood what we were and where we were going.
	And people looked happy.
	That's the thing.
	People looked happy.
	But look at London now.
	You had an aesthetic and the standards were inherent in that aesthetic.
	So there was respect for the place.
	So not to kiss your backside before I started working here, but I just wanted to say I did this because I really enjoyed this.
	And it was like a living history thing that you went through.
	And you can also see Callum's face continually just become degraded as he's watching.
	But the one thing that got me was around the same time as you produced this, there was a video of Tower Bridge.
	And back in the, I believe it was the 20s.
	And again, everyone was wearing suits, etc.
	And I was pointing out to who I was watching it with.
	Oh, that's the Pommelers Rest Weatherspoons.
	I've drank there before.
	That street's utterly unrecognisable now.
	Because you can stare down and still see Tower Bridge, but you've got The glass towers everywhere, you've got nobody wearing the same thing, and we've been atomised from that aesthetic of Britishness and the behaviours associated with it.
	So speaking of, I suppose, the behaviours associated with what you'd expect of British decorum, let's talk about the recent spate of stabbings that's happened this week, shall we?
	Because it's become uncharacteristically more barbaric.
	It feels like we're living through the Warriors.
	So, on Oxford Street the other day, someone was murdered in broad daylight outside of a Korean restaurant.
	Jesus Christ.
	Which isn't something you'd expect.
	My girlfriend actually went up and was working in Covent Garden for her first day at work, so I was a bit like, well, be careful, you know?
	Which is not something you should have to say anything.
	No, not in broad daylight in the middle of the day in our cultural capital, but there you go.
	But now it's become a multicultural capital and you get things like this.
	A man was stabbed to death at Aryan Korean restaurant in Poland Street, a side road off of Oxford Street, at the heart of London's West End.
	to the horror of passing shoppers.
	Armed police and ambulances rushed to Arring shortly before midday and found a man with knife wounds.
	Both London Ambulance Service and the air ambulance attended, but the victim died at the scene 40 minutes later.
	A man in his 50s was arrested outside the restaurant on suspicion of murder.
	Four other people have now been murdered in London over just three days.
	Now that's the time of writing, it's increased to six during another spate of violence.
	There have been 57 homicides, so that's now 60 over the year so far.
	The incident is alleged to have involved workers in the restaurant, which claims to be first in the UK, having opened in 1975.
	A worker in a nearby shop said the violence had broken out inside.
	Another onlooker said, I saw two men enter the Korean restaurant arguing.
	They were really shouting at each other.
	I couldn't hear what they were saying, but they appeared to be Korean.
	They both went inside.
	This is surprising, of course, because London's Korean community is not known to be one that has a particular history of machete attacks, for example.
	But it also seems that this might be one in the trend, and obviously we can't accuse, but one in the trend of businesses in London and its outer boroughs which have been captured by organised crime.
	There are a lot of front places going on at the moment.
	Now, that doesn't mean that there's not just your average lawless estate stabbings, which are happening very frequently.
	We'll see that shortly.
	But there is a strange thing where London seems to be the international money laundry, not just the oligarchs that they were accusing during the Ukraine sanctions, but also there's this low level of overlooked organised crime.
	And I do wonder if it's because the city has lost its legitimacy through poor governance, so now people think, well, I'll get what they're giving is good.
	Seems sad.
	So if we can just go to the next one, I only highlighted this because this had a quote from Sadiq Khan in it.
	Oh, brilliant.
	What did Sadiq Khan have to say about the multicultural city that he helped create?
	The mayor's thoughts with friends and family of the victim following this appalling attack in our city today.
	A man has been arrested and the mayor remains in close contact with the Met Police about the incident.
	Each death through violence in London is a tragedy, which is why the mayor's top priority will always be tackling crime as well as the complex causes of crime.
	God, that is...
	All I can think of is, like, in 2015 when he was running and he put out the video saying, I'm going to stop, stop and search because it's racist.
	Yes.
	And boom, knife crime goes skyrocket.
	It's bit you directly in the backside.
	The reason I'd like to highlight that, though, is for two reasons.
	Number one, it's a platitude from Labour, which has been inherited from Tony Blair, which is tough on crime and tough on the courses of crime.
	Boring as per usual.
	And it masquerades for your policies not working.
	Exactly.
	But it's also founded on the faulty premises that you see in the likes of Foucault and also in Engels, in Conditions of the Working Class in England, where they say that inequality and the observation of opportunities not being afforded to you creates the social conditions for crime to fester.
	Exactly.
	And so rather than it being human evil, it's the product of an unfair society.
	And even though you as London's mayor for how many years, as a so-called marginalized group, have been atop this hierarchy of power, you somehow haven't transformed those conditions.
	And so it's a paradox in your own thinking.
	Because are you not then creating the conditions of crime?
	And are you not then exculpating People's moral responsibility for these individual actions of stabbing.
	And that's why nothing changes and it's only getting worse.
	But also, it fails to explain why, for example, my parents grew up in extreme poverty, but they weren't criminals.
	Yeah.
	Well, my granddad, so you know the show called The Midwife?
	He was delivered by the Poplar nuns.
	Oh, really?
	And where he used to live has been demolished for the Olympic buildings and it's all been gentrified, etc.
	But they lived in a really deprived area just afterwards.
	1948 he was born.
	Wasn't a criminal.
	No, they were playing in bomb sites.
	No criminality.
	In fact, he actually got hauled into the police station at 15 and beaten up during an interrogation.
	Because they wanted a man, and they just thought, okay, we'll grab this guy.
	But no convictions all his life.
	But that's not the way it is.
	Criminality, I mean, I'm not saying that poverty isn't an incentivizing factor, but I think it fundamentally comes down to the culture of the people.
	Agreed.
	Fundamentally.
	If you've got a culture that refuses criminality and actively raises children to be decent and honest, then you get much lower criminality regardless of how poor they are.
	And speaking of decency and honesty to alleviate poverty, this is why the next crime that's just happened is the most egregious.
	Oh god, I hate this.
	So for those who aren't in the UK, there was a man on a mobility scooter, 80-year-old man, who was a busker raising money for Ukrainian refugees, you know, the actual people that had been affected by the war over there, who was stabbed to death in broad daylight.
	And this has been a 44-year-old man who has done this.
	So I'll just read through some of the details.
	44-year-old man has been arrested on suspicion of murder after a beloved busker, Thomas O'Halloran, was stabbed to death on a mobility scooter in West London amid mounting anger over a rising tide of violent crime across the capital.
	The 87-year-old grandfather was fatally attacked in Greenford on Tuesday while raising money for Ukraine war victims.
	In the latest suspected murder to shake Britain's lawless capital that has seen six murder investigations in the last four days, O'Halloran was a member of the Irish community in Ealing and was described as well-liked and well-loved, often seen busking with a harmonica and accordion outside Tesco's in South Greenford Railway Station.
	It marks the sixth murder, an investigation launched by Scotland Yard in just four days, including one on Monday after a man was stabbed to death at a Korean restaurant on Poland Street.
	Others came after a 58-year-old woman died in Acton, a 36-year-old man was found dead in Lewisham, where I used to work as well, a 60-year-old man died in Dagenham, and a 25-year-old man was shot in Walthamstow.
	Now, of course as well, remember, Britain does not have very lax gun laws.
	We are not the south side of Chicago.
	Oh no, go on.
	So they're still using stabbing instruments and guns.
	Wonderful.
	And we can't defend ourselves.
	But I just can't get over, what kind of monster do you have to be to murder an old man in a disability scooter?
	Like, just generally, what kind of absolute beast is this person?
	And this is why I've come around to the position that the progressive view on justice and punishment is just wrong.
	They need to be hanged.
	Yeah, you need retribution.
	It's societal self-defense.
	Yes, yes.
	As a society, we should be asserting our privileges and laws over these people, and literally, they should be hanging in public.
	The only barrier to entry I have with that is that the governments are so incompetent, I don't trust Kamala Harris types to not persecute innocent people.
	But unfortunately, we get these sort of cases.
	Exactly.
	And the case I've always used for the gut-level injustices, Lee Rigby was murdered in broad daylight on video by men who shat it, al-Akbar in the booth, and we are currently paying taxes, so they get bed and board three meals a day and can sit in the prison mosque and radicalise other people.
	Meanwhile, People who would have been in units comparable to Rigby's, veterans, are of mental illness, drug addiction, and they are sleeping with mattresses propped up in shop windows, and they get no assistance.
	How is it just that crazy Islamists and people who have no connection to the country can sleep in military barracks and prisons, and we have to pay for it, but people that serve this country get nothing on the street?
	Honestly, bring back the death penalty.
	So, we can look at exactly what kind of person did this.
	Oh yeah, okay.
	Because the photo wasn't included in the last article, because when they found the man...
	Oh, he was an enriching part of the culture.
	Yes, he fit a verbotim description, which, of course, you cannot say.
	Look at the BBC's description.
	The man is described as wearing grey shorts, a dark coloured t-shirt, a white baseball cap, and white pattern-builder-style gloves.
	Well, let's hope he doesn't change his clothes.
	Yes, exactly.
	And this is, again, we have to say this because it is also true.
	We're not saying all black people commit crimes.
	We're talking about culture, right?
	And this is the kind of culture, again, why was he wearing built-in star gloves?
	We're talking about this individual.
	We're not talking about black people at all.
	We're talking about this individual.
	What was in his head that made him think, yeah, I'm going to go and stab to death an 87-year-old man now?
	Yeah, and I think it has to be premeditated because one, you had the mask and nobody's actually wearing that.
	Two, why are you running around with builder's gloves unless you want to hide your fingerprints?
	Great question.
	So I'm thinking he probably saw the guy busking and wanted to steal the box.
	That's awful.
	Petty pennies.
	So awful.
	A grandfather's life was ended over petty envy.
	Disgusting.
	So what's caused this, as you've already premeditated?
	Let's look at stop and search statistics, shall we?
	So, we can look at the crime rate steadily increasing after stop and search stopped.
	Then we hit 2020 with lockdown, where everyone's locked in their homes and they can't commit any crimes.
	Plummets right the way down, and then it steadily increases back up again.
	Even though it's not that low, though, right?
	You know, it's 83 per 1,000 in London.
	So even during lockdowns, they're like, yeah, well, we can commit crimes.
	Yes.
	Just fewer.
	Smash and grab is worth the risk, lads.
	But also look how quickly it's rebounded.
	Yeah.
	It's not like, oh, lessons were learned and we all came together and we all clapped for the NHS. No, no, no.
	But look how steep it was going up before the lockdown as well.
	Over only a couple of years.
	This is just proof that progressive views on justice and crime do not work.
	They do not prevent crime.
	If we're looking at the extrapolation population, that's 100 for the people that can't see the graph.
	100 people in 1,000 is the crime rate.
	1 in 10 criminals in London.
	Jesus Christ.
	Yeah.
	This is insane.
	And this is why London is not particularly safe late at night.
	This is why always, ladies and gents, if your girlfriend's going to London, make sure you text her when you get in.
	It's just part and parcel, mate.
	It's just part and parcel of the multicultural capital of the world.
	I don't know what you're talking about.
	You just are a racist.
	Blah, blah, blah.
	Oh, apparently, according to The Guardian, we are racist, so hold on for pre-empting that.
	Well, I mean, that is The Guardian's abuse.
	So Stop& Search rose 40% in lockdown, actually.
	So it turns out that the lockdown decrease rate may have also been due to Stop& Search increasing.
	Now, some of these were, of course, because COVID restrictions are in place, so you can't go to a park bench and have a coffee.
	But you can carry a knife when restrictions aren't in place.
	And it just says that the tactic was used 104,914 times between April and June, equating to more than 1,100 times a day.
	Only one in five stops led to an arrest final caution.
	Statistics have prompted renewed concerns that police are using the power indiscriminately.
	Concerns?
	What do you mean?
	Applauds?
	I'm glad that they're using it indiscriminately on Londoners.
	Well, as well, if four out of five didn't lead to an arrest, congratulations, the deterrent is happening.
	Yeah, absolutely.
	That's...
	1 in 5 led to an arrest.
	That's terrible.
	Yeah.
	Because before we thought it was 1 in 10.
	Now it's 1 in 5.
	Like, sorry.
	But, even though this saves lives and is lowering crime, of course the race hustlers have to complain.
	Oh, yeah.
	Maurice McLeod, the chief executive of Race on the Agenda, said...
	Why this exists.
	Just race on the agenda.
	Oh, thanks.
	Thanks.
	Glad to hear it.
	Mask off moment.
	The increased proportion of stops that result in no action suggests that the stops are being carried out based on the officer's pre-existing biases rather than on genuine suspicion of criminality.
	Don't care.
	One in five still led to an arrest.
	So, if you're going to take those odds, it's not bad.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I can't stop laughing because it's so ridiculous.
	I thought I'd address the elephant in the room, which we have said is culture, not race.
	Again, I can't believe I have to say this.
	But if we look at the statistics, unfortunately, by ethnicity, we're looking at stop and search rate.
	Okay, we're looking at...
	Per 1,000 people, 54% of them were black, right?
	So that's 54%, okay?
	Fine.
	That's 54 blacks per 1,000 people who are stopped in search, right?
	Yeah, I believe so.
	So, okay, fine.
	You may have a complaint about the proportion.
	But then if we look at arrests in the next tab...
	It's still higher.
	It's still higher by a factor of 10.
	Yeah.
	So it's 31.
	So it's correlation, basically.
	Yeah.
	So again, are we looking at culture in immigrant communities or fatherless homes, not black people, I can't believe we have to say this, that could be leading to a higher level of criminality?
	It's just the ethics of the community.
	Yeah.
	If the ethics of the community are join a gang and get a knife, then you've got to police that community.
	There's no getting around it.
	The victims of violent crime track pretty much exactly the same.
	So if you're going to sit there and claim, well, Black Lives Matter, you're not just a Marxist front group, well, then I care about the black boys that are getting stabbed by the black boys, frankly.
	George Soros came out the other day and just said, I'm going to continue funding Democrats, prosecutors, DAs, yeah, in places like Chicago and Detroit.
	And it's like, well, just say you just want black kids to die.
	Exactly, yeah.
	Just say you want them to die.
	It's callous and indifferent.
	And the unfortunate thing is, we don't actually know the full extent of the statistics by race, because the ONS are now refusing to report them.
	Oh, well.
	If we scroll down just a bit.
	It looks really bad, then.
	Yeah.
	They say, we've got the victims, that's fine, but your request regarding violent offences broken down by ethnicity, if we just scroll down a tiny bit, we do not hold any information on convictions.
	Why not?
	Why isn't that something you just put down the tick box?
	Isn't that just more information?
	It's the exact same with the grooming gang reports of where they wouldn't take religion and ethnic affiliation because they know it would look bad.
	But it only looks bad if you have the progressive mindset of where you categorize people by race.
	It doesn't look bad to me.
	It just says, okay, there might be a particular cultural problem in this area of London, which is majority immigrant or second generation immigrant.
	What's ethics?
	It's all about what they think should be the right thing to do.
	And a bunch of these people have got really bad ethics.
	Yeah, because their dad's not around.
	Yeah, exactly.
	And that's tragic.
	And I'm sorry, but we should be projecting our British ethics against these communities and saying, no, look, this is what you should do.
	You know, even if it's just billboards saying that the right thing to do is this, the right thing to do is that, the right thing to do, just so they've at least got someone saying what the right thing is.
	Because otherwise these kids are like, well, I guess the right thing is to join a gang, get a knife, go deal some drugs.
	What do I know?
	You know, they're 16 years old.
	Well, I had two kids in my school, and I went to a South East London grammar.
	So it wasn't a terrible school by any means.
	It was terribly run, but the actual opportunities were afforded.
	And we had two young mixed-race guys, and one guy got killed for trying to rob a drug dealer, got his head kicked in in the street after leaving school.
	The other guy got a scholarship to, I believe it was the University of Los Angeles, for playing football.
	Fantastic footballer.
	That smooth talker with the girls, really well liked guy.
	His dad died after he did his A-levels.
	And so him and his brother fell into dealing drugs.
	And the police knocked on the door and they said, what have you got in your pocket?
	And he went, some things.
	And sprinted inside the house to try and hide heroin.
	Got a jail sentence.
	Ruined it for himself.
	And there's no...
	There's no excuse.
	You chose that.
	But you put that on yourself.
	And it's so frustrating to just watch that waste of talent.
	And I knew those guys.
	And you just...
	You screwed up.
	Anyway, you screwed over yourself.
	It's just sad.
	So then we can see civil disobedience in the city getting a lot worse.
	Just raw video footage.
	If we can play this without the terrible music, please, Michael.
	Thank you.
	Right, so what we're watching then is a big ethnic riots or mob?
	It's a joint gathering in Oxford Street, which is the central shopping district, and they're raiding candy stores, shops.
	There's mass police presence, they're mobbing a Ferrari.
	People are standing on it and taking photos.
	But who are these people?
	How was it organised?
	Yeah.
	Look, we're all going to rob this shop.
	Candy world.
	You're looting in and you're running out.
	And it looks like the images in San Francisco of when it was basically legalised, shoplifting up to a certain amount.
	But they've tipped it all over, look, and they've just got loads of sweets.
	There's sweets as well.
	It's such a childish thing.
	But this is exactly what Robert Heinlein was warning about.
	That progressive views on education and justice would lead to feral children robbing stores and stuff like that.
	And that's exactly what these are.
	They're just children.
	I'm just going to rob these things.
	Why?
	I could screw it.
	Why not?
	I'm going to nick all the Tesco meal deals.
	I'm going to run into the sweet shop.
	I'm going to run into the useless tat shop.
	London souvenirs.
	You don't need any of these things.
	No.
	Which is the question of why there's so many shops there, right?
	Wow, yeah.
	So if we just go over to the next video as well, from our political compass means we're seeing some of the similar footage, just to illustrate it.
	It's terrible music.
	So if we go over from this video, just so we don't replay the same sort of stuff, just go to an article explaining what happened here.
	Street shops were looted, Ferraris jumped on, and police assaulted in wild scenes in central London.
	A Met Police spokesperson said, Police were called at 5 to 6 in the evening to Oxford Circus to a group of youths gathering and concerns around a fight.
	Officers responded, Several pockets of youths are reported to have entered a number of shops and stolen various items.
	Several arrests have been made for theft and assault on police.
	Police continue to disperse them.
	A Section 60 and a Section 35 dispersal order in place.
	The National Police Air Service provided assistance.
	Scenes which have been going viral on a series of TikToks have shocked Londoners writing on Twitter.
	What is all this I'm hearing about central London link-ups?
	All this about Oxford Street, Ferraris, people stealing from these American sweet shops and police vans.
	What is happening?
	So this reminds me very much of when the London riots.
	of 2011 happened, which people can see the footage of on YouTube if you're obviously not a Brit and it's not a living memory.
	I lived a few roads away from it.
	And this was like...
	When I was, say, 19, my political awakening was because of things like Larry Elder and interviews and, you know, SJW cringe compilations.
	Yeah.
	But my awakening to the morality of the world was when I was 12, and I watched those people fighting in the streets and stealing stuff a little while away from me.
	And it was just, you know, black-clad ewes stealing stuff, fighting with the English Defence League in Lewisham, for example.
	This was all organised on BlackBerry Messenger.
	PlayStation private messages and things like this.
	So how are they organising this stuff?
	And it's clearly not a flash mob.
	There were hundreds of people there in Oxford Street on a weekend to rob candy shops.
	And again, you've got to admit that there's an ethnic homogeneity to the mob.
	And the problem is just the complete lack of ethics in this community.
	What can you do about it?
	Yeah, and this is clearly not, as well, the kinds of West African kids whose parents are Christian, which I lived next door to.
	And their kids are straight and narrow and got fantastic jobs.
	Yeah, because they get the slippers.
	Yeah, but also because both their parents are at home.
	Their dad's a doctor, their mum drives them to school in the morning.
	This is, as you said, feral children.
	And we're all suffering because of it.
	So, why candy shops, though?
	And we can see from an expose here from NBC News, of all places, and there's a few articles on this.
	Oxford Street Building, number 363, is steeped in British history and culture for 70 years.
	It was a flagship store of HMV. Now, it's an American candy shop.
	We've got a mysterious explosion of one of London's most popular and shopping thoroughfares has confounded officials and property experts.
	Their spread exemplifies the decay of Oxford Street.
	Gutted by online retail, sky-high business taxes, and pandemic lockdowns, it is suspected of being a haven for criminality perpetrated in plain sight.
	The local authorities investigating some of the stores in connection with a range of offences, including tax avoidance, and sending counterfeit chocolate, watches, and vapes.
	For 650 years, crowds stormed Oxford Street to heckle convicts being carted from the prison at one end of the gallows to another.
	So it's actually got, when you said about the capital punishment returning, Oxford Street has a bit of meme magic going on there.
	The mass public hangings stopped in the 1780s, and soon the street reinvented itself as a shopping destination.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Reforge the gallows, fellas.
	But today it faces an unprecedented crisis.
	Mega brands like Debenhams and Topshop have gone, leaving 20% of the street empty.
	Um...
	Marks and Spencer, who wrote in the Telegraph, newspapers in June said that Oxford Street risks becoming a dinosaur district destined for extinction.
	Candy World, with its billboard featuring the Statue of Liberty, which has replaced that HMV, holding a chocolate bar is among those stores under investigation, which, according to the shopfront staff, the council has declined to name any of the two dozen-plus stores it's looking into.
	On a recent visit, staff shrugged when asked if a manager was available to comment on the raids that happened this weekend.
	Another intervened, a man with greying hair, a beard, a black t-shirt, and AirPods.
	No comment, said Abdul, declining to give his full name or job title.
	We're not speaking to anyone else after the lie is previously printed in the media, referring to the council's statement.
	London has become so notorious for its impenetrable network of anonymous owners and shell companies that it's nicknamed the laundromat.
	And it seems like on a microcosmic level, these candy shops, which are open everywhere that no one seems to buy from, seem to be fronts for money laundering.
	Well, I mean, I suppose then it's not the worst thing that these are the stores that got raided?
	No, it's thieves taking from thieves.
	But obviously, if you're driving your Ferrari, which you might have been hard-earned, assuming he's not one of these criminal owners, of course, which happens in South London boroughs, you do see a lot of that where they're in restaurants and they're driving Lamborghinis down the high street.
	Why should we be caught in a crossfire between two criminal gangs?
	It's dreadful.
	So if we go to the next one, the Guardian reporting on this, and this is actually an article by Adam Hug, who is the leader of the Westminster City Council.
	Oxford Street has at least 30 of these candy stores in the last count?
	In one giant street?
	Yeah, this is definitely sus, isn't it?
	Yeah, there's loads everywhere.
	It's really strange.
	He said, The fake bar is sold at £9-10.
	In other cases, the Food Standards Agency warns the chocolate was hazardous.
	The Halls was expected to include 3,000 vapes carrying excess nicotine, 1,400 levels of designer label phone covers, 78 fake designer hoodies and a number of bogus Apple AirPods.
	Now, of course, when you go to other countries, like Turkey, where I'm going to, there's always fake stuff, right?
	We don't have a prejudice against, like, cheap, naff, knock-off stuff.
	However, the fact that this is so pernicious up and down the street, and the fact that none of the items are genuine, means that it's likely a criminal enterprise.
	So we have roving street gangs...
	Definitely a criminal enterprise.
	We have roving street gangs of, as you said, feral children, raiding...
	Some sort of weird organised crime of cheap Chinese tat?
	Yeah.
	Is this what London's actually become?
	This is multiculturalism being Sadiq Khan's strength.
	And speaking of the strength, what are the police doing in the meantime?
	Oh, well, I mean, they've probably been on Twitter.
	Worse, a police traffic officer is arrested for corruption after robbing motorists and using their money to pay for prostitutes.
	LAUGHTER You just kind of have to laugh, don't you?
	So London is basically corrupt top to bottom.
	Yeah, with the New Chicago.
	That's what it feels like.
	The officer in question pressured victims into handing over their cash and belongings just because he was a police officer.
	And I can't believe I'm saying it, but defund these police, I suppose.
	So I just wanted to wrap up with the statement that London's kind of become a Middle Eastern bazaar of cheap plastic tat raided by...
	Roving gangs of digitally organised crazy barbarians has become an unrecognisable, unsustainable and unsafe to live in place.
	The whole world's on your doorstep.
	It feels like someone else's country, unfortunately, and not a particularly lovely one to live in.
	It's suffering from the pernicious outgrowth of left-wing policy and, frankly, I lament the loss of the place that I've, at times, been too young to appreciate and, well, now too old to actually live in it being decent for once.
	There is a term for nostalgia for somewhere that doesn't exist, and that's what you're feeling.
	This used to be a place that I remembered.
	It's not anymore.
	Anyway, speaking of diversity and multiculturalism, let's talk about one of its biggest advocates, Afua Hirsch.
	Who surely must think that modern London is just a wonderful place.
	But honestly, I'm really sick of Afuersh.
	I'm sick of the fact that she hates Britain, she hates British people, she hates British history, and she would like to demolish it all.
	Could she just go away, please?
	Just go away.
	Just gone.
	Much in the same way that she's been banned from Whitehall.
	But we'll talk about that in a minute.
	Because if you want to support us, go to losis.com and check out my latest premium podcast on cultural colonization.
	It's just me talking about why they are skin-suiting all of the beloved narratives of our places.
	Particularly the Black Robin Hood really annoyed me.
	But one of the things I found really stupid was an American, and again, it's always American, isn't it?
	The American candy stores, the American artist, came over and decided to paint a load of paintings of the modern Londoners, as in black Londoners, in European paintings.
	And one of them was the Ship of Fools.
	And it's like, he's put black Londoners in the ship of fools.
	What a strange thing.
	Anachronism.
	Yeah, that's fine.
	But the Ship of Fools was a commentary on the unreformed Catholic Church and how that's degenerate and corrupt.
	But also, the Ship of Fools itself was something that they used to do in the Middle Ages, which is put the insane people on the ship and then just push them out to sea.
	And so what's he saying about putting the black Londoners on the Ship of Fools?
	It's a plan to solve the Channel migrants, I assume.
	I don't know.
	Are the Black Londoners fools?
	Are they corrupt?
	Who knows what he was trying to...
	Disavow.
	Yeah, exactly.
	I disavow this decision.
	But basically, I'm examining all of this.
	And it's a really good stream.
	I'm really proud of it.
	Anyway, we are also doing...
	Well, I'm also doing something quite exciting at the end of this month, which is speaking at the Witan, which is Skilding's latest event.
	There'll be a link in the description if you would like to come along.
	I don't know how many tickets they've actually got left...
	So, book soon.
	It's in the West Midlands.
	You will be emailed the actual address once you purchase a ticket.
	But it will be very good, and I'll be giving a talk called The Word and the Shire.
	Should be interesting.
	I've been putting a lot of thought into this because of all of the reading that I've been doing, of everything that you guys know I've been covering.
	And I think this will be a worthy speech.
	So, fingers crossed.
	But anyway, let's begin with Afua Hirsch being labelled as an extremist by the government, which I think is a completely fair characterisation of her, since she is extremely left-wing, I would call her a communist, frankly, and she seems to desire the complete and total destruction of this country.
	There seems to be nothing that she hasn't So, this was very amusing, because the Daily Telegraph said that Hirsch was one of the public figures that Jacob Rees-Mogg once banned from Whitehall.
	And they say that a paper singled out Hirsch, who's the author of a best-selling book called Brit-ish, as an example of a speaker who should be cancelled.
	That's not cancellation.
	Being banned from cavorting with civil servants in Whitehall is not any form of cancellation, nor is it a violation of your free speech.
	So, deal with that.
	I always use...
	It's not cancellation.
	I always use the metaphor of you can't keep taking monopoly money if you've thrown the board over.
	And at this point, civilization cannot tolerate the revolutionaries who would like to lay dynamite at its foundation.
	So, communists, Nazis, Islamists, etc.
	No, bye-bye.
	Just please live somewhere else.
	Yep.
	Because you're antithetical to the continuation of what we rather like.
	Hirsch said, this sounds sensible.
	Yes, it does.
	Good point.
	I don't know if we need any further statement from you.
	It does sound sensible.
	It's a good idea.
	We shouldn't put communist subverters in the civil service and allow them to spread their ideology.
	But she says, this sounds sensible until you realize we have a government that regards anti-racism as an extreme ideology.
	Yes.
	It is.
	Anti-racism is another word for critical race theory, and critical race theory is a method of imposing communism on our civilization through subversive means, using racial tension as the key to unlock the door.
	It is extreme by its very nature, and the critical race theorists themselves will tell you We're good to go.
	She says, though, instead, these politicians prefer a highly selective and racist account of history, which is itself extreme.
	Right, so the normal British account of history is actually the extreme account, and the communist account of history, where everything's racist, is not extreme.
	Right.
	And then she complains about, oh, the defenders of free speech are banning it.
	So this isn't free speech.
	It's you not having the privilege to go to Whitehall and corrupt people.
	It's a principle of reciprocity.
	If you try and use our own standards against us, okay, we're not going to afford you the same level of tolerance.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You've got no obligation to be allowed into Whitehall.
	Why would you?
	Would you expect some sort of Nazi agitator to be allowed into Whitehall as well?
	No.
	I don't want professional grievance mongers suckling at the taxpayer tea.
	Thank you very much.
	And I just don't want any kind of, like, you know, socialist, whether it be right-wing or left-wing socialist, being influencing civil servants.
	They should be...
	Exiled.
	They should be firmly within the British tradition, basically, is the civil servants.
	But anyway, let's just get on to the view that Afro-Hersh has, just in case you thought I was joking.
	The racism that killed George Floyd was built in Britain, right?
	Okay, so now we're responsible for the racist murder of George Floyd.
	We haven't made anything in Britain for quite a while, but it's nice to get our manufacturing back, I suppose.
	Yeah.
	No, no, no.
	She was like, no, hundreds of years ago we built this racism.
	Then we exported it.
	And then that killed George Floyd.
	That's her thesis in this.
	And of course, if you say, well, look, if you're going to move to a country, maybe you should, you know, learn the country's customers.
	Start integrating yourself.
	She's like, no, that's racism.
	Of course, that's racism.
	No one should have to give up their heritage to fit in.
	It's like, well, how can you fit into somewhere that you are radically different from?
	How could that be done afterward?
	You know, you're not stupid, but you do sound it when you come to your Guardian articles.
	But no, integration is no racism.
	And of course, if you say to her, look, I actually don't think Britain is very racist because, for example, someone like you gets a platform and you've made a good career out of this, she's like, don't tell me I'm Britain's not racist.
	You're denying my experience.
	This is ridiculous on so many levels.
	Number one, it looks like, you remember the fake Guardian headline creator that they got banned?
	It looks like it, doesn't it?
	Yeah, and also number two, the fact that the Guardian has categories, opinion, race.
	Any other newspaper?
	Imagine, the Telegraph, opinion, race.
	Stormfront, opinion, race.
	It's no different.
	You said Stormfront rather than Daily Stormer as well, so you've got the boys on your mind.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Good point, yeah.
	But the synergy...
	It's the same thing, you know, like, Nazi website race, you know.
	The Guardian race.
	The Guardian probably also has a category on Israel as well.
	Yeah, it does.
	Very similar.
	So just saying you are the sort of mainstreamed, polite face of leftism, whereas they're the dark underbelly of leftism, as far as I'm concerned.
	You speak the same lexicon.
	Exactly.
	You absolutely do.
	But this is the thing.
	Britain's racist.
	And if you deny that you're racist, then, well, you're a racist.
	And I've had other white people.
	Shut up.
	Just false consciousness.
	And of course, that means that Britain needs to be torn down, starting with Nelson's column.
	You remember when they started attacking statues a few years ago?
	Well, Nelson's column should be next.
	Nelson is one of our greatest heroes.
	We've got HMS Victory on the stand down there, just behind me, because of the Battle of Trafalgar.
	Sorry, we're not getting rid of him, Afua.
	Particularly because it's the only thing visually offsetting that disgusting bit of whipped cream, cherry, flying drone that's atop one of the columns in the square.
	Yeah.
	And so the question to Afua is, look, if you hate Britain so much, why do you stay?
	Which was a question posed to her by Nick Ferrari in 2020.
	Of all people.
	Of all people, yeah.
	Nick Ferrari has his moments, but he also has terrible moments.
	But this was particularly good.
	So she's hosting a show here called The Pledge.
	And let's watch this intro.
	Let's watch this intro.
	In just the last couple of weeks, New York has removed from Central Park the statue of a doctor who tortured enslaved black women.
	India has brought down Lenin, and Canadians have defaced statues of Queen Victoria.
	In Britain, Bristol has agreed to rename its famous music hall, removing the name of Edward Coulston, one of the nation's most prolific slave traders.
	Now it's time to take a long, hard look at other hugely problematic figures we continue to glorify, such as Horatio Nelson, Cecil Rhodes, and yes, Winston Churchill.
	Yeah, okay, for those who can't see it, Nick Froy's head is just in his hands.
	But, okay, so there's a few things.
	The framing of that, they got rid of Lenin.
	Canada defaced Queen Victoria.
	Basically the same.
	No different.
	Yeah, the man who was eventually responsible for a regime that starved to death 30 million kulaks.
	Yeah, identical to one of Britain's longest reigning monarchs.
	But look at the framing.
	How could this framing be considered anything other than an enemy of Britain?
	Saying, look, I want to tear down your icons.
	Yeah.
	Like this is what a foreign conqueror would do.
	Yeah.
	You, you would never go to another country and be like, oh, this is your great hero.
	Is it right?
	Okay.
	Well, I mean, he's problematic.
	He needs to be torn down.
	You would never do it because you would view that as an attack on them and their culture and their country.
	Right.
	And so Afua, look at the smile, the self-satisfied smug smile of the viper who already has her fangs in you and is pumping the venom into you.
	She knew that she had the whip hand here.
	She was like, yeah, this is gonna be great.
	I'm gonna call them all a racist.
	I'm gonna be like, tear down your icons.
	Ha ha ha ha.
	And if you complain, then you're just, you just hate black people.
	That's what it is.
	She knew she had the upper hand here, right?
	And she is not prepared for how balls out Nick Ferrari is prepared to go in response.
	And it is funny watching her.
	Let's watch the second clip.
	I really like you, but I wonder if I can remind you of some words you wrote concerning Britain.
	Yes, please do.
	Britain, we have moved on from this era no more than the US from its slavery and segregationist past.
	The difference is that America is now in the midst of a frenzied debate on what to do about it, whereas Britain, in our inertia, arrogance and intellectual laziness, is not.
	I don't write that bad, do I? Well, you could have been a bit snappier, but I won't worry about subbing it.
	Why do you stay in this country?
	If you take such offence when you see Nelson's poll, if you take such offence when you hear Winston Churchill's name, who I would argue, if in the unlikely event that anybody want to have a poll, I would say probably 80 to 90% of people would say that Winston Churchill did a good thing.
	I'm delighted that I see you at these Thursdays.
	I'm delighted you opt to stand for it.
	But if it offends you so much, how do you manage to stay here?
	Britain that bothers you.
	Sure, but I don't want to pull it down.
	So why is leaving an option?
	But I don't want to pull it down.
	This is my country.
	And the reason that I raise this critique is not because I hate Britain, it's because I care about this country.
	What?
	I know.
	So...
	Isn't that gold?
	For those who are listening to it in audio only, you please have to go and watch this, because it was shot like a scene from Requiem for a Dream, where it's slowly fading across the side of her face as the realisation dawns.
	But it's also, I have never heard of a successful relationship with someone where they go, Honey, I love you.
	I love you so much that I want to fundamentally change you.
	It's abusive.
	Yeah.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	It's an abusive relationship with the people who actually care about the country.
	Yes.
	Yeah, exactly.
	If she was your wife, and she was like, you know, I love you, but you have to do that.
	You have to change all of this.
	You have to start behaving as I tell you to behave.
	You would be like, no, you're being abusive.
	You've got to get out of this relationship.
	And I love when he says, why do you stay?
	Her face, you could see, like, oh my god.
	There specifically, where it pans over as well.
	It's cinematic in how offended she is.
	Yeah, but it's not just offense either.
	There's the confidence, the smug...
	I've got you, because I'm on the inside of the paradigm, and now I'm biting.
	Suddenly she realizes she's on the outside, to Nick Ferrari.
	She's like, oh, you think I'm a foreigner?
	It's like, well, no, worse than that, you're attacking.
	You're on the attack against me and my culture.
	And she's like, oh God, I've been found.
	I'm the communist subversive, and I'm being kicked out of the club.
	But the thing is, right, her saying, oh, I love Britain, this is my home, blah, blah, blah, hasn't always been this way, has it?
	That's the thing.
	Hasn't always been this way.
	Oh, she did a Marcus Garvey.
	Oh, yes.
	Right.
	Oh, yes.
	Right.
	So back in 2012, she, of course, thought Britain was a racist country.
	She didn't like it.
	And so she was like, aha, I'm going to go back to Africa.
	Screw you.
	I will show you that our parents left Africa, but we're coming home now.
	It's like, and what are you doing back here?
	What are you doing back here?
	This reminds me of Patrice O'Neill bit where he says, when racists tell me I've got to go back to Africa, that's when I know I'm American because what am I going to do in Africa?
	I'm going to fight in a civil war, in sweatpants and tuxedo shoes, holding a machete?
	I'm going to look ridiculous.
	That's kind of what she ended up saying, yeah.
	So she points out that her mother was born and raised in Ghana, came in 1962, I think it was, married her English father.
	And she used to claim that she was from the Caribbean because it wasn't cool to be African then.
	What?
	I guess it's cool to be African now, right?
	But this is amazing because this is obviously before she went to Africa, right?
	She says this.
	Friends and relatives in the UK, even those who share my Ghanaian heritage, have repeatedly expressed astonishment at my desire to live in Africa.
	Yeah.
	At some point, it ceased to be an individual journey and became a phenomenon with its own label, Returnee.
	It's like, brilliant!
	That's great!
	I'm so glad I listened to that narrative!
	It must be brilliant in Ghana.
	You're basically conscripting yourself into your own heroic journey.
	But that's fine.
	I want you to go on your heroic journey back to Ghana and find the happiness that you feel you've been denied because of all of your privilege in Britain.
	Well, she went to Ghana and in 2013 she was like, yeah, actually it's a dump.
	Oh, come on.
	Well, that's her article.
	It's true.
	Quote, from someone in Ghana, this is not a good place to live.
	But we don't want the people in Europe and all those places...
	Because this is a waste disposal.
	Yes.
	We do offload a load of our...
	We do.
	This is part of the thing with the solar panels.
	They're just sending it over there polluting the groundwater.
	Yes.
	But they don't want them to stop sending the waste because, of course, this is money they need to help make their families a better life.
	So, okay, you know...
	They called it Sodom and Gomorrah.
	Yes.
	That's how bad it was.
	The Garnayans themselves nicknamed their two cities Sodom and Gomorrah.
	Yes.
	God.
	So Athulahersh's narrative is on one level, the reality is on another level, and then her experience directly is on a third level.
	Why did she end up coming back, do you think?
	She says in this, again, she's struggling with her identity, which I'm not surprised with.
	But she says in this, quote, In Africa, Hirsch hopes to find a place where her broken identity can become whole.
	But in Kenya, quote, The colonial hierarchy is alive and well.
	An event at the British High Commissioner's house is completely white, except for the author and the black servants.
	And she says one thing Afro Hirsch doesn't like is white people.
	But I've come to Africa and I've more white people.
	God, this is hell.
	But in an empty restaurant that was usually frequented by expatriates, the staff refused to seat her and a black friend.
	So she was discriminated against by black people in Africa because she's black.
	So she's like, right, okay.
	In Senegal, she was attacked by a madman in the market and nobody wanted to help her.
	I realized these people didn't care if I lived or died.
	I was just another Matisse, another foreigner enjoying a lifestyle that for most people was far out of reach.
	So this reminds me, we were talking in the previous segment, about how cultural alienation from English values has produced barbarism in the streets.
	And it reminds me of how in Philadelphia, in New York, etc., you see women getting attacked on the train now, on video, nobody steps in.
	Well, this is what happened to her.
	And I can't think, as a man, I can't think of that as anything but unconscionable.
	But that, of course, but that's your English prejudices.
	My moral prejudices, yeah.
	But this was in Kenya and Senegal, right?
	And so when she got to Ghana, she was robbed.
	And the robber, like, she speaks about this in her book.
	He accidentally grabbed her breast or something, so she felt doubly violated, which I'm sure you would.
	Which opens her eyes to how she was perceived by the poor local people.
	Quote,"...the look I had seen in the robber's eyes that day, a wild hunger full of hate...
	Oh, that is interesting.
	That is a crushing realisation for someone who wants to demonise their own heritage.
	You would think, perhaps, this would teach her maybe to stop doing down Britain.
	Yeah, have some gratitude.
	Yep.
	But anyway, she now posts videos about inequality in Africa, which I find amusing.
	She talks about how, you know, in Ghana, just five minutes away, you've got luxury condos next to these things.
	Okay, well, I'm glad you're doing Ghana down now, rather than Britain.
	But anyway, so she came back in 2018.
	We go to the next one, where she says, well, I mean, Britain is my home, my nationality, my frame of reference.
	Oh, you weren't saying that in 2013, were you?
	That's a five-year slap you got from actually going to Africa.
	I've studied at Oxford and been called to the bar.
	I have aspired to be both part of its institutions and institutionalized by its aspirations.
	I love this.
	Okay, so you were privileged.
	Right, gotcha.
	And so she complains that people are like, yeah, but where are you from?
	It's like, well, you could just say Britain.
	She thinks that this is only something that happens to white people.
	It's like, really?
	So when you get a white person who's got a funny accent, people don't ask them where they're from.
	I mean, I ask them where they're from.
	Well, that's happened to my granddad.
	He's very politically incorrect to actually watch the show.
	And he went in for a blood test because he's not very well.
	He's talking to a nurse.
	I think she was Ghanaian, actually.
	And he said, oh, whereabouts are you from?
	And they started talking about her family and all that.
	And the lapse in the conversation, he went, you know, it's quite funny.
	Because you didn't get offended when I asked you that.
	She went, no, no, I'd start talking about it.
	He went, but you know what?
	You'd never asked me where I'm from.
	You know, I've got Irish relatives, I've got Jewish relatives, etc.
	But you never think to ask me.
	And it's just this parallel interest of, okay, yeah, if someone looks slightly different from you, you might ask them, but it's not malicious.
	You want to find out about people?
	I mean, if you'd gone to, like, Spain, people in Spain, if they couldn't recognise you as being English, would ask you where you were from.
	Exactly, yeah.
	It's just something people do to have a mental map of their surroundings.
	Yes.
	But anyway, she points out that her dad is, he's described himself as mixed race because her dad is half English, half Jewish, because her granddad was a refugee from Germany in the 1930s from the Nazis.
	Again, just a slight bit of gratitude, you would think.
	Oh, that intolerant country, England, who took in Jewish refugees from the Nazis.
	It's amazing, right?
	And so in 2018, again, she's come back and she's like, well, why should I be grateful for being British?
	It's like, sorry, is that not enough?
	That Britain will take you and your family in as refugees?
	And it's not just her grandfather who is a refugee, right?
	Her grandfather from Ghana read English literature and fell in love with Chaucer, becoming the first person to translate the Canterbury Tales into Thuy, a Ghanaian dialect.
	He returned to Ghana and set up its post-independence education system, but got persecuted by the government there and had to flee to London.
	Both of her grandfathers have been politically persecuted and have sought refuge in London.
	She's like, well, why should I be grateful about being British?
	One by the country you inaccurately romanticise, another by the ideology that the places you write for inaccurately romanticise.
	Yeah.
	Pan-Africanism and socialism don't really seem to work out in practice, do they?
	It's incredible, right?
	And so she's like, he was grateful to the British.
	Obviously, he was very grateful to the British.
	Yeah, Benny bloody was.
	Both of your grandfathers were.
	But why should I do that?
	Why should I do that?
	Because I don't feel like I'm accepted because I don't feel like I look like a British person.
	So, okay, unfortunately for you, there's not a lot you can do about that, right?
	You look the way you look.
	That's just the way it is.
	Maybe just stop getting a big bone in it about it.
	That's also not something British people really care about, something that you internally care about.
	Like, you're fighting yourself in the mirror here, love.
	And she says, I don't feel grateful for the fact that I don't get beaten up for being black.
	I have high expectations of this country.
	I'm proud to admit that.
	It's like, right, so you're just not happy with this country.
	Right, okay.
	Don't know where these expectations are coming from.
	Don't know why they're not the same expectations your grandfathers both had.
	Fine.
	But the question then, okay, right, so you've been to Ghana, you've been to Britain, you hate them both, because they're both awful, apparently.
	Why not go to Israel?
	That's actually a very valid point.
	Why not?
	Yeah, she has Jewish heritage.
	Yeah, it's not white, is it?
	Israel's not.
	Well, it depends on what leftists you're asking.
	Well, I guess so.
	And she says this about her Jewish heritage.
	Sometimes people look disappointed when they see me having heard my name because I'm not Jewish.
	All right, so, okay.
	Okay.
	I'm sure there are lots of people, Jews in the Middle East, who are Jewish but not European-looking, shall we say?
	But she says, because I'm not Jewish, I never really felt it's an identity I can own.
	So she is Jewish, but she never really felt Jewish.
	But at the same time, it's an identity that follows me everywhere.
	I deal with it by wanting to find out about it.
	I'm almost like a shadow member of the Jewish community.
	They're asking questions.
	I think she's got a great quote in here as well.
	She examines where her grandfather Hans, who swiftly became John when he settled in Kent, was seen as a good immigrant, unlike her mother's parents.
	Largely, she concludes it was down to skin colour.
	Ah, yeah, because imagine thinking that in World War II, having a German accent was just inconsequential.
	Yeah, a bonus, yeah.
	Yeah, exactly, yeah, yeah.
	You know, John, who sounds like he's from Bavaria, didn't get any side eyes.
	Yeah, exactly.
	You know, oh, he's white, he's fine, lads.
	You know, honestly, what a, again, skin-deep analysis this was.
	But yeah, so the question though, why not go to Israel?
	Well, the answer is Israel's also racist.
	Ah, who could have known?
	Right, okay.
	Who could have imagined that Israel was also racist?
	They deported some illegal African refugees and so leftists were like, well, racist.
	Israel's a racist country.
	Of course, the communist thinks that.
	So everyone thinks that.
	Israel is racist, and she doesn't feel at home anywhere.
	But to be honest with you, I'm just kind of sick of hearing Afua.
	You know, you're the architect of your own misery here.
	If you just learn to actually appreciate the things that you have, the privileges that you were given in Britain, then maybe you'd be less of an insufferable person.
	I reckon we can just crowdfunder to hop the dinghy back to France, but there you go.
	Should go and whine about that.
	Yeah, exactly.
	Oh, dear.
	So...
	Well, I thought we'd end with a semi-white pill, shall we?
	Something on the comedy circuit, but also the fact that Graham Linehan seems to have had a road to Damascus moment in terms of cancel culture, mainly because he himself was ousted from things like Father Ted the Musical.
	He lost his wife, he lost his comedy career, for simply speaking up on the trans issue.
	He's currently been doing a circuit of particularly GB News interviews, and it's interesting to see his place in the cultural dialogue, shall we say, particularly hot off the heels after the roast of Count Dankula, where he made a guest appearance.
	He did.
	For anyone who's wondering, Graeme Leinen is what is commonly known in various circles as a TERF, as in he believes that being a woman has some biological component, which makes him pretty normal, actually, when it comes to the analysis of what a woman is.
	Yes.
	Well, we'll examine the philosophical distinctions between the TERFs and the transgender movement later, I think, because these are both sides that neither of us agree with, but it's fun to watch them fight.
	Mm-hmm.
	Speaking of people fighting, particularly with themselves, you can go over and subscribe to LotusEaters.com to understand another trans phenomenon.
	That's transspeciesism.
	Josh inflicted Harry to understanding people that want to turn themselves into cats and lizards.
	Josh being a...
	he's got a master's in psychology.
	Yeah.
	So he's actually very well equipped to deal with this kind of phenomenon.
	I haven't actually watched this yet, but I will do after this, because this is...
	I mean, look at that.
	Look at the state of it.
	What drives someone to be like that?
	Well, clearly some form of mental illness, but Josh actually makes the point in it, and when we were researching it in the office, he said it's strange how there is no willingness to do research into this phenomenon.
	So this basically lays the groundwork for looking into it, but it's just like transracialism, of where you've opened Pandora's box if you look at other trans issues, where they want to keep the gender issue as purely fluid, but when you have fundamental aspects of your identity, like your ethnicity or your species, oh no, no, no, that becomes really concrete.
	Yeah, if a man can become a woman, why can't this man become a cat?
	Yeah.
	In Canada, they actually had other kin pronouns transcribed into the same law as Bill C-16, so if your cat self or worm self, you can't be discriminated against.
	I mean, it's the same logic.
	How can they argue it?
	Yeah, I want to slime myself up like a slug and not come into work today.
	That's going to be my excuse for Friday morning.
	Well, I mean, you're legally protected.
	So, let's talk about how Graham sinned against the trans lobby, shall we?
	he didn't like slug people the co-creator of the hit comedy Father Ted has revealed how his outspoken stand on gender identity cost him work Graham is 51, said he had not worn any new commissions in two years after he took up the fight against what he sees as a damaging gender ideology promoted by trans activists Linen said, I think there's just a stink around me the stink of bigotry, you know that has been deliberately created by radical trans rights activists it has a chilling effect
	now, he is right and I'm not having a go but you did do this with Count Dankula and everyone else by calling them fascists And this is my point, actually.
	It's the rope made for your own neck.
	This is the frustration I have with the turfs that have now been folded into the right for some reason.
	You have all the mainstream networks on the air, and JK Rowling on.
	I know you've done a sit-down interview with Posey Parker.
	She is very entertaining.
	She's a lovely person.
	But the radical feminist element of that label?
	You idiots created this problem back in 2014.
	Well, Posey was actually like, yeah, I don't think I'm a feminist anymore.
	Good!
	Good.
	Well done.
	She's further down the conversion road.
	But the people like Rowling, who still cling to that feminist ideal, this gender bifurcation is the seed which germinated this monstrous fruit.
	If you wanted to separate normative ethical prescriptions, a thick definition of woman...
	From womanhood, because you believe it's arbitrary in the patriarchy, if you take away the ethical part, then you set the ground for, oh, we'll just deconstruct the biology part and wear it like a costume.
	So this is you lining yourself up for the guillotine.
	That's exactly right.
	And then you also destroy all of those things.
	This is one of Posey Parker's primary complaints.
	Well, we want women's only spaces, female-only spaces.
	And I, as a conservative, am like, yeah, you should have female-only spaces.
	Because you don't want men being in places where women might undress, obviously.
	I, as a misogynist, want to stay away from you, so please have your own spaces.
	It's about protection.
	Exactly.
	Women need this sort of social protection.
	And so this is how, I guess, the TERFs got folded into the right.
	Because they all agree on what a woman is, and that women and men should have space away from each other.
	Yeah, it's not a change of position.
	It's left-wing cannibalism means you just aren't left enough.
	And my contention is I don't think we should become a refugee camp for those who weren't left enough for the left.
	But, on the likes of Posey, well done for coming round.
	She did a good job as well.
	She was winning the argument.
	Yeah, so this was articles a couple of years ago, and at the time, Lineham was actually quite self-aggrandizing in his defeat, which I didn't think was very helpful for his cause.
	He said, I don't want to sound like I'm the leader of anything, but as a high-profile person in the establishment business, I think I helped get these women heard a lot more.
	Feminists all over the world are now looking to the UK as the place where the resistance to all this stuff started.
	I'd like to think I had something to do with that.
	And this is two years ago, yeah?
	Yeah.
	It's frustrating because two years ago, Graham Lynham was, like three years ago, Graham Lynham was calling me, Count Dankula, Paul Joseph Watson, just Nazis.
	And all we were doing is speaking out against exactly what he's speaking out against here.
	Like, that's all it was.
	Yeah, and what he was speaking out against specifically was, when I first got into this conversation, I would see young girls getting double mastectomies and hysterectomies, and I didn't think I'd have to talk about it that long.
	I thought others would see this as obviously wrong and step in.
	None of that happened.
	I've been left swinging in the wind by people I thought were my friends.
	I have to keep speaking out.
	But he doesn't have much of an opportunity to keep speaking out because he was promptly then banned from Twitter.
	Yep.
	And that was the moment, it seems, that he found the...
	He is on Gata now, isn't he?
	Is he?
	Really?
	Okay.
	He's Glynner on Gata now, so go follow him there.
	Wonderful, yes.
	If you're interested in him continually speaking out, which we agree with him very much on that issue.
	Apparently, it was for repeated violations of their hateful conduct policy, and one of the final straws that broke the camel's back was he made the obvious assertion that pansexuality is, quote, bollocks.
	Well, he's not wrong.
	Yeah.
	Because it doesn't exist if you don't abolish the gender binary.
	So one of the things he actually did, and obviously we don't have this yet because Dank hasn't uploaded the...
	I don't know if he's planning on uploading the roast pod, but he actually made an appearance at the roast of Count Dankula because he did this.
	And this is what you're referring to.
	He actually said at the time about Dank's GoFundMe for his legal defense, Hey, GoFundMe, are you guys aware of the details of this guy's case?
	He's using your site to cash in on hate speech and framing it as a joke.
	And this was in what, 2018?
	Scroll up a bit, Michael.
	I can't remember the exact year.
	Does it have it on there?
	Yeah, 2018.
	There we go.
	April 2018.
	After he was criticised for his stance, he said to one Twitter user, effing hell, he's supported by Tommy Robinson and Infowars.
	His videos appear on the Daily Stormer.
	Why are you trying to participate in a conversation when you have no information?
	If you contributed to that fund, you're dumb.
	I can't say most of the swearing in here, but that's what right-wing grifters depend on.
	So just to say, this shows you the depth of his Road to Damascus conversion.
	Yes.
	Because his apology to Dankula was a video apology because he couldn't get there.
	But it was honestly really good.
	Yeah, it was conciliatory.
	It was genuinely sincere.
	And he said, look, and it genuinely demonstrated moral growth.
	He was like, look, I was in a place where I thought I was a heroic crusader.
	And it turns out that I was the villain.
	I'm paraphrasing because I can't remember exactly the words he used.
	Yeah.
	But, you know, it turns out I was the villain and I was persecuting people based on lies.
	And so I'm really sorry and I hope that I can be, you know, we can have a best relationship in future, basically.
	Something along those lines.
	And me and Connor were both there.
	It was really good.
	And it was genuinely wholesome and heartwarming.
	And the reason it's commendable is because we should be the place for forgiveness.
	Yes.
	Sincere forgiveness.
	Yes, the turf part, the radical feminist part, the turf part is still a point of contention.
	But someone who genuinely has an awakening to, this is an instrument that should not be wielded So, if we can go to the next one, just with...
	He, the other night, did an interview with Dan Whitten on GB News, and specifically about the Tavistock Clinic, because he actually had whistleblowers on the inside.
	He spoke to some of the whistleblowers.
	So he said, after losing his marriage and that, he felt vindicated by the Tavistock Clinic closing.
	He said he befriended whistleblowers at the Tavistock Clinic who were reporting homophobic parents taking their children to be transitioned.
	And he actually mentioned, specifically Lupron, which was the drug that was used to castrate paedophiles, that was mentioned in Matt Walsh's What is a Woman?
	And he said they were using it in there on prepubescent girls.
	Yeah.
	And the exact quote he used on the BBC, because the BBC in the next tab decided to throw him under the bus on Newsnight, this is where he became famous, he'd actually said in the Wooten interview, the BBC has been almost as negligent as it was to the level they were in the Savile years.
	Yeah.
	In reporting on this, in reporting on child abuse, I would have to agree.
	I just love, though, with this tweet from Newsnight, it's the sheer level of the police advice and virtue of political correctness at the time.
	And for those who are listening in, it says, Is that your job as a BBC Newsnight?
	Scalding mother.
	Yeah.
	And we're paying for this.
	He's from the BBC. Agreed.
	So during that interview, you could see he was very agitated because he had a very small window of time in which to challenge it.
	He was talking about them saying, oh, they're experimenting on people, that's not fair.
	And his leg was jigging.
	So it wasn't like he was being a malicious, hand-thumping dictator.
	He was genuinely concerned about this thing and felt out of his depth.
	He was nervous.
	Yeah, and it turns out he was bang on the money, so well done for that.
	So if we look at his opposition, it just makes him look all the more glowing, I suppose, because Pink News hate him.
	They've done over 75 articles on the man at this point, so it's just this pathological obsession.
	It says, a lot of people have used the language, this was an extract from the Newsline article, a lot of people have used the language you've used, some of the dismissive terms that you've bandied about.
	They've actually increased the toxicity of this debate.
	It's turned into the term stochastic terrorism now.
	Oh, yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Yeah, and it's where, oh, if you say something rude and it has a statistical likelihood of inciting violence or someone killing themselves, like, for example, if you say something about gender ideology and then 42% of people decide to pick up a knife, then you're a terrorist.
	It can be neither proven nor disproven.
	Exactly.
	Because they're speaking about potential statistics.
	Yeah, it's non-falsifiable.
	So he says, Lynam says, yes, I can give...
	Smith says to Lynam, yes, I can give you several examples if you'd like.
	What about comparing people in the trans debate to speaking out against the Nazis?
	That's pretty extreme.
	Lynam said, there are a couple of parallels.
	One is that...
	At the moment, children are basically being experimented on with puberty blockers.
	One of the things that Tavistock whistleblowers reported was that homophobic parents were bringing their gender non-conforming kids in and telling them to fix them.
	There was a dark joke that went around the Tavistock that a couple of years there would be no gay people left.
	That's why I want to compare it to eugenics programs and things like that.
	It's extremely serious.
	I mean, they probably actually used Lupron as well.
	They did.
	They genuinely did.
	There we go.
	So, how is that no different to...
	How is that not a parallel to...
	Well, to Alan Turing, for example, who was genuinely castrated for helping us defeat the Nazis, and then he was punished because homosexuality was a crime at the time.
	But it also reminds me of Jordan Peterson going on Kathy Newman's show and saying, oh, you're conferring trans ideologues to Chairman Mao, and he said, the same ideology guides their utterances.
	And boy, did that take age well, didn't it?
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	Sadly, it aged very well.
	So then apparently the BBC were pelted with complaints.
	But one thing I did want to say about this is, if you think that going against Lynham and instead of going for Pink News, for example, was good, this is the kind of thing they're doing to gay people.
	So at the moment, they're insisting that monkeypox is, quote, not a gay disease, even though there was, I believe, an ABC News piece that said today almost the exact opposite.
	98% of people who have it are gay.
	Yes, I'm just going to read out some stats from this piece where they seem to admit some sort of thing.
	This month, the UK Health Security Agency said queer men have been so far disproportionately affected, although officials are still trying to figure out why.
	There is no evidence that the virus is sexually transmitted, although it can be passed from close human contact, such as touching blood or bodily fluids, or prolonged exposure to respiratory droplets of an infected person.
	So sweat, blood, or bodily fluids would pass it, but it's not sexually transmitted, sure.
	Infectious disease epidemiologist Mateo Prasachka told Pink News there is a huge risk of stigma emerging for being attached to the current patterns of transmission we're seeing for monkeypox, and that stigma will be directed at the infection of gay and bisexual men in general.
	Although almost exclusively a disease contracted by gay men, though, except for a child of a gay couple...
	And a dog with anal lesions owned by a gay couple in France, which I'm sure that there's nothing suspicious happening there.
	Oh God, you know what happened there.
	Yeah, and they also cited in another article, which we don't have pulled up, but it was a New England medical journal, and they found that of the 528 monkeypox cases they looked at across 16 countries, 98% were either gay or bisexual men.
	Probably 100% of them are orgy attenders.
	P-guzzlers, shall we say it politely.
	So, the problem is, Pink News, by running interference for this, and I'm sorry you're going to have to look at this photo, they produce people like this, with just such horrific suffering.
	Ooh, God.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	And I just thought this was so grotesque that it had to be seen because this kind of permissiveness, this lifestyle, this running interference and saying, oh, it's fine.
	You can go out and be as licentious and unsafe as possible.
	You produce people that have such awful suffering, their nose is rotting off.
	This was a German patient who had undiagnosed syphilis and AIDS, undiagnosed, so he was contracting monkeypox at orgies and just spreading that around, and it had gotten to the point where his organs had failed, and the fact that HIV had accelerated so much was why his monkeypox was so bad, because he had no immune system.
	So pink news and the likes are not only promoting lifestyles which lead to the infertility and ospher process of children, but also by running interference for genuine illnesses which affect people in this so-called community.
	They're hardly doing the community any favours, are they?
	No, they're literally killing people with this.
	So in turning around and saying, oh, by criticising trans kids you're going to lead them to suicide, alright, by not saying the reality is monkeypox, you're leading to gay men having their nose rot off.
	Yeah.
	Disgusting.
	It's vile.
	It's vile.
	So, there is a bit of a sour spot of milk in your tea, though.
	Oh, yeah.
	If we look at this, this is Josh's reporting on the Tavistock Centre, and we were quite celebratory at the time, and Josh did a great job talking about the psychological studies.
	So it sounded like a good thing, but I get the feeling that actually the boilers popped.
	Puss is leaking, to use a monkeypox analogy.
	If we go to the next one, the Independent are actually reporting that TavSoc is being closed because it's too centralised.
	So they're becoming satellite.
	It's worse because now it's going to be in multiple locations.
	And so they're going to service more kids.
	And the framing of this is staggering.
	Service more kids with Lupron.
	Yeah, to lop the breasts of a 16-year-old girl.
	It's a treasonous offence.
	The framing of this is awful as well.
	An interim report by Dr Hilary Cass said that children and young people were being subjected to lengthy waits to access gender dysphoria services.
	Oh, as if that's bad.
	Yeah, so the fact that they aren't getting the treatment is why it was closed down.
	It was too slow.
	It wasn't that the whistleblowers were successful, it's that they want to trans the kids faster.
	Conservative government, folks.
	Yeah, exactly.
	The report issued said a fundamentally different service model can provide timely and appropriate care for children and recommended that the NHS launch local specialist centres.
	In response, NHS England said that it is in contact with Tavistock and it would be brought to a close and that two centres would be established by children's specialist hospitals in London and the North West.
	These will be in place by spring 2023.
	Further breach.
	More affordable.
	More kids.
	Conservative government.
	Yeah.
	So, this is utterly evil.
	And so, hopefully, Linan keeps up his pressure and gets more people on side.
	And I thought I'd finish with something utterly ridiculous.
	Also in the comedy sphere, also in the trans sphere.
	You're going to enjoy this.
	Eddie Izzard takes inspiration from Wladimir Selensky as a comic that became a politician in her fresh bid to become an MP and, buried in this article, eventually challenged Keir Starmer to be Prime Minister.
	I'm not joking, and I wish I was.
	So look at Stunning and Brave Izzard, who, if you look at this photo, what do you see?
	You're going to find this hard to believe, folks, right?
	But when I was young, 25 years ago, Eddie Izzard was cool.
	You're not going to believe it looking at that photo, but Eddie Izzard was a very funny and slightly cross-dressy man because it was provocative, it was edgy and interesting and funny, and it was a laugh at himself in which he would couch his jokes.
	Yeah, it didn't have multiple dimensions.
	Yeah, now he's become my gnat.
	Well, he looks like Roz from Monsters, Inc.
	Yeah, yeah.
	Always watching, Malowski.
	So, the Prime Minister Izzard.
	Yeah, the trans comedian wants to emulate Ukrainian wartime President Volodymyr Zelensky as a comic who went on to become a good leader in their bid to run the Labour MP in Sheffield next election.
	I would love to be elected and I would love to fight for Keir Starmer to be the next Prime Minister.
	And then eventually take over.
	Wonderful.
	For those complaining at us using male pronouns as well, if you refer to Eddie Izzard in the wrong pronoun, because God forbid your eyes couldn't tell you otherwise, Izzard said similar designs to reinvent himself or herself as a serious character, having switched pronouns for he-him to she-her last year.
	He said, I prefer she-her, but I don't mind he-him.
	So, at least he's alright with slip-ups.
	I guess so.
	So, when he's confronting the G7, and being stared down by...
	He's going to be sat across from Vladimir Putin like that.
	And Putin's going to have a hard time not laughing.
	Yeah.
	Is toxic masculinity if we're really challenged?
	Yeah.
	So yes, it's vital we keep up the pressure, even if it comes from comedians.
	Well done for Graham for recanting his testimony, but clearly we have a lot of trans madness to have an uphill struggle against.
	Let's go to the video comments.
	Good afternoon, fellas.
	I just want to say how much I appreciate all the work y'all have done.
	Been listening to y'all for the better part of a year, and I've enjoyed every minute of it.
	Question for you, Carl.
	Is there any possibility of getting Bo to do more of his White Pill Wednesday segments that he did a very long time ago?
	They were uplifting, and I think we need some more of that in our lives.
	I can but ask.
	I get the feeling he'll probably be amenable to it, but I'll find out after the podcast.
	I just want to remind everybody, John Lasseter, who was fired from the studio he found at Pixar, has now recently come out with his first animated feature from Skyrim's studio.
	Unsurprisingly, this movie feels more like a Pixar movie than any of the most recent Pixar movies.
	And it has a black Scottish cat called Bob voice by Simon Pegg.
	Support the artist, not the studio.
	Good luck to us both.
	Well, it looks more authentically Pixar than most of the garbage they've put out before.
	I'm still frustrated by that Baymax thing, because I actually quite liked Big Hero 6, and now they've got him buying tampons and an aisle from a trans man.
	Oh, God.
	Yeah.
	Oh, I'll quickly confirm as well.
	To those, including the prior video commenter, John Wheatley and I will be doing a part two for our Studio Ghibli thing, so that'll be recorded next week, so bated breath.
	Excellent.
	Hey, everybody.
	Preston Poulter, Pankajax Comics.
	Got my dorky hat on.
	You know what that Miyazaki video got me doing?
	Now I'm fishing out garbage from my local creek.
	So I just want to say you're having a positive influence on my life and the world.
	And Carl Benjamin, I'm very proud of what you did from your humble beginnings at Gamergate.
	Look at you now.
	So, cheers.
	Thank you very much.
	Well, that's wholesome.
	Very kind.
	I didn't expect that that video would have that effect, but that's really lovely.
	Good afternoon fellas.
	So Connor and Josh, I really appreciated y'all's latest video on the Manosphere.
	I think y'all would be really interested in another subreddit called r slash female dating strategy.
	It is like the male for red pill but for women instead.
	They're going to be really good contemplations for you two to do.
	Thanks, and have a good one.
	I'm going to second that.
	I'm going to talk to Josh with it then.
	I will say we're going to have a part two to our Manosphere one of where Nick Dixon and I will be going through the wisdom of the late, great Patrice O'Neill, who is, I suppose, one of the best dating advice for male empowerment, I suppose you could say.
	Isn't that the chap who's 52?
	Is that a different chap?
	It must be a different one.
	He died in his mid-40s.
	He was a very large black American comedian.
	Oh yeah, I know the guy.
	He was on Opie and Anthony's show all the time.
	You would love him.
	Hmm.
	So, Harry mentioned that they might review the rest of the Ghibli films and remarked on Goro Miyazaki being a much maligned figure, which is true, but in Goro's defense, he isn't an animator by profession.
	He's actually originally like a landscape architect, so he basically builds botanical gardens and whatnot, which, in light of that, is actually kind of impressive that his movies aren't offensively bad like we have in America.
	I don't know.
	I've seen bits and pieces from Earwig and the Witch and that is offensively bad.
	It looks like a Russian knock-off cartoon of Pixar.
	But we're covering the last couple of Miyazaki and then Takahata.
	So we're not going to touch his son, but that came out wrong.
	Let's go to the written comments.
	No, no, we're not going to touch anyone's son.
	No, no.
	That's the correct statement.
	I just don't know why we have to say it.
	That's going to get clipped, isn't it?
	Right.
	Jonathan Crowe says, Sadiq Khan is London's clown prince of crime.
	It's time he was replaced with a person that didn't believe stabbings were part and parcel of living in a big city.
	Well, to be fair, Sadiq Khan did actually say that explosions were part and parcel of living in a big city.
	He's less useful than the Joker, though, because the Joker at least killed some of the bad guys.
	Yeah.
	Bald Eagle says, you say Koreans aren't known for their violence, but I'll raise you some rooftop Koreans from the 90s LA race riot.
	Well, offensive violence.
	Yeah, self-defense doesn't count.
	Self-defense doesn't count.
	Also, they were cool.
	Free Will says, the establishment have betrayed us, either through gross incompetence or planned malice, or both.
	Nothing more needs to be said about them.
	Yeah, this is Blair's plan.
	This is Blair's plan that is coming to fruition now.
	This is what he wanted the country to look like, and now it does.
	Kevin says, and Sasha Bennett thought this film, We Still Kill the Old Way, was a work of fiction with hoodlums from the 60s having to clear streets of young, diverse gangsters who were going around killing pensioners.
	Yeah, no, that seems to be an accurate description of London now.
	I can't remember the horror film, but it was in the 60s, and it was about a STD that was ripping through a tower block, and people were having sex until they died.
	And it was like, huh, that's, I can't remember the title of it, but it's like, huh, how predictive for our decadent modern culture.
	Callum says, how many other multicultural cities are there, progressive cities are there?
	Because if this state of London, and it's a template of what the intersectional non-integration progressivism is going to be, what are the or similar states of other cities?
	Well, you could look at like Paris, or Berlin.
	Bristol.
	Or Bristol, or New York.
	Like, they're all the same.
	They're all the same.
	There are plenty of them, and they're all the same.
	There's been loads of videos recently of New York at 3am and it's literally like, this is what New York's like at 3am.
	It's just random people fighting in the street.
	Yeah.
	Okay.
	They've been just driven mad, I suppose.
	Omar says, poor people tend not to be violent when they live in close-knit communities where they support each other in troubled times.
	That's absolutely true.
	A multicultural community is an oxymoron and an antithetical to community bonding.
	Like many of the consequences for leftist policy, the effects of atomizing society in such a way were obvious and predictable.
	Yeah, this is why Afua Hirsch is, I shouldn't have to give up my native culture to fit in, is nonsense, utopian, progressive thinking, and a contributing factor to the atomization of society.
	Well, the culture built the country you want to move to because its prosperity is better than the one that you left.
	So don't try to destroy that.
	Why don't you want to join it?
	Yeah.
	Why don't you want to integrate?
	Like, what's the reason to be a colonist?
	And Callum says, seeing the state of London right now in this segment is reminding me of what the Emperor said about the Crimson Walkers' rebellion.
	Send in the 8th.
	Well, yeah.
	Ignacio says, imagine if law-abiding citizens had a gun and the legal protection to use it.
	Yeah.
	Have you seen the videos coming out of Brazil recently?
	When the motorcyclists, they've just legalized...
	They've legalized self-defense against motorcycle gangs.
	And so in Brazil, they're having a spate of two guys driving up on a moped with guns and robbing, carjacking whoever runs the car.
	And so now there are just loads of videos of Brazilian drivers just running over these people who are trying to carjack them.
	Rory sent me something of where there's a car with a flamethrower.
	So they keep trying to run it, and apparently there's been loads of people going to Brazilian A&E with burns, and it's basically equipped like the Battle Bus from Dawn of the Dead remake.
	There's just slots on the side, the big spikes from Ben-Hur.
	But it's so bad that literally that has to be the solution.
	But, you know, God bless Bolsonaro, that's what I'm saying.
	Yeah, we're approaching Mad Max.
	Wonderful.
	Living for it.
	Yeah, but at least they get to fight back.
	General Highping says, On Connor's awakening to the way of the world, I feel you, brother, punched in the face at 10 years old by a thief who stole my Pokemon cards.
	10-year-old me thinking, I just got a black eye over a piece of cardboard.
	Man, this world sucks.
	Fuzzy Toaster says, I never got the belt or the slipper, but I did get a good spank when I was out of line when I was younger.
	I feel there are many today who didn't experience that the boundaries of modern life are, or they foolishly rebel against them, metaphorically screaming into the void for the attention they feel they are owed.
	More than anything, I pity these people.
	Well, I would pity them, but they're kind of insufferable, so I just kind of despise them.
	Henry says, starting to feel like questionable sweets and vape shops should join betting shops as a sign of a decaying high street.
	Oh, God, yes.
	I'm starting to think that we should wall off London around the M25 to protect the rest of the country from the rot.
	Oh yeah, watch it.
	I need to get out at some point.
	Honestly, I'm all for reconquering London at some point.
	Lord Nerevar says, I recently read a book on the late Roman Republic and it's crazy how even then, with their civilization in sharp decline and violence in the streets, they could still rely on their institutions and it was possible to point to the exact individuals responsible for the street gangs, Clodius and Milo.
	Would it not be much easier to solve these problems if we could do the same?
	How have we managed to engineer a society more dysfunctional than the late Roman Republican bureaucracy?
	Well, they didn't have diversity ideology.
	And they also didn't have the internet, where now this is a decentralized organization.
	Yeah, at least they had to organize in the streets, at least.
	Colin says, if Britain is such a racist, sexist hellhole, why don't they just leave for somewhere more in line with their values?
	Well, we answered that later on in the segment.
	Turns out they get robbed or groped or attacked.
	And they don't like that.
	They actually do like the values that protect them in Britain.
	They just don't like Britain.
	Honestly, Afro Hirsch is actually a racist.
	Like, an actual racist.
	Jacob Rees-Mogg is completely correct.
	Call her an extremist.
	Free Will says, if no one should have to give up the heritage to fit in, then equally no one should have to give up the heritage to please newcomers.
	Quid pro quo.
	That's a great point.
	Give up your heritage.
	No, piss off.
	Matthew says, Carl, you stated left-wing and right-wing socialists.
	Is there such a thing as a right-wing socialist?
	Yeah, I'm going to talk about this another time, but I've read and studied enough socialism to decide that socialism is actually a description of the rationalistic planning of society.
	And so you could do that for right-wing ends, if you wanted, which is why they'll call fascists and Nazis right-wing.
	I mean, the distinction I would say is really rationalism versus traditionalism.
	But again, it's a much longer conversation that I'll have to lay out.
	But just for the sake of argument, basically, just call it right-wing socialists.
	It's just easier, isn't it?
	But I take your point.
	Callum says, question for the dumb, commie, bored twat.
	I think he meant to say broad.
	Oh, yeah, yeah.
	What bad things did Admiral Nelson and Great Britain do compared to the Spanish and French during the 18th century?
	Ah, see, compared to something else that really exists.
	She's comparing this to somewhere that's never existed.
	My hypothetical communist utopia.
	Exactly.
	Because as far as I know, the damned French and Spanish dissolve the hatred you're throwing here.
	But what do I know?
	I learned a little history.
	So forgive me, I'm just going to have to reload my page because it's not I can do it.
	Baron von Warhawk says, Yeah, and it's because of resentment, because she feels she doesn't belong.
	It's like, well, you felt you belonged in Ghana, but you didn't like it there.
	No.
	But it's all based on resentment.
	Nietzsche is really sharp on this.
	It's like a bunch of resentful, sick people.
	Fuzzy Toaster says, I was speaking to Josh about this in the contemplations that's going to go up this weekend.
	And I said, the feminist attitude towards abortion means that you've sort of cut out a part of yourself that has the capacity to feel.
	Whereas I think I almost came to it from the other position.
	And Josh keeps calling me a psychopath.
	He's trying to clinically diagnose me from this.
	But I feel like I had to train myself to be empathetic because it's very easy to look at either news stories or things like history like the Holodomor and go that you can understand the moral horror of it.
	You can't really feel for these people because it was so long ago and such a large number.
	And I do think you need to train yourself not just to have gratitude but respect for sacrifice and also an abhorrency of tragedy.
	And so that's probably what you're describing there.
	You're describing a feeling of human sublime.
	That's a great way of phrasing it, human's mind, because it's, for me, if, like, all of these things are very surface level, right?
	You understand that it's obviously terrible what happened, and rationally you can understand it, but you've got to spend time alone and go into your innermost self, and, like, subsume yourself into your thoughts and feelings, and really, like, and I often find, like, you know, there's a particular piece of media, like a film or a poem or something, and Where you just sat there and you're reading it over and over and you're like sinking into it.
	And then you find the deep well where you think, right, okay, now I can feel the emotional weight.
	It takes time.
	I see what you mean about training yourself to access that part of your soul.
	It does take time and it takes patience.
	But it's very rewarding once you get there.
	I actually do the same thing with Anglo-Saxon poetry.
	I read it and I find myself getting to that deep place and thinking, God, this must have been terror.
	Really terrible.
	Anyway, he says, he continues, if you were to remove all the bad things from history, based on your modern sensibilities, you've created a country with an unrivaled history that has done nothing wrong.
	History is what we need to know and understand, to understand in its context, in order not to repeat the bad thing in modern day.
	Yeah, well that's another thing, isn't it?
	They're removing the moral lessons of history.
	So how could we ever aim for self-improvement?
	That's the aim.
	It's to create this nihilistic apathy to the sacrifices of the past so then they can displace it with their new utopian ideology.
	Reset from year zero.
	That's exactly it.
	Always be in the now, forever, until the end of time.
	Baron Von Warhawk says, Afia is an example of a national misfit.
	She doesn't consider herself British due to her African heritage, but the second she goes to Africa, she runs back to England as fast as possible.
	This lack of identity causes resentment in England, but rather than integrate into English society, she decides to burn it to the ground.
	I would pity her, but she is trying to destroy the West, so I don't care about her mental struggle.
	Yeah, but, I mean, like, I mean, on one hand I would be sympathetic, but on the other hand, she's insufferably smug.
	I want to see her break down in tears because...
	I do think that's a sort of fake it till you make it running interference thing, though, because I've heard this particularly from mixed-race friends, and there's a character in Le Guin's book, Laugh of Heaven, about it, and it's that if you're mixed-race, you're automatically designated black, but you're never black enough for the black community.
	There's always darker-skinned girls who always hold lighter-skinned girls to standards of beauty, and they always war and say about light-skinned privilege, things like that.
	And so if you're having that internal identity of, I don't really feel I belong to either culture or the other because I've had racial grievance ginned up about my homeland, but at the same time I'm not black enough for the hypothetical black umma that I want to belong to, then it becomes a personal thing.
	And so that personal thing gets projected out onto animus for everyone else.
	So it's hard to have sympathy for her, yeah, because she hates this country, but it's also clearly her own inner demons manifesting in politics.
	Yeah, but there's also something more to it, because my dad's mixed race, and he has never spoken to me about his St.
	Helena heritage at all.
	But we've always talked about England.
	So he committed very solidly to the English half of his heritage.
	And Afua could do the same.
	She could commit to the English half of her heritage.
	And so she could take on this kind of deep, rich, and abiding love of Englishness.
	And just the pleasant coating on the landscape.
	Like the old church in the village and stuff like that.
	And my dad always loved this.
	She obviously despises it.
	You can be lowercase b black British and nobody's going to stop you.
	No one's going to care.
	You know, if you're sat there, like, wandering around a small village church with just, you know, appreciating what's going on, no one's going to be like, oh, a black.
	No, exactly.
	No one's going to say that.
	No one's going to do that, no.
	You know, it's such a ridiculous thing.
	But anyway, Colin says, I still want a real explanation of what trans rights mean or any other identity.
	What rights they lack from the group that they're in.
	I suspect they mean privilege.
	Yeah, that's the perfect word to replace it with.
	Yeah, that's exactly it.
	Thomas says, let's not call the anti-turf movement that.
	It's super misogyny.
	I thought I was the superman there.
	Alexander says, thank you, Connor.
	I've been saying for a while now that the right keeps shooting itself in the foot by absorbing and defending these lefties and get cancelled by the left.
	For disagreeing with one aspect of the orthodoxy, J.K. Rowling is the main example I use, and Bill Maher is another.
	Just because Maher once in a while says the truth the left finds uncomfortable does not make him based on an ally.
	Let them meet each other.
	Let them destroy Rowling and Maher.
	Good riddance.
	Well, see, I have a rebuttal to this, and that is that the left actually thrives on this, this cancel culture, this self-eating.
	It is the sort of continual rotating of the engine that keeps the wheels moving.
	And actually, I think the right does win when it builds coalitions and networks, because not only do you have now sympathetic people who will listen to your moral arguments, which have been proven to have much more strength than the moral arguments of the left, but remember the right is fundamentally, and I think this is the very basic essence of the right, it is the quality of relationships that the right wins on.
	You know, when you have a good relationship with your father, With your mother, with your community, with your friends, with the people you work with.
	That becomes the web that holds the civilization up.
	And so building a good relationship with people, even if they disagree with you, I think that is the very praxis of right-wing thought.
	Yeah, and I think that's because the right is an ethos, but it should not be a movement.
	We're only a movement now because we are the distance, because we're so beset by the left.
	But then our approach to this should not be to make these defective leftist champions just friends.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah, that's exactly it.
	Make them friends.
	Because then we bring them into our orbit.
	Yeah, and that's exactly what, like, Jep Sobe has done with Jon Stewart, for example, of where he's turned around and gone, okay, you're slandering me, I don't agree with your politics, but we can shake hands and agree on this one small thing.
	Yeah.
	But I'm not saying that, you know, if we were ever in a position to legislate, they would get a particular voice.
	No.
	But anyway, Drew says, look, pork, who you want, but take care of yourself.
	Don't be a fool, wrap your tool.
	Or just don't attend a piss orgy.
	And Brian, Don't put it in crazy, fellas.
	Can speak from experience.
	Not worth it.
	Why do you have to go to a piss orgy?
	Why?
	Also, how do you know so many people that are up for an orgy?
	Well, I don't even know where I identify.
	No, but it's also like, how can you get that many people in a room that all...
	Okay, sorry.
	Brian says, Eddie Izzard in his red Labour dress and high heels should visit every marginal constituency in every election.
	Izzard costs Labour thousands of voters everywhere he goes.
	Yeah, I know.
	I mean, if all the Conservatives were like, well, that's our opponent.
	Yeah, as well, the fact that, as you said, he looks like he's wearing a costume which is inauthentic.
	I think they should just start calling him Izzard the Lizard, because he does look like a lizard person now.
	Yeah.
	Oof, that's rough.
	Casey says, late-stage syphilis caused that man's nose necrosis, yet it is buried in that story.
	The headline says monkeypox, yet it shows that shocking photo.
	Yet another example of fear-mongering biabetes in the media.
	Well, his HIV and his syphilis worsened the condition.
	But the fact that you can get that condition in the first place, yeah, monkeypox can be mild.
	Was it worth the orgies?
	Yeah, exactly.
	It's only transmitted by seemingly anal sex, which rages the spectre of, okay, why is this child who's got gay adopted parents, why is this dog who's got two gay owners, why are they contracting monkeypox?
	Hmm.
	Huh.
	Big think.
	Think positive, in fact, says, should I have children that turn out to be gay?
	I will not hate them, but I will be oh so stringent in the absolute necessity of monogamy.
	Yeah.
	Agreed.
	Exactly right.
	Don't be a degenerate.
	Yeah.
	You don't see Douglas Murray getting monkeypox.
	Yeah, I bet Douglas Murray doesn't get monkeypox, you know?
	It's mad, isn't it?
	Callum again says, I wish I had an insightful comment or meaningful things to say, but this scathing assessment of the creator of Father Ted waking up and being vindicated depressed sigh.
	We are not divisive.
	We do not turn our own to the merest breath or shift to the eyes.
	Those we stand against, one camp against another, little wonder the world is the way it is.
	The monkeypox crap, I'm starting to wonder if monkeypox is worse than AIDS. Is that an achievement?
	It's probably not worse than AIDS, because it's not very fatal.
	It's just really painful, apparently.
	Inconvenient and ugly, that's it.
	But also painful.
	Robert Longshaw says, Eddie Izzard once run 32 marathons in 31 days in a humanitarian charity challenge.
	This is commendable.
	However, I don't think many women have done it.
	To be fair though, women's running is actually, the one thing that women are actually better at men at, I had to look this up for the politics of 40k, is long distance running.
	And long distance swimming as well.
	Yeah, well, endurance trials basically.
	Because they weigh less, and so it's easier.
	But Riss says, let's see if there are going to be any white pills on my birthday.
	Oh no.
	Sorry, happy birthday.
	Yeah, happy birthday, mate.
	Londonistan moves further from the heyday of Dr.
	Johnson's Here is Tide of London as Tide of Life towards Here is Tide of Life moves to London.
	That's true.
	That's great.
	That's great.
	Afio Hirsch continues to be a race-baiting waste of oxygen.
	It'll be interesting to see if Graham Linen apologies to Dank personally now that he's been dragged through the same process Mark was.
	Guess I can at least enjoy my cake and birthday steak.
	Well, I think Linen probably would apologize to Dank in person as well.
	You know, and it is actually quite awesome.
	But Thomas, very final thing, says watch Mr.
	Jones if you want to feel with those who suffered through the Holodomor.
	I've never heard of Mr.
	Jones.
	Neither have I. You'll have to put a follow-up on who actually created it, because it's quite a generic title, but interested in looking it up.
	Anyway, so, thank you for joining us, folks.
	Once again, if you want to support us, go to lowseas.com, sign up.
	But also, if you want to come and see me speaking live at the Witan, go find the Skildings event that will be linked in the show notes, and if It'll be on the video description when it goes onto YouTube, hopefully.
	Because I'll be, hopefully, saying lots of interesting things.
	There'll be lots of other interesting people there.
	Academic Agent is going to be there.
	The Welsh Taliban.
	I'm sure Sitchin Adam won't be turning up there.
	No.
	I mean, I've been on the Sitchin Adam show, so I don't know how he justifies having me there.
	But also, Curtis Yarvin's going to be there.
	Oh, okay.
	Yeah, Mencius Moldberg.
	That'll be fascinating.
	So the whole thing is going to be very, very interesting.
	And it'll be...
	At least it won't be, like, captured right-wingers.
	No.
	You know?
	So that's one thing.
	But anyway, we'll be back again tomorrow, folks.
	So have a great day.

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