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	- Hello and welcome to the podcast, The Lotus Eaters, and today I'm joined by Beau. - Hello. - And Mr. HReviews.
	So today we'll be talking about A Rude Awakening, The Roke Replacement and Not Our War, which I'm sure will be non-controversial in the slightest.
	Anyway, but before we begin we shall, I suppose, promote you and talk about yourself because, well, Why not?
	We've got to do some shilling.
	For people who don't know Mr. H Reviews is or Nate you can see here this is your Twitter account and then uh supposed to go to your YouTube channel so it's Mr. H Reviews on Twitter at and if you go to YouTube I suppose if you want to introduce yourself and new people.
	Yeah well thanks for having me back first and foremost uh but yeah I talk about movies uh sort of current events with respect to the film industry and obviously there's a massive crossover with respect to
	the current message that's sort of being perpetuated through so unfortunately you yeah fall into the sort of but I say unfortunate but yeah you fall into the sort of political things as well which is what I've done yeah a lot of this stuff so movie news movie reviews but then topically because you have to talk about it with respect to these things you uh yeah talk about all the Disney nonsense non-binary stuff floating around that's all over the place everywhere I've completely tuned out of Star Wars.
	I was trying to keep up with the movies, the new ones, even the Disney ones, because I was like, I like Star Wars as a world.
	You're a masochist.
	I gave up.
	They're a billion series by now, there's so many of them.
	Non-binary Sith.
	Yeah, no, do go and check it out.
	And there's a live channel people should know about as well, right?
	Yes!
	You've got to check out his live channel, just real quick, because I'm on that.
	Yes, yeah, yeah.
	From time to time.
	History Bro Bo is on the H-Cast, there's sort of a live podcast thing, which is, yeah, there's another channel, Miss H Reviews Live Archives.
	So, if you want more of Bo, he's on over there now.
	Do go check it out.
	Otherwise, I have no other announcements, so we'll begin with the news.
	So, there's going to be a rude awakening, I think, for quite a lot of boomers, if no one else, but also quite a lot of society who hasn't noticed how fast things have changed in regards to demographics, because local elections happen in the UK.
	Most boring, mundane topic, who cares?
	But, one of the things that was amazing, and you covered it yesterday, is that a lot of people were elected Council of Palestine, and these folks Sort of stole the spotlight and everyone realised, hang on a tick, I don't think that particular city or town is that English anymore if all of their councillors are all not campaigning on the bins but instead campaigning on Palestine and Palestine alone.
	Like some kind of Irish revolutionary fighting for Ireland.
	So yeah, I saw in response to a lot of people talking about this.
	There should be, never mind.
	We'll start with this advert here, which is that there's also jobs at lotusseas.com if you'd like to apply.
	There's a production manager role which is there if you go to the website and then scroll down to careers.
	So do go and take a look.
	But otherwise we shall begin because there was a position I saw a lot of people taking Which is that Antonin Scalia, for example, he is a paragon of, well, integration, whereas then those councillors, well, over here, are not a paragon of integration, because they're shouting Allahu Akbar and Antonin Scalia was a man who, well, basically became part of the Anglo-Saxon world.
	Now, for people who don't know Supreme Court Justice, his background is sort of perfect for this argument.
	So his father was off-the-boat Italian.
	He just turned up in the US and did his thing.
	And his mother was the daughter of Italian immigrants.
	The massive Italian background, obviously.
	Sicilian.
	He would have been a Sicilian peasant if he was born in Italy, but instead he was born in the US, under those circumstances.
	I don't know if that makes him first or second generation immigrant, exactly.
	He was born in the US then, second.
	So that's him, that's where he's born, right?
	And they say he was born in Trenton, New Jersey.
	They can trace him back to the old country!
	Yes!
	But this being, uh, I saw a quote tweet put about this where someone said, uh, the triumph of American multiculturalism, Scalia, who without America would have been a Sicilian peasant, trumpets the wonders of the Anglo-Saxon culture, whereas, uh, British multiculturalism is a Pakistani subsidized scream about Palestine.
	Which, I mean, was demonstrably the case over the weekend.
	And for people who don't know what we're talking about with Scalia, the reason that people bring him up is because even though this is Italian roots, he's not just some guy who was born in America, he obviously did wildly successful in Supreme Court justice, but has spoken about this issue specifically.
	So this was a video, or a debate, in 2006.
	What's funny is that they're having the same debate we are, it's just things weren't changing as rapidly.
	It's always the same.
	So let's enjoy a bit of this, shall we?
	In which Antonin Scalia talks about the Anglo-Saxon world.
	Diversity alone is not what makes a great nation.
	I mean, diversity alone makes some of the tribal societies of the world that never quite make it.
	Such as some of the places in the Middle East where we're trying to Establish nationhood.
	As I said earlier, it's part of our tradition that everybody can be an American.
	But there has been a common culture.
	You don't have to belong to it, but there has been that.
	What is it?
	You want to know what it is, number one?
	Is there a bond?
	Is there a common culture?
	Let me tell you a story.
	My junior year college, I studied in Switzerland, and I used to get really annoyed When the French-Swiss professors I had would refer constantly to les pays anglo-sax, the Anglo-Saxon countries, meaning England, the United States, Australia, New Zealand, okay?
	Canada.
	I said, you know, hey, my name is Scalia, and I'm as American as anybody.
	Look at this face.
	Is this an Anglo-Saxon face?
	I had never been in England, but at the end of my year, I went to England, and I felt at home.
	There is no doubt that American culture, American common culture, which nobody has to belong to, originates with English culture.
	And that includes Shakespeare, it includes nursery rhymes that we all know, and that we use as examples.
	That's our common culture.
	And I think the Framers recognized that.
	Uh, and diversity's fine, but diversity does not make a nation.
	And diversity at the expense of... Look at his face.
	The rest of that debate, I do encourage people to go and watch, because it's hilarious how little the other people on the panel seem to understand what you just said.
	When looking at it, I think that's pretty self-explanatory.
	One of them there was Podesta, right?
	I've recognised Podesta, I think.
	I believe so.
	Yeah.
	Oh yeah, so sorry, carry on.
	But the point being made there, obviously, is that, okay, well, before we go forward, the idea of comparing the United States' version of multiculturalism to the British version of multiculturalism.
	Hate that word.
	But it's just mad.
	I mean, at the start, England has one culture.
	It's English.
	That's the founding of the state.
	That's the whole point.
	Sure, there's a kingdom on top of that, which unifies multiple countries, but the country of England... Yeah, it's Europe.
	We're basically ethno-states.
	We're based on the ethnic groups there, and the ethnic groups are made up of the cultural groups.
	So the idea that we have multiculturalism is no, no, this is a modern thing that has been imported en masse, and you end up with different cultures, and that's a multi of cultures.
	There's no mixing there.
	Whereas the US has its own circumstance, which is yes, it's a New World country, so it had waves of immigration, but Scalia obviously recognizing the truth, which seems to be so devoid of understanding in the United States, which is that you're an Anglo-Saxon country.
	You always have been.
	The Founders knew this.
	I mean, that's why they were so racist.
	It was kind of funny.
	It wasn't just only white immigrants.
	It was white immigrants from certain areas, because, if you've seen Europe, and... Like, that's the reason you had those original writings, is because of the Anglo-Saxons.
	They wanted to devalue an Anglo-Saxon nation and wanted to reduce immigration to be the Anglo-Saxon parts, if they could help it.
	And then you have people interpreting that in the modern day as like, oh, they're just, like, white people.
	Have you seen the Irish?
	They're quite white, but there's a reason we kicked them out of the white race.
	It's because we were talking about certain types we wanted over here.
	And it wasn't just about pure skin tone, it was about more than that.
	And from ever more, the United States has been an Anglo-Saxon country, like 80 to 90% of the times.
	And at which case, that's what it is.
	And now it's massively changing in the modern era for very similar reasons.
	It's the people in charge who decided.
	We need mass immigration from literally, I don't know, Kazakhstan.
	Because... Question marks?
	Just anyone and everyone, apparently?
	With no concern about how that's gonna work out.
	And Scalia being a guy from an Italian background making the argument, well, you know, he will become part of it, right?
	Because to go and check out, I mean, this is a graph I saw just before we started.
	So this is a complete history of racial and ethnic demographics of the United States population.
	This is on Wikipedia, if you want to go and find it.
	And I've introduced this red line here because that's the year Anthony Scalia was born.
	And Antony Scalia's position as he goes on in that debate is that he thinks that the huge increasing amount of immigration when he's talking around 2006 isn't that big of a problem because these people will become like the primary group as his family did in this period.
	And I'm sorry, but a lot has changed between these periods before and this period now.
	And as you can see, this cuts off at about, what, 2013?
	Something like that, maybe 2015?
	So the graph is going to be even more extreme as things change.
	And at which point is there actually a group to integrate into, is the question on my mind.
	Because, again, Anthony Scalia's position is sort of here.
	This is back where he lived, in which there was a primary group which you could integrate into.
	But if there's not one anymore, There's got to be a new one, isn't there?
	To getting to the United Kingdom, of course this is what I was talking about with average local man Your new counselor, sir Like, legit speechless at some of this.
	I could not believe it.
	Average Leeds man.
	Yeah.
	because i mean a fair few people were a bit miffed when they saw this because the guys well obviously being an average muslim was celebrating uh the october 7 attacks there he's like yes white supremacist european settler colonialism must be ended that was on the day so that was before israel responded average leads man yeah local average northerner you might wonder who who the f is this leads man Well, I mean you can go and check out the Green Party has a big old thing on Muffin Alley over here.
	They say in here to advertise him to you.
	Aside from campaigning on local issues, he's a local accountant by profession and a qualified mufti.
	He has lived in Gipton on Hare Hills for more than 20 years, and in that time he's always been involved in community work, whether that's volunteering at the local mosque, teaching children Arabic, campaigning to get more liquor licenses repealed, or campaigning against drugs dealers in the area.
	I can't help but notice, but three of those are very, very Islamic.
	There's only one good thing for the community there, quite frankly.
	The Green Party are advertising this candidate, I'm not joking, it's in here, where they're just like, yes, he's getting rid of alcohol licenses, teaching Arabic and working in the mosque.
	Again, classic values of an Englishman from Leeds.
	Yeah.
	From river to sea.
	The big kicker in there for me is that he's lived there for 20 years.
	Just over, I think.
	Yeah, no intention.
	More than 20 years, just a little bit more.
	20 years in one month.
	I like that part there where he says he said, having lived in an overcrowded back-to-back, I have experience of how poor quality housing can affect the lives of ordinary people.
	So what's his stance on immigration then?
	Well, I suppose we'll find out.
	But the big difference here being that Scalia grew up in a world, or at least the United States, that was very different from the modern day.
	The primary group there being, they use white in the American census, but reality is of course you're gonna have some groups of Italians or whatever else, but the common culture as he points out being Anglo-Saxon.
	But when we get to the United Kingdom, especially this chap, he's been living in this particular area of Leeds for 20 years.
	And what does he do, apart from campaigning in, well, Arabic?
	Well, he campaigns in Bangladesh, as you can see.
	Average campaigner, campaigning in foreign.
	I found this on his campaign page.
	So this is how he goes about with his Palestine hat, his friends with Palestine shirts.
	He says he's originally from Bangladesh, sorry.
	That's his ethnic group, yeah.
	That's funny, isn't it?
	Because Bangladesh is nowhere near the Levant.
	I think they're probably the furthest Muslim group away, except Indonesia, maybe.
	Yeah, maybe Indonesia-Malaysia type ones, yeah.
	But it's like... So anyway, I just wanted to make that point.
	Well, from the river to the sea.
	Although the other people... The River Ganges!
	Well, from the River Ganges to the Mediterranean Sea, this guy not only campaigns with these fine fellows, he also campaigns with these ladies.
	One you can see there with the Love is Love logo, which...
	This segment is not about the madness that is the Green Party, but these two groups of people apparently campaigning on the same day with each other.
	Look at that dude.
	Just take a moment to look at him.
	That's a physiognomy right there.
	What is that?
	Leave the slender man alone.
	But the local man, I decided to check him out because I can't change what's happened to Leeds, but what I can do is go and have a look and see what's happened.
	As you can see here, I suppose I'll play with the audio.
	He runs his own YouTube channel about gardening.
	He's got other interests other than Islam.
	Nevermind.
	I don't know what's wrong about that.
	It's just how he enjoys gardening.
	So what happened to the UK?
	Why is it like that?
	Why have I done all of this?
	Because that point about the US is something.
	But getting to where he lives, I want to check that out in the ONS graph.
	Have you seen the ONS map?
	I've seen it.
	It's, yeah, worrying.
	I think it is very, very worrying, quite frankly.
	If you ever want to know- The enclaves.
	Yeah, if you ever want to know about an area, sincerely, I'm just saying, download the graph.
	Because as you can see here, we'll screw about.
	There's Leeds.
	This is the specific area where he ran for councillor.
	And I've selected the English ethnic group on the census.
	And as you can see, it goes as low as, well, that's 3%.
	3.8, 7, these neighbourhoods here.
	That's the way he's campaigning.
	If he's lived there for 20 years, I'm going to have a guess it's been sort of like this for about that 20 years.
	And this is where I get to the point of I'm not sure you can even really be mad.
	I mean, you can be mad at the politicians for mass immigration, don't get me wrong, but it's... What is anyone expecting a man growing up in that area like this for the past 20 years to come out as?
	Are we really expecting a top hat wearing aristocratic Englishman?
	I mean, something along that trajectory, though.
	Right?
	Something.
	Give us something.
	He doesn't look like he's interested in it at all, the process of integration, right?
	I don't know the man, I don't know the man.
	Yeah, I'm just thinking like, people talk about integration, and people were proposing this difference between Scalia and Mr. Ali, as differences in the integration policy, and the fact that the US has succeeded and the UK has failed.
	The dude can only integrate into being Bangladeshi, all his neighbours are Bangladeshi.
	From, like, a mile radius, they're all Bangladeshi.
	Yes, that's quantity, isn't it?
	Still, if and when you become elected, maybe don't make the first thing you do is to scream Al-Araqba.
	Maybe that?
	But what if all your constituents want you to do that?
	Oh, I know your point you're making.
	No, I'd have some conviction of your own sort of mental fortitude, surely.
	I mean, I understand, like, the argument is that he has his constituencies, I get what you mean.
	He would have been brought up in a milieu where it wasn't encouraged to become fully... Well, maybe he... You know, I don't know the guy's mind or what's in his soul, but he obviously doesn't want to, does he?
	He obviously doesn't want to.
	I'm not big on mass immigration, I'm sure people know, but I'm trying to take it as just a what-is situation rather than give my opinion.
	Because you look at that, this is the net effect, is you end up with enclaves in which no English people live anymore.
	In which case, why would you ever expect an Englishman to come out of an environment where there is no English culture?
	I mean, why would you expect hordes of Englishmen just to appear out of the ether in Bangladesh?
	It just wouldn't make sense.
	They're Tibetans.
	They've all started having tea and biscuits for no reason.
	That's not going to happen.
	Everyone around them is Tibetan.
	The whole culture is Tibetan.
	Maybe with the Chinese replacing them.
	Whole other issue.
	But you get my point.
	It's just not magically going to appear.
	You know, there's just bits of English culture in the steppes of Mongolia or the deeps of the Amazon jungle.
	We find an uncontacted tribe and they're all wearing red coats.
	Is that not a condemnation of...
	Mass immigration's intent.
	So the people come into the countries, their intent, no matter where it is, you know, you'd come to a country because you want to be in that country and therefore integrate with that culture.
	Whereas this, surely that's a pretty big red mark against people's intent as they arrive in the country because they're like, well, I'm here.
	I'm not here because I want to be part of British culture.
	I'm here because I can I can, you know, have my own sort of enclave as opposed to, you know, sort of blend into the Britishness of the surroundings.
	Because, well, there isn't any, in fairness, there, but... Well, that's my thing, I say, is no matter what the intent of the immigrant... I mean, literally, if you can't find English people for love nor money, you won't be able to figure out what they do and then integrate into them.
	You will just find whatever's around you, which is non-English.
	So then, you're saying...
	The entire concept of integration is, at its fundamental level, flawed.
	There would never be.
	Because you get British people that go and live in Spain or whatever, and then they just make like an English pub there, and make a little enclave of English people somewhere in Spain.
	I mean, not always.
	I think Northwest European cultures do sometimes go to other places in the world, and they do go native in inverted commas.
	They do integrate.
	But it's a question of numbers, I think, fundamentally.
	Like if you go to an area where everyone is English and eating English breakfast, of course you're just going to eat English breakfast whilst you're doing it.
	But if you go somewhere like Northern Sweden and everyone's speaking Swedish and they've stopped saying you're because it's so cold and go... That's how they say yes.
	You're going to start going... You're going to fit in.
	But if everyone's English, you're not going to.
	And of course, it's the same in the reverse.
	It's pure numbers.
	I mean, of course, you can integrate to a place over time if everyone around you is a certain way and you therefore slowly change to their way.
	But everyone around you is a certain way Bangladeshi.
	You're going to become Bangladeshi.
	It doesn't matter that you're living in Leeds or Little London over there, I just noticed, which is also 1.8%.
	But that's accurate.
	That's pretty accurate, I think, to Little London.
	That's what's happened.
	I mean, that area of land, this place of land here has just been ethnically cleaned.
	It is no longer one that had an English group at one point, but now it doesn't.
	It's just gone and it's going at a raster and faster pace.
	Because, I mean, you can see this in real time.
	Like, this is the same ward that this guy's won in.
	You can see the elections for councillor.
	It used to have names like Alan Taylor, for example, or Roger Harrington.
	And now, the three candidates that won were Salah Amith, Mothan Ali, and Ashka Ali.
	There's no diversity.
	This is the thing about the idea that the British integration policy, or multiculturalism as people call it, has failed.
	There wasn't one.
	There was no policy for integration because there can't be.
	You literally can't integrate into English culture if you can't find any English people.
	It's just a factual reality.
	It's not after the bay, it's just that's how life is.
	Again, why would you expect, I don't know, random Somalis to come out of, I don't know, North Korea?
	They don't have integration with Somali culture at all, so why would they become that?
	It's just madness, nothing else.
	I mean, you could actually call this Bangladeshi colonial settlism, but...
	Whole other question.
	But getting back to Scalia, the success of the United States, the argument made there.
	Well, this is what I mean by the rude awakenings.
	People are aware this is the UK, this is how things have gone for these places.
	Well, the US has got the same problem.
	I mean, this is the specific area that Scalia grew up in.
	In 1936 he was born.
	And he was born in this area of New Jersey.
	And as you can see, now, if you look at the rates, and US does their census a lot differently, but they say 9% of this area is classified as white, 42% as black or African American.
	They lump the two together.
	And then the other major group being Hispanics, 45%.
	So the white population there just doesn't exist and it doesn't always this way either.
	Scalia didn't grow up in an area of mostly Hispanic and African Americans.
	It would be madness to say that that's where he grew up because funnily enough that's not how he ended up integrating into being an Anglo-Saxon in his mind.
	Because if you go to, well just some papers about this, so this is Trenton, New Jersey, looked at through demographics through the years they mention him here.
	In 1940, so when Scalia would have been four years old, the census identified the black community as 7.5% of Trenton.
	It's gone from 7% to 45%.
	That's a huge difference, isn't it?
	come from 7% to 45%.
	That's a huge difference, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	How about it?
	But they say the white population, so again, they are a bit broader because it's American census, they use the term white, was 97% white at the beginning of the first Great Migration.
	Wow.
	It was 97% and now it's 9%.
	That's a century.
	It's just gone.
	And, uh, yeah, when Scalia was growing up, yeah, it was more like, you know, 60, 70, 80 percent white.
	Which, of course, there are going to be some Italians, and then a lot of Americans are Anglo-Saxon stock.
	How do you think the guy ended up figuring out that he lives in an Anglo-Saxon world while he's being taught Anglo-Saxon nursery rhymes, etc., etc.?
	That's the common culture of the United States.
	I can't visually explain this massive change, I think, any better than something else that blew up recently, which may fascinate you.
	This is a video.
	Caption is, this video looks like it was filmed on another planet.
	As you can see, there's a crowd here of white women who are all very excited.
	Then the camera angle changes in a minute, and you'll notice something a bit strange about what we're looking at.
	It's not your typical music festival.
	You notice that flag in the background there?
	Can you make out what it is yet?
	It's the Confederate flag.
	In fact, I'll just get rid of the screaming, and instead we'll cut around.
	This is California.
	This is California in the 70s.
	This is Oakland, California, right next to San Francisco.
	Wow.
	Which you can see, massive Confederate flag as the backdrop for this show, as you can see the ladies there.
	One thing I'll say on that is it wasn't until fairly recently that that was a problem.
	Or like nowadays to even mention or talk about the Nazis is problematic.
	Do you remember when we did a bit about how Candace Owens mentioned Hitler and that was a problem?
	Even in the 70s you could take a look at the original film The Producers for example.
	You could take the mickey out of Nazis.
	You could dress up as Nazis.
	to take the mickey out of them and there was no problem you could have a confederate flag no one really batted an eyelid they're not trying to bring back the confederacy yeah sorry hypersensitivity yeah right we're now just in a world of hypersensitivity rather than they were doing something wrong then they weren't doing anything it's an erosion of your past and your history yeah that's what i think
	I also want to show here, they've got the memorial of, I don't know what the word is, but for the Mount Rushmore Monument there, and then American flags, and then the Confederate one, and obviously the Betsy Ross or whatever, but they've got a complete tapestry of American culture, which as an outsider looking in, it's like, oh god, that's America.
	Like you easily identify it as such.
	And the people living in the same area were all reminiscing or exploring this.
	As you can see, there's 1.7 million views on that tweet alone, never mind the original, in which people are like, good god, that's different.
	And it's people who live there, because if you go and look at the demographics, this is the same place, so this is Oakland, and as you can see, in the 70s it was like this, and now it has changed tremendously.
	And obviously back in the days of the 40s, it was a completely different ballgame.
	And that's what I mean by a lot of the boomers.
	So Scalia, for example, I think he's not dead.
	He's that old.
	Not sure, actually.
	Yeah, he's dead.
	But people of that sort of generation who grew up in the 50s, 60s or whatever, they seem to think that things are the same and it's just so different.
	It's sort of ignorance.
	A level of ignorance of thinking you can still use landline telephones to call people.
	It's just a completely different world.
	And as a result, you will not get the same results that you once did.
	And that's what I mean by a rude awakening.
	I mean, I'll just end this off with some other people making this point.
	So there's a guy here saying, it's a sign of how far we've fallen that the place you are seeing with American flags everywhere now passes for being right wing.
	Whereas this is what it was just a few years ago.
	People used to fly the Confederate flag and it wasn't a symbol of obviously hating black people.
	It was a symbol of, no, this is our past.
	Being a big Cheeks of Hazard fan.
	Yeah, but even then, like, why do the Dukes of Hazzard have it?
	Yeah.
	Heritage.
	And the idea that, no, it's not hated heritage, this line, I find so mad, because I've brought up this example before.
	If you go to St.
	Petersburg right now, in Russia, you will see this.
	These are three massive flags that have been put up.
	As you can see, Russian Federation in the background, Soviet Union, and then the imperial flag of the Russian Empire.
	And people are just at peace.
	Like, you can argue about Russian culture in the modern day, whatever, but people are not delusionally sensitive to, oh my god, you put up the wrong flag.
	Instead, everyone just is like, yeah, that's our past.
	And I feel that that's the way the Americans used to live.
	And those demographic changes are so large that I don't think you actually have a common thread at the end of all that, if it continues.
	At which point, how will you even be able to remember your past if it's not really relevant?
	I think that's a great example.
	You've pointed that out before.
	I remember when you first pointed it out to me in the office one time and I'd never seen it before.
	You've got, yeah, the old, the old czarist era flag, the hammer and sickle and the modern one.
	And it's just, they're all there together.
	And it's fine.
	And it's honest, and the concept that sunlight is the best disinfectant, and don't try and pretend things never happened, and all that stuff.
	Yeah, it's obviously better, isn't it?
	And just shut this down, censor it.
	You're not allowed to talk about it.
	You're not allowed to see it.
	Forget it.
	Yeah, forget it.
	Memory hole it.
	Weird.
	Terrible.
	Bizarre.
	So anyway, there's an argument.
	So I suppose with that, I think we have everything ready.
	We'll move on.
	So.
	Scroll down.
	Oh, terribly sorry.
	We'll go on over and then scroll.
	Just going to get Miss H's notes on.
	There we go.
	There we go.
	Cool.
	Well, I wanted to discuss a bit of an overlap, really, but this is the society we live in, culture and what culture is and how I think our culture, as Anglo-Saxons, as British, English, however you want to call it, has now been replaced however you want to call it, has now been replaced by...
	Woke ideology.
	And we could say that's an umbrella term for liberalism, progressivism, whatever kind of term you want to call it.
	It's all essentially the same thing.
	So there is definitely a bit of crossover.
	But I thought this was interesting.
	And definitionally from sociologists, what is culture?
	Culture consists of the values, beliefs, systems of language, communication and practices that people share in common and that can be used to define them as a collective.
	So culture also includes the material objects that are common to that group or society.
	And so I look around today And I don't see English culture anymore.
	And you know, some of the examples you just gave with America, American culture is being eroded.
	This applies to anywhere where liberalism and progressivism has sort of taken a stranglehold.
	And what binds everyone as a collective now is left wing woke ideology.
	This is the state ideology.
	Yeah, this is culture now.
	And it goes again, there's definitely a crossover, but it's exactly what you were saying, you know, how history is memory hold.
	History is part of culture, we embrace our history, we rally behind it, you become proud of things.
	We're demoralized, degraded, To completely reject everything that we once were and what founded us as a country.
	And so I thought this was quite interesting actually, this website.
	This comes up actually just if you quite literally just google what is culture.
	So it's like English culture.
	I'm like okay cool.
	Get my buttons right.
	And we scroll down.
	So English culture.
	What is English culture?
	It has a bunch of things which I think we could all probably agree with.
	English rich customs, traditions are famous across the world, English culture frequently gets associated with copious amounts of tea drinking, the British royal family and good manners.
	There's day-to-day conversations, you know, bake-off, football, etc.
	Neighbourhood, these sorts of things.
	And then instantly, even on a website, SEO, page number one, what is English culture?
	uh influenced by colonial past and we scroll down you can see a bit of what English culture is nothing which you would actually associate England with now I genuinely don't think so actually you can only find it in the countrysides now it's kind of weird but you just you go to a city in England and there's nothing there really worth seeing not English it's it's like being in Rome and looking at Roman ruins yeah or as you go back to the countryside and it's like oh the Romans are still alive they're still out here farming Well, that's a great example.
	You look at the demographic, the age demographic of the people in that image, they're all old.
	The people, you know, who have English culture is sort of running through their blood.
	They've all moved to the countryside.
	Because, well, we hear about white flight and things like this, the sort of preservation of your own culture.
	One thing you said there when you said you don't really see it anymore.
	Out in rural places sometimes you do.
	Not too long ago I was going through a rural village somewhere and there was a sort of a village green and a bunch of people playing cricket.
	Or bowls.
	And it was just nice to see a bunch of village people playing cricket.
	Yeah.
	And it looked nice and it was a real thing.
	I mean I think when Richard Tyce I hope not hate-controlled Richard Tice is asked about what English culture is.
	He says cricket.
	So that's one thing, but you know, you're sort of immediately at the bottom of the barrel, if not scraping it, right?
	What is English culture?
	Cricket?
	I haven't got anything of any real substance.
	We'll go with football.
	Walking through some hills.
	Yeah, it's all the stereotypes.
	I mean, they even list tea drinking, for instance.
	And yeah, that's part of English culture, but it's not English culture.
	But again... It's also a very specific way of drinking tea.
	It's not just drinking tea.
	We have English breakfast tea, and for God... I don't know why, but apparently we're one of the weird people on Earth, because we put milk in it.
	Yeah, a lot of places don't do that.
	I discovered that when I was in Russia.
	I was at this cocktail bar, and I couldn't be bothered drinking, so I was like, oh, can I get some tea?
	And they're like, oh, can I get some milk?
	And they're just looking at me like, what the fuck?
	So I was like, "Yeah, yeah, milk.
	Molech, molech.
	You're heathen." No, I thought I was sure.
	So then they gave me it, and there's a Kazakh guy behind the bar, and they're looking at him and talking to him, and they're like, "Oh yeah, we thought you were Kazakh or something, because you want milk in your tea?
	We thought you were a barbarian?" I'm like, "No, I'm English." Again, very specific ways of doing these things.
	Yeah, no, it absolutely is.
	And so this website alone, again, one of the first things that they start to highlight is British imperialism.
	So the British Empire, our history.
	And these are the things which actually should be embraced as a culture, as a collective.
	It's things which have defined us, which make us what we are.
	And, you know, everyone keeps banging on here alone, you know, the wealth that conflict, the British Empire wrought, shaped England as we know it today.
	Yes.
	But undoubtedly, everything in this is all going to be from a negative perspective.
	And that's how woke ideology has completely captured what British culture is.
	And as a whole, this sort of progressive liberalism, it only seeks to erode our history, it only seeks to degrade us.
	There's nothing positive about it.
	There's nothing, you know, uplifting about it.
	There's nothing which, you know, you sort of rally behind as something which is There's just nothing good in this ideology.
	It's always negative.
	It's always, well, we need to do this.
	We need to do more of this.
	We need to do this.
	There's nothing which you, in that sort of ideology and that sort of focus and that, that thinking that you, that it just goes, this is great.
	Cool.
	We've done it.
	Because you're never woke enough, you're never left wing enough.
	I'm not particularly embarrassed or ashamed of the achievements of the British Empire.
	I think it's fantastic.
	I think our history is absolutely fantastic and should be celebrated.
	Historically speaking it was quite a feat, really.
	Let the Daily Record put that in their paper if they have need of news.
	Um no um no historically speaking of course it was of its time.
	Yeah.
	We don't think colonialism or empire building is all that great now but back when that was the paradigm we did it the best.
	Yeah but the thing about that is is to your your history your Sort of the colonial past of England is what made us what we are today.
	You know, it's what led us to, I don't know, stopping the slave trade, for instance, at great cost to ourselves.
	These things are things to be celebrated.
	You don't get from point A to B and then forget point A. That's not how it works.
	But then we're at point C and we're forgetting A and B.
	Can I mention just how detached from reality it seems to be as well, the idea that you boil down English culture to imperialism?
	Because if we go back up to those, I think it was a series of different things you could do to go and see English culture, and do any of these images scream imperial era to you?
	Maybe a medieval castle.
	One thing to say is that the period of colonialism, or the British Empire, was only really a couple of hundred years.
	Tiny.
	Out of, you know, 1500 or more, depending on when you really want to start.
	You start at, say, Alfred, say.
	For the English, it's sort of like a phase.
	Yeah, it's a phase we went through.
	But it is a phase.
	And so, woke ideology forces us to focus on that as the negative, as opposed to the other phases of what has shaped English culture, Anglo-Saxon culture.
	And that's the negativity that it sort of brings.
	And we know this because Britain, I mean, you look around, people are never more miserable than they are today.
	Britain has fallen in the world happiness rankings, with young people, funnily enough, the more susceptible to left-wing, woke ideology, liberalism, progressivism, the most miserable.
	And why?
	Because they don't have culture.
	They don't have anything which, definitionally speaking, binds you together as one unifying force, aside from woke ideology, which is a net negative.
	Yeah, it's a self-loathing narrative, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	That you're guilty of some original sins, you're guilty still, that you're stained by the crimes of your ancestors.
	Yeah, that's not going to make you feel good, right?
	And it's funny, it's the opposite, because if we are going to talk about empires, if you're going to rank empires, just perhaps in terms of Well, the British Empire dwarfs anything else ever done.
	The Roman Empire is zenith, just a moat compared to the British Empire.
	Alexander, hmm, not all that impressive.
	The Mongols, we beat the Mongols hand down, hands down, you know, no problem.
	Empire where the sun never set, don't be ashamed of it.
	So I'm messing around with this thing.
	And but there's things like this, which is incredibly beautiful, you know, architecture of England, the architecture of England, this is part of our culture and heritage, there are places in the UK, which, you know, in terms of comparing it to other other countries in the world, like the US, for instance, which we now import a lot of our sort of liberalism and progressive values from is unmatched.
	You know, our architecture is absolutely stunning.
	It's absolutely beautiful stuff.
	But that's, you know, that's part of our history.
	That's part of our culture.
	But you know, it's a no-no place now.
	It's a no-no place.
	Not allowed.
	Not allowed to take a look at that.
	And part of sort of liberalism and progressivism and woke ideology as a whole, again, seeking to dismantle culture, is of course, immigration.
	And this Obviously something which people talk about quite a lot, but we've been talking about it for ages.
	I mean this here, UK public attitude to immigration, are there too many immigrants?
	That's back in, what's that, 1989, I think?
	My little eyes can see there.
	Yeah, too many immigrants.
	But even back then it wouldn't have been that many, I mean by comparison to today.
	And then even now, back in 2012 there, again, still, every single time, too many.
	Way, way, way too many.
	You can go back to the 60s, the actual Enoch Powell days.
	Enoch Powell was fantastically popular amongst normal people.
	Yeah.
	And yeah, the feeling back then was, no, we don't want our culture watered down or ultimately destroyed.
	No, we don't want that.
	Back in the 60s, let alone now, so.
	I think it was interesting, the segment that you put up with Scalia, because if reading his bio, he was conservative.
	I think that's quite telling, actually, because again, it crosses over with this quite nicely is that there's an intention when people come to a country.
	If you value and you enjoy the culture, You ingratiate yourself in it.
	Nine times out of ten, they'll always be conservative.
	So it's quite revealing, actually, you know, where these people politically align.
	Because generally speaking, conservatives, not our conservatives, of course, nine times out of ten, conservatives want to conserve the culture of a country.
	They want to keep it safe.
	Keep it, you know, as is.
	But yeah, our immigrants, as you sort of put up there, Green Party, so focused on Gaza, I guess, and maybe a bit of the emissions.
	But then I wanted to just go through some of our histories.
	I think this was, I think this was 1975.
	God, do you notice the lack of security?
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Just didn't need it.
	It wasn't all that like those big barriers in front of Parliament.
	Now they were only put in in the 2015 or something or other.
	Yeah.
	It wasn't that long ago.
	I remember when you could just walk straight into St Stephen's entrance just there.
	You could just walk straight into it.
	There was no problem.
	See how dirty it is though?
	Yeah.
	The grime.
	I remember when London was like that.
	It was some point after Blair got in, perhaps the only thing he did that was actually probably quite good is that most of London buildings down the street was just black.
	It's blackened and it's all just soot.
	It's just accumulated filth.
	Hosed it down and made it a bit cleaner.
	I think some of that goes back to the Industrial Revolution.
	The amount of coal that was burned in the air just made loads and loads of buildings black forever until finally it was not used and then cleaned.
	And then this, if I remember rightly, I think this is 19...
	So it might be 1950 or 1925.
	It looks more like the 20s to me.
	Yeah, 1925.
	And this, you know, when you think about English culture, this perfectly encapsulates quite a lot of it, actually, in terms of from a visual representation, at least from a stereotype.
	You know, you've got the old bobbies on the beat.
	You've got a beautiful architecture there.
	And it's not just from, you know, second story upwards, which it is now, because of course, every sort of ground floor, first floor has now been completely eradicated.
	Or been turned into vape shops.
	Yeah, vape shops or charity shops, or Turkish barbers, amazingly.
	And then we had this, I love this image.
	This would be 1950s.
	And again, look at the demographic.
	You look at people standing together.
	Queuing.
	Queuing is part of British culture.
	It's manners.
	It's an unspoken rule.
	The uniform they're wearing.
	I mean, that comes from England.
	The idea that the suit is universal.
	It's not.
	It literally comes from us.
	So there you are.
	That's why it became the uniform.
	Because of the Anglo-Saxon domination of the globe.
	It's interesting isn't it, even when you see the Chinese premiere.
	He just wears a suit and a tie.
	Can you go back to the last image real quick?
	I wanted to say something.
	There's a great book by George Orwell called Coming Up for Air.
	It's one of his lesser known ones.
	It's sort of an earlier forerunner to 1984 in some ways.
	It's nothing like 1984 but a lot of the themes and even some of the phrases that are in 1984 are in that earlier book.
	What it is, it's set just before World War II happens.
	Literally just before, like 1939.
	And it's a guy that's in his mid-forties and he's looking back at Britain as it was around 1910 when he was a little boy.
	And he's saying even in the 30s it's all changed, because that's what this picture reminded me of.
	He talks about England and his little town he grew up in, and London, as it was in the turn of the century, 1910s, 1920s.
	And that already by the 40s it was starting to go, and that he knew that the war would really annihilate it, and everything would have to be profoundly different afterwards.
	Um, so there's this idea, like, there's the march of time, like, you can't really freeze things as they were.
	Okay, that's fair enough to say.
	You know, some of the leftist, wokeist, Marxist enemy traitors, they say, you can't keep things as they were, there's an imagined past you can never get back to, stop living in, um, in fairy tale land.
	Okay.
	There's that and then there's the ridiculously deliberately exaggerated acceleration of everything to the point where your town was 99% white and three years later it's 50% white.
	And then we end up with things like this.
	What's the severing?
	Because okay yeah time marches and as you saw there those previous two images right time is marching but you can see that both of those civilizations are the same tether which is going forward in time.
	This The hell is this?
	I've said it a lot.
	It's true isn't it?
	I mean I say it a lot and I stand by is that when we lose our culture we're at civilizational collapse.
	We're at the point at which civilization collapses because there's nothing to conserve.
	I can never remember the guy's name.
	I should commit it's memory.
	There's some French architect and in the 60s, I think it was the 50s or 60s, he was considered a great architect.
	And he was the one that sort of advocated for all this sort of brutalism.
	Yeah, this sort of thing.
	So it's post-war French socialist.
	It's awful.
	Our government said that's the way to go.
	And that's how we ended up with this.
	It's a lefty Frenchman.
	It was going to be way way worse.
	this sort of thing.
	- You ever seen it? - Our landscape is blighted by this to this day, right?
	All this sort of thing.
	- Still now.
	- I can't remember the guy's name.
	- It was going to be way, way worse.
	I don't know if you guys have ever seen the plans of what they were gonna do to Whitehall.
	- It's just a box, isn't it?
	I have to show you, it's mad.
	So go back to the Parliament one real quick, if we can have a look at that picture, because that picture is probably the best way of recognising it.
	So we've got the way back to the Parliament, which... That one?
	Yeah, yeah.
	OK, so the idea was, so Whitehall's behind it.
	For people who don't know, Whitehall's where all the civil servants are, right?
	And they go between the politicians who are in St James's Palace, Parliament.
	So the connection was they were going to... Westminster Palace.
	Yeah, so they destroy all of the Whitehall buildings that are ancient and got carved English heroes into all of them on the stone, if you look.
	Wow.
	And instead, they were going to build these brutalist blocks.
	Okay, that's bad enough.
	The funniest part is they were going to have overhead walkways between Parliament and Whitehall and all the departments, so the civil servants wouldn't have to walk on the street.
	They wouldn't have to be anywhere near the population.
	Peasants.
	I mean, it's the most aristocratic thing possible, coming from French commies.
	It's just...
	That was actually done once.
	Duke Cosimo de Medici I did exactly that.
	He built an elevated walkway from his palace to his offices, along the top of the river, so he'd never have to go in the street.
	I was just mad.
	Just absolutely mad.
	Yeah, I think there's a design here on something that's found.
	Is there any clearer way to say we're better than you?
	We're quite literally physically above you.
	Yeah, that's the walkway there, in fact, you can see.
	That's insane.
	So, I mean, yeah, this is what these human beings were doing and those people who built those tower blocks from earlier.
	This is their worldview.
	And now they've completely destroyed our country.
	And the proles can live in this brutalist box.
	Little unit cells, really.
	Yeah.
	No culture.
	So yeah, wokeism has completely destroyed British culture.
	We can bring back that type of architecture.
	It's a choice though, isn't it?
	Yeah.
	It's a choice.
	If the right people at the right moment commission something that's sort of in the Baroque style or Christopher Wren style restoration era, there's nothing in the laws of physics stopping us from building like that again.
	You go to Hungary, Poland and Serbia, three countries I can say this is true, they're doing that.
	After the Soviet era, they're just rebuilding the pre-Soviet stuff, which is beautiful.
	Yeah, you're right.
	You can do it in sort of the Romanesque style with all the pillars and things.
	You just need the will to do it.
	So going back to the definition, I guess, communication, language, We don't have a shared communication language anymore because we have pockets of enclaves.
	And that's been allowed in through liberalism and progressivism practices.
	Again, you know, you've got a split country with Islam, many, many different faiths.
	We were a Christian nation.
	We had that all in common, at least at one point.
	Beliefs, that's completely eroded away now.
	I think, definitionally, we can say that Britain as a culture has completely been replaced by woke ideology.
	There are small hold-ups, small islands of the Lotus Eaters, small islands here and there where people still, you know, I think, you know, what we do, our voices aren't, don't go completely unheard.
	No, I think it's central.
	We were talking there's quite a lot of right-leaning or right-of-centre or even centrist influencers with massive follow-ins.
	Like Paul Joseph Watson's got 2 million or whatever, you know?
	There's the New Culture Forum, there's all sorts of people out there doing it and people, I think, are dying to hear it.
	Lots of people... They're popular for a reason.
	Yeah.
	They're tapping into what people believe in, which is...
	You know, maybe it's a sense of member berries over once great cultures or... The zeitgeist, I don't like really the word zeitgeist, but where the zeitgeist has been for a while, perhaps since the post-war consensus, since World War Two roughly, has been this slide towards leftism, socialism, and now we're in sort of a neo-Marxist insane dystopia.
	There will be a counterculture, hopefully, I think.
	Hopefully.
	The pendulum's swinging, isn't it?
	Yeah, there'll be a counterculture to that.
	Some people say, I don't know if it's true because I haven't really seen any proper data on it, but that the youngest generations, Zoomers, or even, what's young, what do they call people that are even younger than Zoomers?
	Is that what they call it in there?
	That they might be a counterculture, maybe, of being sort of ultra-conservative with a small c. They might be the generations that Probably flip back to having traditional values and building buildings that look like something Christopher Renner designed or something.
	I don't know.
	One can hope.
	Yeah.
	Well, let's move on I suppose.
	Oh, is that?
	Is that?
	OK.
	Alright, can you just scroll down?
	Can I just use this?
	Yep.
	Or John will do it.
	Or I'll do it.
	OK, where am I?
	I guess we cut this bit out in post before it goes on YouTube.
	We're still live.
	We are live.
	I'll write it myself!
	We'll do it live!
	OK.
	I want to talk about, give a bit of an update on the Israeli-Gaza conflict.
	But the angle I wanted to do, want to talk about, other than just giving a bit of an update on where we are on things, is that I'm sort of sick of it, profoundly sick of it.
	My take is that it's to say, because I don't think there's enough voices out there saying it, that it's not our war, and by our I mean Englishman.
	I can't talk for Americans, I can't even talk for a Scotsman or a Welshman or an Irishman.
	I'm an Englishman.
	It's not my war, it's not our war.
	I don't know, I don't want to see the RAF involved in it.
	I don't want the spill out of it onto our streets.
	That's how I feel about it.
	Everyone, it seems, you know, if you're terminally online or you watch a lot of TV, sort of trying to insist that you have to pick a side.
	No, I'm not going to pick a side.
	No, no, everyone from The Daily Wire to Navarra, everyone from Ben Shapiro to Ash Sarkar, you have to pick a side.
	You have to pick a side.
	No, I'm not going to pick a side.
	I'm an Englishman.
	It's not my war.
	It's your desert feud, I'm afraid.
	It's completely disrupted the right sort of wing in America.
	It's completely sort of fragmented them, hasn't it?
	You say about Candice Owens and Ben Shapiro, I mean, that's, they've completely fallen out over this entire situation.
	Well, just to make it clear, I mean, I would like to see Hamas absolutely wiped off the face of the earth.
	To a man.
	Yeah, I would like to see that.
	It's not that I've got no moral compass, but I'm not like, I'm not on the Israeli side, so to speak, either.
	Right?
	It's an interminable religio-land conflict.
	It's not got anything to do with England.
	It's not our war.
	We've got our own problems.
	That's the angle I'm increasingly Take, um, some people will say, try to say, uh, oh, but what about the science Pico agreement?
	Or what about the Balfour Declaration?
	What about Arthur Balfour?
	It's like, okay, that was, that was World War One.
	The Empire's over, bro.
	We, yeah, for a while, literally over a hundred years ago.
	Now, where we liberated that part of the world from the Ottoman yoke.
	You're welcome, by the way, for that.
	And then when we realized it was just an endless... No, no, no, you're welcome, you're welcome.
	It's just such... Would you rather be colonized by Turks or the Brits?
	I was like, well, if I've got to pick one... You're seemingly unable to throw the Ottoman yoke off for about 400 years, and we've done that for you real quick.
	So, yeah, don't worry about it.
	It's one of many to us.
	And then when we realised it was sort of completely ungovernable and that both sides were sort of implacable Tycho's about it.
	We just got out of there.
	So, no, there's a tiny window of time in, like, well, what, 13-odd, 14-odd hundred years.
	There's a tiny little window there of 50-odd years where the British were involved under the auspices of the League of Nations and things.
	So, no, we're not really involved in it, no.
	You know so the Jewish people claim that bit of land because God gave it to Moses at Mount Sinai and then the Muslims via right of conquest in what the 7th century also claim it.
	We haven't really got anything to do with England and the government in Westminster.
	Leave us out of it, that's what I feel like.
	So anyway, if you put up... what's the first link I've got there, John?
	Just a map there, so again if anyone...
	It's the Gaza Strip.
	So Hamas claim, it's not just the Gaza Strip, is it?
	Hamas claim that all of Palestine, their definition of Palestine, so all of Israel, should be theirs.
	They would completely dissolve, for want of a better word, Israel.
	As their overlords in Tehran say, they would roll Israel into the sea.
	Well, from the river to the sea, that's what they say, don't they?
	From the River Jordan to the sea, the Mediterranean Sea.
	So I don't really necessarily blame Netanyahu for saying no, we've got to completely win.
	We've sort of got to completely win, there's no other way.
	I mean, what that really means?
	Is it possible to win?
	What does that really mean?
	It's killing a lot of people, including civilians.
	I think they're the last numbers I saw, so there's a huge debate about it.
	You've got to get involved because of the humanitarian crisis, so this is the argument.
	And I think, so it's the Ministry of Health for Gaza.
	So the Israelis say, well, that's run by Hamas, so don't bother.
	But they say there's something like 40,000 people have been killed.
	But then when you ask the Israelis, well, how long is it going to take until the real number is that number?
	If you don't believe this one, it's like, well, eventually.
	So, okay, whatever.
	Sometime.
	So either way, we're looking at least 1% of the population dead.
	That's, I guess, the cost.
	That's their pitch.
	And therefore you should care because the 1% of Gaza has been killed.
	The thing is, there's so many conflicts all around the world, all the time.
	I mean, the slave trade at the moment is the biggest it's ever been, isn't it?
	As far as I'm aware, in Kenya and Libya and things like that.
	Slave trade is absolutely massive at the moment.
	We're not constantly parroting about that non-stop, all day, every day.
	I mean, yeah, war's awful.
	Of course it is.
	People are enslaved and have been for a very long period of time currently at the moment.
	I guess this has just been... I mean Ukraine, you know, Russia and Ukraine.
	That was the thing.
	That was the round-the-clock thing and sort of backed into, you know, the distance now.
	Now we've got this.
	It's just the thing, isn't it?
	It's the current thing.
	Yeah.
	Do you think it maybe has something to do with the fact that we're part of the Anglosphere?
	Because, I mean, we used to be the global hegemon.
	That's gone.
	Long time.
	And the Americans are the global hegemon.
	So anything that happens, everyone is obviously looking to them because they're the only one with the power to decide.
	If it goes one way or the other.
	Yeah, they're supposed to be the police of the world and also they give an insane amount of quote-unquote aid to the Israelis, don't they?
	I mean, again, that's a choice for the American public because it's meant to be a republic.
	But it's, you know, I wonder whether or not we get dragged into this by that.
	Yeah, because our foreign policy is just what the Americans tell us it is.
	Basically.
	Yeah.
	I think we sent all our challengers to Ukraine, or at least half of them.
	I was just like, why?
	Yeah.
	The Americans said they needed tanks, so we gave them tanks.
	I wonder how quickly that's going to change if Trump gets in power then.
	Because, I mean, if anyone's gonna break the mould of aid and policies on these kind of wars, it'll be him.
	So if he gets in power, are we just gonna suddenly fall in line?
	Probably.
	We'll do whatever the State Department tells us.
	Whether the State Department's doing exactly what Trump wants is something a bit different.
	But yeah, the Pentagon and the State Department decide America's foreign policy with however much influence from the President himself.
	And then we fall in line with that.
	Nearly always.
	There's one example I can think of when Obama wanted to Bomb Assad changed regime and we had a quick vote in Parliament and Parliament miraculously voted no.
	Actually voted against it.
	Everyone was actually quite confused being like what?
	Yeah.
	We make decisions do we?
	Yeah Ed Miliband actually did something good for once.
	The only time I can think of.
	But apart from that example, we nearly always do whatever we're instructed to by the Chiefs and the State Department.
	So I remember it actually being quite weird that we even had a vote.
	People were like, they're having a vote?
	Yeah.
	What?
	Rubber stamping, surely, and then it didn't pass, and then people were like... And they're going to stick to it as well?
	Yeah.
	Yeah, I remember Diane Abbott voting against that and I remember thinking, well even a stopped clock.
	Yeah.
	Anyway, but Netanyahu said when, because the Americans and Blinken and Biden, probably not Biden, Biden's probably asleep most of the time, but Blinken and the Americans putting a lot of pressure on old netty to wrap this thing up because it's embarrassing for all involved, right?
	And he said, this is their line at the moment, Israel will not allow Hamas to restore its evil rule in the Gaza Strip.
	Israel will not allow it to restore its military capabilities to continue striving for our destruction.
	Israel cannot accept a proposal that endangers the security of our citizens and the future of our country.
	Now, whether you think Israel should exist or not, Can't really argue with that.
	You can't argue with that, right?
	So for example, let's say Wales tried to secede from our union, or let's say Cornwall.
	Cornwall had a separatist movement and they were doing terrorist stuff.
	I would side with the government in Westminster to say something like that.
	And I wouldn't want to hear from Tel Aviv.
	I wouldn't want to hear from DC.
	I don't care if the South Africans bring something up in the UN.
	Right?
	About it.
	It'll be our war.
	Yeah.
	It'll be our struggle, our thing.
	We reserve the right to deal with it.
	Thank you very much.
	Right?
	So I sort of can't blame the Australian government for being like that.
	But then that's what I'm trying to say.
	I'm not on their side as such.
	I'm not like, you know, they're the goodies or anything.
	It's a terrible blood feud.
	Get all of it off of me.
	Get away from me.
	Like it's not our war.
	And yet it spills out into all of our politics.
	Like, we must have endless protests on the streets of London.
	For what?
	So that Rishi can say at some meeting, excuse me Bibi, would you mind, our people have decided what you're doing is bad, can you please stop?
	And he goes, yeah, no.
	Well, again, the local elections.
	This is a victory for Gaza.
	Yeah, how in what possible sense?
	You're a local councillor.
	How is it a win for Gaza?
	Yeah.
	What?
	You're going to put Palestinian flags on the bins, are you?
	Like, how is it a win?
	10% of the council budget will now be sent to Hamas.
	I mean, that would be a win for Gaza.
	We're going to send our pothole money to Hamas.
	Like, what are you doing?
	All the hawks in Yahoo's cabinet see that clip of him going...
	We've got to wrap it up.
	Trump's right.
	We're losing.
	It's embarrassing.
	There's a Green councillor in Leeds that's annoyed, so let's pull out of the Gaza Strip.
	Sadiq Khan, he said some stuff as well.
	It's absurd, isn't it?
	It's absurd.
	Or if there's a next link, John, can you put up the next thing?
	So you can play it but without any volume if that's all right.
	So what's happened, if anyone's been under a rock for the last six months or whatever it is, a few months, the Israelis have sort of occupied most of the Gaza Strip, pushed loads of people down to Rafa, which is right at the bottom.
	And Rafa is right on the border with the Egyptian border, isn't it?
	They've also destroyed pretty much every house by the looks of it.
	All right.
	I mean one of the things I saw that's kind of...
	It doesn't really make me care because it's just again foreign conflict.
	But if they find a Hamas fighter, for example, the policy is now to wait for him to go home to his house to bomb him because then you might get more.
	It'll be family members who are also members of Hamas.
	But it also means killing all the women and children, which is a bit grim, which obviously people are not happy about.
	So that's why you end up with so many just tower blocks just gone.
	Have you seen what this place looked like before?
	Yeah.
	It looked beautiful.
	It was crazy.
	The beaches looked quite nice.
	Yeah, yeah.
	But I guess I get my point with that is, you know, because people kept saying, you know, it's like a, it's an open prison and things like that.
	It's like, definitely wasn't.
	Yeah, definitely not.
	We've seen video footage of it.
	Yeah.
	Definitely was not an open prison.
	It seemed worse prison.
	Definitely looked all right.
	Yeah.
	Looks like somewhere you go on vacation, quite frankly, like it actually looked nice.
	There's this thing where you go, Boring tourist trade!
	One struggle brother!
	Where there's the sort of undeniably evil things Hamas did on that October the 7th stuff.
	And then the flip side of that is these pretty harrowing images.
	And it's like, what do you want from me as an Englishman, though?
	Your money.
	Like, yeah, it's really bad.
	Both sides are really brutalising each other.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	Like, at what point am I allowed to want to wash my hands of the whole filthy business?
	Am I allowed to do that?
	I'm not allowed to do that.
	The Daily Wire and Novara Media, for example, that's just two examples.
	Now, we're not allowed to just wash our hands of it and try and get on with our lives and all the problems in our country and our lives, and they're not allowed to do that.
	But our politics is always captured by something else.
	Always.
	Like, you track it, like, we're never actually focused on the issues at hand at home right now.
	It's always other conflicts, always other places.
	Would you mind, John, can you play this one and actually put the audio on?
	It's about a minute and a half, nearly two minutes.
	Jeremy Bowen, BBC Shield, Jeremy Bowen.
	Watch this for a bit.
	Rafa is the most southerly town in Gaza.
	- - Rafa is the most southerly town in Gaza.
	- Seems quite happy about it, isn't it?
	I noticed he's almost smiling in his face. - And it's the place where most of the population of Gaza has been fleeing to, as the Israelis have advanced from the north.
	You can see the influx of people from these satellite pictures now.
	You can see the difference.
	All those little markings.
	It's quite remarkable, isn't it?
	There are about 1.4 million people estimated to be in Rafah.
	That's five times its usual population.
	They thought they might be safer there, but now Israel says they're going to attack.
	The Israelis say moving in on Rafa is a military necessity in pursuit of what the Prime Minister calls total victory against Hamas.
	They want to get into those tunnels.
	We're going to get them.
	One metre after another, one tunnel after another.
	And as well as that, they want to get more than 100 Israeli hostages back.
	So many people have ended up in Rafa because they've been pushed down from the north and there's nowhere else for them to go.
	They've reached the border.
	They're living in terrible conditions there, exhausted after four months of war.
	- The Israelis say that they can open a safe passage for civilians in Rafa, but the man who heads the UN agency that looks after Palestinian refugees doesn't believe them. - We haven't but the man who heads the UN agency that looks after Palestinian refugees doesn't believe them. - We haven't seen There is nothing safe in Gaza.
	The problem with Israel's argument is a safe passage to where?
	North of them, there's the devastation of war and the Israeli army.
	South of them, there's the closed Egyptian border.
	End of segment.
	Just a closed Egyptian border.
	Oh, that's the end of that.
	Don't want to focus on the Egyptians and why they're not doing anything.
	No, no, no, no, no.
	Can't we take a load of them, put them in Jordan?
	No, Jordan won't take any.
	Yeah.
	Lebanon?
	No.
	Syria?
	No.
	It's amazing how they never address it.
	The Egyptian border's just closed.
	That's it.
	That's the end of that story.
	Cool.
	Okay, okay.
	It's like, I'm supposed to, who am I supposed to feel sorry for?
	Like all those people in Rafa, well you, not the, obviously the children are completely innocent obviously, but they did vote in Hamas and Hamas launched That thing on October the 7th.
	And they're still got the hostages.
	And they've still got those hostages, yeah, and they've still got those hostages.
	Like, am I supposed to shed a tear?
	Like, no.
	And yet, am I on Nettie's side?
	No, don't think so.
	Going about the way they're going about what they're doing.
	It's like... It's brutal.
	It's just a real, real... Yeah, it's a brutal shit show.
	And we're supposed to pick a side, though.
	So which side are you on in the Myanmar civil war that's been brewing?
	Because there's about 20 sides in that one.
	For some reason, again, I mean, this is the thing, no one is sitting there being like, well, obviously you've got a side with the Karen Liberation Army, which is a real thing.
	Because no one gives a crap.
	It's just because there's a way to make money out of this.
	I mean, I saw a guy talking about this before.
	He was like, why is Middle East peace a career path?
	Because that's sort of weird.
	Why would pursuing peace be something you could make a career out of for decades?
	Because surely your goal is to get the peace and then you're out of a job.
	It's kind of the job.
	Instead, no, it's something people just endlessly hark on about, or hark on with their entire worldview.
	Where it's just like, we've only got to talk about Israel-Palestine, we've only got to talk about it.
	Because that's your world.
	That's how you get paid, that's what you do.
	Fine.
	But I'm not engaging.
	The West has completely screwed themselves with this.
	Because, like, who do you villainise here?
	In the West, who do you villainise, right?
	Because Russia and Ukraine, it was very easy for Western media to villainise Russia.
	Our big bad, Putin, right?
	Our poor little Ukraine.
	There you go.
	There's our good versus evil, very black and white narrative.
	Here, how do you, you know?
	Well, traditionally, the United States would have just been like, we love Israel, but now they've got a new population living there.
	Yes.
	In the US, which doesn't like Israel.
	As do we.
	You're told you're morally wrong, you're a monster if you don't pick a side.
	Ben Shapiro types will try and make the moral argument.
	And then of course there's the endless pro-Palestinian side that make out that they didn't do nothing and it's the Israelis that are the demons in this thing.
	I just don't want anything to do with it, right?
	Also, just to sort of start wrapping the thing up, I think a lot more people, the point of doing this segment and this take, is that a lot more British people, even if you're just not Israeli or Palestinian, if you're not Jewish or Muslim, should feel free to say that, I think.
	It's okay to say you don't care.
	It don't be bullied into like pretending you have a side.
	Yeah.
	Right.
	I think that's a decent message for people.
	Yeah.
	It's okay to be a bit more introspective, a bit more nationalist and a bit more focused on the issues that we have at home.
	Like that's perfectly reasonable.
	Like you're not going to get bullied into taking a side in Myanmar's civil war.
	Yeah.
	So why would you get bullied into this one?
	And a lot of people, probably most people, not that my knowledge is perfect, far from it, but a lot of people won't really know much backstory or much history.
	Now I went back to Moses at Mount Sinai in the 7th century, first Muslim conquests, right?
	Most people may or may not know anything about it, let alone sort of the 20th century, like the World War I, Arthur Balfour stuff, and everything since then.
	Most people, not that they should even, won't really know any of all that, and yet you're sort of forced to pick a side.
	Come on.
	You don't have to pick a side, that's all I'm saying.
	So just to start wrapping it up, just what's going on at the moment in the mainstream news, a lot of them are saying that we're sort of a bit of a, a bit of a, what?
	Someone in the chat said, well I did put 20 quid on Israel to win so I kind of have to pick a side.
	What odds did you get though?
	It says Paddy Power, I don't know.
	What's the point in war?
	Betting.
	I actually wonder if you could put a bet on that sort of thing.
	Probably it would be bookies.
	You're only 20 wars away from being a millionaire.
	You just need to pick the right side.
	Got a spread bet on all the different types of demographics of civilian casualties.
	Oh that's dark.
	Devil or nothing.
	So at the moment they're saying they're at a bit of a sort of politically a crossroads because you know they've penned them into that raffer bit right at the bottom of the Gaza Strip and apparently the Egyptian border is just a No starter.
	There's crocodiles, you can't pass it.
	There's a wall there.
	Walls don't really work apart from that one, which is made of lava.
	Yeah, lava wall and alligator moat on the Egyptian border.
	So again, the ball's sort of in Netanyahu's court.
	Hamas want a sustainable calm, or what they want is a ceasefire, a permanent ceasefire.
	In other words, they want to try and surrender, I suppose, in a sense.
	But, you know, it's the Israeli government's position that to have, quote, total victory, that they can't put up with Hamas existing anymore.
	Their leader has been in hiding ever since.
	God knows where he is, probably abroad.
	I doubt he's actually in... He's in Qatar.
	He's in Qatar, OK.
	He's one of the sons of Hamas, former founders in the UK, isn't he?
	Living in London housing, social housing.
	I know there's some of the leadership and stuff.
	Amazing.
	So yeah, the sort of, it's up to, the Americans are putting pressure on Netanyahu to sort of come to some sort of decision one way or another where he's going to go, whether he's going to really stamp it out finally, however brutal that might look, what that might actually look like.
	Or whether he's going to strike a deal with the last remnants of Hamas.
	Hamas are obviously on the back foot, aren't they?
	They've obviously taken militarily... They're never going to win.
	No, it's a stupid... Like, strategically, it was an insane thing to do what they did.
	Obviously, in a sort of human sense, it was insane and grotesque.
	But strategically, it was stupid, right?
	It was stupid.
	What did they think the Israelis were going to do?
	You don't give them any other choice but to do something like what they've done.
	So we'll see.
	All the Iran stuff, because the last time I did a bit about a segment all about Israel and the war, it was more focused on whether there's going to be full-scale exchanges with Iran.
	That seems to have gone off the boil, doesn't it?
	They're not talking about that much.
	Again, Netanyahu could have launched massive strikes against Iran and he didn't.
	So whether he's sort of still biding his time on that or whether that has sort of settled, who knows?
	But it looks like, you know, something's going to happen in Rafah in the next few days or weeks or so, one way or another.
	People are saying that the amount of political pressure on Netanyahu to do something one way or another, strike a deal, Or not.
	Isn't that amazing?
	Sorry, it's amazing how everyone's pushing him to, you know, peace talks, peace talks, peace talks.
	Sorry, Ukraine, Zelensky, Putin?
	What's going on there?
	Peace talks?
	No?
	That's okay, though.
	That's fine.
	That endless war was fine.
	This one, not okay.
	Well, why isn't the entire Arab Muslim world putting insane pressure on Hamas to give the hostages back?
	Yeah.
	And to sign something saying that they won't try and kill Israeli citizens at every opportunity.
	Oh no.
	Again, that's not really on the table it looks like, it seems.
	I don't know.
	So anyway, don't be bullied into having, feeling like you have to pick a side on this thing if you haven't got a dog in the fight.
	So okay, I'll leave it there.
	Alright, well, let's go to the video comments.
	I've just returned from a fortnight in Taiwan on business.
	I have a special fondness for the Taiwanese who are the proper Chinese, that is to say, not communists.
	Anyway, during my previous trip, one supplier was asking me about what's going on in America that they are tolerating shoplifting, and this trip had a colleague describe his extended honeymoon where he and his wife visited San Francisco and was shocked by the filth and homelessness.
	That is grim.
	That red flag in the corner on the right there is grim as well.
	I like his take though.
	I like to call the Taiwanese, the Chinese.
	And what most people call Chinese, just call them the communists.
	on the right there is Grimm as well.
	I like his take, though.
	I like to call the Taiwanese the Chinese, and what most people call Chinese, just call them the communists.
	Yeah.
	Go to the next one.
	Okay, I don't know why that ended there.
	I can't understand you either, so I can't respond.
	message of time, legacy, and how history turns into myth.
	It also is about how death is not the end for what you have done in this world, and how Okay, I don't know why that ended there.
	I can't understand you either, so I can't respond.
	Yeah, I find it difficult to understand him, but I'm not a big anime person.
	Let's go to the next one.
	One thing I think about a bit is how the left is really bad at coming up with insults for the right wing.
	The first instance I can think of is Ultramaga.
	Everyone likes that because Ultramaga is better than normal Maga.
	And then they did Dark Trump.
	And again, that makes him just sound like Batman.
	And that's really cool.
	And then on top of that, more recently, they tried to use the word Chaos Agent, which again, is very cool.
	And I think they stopped doing that really early because they realized it was cool.
	The left can't meme, what can you say?
	It's funny, that's Rocky on the left, right?
	Maybe it's Jay Cutler on the right, I don't know, but... Alright, see you later.
	Let's go to the next one.
	Carl, I will never stop doing face swaps.
	It is too much fun.
	But yeah, I agree, it's still kind of bad.
	And I've got a video here, it's a farewell for Callum from Brittany Johns.
	She asked me to upload, so here it is.
	Hey, Lotus Eaters.
	I know it's been a while since I've made a video, but I just wanted to congratulate Callum and wish him best of luck on all of his future endeavors and kind of show off the new area that we moved to.
	It's kind of in the heart of Amish country.
	I knew something was a mish.
	Oh.
	What does that say to that?
	I always...
	I always find it remarkable, I shouldn't really, that people from just all over the world might watch your content.
	I know that's the nature of the internet.
	It is crazy to think that, it really is.
	Eye-opening.
	Yeah, because, I don't know, it still takes me off guard even now.
	Tumbling, I think.
	Yeah, it is.
	I want to get some YouTubers, especially ones who make like content just for everyone, right?
	You go through their analytics and occasionally they'll tweet that they got one view from North Korea.
	That's my dream.
	One day I want to go through the analytics for lifetime and just see one view from North Korea and I'll be like... Winning.
	But anyway, no, it looks like a good area.
	So, you know.
	They look lovely.
	Yeah, it looks idyllic.
	The next one.
	In furthering my understanding on Australia as a Bedfordite country, I know that Bedford famously noted the term natural right as a perversion of language, and that existence of those rights should be derived from the theory of self-contract, which he declares as unhistorical.
	As a result, Australia has no enshrined natural rights, and we have principles such as free speech because it seems to have utility.
	While that is probably jarring to people in the US, I believe that if we can fortify that reasoning with some Burkean traditionalism, we just might be removing a key weakness of current-day liberalism.
	Alright.
	Again, I didn't actually catch everything he was saying, but yeah, a bit more Burke and a bit less liberalism.
	So not a bad, not a bad thing to say.
	I'm looking forward to this.
	What people do you care?
	What's for people who listen?
	From past time.
	Vote for him this time.
	Vote for people who relate to your issues.
	We experience what you experience.
	Vote for change.
	Vote for the Workers' Party.
	Vote for people who care.
	Vote for people who listen.
	Vote for people who understand.
	Vote for people who relate to your issues.
	We experience what you experience.
	From Palestine.
	I haven't done a little bit about that.
	So, um, Russian garbage human is in Manchester and the reason it's a bit weird though, he didn't want to dox where he lives, but he's seeing a van driving around.
	That's what that is.
	Wow.
	It's a van with those symbols on it playing whilst he screams out over the speaker.
	We experience what you experience.
	Vote for Palestine.
	Vote for the workers party.
	And obviously being a Russian immigrant, he saw a satellite.
	I should go back to Russia.
	This is cringe.
	I'm a big advocate for not running away and not leaving, but if I did... No, I won't.
	But if I did, there's worse places to go than Russia, it looks like.
	I've met his family and they have land in Kaliningrad.
	So that's their place, right?
	And from their perspective, I mean, like what the Russian's dad said to me, like, what the hell is going on in England?
	Why don't you people just take it all back by force?
	They're very Russian, but it's, they hate what we're doing.
	They look at what's happening to the West and they're like, you know, we came here to make some money or whatever, go back and complete decent people.
	We're generally the best family ever.
	And they are just utterly dumbfounded.
	Why they walk outside their house and there's people screaming about Palestine.
	Yeah.
	I don't want to deal with this, so.
	No, it's embarrassing.
	It's embarrassing.
	The whole, like, rainbow flags everywhere and that your cities have been overtaken by freaks.
	It's embarrassing.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I hate it with a deep passion.
	It annoys me so much.
	Go to the next one.
	Pretty much the reason the Helldivers boycott worked was because people refused to play the Mawokamine games.
	Refusal to play is a valid winning strategy.
	Similarly, landlords could refuse the government benefits from renting out their properties to the government for migrants.
	There's always a solution.
	Unfortunately, it's just not always the easiest.
	Much more importantly than what he was saying there.
	Yeah, I was just focused on the visuals.
	Is he moving that arm via the Guitar Hero button?
	I think so.
	It's pretty cool.
	I mean... Just focus on that, to be fair.
	Yeah, I've never made anything as cool as that, so I've got to give it to him.
	All righty, let's go to the written comments because we have 10 minutes.
	All right, so on the, uh, there's some stuff beforehand.
	Someone's saying, Bradley here saying, started watching Callum's videos on Britannica on the YouTube channel.
	They're very fun.
	Also, I enjoyed Bo's video on History Bro about the assassination of JFK.
	Yeah, yeah, it was Alan Dulles.
	Lars Peter Simerson says, a strong Bo week, and the Texan Gal says, two Bo's in a row.
	Hashtag blessed.
	So there we are.
	Sophie Lev says these people don't view themselves as the invaders, they view themselves as an oppressed minority, so it's just not their right, but their duty to resist the majority culture, and that's a problem.
	And of course, there are far more Bangladeshis in the world than English people, so no, they are not a minority.
	The best trick these people performed was managing to call anyone non-white a minority.
	It's a real great point!
	You can do this.
	Basic knowledge of maths, right?
	You sit down and look at the ethnic groups by how large they are.
	And my god, I mean, of all the groups that need... I mean, I kind of want to make a list.
	I should actually do this as a project.
	Make an endangered ethnic group list.
	Yeah.
	Who should we be preserving?
	Because if they disappear soon, we've lost them forever.
	That's true.
	And the English are on that list.
	Yes, certainly in places of the UK, for sure.
	As a whole, probably.
	I mean, they say, was it like 2030 or something like that?
	We're going to be... Well, just take it from a global perspective.
	It's like, who do you want to serve?
	Oh yeah, that's true.
	It's like, not only have you got the English being very small globally, but they're all aging and not having kids.
	Yeah.
	So yeah, they're properly endangered.
	That is very true.
	Whereas if you look at India, for example, because China's stopped growing.
	It's like, we... That's it?
	Yeah, they've sort of peaked it out.
	But if you look at the Indians, they're still on an exponential growth curve.
	It's absolutely mental.
	It's just like...
	I mean, at the current rates, half the planet will be Indian by 2100.
	I don't know what to say.
	That's not an endangered group.
	And yet we're fascinated with trying to bring as much diversity here as possible, even though, you know, I mean, look at the raw figures.
	I mean, Europeans, even if you add up all Europeans, good decision, like North, South America, Australasia as well, ends up like 13% of the earth.
	There is no logical argument for as much diversity as there is.
	Even a financial one.
	It's been debunked loads, but I hate that.
	All of the debunking of that is there, but then also you only have to look at the fact that all of these people just send their money home anyway.
	So it's like, you're just a parasite.
	That's all you are.
	You come to the country, you suck it dry.
	Even if you are economically active in the country, the wealth doesn't retain itself in the country.
	It goes all the way back home.
	And that's why if you go around London, on the Tube, there's just adverts for sending money home.
	Everywhere!
	Yeah, infuriating.
	I went there recently because I used to live in London.
	And, you know, that was like eight years ago.
	And it wasn't even like that then.
	But I went there recently and I'm looking around and I'm like, what the hell is this?
	It's just adverts.
	Send your money home.
	And that's pretty revealing, quite frankly.
	Send money home.
	Yeah.
	Hmm.
	I mean, we're off YouTube at this point, so it could be a touch more spicy.
	But you say there's no reason to have the amount of diversity.
	Well, unfortunately there is, but obviously I'm being dantic.
	But the reason is because it's it's it's sort of it's it's genocidal.
	It does mean to Destroy and replace us and in that it's doing that.
	Evil.
	Genuinely evil.
	Got a weird factoid, and then we'll move on to the next segment, which is Eritrea.
	They actually passed a law, so the North Korea of Africa, no one wants to live there.
	Not Eritreans, nobody.
	A proper mental country.
	They decided to pass a law because so many people were leaving.
	You may have noticed there are a lot of Eritreans around the West these days.
	Yeah.
	So they passed a law that if you leave Eritrea, if you're an Eritrean citizen, you are still required
	to pay taxes and not like the American system where you earn income you are required to send home remittances so if you're an Eritrean and you go anywhere you're legally required to send money back because they know that that's what's you know their population's leaving so they want to parasite off the global economy because they're not producing anything themselves that's that's the government's thinking and if you don't pay the remittances and come back to Eritrea you were charged with a crime Wow.
	So the flip side is, of course, that most Eritreans leaving are leaving forever.
	So they just don't pay it and never coming back.
	But yeah, no, the government of Eritrea sees it as a way to parasite off the global economy.
	Even the government's in on it now.
	Yeah.
	We just send our people off for parasitic.
	Eritrea's like the Horn of Africa, right?
	It's not a million miles away from Somalia, near Somalia, right?
	Almost borders it, yeah.
	Djibouti's just in the way.
	It's just, yeah, that whole region is just... Nightmarish!
	Yeah, nightmarish.
	I love how you've got Somalia of absolute anarchy, and then Eritrea, North Korea level, so it's just like... Yeah.
	What a world.
	Brilliant.
	Man alive.
	So on the rope replacements, Michael says, hating and fighting the French is English culture?
	I think we're on our, what, 14th Anglo-French War?
	Yeah.
	Should we have another one?
	We fought the French far longer than we ever had a global empire.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	For centuries more than that.
	A hobby.
	That's what it is.
	What are your hobbies?
	It's a British hobby, isn't it?
	It's a pastime.
	It's just default.
	If you're not doing anything else, you will be doing that.
	Taco Fusion says, as a colonial, the most oppressing collapse of English-British culture has been watching the diversification of the Great British Bake Off show.
	We started watching it five years ago when my daughter was a toddler and cheering for the one to two young competitors scrapping with old English grannies.
	The last few seasons weren't even worth watching due to the lack of grannies in the Bake Off.
	Wow.
	And they've been replaced by Pakistani, Indian and Caribbean youths.
	Oh, good times.
	That's a great point, I never even thought about it.
	But that culture gets eroded everywhere.
	But if there's just no people from that cultural group, then... Yeah.
	Because I remember there was a huge hubbub, because I think the first Pakistani candidate was there in a hijab, and there was this phony outrage in which the argument was made that this proves that Britain is a racist country because people don't like the hijab lady.
	But if it's now got to the point that there are no candidates from the cultural group the show is named after... Where's the racism at that point?
	Welcome to Eurovision, all the people are from Africa!
	That will happen one day, that will be it.
	Genuinely, you joke, but that will be the future.
	Yeah, they always need to subvert anything.
	Anything and everything.
	Even Bake Off.
	Yeah, get a hijabi woman to win it as quickly as possible.
	Just wheel them out, say that we've done it.
	There you go.
	And they're making Bakewell tarts, but hers are curry-flavoured Bakewell tarts.
	Honestly, it's like every single time, right?
	Or we're doing Ladies' Fingers, but the Caribbean woman just does rice and peas instead.
	That's my version of Ladies' Fingers.
	It's absolutely ridiculous.
	You're so sick of it.
	Do you remember when Jamie Oliver did the... I think it was the British version of paella?
	And he added sliced ham or something?
	I think he was at the point of almost getting banned from ever returning to Spain by the Spanish government.
	I mean, that's how we should feel when someone does something like that?
	Or it's just like, no, no, no.
	That's not the done thing.
	Grievous insult level.
	The Italians are like, if you overcook your pasta, there's going to be a fight.
	It's al dente or nothing.
	So Derek Power says, The woke minds set is the classic problem of trying to be 100% good and 0% evil.
	You can't.
	To paraphrase Solzhenitsyn, the access between good and evil runs across every human heart.
	Very profound.
	Someone online says, Brutalism is ugly and demoralizing.
	That's the purpose of it and it makes everyone miserable.
	Thomas says, you guys have put the remember berries down for a minute and start thinking about what you want English culture to look like going forward.
	Yeah.
	This is a great criticism, I find.
	We were having a conversation before, weren't we, about the direction of right-wing politics and things like that.
	That's all part and parcel of it, isn't it?
	Everyone can sit around and complain about it as much as possible, but it's about action and moving things in the right direction and actually outlining what you want.
	You know, it's all well and good saying we complain about it, but what do you want culture to be?
	I've seen one answer to this.
	Maybe you'll like it, maybe you won't.
	But there are people on Twitter, of course, who are terminally online, right-wing British types.
	Love it.
	And when AI came out, you know, the AI pictures and whatnot, they started making fake visions of Britain in 2100 with high-speed rail everywhere, huge statues of Hengist and Horsa to the entrance to the Thames.
	You know, British futurism.
	And I'll be honest, it was enticing.
	Yeah, I like that.
	There needs to be something inspirational in British culture.
	Any culture needs to be inspirational.
	It's to inspire people.
	And to do that, you need to celebrate yourself, celebrate what the founding of this, you know, this once great nation was.
	That's how you move things forward.
	Rephrase progress.
	There's no longer this progressive slump.
	It's just regressive.
	There's nothing progressive about progressivism.
	When you hear the phrase dash to the future, In the modern context, I think hell.
	That needs to change.
	It's not tripping to the gutter, quite frankly.
	I do like the idea of sort of a late children, early Victorian, in flavour space race.
	Yeah.
	I'll have that, please.
	Bioshock, but in England.
	What came up the other day, we're spending, the estimate is now 13 billion every single year on illegal immigrants.
	I'm just thinking about the UK space budget.
	We could have been to the moon several times.
	You know, I was thinking about this, you know, because everyone keeps banging on about bloody reparations.
	We're doing it right now.
	That's our reparations.
	They owe us money at the end of the month.
	That is literally reparations, is it not?
	Anyway, on to the last segment, just to read a couple of comments.
	So Gary from Vault 108 says, oh it's okay Bo, we feel the same way over here in the US.
	It's the only old right and old left who are into the war.
	Oh right, I've gotten the war thing.
	Okay, yeah.
	I think a lot of normal people, if you're not Muslim, you're not Jewish, you're not from the Near East, you're not a Lebanese Christian or something, you're nothing really to do with it.
	Why would you?
	Why would you care so much?
	What should you?
	So someone did make a point in the chat, which is that we don't have a million Myanmarans in the United States.
	That's why there's no push for it.
	That's to appease them, not a voting base.
	There's no Myanmar elite who are influencing the Senate every single day, lobbying them for X, Y, Z. Control your State Department.
	Yeah.
	JJHW says Trump is an Israel thirster.
	I don't know if that's true.
	He's made some weird statements.
	Of course, being a Republican, he's obviously just like, we'll help him.
	I never put him down for anything until he says it, just because he's a bit of a wild card.
	Well, I've seen him talk about the war and he's taken the position publicly for about six months now, whatever.
	Israel needs to wrap it up.
	This can't continue.
	What were the Accords he got done with Jared Kushner?
	Do you remember that?
	Trump got a bunch of Accords sorted.
	What were they called?
	Jerusalem Accords or Tel Aviv Accords or something.
	Yeah.
	And yeah, he's been to the Wailing Wall and like, you know.
	Made Jerusalem a capital.
	He's done pro-Israel things, of course.
	Yeah.
	It's not a criticism, I suppose it's a triumph of this foreign policy that I've heard from people, which is laid out, which is that, well, Donald Trump's isolationism, particularly with the Middle East, meant just pulling out, and in which case, with the Americans leaving, there's a vacuum, and all of a sudden, if you're Israel, you kind of shit yourself, because you need them around, and that's the primary reason for the reason that the UAE and Saudi Arabia, over Trump's presidency, became very good friends with Israel.
	They reopened diplomatic relations, they were talking about military alliance, That didn't come because the Americans made it happen.
	That came from the Americans stepping back.
	Yeah.
	And then the Israelis being like, we're on our own.
	Who else hates Iran?
	The need for communication, isn't it?
	I think that's all the accords I was talking about, that Saudi Arabia and Israel signed all sorts of things because of that.
	Yeah.
	So the Americans actually budding out of complex.
	I mean, if best routes for the American taxpayer, but also for the region.
	Yeah.
	But for some reason Obama and Biden are sort of almost pro-Iranian.
	I mean that's an exaggeration but there was that Iranian nuclear deal and Trump 180'd all of that and then Biden 180'd it back again.
	Anyway.
	All right, last guy here called Bo the Batty Blaster.
	It's rude.
	Let's talk about Scots.
	So he writes his comment, a few weeks ago I was in London during the 30,000 person Palestine march and in Hyde Park I saw shops selling balaclavas, giant piles of generic signs left behind 21 police vans.
	Absolutely disgraceful, but to be honest, as a fellow merchant...
	I can't get over it!
	I love the idea of being a guy in London who's selling stuff, you know, because you haven't got a license, so you have to do it on the sly, so you've got like a little stall that you sell, whatever.
	You just, you're up to date on whatever the protest is this weekend.
	They just buy loads of stuff.
	And they go down and they're like, Scarf, sir?
	Would you like a scarf?
	There we are, five pounds, thank you very much.
	From the river to the seaside.
	Next week, Ethiopia, or whatever.
	Yeah, we've got a whole bunch of Tamil Tiger stuff in the back we're trying to get rid of.

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