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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Caesars for the 29th of January, 2025. Do excuse Josh.
	I said he looked like the man who ran the Prancing Pony in Fellowship of the Ring, and now he's determined to disprove me.
	I'm sorry, but...
	You do.
	If you photoshopped Harry's old sideburns onto you, you would look like it.
	Someone do that down in the comments.
	Anyway, I'm your host, Connor.
	I'm joined by Harry and Josh.
	One of our favourite lineups.
	And we're going to bring you only the good news today, which is the leaked Raikou report that shows that a Muslim network basically run the British government, who Trump has fired, and how Zoomers, like me, don't like democracy because, and I quote, it's coarse under often irritating and it gets everywhere.
	If you like prequel content, stay tuned for a future lads hour.
	Anyway, because it's a Wednesday and...
	Three o'clock, I'll be doing my show.
	Again, I'll be checking you through the cheery topics.
	We're going to go through the Southport murders in its entirety, because there's some information that hasn't been compiled and people aren't asking the right questions.
	Like, for example, why were Axel Rubio Cabana's parents even in the country?
	I've asked that question.
	There's not really a good answer.
	I've pointed out that the story that's been given to us seems to be contradictory and make no sense.
	Like his family being...
	Apparently highly connected to the current Rwandan government and the high-up officials in there.
	So why is it they came here as asylum seekers in 2002?
	From Uganda.
	Eight years after the genocide.
	Safe country as well.
	Strange that.
	Anyway, we'll be going over a lot of that.
	So if you are subscribed to lotusseekers.com, you can watch that live.
	If you aren't yet, what are you doing?
	We need your support.
	Keep the lights on.
	Let us £5 a month.
	Appreciate it.
	But also...
	I can't get onto the website, so if you're experiencing problems...
	Oh, I've just got on as I've said it.
	Never mind.
	I just need to say it live on air and it shames the website into compliance.
	Performance issues in your old age, it happens.
	Anyway!
	I am 30 this year.
	Fantastic.
	Right, let's get into today's news then.
	So there's been a leaked report from Raikou, the Home Office's Research Information and Communications Unit, otherwise known as the Government's Propaganda Department, that I've spoken about for a long time, which has said that claims of two-tier policing...
	are a far-right conspiracy theory, and that grooming gangs are just a grievance narrative that folks like us have invented.
	Now, this should be old news, because actually I've been reporting on this particular report for quite some time.
	This was Stephen Edgington's first leaks.
	This was back in November, on the 15th of November, and I then amplified it for my reporting both on this channel and on Courage Media.
	Some of the other things that were included in this report were calling anti-communist views far-right.
	So that should tell you exactly who's running Britain's deep state, and believe me, we have one and it's worse than America's.
	Quote, discussing extreme right-wing views, the Home Office cited cultural nationalism as an example, defining the term as the main belief being that Western culture is under threat from mass migration.
	The paper warned that right-wing extremist narratives, particularly around immigration and policing, are in some cases leaking into mainstream debates, and they cited two-tier policing as that example.
	Now, it's funny that that's apparently a far-right conspiracy theory, because how many times on this channel have we gone over the fact that the Met Police have expressly said, be it the Macpherson Report or their recent commitments to DEI in the wake of George Floyd, that we're going to police communities much lighter.
	So, it's both a conspiracy theory and its explicit government policy.
	Well, they're also talking about it like it's some form of contagion, as if, you know, there's this radioactive thing and it's slowly seeping into the ordinary population.
	Isn't it terrible?
	Yeah.
	It's almost like people pointing out the problem and not the problem, but the problem is in fact the problem.
	But nope, you've got to be censored and called far-right for talking about it.
	And of course, Edgington points out here that the memo was authored by Raikou, based in the Home Office.
	And Raikou, for those who don't know, are the parent body of Prevent.
	So this should give you some insight into why Prevent has been...
	All but refusing to monitor Islamist extremism.
	And it might have something to do with the staff of Prevent, which we'll get into shortly.
	Now, Stephen Edgington got Labour to denounce this at the time.
	So they've since come out and denounced the leak again of the original leak.
	But at the time, they ran screaming from this because they realised, even before the grooming gang's discourse went global, because Elon Musk noticed it on X, that this was a terrible thing to say, you know, the thousands of girls raped by imported Pakistani Muslim criminals is just a grievance narrative that we've made up.
	But, as we always know, this is just a de jure denouncement.
	De facto.
	They still believe it.
	So they're still going to do this exact same thing.
	Because Yvette Cooper is pictured there.
	She's the Home Secretary for those outside of the UK, in the US. She commissioned this report in the first place, in the wake of the Southport protests and riots, to say, how can we record more non-crime hate incidents?
	So these are the guidelines by which she's instructed her own civil servants...
	to encourage the increased policing of thought crime, because some absolute nutcase that the Home Office failed to stop went and murdered three girls and stabbed about eight others.
	Great.
	Love living in this country.
	I've been covering this story quite a lot, actually, over on lotusseaters.com, Behind the Paywall.
	So this is that episode on Raikou, so if you want to know the background to that, you can watch how the government gaslights you.
	This is the one on the history of non-crime hate incidents, and this is the one particularly on the Islamic network of Muslim activists in the Home Office, and we'll be returning to those shortly.
	That woman there is a woman called Dame Sara Khan.
	She was the government's former independent anti-extremism advisor, so independent that her sister was also running Raikou at the time.
	And they were the ones bankrolling hope not hate while they were inventing the Islamophobia definition which said that the grooming gangs discourse around the grooming gangs should be banned because it's an anti-Muslim conspiracy theory.
	Very interesting to appoint someone who presumably with the surname Khan has a Pakistani background as someone able to define what extremism is because surely people know that Pakistan's actually a hotbed of Islamic extremism, right?
	One would think.
	So the person who appointed her was Michael Gove.
	Of course.
	So having spoken to people trying to be familiar with Gove's thinking at the time, I think Gove thought that he was the perfect puppet master to sit between two communities of marginalising Islamic extremism while giving certain Muslims who he thought could be seen as mainstream greater positions of prominence to try and contain the Islamist element.
	But what ended up happening is they just packed the Home Office full of Muslim staff members.
	Who then corresponded with Islamist groups and gave them a larger quarter than if you'd just never spoken to them in the first place.
	Of course, and if you had any common sense or any observations of how these sorts of things work, you could have predicted that quite easily.
	Yes, but, you know, other people other than us have larger in-group ethnic and religious preference, and it seems that all of the Western white liberal-leaning elites have ignored that and just sleptwalked us into dystopia.
	So I'm going to go through the details of this policy exchange report because it bears reading.
	PDF that Samson has so gladly brought up.
	So this was the government's rapid analytical sprint to determine its policy based on extremism.
	It was leaked to policy exchange.
	So, just right off the bat, rapid analytical sprint, that is such a juxtaposition of terms.
	You can't be analytical in a rapid or quick way.
	You can if you've got an ideological cookie cutter that you're just impressing upon the world.
	You can quickly stamp it out like that.
	That's an immediate red flag right off the bat.
	Oh, there's many more.
	Again, it was commissioned by Home Secretary Yvette Cooper, who should be made to resign immediately, but she should have gone ages ago anyway.
	The longest of the documents, seen by policy exchanges, titled Counter-Extremism Sprint Understand.
	Not really an honest inquiry, as we'll come to see, but there you go.
	And this was offered by Prevent.
	And Raikou, and the Homeland Security Analysis and Insight team, which is the HSAI. So they've got some definitions of extremism here.
	Understand lists nine types of extremism in the following order.
	Islamist, extreme right-wing, extreme misogyny, pro-Kalistan extremism, Hindu nationalism, extremism, so the Hindutva, environmental extremism, left-wing, anarchist, and single-issue extremism, violence fascination, And conspiracy theories.
	Now, those aren't necessarily in, like, descending order or anything.
	That's quite a mismatch as well, isn't it?
	Yeah, it's almost like they're trying to cover a whole broad spectrum of things at once.
	And they're not doing any of them very well.
	In the section on the extreme right-wing, Sprint enters difficult waters in declaring that claims of two-tier policing where groups are allegedly treated differently after similar behaviour are an example of a right-wing extremist narrative leaking into mainstream debates.
	so for example if you notice that the police apply different standards to palestine protests or if you just cite things like the alexis jay report which say that the police were too afraid of accusations of racism to step in and actually police the pakistani rape gangs despite citing government documents in the uk you are being super surveilled by the government as a right-wing extremist so if you're citing their own documents back to them you're on a watch list which we probably are oh almost certainly Yeah, quite interesting, isn't it?
	Sprint also categorises the far right as, quote, hijacking extant local grievances about perceived inequalities around access to resources, e.g.
	benefits, migrant hotels, etc.
	Ah, yes.
	Just perceived inequalities when, in certain regions of London, about 76% of social housing is going to first-generation migrants.
	Overall, in London, it's about 50%.
	Just perceived inequalities.
	We're just pulling it out of our backside with all of the demographic maps and stats.
	For a specific community, isn't it 71% for Somalis in London?
	We're 72. 72. I might be off by it.
	It could be going up.
	It could be 73 by now.
	We actually don't know.
	Yeah.
	I mean, Rupert Lowe's been procuring a lot of this data and he's found that, for example, 40% of immigrants that came in in 2022 to 2023 are already on benefits.
	Wonderful.
	So, per capita, guys.
	Not perceived, but there you go.
	As well, fascinating.
	When you say about the grooming gangs and, you know, Pakistanis being in charge of the Home Office anti-extremism unit, they might not want to address that issue.
	Quote, there's little reference to the grooming gangs in here.
	It's hard to see how progress can be made on reducing violence against women, for example, and ensuring public confidence, unless countering grooming gangs and difficult questions that involves are part of the programme.
	The main mention of the subject in the leaked documents is that quote, right-wing extremists frequently exploit cases of alleged, alleged, group-based sexual abuse to promote anti-Muslim sentiment as well as anti-government and anti-political correctness narratives.
	So they don't believe it's even happening.
	Despite the prosecutions, despite all the witness testimonies, despite the copious evidence, despite the fact that Home Secretary Sweller-Breverman set up a joint task force of 43 police forces in England and Wales, and in the first year arrested 550 people and identified 4,000 victims, their official policy is it's not even happening.
	It's very insulting that they use the word exploit to the people who are victimised by this, the people who have to live in those communities as well and know people.
	Could you imagine reading that and saying that people are exploiting it, it's just a grievance, there's not a legitimate concern.
	I'd like to see the people who wrote this actually say that to one of the victims of the grooming gangs face to face.
	What's fascinating is a Telford MP... Lucy...
	I've forgotten her last name.
	I do apologise.
	She told The Telegraph when she started speaking out about the rape gangs in her local area, because Telford's one of the most notorious ones, Baroness Saeed Avorsi summoned her and said, explain yourself.
	Now, it's interesting to note that Baroness Saeed Avorsi, when she was chairwoman of the Conservative Party in 2011, her deputy, her chief of staff, Richard Chalk, became the head of RICU, after he'd come back from running psyops in Iraq for Bill Pottinger.
	So he decided to, rather than run PSYOPs on behalf of the Iraq War, come back and run PSYOPs on the population.
	Sorry, Harry, you look completely just zoned out.
	I mean, I've not really got much to say on all of this.
	It's typical, isn't it?
	Understandable.
	So, here's the most revealing part of this.
	Why do you think that they've said that these are all grievance narratives?
	Because they're attacking the government and diversity, and these are things that should not be questioned, and therefore are problems.
	You basically bang on.
	They said it's, quote, preventing integration.
	So pointing out the downsides of immigration, diversity, you know, like all the rapes, that's what's stopping integration.
	So you noticing the problem, again, is what's stopping integration.
	If the far-right racists wouldn't complain about all the children being raped, we'd all be singing John Lennon's Imagine, I suppose.
	the behaviours and activity of concern and damaging extremist beliefs listed in the various documents include a vast constellation of attitudes and acts among them conspiracy theories, misogyny, violence against women and girls having a fixture on gore and violence without adherence to an extremist ideology preventing integration, influencing racism and intolerance or involvement in an online subculture influencing racism and intolerance or involvement in an online subculture called the manosphere and then they decide to list all things like incels, pick up artists because for some reason labour politicians like Jess Phillips and Yvette Cooper have a myopic obsession of Andrew Tate clips
	I mean, Keir Starmer did say last week that these...
	These are the government's new prime targets for terror.
	Yeah, it's funny.
	Zahra Khan in December.
	No, no, incels.
	Okay.
	If you can't get a girlfriend, you're a terrorist.
	Well, that was Ruda Cabana's biggest problem, wasn't it?
	That he was an incel.
	Yes, definitely.
	Based on his search history, literature, all of that, definitely that's the main takeaway.
	It was either that he was an incel or that he may have, speculatively, smoked weed once.
	I have confirmation that he didn't.
	What a surprise.
	Yeah.
	Literally, he was never under the influence of drugs.
	I mean, as far as we know, coming from his internet history, he wasn't visiting, like, r slash or slash poll or anything like that.
	And the government wants you to think it's got to be anything except mass migration, religious extremism, or just anti-white hatred, right?
	Yeah.
	It's funny that.
	The conspicuous absence of something.
	Are you noticing that something's not really getting mentioned here?
	Yes.
	So...
	You know, the case studies they include in the Understand paper include one of about 430 words on leafleting and stickering campaigns by two far-right groups.
	So presumably that's like Sam Melia or something like that.
	And another of about 320 words on the hundreds of...
	Punish a Muslim Day posts, which Tell Mama, you know, personal, constant chronic liars, because they said that Boris Johnson's letterbox column caused anti-Muslim hate events, when what they meant is a phone line had an increased report of Muslims saying they were offended.
	Great, thanks.
	Tell Mama reported that Punish a Muslim Day had resulted in one single incident of school bullying.
	So this is top priority for Prevent, right?
	The only Islamist case study in here, the only one, is Anjan Chowdhury's Al Madroon.
	Anjan Chowdhury's currently in prison.
	So no mention of the 2017 London Bridge or Westminster Bridge attacks.
	No mention of the Manchester Arena bombing.
	Barely any mention of the grooming gangs.
	I wanted to say it's a far-right conspiracy theory.
	Wonder why they don't want to talk about Islamist extremism at all.
	Very weird.
	No mention of the Batley Grammar School teacher who's still in hiding.
	Which, by the way, Batley Grammar School teacher in hiding has received less support than Axel Rudakabana's parents have from the state.
	That's infuriating, isn't it?
	Yep, yep.
	Just...
	Traitors run the government.
	Conspicuous absence of focus on Muslim terrorism, basically, is what I'm getting at.
	Despite, as the authors of this paper, Andrew Gilligan and Dr. Paul Slott, remind us, in the UK, Islamists are responsible for 94% of all terror deaths and 88% of terror injuries since 1999. Allow me to also add a more updated version, because I did my own calculation of this.
	And since 2005, when the IRA bombings stopped, you know, when things returned to somewhat normal relations with Ireland...
	It is, I think, 96.97% of all terror-related fatalities have an Islamist perpetrator.
	There you go.
	And 80% of the open case files for counter-terror police, and, what was it, 75% of open case files for MI5, and 63% of terrorists currently in custody are Muslim.
	So that's an inconvenient fact, and yet, prevent...
	Raikou?
	Just not bothered.
	Actually, Understand devotes the exact same amount of page space, one page, to Islamist extremism as to conspiracy theories, pro-Kalistan extremism, Sikh extremism, extreme misogyny and environmental extremism, which, as far as we know, have caused absolutely no deaths.
	So, yeah, there you go.
	Now, I've been reporting on this for quite a while because this has tangible consequences.
	So, how many of you guys have heard of the Shawcross report?
	It was a review of Prevent.
	I've heard of it, yes.
	So, Shawcross, I put this in a very long study of Raikou, basically, but Shawcross found that, and this is a quote, Prevent is not doing enough to counter non-violent Islamist extremism and has applied a double standard when dealing with the extreme right-wing and Islamism.
	By the way, they define extreme right-wing via a list of texts leaked in 2019 they called Actively Patriotic and Proud as reading...
	Douglas Murray, Peter Hitchens, Melanie Phillips, J.R.R. Tolkien, Beowulf, and George Orwell's 1984. So if you read any of those, you're a terrorist, but if you read the Quran and Hadiths, no, just fine by them, that's fine.
	And he said, That, by the way, is a larger share of referrals now, now, it's just this nebulous mental health thing.
	Ideology, if acknowledged at all, was treated as a secondary factor, a derivative of a wider psychological or social issue.
	Put simply, ideology was not seen as an essential part of the trajectory towards terrorism, instead it was viewed as one of many potential radicalising factors.
	They do realise how terrorism works, right?
	And how it actually gets its name is that you invoke terror on a population because of the sort of unprovoked violence.
	So that sort of implies that it's being done for a reason.
	Doesn't it?
	There's intention built into the term, and so they've completely misunderstood the very definition of the word they're meant to be.
	Well, it's only their job, Josh.
	You could say it's a misunderstanding, or you could say it's purposeful obfuscation.
	I was being a bit charitable.
	Oh, I understand, and I think it's fine to be charitable until we go on.
	So, because of this, under the Kahn sisters...
	Turns out that prevent referrals dropped for Islamist extremism.
	Only 22% of prevent referrals in 2020 to 2021 were for Islamic extremism, and 25% of them were for the far right, despite far right, far right, making up only 10% of counter-police's open investigations and Islamic extremism, again, being 80%, and, of course...
	And I would assume within the far right there, you are lumping people like Sam Melia putting out stickers.
	Yes, I mean...
	Do we remember that training video that they sent out a little while ago, where it said that a 17-year-old boy is putting up anti-migration stickers in a public park, so call Prevent on him?
	Ridiculous, isn't it?
	I'm just looking up the...
	Because in 2021, yeah, the terror threat went up by 90% when they reclassified things to include the far-right and right-wing extremism, which meant that the number of pensioners on the list went up 90%, sorry.
	That was the actual figure.
	So all of these pensioners, who are probably not even physically capable of carrying out a terror attack, were put on this list because they wanted to seem even-handed.
	And in fact, I believe someone who is a former head of the COBRA emergency meeting group said this is basically just being done for political reasons.
	The threat is not equivalent to Islamic extremism.
	And this is someone who is Colonel Richard Kemp, a terror expert.
	Funny that he got sued by Saeed Avorsi for libel for suggesting that she...
	She was liaising with Muslim groups that she herself called, although not illegal, clearly a liberal.
	So, funny how that interplays, isn't it?
	Anyway, point being, I actually met a civil servant while I was out in DC who had worked at the Department of Trade and got referred to prevent having a photo of Jacob Rees-Mogg in his office.
	That is how low the bar is for the far right.
	You mean that the man who was...
	Doesn't care about demographic change?
	Yeah.
	Senior frontbench Conservative MP and...
	GB News panellists.
	Does owning a top hat put you on the list as well?
	Fat controller on Suicide Watch.
	So, we can laugh about this, and it's worth us doing so, but remember, this means that Islamists and people of diverse extraction don't quite get monitored by Prevent.
	And the most tragic examples of this are, of course, Abhi Habiali, the son of the Somalian diplomat who, in 2021, murdered Sir David Amos MP. He had a constituency surgery over his vote on Libya.
	He'd actually be stalking Michael Gove the day before as well.
	So the great irony is that Michael Gove enabled the situation and was nearly killed by the exact kind of person that Prevent let go after one meeting with no follow-up.
	And then there's Axel Rudakabana, who's referred to Prevent three times between 2019 and 2021. Despite owning ISIS materials, being obsessed with white genocide, telling classmates he wanted white genocide, carrying a knife into school ten times, being excluded, then coming back on the school grounds and breaking a classmate's wrist with a hockey stick, again, absolutely no follow-up to this referral.
	Is it because of the possession of his materials and the colour of their skin?
	Prevent just decided to overlook it because they thought it might be racist to look into it.
	Weird, that.
	So, I've got some evidence, possibly, of this happening.
	So, we'll go back to the policy exchange report.
	Because these are the recommendations they made.
	They say that...
	Moves back to the Home Office, because under the Conservatives, Michael Gove moved it to his department.
	There's going to be a creation of a counter-extremism ministerial board featuring Dan Jarvis MP, MBE MP, Jess Phillips, our old friend, who absolutely has a very sane definition of things, Vet Cooper, obviously, Prevent Director Michael Stewart, who has overseen this decline in Islamist referrals, and representatives from GCHQ, MI5, the Joint Terrorism Analysis Centre, and the Charity Commission.
	The Charity Commission on there means you're going to get a bunch of left-wing activist NGOs setting the definition.
	Like Hope Not Hate, who did the Islamist, the, sorry, Islamophobia definition in the first place.
	And they also want to make a new crime of making harmful communications online, which was originally rejected as part of the online safety bill, and the Conservatives, and now they want to bring it back.
	And they want to increase the number of non-crime hate incidents recorded.
	What do you mean, curious wording, they're making online communications, as in...
	Just you communicating online?
	Is it just a weird way of saying that?
	Or is it that you're creating resources to be communicated, like infographics or things like that?
	Is this an anti-meme legislation?
	Yes, it kind of sounds like it.
	Basically, if you share online misinformation that causes real-world harm, like people sharing the incorrect identity of the Southport perpetrator as some Syrian migrant, they weren't being able to be prosecuted under the current law.
	They want to make a law so they can be prosecuted.
	So if you get something wrong on the internet and it offends a minority, you can go to prison.
	That's what they want to do, right?
	Yvette Cooper promised to increase the number of non-crime hate incidents being recorded, by the way, in August 2024. She's going to run into some problems because an Act of Parliament changed the law.
	But as I've covered recently, even though Suella Braveman tried to make it better, what she did was she asked the police to record non-crime hate incidents using common sense and not to record it when it's clearly malicious.
	Now the problem is, under the Equality Act, if you've got protected characteristics, the police are told not to engage in secondary victimisation by asking you for evidence.
	So...
	It just went up.
	Turns out, after the guidance trying to improve things, the number of non-crime hate incidents went up.
	So, it didn't quite go so great.
	After Alison Pearson got a knock on the door from the police for an anti-Hamas tweet, it was found that last year, 13,000 non-crime hate incidents were recorded.
	That was an increase from 11,000 from before the guidance.
	So, police who haven't solved one burglary...
	The majority of constituencies in England and Wales are obsessed with policing tweets.
	I would love to find out just how many the Lotus Eaters have got.
	We could have a little league table go on.
	You can actually send off an FRI request and find out.
	I found out that I didn't get one lodged against me after I almost got arrested in 2022 outside a Conservative Party conference, but I wouldn't be shocked if I've got one since.
	And these do bar you from public sector employment, by the way, so people don't know.
	And bear in mind...
	Oh, well, Josh and I are fine then.
	Yeah, well, bear in mind that the UK now has more civil servants per capita than communist China, so the public sector is swelling, and so they're just essentially ideologically...
	Communists are more efficient.
	Is that true?
	Yes.
	The communist Chinese have a leaner state.
	A country that's the size of an empire with a ridiculously large population...
	Less civil servants?
	Yeah.
	And also, we've got more diversity and inclusion commissars than any other country in the world right now, especially after Trump has just defunded them all.
	So we are just, as Morgoth has said, woke North Korea.
	And so you can't work for the state if you've got one of these increasing...
	Actually, the North Korean state's leaner than ours at this rate.
	Yeah.
	Well, I mean, they've not got much food to go around.
	Speaking of people working hand and glove at the state, this also coincides with...
	We won't either soon.
	True, fair point.
	Sara Khan has also been involved in a BBC undercover investigation of Patriotic Alternative.
	Now, we can think that Patriotic Alternative are not particularly...
	Credible group to govern, and we can think that Mark Collett said some unsavory things in the past, and I wouldn't trust him to run a bath than a government department, but it's funny that...
	I still don't think they should be under government investigation for being a political party that offends people.
	During this process, the guy who went undercover as part of the BBC was down and out on his luck, and so members of PA asked, do you want us to find you a job, and things like that.
	Oh, they were nice to him?
	Yes.
	And he still submitted his investigation smearing them.
	Well, the purpose of this investigation, so state media is working with the state here, and Dame Sara Khan, who's still independent, but is obviously working with Hope Not Hate, who are Home Office funded to create reports to say here you should ban certain people.
	Sara Khan is quoted in here, funnily enough, former counter-extremism commissioner Dame Sara Khan believes the UK government should urgently change the law to make groups like Patriarch Alternative illegal, so she wants to prescribe them as a terror group.
	So actual referrals for Islamist groups went down under her watch.
	They literally miss terrorists like Abbie Harvey Ali and Axel Ridicabana, but we're going to prescribe Patriotic Alternative as a terror group because basically the demand for far-right terrorists outstrips the supply.
	Also, I will say, it's not...
	So you're telling me that Dame Khan, classic British name, wants to make a group that specifically stands up for the rights of ethnically British people illegal?
	You said exactly what I was going to say.
	I could never have guessed that such a thing would happen.
	I'm so glad that we put women like her in positions of power.
	And one does not need to support patriarchal alternative to notice that, let's say, malicious ethnic and religious preference, which only ever cuts one way.
	And I say it only ever cuts one way.
	Josh, you're so right.
	It is always just about resource acquisition, isn't it?
	It is, yeah.
	Yeah, and this is access to political resource.
	I say it only overcuts one way, because under Khan's leadership, something called the Home Office Islamic Network, which I've been shouting about for a while...
	That exists at all.
	It's now got 700 members, and guess where they mainly work?
	Raikou and Prevent!
	In Bradford, I imagine.
	Hey, Birmingham as well, come on.
	That's true.
	Possibly.
	So here's some things that happened under Khan's watch.
	While Khan and her sister were running the Home Office...
	Prevent and Raikou.
	Hope Not Hate received grants of £50,000 and £141,380 in 2019 and 2020 to brief multiple departments on emerging trends in UK. Hey, at that time, they were working with the All-Party Parliamentary Group on Islamophobia, which was headed by Wes Streeting, is now headed by, drumroll, say divorcee, to invent an Islamophobia definition which said that if you talk about grooming gangs, you're making racist remarks against the Muslim community in Britain.
	So, they were just...
	Being paid by the government to ban any conversation about grooming gangs.
	And then they also received payments of £240,000, £275,000, and £60,000 from the Paul Hamlin Foundation, who themselves are funded by the Home Office.
	They're a pro-migration charity.
	And that was part of the foundation's migration fund to create, and I quote, a UK network of young migrant leaders and a network of leaders and organisations within towns who will respond to local needs and pressure points and share learning to enable rapid response to provocative elements.
	Translation, they create little Protest splinter groups to respond once, I don't know, another protest kicks off about diversity, multiculturalism, or Islam, so then these very well-principled anti-racist activists can stand out there with pre-printed placards, get a photo, and suddenly it appears on a newspaper front page.
	It reminds me of when all of the riots were going on in August, and all of the anti-immigration people seemed to be...
	Organic in that all of their signs, if they did have signs, which many of them didn't, seemed to be homemade, handmade, and holding different messages.
	And then the other side all had stand-up-to-racism signs, or basically carbon copies of one another.
	The whole thing seemed like it was centrally organised, because lots of people at lots of different times all turned up at these pre-planned places with the same signs.
	And they always have Handmaid's Tale outfits as well.
	You mean that one?
	Yep.
	Yeah, this one, yeah.
	Yeah, funny that.
	This was classic.
	Every single newspaper on the exact same day had the same front page.
	Yeah, and...
	It's almost like it was government orchestrated, isn't it?
	Well, so I put in an FOI request about this, actually, and they told me we had no input into the headlines.
	I was like, that's not what I asked, though.
	You sidestepped that one.
	And the reason I asked that is because Dame Sarah Khan specifically set this trend of...
	The Raikou unit controlling newspaper front pages.
	Because as you can see here, here's Dame Sara Khan's charity called Inspire.
	She did the hashtag Making a Stand campaign.
	Theresa May helped launch it.
	The Home Office and Raikou, they called it a Raikou product in internal emails.
	And then when Alan Henning was beheaded by ISIS in 2014, guess what showed up on the front page of The Sun?
	It's funny that, isn't it?
	It's literally Sarah Khan's image that they made in advance in collaboration with the Home Office.
	Also, under Sarah Khan, that Home Office Islamic network grew, and this was reported by GB News a little while ago, again by Stephen Edgington.
	So people are just sort of catching on now.
	Patrick Christus decided to report this yesterday, but this was reported in November by me and Stephen.
	Here's a quote that's absolutely wild.
	Home Office whistleblower told GB News, And the network themselves say that they aim to, quote, Remember, guys, don't do identity politics.
	Identity politics is bad and it's illiberal.
	Englishmen are liberal, so don't do identity politics.
	Just let all of these other groups who hate you organize against you on an identity basis.
	That's what liberalism and democracy is about, right?
	Yeah, and it's funny.
	So when they were called up on the fact that they were stopping monitoring Islamic extremism by William Shawcross...
	The Home Office then set up a seminar in King's College London, and so members of the Islamic Network went.
	And I'll finish on this.
	In January 2024, at a King's College London course called Issues in Countering Terrorism for the Civil Servants, a lecturer described William Shawcross as the type of person who would say all current counter-terrorism professionals are woke.
	He is of that ilk.
	And the same lecturer asked, how do we censor Joe Rogan and Douglas Murray, so society needs to find other ways to suppress them?
	And then in response, a civil servant had said, and this is a quote, She had argued that Prevent is inherently racist because it focuses on Islamist extremism, and then a few minutes later, when they played an ISIS recruitment video, she pointed at the screen and laughed and went, I know him, he went to my school.
	These are the people running our government.
	They know literal ISIS terrorists.
	They went to the same school.
	Were her parents related at all?
	We wouldn't know, I'm afraid.
	We wouldn't know.
	I'm just thinking because that seems like a very stupid thing to say immediately after accusing us of being racist.
	Yeah.
	So, basically, the conclusion of this story is that Labour government have now denounced this report a second time, but again, we know this is their intention because they commissioned the report, everyone who's done the report is staying in their job, and the Home Office Islamic Network that actually run this country and allow Islamist terrorists to slip through the net, according to William Shawcross, in liaise with...
	Actual prescribed jihadist group, Hizbut Tahir, that Keir Starmer represented pro bono as a lawyer while working as the director of public prosecutions.
	Yeah, they're basically just allowing terrorists to run riot in Britain.
	So that's who's really running the country.
	Fun.
	Right, we've got some rumble rants.
	Apologies for being quite silent during that first half of your segment.
	I think I started dying.
	Yeah, I know.
	It's very heroin, isn't it?
	No, no, not because of that.
	The shirt's too tight.
	And the collar was choking me out.
	My left foot went numb.
	Oh, right.
	Go right-headed.
	Okay.
	Understandable.
	My neck is now too thick to do the buttons up on this shirt all the way.
	Wonderful.
	So we've got a couple of rumble rants.
	In XCO, moderate Muslim isn't a thing, which can be tested quite easily by asking a Muslim a question.
	If Sharia was implemented, would you resist it?
	Their answer is, we'll be 90% in support of it.
	We actually know...
	I think it would be more than 90% because it's literally their religious law.
	We actually know that 52% of Muslims in the UK want drawings of the Prophet Muhammad to be criminalised.
	And that's mainly concentrated against among second generation university educated Muslims, British born Muslims, 18 to 30. So it's only going to get worse as Muhammad is now the most popular baby name in the UK. Yep.
	Apparently also, for saying that, Prevent is knocking on his front door.
	So, sorry about that.
	Bobobad, as well, $1.
	To add fuel to the fire, all these new agencies being made to combat hate are just bloat and a way of taking more tax money, while at best doing nothing to stop actual crime and terrorism.
	Yeah, the purpose of the system is what it does.
	What you need is to repeal the Equality Act, the Constitutional Reform Act, and the Charities Act to defund and fire, and then replace every single civil servant in the country.
	Apologies in the interests of continuing to not die.
	I'm just making sure I've got circulation.
	I'll allow it.
	This shirt is far too tight for me.
	I need to throw it away.
	You need to sign up to the website so Harry can buy some new shirts for himself.
	Please.
	They're literally killing me.
	I have some good news, everyone.
	Trump is doing some good things that he said he would do, and I'm very happy about it.
	So I'm going to get right into it.
	On Trump's first day in office here, he says, Jose Andres from the Presidential Council on Sports,
	Fitness and Nutrition, Mark Milley from the National Infrastructure Advisory Council, Brian Hook from the Wilson Centre of Scholars, and Keisha Lance Bottoms from the President's Export Council.
	You're fired!
	So Mark Milley is currently under investigation from Pete Hegseth now, so because he took the pardon...
	Before he'd been charged with any crime, Peter Hegseth's gone, well, what crimes were you doing?
	So even if he can't prosecute him, he's going to lay it all out in front of him.
	And it's great that he's doing this because as soon as Hegseth was appointed, it turns out that people in his department were already trying to do malicious compliance, which means that they carry out the laws in such a way that gets the president bad press.
	So they were saying, oh, you're scrapping all DEI in the military?
	Well, I guess we're not going to teach about the Tuskegee M and then I guess you're just a racist.
	So all of those people that are going to do that and try and...
	Gum up the works.
	Need to be sacked.
	It looks like he's doing it.
	Mark Milley's finally going to learn the meaning of white rage.
	It's also worth mentioning as well, just to make it even more glorious.
	So, Trump has revoked security clearance for John Bolton and his security detail, as well as General Mark Milley for both of those things, and also former Secretary of State Mike Pompeo as well.
	And Anthony Fauci.
	Yes, and Fauci, of course.
	This is sort of revenge, because of course...
	Pre-emptive pardons might have been a mistake.
	It'd be like walking into a room not expecting anything, and the other person in the room just turn around and be like, I didn't do anything!
	I've not been doing anything!
	You go, what have you been doing?
	That's weird.
	But of course, in the case of Mark Milley in particular, the Ayatollah, you know, the head of Iran, I'm presuming it's an Ayatollah, isn't it?
	I always get it around the wrong way.
	Yeah.
	He's sort of out to get him because of what he did when he was in office, and so there is actually a legitimate threat against him.
	Same with Pompeo.
	Well, Milley, as far as I understand, was liaising with the Chinese government, what was it, during the Trump administration?
	Yeah, under the nose of Trump, but not on his behalf, to undermine Trump's explicit orders.
	Well, that's what they charged Michael Flynn with, with the Logan Act, that hadn't been used before because he was talking to some international diplomat during the transition stage, and so they...
	They put him in irons and sent him away.
	That was a malicious prosecution.
	Mark Milley should have been prosecuted for that.
	Yes.
	But now he's been pardoned for it before he's even been properly investigated.
	But he also may face demotion in retirement as well, so that's something else.
	And of course, the civil servants are not too happy about the way Trump is dealing with things because they're plotting to sabotage Trump's working from home ban because he said that everyone actually needs to come in and do work because there are lots of indicators that they're not doing work when they're working from home, which, generally speaking, as someone who doesn't like...
	I support them not doing work.
	But if you want the government to be efficient, you don't want them going on Reddit like this.
	This was something that you sent to me, Connor.
	Apparently r slash fednews, the largest subreddit for federal workers, seems to be most active during working hours.
	And you can see here, it seems to cover the 9 to 5, doesn't it?
	Which is when they should be doing their job and not browsing.
	Reddit, even though I suppose it is related to their job in a very tangential way.
	So we've gone from Reddit-occupied government to an unoccupied government.
	It seems like it.
	But it's obvious that they're not necessarily doing what's best for the American people because they're maliciously resisting an elected representative as well as the fact they're not actually doing their job, clearly.
	So, there's also...
	This, which I thought was hilarious and I really liked.
	Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now and get paid through to September.
	He's basically enacting the Curtis Yarvin plan of retiring all government employees.
	Yes.
	Oh, it's wonderful.
	So apparently he's given employees until the 6th of February to accept the deal and this is a deferred resignation to nearly all...
	With the exception of military personnel, employees of the US Postal Service, those in positions related to immigration enforcement, naturally, and national security, as well as those in other positions specifically excluded by agency leadership, which I wasn't able to find out what they were, though.
	This covers everything that Schedule F doesn't already cover.
	Yes.
	There are also some other things I wanted to round up before we go on to some more specific cases.
	He's also placed over 2,000 federal diversity, equity and inclusion employees on leave.
	That's the main thing.
	I think that's great.
	All on its own.
	2,000 people that are just counterproductive to the American people's way of life.
	Gone.
	And then let's go on to this.
	Do you remember how I've said that England doesn't get fixed until London is flooded with homeless former civil servants?
	Donald Trump must have listened to that.
	This is a great idea.
	Washington DC will be flooded with homeless government department workers.
	You joke, but my friends in the administration agree with that sentiment entirely.
	Good.
	I'm not joking.
	Yeah, yeah, I want civil servants to be unemployed because...
	They're quite often awful people that are using their position that's meant to be neutral to influence things in a way that they're not supposed to.
	And we see the natural state of the federal worker in America is a Redditor as well, through the figures you've just shown us, so that's even worse.
	My dream job.
	I never want to go into frontline politics, but say everyone that we want to win, wins, and they're handpicking people a la.
	Project 2025. I would want to be the senior civil servant of the Home Office just so I can fire every single one of them individually and in person.
	The glee I would get out of just saying, you've got 15 minutes to pack all your stuff, otherwise we are forcibly removing you.
	Once they're all gone, there's only one person left to fire and you retire into the night happily.
	If only.
	This is titled, Trump administration dismisses members of all DHS advisory panels, including the CSRB, which is the Cyber Safety Review Board.
	There are also a number of people resigning.
	So this is the Department of Homeland Security being purged so Trump can carry out his deportations, I imagine, because this would be going through the DHS. And so this is great.
	It means that no one will be standing in the way and it can run like a well-oiled machine.
	And hopefully as it becomes more and more efficient, it means they can send more and more people back to where they came from, which is wonderful.
	And it seems to be already having an effect because...
	Let's have a look at this.
	Trump fires first woman to lead US military service, which is hilarious in and of itself, which is Admiral Linda Fagan, the first woman to lead one of the six US military services as the head of the Coast Guard.
	She was obsessed with DEI. She was, yeah.
	And a Department for Homeland Security official, clearly wanting to keep their job, said the official statement was...
	You know, we fired her because she's not the right fit.
	But they said, because of her leadership deficiencies, operational failures, and inability to advance the strategic objectives of the US Coast Guard, the Admiral failed to address border security threats, mismanaged acquisitions, including helicopters, and put excessive focus on diversity, equity, and inclusion programs.
	They're getting a raise, whoever said that.
	The atmosphere in DC now basically just matches that unparalleled confidence.
	It's just jubilant.
	It's doing a victory lap.
	There's like a third of the people...
	I saw Walking the Streets are in MAGA hats.
	They're just open-carrying now.
	This is...
	They're in the ascendancy.
	It's MAGA country, you might say.
	Genuinely, yes.
	They're open-carrying their hats, my goodness.
	That's great.
	If only.
	Got an extra hat holstered.
	Got a nice ankle hat here, just in case.
	It's nice to sit on the Crawl Kids table.
	MAGA socks.
	There you go.
	So, another one here.
	He suspended a dozen top officials for blocking his freeze on foreign aid.
	That's 57 top staff in the Agency for International Development and now on leave.
	Did you hear what they were spending this on?
	At the press conference yesterday.
	They found out that, for example, $50 million a year was being spent on condoms in Gaza.
	I'm willing to hear them out.
	I prefer the Israeli strategy on these things.
	I will not elaborate.
	So you give loads and loads of money to Israel.
	And then you also give loads and loads of money to Gaza for...
	I'm playing both sides.
	I suppose so.
	I mean, I suppose the result is the same.
	I feel like that kind of protection is not the kind the people of Gaza need, to be honest, but there we go.
	I guess so.
	That's a bit of Kevlar, yeah.
	Use it again, I suppose.
	Recycling.
	Green.
	Yeah, Allah Akbar is recycling in Arabic, isn't it?
	Yes, that's right.
	But there's also this.
	Trump has fired an Iran hawk called Hook.
	Difficult to say that sentence very quickly.
	Brian Hook was the Iran envoy in Trump's first term.
	This is sort of signalling that he's learnt some lessons because, of course, Pompeo, of course, was his secretary at one point.
	And here he's getting rid of another person who he feels like isn't up to scratch the second time round.
	So I think, having some insight...
	Because obviously Douglas went to Mar-a-Lago on election night and spoke with Trump for quite a while, and he's always been very hawkish on Iran.
	He's worked for the Henry Jackson Society, spent a lot of time in Israel.
	And I'm working quite closely with Ayaan Hirsi Ali on the global influence of the Muslim Brotherhood.
	What I think is happening is that the Trump administration are very watchful for Islamist infiltration into America and laundering ideas through NGOs that are funded by the likes of Qatar, Iran, Muslim Brotherhood, but they don't want to roll tanks into Tehran, as John Bolton once said, because they realize that the forever wars are as John Bolton once said, because they realize that the forever wars are Instead, if you just cut off the funding pipeline, stop funding your enemies, then you won't have this global terror network.
	And if you encourage the members of the Abraham Accords, like the UAE and Saudi Arabia, who have already banned the Muslim Brotherhood because they're not insane, to police the region, you actually get the same effect of containing the terror threat without having to waste American blood and treasure.
	Yeah, because you look at...
	The history of any Islamic group that commits terror.
	And you find, oh wait, they were funded by the US at some point.
	Almost every time.
	Also the Soviet Union for a time was basically funded by the US. Even during parts of the Cold War.
	So you look and you go, maybe America after 100 years is finally learning that's not the best idea.
	Funny enough, spending your money at home is often better than giving it to your enemies.
	Who'd have thought?
	But there we go.
	And here's another one as well.
	I thought this was quite funny as a headline.
	Trump fires two democratic commissioners of agencies that enforce civil rights laws in the workplace.
	Affirmative action.
	Yes.
	It isn't like he's going to say, okay, you know, 1964 laws are repealed back to the fields.
	That's not what's going on here.
	So I'm going to read here, the two commissioners of the Equal Employment Opportunity Commission, so you're already starting to hear what they're actually doing.
	It's DEI under another name.
	Anti-white racism.
	Yeah.
	Charlotte Burrows and Jocelyn Samuels confirmed in a statement on Tuesday that they were...
	Fired late on Monday night.
	I'm correcting that because it says late Monday, which is grammatically incorrect.
	Please correct that, America.
	Both said they were exploring options to challenge their dismissals, calling their removal before the expiration of their five-year terms an unprecedented decision that undermines agencies' independence.
	And we're seeing this a lot, whereby the people who have been fired are like, you can't do that, that's bad, that's illegal.
	We already set the institutions on rails that go towards one progressive direction.
	And if you want to derail that train, well, that's divisive and political.
	No, you've already got a political agenda baked into the institution.
	This isn't what democracy is about.
	Democracy isn't about the person who gets voted in doing what he said he would.
	It's about me, an unaccountable bureaucrat.
	Exactly.
	And the funny thing is, the president is the chief executive, right?
	They are the boss of the executive department, and therefore they should be able to employ and hire whoever they want.
	Because that is their...
	They're working for Trump, not their way round.
	And so they're his to fire, really.
	We used to have that in this country until the 2010 Constitutional Reform Act.
	Repeal, please.
	So this is another one of my favourites as well, because it sounds so insidious.
	Trump fires 17 government watchdogs in the middle of the night.
	Ooh, scary.
	Why not 18?
	Why not 19?
	Keep going.
	Yeah, but a key one remains in his post.
	This is such a clickbait title, by the way, for it's amusing.
	The subtitle is, Trump is dismantling checks on his power and paving the way for widespread corruption.
	Says Elizabeth Warren.
	Thank you, Liowatha.
	Yeah, Pocahontas herself speaks.
	So the only person that was left was Justice Department Inspector General Michael Horowitz, for whatever reason.
	And one of the fired officials told the Post, it's a widespread massacre.
	Whoever Trump puts in now will be viewed as loyalists, and that undermines the entire system, which I find hilarious because surely you undermine the entire system by not being aligned to the person at the top of it.
	Well, this was always the way.
	It's just that there were no, let's say, national populist-friendly press outlets championing the fact that they were staffing institutions full of their people.
	And they got complacent before and presumed that all these institutions were neutral and instead they constantly gummed up the works.
	But when they were doing it, they just didn't say anything about it.
	And they had no one screaming, hang on a minute, it's full of their guys, it's full of their loyalists.
	Why are they politicising the institution?
	Well, now we're just being...
	Honest.
	It's like, yeah, we want to hire people that are going to carry out the president's agenda.
	That's how it's always been.
	We want to get rid of your guys and put our guys in.
	Welcome to politics.
	That's politics 101, actually.
	So, this has been met with mixed reactions.
	some of the Senate Republicans have defended Trump firing these peoples.
	Here's Tom Cotton saying, ultimately these inspector generals serve at the pleasure of the president.
	He wants new people in there.
	He wants people focused on getting out waste and fraud and abuse and reforming these agencies.
	He has a right to get in who he wants.
	Everyone who hasn't defended them needs to be primaried.
	Yes.
	Here we've got, obviously, left-wing outlets sort of picking up on some of the Republicans that are a bit upset about this.
	So Iowa Republican Senator Chuck Grassley, 91, by the way, ancient.
	A staunch Trump ally, they say.
	said in a statement obtained by CNN that Congress wasn't notified in advance of the firings in adherence to the law.
	And this is a quote.
	There may be a good reason the IGs were fired, Grassley noted on Saturday.
	We need to know that if so.
	I'd like a further explanation from President Trump.
	Regardless, the 30-day detailed notice of removal that the law demands was not provided to Congress.
	So it's more of a procedural objection that he has more than anything else.
	Which I can understand, but also...
	Don't be allergic to winning.
	Yeah.
	You ask for forgiveness, not for permission.
	This is essentially the same tactic that Blair took in revolutionizing how Britain is governed by basically doing things and then announcing after he'd already done them that he did...
	That's what he did.
	And too late, it's done now.
	You can't do anything about it.
	People don't drum up as much of a fuss once you've already done it because they can't stop it.
	A lot of the reason there's a lot of fuss drummed up in the media is because it could help prevent something happening.
	But if it's already happened, too bad.
	If it's also happening all at once, you just overwhelm them.
	They can only manufacture so many headlines about the executive orders that you've already got pre-printed and going out the door.
	And then it just becomes ordinary if you just do it all.
	Wasn't this a Machiavelli tactic?
	Yes.
	And also, right now as well, there's only so much sympathy that you can generate for faceless bureaucrats.
	I don't think there's much sympathy, is there?
	Exactly.
	It's also worth mentioning as well, just as a bit of an aside, Trump has been doing so much that it's making our job as political commentators so difficult to keep up with what's going on.
	Just banned all gender surgeries and chemical castration drugs for children yesterday.
	It's incredible.
	I'll say, I was sceptical that he was actually going to do anything that he said, but...
	He's actually doing things.
	It's because the people around him are very motivated.
	But never in my almost four and a half years at Lotus Eaters have I had to struggle to keep up with the goings-on of politics.
	And Trump is making me do that.
	So well done.
	It's making me up my game, alright?
	So good on you, Trump.
	That's just another thing you're doing right.
	So here's another one here.
	There she is.
	Glad she's gone.
	I mean, it's another Labour board official.
	The same sort of thing, right?
	It's like an AI photo.
	She's that weird looking.
	What was the laugh there, Connor?
	Is there something strange about this photo?
	Yeah, she looks like Roz from Monsters, Inc.
	Yeah, she does.
	Yeah, I see it.
	Another lady has been fired as well.
	There we go.
	The longhouse is being dismantled splinter by splinter.
	So, she's another person.
	She was the National Labour Relations Board's leading attorney.
	So a communist.
	Yes.
	Shorthand for communists.
	Yeah, because all of the media have been coming out and saying like, well, workers' rights are no longer protected.
	It's like, well, really?
	So you're going to make it possible for people to fire people, thereby attracting business into the country to bail you out of your inflation and debt spiral.
	Great.
	Good.
	Also, we saw the Bloomberg report from a few years ago.
	Which workers are you defending?
	Whose rights are you actually sticking up for?
	Because it's not the Americans' rights.
	No, certainly not.
	Because they're importing loads of people to replace them, aren't they?
	You'd think that would be number one concern.
	This one was particularly sweet.
	Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecution of the President.
	This is Trump's revenge.
	It is very sweet.
	And justified.
	So, a DOJ official said, in the light of their actions, the acting Attorney General does not trust these officials to assist in faithfully implementing the President's agenda.
	This action is consistent with the mission of ending the weaponization of government.
	Which is, you know, note for note, perfect what they should have said, I think.
	Well, Pam Bondi's very competent because she ran the America First Policy Institute throughout the entire campaign, so she was involved in setting up some of the executive orders that Trump has been signing.
	So she's a loyalist, she knows how government works, and clearly she's getting on with it.
	And then the final one I wanted to point out was that he's also ousted a TSA administrator.
	I'm glad.
	My experience with American airports just means that I'm so frustrated.
	I hope he loses his pension.
	So the TSA administrator, David Pikoski, I think, was first nominated in 2017 and kept on by Biden.
	So it's another one of Trump's original hires.
	And then we don't know why he was removed.
	But some of the things he did while in office, he was planning to roll out a program called One Stop Security that would remove additional security screenings for travelers flying from certain destinations back to the US. Right, so this is one of the guys who has been lobbied by various community interest groups to say TSA airport security checks are racist if you're coming from the Muslim world, therefore remove them.
	That's sort of what I gathered from that, yes.
	And then the agency had also started expanding its use of facial recognition technology at airports, which, obviously, is a bit dystopian, although you can understand why it might be used.
	I mean, we've got that over here, and who did it just pick up the other day?
	Callum.
	Yeah.
	Not Axel Rudukabana.
	No, not Axel Rudukabana.
	Not a man who literally looked like a psychopath.
	No, no.
	Tiny Hobbit Callum.
	Who couldn't even hurt a fly if he tried.
	I've seen it.
	Unless it was in a cake.
	Well...
	No, I hope you're...
	If you're watching this, Callum, I hope you're doing all right.
	Yeah, we hope that you're all right.
	Sorry to hear about what happened to you, mate.
	So, what else do we think is going to happen?
	And also, what would you like to see happen?
	Obviously, I'm going to say end the Fed, as a matter of course.
	So...
	I am hoping that he will reject Peter Mandelson as the US ambassador, because the only reason they're putting Mandelson as an ambassador is because he wants diplomatic immunity, because they're about to release some files that might be particularly damaging for his reputation.
	I've heard some rumours about what he's been up to.
	I can't say things.
	I cannot say things.
	Also...
	Probably not sitting very comfortably in his chair at the minute.
	Let's just say that.
	No, no.
	Unless it's a very comfy chair on a certain passenger jet.
	Anyway, point being, I also hope that the Trump administration, I've heard rumblings from friends out in DC, are going to use their position as dominant hegemon for the time being of the West to ensure that we in woke North Korea have an easier ride of it.
	Please do.
	Thank you.
	They are looking at England like the motherland has been lost, and so they are drawing equivalences between persecution of dissidents in Iran, Pakistan, and China.
	It's like the Eastern Roman Empire coming back to reconquer Rome.
	Yeah, basically.
	It's going to be quite good.
	So they're looking at people being locked up for social media posts and going, dear God, you're a Soviet satellite state.
	What can we do to break into that?
	I mean, I remember J.D. Vance saying, we're going to use NATO membership to ensure that the European Union doesn't crack down on free speech on Twitter.
	Highly possible they do something similar for the UK. Please do.
	What do you think, Harry?
	What would you like to see?
	Trying to think what will get me not put on a terrorist watch list.
	You can say removing certain government departments, that's fine.
	Ending the Fed?
	Gold standard?
	Well, yeah, ending the Fed would be good.
	Removal of about 95% of all government.
	Not just in America, but in Britain and the rest of the West as well.
	I don't know if Trump has the power to do that quite yet.
	More expansive than me.
	Export Doge to the UK. Oh, banning the Muslim Brotherhood as well.
	That's also something that's going to be beneficial to us.
	Yeah, that would do the world a favour.
	So yes, I have good news and I imagine there's lots more to come as the Trump administration marches on.
	And it's all looking good.
	All very positive.
	Speaking of positives, we've got quite a few rumble rants as well before we dive into the segment, Harry, which I'm actually very much looking forward to.
	Bald Eagle, 1787. Millie is safe from federal charges, but not charges brought by the UCMJ. Millie violated several statutes of it and can be charged for them.
	That's outside of my knowledge, but if that's true, okay, we'll watch with great interest.
	Gavin Ambrose, some...
	Dimmer dollars?
	I don't know what that means.
	For Harry to get new Chad shirts.
	Well, the conversion rate for your guys is much better than the GB Pound at this point, so thank you for that.
	Thrash Panda.
	Right Said Fred have been on as guests, haven't they, before?
	We need a I'm Too Swole-y-For-My-Shirt collab with Harry.
	Thank you again.
	What's your bench these days?
	Because we haven't trained yet.
	I've got 200kg now.
	Solid.
	Well done.
	Very nice.
	Four reps.
	I just need to get to five, and then I'm going to bump it up again.
	Very good.
	Is it the gym tomorrow?
	I'm not here tomorrow.
	Oh yeah, of course.
	Yeah, I'm seeing a gig in Manchester.
	So anybody in Manchester, I will be there for Trivium and Bullet for My Valentine.
	Just dox yourself, why don't you?
	Those few times the US gave aid to the USSR was when they were suffering a famine due to crop failure due to weird weather those years.
	The US did it to avoid the USSR launching an invasion for food.
	They also sent a lot more support to the USSR following that.
	Even in the 20s, when they had a lot of Republican government presidents going through, they were sending over resources.
	They basically helped build up the USSR into an industrial manufacturing superpower.
	I think it would have been under college.
	It might have been.
	Well, Hoover was also right before FDR. They sent over American specialists to basically show the USSR how everything worked.
	And then under FDR, the New Deal actually opened up loads of positions for Soviet spies.
	Big surprise.
	The guy who was assisted by Soviet spies.
	Opened up the government for infiltration by Soviet spies.
	A lot of that information can be found in Sean McMeek and Stalin's war.
	So I can't remember all of the essential details off the top of my head, but that's the broad and short of it.
	And in the Cold War period, again...
	Can't remember the exact details, but I know they were still basically sending over international support to the USSR, and I'm pretty certain a lot of that information is in Adam Curtis' BBC documentaries on US-USSR relations.
	I've seen those, yeah.
	Very good.
	Very, very good stuff.
	So, sadly, yeah, the US government was basically aiding their major enemies for a very long time, which still happens today up until recently.
	Sigil Stone, 17. I'd love to watch a video of Trump walking through a federal office building yelling afuera while throwing pink slips at people or a t-shirt cannon loaded with pink slips and hunting people down.
	I have a suggestion, actually, of an executive order.
	No flags other than the American can be flown inside federal buildings because AOC has a progress pride flag outside of her congressional office.
	I've been there.
	It's awful.
	It's smothered in post-it notes as well from loving, adoring social supporters because she's a demented ethno-narcissist.
	I think Trump should just tear that down.
	Immediately.
	I've got an even better suggestion.
	If you want to make it television, you can relate it back to what Donald Trump used to do.
	Apprentice reboot, where it's just him going around to every department telling them that you're fired.
	Very good.
	I would watch that.
	Should we crack on with yours and leave the other two to laughter?
	Yeah, sure.
	So, this subject that I'm going to talk about today, I've been told that Dan covered slightly yesterday.
	But frankly...
	I didn't watch yesterday's podcast, and I'm going to do it better anyway.
	I was also on it, so we don't need to necessarily go over familiar territory if we have.
	Yeah, Dan was talking about how it's a sign that everybody is left-wing and the Overton window.
	Yada, yada, yada.
	No, I'm going to say it differently.
	I'm going to say it correctly.
	Zoomers yearn for the return of the king.
	This was the entire premise of my trigonometry interview, and I feel so vindicated.
	Yes, and that's...
	Actually, can I have a mouse, please?
	No.
	Yeah.
	That was unnecessary, wasn't it?
	Can you believe this, folks?
	Please, sir, can I have a mouse?
	God, please, just one small mouse.
	You're not satisfied with your gruel.
	My family, they're starving.
	We'll make it last weeks.
	No, people are very, very interested in learning about Gen Z. Not Gen Z. I'm English.
	Gen Z. And finding out the pathologies and different opinions and habits of the Zoomers, which leads to all sorts of constant surveys going on asking them about their behaviours, including this one, which got published in The Guardian the other day, talking about how Zoomers are afraid to go on phone calls.
	They prefer to message.
	That's a bit weird to me.
	I'm not afraid.
	It's just annoying.
	Why are you calling me?
	I'm busy.
	Why can't I just call?
	I've got a rule.
	If it's business, you can call.
	If it's just for a chit-chat, you message and organise it in advance.
	Yes.
	If it's urgent, call me.
	If it's just...
	Something you could have said over a text.
	I'm very responsive, so don't text me.
	I suppose that's fair.
	I think the annoying thing for me is all of my friends are terrible at responding to messages, so it's easier for me to just call them and get the response right then and there.
	Either way, a lot of these surveys are basically to say, aren't Zoomers stupid?
	Aren't they silly?
	They're afraid of this.
	They're afraid of that.
	They're so anxious and depressed.
	They don't drink.
	They don't have fun anymore.
	Blah-de-blah-de-blah.
	Yeah, well, guess what?
	We hate democracy.
	This is inconsistent.
	So I covered a while ago the onward polling from the kids aren't alright, and it was, I think, 61% would support...
	I've got that in here, actually, yeah.
	There we go.
	Yeah, I think we'll get to those figures in just a moment.
	But this is the latest one that came out, which has been causing quite a scare among the older generations.
	And I think Dan mentioned to me earlier that if you look into the data, it's the majority of people, particularly men, below the age of 44. So it's not just Zoomers, but Zoomers seem to be the most in favour of this.
	Millennials and some.
	And some Gen Xers.
	It's hurting you to use these terms, by the way.
	I know that you're not a fan of the terms, but we're using them for particular age categories.
	So they're not particularly happy in the UK specifically with how democracy is going, and more than half of them, 52% of Gen Z, think that the UK would be in a better place if it had a strong leader who does not have to bother with Parliament and elections, and if they were in charge.
	Now, the news reports on this have all been classifying and characterising it as a dictatorship so that you've got that nasty smear attached to it, because people hear dictatorship, they think Hitler, they think Holocaust, they think...
	We can't have that.
	I mean, the definition given here, strong leader who does not have to bother with parliament and elections, could actually take a number of different forms, not specifically dictator, but it could also just mean a king.
	That thing that the English were governed by...
	For centuries.
	So it said 33% were amenable for the army taking charge and 47% said that we need a revolutionary reconstitution of the way we do life in this country.
	They didn't break down the ethnic.
	Only the age demographics.
	So it could be that they were envisioning a king.
	As far as I can tell, they also didn't break down the actual political divide on this.
	So when they say revolution, you could say, oh, maybe they want some kind of traditional rightist revolution, or maybe they want a leftist revolution.
	So there's a lot of grey area.
	Intifada and a caliphate.
	Because Gen Z are remarkably diverse.
	You don't even necessarily need to be in those fringes either, because of course...
	I think that the only way you clean up British politics is you have someone who does what Trump is doing and just...
	Clears out a lot of the people.
	And to do that, there's going to be a lot of people in the way.
	And you could argue that sidestepping Parliament, doing that, and then going back to ruling in a more modest way would be the perfect way to do it, right?
	So you can even argue for this sort of thing from a more liberty-focused...
	Well, I would argue the smaller the state, the greater the liberty.
	Yeah, but to get to that point, you need to do a lot of politicking and clearing out.
	You need lots of power.
	And Donald Trump is showing us right now that it is possible even in the modern era.
	So to give my own perspective on what I think is going on here, obviously not covering all of them, because as you mentioned, the lack of an ethnic breakdown or a political breakdown in this means that it could be going a number of different ways.
	But I think in the most...
	Common sense reading of this, it's that people are sick and tired of governments that do not work.
	This government that we have, particularly in the UK, is hideously incompetent and refuses to take accountability or responsibility for anything that it does.
	It always wants the credit if something has gone right, you know, if they manage to deport 10,000 people.
	Under the rules that were established by Suella Braverman last year before they even got in, the Labour government, for instance, is more than happy to say, see, we're doing what you want.
	But the second that something goes wrong, the Rudakabana is probably the most recent instance of that, they want to point to hatred of the far right and start clamping down on your liberties.
	People are sick of this kind of anonymous, caretaker-style government, where everything is the responsibility of this department or this department, but actually it's not their responsibility.
	And to a certain degree, and this is quite a Hoppian criticism right here, I think that it causes a certain degree of psychological uncertainty in people's day-to-day, knowing that they are being governed by some gigantic unknowable leviathan that exists in the shadows until all of a sudden you're being arrested for posting a meme online.
	that's much more certain if you have a direct link to responsibility of the person in charge if there's a centralized authority figure well if something goes wrong you can blame them if something goes right you can thank them if something needs to be petitioned and changed you can go to that leader and petition them there's a certainty and a simplicity to it which has just been completely swept away by what we now consider to be liberal democratic governance which is really an oligarchy supported by an enormous civil service
	there are two things to say here the first of which is a very obvious point of in the past people used to petition the king and it's pretty obvious And the second thing is, to build on that Hoppian psychology, if you will, uncertainty makes people yield to strong leadership and decisive action, and if you are the person who has the behemoth bureaucracy, the large state, and...
	Not only are they uncertain about the nature of the problems, but also how the government works.
	That's almost like doubling up the degree of uncertainty, because people then become unaware of who they should even say this to.
	And so the instability and uncertainty sort of maximizes the willingness someone has towards tolerating tyranny, basically.
	Well, I'd like to add to that as well.
	What you've said there is democracy is now synonymous with deep state.
	And so we have outsourced all decision-making capacity to quangos and committees ever since 1997, and Tony Blair turned the state into a kind of self-driving car towards progress.
	And if this state is making...
	Competent, taxpaying, law-abiding, straight white men, public enemy number one.
	Why would said cohort, presuming there's a large amount of reactionary Zoomers in this, want to preserve that social order?
	Why wouldn't they just want to upend it?
	And they can see a route to upending it, because one of the most pivotal political moments of our lifetime was COVID. So, for two years, we were put under house arrest, and the government dissolved any division between public and private spheres and separation of powers with a press conference given by Boris Johnson in one night.
	So the Zoomers have turned around and gone, right, oh, hang on a minute, the state...
	Can, at all times, intervene in and control every aspect of life.
	So there's no excuse for incompetence or inaction anymore.
	Instead, why don't we just take that power and use it, rather than against my interests...
	For my interests.
	I'm not saying I support that, but I am saying it's the logical outgrowth of the standard that they've set, so why are they shocked?
	Especially when all of the decisions that the government is making is constantly making people's lives worse, making you poorer, changing the breakdown of your neighbourhood against your will without informing you, and then if you have something to complain about, either it's not their fault, not their responsibility...
	Or again, you maybe end up on a watch list.
	Maybe you end up getting stopped when you go through the airport and interrogated over your opinions.
	I think that in this scenario, the sort of lesson from the Lord of the Rings is actually turned on its head, that you've got to take the Boromir approach of you've got to use the ring to destroy the evil, rather than ignoring it and resisting its power, because that simply won't work.
	Well, I think it would be you would need to use the ring to destroy the ring.
	Yeah, exactly.
	But I do think in this, there is in all likelihood a cohort of reactionary zoomers, if that's what you're trying to suggest here.
	Because first of all, the report was Gen Z, Trends Truth and Trust, part of a Channel 4 report that was commissioned, and it says in this next article that I have here, it's commissioned by Channel 4 and done by Kraft.
	They got 3,000 people, 2,000 Gen Zs, and...
	People aged 28 to 65 making up the remaining 1,000.
	And because they asked not just about attitudes towards democracy and towards politics in general, the need for revolution, etc.
	They also talked about gender equality and they found that 45% of male respondents aged 13 to 27 agreed that we have gone so far in promoting women's equality that we are discriminating against men.
	Only because the law says so.
	Yeah, exactly.
	you can point to the criminal statutes that point that out.
	A further 44% agreed that when it comes to giving women equal rights, things have gone far enough.
	So this survey has found that the British people tired of women.
	Thank you, Bernie Sanders.
	The same polling was found precipitating large Zoomer male support for Donald Trump.
	So, if, let's say, Reform UK decides to just copy the Trump phenomenon and bring it over, you've got a ready-made, underrepresented...
	Voter base, that are only going to grow as demographics increase over time.
	So, just do that.
	Yeah, and to further support the idea that a lot of these people who are answering in this way are probably shifting towards the right in that age cohort, they go on to point out, and this is fear-mongering, this is fear-mongering for the independent, saying that controversial influencers, Andrew Tate, who...
	I'm not a fan of.
	I'm not a fan of.
	But I do understand to a young man who sees society telling him that everything that he does is wrong and he should feel ashamed of himself, I do see why Andrew Tate would appeal to him because he's at least trying to sell them a message of self-empowerment, right?
	What's the ethnic breakdown of Andrew Tate's supporters, by the way?
	I don't know, actually.
	It's very inconvenient for The Guardian and The Independent.
	They don't buy sun cream.
	But controversial influences Andrew Tate and Jordan Peterson were among those to command similar trust by 42% of men.
	Again, whether or not you agree with Andrew Tate or Jordan Peterson, I'm a much bigger fan of Peterson than Tate, you can see why they're trying to give people a positive...
	They're trying to give young men a positive image of themselves.
	So you can see why that might appeal to them.
	Another 25-year-old male participant from Penryn Cornwall said he felt targeted because he was a regular straight white man who has had a cultural advantage in the past.
	It's swinging back the other way to a point where we potentially risk discriminating against us in favor of the people in minority groups.
	An 18-year-old from Hitch in Hertfordshire said, I believe the man has to be the provider.
	And he has to provide for the family.
	I've seen my life around me.
	A lot of people are just not into that anymore.
	I personally think that a man has to provide regardless.
	Same with women nowadays, I suppose.
	I believe that that's a woman's choice.
	They shouldn't be discouraged from being a housewife.
	So these two perspectives to me are common sense.
	That second one is basically what I believe.
	Yeah, but...
	I assume that the Independent is trying to highlight them so that you know that it's evil far-righters answering that they want a dictatorship.
	Because they want the Andrew Tate Hitler dictatorship to run the UK to force a wife on them.
	I assume is what the Independent is trying to tell us.
	Just a promo article.
	What's this political party called?
	Brov?
	So what exactly is evil about?
	Wanting to provide resources for other people and giving people the option Great.
	I wonder why the Harris campaign didn't win over large swathes of young women.
	Yeah, and the Guardian article here has some more information talking about the use of social media from these people in these age groups, saying that they get most of their information from social media posts and influencers, and they don't trust the BBC as much.
	And also, there's a counterintuitive one here saying Gen Z actually trusts politicians more than other generations.
	27% of them trust...
	Versus just 9% for over 28-year-olds.
	And I'm struggling to account for why that would be that they would want a centralized authority figure while also trusting politicians.
	Perhaps it's that they, I don't know how they structured the question, it might be that they trust particular politicians more and distrust the rest of them.
	So it might just be that maybe Gen Z have said, oh well that Rupert Lowe guy seems like a trustworthy bloke.
	And they've used that to say, well they trust politicians more.
	But that's interesting.
	So of course, this, as you mentioned, is not a new thing.
	In fact, Onward themselves had this graph going up to 2022. This is the one that I got Dan to pull up yesterday, by the way.
	Ah, yes.
	References frequently.
	It's interesting to me that it's around 2019 that it suddenly spikes up for everybody, and then the older generations all start to simmer down in their need for a king.
	That was the Brexit associations, wasn't it?
	Yes, it was.
	But the younger generations have said, no, no, I still don't like this.
	But the interesting thing, most interesting thing for me, is there was this report attached to it that tried to explain this because...
	Oh my god, the kids want a dictatorship.
	How do we solve this?
	Well, we need to go to the root of the problem.
	What are the problems causing this?
	Well, let's see what Onward diagnosed this as in their report.
	And I'll just take you on a whistle stop through the four...
	Drivers of detachment from democracy.
	Because democracy, you know, you vote in for MPs who barely have any power and mostly just submit to NGO reports anyway because they don't even read them and they just need to get things done and bills passed in Parliament.
	So who cares?
	That's accountable governance.
	Why don't you like that?
	Why don't you like every aspect of your life being made worse constantly?
	Well, it's because you spend too much time online, bro.
	You've got narrow social networks.
	You're radicalising yourself.
	Overprotective parenting.
	If your dad was a dictator at home, then you'd know how bad it was.
	Why don't you just hate your dad more?
	Then you would know why dictatorship is bad.
	Despite growing numbers of children not growing up with their father in their home.
	This is an idiotic opinion.
	The treadmill of modern work.
	Basically, you are extorted if you're a hard-working, law-abiding, tax-paying young man to battery farm foreign criminals at your expense.
	Yes, so that one, maybe.
	Maybe I can see that as related to all the other things that we know are the actual reasons why people don't like the system right now.
	And again, you're spending way too much time online, bro.
	Just touch grass, take a nap, and get into some arguments with your parents.
	And then you'll understand why democracy matters so much.
	Because, of course, the over-75s least in favour of this.
	They're known for going outside all the time, being very active.
	Not just sitting indoors watching the BBC and having them told that liberal democracy is the absolute best thing for you.
	The key demographic for watching the news and paying attention to the mainstream media as if it actually matters.
	It should be noted, by the way, that Onward was formerly run by Sebastian Payne, who is Michael Gove's mini-me.
	What a surprise!
	Both in appearance and politics.
	Yes.
	This report is over two years old now, and I find it funny that this overprotective parenting reason is being rolled out again.
	by iNews for this latest report saying that gentle parenting is now affecting democracy.
	I assume by gentle parenting they mean the same as overprotective parenting, just being too nice to your kids and keeping them out of trouble.
	Well, I kind of agree with these people and I didn't have overprotective parents at all.
	Me neither.
	I don't see the overlap between my parents are too nice to me, best vote Hitler.
	Okay, so no.
	To steelman the case for this, they're not described...
	I don't think they're saying you automatically go and have to hit your kids, which I'm against.
	This is something Mary Harrington's talked about before.
	The safetyism culture in cradle to...
	Higher education daycare, because we're so institutionalised, where if you fall off a wall rather than the attitude that you're going to have with your daughter, which is like, oh, you're fine, it's just a grey, shake it off.
	Immediately you have to write out form and call the parents.
	I already have to fight the missus over things like that.
	If she bumps her head on something, she immediately runs the presenter.
	I'm like, ah, she's fine.
	It's an institutionalised devouring moment.
	Give her a minute and she'll just get straight back up and be on a merry way.
	Well, that culture that's been interned in very feminised education environments has set up A cohort of Gen Z, not the same one we're talking about, to think that everything should be a safe space, and so that everything should be surveilled, and that offence should be prevented at all times.
	But that doesn't describe the young men who are sick to death of that culture, who are also saying, yeah, I love BKLA, Trump and Malay, why not?
	Risk defines masculinity.
	If you look at a chart that plots your testosterone and your willingness to take risks, it is a straight line.
	That's all.
	Exactly.
	It's almost like there's some sort of health aspect to it, isn't there?
	Some kind of connection.
	But I also have another explanation for why it is that people don't appreciate democracy in certain states that can be found through examples in other parts of the world, which is, this example is South Africa.
	This was last year in May, a report from The Economist talking about South Africans being fed up after 30 years of democracy.
	Why?
	Because it's a failed state.
	Typically, failed states, and I would say the UK is getting perilously close to becoming one, end up not liking the government that's failing them.
	Stranger things have happened.
	Listen to this.
	So this was 30 years of freedom in South Africa.
	the more socializing across racial boundaries but south africans said that race relations have have improved since 1994 has been falling most south africans say that they are dissatisfied with democracy and would ditch elected governments if an autocrat could do a better job why well it's because south africans no longer see their lives getting better on average incomes have stagnated
	what power and water cuts have become more frequent more frequent and some some days by the way see seeped into every layer of the state Only 15% of 257 municipalities get clean audits from the relevant watchdog.
	So the entire state...
	Up to this moment as well is a complete failed disaster, and people have said, I don't want this anymore.
	That's why people end up giving up on their governments.
	Some days in South Africa, they only get power for four hours of the day, which makes running a restaurant impossible.
	Loads and loads of quality of life things, obviously, impossible.
	Parts of rural Ireland at the moment still don't have any power because of Storm Eowyn.
	At least that's a fixable problem, whereas in South Africa the infrastructure has just got worse since the end of apartheid, and in many ways, as controversial as it might be, the standard of living for most people under apartheid was probably higher.
	You know, it's a similar thing to Rhodesia and Zimbabwe.
	After 20 years of Zimbabwe, then they had mass famines and millions of people dying, and they still have, I think, 25% of children have stunted growth, and they had the highest standard of living in Africa when it was Rhodesia.
	Sounds like race communism.
	Not good.
	Yeah, it doesn't work.
	But, of course, again...
	Like, blaming gentle parenting, overprotective parenting, being online too much.
	The solutions advocated by the media are not solutions to, okay, maybe we should improve the country rather than make it worse.
	The solution is, how do we nudge people into just accepting that their lives are shit?
	Learned helplessness.
	Learned helplessness.
	Because that's what I got from this independent article.
	If Gen Z has given up on democracy, we're in even more trouble than we thought.
	Good.
	I might be out of a paycheck if they get what they want.
	So this guy says that he was a lifetime school teacher of history and politics and a headmaster for 20 years.
	I toiled for 40 years to bring politics and current affairs into the classroom.
	I never minded what political views they had, as long as it wasn't extreme.
	As long as it wasn't extreme, so you did.
	You were insufferable then.
	So you did, but I care deeply that they formed views on the biggest issues of the day, and I'm sure you didn't try and nudge them in any particular direction.
	And he goes on to say, autocracy may be fine as long as it's working for you.
	Yeah, that's literally their opinion.
	That's the whole point, yeah.
	That's the point.
	But you all should know it's dark underbelly.
	Repression of free speech.
	Wouldn't know what that felt like.
	Yeah, natural thought crimes in the country.
	Arbitrary imprisonment.
	What's that?
	Never heard of that happening in this country.
	And the trampling of minorities.
	We're not a minority yet.
	I don't care about the feelings of minorities.
	I don't care what's good for them, because what's good for them is what's bad for us.
	And that's been prioritised for decades at this point.
	And then he goes on to accidentally, accidentally make dictatorship sound way more peaceful than democracy by saying, throughout history, countless millions have died in the name of democracy, but barely any have died wanting to supplant democracy by dictatorship.
	So it's like a peaceful transfer of power then.
	The Romanovs would disagree, but there you go.
	Yeah, yeah.
	The reason for Gen Z's views has been eloquently explained by Elisa Philby, Author of bestseller Generation Shift, she told me that Gen Z haven't been brought up in the turmoils of the 20th century and the resulting democratic consensus ingrained in any generation.
	Yeah, it's not like World War II and the Holocaust and the horrors of dictatorship have been drilled into our heads from the very first time that we could understand the English language.
	No, but not for them the long shadow of Hitler and the Second World War, nor even of Soviet Russia and the Cold War.
	The evils of dictatorship have not been evident on their watch.
	I'm sorry.
	This man is disconnected from reality.
	He taught history and dares to claim that we've not been told the horror stories of the 20th century.
	We've not had it drilled into our heads.
	For God's sake, let me start with a three-point plan, he ends the article saying.
	Voting for politicians who tell the truth and who deliver on their promises.
	That's how you fix democracy, is to get honest politicians and vote for them.
	I'm gonna deport all foreign criminals.
	Gets into power.
	Deports all foreign criminals.
	Sign me up!
	Yeah, I was gonna say, well, that'd be nice if we were offered politicians who told the truth and delivered on their promises, but we're not.
	Not in the UK, at least.
	That's like him saying, how do you restore faith in democracy?
	Well, you just be good.
	You just fix democracy.
	Guess what he says is part of the second point.
	A properly funded and properly impartial BBC. That'll fix it.
	That'll fix it.
	Better state propaganda is what we need.
	And also, the teaching of citizenship and democracy to all our school children.
	You already do that, and again, that's just another state propaganda exercise right there.
	So, to fix democracy and make it so Gen Z doesn't give up on democracy, you need to propagandize them better, and also, controversially, do good government.
	Yeah, well, that's not what we're getting right now.
	So, that's why...
	The Zoomers are yearning for a king.
	Excellent.
	Samson, do we have any video comments today?
	He's wheeling over now.
	We do!
	Media is a snapshot of the time and culture in which it was produced, which makes it useful for seeing how quickly and in which direction mainstream leftist ideology mutates.
	Take, for example, Await Further Instructions, a 2018 horror film which is clearly left-wing in nature.
	The protagonists are a mixed-race couple, the grandfather is racist and abusive to his son, the father is cold and emotionally detached, etc.
	The core of the film is that the family blindly accept instructions coming from the TV, believing it's the government, except for the protagonists, who are sceptical.
	Indeed, there's even a vaccine they have to inject, which ends up killing the grandfather, and the father says, well, it's a good thing we took it, or we might have ended up like him.
	Clearly, it's a pre-COVID distrust authority narrative, which came just before the vaccine and mask mandates.
	Predictive programming at work.
	Yep.
	I mean, I didn't know that even existed.
	On to the next one.
	Ooh.
	That's you.
	The final two.
	Harry is northern, naturally based.
	He got kicked out of a rock band because he's so based.
	Josh can tell you the psychology of these poser punk and metal bands.
	Both have had to endure research on degenerate people to expose their evils to sunlight.
	Harry goes in H tier.
	Josh goes in J tier.
	Yeah!
	Right at the bottom where I belong.
	Don't worry, I'm on top of you.
	Just how you like it.
	I'm worried about being in the middle here.
	Not for the first time.
	If you've noticed, the tier list is based on the first letter of someone's first name.
	So, California Refugee has tricked us into actually being very nice about us and not actually categorize us.
	He's tricked us into getting invested in this while also not offending any of us.
	That's true.
	Very clever.
	You'd make a good politician.
	Yeah, that was quite good.
	Also, thank you very much.
	Oh, it's Daisy.
	Oh, okay.
	On to the next one.
	The refrain from weak leftists is to say that illegal immigrants can't be expelled if they do not have documentation declaring their country of origin.
	Let me posit a fix to this.
	It doesn't matter.
	When they arrived, with documents or without, they will have been recorded, including how they entered the country.
	Simply send them back from where they set off to cross our border.
	In many cases, this means France, which is a safe country.
	In fewer cases, this will be a plurality of countries, most of which are safe.
	Substantially, this will reduce the number needing detaining, who can then be held until they reveal the truth of their situation.
	We can also just detain them on either Ascension Island or Pitcairn.
	I mean, Pitcairn's already a prison colony full of nonsense, so they'd feel right at home.
	Blimey.
	I'm not joking.
	Half of the island were pedos, so we just kept them on the island as prisoners.
	Pedo island.
	Brass eye.
	Prophetic.
	Yeah.
	We've got a couple of minutes.
	We've got some general comments, I think.
	Some good ones here.
	Yes, go for it.
	Connor, people in the live chat are demanding to know where the Ken mug has gone.
	It is in my cupboard at home.
	I think I took it home for Christmas and I've left it there.
	Selfish bastard denying us the county.
	The Wigan Survivalist says, any thoughts about our dear boy Callum being detained by UK terror police?
	And we did...
	Touch on that, but obviously it's awful.
	Hope Calum's doing alright.
	I think he got all of his stuff back at least, and he got his video footage back.
	They did hold it for the maximum amount of time that they could, and who knows what they rifled through on all of his files, because he would have had memory cards and SDs and such.
	Did they disclose if it was for something he'd said, or just was it because of his travel history?
	Travel history, particularly regarding Russia.
	They sound like they were very interested in whether he'd taken money from anybody in Russia.
	I'm surprised that it wasn't about the Taliban and Afghanistan.
	But they seem much more interested in Russia, presumably because they're an active enemy.
	Also, if Callum were a spy, why would he videotape everything he did in a country and then post it online to millions of people?
	If I were a spy, I would not do that.
	Deep cover.
	He would be a terrible spy.
	No offence, Callum.
	He does stick out a bit, doesn't he?
	I mean, he certainly did in his Tourism in England video.
	That's true.
	There's a thumbnail for that.
	Also, Andy King says, have to dip out of today's podcast, guys.
	Wife just went into labour with our first child.
	Congratulations.
	Thank you all for all you do.
	Yeah, best of luck, I suppose.
	Congrats.
	It's going to be long and gruelling and yeah, good luck.
	I think you've got the better end of it.
	I'm so sorry.
	You're going to see a ship.
	It'll be worth it by the end of it.
	Spoken like a man who's recently had a birth.
	I mean, it was over a year ago now, but it sticks in your head, trust me.
	Anyway.
	One last one.
	Harry Ashman.
	Don't be insulted, Josh.
	Barlam and Butterbur of the Prancing Pony was a good man who was friends with wizards and a pillar of his rural, isolated community.
	Well, thank you.
	I do spend a lot of time in the pub, so...
	We do still have three rumble rants that we've not read out yet.
	Okay, we can quickly do those.
	The hapsification...
	This is actually real.
	Hamas uses condoms.
	They fill it up with helium to carry bombs and incendiary devices to use in Israel.
	I did not know that.
	Blimey.
	So, America really is just funding both sides of the war.
	I wonder if they know that's what they're doing with Gaza.
	That's one of the most bizarre things I've ever read.
	Bobobad.
	Trump is issuing letters of Mark.
	Nature is healing.
	We are so back.
	I don't think I should read that last one.
	Just to reference it, though, from Sigil Stone.
	I mean, the king is Germanic.
	Yes.
	It's just that...
	We can't allege anything.
	Yeah, we can't allege anything, but we need a good Germanic Englishman rather than somebody who's just going to sit around and...
	Shut up, Celt.
	I want the Stuarts back.
	Guy Fawkes did nothing wrong.
	Anyway, point being, I'll be back in about half an hour for Tomlinson Talks.
	Thanks, gents.
	It's been an absolute pleasure.
	Otherwise, we'll be back tomorrow at one o'clock.

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