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	Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Load Seaters episode 1272 for Monday the 13th of October 2025.
	I'm your host Luca, joined today by Josh.
	Hello there.
	I'm Firas.
	Hello.
	And today we're going to be talking all about how one tweet blocked further hate speech in Ireland.
	Even frame it in, I almost considered a sloppier title, how one tweet saved free speech in Ireland.
	But then I realized I'd have to hate myself if I did that.
	How one tweet saved the West.
	Then we're going to be talking about the emboldened Muslim Brotherhood and what they're up to in Britain mostly.
	And then we're going to talk about how we can restore our castles, take back our castles and restore them to being centers in our community.
	So before we start the segments as well, just some announcements.
	Firas is going to be going live at 3 with your next episode of Real Politique, aren't you?
	Yes.
	So talking a little bit more detail about the Muslim Brotherhood de Jamaati Islami in Britain and why they are such a problem and what their plans are and how successful they've been in those plans so far.
	So yeah.
	Damn shame.
	Damn shame.
	Yeah, I blame the government.
	Yep, I blame them too.
	I blame them too when in doubt.
	And also just also another announcement.
	Stelios' second webinar for his new course, Ancient Greek Virtue Ethics.
	He's going to be having that webinar at 6pm on Thursday.
	So if you'd like to sign up, go to the last time.
	Yeah, UK time, obviously, where we dictate what time is and where we create the time zones.
	Anyway, BST for the time being.
	That always throws people off.
	It's not back to GMT yet.
	We will return.
	Anyway, getting a trip to Poverty.
	So Josh, over to you and yours.
	I am sticking my foot out a bit there, helping you along.
	So good news, everyone.
	I'm going to be talking about how one post on X caused a snowball of events that recently resulted in the Irish Parliament, I suppose, rejecting pressure from the EU to impose stricter hate speech laws.
	And I'm going to walk you through it.
	And this is some good moralization because it shows one person on social media can draw attention to an issue.
	Lots of other commentators can then amplify that and say, listen, actually, this is a really big problem.
	And there's actually quite a good case for this being the origin point of the pushback, which snowballed into them saying, actually, maybe this is going to be quite unpopular.
	Let's not do that.
	So it's a nice bit of reassurance that you can sometimes have an impact.
	The fact I've never done a segment like this before in all of my five years of doing this, ignore that.
	But maybe this is an exception and not the rule.
	But it does seem to sometimes happen, which should give you hope.
	And that's what I want to do.
	So going all the way back to the 26th of April 2023 in the Dial Aaron, which is the Irish Parliament, I suppose, or their equivalent of Congress, they had this, the Criminal Justice Incitement to Violence or Hatred and Hate Offences Bill, which had been in the works since 2022.
	And it was coming towards its sort of final stages.
	And there's lots of discourse here that you can have a look at, but I'm not going to bore you with.
	But what initially drew attention to it, you can take your pick which tweet is the origin point.
	But I think it's fair to say that one of these three is the origin point of the pushback, although they sort of helped each other a little bit.
	So this account, Free Speech Ireland, came out with this amendment from, and this is the people before profit.
	So if we hover over that, that's what that is, which is Ireland's largest eco-socialist organisation to include the UN Convention on Human Rights Protections on Free Speech within the hate speech bill has been defeated.
	So that sounds misleading.
	You think, okay, they're socialists.
	Well, they're trying to restrict speech on the right, of course.
	Well, actually, no, they were concerned about the effect of freedom of speech, which is a pleasant surprise.
	So it was too far even for them.
	And we'll see why in a second.
	And it says, as well as one to exercise this section allowing for the prosecution of individuals possessing offensive material without communicating it.
	And I think that this is one of the points of concern, is that you could have offensive material on a device that is against the law, not distribute it to anyone.
	No.
	It could potentially even be sent to you, say, on something like WhatsApp.
	And you know how WhatsApps can sometimes automatically download pictures.
	Yes.
	It could be sent to you, you'd not notice the message, it'll be on your device and you could be prosecuted for it.
	So I'm constantly on sort of Islamist forums and looking around at what you guys are saying.
	For research purposes, really for research purposes, my only defense is that, you know, I have quite an eclectic collection from the Shia Jihadis to the Sunni Jihadis or the Syrian guys and everything in between.
	So they all declare each other apostates, so I can't be a member of any one of them.
	That's going to be my defense when they arrest me for this.
	I've got an extensive collection of communist literature, so I'm hoping that that's going to help me out.
	No, I think that saves you definitely.
	That sort of, oh, he's one of us.
	Meanwhile, I'm definitely going down for memes.
	Yeah.
	Meme Lord Luca.
	Pray for him when he's in prison.
	But let's get to the post that I think started it off myself.
	Although, of course, I don't mind if you pick that free speech one, which he is originally quoting here.
	But it was Keith's one that really took off.
	Ireland is about to pass one of the most radical hate speech bills yet.
	Merely possessing hateful material on your device is enough to face prison time.
	Not only that, but the burden of proof is shifted to the accused, who is expected to prove they didn't intend to use the material to spread hate, which, of course, is not innocent until proven guilty, is it?
	Yes.
	This clause is so radical that even the Trotskyist people before Prophet opposed it as a flagrant violation of civil liberties, Dark Times.
	And of course, this was a little while ago.
	This was while it was going on.
	So this was on the 28th of April.
	So two days after that original tweet there.
	And he also shares parts of the bill and highlights the pertinent sections, which I think is always very important.
	And if people have objections to legislation, I think you should always do this.
	Like, outline that this is the evil part.
	And sometimes the whole bill can be evil, of course.
	Right.
	So I'm going to read the two sections he's highlighted here.
	Prepares or possesses material that is likely to incite violence or hatred against a person or group of persons on account of their protected characteristics or any of those characteristics.
	And then it carries on to say, the person shall be presumed until the contrary is proved to have been in possession of the material in contravention of subsection one, which is, I think, part of the one I just read.
	Obviously, there's more to it.
	But obviously this is awful.
	Of course, one of the main problems with hate speech legislation, other than the fact it is obviously used to weaponise in one political direction most of the time, is that it's so subjective in terms of what is inciting violence.
	I mean, unless you have a very strict definition of you're explicitly calling people to be violent, which I think is how most people understand it, but is not always applied that way.
	And also hatred.
	I mean, you can...
	What does that even mean?
	I know.
	Also, you know, I can do, you know, I can donate money to people out of hatred if I really want to.
	You know how sometimes there are fundraisers and you can add a little message.
	You can donate money to them and do it out of hatred.
	But technically, you're giving them a donation.
	It's silly.
	This notion of you can also share things that are against hate crime law dispassionately.
	I imagine some of the statistics I've posted on X probably would meet the quota, but I did it dispassionately in an analytical way.
	No hatred in my heart, just passion for truth.
	But of course, this is ridiculous.
	We've talked about this a lot.
	This isn't necessarily the interesting thing.
	Of course, there's hate speech legislation.
	It shouldn't exist.
	But it does, and we know about it already.
	So, as is often the case, Elon Musk gave it a big boost by replying, saying this is a massive attack on freedom of speech.
	3 million views, 96,000 people liking it.
	How many did the original post have?
	12 million.
	Yeah, 12 million, 38.
	So it suggests that, okay, this platform does actually seem to be helping things.
	Obviously, I've got a plethora of criticisms of X, particularly the accounts that it boosts and how organic some of that is.
	And I think that it incentivizes low-quality stuff and some state propaganda.
	But that beside the point, there does seem to be an opportunity now without people actively being persecuted by the left-controlled Twitter for these sorts of posts to blow up.
	This is shortly after he was unbanned, I believe.
	And before I get onto the reaction, I do want to mention another reassuring beacon of light in the world.
	And that is Stelios, of course, and his course.
	He has a course called Introduction to Ancient Greek Virtue Ethics.
	He is Greek.
	He's telling you about ancient Greece.
	You can't get better than that.
	And the thing that I wanted to draw your attention to is on Thursday at 6 p.m.
	Our time, British time, the best time, is your opportunity to put questions about his course and ancient Greek virtue ethics, you know, Plato, Aristotle, and the like to Stelios.
	So if that interests you, you can go along and talk to him about ancient Greek wisdom.
	You will come away feeling enlightened, and especially if you sign up for the course.
	But anyway, back to current programming.
	There was a segment that aired on RTE, which if you're not familiar with, is sort of Ireland's equivalent of the BBC, right?
	Yes, state broadcaster.
	Yes, it is.
	And the fact that Keith Woods, who, you know, is an online right commentator, can put something out on Twitter.
	Elon Musk replies to it, and then the state broadcaster basically reacts to it.
	Because prior to this post, no one was really talking about it, as many legislation sort of goes under the radar, unless you're paying attention to the parliamentary schedule of your respective country.
	Sometimes they can slip these things under the radar if people are not keeping their eyes on it.
	Well, slipping things in is really their only tactic, given they have no mandate or consent for any of it that they do.
	It's all underhand all the time.
	Lear did that with the Gender Recognition Act.
	And with mass immigration.
	And with mass immigration, yes.
	So let's have a little listen to what they said, because it was surprisingly even-handed.
	Ireland is introducing new incitement to hatred legislation.
	That's because the existing law is seen as ineffective.
	However, the new proposals have attracted criticism from at home and abroad.
	The new legislation criminalises communication or behaviour that's likely to incite violence or hatred against people because they're associated with a protected characteristic.
	It says those characteristics are race, colour, penalty for an offence.
	We could be up to here.
	But there's a clause which says people in possession of hate speech material without yet distributing it can also fall foul of the legislation.
	Billionaire Elon Musk tweeted the legislation as a massive attack on freedom of speech and Donald Trump Jr. said it's insane what's happening in the free world.
	Funnily enough, I don't know.
	We don't want to listen to him.
	But it's interesting to me that they're actively pulling up the posts now of prominent people.
	Of course, Trump Jr. saw it probably because of how widely it circulated and probably because of Elon Musk interacting with it.
	So it suggests that there is some sort of amplifying mechanism in place that puts pressure on media organizations to talk about the pushback as well as the politicians themselves.
	Which is actually kind of reassuring because beforehand I was so cynical.
	It's just like, yes, whatever happens online is basically worthless and all you're doing is really making people angry about things that you can't change.
	But this seems to be an exception to that rule, which I'm pleasantly surprised to see.
	And it carried on to the point where there was more coverage of this.
	This was this gentleman who shall not be named because he does not dignify it.
	And you can't pronounce it.
	Yeah, that too.
	But it says, where was it?
	Ah, yes, here.
	The outgoing leader t-shirt.
	That's what it sounds like to my English ears.
	I'm sorry, Ireland.
	I say it with love.
	Said the party had buckled in the face of an online campaign of misinformation.
	But it's interesting that it's drawing it to the online sphere, isn't it?
	Yes, acknowledging that.
	Misinformation being highlighting cause.
	Yeah.
	Highlighting the bill.
	Obviously, the rhetorical techniques are not the sharpest because when you highlight the parts of the bill you take exception to and their objections from the far left and the right, you know, it's a little bit of a tough self-regular correct about these things than the centre.
	I know.
	The centre so far is sort of my most hated part just because of sheer contact with them.
	It carries on to say Sinn Féin's spokesperson for justice, Pa Dali, has called for the bill to be ditched entirely, saying it was badly fought through and is not fit for purpose, despite the party voting the bill through in the dial last April.
	Which is interesting.
	So it suggests that...
	It's like a herd of sheep.
	I mean, they're told to vote, so they vote.
	They don't have opinions of their own.
	They don't have thoughts of their own.
	They're too dull to have them because nobody interested wants to be in politics because of the price that you have to pay to be in politics, which is that you're constantly smeared all the time.
	But I think part of the reason he felt comfortable going out and saying, yeah, actually, I don't agree with this, despite my party doing it, is because there was this pushback crime.
	You wouldn't set your head above the parapet without the pushback without that original post.
	And so it enables rebellion in the sort of world of politics.
	And there are other outlets pushing this as well.
	Here's the Irish Examiner.
	And this was later on in September rather than April, saying, Minister for Justice Helen McKentry, NT, sorry, confirmed on Saturday that parts of the hate speech bill that would make incitement to violence and hatred an offence would be removed.
	She said, This was being done because the government could not get consensus on the proposed legislation.
	And then it goes down and talks about various people.
	But the first person it mentions is tech billionaire Elon Musk was among those who opposed the proposed laws, which aim to modernize Ireland's legislature.
	Interesting term there, modernise.
	Modernise, as opposed to sort of tighten the screws on dissent around the hate-related crimes.
	Uphold traditional liberties.
	Ah, God forbid.
	Obviously, this is a bit loaded, but it is admitting that the online sphere did have some influence.
	And then there was this.
	Coming back to closer to the modern day, this was May of 2025, so moving on a year or two now.
	Ireland given two months to begin implementing hate speech laws or face legal action from EU.
	Of course, this is part of the reason Britain left the EU.
	Yeah, I know.
	This is wild, isn't it?
	It's like censor your politicians or we're coming for you.
	Wow.
	The EU didn't learn a damn thing from Brexit, did they?
	Oh, no, it needs to be destroyed entirely.
	I hate it with a passion.
	It's one of the most evil institutions in all of Europe, and that's saying something.
	So, where was I?
	I've lost where I was.
	But never mind.
	The point being that the EU was basically trying to blackmail.
	Let me read this for you, please.
	Under existing EU rules on combating racism and xenophobia, the European Commission believes Ireland is allegedly failing to comply with laws first agreed to in 2008 surrounding the criminalization of race-based violence and hatred.
	How can you criminalize hatred?
	I don't understand.
	I mean, I accept that you could call it a sin, fair enough, because that's then between you and your conscience.
	But how do I read your mind and understand if you're simply reporting data accurately or are full of hatred?
	Also, how do you select which groups this hatred applies to?
	Because I hate people who talk on loudspeaker on public transport, but no one's going to prosecute me for that.
	But if I point out which kinds of people are doing it, then they might.
	Yes.
	Interesting, isn't it?
	It's almost like that the application of the laws is selective on purpose to target specific people.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	But here he is recently.
	This is the actual new news from only a few days ago.
	When I was restored on here in April 2023, one of the first issues I highlighted was Ireland's hate speech laws.
	At that point, it had already passed our first house unopposed and looked an absolute certainty become law.
	After the post below blew up with support from Elon Musk, it ignited a national debate on the bill in Ireland for the first time in its long legislative history.
	Eventually, the popular backlash became so great that the government dropped it just a year prior.
	No one even thought there was a possibility of this happening.
	Yesterday, the government pledged to ignore a demand from the EU to implement hate speech laws.
	This is a massive win for Ireland and everyone who played their part pushing back against what would have been one of the most tyrannical speech bills in the West.
	Nevertheless let people tell you what we do here doesn't matter.
	And that's really reassuring and remoralising.
	It is.
	It is.
	And of course, I would put some limits on this.
	I think that if the government wants to do something very unpopular, they probably still will do it.
	It depends on their political situation, how desperate they are to do it.
	And of course, Ireland, you know, sometimes does butt its head with the EU anyway.
	So they're not necessarily afraid to oppose it.
	And so there are certain conditions where these sorts of things can exist.
	I don't know whether either of you can think of any others.
	So I don't want to just say it was because of this single tweet, but I think it at least was a significant factor.
	Didn't they make Ireland vote a couple of times until they got it right on the EU constitution?
	That sounds quite right, yeah.
	They made the Dutch, I think, and the Irish vote again and again until they got the result that they wanted on an EU constitution.
	Then it failed anyway.
	Then they passed it as a treaty in 2008 or something like that.
	And I think in that constitution, they had a big fight with the Catholic Church because the Catholic Church was saying, look, you have to include some reference to Europe's Christian heritage as part of any founding document for how the EU should be.
	And the EU was like, no, absolutely not.
	We refuse to recognize the role of Christianity in building Europe.
	Okay.
	What spaces are for religion in a technocracy?
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	The technocracy is the religion, right?
	Yes.
	So they keep on doing these anti-democratic things, but the online space does create some breathing room and some ability to strike back.
	Well, you can tell, like when Ilon at New Year last year, you know, and started going hard on the group, rape gangs and everything.
	And obviously now you've got Labour dragging their heels and going through the motions, but that forced them into a position where actually they had to at least start answering questions about it.
	It forced a dialogue.
	It was like, no, you are going to address this.
	And of course, this isn't the same as tangible results, but in a desperate situation, anything is better than nothing, right?
	Yes.
	So let's have a little listen to what they're actually talking about.
	Reintroduce the hate speech legislation that was a dramatic failure in the last government and proposed by the previous Minister for Justice.
	Basically said we will not reintroduce why the answer is no.
	I'm fairly satisfied that Ireland has transposed the European Council framework decision on combating certain forms and expressions of racism and xenophobia in a manner appropriate and tailored to the domestic system of law in Ireland.
	I want to assure members of the House that Ireland's position has been communicated to the European Commission.
	And our position is that the framework decision is fully transposed in Irish legislation in a manner that is appropriate and tailored to Ireland's domestic system of criminal law and procedure.
	So obviously this isn't ideal because of course there is still some hate speech legislation.
	It's the sort of vintage hate speech legislation, the sort of kind that we have in Britain really.
	This is of course passed in 1960.
	It's changed like a bad wine.
	It has like vinegar.
	This is the Prohibition of Incitement to Hatred Act, which acts as a form of hate speech legislation, but it's not nearly as extensive as what they wanted to amend based on the EU's pressure.
	But it's interesting to me that they did push back against the EU and said, listen, you know, we've already got something, so you know, leave us alone, basically.
	We're already really unpopular.
	Do you want us in charge who are still sympathetic to the EU, or do you want something worse to come in?
	And I think it should be said that this is a very old problem.
	That you had the Race Relations Act in this country in 1965.
	And then I think it was updated in 1974 and in the 80s and the 90s.
	And it culminated in the two Equalities Acts under Blair and then under Brown, 2006 and 2010.
	So they've been sort of banning noticing for two generations now.
	And they've been restricting people's ability to think for themselves and say what they think for two generations now.
	Well, seemingly not restricting their ability to actually notice.
	And not legislation doesn't actually stop you recognizing these things.
	Yes, yes.
	Excellent example of the Streisand effect as well, because if we did have a truly free society, pointing out these things perhaps wouldn't be as fun for a start and is sort of sensationalist and interesting to people if it wasn't forbidden.
	And it's sort of like, you know, you could sort of understand this, that something being forbidden, you know, the forbidden fruit.
	Makes it more tempting.
	Exactly.
	But there is also the sort of common good argument, which is for the good of the communities that are engaged in disproportionate amounts of bad behavior, rather than giving them the shield that says you are immune from criticism and anybody who criticizes you is guilty of hatred, saying honestly, look, there is a Pakistani rape gang problem.
	There's a black crime problem.
	There is a nepotism problem with other groups.
	And these need to be confronted.
	And that will allow peaceful coexistence more effectively.
	I think being honest about these things and being transparent about these things would remove some of the sources of tension and conflict if your intent is genuinely to have a more peaceful society.
	But if your intent is to subjugate one community and elevate others, then you need this kind of legislation.
	So the bad intent of the policymakers is baked in, or at least their short-sightedness.
	Well, the interesting thing is as well that with these sorts of pieces of legislation, the ship is sort of sailed for most people with the integration argument, certainly for me, in that, yeah, I don't want integration anymore.
	I don't think it's actually possible.
	Looking at data, looking at the not on those numbers, not in those numbers.
	1%, 2%, we can talk about it.
	And also it depends whether it's 20%?
	No.
	I don't think someone from Somalia can come here and become just as British as you or I. Culturally, at least, they'll never be genetically British.
	In Lebanon, we talk about the Armenia example.
	We had thousands and thousands and thousands of Armenians coming into the country.
	No problem at all.
	Very nice areas.
	It began as a slum, their area.
	Now it's actually quite prosperous, quite nice for the most part, very decent, no conflict whatsoever.
	And we had the Palestinians.
	A bunch of civil wars.
	Right.
	Complete collapse in law and order.
	Kidnapping, crime, da-da-da-da-da.
	It's almost like not all people are the same.
	It's as if values matter.
	It's as if different groups of people actually are genuinely different.
	And you can't legislate yourself out of that.
	And you can't legislate differences away.
	Not really.
	But at the very least, you can be honest about them.
	I mean, that's the first step.
	Oh, well, there's a rub.
	Yes.
	But I suppose I may as well call it here.
	But I think that this is an actual positive story that shows that you can have influence.
	And if you have a story that is worth international attention, you can put it out there and it can be picked up and it can have real world consequences, albeit rarely.
	But the fact it's possible should reassure you all that change is possible in the end.
	Yep, absolutely.
	Okay.
	I was just going to say, I am encouraged by the arc that Elon seems to be going on.
	It's just the only concern, of course, is that you shouldn't need to rely on the most famous, powerful man in the world to just by chance pick up an issue or miss an issue.
	It's difficult, but we're picking up scraps here.
	To be fair, sometimes his interventions don't do anything.
	Like you replied to one of my tweets over the weekend with just the word Elon.
	He hasn't even invited you for drinks yet.
	No, I have not received any money.
	I didn't even get any noticeable change in my Twitter analytics.
	Nothing.
	It was just like, oh, Elon's replied to me.
	Okay.
	That's changed nothing.
	Okay.
	On with my day.
	No pleasing some people.
	Some people, you can't.
	That's random name says, why are we surprised the EU would threaten Ireland when they directly interfered with Romania's election to prevent the right-wing president?
	Isn't democracy great?
	I know.
	The EU is an enemy of the people of Europe, and I'm amazed it's taking this long for people to realise.
	But at least it's going in that direction.
	Nobody ever complains about Japanese, Korean or Scandinavian immigrants.
	I wonder why.
	Well, certain Swedes can be a bit, they have an explosive temper.
	Blood for the Blood got $100 there.
	Sent us a video.
	Let's see what that video is first.
	Yes.
	Sam Hyde calls out Hassan Pika.
	Should we play that?
	We know it's safe.
	We've seen it many times.
	Yeah, we'll play it.
	We'll play it at the end.
	But thank you very much for that.
	That's very kind of you.
	And I'll make sure that that's played because I like seeing it anyway.
	Me too.
	All right.
	So before continuing, please check out Stellius' course.
	It's on courses.lotuseaters.com.
	There is a webinar Thursday at 6 where you will have a chance to have a conversation with Stellios, ask a few questions.
	It's a free webinar.
	And if you like it, you should definitely sign up to the course.
	And I definitely think it's worth it.
	Unlike Josh's positive story about having an impact, I'm going to be on the slightly more depressing side of things.
	Bring it back down to reality.
	Yeah, I'm so sorry.
	So here, there was over the weekend something called the Muslim Impact for Britain or something like along these lines, which is a new outfit that's being founded by Anas Sarwar.
	Case you don't know him, he is the leader of the Labour Party in Scotland, I believe.
	This looks like Scotland to me.
	Yes, very much so.
	That's the Scottish flag behind it.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	And he's talking about gaining real power.
	Let's listen to him for a second.
	So the idea here is just pretty brazen.
	You know, we want more power.
	Therefore, more people of our ethnicity should be in the corridors of power.
	Who also, you know, he obviously doesn't mean the beleaguered Christian minority in Pakistan.
	No, he obviously doesn't mean the beleaguered Ahmadiyy community in Pakistan.
	He means Sunni Muslims.
	I mean, I agree with the framework.
	It just should be for the native population and not.
	Yes.
	Yeah.
	And then there is his father speaking a little bit, which is also interesting.
	His father used to be at MP.
	So if you have any ideas about integration, I think this will kind of dispel it.
	Because if you make it into Britain and manage to succeed enough to become a member of parliament, then your son turns out to be a full-blown Islamist who was promoting the interests of his race and religion.
	I think it's safe to say that there wasn't any successful integration.
	And I think it's also safe to say that the problem wasn't really a lack of opportunities.
	Well, one of the Manchester Arena bombers was a second-generation immigrant from his North.
	I think they were North African, weren't they?
	He was.
	Asylum seekers.
	So his family was firstly connected to the security services and secondly was Libyan.
	And they'd managed to get refuge running away from Gaddafi.
	And the British state has a very messed up relationship with Islamist movements.
	Extremely dodgy, extremely dirty.
	They saw them as useful sometimes to the extent that the Saudis and Emiratis are constantly complaining to the British, why are you allowing these lunatics to operate out of your territory?
	And now that there's Qatar in the mix, they can be sent to Qatar.
	They don't have to be in Britain.
	But they have a pretty strong base here.
	They have a really strong base here.
	So here you have this guy saying that the Muslim friends of labor will be at the heart of the government and pledging his loyalty to Pakistan.
	Look.
	Just what the working class coal miners and workers who formed the Labour Party wanted.
	Yes, exactly.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	And he married his cousin to get to Britain.
	So you get the most UK with a Y story ever.
	This is very much a UK story, isn't it?
	This is very much a UK story.
	And here he is saying the following.
	And inshallah, time will come that there will be a law in place all over the world that there can be no disrespect to our beloved Holy Prophet Muhammad.
	He's adopted the accent so well, hasn't he?
	Yeah.
	I was going to say that, you've lived in Britain for how long and you've not even, your accents Zero effort Yeah.
	Zero.
	Nothing.
	That's how isolated you are.
	In case you didn't hear him, he was saying that there's going to be a global law banning any insults against the beloved prophet of Islam.
	Here's an insult against the Prophet of Islam.
	He married a nine-year-old when he was 53.
	That's repulsive.
	He consummated the marriage with a nine-year-old, according to Sunni Muslim sources.
	That's disgusting.
	Simply disgusting.
	So the integration plan really isn't going very well.
	And now you have the Muslim Impact Forum uniting 200-plus global Muslim leaders who are ready to shape the future, not be shaped by it.
	And so in addition to the Muslim Council of Britain, the Muslim Forum of Britain, the sort of Muslim network of in the civil service, etc., etc., these guys are coming up with a rather novel idea of building an independent political movement in Britain.
	And it should be noted here that, you know, in reform, you have Zia Yousuf.
	In the Conservatives, you have a Muslim network.
	You have the Muslim Friends of Labour, who are quite influential, quite popular.
	You have the Greens, the homosexual Zach Polanski having Muedin Ali as his deputy.
	And now you have Jasballa, basically Jeremy Corbyn's party in association with a bunch of Muslim MPs.
	And they've also infiltrated the apparatus of government as well in the Home Office, which of course is responsible for things like deportation.
	Absolutely.
	There's a network of over 700 different Muslims that are lobbying to recruit more Muslims into the Home Office.
	Absolutely.
	And also, they have played a significant part in reducing attention to the Muslim threat of terror.
	Yes.
	Which, of course, since 2005 is over 98% of all terror-related fatalities were from Islamically motivated terror attacks.
	Exactly.
	And the establishment is only answer is just, you just have to live with these people.
	It's part of the people who are living in a diverse multicultural city.
	It's just the way things are now.
	Look, and I want to warn against the impression that this is disorganized.
	And to explain that, there's this wonderful document here.
	It's from 1991.
	It's a document by the Muslim Brotherhood in North America explaining their strategy for North America.
	And you can bet that the same strategy is being pursued in Europe and in Britain, obviously, and anywhere else where the Muslims are a minority.
	I imagine that because they're writing in Arabic as well, they presume that it's selected for a specific audience, so they're going to be more candid with what they're saying.
	So there's a translated version at the bottom.
	Okay.
	But I'm not clear if they are the ones who translated it.
	Because I went through the Arabic part.
	I didn't go through the English part.
	The strategic objective adopted by the Shuda Council and the Organizational Council of 1987 is to empower Islam in North America by founding an active, effective Islamist movement that is settled and led by the Muslim Brotherhood,
	which adopts the causes of the Muslims locally and globally, works on expanding the base of committed Muslims, and aims to unify Muslims and proposes Islam as a civilizational alternative to support the Islamic global state wherever it is.
	So they start off from the beginning saying that this is a totalitarian project to build a global Islamic state with their presence in North America as sort of a small part of it.
	It's like a vanguard, really.
	It's a vanguard, exactly, which is how the Muslim Brotherhood always has seen itself.
	Everybody agrees, according to this document, that our aim is to indigenize and empower slash gain control for Islam.
	So they use this word called Tamkeen, which means a combination of enablement, empowerment, establishment, gaining control over the levers of power.
	That's the meaning of the word.
	And the translation is a bit vague, but it's a really good word.
	The objective is to do this in this part of the world, and presumably also in Europe, because other leading clerics have pretty much been saying as much.
	And there is a multi-step process.
	First, to make Islam a part of whatever country that it resides in.
	Second, to establish firm institutions, which is what you're seeing now.
	Third, to stabilize Islam and to make sure that it can't be challenged, essentially.
	Fourth, out of a five-stage plan, to make Islam, to give Islam control over the spirits and minds and lives of the peoples of the countries in which it operates.
	So it is sort of following a playbook of, say, a Lenin in that they want to become a vanguard.
	And they say, obviously, you know, we won't have mass support, but over time, through strict governance, we change people's minds.
	Exactly.
	And then it goes on to give other details about how they will build alliances with different groups, etc., etc.
	Hence their flirtation with Zach Polanski.
	Different groups who are dumb enough to take them.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And you have to remember that whenever the leftists and the Islamists were allies, they ended up trying to murder each other.
	And in Egypt, it was the sort of leftists that murdered them first.
	And then the Islamists murdered the Egyptian president, blah, blah, blah.
	And in Iran, the Islamists sort of wiped out every single leftist.
	So, Zach, if you're listening, and I don't think you are, the consequences are going to be severe for you, mate.
	And this is not a threat.
	This is just what happened in history to leftists who allied with Muslims.
	And then they go on to say how confident they are in their position here.
	And I think this is worth listening to.
	In this country, there are 4 million Muslims, and that number is growing fast.
	But of those 4 million, 50% are under the age of 25.
	One-third are actually under the age of 15.
	So the implication here is that the youth bulge amongst the Muslims gives them an advantage in any kind of military confrontation.
	Because the British native population is aging rapidly, whereas the Muslim population is extremely young.
	So what he's suggesting here is that the future is theirs one way or another.
	And it doesn't really matter whether or not they're in high-paying jobs or they're on benefits or whatever the case may be, because ultimately the will of the state will already be sympathetic to them because the previous generations of Muslims have spent plenty of time infiltrating it and characterizing it for their own system.
	And the important part is that this is part of a generational effort.
	This isn't accidental.
	And this preceded the era of mass migration.
	Like the planning for this isn't sort of, oh, they found an opportunity when Tony Blair came to power.
	No, no, no.
	The security services probably knew that these guys have been writing this kind of document because these documents date back to the early 90s.
	And because the Muslim Brotherhood has never been shy about any of this stuff, and in the Real Politic episode at 3, I'll give a little more examples and a few more quotes from leading thinkers of Jamaati, Islami, and the Muslim Brotherhood about their plans for the future.
	So they've known all of this.
	Some of this stuff has been out there since the 1920s.
	Some of this stuff has been out there since the 1930s.
	They've known all of this.
	And yet, Tony Blair decided that it's more important to rub the noses of the right and diversity than to actually have some compassion for his own people.
	That's treason.
	That's treason.
	Well, it's not because they abolished the treason laws.
	Oh, yes.
	Well, so it can't be treason.
	So let's listen to a little bit more of this.
	I would say hand on heart now that we are at a tipping point in this country and it's reflected in other countries as well where we either try and do something different to try and self-organize Muslims to represent ourselves better, to use our resources better, and to influence the countries that we live in better than we have done already.
	Brother Hamza is a relatively rare and unique political talent.
	Actually, we need many more people like him at the top of government in every government in this country across the four nations and in other governments that can influence, sit at the top table and make a difference on behalf of the Muslims.
	You see, this is the thing as well, right?
	Because Hamza Youssef is a guy who, you know, like many of them, just never shut up about Palestine.
	No.
	Right.
	Because he wants your sim thing, your concern for his ethno-religious grievances.
	Yes.
	But my God, if you dare suggest that he should have any for yours.
	Nope.
	Not an inch.
	Not an inch.
	And it's very important, the language here, in the countries that they live in.
	Yes.
	In the countries that they live in.
	So there are several admissions here.
	The most important one is that it's not their country.
	No matter how much Hamza Yousaf will say that he's actually an indigenous Scot, he doesn't even think of himself that way.
	And the people who support him don't think of himself.
	I agree with that point, to be fair.
	But he wouldn't admit.
	If you were to say it to him, he'd deny it.
	If his friends were to say it to him, he wouldn't object.
	So it's only racist when you say it.
	Well, that's all right.
	It doesn't bother me anymore.
	Exactly.
	Exactly.
	The word racist has come the most devalued.
	It's worth about as much as Zimbabwean dollar.
	The word racist is worth about as much as Zimbabwean dollar.
	That's what it is.
	Calling you racist is not going to get rid of your concern about this.
	No, no, no.
	Not in any way or form.
	Not in any shape, way or form.
	But the statement here is that there's a tipping point.
	And our identity is as Muslims, according to the Muslim Impact Forum.
	Their primary identity isn't as Brits, Scots, Germans, French.
	They might carry these passports, and I carry one of them too.
	But they sort of admit in internal discussion that their primary identity is Islam.
	And the only reason that the Muslim movement in Britain is sort of split is that it's because of split between the South Asians and the Arabs.
	So they have the same ideology, but the South Asians have the Shama'ati Islami-associated movements and a few others.
	And the Arabs have Muslim Brotherhood mainly.
	So it's sort of, you know, it's because the Arabs are ridiculously racist towards the South Asians.
	That's the only reason for it.
	It just baffles me, right?
	Because as well, when you say they obviously just put their religion before the country, and you just face with, yeah, but why would it be otherwise, right?
	When the Home Secretary, Shabama Mahmood, says, oh, Islam is just like my absolute guiding principle and informs everything I do.
	It's like, yeah, I would expect it to be.
	Yes.
	Right.
	But why are we dumb enough to allow it?
	Right.
	Because you've lost faith in Christianity and become liberals instead.
	Because under the rules of liberalism, religion is a matter of opinion rather than the defining aspect of your identity.
	So Shabbana Mahmoud is much more honest than a liberal because she will say that my values, my beliefs, my political objectives come from my religion, which, you know, I agree.
	Makes sense.
	That's true for me as well.
	You know, that's true for me as well.
	It's the liberal assumption that, no, no, no, no, no, it doesn't really matter what religion you are.
	We can all work together for GDP.
	That's the real God there.
	That's the real God, exactly.
	And you cannot worship two gods, God and Mamon.
	You cannot worship God and Mamon.
	That's the point of it.
	And these people simply worship Mamon.
	There are two interesting things about this that I noticed.
	The first of which is that they highlight Hamza Youssef as some sort of success story, which is sort of reassuring because if he's their best, then they're not doing particularly well.
	And it's also interesting that they're talking about cleaning up their act, because, of course, this ties nicely to what you previously mentioned about them bringing in more Pakistanis.
	And I don't think there's any group that has done more to radicalize people towards the notion of remigration, mass deportation, whatever you want to call it, than Pakistanis in Britain.
	Yes.
	Because they've been so corrosive to our society in terms of following the law, in terms of draining resources, in terms of being cultural narcissists and just propagating shamelessly their own way of life.
	They're like the opposite of a model immigrant.
	Exactly.
	But it speaks to when the way that they frame it here as well speaks to a fact that they recognize that this is a race against time.
	Yes.
	Right.
	Yes.
	That there is a clock and every single day it ticks.
	Demographics.
	Absolutely.
	But you have to remember that, again, emphasizing the point that this is not organic.
	So two of the supporters of this are obviously Hamza Yusuf and I think Nasshah.
	And here they are meeting with a bunch of Muslim donors for Gaza in Turkey.
	Now, Turkey is the sort of vanguard state of the Muslim Brotherhood.
	It's the one major power where the Muslim Brotherhood actually reigns and comfortably so.
	Because Erdogan's whole worldview is sort of informed by this need to Islamize society and to lead the Muslim world and to bring Islam into a position where it can challenge the West.
	So this is the neo-Ottoman Empire.
	Very much so.
	Very much so.
	So his first national security advisor and then a foreign secretary and then prime minister before they had a massive falling out wrote a book explaining how Turkey was going to lead the entire Muslim world against the West and against everybody else, essentially.
	And that's what qualified him to become national security advisor.
	So this is a sort of, you know, if they're hobnobbing with Erdogan, you can bet that they are acting on what they are saying, which is that their primary identity is Muslim and therefore not British.
	And you have to remember that this is happening in a terrible context.
	You have guys from the Afghan military who are running around Britain, calling people who ask them, what are you up to, racist?
	This is a guy walking around with literally an Afghan military uniform.
	That's not a good idea.
	And he's in one of those hotels in Luton.
	It's not worth much, judging from their performance in the actual conflicts itself.
	Well, they seem to surrender.
	They're just jumping jacks.
	Yeah, yeah, yeah.
	But you can bet that the Taliban guys, so the special forces guys were good.
	Yes, of course.
	And you can bet that Taliban guys are much better.
	And the same Afghans were also working as people smugglers, as GB News reveals.
	So they've the people that were trained by the British in Afghanistan are now working as people smugglers, sending more Afghans into Britain.
	And I think we had a story this weekend where basically the Taliban would issue you with a letter threatening your life if you paid them £40.
	And then you could take that letter to the home office and say, Can I please have asylum?
	I was thinking about getting one just for bragging rights.
	Just like, here, the Taliban have threatened me.
	I'm going to frame it.
	I'm joking, of course.
	I wouldn't be so funny.
	These guys are the fact that you have, in addition to that, the tens of thousands of Afghan soldiers who were settled under Ben Wallace and Robert Jenrick in Britain really shows what a disaster all of this is.
	That basically not only are they building a political organization, but they've also had an army transplanted into Britain.
	And we saw the same with the Muslim Defense League, who were willing to organize very quickly and seemed rather thuggish and rather prone to violence.
	And you have these people bragging about how they're going to be taking power, but noticing any of this is racist.
	And we probably committed a bunch of hate speech offenses in this brief segment.
	I'm going to be covering this in more detail and committing a few more hate crimes at three.
	But in the meantime, maybe we can just sort of watch something entertaining or sort of think of something entertaining.
	Ah, the video on this is gone.
	You had a bunch of trans activists attacking J.K. Rowling.
	Strange definition of entertainment.
	They were attacking an event at which he was speaking.
	The one bit of good news is that if the Islamists win, that kind of stuff will be over.
	That's true.
	But the funny part will be that these kinds of people would have also voted for it.
	That's a very dark bit of sugar for the pill, there, isn't it?
	I do what I can.
	Well, this is why, you know, in many cases, mass deportation is the kindest option, isn't it?
	It is indeed for everyone.
	The most humane.
	It just is.
	Yep.
	Let me read a couple of comments.
	Gimli O'Gloyne, they call you racist bigot at every other buzzword, but they never call you a liar or wrong.
	Says it all pretty much.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	I mean, I see it as encouragement these days.
	More or less.
	It's very kind of you.
	More or less.
	You practice in the mirror.
	That's a random name.
	Says Tommy Robinson is currently in court.
	I know he was supposed to have a jury trial, but apparently that is no longer the case.
	Not looking good, but at least we're not speaking German.
	Yeah.
	Sigil Stone 17 says, speaking of Elon and replies, you see that guy that complained about low payouts and a Twitter employee gave him an additional 10 grand.
	Wow.
	Immediately made me think it's a big club and you ain't in it.
	No, I haven't seen that.
	I don't know what Elon.
	Your payouts are low.
	Please give me 10 grand.
	Thank you.
	He's a big fan, Elon.
	He really is.
	Also from Sigil Stone.
	So when's the UK's obligatory Islam civil war over who was the first caliph of Britannistan?
	Sadiq Khan or Charles Mohammed Winsor?
	But the beautiful part about it is that he's referring to the Sunni Shia split very cleverly.
	The hapsification says, I saw Carl got caught with Surah 2 AI, Surah 2 AI.
	I did warn everyone last week.
	Yeah, it's really convincing.
	It's really convincing.
	I thought it at first.
	I just, by chance, didn't quote tweet it.
	But it's crazy how believable it's all starting to look, really.
	I've not quickly videos or something.
	Yeah, it was like, what was it, Jake Paul or something walking around Leicester and being like, my God, there are a lot of Indians here, but it was all fake.
	It was all AI.
	Why would Jake Paul go to Leicester?
	I suppose some of his biggest fans are there.
	He's got quite a swarthy fan base to Jake Paul.
	Fair enough.
	Well, I'll tell you what.
	Shall we bookend this podcast with going back to the good news?
	Let's go back, let's go back.
	Let's go back with a positive, shall we?
	So, castles.
	Now, obviously, besides just being all over Europe, of course, castles, from my point of view, are just a fundamental part of the beauty of the British landscape, right?
	you're never actually that far away from a castle, especially if you live along the Welsh or Scottish border for historically.
	I wonder why that might be.
	Right.
	Strange.
	And every one of these castles is a work of wonder.
	And whether they're made of Tudor brick or Gothic stone, right?
	They all speak to something about where we've come from.
	And actually, you know, the fundamental link of the fact that these islands are ours.
	right and that our ancestors built these and obviously they all have a great story but beyond obviously uh architectural beauty as well there is also the case for moral beauty and a return to classical values and that's why i'd just like to draw your attention to stelios' new course here the introduction to ancient greek virtue ethics so there's a free webinar the second one at 6 p.m on thursday if you'd like to go and sign up for
	that, then Stelios will be here to take all of your questions about the course.
	And if you're interested in the course itself, it's on the website.
	It's been doing very well.
	I've seen comments online with people being very, very happy with it.
	So definitely do check that out if it's something you feel can help improve your life.
	So we have here, there was a great epoch with Bow and Shadversity a while back where they were just talking about some of their absolute favourite castles, right?
	And how could you not?
	Because I feel like the thing about castles as well is that they're kind of remarkable and leave you in awe whatever age you are, right?
	Even as, you know, an old man, which I'm not yet, you know, they leave you, you know, with that feeling of wonder.
	But also as a young kid as well, right?
	I mean, you know, when you think of like how excited the kids got about like the castle in Harry Potter or something, it almost feels otherworldly.
	It feels like something that couldn't have been created today.
	I only went to a castle recently.
	I went to Warwick Castle for the first time.
	I really liked it.
	Right.
	And I mean, I enjoyed it probably more as an adult than I did as a kid.
	And even as a kid, you know, I'd be going in there looking at the suits of armour and the swords just like, this is great.
	Exactly.
	They are gorgeous, aren't they?
	Yeah.
	So I'd like to, as you say with Warwick, I'd just like to talk very, very, as brief as I can.
	I won't do a Putin and go on for 30 minutes.
	But I'd like to talk to you a bit about one of my favourite castles, which is Scarborough.
	Now on the face of it, it's not the most impressive.
	You can see it's got a bit missing.
	But the roof has definitely fallen off and half of a wall.
	But I'll explain why that was.
	So the point is that this castle was built with the money from the treasury during the reign of Hengwa II, right?
	John then went on to spend an inordinate amount of money on it, given that he did like to spend people's taxes quite frivolously.
	And he spent more on Scarborough Castle than any other castle during his reign, right?
	And an extra, the King's Hall was built beside it and the castle continued to go through different stages of repair and garrisoning, you know, as the medieval era went on.
	And then eventually you got to the English Civil War, where the Royalists held up inside the castle.
	And the reason that there is only half a castle there is because the parliamentarians brought the cannons along and shot the castle in half.
	That's the story of a lot of castles around here.
	Like a few where I grew up were used and damaged in the Civil War.
	I know Donington Castle near Newbury has a large chunk missing because it was besieged for a long time in the Civil War.
	Yeah.
	So many such cases.
	So there's multiple layers of history here.
	And the fact that it played a significant part in our Civil War and our medieval history is amazing that there's this continuity and, you know, you can still see it today.
	Thank you.
	You can still see how it was and walk the battlements.
	It tells a story.
	You can talk about also the stability of this country afterwards, because I don't think Britain has any of the castles with the geometric points.
	So in the continent, to solve the artillery problem, they would change the walls of the castle from being circular to having a bunch of diagonal points, meaning that they could hit you with artillery just as well and even more effectively, whereas they would push you back, preventing you from hitting the main castle.
	So the fact that this development wasn't imported into Britain, as far as I know, meant that you had a much longer period of stability where adjusting your own castles to the new mode of warfare with artillery wasn't actually necessary.
	And I would also like to make a sort of blood feud point of why not.
	Well, I hope you're not going to be able to do that.
	These foreign Norman castles coming over here, building them with stone.
	Back in my day, it used to be a hill fort, used to be earthworks and spikes made of wood.
	Yes.
	Well, so you can see here, even as fab on this hill where Scarborough Castle stands, there used to be an old Roman signal tower, obviously, artistic impression of it.
	This is all that stands left today.
	There was also a chapel built on that hill in the year 1000, which has since disappeared.
	And then, so ever since the Civil War, the rest of Scarborough Castle just stood there until 1914, when the Germans came over with their warships and bombarded Scarborough and Whitby and the rest of that coastline towards the end of 1914.
	And again, the castle sustained more and more damage.
	And now, of course, as we find the castle today, it is, you pay X amount of money, £15, I think it was, when last time I went in there.
	And of course, you're free to go and look around it.
	So what is the point with all of this?
	Why am I talking about it?
	Well, the fact of the matter is that as I give an account of my personal experience and the history with Scarborough Castle, so it is that every single castle in the British Isles has its own story.
	It reveals something about our history, about the wars, about the revelry, about the feasts, about the people that lived in them, and the ideas and way of life that gave birth to them in the first place.
	And Scarborough isn't, for some reason, even on that.
	So that is an incomplete list as you see it there.
	Would you be able to scroll down to Devon and Cornwall?
	I'll see if my favourite is the same thing.
	You're talking about the one in the middle of the.
	Go on then, Samson.
	Thank you.
	Wrestling it from me.
	It does have Tintagl Castle.
	That's my favourite castle.
	Yeah, I really want to go visit it.
	Oh, it's lovely.
	The coastline is absolutely gorgeous around there, and it's on this big island.
	It has, you can see why people see it as the base of the Arfurian legend because it's on this island.
	It feels magical.
	Very much recommend people go there, although the entry fee to see the castle is very expensive.
	But what you can do is stand opposite it and see all of the castle and not have to pay any money.
	Which is more your style.
	It is, yes.
	Far more your style.
	So as I point out, you have many extraordinary castles in the British Isles and, of course, all over Europe.
	But the point that I want to get to, and this is something that I've sort of had subconsciously in the back of my mind for a long time now, is that though these castles are remarkable, they are existing kind of in an end of history state now, where they are actually just walk-around museums, right?
	Everything that I said about Scarborough Castle, and don't get wrong, I'm not suggesting we should start shelling them again or anything like that, right?
	To put a bit of life back in the history or anything like that.
	But what I am saying is that they kind of exist in the abstract, right?
	They're just something that you might go and have a weekend looking around, right, when you go away for a bit.
	And so they're not part of a living history, right?
	There's no reason to think in the current state of a castle, it will ever now be anything more than just ruins to walk around.
	And so actually, a castle that, historically speaking, would have been very, very close to the center of the community in a medieval period is now detached from it.
	And it leaves us with this place where the castles are a remarkable expression of Christian architecture.
	And they're also falling into decay.
	And as people are Slowly, you know, attendance to these sorts of things withers a little bit.
	There is actually some good news here, which is that Nathan Hood, a very, very good man, and his works all around on YouTube where he talks about Arthurian legends, Tolkien, and just what is fantastic work.
	He has set up the Pendragon Foundation, which is going to be a voluntary organization dedicated to basically restoring Britain's strongholds, right?
	It's about, and by restoring, and I should clarify what I mean by that.
	I don't mean, you know, hiring the stonemasons and like rebuilding Scarborough Castle brick by brick.
	But what it does mean is where castles can be preserved and where a decaying castle might be in the center of a town, there is a wonderful opportunity there to re-center the castle within the community itself.
	And actually, through this way, it works on many, many levels.
	It roots people back in their actual history, right?
	And it takes the castle away from being something abstract that you just merely visit to something that actually is again at the heart of the community.
	And also, what's more, there's a YouTube channel with the Pendragon Foundation where Nathan explains a lot of this very, very well.
	And we also have a magazine that will be coming out at five o'clock today.
	And I believe, so featuring contributions from, wait, Josh Vellum?
	That's me.
	I'm in this.
	What are you doing in there?
	Well, I like a good castle, Desme.
	No, I wrote about the importance of preserving your history, and I spent a long time refining a very concise paragraph on, and I tried to put it in a nice, poetic and moving way.
	I was very happy with it.
	Just the importance of doing these sorts of things.
	And I think that having an appreciation for one's country and one's history is basically foundational to preserving it into the future.
	And that we should all have a stake in trying to preserve our history because there's a certain beauty there.
	It's not just interesting, but we have an obligation to basically steward these things into the future for future generations.
	If we neglect it, if we go out of our way to ignore it, perhaps, then we're doing a disservice to people who come after us.
	And we are part of that continuity.
	And I think that castles in particular bring this into mind because they're things that symbolize the life and death of our ancestors, basically.
	And I think that having a reverence for one's ancestors is a good thing.
	Yes.
	I couldn't agree more.
	I couldn't agree more.
	Revering ancestors, good.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	And so we have this fantastic organization.
	And if I just go back to the website, actually, you can see here, Britain's castles once protected us and now they can inspire us, help us turn these ancient strongholds into centers of culture, commerce, and community.
	Before you write off their military relevance, one of the greatest crusader castles in South Lebanon ended up getting used by the Palestinians and by the Israelis and was a pretty much active military site up until the year 2000.
	And then the Crusader castles in Syria also ended up being used by the insurgents and by the government.
	So the kind of stone masonry that is involved in those is ridiculous.
	It takes more than an old cannonball to get one to sort of go through one.
	And they are still, they were still militarily useful in modern warfare.
	Right.
	At least against insurgents and fighting insurgencies.
	So, like, it's not over for castles.
	These things are so valuable.
	And so, if you would like to volunteer or just you merely interested in what it has to offer, there's, as you can see here, a list of opportunities, rebuilding.
	With the supervision of industry experts, volunteers participate in the restoration process by taking part in construction work, supercharging our efforts to re-establish these magnificent and historical buildings, and they can develop their own craftsmanship on these unique projects.
	It's also a matter of research, finance, media, which I guess I'm kind of doing today.
	You also have events and engagement.
	And so, if you want to subscribe or make a one-time donation, that's also an option up there.
	Because, as you say, Josh, there are inheritance.
	And if we don't look after them, the new arrivals certainly won't be interested in doing anything of the kind.
	I would also like to point out that I contributed to the magazine voluntarily.
	And they're not paying me to say this.
	I just think there are a bunch of good people doing a good thing, and I wanted to help them out.
	And I think that it's great that you're drawing attention to this because I think it's a very important thing.
	And I think that no matter what your politics are, you know, obviously we talk about politics most of the time.
	I think most people can recognize that preserving your history is important.
	We might disagree on what it might mean.
	We might disagree, you know, some might call it racist.
	I don't know if anyone's calling a castle racist.
	I think it's like shouting at a brick.
	I hope so.
	But these things, I think, have undeniable value in them.
	And I think that what they're doing is very necessary as well because many of the institutions like English Heritage and the National Trust aren't necessarily doing well and they're also subverting things with politics.
	And so having a safe pair of hands to deal with our handoff to the next generation is very, very important.
	Right.
	And I think please.
	Sorry, just briefly.
	Castles also reflect a certain kind of order in society that just because you're rich and have a castle doesn't mean that you are free from responsibility to those around you.
	As a matter of fact, if you want your castle to survive and not be torn to bits, you need to take care of the farmers and you need to take care of the town and you need to take care of the people in the surrounding area so that when hard times are upon you, you have a reliable social base that you can depend on.
	Whereas it's completely different under financial capital.
	Under financial capital, today, if you're a millionaire, today you're in Britain, tomorrow you're in Monaco, the next day you're in Milan.
	You have no attachment to place.
	You have anti-globalist monuments, basically.
	They are anti-globalist monuments because they remind you that politics is hyper-local and that you must take care of the people in your immediate vicinity.
	And they remind you of the correct order of Christian love.
	You owe more to the people who are closest to you than you do to strangers, which is something that the Home Office would do well to remember.
	Although, to be fair to them, the Muslims in the Home Office do understand that perfectly.
	So there is this moral dimension to the way society was organized in the past, which reflected first hierarchy.
	And in fact, hierarchy is good because it must be based on competence.
	And the ultimate test of competence is battle.
	And secondly, there is an element of there's this web of obligations that everybody exists in.
	And they remind you that your obligations to those nearest and dearest supersede other obligations.
	So they have this additional social element to them, which when you go around and see the architecture and you see, well, this castle is made for this family, but it's also ready to host another 2,000 people from the nearby villages and towns.
	Well, why would this evil aristocrat care about them?
	Because actually he wasn't an evil aristocrat.
	He had a genuine interest in the well-being of the society around him.
	And they had a genuine interest in his own power because that was how the peace was kept.
	So there is this other element that you have to think about when you look at these places.
	I was speaking to Rory before I came on to do this segment, and he was saying about the idea that actually maybe it would be a good thing to give a lot of these castles back to the aristocracy, the actual nobles who used to own them in the first place and obviously have them just try and reconnect some of that neo-feudal sense of kingship and duty and responsibility.
	And it's making their citizens work in the fields, I hope.
	Well, if they're iron out the niggles in the plan at a later date.
	But also as well, I just want to clarify, this isn't about LARPing as 12th century Christian knights, right?
	This isn't what this is about.
	Because what I'm really saying, and part of the reason I told the story with Scarborough, is that actually it's not about it being static.
	It's not about returning a castle to exactly as it was at the beginning of the 1200s, but it's about finding a way to take it from the abstract and reintroduce it into something within society that speaks to all of the things that you very ably mentioned, Ferras.
	So yes, at least do go and give the Pendragon Foundation a follow on Twitter.
	Go give it a subscribe on YouTube.
	And if you're interested in getting involved, well, I've given you all the necessary links so that you can do that.
	And like Josh, I didn't receive a penny for this.
	It's just something that I think is a really, really good initiative.
	And amongst all of the decline and ruin that we see within our culture, a very, very valuable way that we can make a practical difference and do something together to actually preserve it.
	So I hope you've all found this informative.
	Okay.
	Sigilstone 17 says, I want castles in the United States.
	Sure, we have military bases, but they're the lame and gay version of castles.
	Castle tower, nuclear missile silos.
	Let's go.
	That's the other thing as well, isn't it?
	Like, all our castles are just older than the new world.
	Yes.
	By a significant margin.
	Right.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Ochik Dor says for moving Lotus Eaters HQ into a castle, whether built or refurbished.
	Yeah.
	I wouldn't mind going to work in a castle.
	That would be good fun.
	See?
	Firas is already on board.
	I'm definitely on board.
	Detect says, Firas got that Kanye Westrach.
	He goes from smiling to serious face in nanoseconds.
	Well, that's because we're constantly joking and then moving into serious themes, isn't it?
	You just roll with the punches.
	Trying.
	Another arcadia says Firas' country is so F stuffed, isn't it?
	Not yet.
	Not yet.
	There's always hope.
	Good answer.
	There's always hope.
	And then I believe you read Gimli's quote, so let's go to the video comments.
	Okay, a couple of quick announcements.
	One, I just published a new children's book, There's a Monker in Your Eye, inspired by a play date I had with my nieces and nephews many years ago.
	Also, Carl, you're going to be in Australia next week.
	If you'd like, send me a message on my website and let me know if you're going to be doing a hangout or anything before the conference.
	I will be there either way.
	But hope you enjoy your trip.
	We'll pass a message on to him, Cooper.
	cscooper.com.au.
	Thanks.
	Hope the book goes well as well.
	Yes.
	Oh, so that was the end of one for today.
	All right, we're going to look at it.
	Russian garbage human.
	Hello there.
	Being honest regarding crime data and issues would mean the establishment would have to accept that the blank slate theory is a lie and we do have innate traits.
	Well, the world of academia, ironically enough, largely accepts this in psychology.
	It's just like, yeah, they use the tabula rasa.
	It's just like, obviously, we don't believe this.
	Yeah.
	What are you stupid?
	What are you, a blank slate?
	No, they didn't say that.
	But no, they said that this was a hit that is more covered in the history of ideas like, yeah, this is an old discredited idea, but it's not true.
	So the political world sort of needs to catch up a little bit.
	I don't know whether that's changed a little bit, but I would be surprised because people talk down many of our academic institutions and lots of them, you know, as long as their work doesn't intersect with any woke stuff or political stuff, are doing great stuff to this day.
	Like, I don't think the people that work on the psychology of visual perception are going to be able to crowbar in anything, you know, untoward in there because it's such a surprise.
	Well, most of the people that I met, not to sound too, you know, on the fence here, most of the people I met were so passionate about the work they did that they wouldn't want to sully the truth.
	To be able to rise to the top in many of these disciplines, you've got to have a passion for viewing reality.
	And you're really enthusiastic because you've got to work incredibly hard to get there.
	And so to ruin it with politics almost feels like sacrilege to many of them.
	And that's something that should reassure people.
	It's not actually as bad, although we should still try and retake the universities because, you know, and also I think some disciplines should be banned, like, you know, colonial studies and gender studies.
	Just like, what's the point?
	Queer theory.
	Or at least you shouldn't.
	They can be easily completely defunded by any parliament that wants to do so.
	You don't get any university funding if you have critical theory, gender theory, blah, blah, blah.
	And he carries on to say they'd rather destroy everything than admit they're wrong.
	Let's hope that's not the case.
	George Hap says, it's not like Ireland and Scotland have been bastions of free speech before.
	They're considered the banning songs, the banning of songs, I presume.
	In general, most normies don't care about free speech until it personally affects them.
	I think if you get arrested for your most dank memes, that's going to affect you.
	Lance.
	I'm merely having the memes and not sharing them.
	I know.
	You're hiding memes under your floorboards, are you not?
	Lancelot.
	Tyranny begins with the redefinition of language.
	If thought corrupts language, language can also corrupt thought.
	Yes.
	And I think that unless you're committing actual violence or theft, I don't think the state should intervene in your life.
	And there might be a few exceptions that I haven't thought of.
	But generally speaking...
	I'm a big fan of blasphemy laws.
	And...
	And one day I'll explain to you why.
	But generally, there's always been a link between heresy and civil war and political instability.
	And so the Inquisition did nothing wrong.
	I wasn't expecting the Spanish Inquisition.
	Luke, you beat me to it.
	Rate minds think alike.
	Colin P says, why are there even such things as protected characteristic?
	Protected from what?
	Why those particular characteristics?
	Well, it's basically that the project of mass immigration has imported people that may not be as good at things as the native population, and you have to protect them from the consequences of ultimately their own failures.
	Which is about as brutal a way as I can put it, but it is true.
	Kevin Fox says, makes a change for the Irish being accused of race-based hatred instead of religion-based hatred.
	Yeah, it's just cycling it around.
	It'll come back again, I'm sure.
	And then finally, Roman Observer, Josh, the EU is an enemy of the people of Europe.
	And I bet you still haven't read the Manifesto di Ventoni.
	No idea.
	Well, I'm going to look it up now, so you've got your wish.
	On the Muslim Brotherhood, Fuzzy Toaster says, at this point, I'd rather suffer the fallout of losing genuinely good Muslims and just kick all the Muslims out, all of them.
	The downsides cannot outweigh the benefits at this point.
	Look, the reason I agree with you is because these movements are very organic.
	The most successful political movements in the world today are probably the Jabati, Islami, and the Muslim Brotherhood.
	And they aren't sort of imposed or anything.
	They're genuinely organic expressions of the intellectual and commercial and political elite of the Muslim world.
	And that's what they think.
	And in the next realpolitik in half an hour, I'll be going over some of what the founders of these organizations have said.
	And if I said it, I would be accused of being an extremist.
	But that's what they say their agenda is.
	So please stay tuned for another half hour.
	Bleach Demon, would you please do a breakdown of the Muslim Brotherhood?
	Assuming, well, okay, it's not a full breakdown of it, but it's a breakdown of how they think.
	But yeah, we can do more deep dives if you're interested.
	And then, as an observation, the left see Islamists as fellow travelers to the global revolution.
	Yes.
	Pally group like Democratic Front for the Liberation of Palestine, PLO, the Popular Front, they're openly Marxist revolutionary.
	Yeah, and the PLO was, I think, taking money from the KGB, as were a bunch of those.
	Is this a fatal flow for the likes of Jeremy Corbyn?
	In the immortal words of Richard Tice, I'll be long gone by then.
	And Corbyn will be long gone by the time he has to face the consequences of his evil alliances.
	But we won't.
	So you won't.
	Your children won't.
	No.
	So, yeah.
	Dreadnought Logan.
	When we win and control our countries again, there will be consequences.
	I pray for no bloodshed except for those who have been to trials and legally are allowed to face these consequences.
	For me, and I genuinely try to hold to this every day.
	It's not about hatred, right?
	No, it's not about hating other people.
	But we have one home.
	And if it's gone, it's gone, right?
	And I don't want this to be the last century that England exists in all of human history, right?
	It's been one of the greatest nations in the world.
	An unbiased source might say the greatest.
	And so I feel that it deserves to continue.
	It has the most wonderful people.
	And I love it unconditionally, right?
	And they can't take that away from you.
	They've got 52 nations to pick from, so if they want to...
	Fight for what is behind you, not out of enmity for what is in front of you.
	You fight because you love what's behind you, not because you hate what's in front of you.
	Yes.
	Yes.
	Samson's pulled up the video now.
	Oh, go on then, Samson, and then we'll get to my comments.
	You got anyone you want to call out in the heavyweight division?
	Oh, you know it, lad.
	You know that, Hassan Pika!
	I'm coming to kill you!
	In Los Angeles!
	At your house!
	Or in the ring.
	No, in real life!
	And we're destroyed him and become obsessed with him and wear his makeup and his dresses and use his skin as a coach like the ancient timers did.
	Well, that's your winner, Sam!
	Hey!
	I will never get tired of that book.
	You can tell he slightly breaks like wavers off his speech.
	He's like, No, in real life, like put a shot collar on him.
	Right, from my segment, we've got Zesty King says, I've been visiting British castles all my life, especially so in the last few years.
	I'm currently on 78, and I always find them interesting and beautiful.
	No two are the same.
	I may or may not have also an article in the Pendragon magazine releasing this Wednesday.
	Oh, I thought it was today.
	It said it on the Twitter.
	Anyway, I hope you all enjoy.
	Well, you'll be able to buy the magazine nonetheless.
	He also says, I volunteered in Tintagl Castle last year.
	It was honestly stunning, and I was shown all the bits not available to normal tourists.
	I did this for five days, and I enjoyed every day of it.
	Well, that sounds like a remarkable experience.
	I'm quite envious.
	Rhys Sims says, We must restore our castles one maccolation at a time.
	I'm sorry, I'll have to Google what that means.
	I can't remember how it's pronounced.
	I wanted to say in my head that it's meticulation, but I'm not entirely sure.
	And people are going to be like, Josh, you're an idiot.
	Well, the T is at the end of the word, so I don't think that could be the case.
	Anyway, Geordie, I'll have a look.
	Forgive my ignorance.
	Geordie Swordsman says, Hmm, which castle should I put a quick drive over to tomorrow?
	Newcastle, Prudhoe, Walkworth, Dunstanbar, Anwick, or Bamborough.
	I mean, Bambras.
	It's the most famous one.
	Yeah.
	I've not been to Bambury yet, but I really must.
	It's too far north for me.
	I get dizzy if I go that far north.
	Yeah, it's like the oxygen levels up there.
	Your head goes a bit woozy, does it?
	That explains a few things.
	Yes.
	Yes, you see, this is the thing.
	I've not quite acclimatised yet to these southern airs that don't quite agree with me, to be honest with you.
	Don't smell like coal, does it?
	No.
	No.
	Just don't like it, lad.
	Michael Brooks says, My wife is from a dearly large town in Slovakia, Kesmarok.
	They have a castle in the town that is still used officially by the council and as offices for local businesses.
	Schools also use it as evening spaces, I assume that's meant to say.
	So nice to see.
	Event spaces, perhaps.
	Still have.
	Yeah, event space.
	Could be either.
	Well, there was one actually that I saw on the Pendragon Twitter account where they talk about, I think it was one in Scotland, perhaps, but where it is a university campus.
	So actually, yeah, that's great.
	That's an example of living history.
	Sure, it's not a fortification, but at least it's still serving as some centre for public life.
	Big limited universities or schools or even council offices.
	There's government offices.
	Nothing wrong with that.
	Well, I don't think I feel like we should perhaps sully them with the hands of councillors and politicians, but maybe if you reminded them of their noble origins and duties, it might improve them.
	Sanctuary.
	Maybe if they constantly had to think that one day they might be under siege and facing cannon fire, you would provide them with incentive when we have Cromwell 2.0 comes along.
	It could also be a place for budding witchcrafts and wizards, you know.
	Harry Potter, of course.
	Not being blasphemous.
	Yes, yes, yes.
	Only joke.
	I'll be sorry when the Inquisition comes back.
	All right, the witch burnings were based, and I'll make them happen again.
	Thank you.
	And I love the outfits.
	Derek Powell says, all I ask is one castle to use as Chippy HQ.
	Doesn't have to be a big one, though.
	That'll help.
	I'm not sure what do we mean headquarters for fishing chip shops?
	Like, what is chippy?
	The grand central authority of fish and chip shops.
	Yeah.
	Well, that should be obviously in Scarborough by North Sea.
	Mr. Fimble, Flibble, rather.
	We can use the castles as our last line of defense when Hamza.
	Yes.
	Hamza the Hun is excellent as well.
	That's a fair phrase.
	Yeah.
	Yeah.
	The country.
	Well.
	And Honourable mentions, Zesty King informs us, happy no bra day, everyone.
	Well, I came prepared.
	Josh, get your tits out.
	It's much easier now with no bra.
	And Roman Observer says Luca should visit the town of Luca.
	Yeah, it looks glorious, I have to say.
	Yeah, well, I'll have to tour Italy much more when Europe is more at peace and we have time.
	Get your Johnson out in Luca.
	Sorry.
	I have to lower the tone.
	It's almost the end.
	Oh, no, is it 2.29?
	Well, I think we'll call it there, leading gentlemen.
	All right.
	Well, thank you for joining us.
	As we say, Firas is on.
	Again, join him at 3 o'clock for Real Politique, where you can get an extension on today's segment talking about the Muslim Brotherhood.
	And again, do sign up for Stelios' webinar at 6pm on Thursday.
	And we will see you at 1pm tomorrow.
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