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The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

Breakfast With Beau | Tuesday 24th February 2026

The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters

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4.71.1K Ratings

🗓️ 24 February 2026

⏱️ 76 minutes

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Summary

Beau discusses today's papers and gives you an overview of the day's news. Live 8-9am GMT on weekdays.

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0:00.0

Morning.

0:07.0

You're right.

0:10.0

I hope you are, fighting fit, bright eyes and bushy-tailed, rocking and rare in for the day ahead.

0:18.0

It is Tuesday, the 24th of February in the year of our Lord

0:22.0

2026. It has just ticked past 8 a.m. Greenwich meantime. I am joined by my producer Little

0:28.5

Harry, who isn't all that little. How are you good, sir? Morning. Good, good. Good, great. I hope

0:34.7

you're ready for the day ahead. Let's just jump straight into it, shall we? With no further ado. What is the corporate mainstream media banging on about this morning? All right, it's a Mandy day. There you go. It's a Mandy day today.

0:49.2

Peter Mandelson. The Lord Mandelson, as was. He's been arrested. I've been arrested arrested finally I don't know why it took him

0:56.8

like 17 days to come to that decision but anyway okay Mandelson arrested and four years of

1:04.6

tears in Ukraine all right let's have a look then the Daily Telegraph just Maddelson

1:10.3

arrested so I think

1:11.6

all but one of the papers, maybe two, but nearly all of them are just go with this. Again,

1:15.6

the same, pretty much the exact same image. This is him being led away from his home.

1:19.6

He was arrested in the afternoon yesterday, which is slightly unusual, like about half

1:25.6

past four in the afternoon yesterday.

1:32.2

It's slightly unusual, not unheard of, far from unheard of, but usually they'll do it in the morning.

1:34.9

Some people saying that perhaps it suggests that they got some fresh information that

1:39.5

day yesterday, and they decided to swoop at that point.

1:48.2

Okay, Labour Grandee marched from his home of Epstein scandal in what the Telegraph call a defining moment of Starmer's premiership. Is it? It might be,

1:57.0

possibly, I wouldn't say so, the defining moment, but I mean, perhaps not a crazy exaggeration,

2:06.4

maybe a defining moment for Mandy's life. I mean, he's in his mid-70s. I'm glad he's done,

2:13.9

his political career is done, whatever happens, he's not coming back into frontline into frontline politics well labor will be out of government in a couple of years three

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