Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eater's for the 22nd of October. I am joined by Bo and I am Josh.

I'm very tired Josh because I was up late last night watching the Hope Not Hate documentary,

and that's what I'm going to be talking about first, and then Bo's talking about

Bricks versus the G7, a bit of geopolitics, you know, a nice bit of light geopolitics.

And then we're going to be talking about how the state deals with political dissidents,

because there's been lots of developments. And I think it's an interesting thing to examine, because there seems to be two different philosophies

on either side of the Atlantic, actually, that we're going to talk about.

And I suppose it's quite important as well, because, you know, there's an election going on in the US,

and these sorts of things might be of concern.

But anyway, let's get on with the news because I have no announcements.

And hope not hate have released a movie.

A documentary film on Channel 4, which broadcast at the very prestigious slot of 10 o'clock at night on a Monday.

And here is their poster announcing it.

It's called Undercover Exposing the Far Right.

And yes, I'm very proud of it.

And here they are. The members of Hope Not Hate, you've got Nick Lowell's there on the phone looking like he's, you know, in a heist film, having a very hurried phone call.

Is that not penfold?

Oh no, it's Nick Lowell, sorry.

And you've got the other members of the team who I'll introduce there note in particular the

gentleman with the camera pulling a face like a mixture of Dennis from always sunny in Philadelphia

and uh Zoolander um I don't know why he went for that pose um I mean I mean it you've got to give it to them.

The composition's interesting.

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