Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters for the 2nd of January 2025. First podcast of the New Year. I am joined by Harry and Charlie Downs.

Hello. Happy New Year to everybody.

Did you have a good Christmas?

I had a lovely Christmas.

Yeah, it was just lots of family, lots of eating incredibly rich food, which I can't even look at now anymore.

And yeah, it was just a welcome break to the constant churning, rolling madness of being in this

business.

By yourself?

I had a Christmas.

That's good.

I'm glad to hear it.

We are going to be talking about some...

I mean, the new year has begin with a bang, actually.

Two terror attacks in the United States.

The thing is, it's true.

Also, Elon Musk blowing up the grooming gang issue in Britain, which is superb.

And then Charlie's going to give us a roundup of what exactly has been happening with migration.

That's right, yeah.

So one of my other hats is I work as the content lead at the center of migration control,

which is a migration think tank.

We are a small operation trying to sort of

actually do the work that a lot of other kind of migration think tanks in the space just

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