Hello and welcome to the podcast to the Lotus Eater's episode 1776. I'm your host Harry, joined today by Carl, and we have special returning guest Harrison Piss on. How are you doing, Harrison?

Very well. Thanks for having me, Jens. Anything you'd in the print, and I'm looking to take the bulk of my writing services elsewhere. So stay tuned for news on that front.

Stay tuned for where you'll be able to find Harrison going forwards. But as it matters, today we'll be talking about how we need to keep up the pressure against labor, the scouring of Los Angeles,

and how Mark Zuckerberg might not be as anti-free speech as people think. So that should all

be interesting. And for all of our subscribers to the website, you should also be aware that we've

got Lad's Hour again on this afternoon at 3 o'clock,

the first one of the new year, so we're all looking forward to it. We're going to be making our

predictions for our 2025 bingo card. That should be a lot of fun, so stay tuned for that.

And with that, let's get into the news. So speaking of things that people probably didn't predict,

who would have thought that Elon Musk would go on a more than week-long tirade about the grooming gangs in Britain?

The great thing about this is that Elon Musk is just too big for them to get a handle on.

With all, for people outside of the UK, basically, there's a kind of dome that overpins,

the overarches over our political life. And it is the sort of Westminster media classes

protective bubble. And when a story bubbles up and tries to seek to break through, they close ranks

and form this protective shield

across the establishment. And Elon Musk is just above this and has just come down from

above and just smash straight through it and made the Grimmengang issue essentially front and

center and force them to accept that there has been a lack of accountability on the part of the political class,

the institutions of this country, and the communities who have been involved in it.

And this has been difficult for them to deal with.

And they have tried the usual tactic of closing ranks, circling the wagons and saying,

well, hang on a second, everything we've

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