Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1,164.

I'm joined by no longer special guest, but team member Stephen Wolfe.

Oh, well, it's good to be here and good to be back.

Excellent.

And but we have a new special guest, Ed Dutton. Hello. And this is this is Ed's website. So if you

like the Cutteridge, he's looking at, you know, various interesting things that happen.

Yeah, can I say what that is about? Well, let's skip that for now.

All right.

They can click on the video and they can find out what it's about.

You've also got a, Samsung and the buttons aren't working.

There we go.

You've also got a Twitter page and you've just released a book.

My buttons still aren't working.

I have, yes, the biography of Jonathan Bowden, who seems to be the guilty little secret pleasure of a vast number of people that are conservatives.

And so Jonathan Bowden, shame to the radical right, the life and mind of Jonathan Bowden.

And it's the first biography of him, and it looks at really,

was a man that in many ways was completely mad,

but also, like a shame, and has managed to inspire people

and make them feel that the world will get better

and bringing together all kinds of recondite information into a fascinating synthesis.

And so there you go,'s Jonathan Batten. Excellent, right. Well if you want to find out more than, you know,

really? I'm not even heard of him.

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