Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Itas for Wednesday,

the 11th of June 2025. I'm joined by Stephen and Luca, and today we're going to be talking

about America's Mexican standoff and what they ought to be doing about the Mexicans living

in America. A reckoning for Northern Ireland, because of course things are going brilliantly

over there.

Diversity, very clearly their strength.

And the total collapse of the Reform Party's credibility.

In the past week or so, for some reason, reformed been like, actually we're massive libs,

and we're completely on board with the disinheritance of the British people from their ancient homeland.

Weird, with a right wing party. So... completely on board with the disinheritance of the British people from their ancient homeland, weird,

with the right wing party. So it's been a very bizarre week, frankly, but it's been an interesting and instructive one. So let's begin. So currently in Los Angeles and is spreading beyond

Los Angeles, actually, there have been

quite large anti-immigration protests which of course have become violent and have been revealing

about the nature of the fracture between the American people and the state and the people

who have immigrated to America, not just in recent years, but in previous

eras, and the way that they think of themselves in relation to the rest of the United States.

And I think it's really one of those things that the Americans have to get a handle on,

and honestly, with quite a lot of legal force, this has to be essentially put to bed as a

paradigm, that there is such a thing as a hyphenated American, really, is what it ends up coming

down to, because the American social contract is predicated on believing a series of ideas

and deliberately and consciously incorporating

yourself into that society. And America is actually very well set up for this, unlike the

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