Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1,236. I'm your host, Legolas, joined today by Frodo and Sam.

Gimley. Okay, Gimley. I'll take Frodo. He was the hero. Oh, no. Yeah. And...

Stoical. Heroic. And today we're going to be talking about the release and continued persecution of Lucy

Connolly, the flag result and why revolt and why the English are putting up flags to

begin with.

So it should be an interesting one chap, anything we need to add before we go on, other than

the fact there's ladsour after this

and if you're a member on the website you should definitely tune into that because it could be

should be a lot of fun it's going to be a great one yeah should we say yeah yeah we're going to be

exploring the life and trying to navigate the trials of nicholas thirty annes what does he do in

his life what obstacles does he face Can he save up enough money for a

mortgage? Find out all of these answers and more on Ladzauer later today. And with that, I think we

should just get into it, chaps. Yeah, let's go. All right then. So Lucy Connolly has been

released from prison, but this is not a pure cause for celebration because her persecution is ongoing.

The release from prison is not because she's been acquitted of all charges or been forgiven for what she said or anything like that.

It is because she has served the mandated 40% of her sentenced time in prison and is now

able to be released on parole. So she's living currently outside of prison, but she's on parole,

she's got to be supervised, and she's still going to be the target of a lot of media attention.

As we can see from the way that the BBC very neutrally

phrased this headline on their article related to this, woman jailed for race hate post,

released from prison. A very nice neutral way of putting it. And to be fair, she was

sentenced under inciting racial hatred, but of course

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