Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen, and welcome to the podcast, The Lotus Eaters for Tuesday, the 7th October 2025.

I'm joined by Josh and Lewis Brackpool.

And today we're going to be talking about the embarrassing death of the Conservative Party,

because you probably aren't aware the Conservative conference is going on and no one cares.

We're going to be looking into how deep the rot goes with digital ID and it goes quite far.

Sorry, I think that's mine. That's mine. It's yours. Sorry. And we are then going to be talking about the

tragic comedy of modern Britain because if you actually

look at like what all the comedy shows were saying oh wouldn't this be funny if this was the

future you got it's worse it's way worse unfortunately so anyway right let's begin so like

I said it's the conservative party conference at the moment, and nobody cares.

Well, it's funny because it's not even the conservatives.

I just said to you, like, oh yeah, you know, people jumping ship to reform or whatever.

And you were like, you know, it's still going on when I just said, oh no, it should have been after the conference that they announced it.

And it's during the conference.

We'll get to that.

But before we begin, Stelios' course on ancient Greek virtue ethics is now live.

Go to courses.loaties.com to go and check it out.

And on Thursday at 6pm, this week, we will be doing a free webinar where we discuss why we need to restore Aristotle to the moral centre of our daily lives. This is deeply important and we're going to explain to you exactly

how Aristotle got dislodged because of course for a thousand years Aristotle was the philosopher.

The Christians of course spent well a thousand years explaining to everyone why Aristotle was not only good and useful, but also could fit within a Christian framework.

And then the Enlightenment was like, actually, we could have no ethical framework.

How about that?

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