Good afternoon, ladies and gentlemen.

Welcome to the podcast, the Lotus Cetus for Tuesday, the 14th October 2025.

I'm joined by Josh and Dan.

And today we're going to be talking about something absolutely terrible and yet probably quite predictable that has happened in Europe.

And in fact, since we're on Europe, we'll move on to how Europe is doing really well in one country.

Yes.

That made some sensible decisions.

That country's Poland.

I mean, no surprise there.

They're about to pass our GDP.

I'm going to talk about that.

Oh, my God.

That's impressive.

It's also depressing, though, isn't it? Yeah. Like, sorry, how has Britain fallen below Poland? It's not that I don't love Poland and the Polish friends and stuff. It's just that, come on, guys, you know. A repudiation of what we're doing. We had a bit of a head start, didn't we? Oh, yeah. Yeah, exactly. Disappointing. Exactly. But also they shouldn't be able to do it because they're not having immigration.

Well, they are a little bit.

But anyway, and then we'll end with the return of the male gaze and the patriarchy striking back.

And CNN are sad to hear it, but it seems like it might be inevitable.

But anyway, without further ado, let's begin.

So meet Iris Sautzer.

She is the recently elected mayor of a little West German town, Herdeck, where she grew up.

She's the daughter of a steel worker, and she became a lawyer specialising in labour law.

She was actually a green party member up until about 2014 and then she switched to the

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