Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of Lotus Eaters episode 1,276. Is it 76 or 77?

76.76. Excellent. Raise my mic up a little bit. All right. Thank you very much. I'm your host Harry,

joined today by Bo and Firas. Today we're going to be talking about the shaky Gaza piece,

which looks already to be crumbling. Who would have expected that? No peace in the Middle East.

I never ever could have predicted something like that. We're going to look into Birmingham

being a no-go zone, something that we've already internalized, but it's always good to see more

examples of

why. And Bo's going to be telling us about why your Chinese girlfriend is spying on you.

Dan, watch out. But before we go carry on, I would just like to say a big thank you to the author

Neil Asher, who is a science fiction and fantasy author, who has sent in signed copies

of his, one of his entire series here. We really appreciate that. Thank you very much. We're all

fans of science fiction and sci-fi, so I'm sure they'll get a good look in when we can

eventually get around to it. You can imagine what the reading lists of every author, of every presenter on the show looks like. But we will get around to it and we really appreciate your support. So thank you very much for that. Is there anything else that you gentlemen would like to say before we get into the news? Maybe we can invite him in one day. Yeah, yeah. And Stadios is...

Oh, I was going to mention that at the beginning of the segment.

Brilliant. So with that, let's get into it.

So let's talk about the shaky and potentially already crumbling piece

that has been enacted in Israel and Gaza over the past few weeks and what's been going on with that.

First though, I'd like to say one, a big thank you to everybody who tuned in to the webinar

to speak to Bow and Stelios last night on Stelios' ancient Greek virtue ethics course.

From what I've been told told it was a great success,

and everybody who joined in was very polite and cordial, asking very interesting and relevant

questions. Anything you'd like to say to everybody? Yeah, no, it was really good. It was totally

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