Hello folks, welcome to the podcast Lettsees for Wednesday the 3rd of December 2025. I'm John

by Harry and Josh. Hello. And today we're going to be talking about how we're living in the long

shadow of the British Empire as we are about on the precipice of abolishing trial by jury.

Not something I thought I'd ever actually say. I mean, who would have predicted it wasn't in the Labour

manifesto. And I thought it was, I thought it would be

worth us having actually a deep dive into this. It'd be quite a circuitous route that we go back

through the events that have led us to this point. But frankly, it explodes a bunch of the

liberal myths, if you actually just trace it in a linear fashion as to what has happened and what the people now in charge of our country say and do.

Well, I mean, if you're going to say liberal, this is all a function of managerialism.

Yeah.

And for managerialism, efficiency, as Jacques-A-Lul would put it, technique, the idea of putting efficiency is the sole god to worship and aim towards and strive towards.

Liberalism over top of managerialism is basically just a thin veneer.

It doesn't really mean anything.

Yes.

And, I mean, they're essentially one in the same

when it comes to their worldview.

They view just, and the British Empire is just as guilty of this

as anyone else, of viewing human beings,

all empires operate in the same way,

as just numbers, numbers on spreadsheets.

For example, the reason that

there are loads of Bangladeshis in Burma is because at the end of the 19th century, we were like,

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