Oh, hello. Welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eers, episode 1,328,

for Thursday the 8th of January, 2026.

I'm your host, Luke, joined today by Dan and Josh.

Hello.

Always returning guest, Josh.

Ever returning. I'm like the indigestion that you can just never get rid of.

Only worse.

Only, well, I was going to say, a good form of indigestion. But anyway, as you can just never get rid of. Only worse. Only, well, I was going to say, a good form of indigestion.

But anyway, as you can see, we have the new issue of Islander.

Issue 5, ladies and gentlemen, you all wanted it.

You've all been asking questions about it.

It's finally here, complete with wonderful articles.

I think that Rory has done an amazing job with the cover and all of the

aesthetics of the work. It's some of his best work yet. And finally with Warhammer 40K articles.

Yes, fantastic. By Morgoth. Yep. We've got Morgoth. We've got Carl. We've got Rory himself.

Obviously, we've got A.A., Will Tanner, many great returning writers for this issue of Islander 5.

I've done my own marshals of Middle Earth one on Aragon this time, so I hope you all enjoy that.

So today, ladies and gentlemen, we're going to be talking all about how the left are trying to find a new martyr. We're then going to be talking about, well, we're going to ask if the West Midlands police did anything wrong, apparently. It is an argument I will advance. It fell flat on its face on Twitter, but I'm going to have another go. All right, okay. Well, I'll enjoy watching you have a pop at it.

And then we're going to talk about the future of the American right.

So, with that all said, shall we begin?

So I would just like to start by really talking about the fact that, obviously, ICE have never really had the eye, you know, of public attention on them quite like they do now. They're under a great amount of stress and duress and I think we should commend them, irrespective of whether or not we think the number of deportations are what we actually want and whether we think it's enough to help

save America.

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