Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,370 for Monday, the 9th of March, 2026.

I'm your host, Luca, joined today by Josh.

Hello.

And Firas.

Hello.

And today we're going to be talking all about the absolute state of the British justice system and why if there is one consolation

we can take from it, it seems to have humiliated David Lammy and his plans for it. We're then

going to be talking about the American murder paradox. That's what I've dubbed it. It's pretty

dark, dark theme by the sounds of it.

Yeah, but it's going off of the back of murder rates falling, so actually it's positive-ish, I guess.

I'm going to break it down because it seems paradoxical.

Pot thickens.

And then we're going to be talking about Britain's new anti-Muslim hate Tsar.

Yeah, they couldn't call it an Islamophobia, Tsar. But it's an Islamophobia at Tsar. And the idea is completely stupid.

Was only a matter of time. It was, I mean, next step is a Mohammedan inququisition and then it can only get worse.

Oh, gody.

I'm surprised they called it as Tsar, isn't that quite sort of imperial and cluel?

It is, it is.

But technically the Ottoman Caliph called himself the Tsar of some sort.

So, yeah.

There we go. And we have several announcements for you, actually, before we begin, ladies and gentlemen.

First of all, at 3 o'clock, Firas will be presenting a freemium episode of Realpolitik talking all about, I don't know, some Iran stuff.

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