Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, episode 1,379 for Friday, the 20th of March, 2026.

I'm your host, Luke, joined today by Firas and Stelios.

Hello, everyone.

We're mixing it up a bit.

What is normally the Monday panel is now the Friday panel, so now you don't know what to do, do you?

Wild things.

Yeah.

And today we're going to be talking all about the dark developments regarding abortion

in the United Kingdom.

We're then going to be talking about what's happening in Cuba.

And we're also going to have a, I don't know what to call it,

a light pallet cleanser of a Friday segment talking about the theological differences between Israel and the West.

I think it's going to be spicy and nice, but also I want you to appreciate my Cuban attire today.

You've come dressed for the occasion.

Yes.

All right. Two announcements for you, ladies and gentlemen.

Well, actually three. Obviously, you can join us at three o'clock today for Lad's Hour, where we're going to be having a fantasy parliament.

Now, Carl has been playing this all morning, chuckling to himself. So I can assure you, it's going to be wildly entertaining. We're also,

I just wanted to, if that would have worked for me, but it's not. So dragging one, there we go.

Thank you. Also, part two of my conversation with Harry on Chronicles is out now. This is going to

end up being a three-part discussion all about

William Shakespeare's Macbeth, and at the end of it, Harry and I were joking about the fact that

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