Hello and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Eaters, Episode 1435 for Monday, the 8th of June

2026. I'm your host, Luke, joined today by Firas and Lowe, two very fine gentlemen. And today

we're going to be talking all about how the establishment are just not going to win the fight

over the question of English identity.

We're then going to talk about the plods being pointless.

And then we're going to be talking about who's really creating problems in the Iran war?

And to your guesses in the chat, I suppose.

Anyway, before...

For the record, that won't be my segment.

It's both.

I haven't seen what he's planning on saying, just saying,

I'm going to be talking about it later in real politics, but he's...

How are you?

Did I jump you on that one?

No.

Okay.

Well, two announcements before we get into the main show.

Obviously, we have a new episode of Chronicles, not just any episode of Chronicles as well,

ladies and gentlemen, the 50th episode of Chronicles.

And so we decided to mark the occasion got me, Bo, Samson, our producer, to just talk about

Sharps' Eagle, the first ever novel written

by Bernard Conwell and the first Sharp novel naturally as well. And we just had a great time,

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