Hello and welcome to podcast of the Lotus Eaters episode 1437. It is Wednesday. Um, the, is it Wednesday. Um, the, is it, uh, the, is it, uh, the, it's Wednesday. It's Wednesday. It's Wednesday the 10th of June. My note say something different because I forgot to update it. Year of our Lord, 2026. And today we're going to be talking about there was a spot of bother in Belfast.

Nothing much. But we'll cover the little bit that happened. Carmelo Anthony's sentencing.

Yes, and I'm going to, we are going to talk about the sentencing. I think it's too lenient,

but we are also going to have some

fun with the videos or the reactions. Yes. And, um, um, um, you, NATO is going to try and explain

to parties that you're not entitled to people's vote because you say you are. Yeah, just a

conversation about democracy, I guess. It sounds a bit controversial though. Yeah. Some.

That's a very far right controversial though. Yeah. Some.

It's very far right, maybe.

So last night, Belfast pushed back hard, really hard.

I mean, this was after the brutal beheading attempt.

I mean, just before this, we saw photos of the poor guy's face who's got attacked.

It is an absolute horror show.

It literally looks like something out of a horror movie, the guy's face.

Can I just interject just briefly?

Sure.

They were still moderate in their response.

Oh, yes.

Oh, yes.

Although they pushed back hard, this is still moderate. Yes, exactly. I think that's still really important to keep out there. It could have gone a lot further and we go into that. But

big protests all across Belfast, you know, things were torched. And as Nate rightly says,

this is still very much in the

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