Good afternoon and welcome to the podcast of the Lotus Ethers, Episode 1,443. I'm your host, Harry,

joined today by Faraz. All alone. And no one else. It's just a double team right now,

dream team, obviously, obviously. And we're going to be talking about the more and more

bizarre attacks on Restore, which I'm starting to really love the kind of straws that they're willing to pull.

You know, I don't want to be, I've said this to a lot of people recently. I don't want to be a shill for restore or anything.

I'll be critical where I need to be. And there are places to criticize, but like seriously, some of these attacks are absolutely delusional, and I kind of love them. We're going to be talking about the reaction to the

rape gang inquiry report. Very interested to hear the sorts of reactions that you've been finding.

The reactions from the Muslim community. Yeah. Although I've seen a lot of discussion on Twitter,

I've seen a lot of controversy regarding the, I've seen a lot of controversy regarding

the report, not just from those sorts of people, but people who are ostensibly supporters

of survivors as well, and there seems to be a lot of stuff going on with that.

I will just say, like, immediately, I am very jet-lagged.

We can tell.

So if there's a little bit of groggyiness, if there's a little bit of tiredness,

that's why I've told Firas, if I fall asleep to prod me,

and also that means that I have not had chance to look through, like,

the 219 pages of the report yet.

So I am not up to date on that, although I do have a lot of holdover information

from transcripts and such that I've read in the past. And I'm also going to finish off by

Firas and Hattie sitting in a tree for F-E-D-P-O-S-T-I-N-G. Sounds about right. You should hear

the kind of conversations we have in the office, and the sort of books

that we're reading.

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