The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #647
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - May 5th 2023 9:00am EDTTonight on the Lotus Eaters, local man eats beans, a leaflet is stolen, and Jon Stewart huffs glue.Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast Reading List
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #646
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - May 4th 2023 9:00am EDTConnor and Harry discuss the leaks that made Tucker Carlson look great, the new civil rights martyr that just dropped, and DeSantis letting us down.Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast Reading List
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #645
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - May 3rd 2023 9:00am EDTCallum and Stelios discuss Fish Tank, Gavin Newsom’s obsession with DeSantis, and why Callum is happy.Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast Reading List
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #644
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - May 2nd 2023 9:00am EDTConnor and Dan discuss the First Republic Bank collapsing, the Bank of England saying the quiet part out loud, and the clients in Epstein’s calendar.Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast Reading List
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #643
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - May 1st 2023 9:00am EDTIndependent journalists Dan and Stan of Voice of Wales join Harry to discuss the colonisation of the English countryside, how Wales handles illegal migrants, and antiracist voodoo. Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast Reading List
Weekend Segments | 30th April 2023
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Apr 30th 2023 11:00am EDTThe Truth About the Dutch ProtocolPre-recorded Thursday 27/04/23. Connor and Harry discuss the Truth about the Dutch ProtocolThe Silencing of the LambsPre-recorded Thursday 27/04/23. Connor and Harry discuss the Silencing of the Lambs
Weekend Segments | 29th April 2023
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Apr 29th 2023 11:00am EDTAI GF Pls Don’t Steal Pre-recorded Thursday 27/04/23. Connor and Harry discuss the Replika AI chatbot rescinding its NSFW settings — and Redditors going on suicide watch for it. The “Right-Wing” Leftists Pre-recorded Thursday 27/04/23. Harry and Connor discuss criticisms of libertarianism.
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #642
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Apr 28th 2023 9:00am EDTHarry and Nick Buckley MBE discuss how voter ID will destroy democracy, who the real misogynists are, and Sudanese refugees.Reading List
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #641
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Apr 27th 2023 9:00am EDTJosh and Matt Le Tissier discuss the media coverage of Matt’s cancellations for his political views, the ever accelerating rate that those with non-regime approval are being persecuted and the most recent instances of cultural decline in Britain. Reading List
John Constable, English Reactionary
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Apr 26th 2023 7:00am EDTHow did England’s most popular painter become a political lightning rod in the culture wars? Artist-critic Alexander Adams finds out.When Just Stop Oil decided to seek out publicity, The Hay Wain was an easy target. They printed out warnings about environmental armageddon and stuck them over the painting, damaging it in the process. Little did […]
‘Real Communism’ Has Already Been Tried
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Apr 21st 2023 11:00am EDTConnor examines primary texts by Karl Marx & Friedrich Engels, and the writings and accounts of the actions of the twentieth-century dictators they inspired, to determine if the atrocities committed by Marxist states are an aberration produced by human fallibility
An Ode to Pluto
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Apr 8th 2023 6:00am EDTThe human condition is both terribly depraved and spectacularly noble. We are capable of breathtaking cruelty and pettiness and splendidly positive achievements worthy of the gods themselves. We are doomed to express both these facets of our character simultaneously; there is no other way.
I, Claudius with Nicholas Hughes
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Mar 31st 2023 11:00am EDTBeau chats to Nick Hughes about the iconic 1976 television adaptation of Robert Graves’ legendary novels I, Claudius and Claudius The God. It chronicles the the lives and times of the first four Caesars of imperial Rome, and features some Listen to the Audio Version
On “Victimless Crimes”
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 1:06pm ESTHarry examines the logic behind the idea of “victimless crimes” and whether it can be used as an excuse for immoral behaviour.
Our Wile E. Coyote Economy
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 1:06pm ESTConnor argues that the modern digital economy is founded on debt, empty ideological promises, and giving a fleeting sense of fulfilment to childless millennials — and that its collapse is inevitable.
Reality Against Abstraction
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 1:06pm ESTCarl explains why he thinks we need to stop living in a world of abstractions and get back to reality.
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #577
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 1:06pm ESTHarry and Stelios discuss Owen Jones blowing open boomer truth, the scientific development of even more newspeak, and just how communist Gen Z is.Audio Version Available After the Live Podcast
The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #576
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 1:05pm ESTAlex Stein joins Carl to discuss how we are simply not allowed to eat food any more, how the British Conservative Party is way more cringe than the Republicans, and how the American right’s predictions about socialised healthcare are coming
The Strange Myth of Black Romans in Britain
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 1:05pm ESTThe Museum of London is relocating to a new site in Smithfield. While it will not open for a year or two, its curators have already decided that a display about Roman London should feature a ‘typical’ London household ofOf course, a young Black single mother will serve as the head of the display. She […]
Dealey Plaza’s Tell-Tale Heart
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 1:05pm ESTListen to Audio VersionIt is approximately 12:30 p.m. on the 22nd of November 1963, in Dallas, Texas. A bespoke convertible Lincoln Continental limousine enters Dealey Plaza, before taking its fateful left turn onto Elm Street. Sitting in the back seat are the 35th
A National Eulogy
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 1:05pm ESTListen to Audio Version On the eve of Armistice Day, one is made mindful of the material comforts and existential protections which we take for granted — and for which many lives were sacrificed to maintain. However, many of those lives were lost needlessly;
Weekend Segments | 28th January 2023
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 28th 2023 10:00am ESTOn “Victimless Crimes”
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 20th 2023 11:00am ESTHarry examines the logic behind the idea of “victimless crimes” and whether it can be used as an excuse for immoral behaviour.
Our Wile E. Coyote Economy
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jan 11th 2023 11:00am ESTConnor argues that the modern digital economy is founded on debt, empty ideological promises, and giving a fleeting sense of fulfilment to childless millennials — and that its collapse is inevitable.
Top Gun: Maverick – Mach 10 into the Post-Woke Paradigm
Lotus Eaters ( With Sargon Of Akkad) - Jun 15th 2022 8:10pm EDTWarning, this article contains spoilers. There is much to laud about Top Gun: Maverick . Full disclosure, I am a bit of an aviation fanatic: the 1986 original is up there as one of my favourite films of all time. But coming nearly 40 years after Pete ‘Maverick’ Mitchell first took to the skies, Powered […]