The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #697

Harry and Nick Buckley MBE discuss the Huw Edwards fiasco, the holy trinity of wokedom, and the strange reaction to a film about preventing sex abuse.

Reading List

• Announcements

  

  PREMIUM: Symposium #27 | The Epic of Gilgamesh

  Stelios Panagiotou, Carl Benjamin, B.B. Dade & Lotus Eater

  SymposiumPublished 13th July, 2023

  

  PREMIUM: Brokenomics | 4th Turning

  Dan Tubb, Jack Furness & Lotus Eater

  BrokenomicsPublished 11th July, 2023

• I Can’t Believe The Sun Would Do This
  

  PREMIUM: Symposium #27 | The Epic of Gilgamesh

  Stelios Panagiotou, Carl Benjamin, B.B. Dade & Lotus Eater

  SymposiumPublished 13th July, 2023

  • LOCKDOWN BREACH BBC presenter suspended over sex claims ‘broke Covid lockdown laws’ to meet young stranger from a dating site - The Sun

  • Questions for the Sun over BBC presenter story - The BBC

  • Five questions for the Sun on its story about the suspended BBC presenter - The Guardian 

  • Huw Edwards named as BBC presenter at centre of allegations – as it happened - The Guardian 

  • The full list of allegations against Huw Edwards - The Telegraph 

  • BBC resumes Huw Edwards inquiry as no criminality found by police - The BBC

  • Huw Edwards – latest: BBC journalists ‘investigated TV star before sex picture claims were published’ - The Independent 

  • TalkTV Interview - Politics UK - Twitter 

  • Stop paying attention, don’t look - Alastair Campbell - Twitter 

  • Mental ‘elf guv -  Alastair Campbell - Twitter 

  • What if the shoe was on the other foot? Checkmate conservatards!- Alexander Hall - Twitter 

  • What an odd thing to say - Albie - Twitter 

  • Hypocrisy! - Tom Hardwood - Twitter 

  • He did nothing wrong, guys - Benjamin Butterwoth - Twitter 

  • I can’t believe the Sun would do this- Owen Jones - Twitter 

• The Holy Trinity of Wokedom

  • What is Woke?  Political correctness- CDN 

  • Critical Race Theory - CDN

  • Gender Theory - CDN

  • Queer Theory - Queer Theory 

  • Tear it all down and start again. Why? - CDN

• What an Odd Thing to Say
  

  PREMIUM: Brokenomics | 4th Turning

  Dan Tubb, Jack Furness & Lotus Eater

  BrokenomicsPublished 11th July, 2023

  • Summer flopbusters: why were Indiana Jones and The Flash box office bombs? - The Guardian 

  • The Flash Box Office - Box Office Mojo 

  • Indiana Jones 5 box office - Box Office Mojo 

  • Sound of Freedom: An unlikely - and controversial - summer movie hit - The BBC 

  • Sound of Freedom: An unlikely - and controversial - summer movie hit - The BBC

  • Sound of Freedom: the QAnon-adjacent thriller seducing America - THe Guardian 

  • Child sex trafficking rife in Colombia's picturesque Cartagena - The Guardian 

  • ‘Sound Of Freedom’ Is a Superhero Movie for Dads With Brainworms - Rolling Stone 

  • Why Anti-Trafficking Experts Are Torching ‘Sound of Freedom’ - Rolling Stone

  • SAG strike: Avatar and Gladiator sequels look set to be hit as actors walk out - The BBC