The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #704

Helen Dale and Nick Buckley join Carl to discuss Sadiq Khan's new "Maaate" initiative, how the homeless are a moneymaking scheme for some people, and why women need to get back to work.

Reading List

• Announcements

  HELEN DALE

  • Senior Writer for Law & Liberty, a publication owned by US think-tank & educational foundation Liberty Fund

  • Most recent piece was on affirmative action

  • Occasional podcasts for them. Douglas Murray

  • Dale's Substack

  • Substack's "featured" writers -- I've used the company's big gold elephant stamp to highlight Lorenzo's essay series, which is now starting to get serious traction

  • Dale's Twitter

  Nick Buckley MBE

  • Buckley's Twitter

  • Buckley's YouTube

  • Nick Buckley 4 Mayor of Greater Manchester

  

  PREMIUM: The Politics and Philosophy of They Live

  Carl Benjamin, Lotus Eater & Lotus Staff

  TV, Movies, & GamingPublished 29th August, 2022

  

  PREMIUM: Epochs #116 | Battle of Blenheim

  B.B. Dade, Carl Benjamin & Jack Furness

  EpochsPublished 23rd July, 2023

• Why are Sadiq Khan’s Londoners so Misogynistic?
  

  PREMIUM: The Politics and Philosophy of They Live

  Carl Benjamin, Lotus Eater & Lotus Staff

  TV, Movies, & GamingPublished 29th August, 2022

  • They already have a violence problem we can’t arrest ourselves out of- Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan - Twitter

  • Harry makes a good point- Harry Robinson - Twitter

  • The problemSadiq Khan - Twitter

  • Romesh Ranga - Mayor’s Press Office - Twitter

  • Sadiq’s campaign- Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan - Twitter

  • Long video - Mayor of London London Assembly

  • Sadiq’s guilty conscience - LBC

  • We’re gonna have to break out the They Live billboards for this - Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan - Twitter

  • Our dystopia doesn’t even have the fig leaf - Paul Joseph Watson - Twitter

  • Ladbible - LADbible News - Twitter

  • Maaate for the pakistani community - Jeff Arnold - Twitter

  • Maaate on the transgenders - Women Of Camden & NW London #SexMatters #POW - Twitter

  • Maate on Sadiq himself - LBL - Twitter

• Marketing the Homeless

  

  • Starbucks barista says 'pay it forward' chain is actually 'extremely annoying'- Mirror

  • Socks for Homeless People - Buy 1, Give 1- Stand4Socks

  • The Manchester city centre pub that will be open on Christmas Day - to feed the homeless - Manchester Evening News

  • ‘Diversity Fatigue’? Hollywood Loses 4 DEI Leaders in Less Than 2 Weeks - yahoo!entertainment

  

• Get Back in the Wage Cage, Ladies
  

  PREMIUM: Epochs #116 | Battle of Blenheim

  B.B. Dade, Carl Benjamin & Jack Furness

  EpochsPublished 23rd July, 2023

  • Woman actually doesn’t want to work- Ian Miles Cheong - Twitter

  • Women were against all this, actually - Wikipedia

  • Get Back in the Cage, Wagie Women - Yahoo!news

  • 1950 they were 33% of the workforce. How did that happen? - Chimura

  • Women’s taxes- GOV.UK

  • The chart - Carl Benjamin - Twitter

  • UK gov to pay 231 billion last year - Statista

  • Women claim 56% of this figure - 129.36 billion - GOV.UK

  • Refuse to go back to work - Daily Mail