The Podcast of the Lotus Eaters #1089
Connor, Harry, and Josh discuss the leaked RICU report calling grooming gangs a ‘grievance narrative’ invented by ‘right-wing extremists’, who Trump has fired, and how zoomers don't like democracy. It's coarse and rough and irritating and it gets everywhere.
Reading List
Extremely Confused: The Government’s new counter-extremism review revealed - Policy Exchange
Home Office report labels concerns about mass migration ‘right-wing extremist’ - GB News
Tomlinson Talks | How the Government Gaslights You - Lotus Eaters
Tomlinson Talks | Thought Crime and Islamic Blasphemy Laws in Britain - Lotus Eaters
Tomlinson Talks | How Islamists Influence the UK Government - Lotus Eaters
The Report - Policy Exchange
How Islamists Influence the UK Government | Connor Tomlinson - Courage Media
Policy Exchange report recommendations - Policy Exchange
The UK Government’s Thoughtcrime Division | Connor Tomlinson - European Conservative
Leaked dossier reveals Home Office plans to revive non-crime hate incidents - The Telegraph
Far-right group exposed in undercover BBC investigation - BBC
The Radicals Redefining Extremism | Connor Tomlinson - Courage Media
‘YOU’RE FIRED’: Trump admin removes 'over a thousand' Biden-appointed staffers 'not aligned' with MAGA - The Post Millennial
Civil servants plot to sabotage Trump’s working from home ban - The Telegraph
They are all on Reddit - Reddit Lies - X
Trump invites nearly all federal workers to quit now, get paid through September - NPR
Trump administration dismisses members of all DHS advisory panels, including CSRB - The Record
Trump fires first woman to lead a US military service - France 24
Trump suspends dozens of top officials for blocking his freeze on foreign aid - Mail Online
Trump Fires Iran Hawk Hook - The American Conservative
Trump fires two Democratic commissioners of agency that enforces civil rights laws in the workplace - AP News
Trump fires 17 government watchdogs in middle of the night - but a key one remains in his post - The Independent
Some Senate Republicans defend Trump's firing of 17 inspectors general - Reuters
Even Republicans are questioning Trump’s ‘illegal’ midnight purge of inspector generals - The Independent
Trump fires senior labor board official in ‘unprecedented and illegal’ move - The Guardian
Trump Fires Labor Board Prosecutor Who Drew Backlash From Corporations - The New York Times
Trump Justice Department says it has fired employees involved in prosecutions of the president - AP News
Trump Ousts TSA Administrator - Skift
‘No, I’m not phoning to say I’m dying!’ My gruelling week of calling gen Z friends rather than texting them - The Guardian
More than half of Gen Z wants UK to become a dictatorship, survey claims - The Independent
UK politics: Miliband tells MPs UK needs to ‘speed up, not slow down’ in net zero drive – as it happened - The Guardian
The Kids Aren’t Alright: the 4 factors driving a dangerous detachment from democracy - Onward
Why South Africans are fed up after 30 years of democracy - The Economist
Gen Z Survey: Committed to Human Rights, Worried about Democracy - Freiheit
If Gen Z has given up on democracy, we’re in even more trouble than we thought - The Independent
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