'Political persecution of the working class'

Podcast of the Lotus Eaters | 28 November 2024

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In episode #1052, Carl Benjamin, Josh Ferme, and I delve into some of the most pressing topics of our time, including mass immigration, the political persecution of the right-wing working class, and the widening gulf between men and women.

This was my first panel appearance on the Lotus Eaters. I got to visit their studio in Swindon and meet the team with whom I have had many a jovial interaction online, but never had the good fortune to meet in-person.

In my own nerdy way, it was dream come true to be asked onto the Lotus Eaters. The conclusion of an odyssey.

I have followed the show since its launch, more than three years ago now. This was before I began to speak my mind in the public square and when my writing had been for myself alone. I had yet to be “cancelled” for my views, and yet to reveal my deadly flirtation with transgenderism. I knew I no longer believed in political correctness, identity politics, or Marxism but, having been raised in that progressive framework at school and by TV, I did not know how to otherwise apprehend the world. Which is to say, I did not have the language or the reference points to articulate what I knew to be true in sight and feeling.

I owe a great deal of credit to The Lotus Eaters, the boys and their work. Not only have their contributions to right-wing thought — conservative, Christian, libertarian and beyond — been pivotal in my intellectual development; guiding my reading and honing my style; they have restored my ancestry to me, and, in that, restored my confidence. My confidence in my abilities. My confidence in my senses. And my and confidence in my fellow man.

I will always be grateful to everyone in that humble Swindon office. For, above all these lofty things, they have helped to restore me to a robust sense of fun after a long time without laughter.

So do, please, watch the episode and support their work if you can: if I can claim to have any merit of my own, I found it with their help.