They want your 8-year-old to fight "misinformation"

So I thought today we might return to Suta, Ben, which I hope is the correct pronunciation of the place because I wasn't here the last time.

It was you and Fatima discussed it when it all kicked off initially.

But I thought it would be worth doing because I feel like it's an absolutely insane situation, even more so now that it's played out for a month.

I just think it's incredible that it just happened and it's sort of been swept under the rug because...

Okay, the chronology.

You have at the end of July, early August, something like 60,000 people crossing illegally into this small Spanish exclave.

And that caught everyone by surprise.

And it looked so bad that even the left in Spain wasn't really trying to defend it on any sort of migration grounds.

A lot of them started theorizing about who might, which, you know, which actor might be involved, might be behind it or whatever, which is sort of rhetoric many of them have backed off since.

But anyway, in the sort of days following that, the media and, you know, the state, the Spanish state and other states as well, very eagerly leapt onto the fact that a lot of people had backed off, a lot of people had backed off Souda essentially and had returned to Morocco.

And so from their perspective, it was kind of like, okay, situation over, problem solved.

And the reason I feel like it's worth returning to discuss today is that situation anything but solved.

And it's absolutely crazy to me that this narrative has gone off the ground because every piece of evidence I have seen from the place itself is a death blow to that narrative.

And it's just crazy, like, the disparity between the reality on the one hand and the line that the EU, Spain, and all of the sort of, you know, institutions you might expect have taken is just nuts to me.

So this came, this was, you know, on my mind this morning because the editor of Axel Springer, which I think is the group that owns the Telegraph, Politico, the German publication Bild, a bunch of them anyway, is in Souta at the moment.

And apparently, according to his own social media testimony, he's been there 15 times since 2019.

Why he's been there so often, I don't know.

But anyway, he has been.

And he's experienced it in every, you know...

So I imagine he's no, you know...

He's got no opposition to the place itself, and so he wouldn't be necessarily trying to give it bad press.

But anyway, he's putting up videos since he got there.

He's like, atmosphere in Souda on Monday morning.

And there's just migrants everywhere being corralled by the police.

What appears to be quite an unpleasant atmosphere.

So I thought today we might return to Suta, Ben, which I hope is the correct pronunciation of the place because I wasn't here the last time.

It was you and Fatima discussed it when it all kicked off initially.

But I thought it would be worth doing because I feel like it's an absolutely insane situation, even more so now that it's played out for a month.

I just think it's incredible that it just happened and it's sort of been swept under the rug because...

Okay, the chronology.

You have at the end of July, early August, something like 60,000 people crossing illegally into this small Spanish exclave.

And that caught everyone by surprise.

And it looked so bad that even the left in Spain wasn't really trying to defend it on any sort of migration grounds.

A lot of them started theorizing about who might, which, you know, which actor might be involved, might be behind it or whatever, which is sort of rhetoric many of them have backed off since.

But anyway, in the sort of days following that, the media and, you know, the state, the Spanish state and other states as well, very eagerly leapt onto the fact that a lot of people had backed off, a lot of people had backed off Souda essentially and had returned to Morocco.

And so from their perspective, it was kind of like, okay, situation over, problem solved.

And the reason I feel like it's worth returning to discuss today is that situation anything but solved.

And it's absolutely crazy to me that this narrative has gone off the ground because every piece of evidence I have seen from the place itself is a death blow to that narrative.

And it's just crazy, like, the disparity between the reality on the one hand and the line that the EU, Spain, and all of the sort of, you know, institutions you might expect have taken is just nuts to me.

So this came, this was, you know, on my mind this morning because the editor of Axel Springer, which I think is the group that owns the Telegraph, Politico, the German publication Bild, a bunch of them anyway, is in Souta at the moment.

And apparently, according to his own social media testimony, he's been there 15 times since 2019.

Why he's been there so often, I don't know.

But anyway, he has been.

And he's experienced it in every, you know...

So I imagine he's no, you know...

He's got no opposition to the place itself, and so he wouldn't be necessarily trying to give it bad press.

But anyway, he's putting up videos since he got there.

He's like, atmosphere in Souda on Monday morning.

And there's just migrants everywhere being corralled by the police.

What appears to be quite an unpleasant atmosphere.