Topic: Peter Hitchens

Dame Sheila provides a "boots on the ground" report from Lisbon, Portugal, contrasting its quiet but open atmosphere with the strict military-enforced lockdown in Spain. In San Francisco, the city is reportedly converting luxury hotels like the Hyatt into homeless shelters and instructing police not to respond to robberies under $2,500, leading to concerns about rising crime.

Peter Hitchens argued that the British Empire was dismantled under pressure from the United States via the Bretton Woods agreement and the Marshall Plan. He characterized the European Union as a "modern, politically correct empire" effectively run by Germany. Adam Curry also mentioned receiving an invitation to a luncheon with the King and Queen of the Netherlands.