The Lotus Eaters is a podcast and media platform set up by misogynistic influencer Carl Benjamin (AKA Sargon of Akkad). Benjamin first came to notoriety via his YouTube channel, which was involved in the so-called “Gamergate” phenomenon, in which misogynistic video game enthusiasts mounted harassment campaigns against female game developers and journalists. 

Benjamin has courted controversy ever since, being banned from social platforms for the use of racial slurs and infamously stating that he “wouldn’t even rape” the Labour MP Jess Phillips. In 2018, Benjamin joined UKIP under the leadership of Gerard Batten and stood as a candidate in the 2019 European elections. He is also a repeat speaker at the Traditional Britain Group conference.

The Lotus Eaters’ website hosts a wide array of text, audio and video content, some free to view and some placed behind a paywall for subscribers, and has eight regular contributors across the platform. 

These include Benjamin “Beau” Dade, a Reform candidate sacked after HOPE not hate exposed his article calling for the deportation of a “foreign plague”, and Harry Robinson, who has called for the raising of a white racial consciousness in Britain. Connor Tomlinson, who has said the “Great Replacement” conspiracy theory is “real”, interviewed the former prime minister Liz Truss on the website last year.