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Hello and welcome to The Spiked Podcasts End of Year Special.

I'm Fraser Myers and joining me to look back on 2020

the year the world went mad is Spikes Deputy Editor Tom Slater.

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And Spiked columnist Ella Wheeling.

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Coming up we're going to be discussing the Year of Lockdown, the Cultural Revolution and the survival of populism.

It is done, we are out.

This is the first day of a new month.

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