Hello and welcome to another episode of The Resties Polities with me, Alistair Campbell.

And with me, Rory Stewart, and Alistair, I thought you were going to be sitting in a night

club in Soho, but you seem to be back at your home.

And back home, yeah, the Soho studio was not tempting enough, I'm doing this from home.

And you are in Malawi and by the sounds of it, with not very pleasant weather.

It's an unbelievable tropical thunderstorm, although when I checked into this hotel, I was told

that I'm in the very bedroom in which your friend Tony Blair stays when he comes to Malawi,

which makes me feel very privileged.

But it is an incredible tropical thunderstorm.

I mean, you might be able to hear it at the back of the podcast, but the heavens have opened

and it is just crashing down, and I hope that doesn't interfere too much with the internet.

Now, you wanted to start us off on a number of things, a quick thing, though, firstly,

which is we managed to sell out Haragay, which was exciting, very, very exciting.

And although apologies to people who didn't get tickets, middle of the main, many apologies.

Some people got on, I think, one minute after the ticket sales opened and couldn't get

tickets.

Yeah.

But the good news is I think that we're going to be doing some other things in other parts

of the country.

We will doubtless be doing that.

And I think also, the other day I was up in Scotland at Sterling University, I was doing

a lecture, the Andrew John Williamson Memorial lecture, which you had done before.

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