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Now on to the spiked podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

I'm Fraser Myers and joining me this week,

as ever, we have Spiked Deputy Editor Tom Slater,

hello, and Spiked columnist Ella Whelan.

Hi.

Coming up on the show, a year of lockdown,

the Boulder and Atlanta shootings

and the EU vaccine crisis.

I must give the British people a very simple instruction.

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