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Now on with the Spiked Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

I'm Fraser Myers and joining me this week we have Spiked editor Brendan O'Neill.

Hello? And Spiked columnist Ella Wheeling.

Hi.

Coming up on the show, What's happened to Boris, a year of Kiestarma and racist toddlers.

I will take an ID card and I will eat it.

The Geiger counter of Olympus isia is going to go zooke.

I can tell you the price of a bottle of champagne. How about that?

You must stay at home. There are ethical issues raised by the idea of COVID a status certification.

Cautiously jab by jab.

This country is on the path to reclaiming our freedoms.

Boris Johnson was once thought to epitomise the freeborn Englishman.

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