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Now on to the Spiked Podcast.

Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast.

I'm Fraser Myers and with me this week as ever we have Spiked Deputy Editor Tom Slater,

hello and Spiked columnist Ella Wielen.

Hi. Coming up on the show, Tory Sleeze, Joe Biden's first hundred days and the COVID catastrophe in India. He'd rather let the bodies par high than order a third lockdown.

The so-called Chattie Radley.

Lavish renovations of their Downing Street flat.

Text messages with James Dyson.

I don't think there's anything to see here or to worry about.

Sleeves, sleeves, sleeves, sleeves.

Days and days of this kind of coverage, not apparently making much different to the ballot box.

The Electoral Commission has launched an investigation into Boris Johnson and how he

financed the refurbishment of his flat above Downing Street. The cash for cushion

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