Page 94, the Private Eye podcast.

Hello and welcome to another episode of page 94, the UK's best fortnightly news podcast. I think in a crowded field.

My name's Andrew Hunter-Murray. I'm here in the private eye offices with Helen Lewis, Jane McKenzie and Ian Heslop.

We're here to discuss all the things that have happened since the last episode of the Mag.

Coming up later in the show,

we'll be talking about the new biography of Keir Stama

and the Labour Party in general,

and we've got some great stuff

about cross-pavement charging solutions.

But first...

Oh no, we haven't got to wait for that thing, had we?

Concentrate on anything else.

But first, let's go away to a lovely little archipelago of islands.

The British Indian Ocean Territory, is that what it's called?

That's right.

And let's home in on, in particular, the Chegos Islands and one in particular called Diego Garcia,

which has been the subject of lots of news stories recently

because it's technically and actually British owned at the moment, and Britain is proposing to

amazingly pay money to give it away to someone. It's a very reductive way of describing it,

but that's effectively what seems to be happening. And Jane, you have been writing about this

for a while.

Most of my career. Most of your career. Yes. So should we start off with a little primer on what these

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