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Sign up at Spikes- supporters. Hello and welcome to the Spiked Podcast, I'm Fraser Meyers and with me this week we have Spiked

columnist Ella Wheelen.

Hi.

And no Tom Slater, so filling in we have Mail Plus columnist Charlie Peters.

Hello.

Coming up on the show, the Omicron variant,

Chinese censorship and the annual attempt

to cancel Christmas. So we have a new variant of COVID. It feels a little bit like deja vu.

We've had those dreary press conferences once again we have experts telling us to be

terrified some are saying that it's going to evade the vaccines some are saying it's going

to be fine we also have journalists calling for another lockdown on

Q as ever. I mean Ella what have you made of the sort of response to this new

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