This episode of Reasons to Be Chirphal is brought to you by the newsmeeting from Podimo and Tortoise.

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He used to be director of BBC News and the editor of The Times before that.

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This is Reasons to Be cheerful with Edmila Band and Jeff Lytte.

Hello! Hello!

That's a very nice mustard sweater if I may say so. Thank you very much. I can see myself on Zoom, which it's been talked about a lot, how with all these Zoom conversations we're all having, you're ultimately just looking at yourself.

I'm not sure I like what I see today, Ed. I think my neck kind of vanishes a little bit.

There's something about it that washes me out, but it's very kind of you to say so. I should have just taken the compliment graciously.

Tookie of appearances, have you noticed that I've had a haircut? I got hair shamed by the new leader of the Scottish Labour Party, Anna Sawa, at our shadow cabinet. He said, I thought I had hair problems, or long hair or something until I saw red.

And it was sort of true. I mean, I'd gone the full John Kerry and I was on my way to John Lennon really.

I was in growing your hair for peace.

I see it very much as a hair opportunity, not a hair problem.

Anyway, so my wife stepped in and then I had a haircut and then I had another Zoom the next day and somebody said, you really need a haircut.

So we then had to, she had to then sort of stage another intervention.

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