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So welcome to another episode of the RESTISPOLITIES question time with me, Anastakambal.

And me, Rory Stewart and I'm a bit worried Anastak because you've been talking about how you

want the first question which is usually a bad sign.

I always, unlike you, Rory, I sit and go through all of them even when they're in the thousands

because I think it's an important thing to do but you've got a proper job now so I accept you've

got you've got all that to get on with. But this is my question of the week. It's from Andrew McEwan,

apropo of nothing he says. What is worse, an intelligent person pretending to be dim or a

dim person pretending to be intelligent. And if we don't get the point, hashtag bojo trust.

That's good. That's good. Yeah. I actually think it's quite an interesting question anyway though.

I'd like to think about that a bit. I know I've got a really good answer. I think different forms

of authenticity are irritating in quite different ways but probably a stupid person pretending

to be clever is more annoying than a clever person pretending to be stupid.

Okay. Okay. And do you think that sometimes Boris Johnson has pretended to be a bit of an

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