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Hello and we're also

I'm Fraser Myers there's no Tom Slater here today

So I'm instead joined by spiked editor Brendan O'Neill.

Hello? Spikes columnist Ella Wheelen is with me as ever

Hi and we're also joined down the line by special guest Columnist Ella Wheelen is with me as ever. Hi.

And we're also joined down the line by special guest Norman Lewis.

Norman is a spiked contributor and is managing director of Future's Diagnosis. Today we're going to be focusing on the coronavirus pandemic.

We can turn the time.

I said whatever it takes and I meant it.

The number of people who died from coronavirus in Italy has now overtaken the figure in China.

France is just hours away from a nationwide lockdown.

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