In 1998, why did London's Metropolitan Police file an intellectual property dispute against the BBC?

The answer to that at the end of the show. My name's Tom Scott, and this is Lateral.

If you've not heard Lateral before, imagine three people on a carousel trying to throw arrows of logic at a dartboard hanging off the back of an angry bull.

And you're mostly there.

So please welcome our angry bullfighters today.

We start from Braincraft and from a lot of other things besides Vanessa Hill.

Nice to see you, Tom.

Good to have you back on the show.

This will be going out a few months after we record. This is how the show works. So the question I

tend to ask guests here is, what are you working on right now that people will be able to see by the

time this goes out? So I have just had a paper published in the British Journal

of Health Psychology last week. Do you think if I mention it, one person might go and read it?

Absolutely. Or zero. And it is cited to Hill v. Brackets, 2023 in this podcast, note. It's not,

it's not in the note. Yeah, just have a, just Google Hill at

All, 23, bedtime procrastination. You'll be golden. You'll learn so much. Also joining us

from his own YouTube channel that is mostly about cookery, Adam Rugglesia.

Cookery, God, that's wonderful that you call it cookery. Can we just live in that moment for a

minute? Every time I say something

even vaguely British on the last episode, I got I got cold out on it. I love, no, it's it's just love.

And I guess, I mean, people who know who follow my cookery programs know that it's kind of, like,

it's one of my running jokes

is that I'm constantly saying, as the Brits would say. But it's because I was like a public

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