Hello, this is Dewey Box Podcast. I'm Matt Jolli, coming up on today's episode.

Don't you love it when two new stories collide? Prince Charles taking over more and more from

the Queen and the government's plan to export asylum seekers to a Randa. To condemn this

appalling by Prince Charles. All of those stories come together this week when Prince

Charles heads to a Randa to lead the Commonwealth heads of government meeting or chogum. So we're

going to look at heads to what all of that might mean and ask what's the point of the Commonwealth

in the 21st century. So that's how big thing coming up in just a moment. First is ever,

we kick off with our columnist panel and on a Monday is Libby Raichy.

The columnists with Libby Raichy, Libby Purvis and Rachel Silvestre on Times Radio.

Yes, it's that time of the show. We always speak to two of our favorite columnists. Morning,

Libby Purvis. Good morning. Morning, Raich Silvestre. Morning. Nice to be both with us. We will

let's start by talking about industrial action and strikes and actually literally in the last

few minutes we've had confirmation of more strike action. The criminal bar Barristers have voted

in favour of strike action. Without immediate action to halt the excess of criminal barristers

from our ranks, the record backlog of this clip of our course continued to inflict the

misery upon victims. Defends alike and the public will be portrayed, they've said.

They voted in favour of strike action and sort of join, you know, train drivers, bus drivers

in staging walkouts. And obviously we've heard in the last half an hour, teachers also planning

to ballot if they don't get more than 11% in pay rises. Lots of papers saying, as all

back to the 1970s, a cultural reference which only people in their 60s will necessarily be able

to enjoy. How big a problem is this, do you think? Is the government getting it right?

It's absolutely huge and what's more, it goes right back beyond that to the, it's for historians,

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