We have two live gargle shows at the Edinburgh Fringe.

Please come along to the Edinburgh Fringe, the 15th and the 22nd of August.

I will be there and an array of delightful guests.

So book your tickets now.

Go to thebugelpodcast.com, forward slash live to buy tickets.

The Bugle, audio newspaper for a visual world.

Hello, Bugles and welcome to Bugle Issue, 4,081 and a half.

I'm currently in Kolkata, India, the city from where the British Empire used to run a large

wardrobe of this planet through our unique British trademark cannecommodation of charm,

violence, big buildings, big sticks and paperwork.

So much paperwork.

Did you know that all the paperwork generated by the British Empire now makes up 35.8%

of the mass of this planet?

No, of course you didn't because obviously it's a false fact but in this day and age,

let's just run with it, it's basically true.

More on this in the forthcoming two-part BBC Radio 4 series I'm doing with Anuvaab Pal coming

to a radio or virtual radio near you in October.

So I could not record a full Bugle this week a shame in such an exciting week for American

Patriarchical Bullying and with Jeremy Corbyn.

Choose one of the following three options to finish the sentence depending on your political

preference.

Speaking to the Labour Party Conference, Stoke, dressing up as Lenin and singing,

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