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slash change. Well, fancy seeing you here, Luke Jones is still sitting in for maturely on the

Times Red Box podcast. Today we are going on a 2001 Afghan war odyssey. We will take you back

to the 7th of October, 2001 here from a soldier, a journalist and an ambassador around at the time

when the war started. What do they make of all that's happening now? First, though, we'll start with

our tip top columnists, John Stevens from the Daily Mail and Melanie Reed from the Times.

Let's start with holidays shall we, John? Take us to what the latest twists today.

Set it again, sorry. The latest holiday twists today.

I'm sorry, I don't know what you're talking about. That's in what the new revelation

say about all the holiday things that are happening. I'm not asking about your holiday.

No, I thought I just didn't know this was what I was on to speak about. No, Dominic Robes,

the latest twists today is obviously we've known for the last few days that Dominic Robes on

holiday that Boris Johnson was on holiday. But we've also found out today, courtesy of the Times,

that the permanent secretaries, those are the top mandarins in the foreign office, the home office

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