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Before we begin, I would like to draw your attention to not one but two Americano events

that are coming up in the upcoming days.

One is on Saturday, the 19th of October, at Churchhouse in central London, and that is at the

battle of ideas. I'm going to be doing

a live Americano podcast with Kay Andrews of this parish and Richard Johnson, who is a lecturer at

Queen Mary University, and we're going to be looking at the election, race and class in particular. After that, I've already flagged this

on the Americano show, but I'm doing it again. We will be hosting Nigel Farage at the

Emanuel Centre in London, in Westminster, for an evening discussion on Thursday the 24th of October.

Tickets are beginning to run out.

So if you haven't got your ticket, book it now.

You can do that by going to spectator.com.ukuk forward slash book your tickets. It is at the Emanuel

Centre as I said and there is a drinks reception before the event starting at 7.30. So be prompt.

I am delighted to be joined by Ryan James Godoski, who is founder of the 1776 project, which is the Political Action Committee, and the author of the National Populist newsletter, which you can find on Substack.

And we're going to be talking today about the Catholic vote,

because there's an old slightly hoary aphorism in politics, which is that there is no Catholic vote,

yet the Catholic vote will decide the election. I've never heard that before. That's actually

very funny.

And it seems to be going in Donald Trump's favor, at least according to recent polling.

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