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Hello, this is the Red Box podcast. I'm Matt Jorley coming up on today's episode. In fact,

he's been on the podcast before. He's a satirist for higher Andy Zoltzman, the comedian you'll

know him. He presents the news quiz on where he presents the bugle podcast,

general all-round satirical good egg. He'll talk us through his new show where he'll take

suggestions from the audience on what he should be satirical about. We'll find out how that

works. First though, we kick off as ever with our columnist panel and as a Monday, so it must be

a little bit rachy, a little bit of purpose and Rachel's investor.

Where to begin with the politics. I take a week off to step away from the news and who knows where

where we are. Right, so let's deal with the the dead cat strategy. Do we think that Boris Johnson's

announcement last night was a necessary escalation in our war against Omicron or an attempt to move

on from Quizgate, Libby? Well, he did look as if he needed to kind of get up there and do his

sort of statesmen like, seriously, I am talking to my people act, you know, it was a good moment for

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