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slash change. Well, hello, fancy seeing you here. This is it, Matt

Chawley, Luke Jones sitting in on the Times Red Box podcast all this week. You'll be pleased to

hear ahead on the program. We are marking 100 years since the Anglo Irish Treaty. It was signed

in the early hours of the morning in 1921. It established at the free Irish state

zones led into the Irish Civil War, but we'll be looking back on that history and the shadow it casts

on our current politics and relations between Ireland and the UK as well. First though, our top

columnists Rachel Sylvester and Libby Purvis.

Rachel, let's start with the drugs thing, shall we? Not, I guess, the scoop in the

Sunday Times yesterday, but all that's been announced today by the government. We were just

hearing from somebody from a drug policy charity say, saying they were actually a bit disappointed

with this and they'd have liked to have seen things like drug consumption rooms and even,

you know, those systems whereby people get basically given heroin to sort of help them through

their addiction, rather than being criminalised for it. What did you make of what was announced?

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