Hello and welcome to Not Another One, the podcast with me, Steve Richards, Miranda Green, Tim Montgomery and Ian Martin, who is still in Sweden.

Now, Ian, the last time you joined us, you were in Sweden having a glass of something or

other, we could hear the clinking of glasses as you reflected on the state of the British

economy.

And you're still there, but you're coming back.

Well, I've been elsewhere and then come back and then, yeah, no, I'm coming back to the UK this evening, which is great. But I love being in Sweden and elsewhere. But, yeah, we'll be good to get home. You are our equivalent of George Osborne, who is often in a glamorous place somewhere. Steve, you've said some terrible... Doing their obscure podcast. Steve, you've said some terrible things to me down the years, but that's got to be the worst.

I'm George George.

Anyway, look, what we're going to do for our weekend edition is reflect on one of the thornyest themes.

It comes up regularly.

Money and politics.

Big donations are welcomed by political parties

and then it tends to cause them all kinds of difficulty.

This week, reform has got the biggest single donation as a one-off payment in the history of donations.

Nine million pounds.

And questions are immediately raised.

What is the motive of the donor who has an interest in cryptocurrency,

reform plan to lighten regulation in this area.

Is that a motive?

Should reform take it?

And the questions range.

Now, we're going to sort of reflect more widely on this issue.

So let's begin at the most fundamental. Do any of us support as an alternative to this

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