Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Chorley, bringing the best to my timeswaters show.

Don't forget you can listen live, Monday to Friday, 10 till 1 on your DAB radio, on your smart speaker,

or download the times radio app. Hope you had a good combination weekend. However, you were

marking it and unusually I'm here for bank holiday, which means that we've been marking about.

We've been doing a battle of the political bans. MPs, MSPs, researchers who sing and

wobble and interfere with pianos and ghitas. We've been whittling them down on my show,

you'll find out who won at the end of the pot. Like coming up in our big thing at 11th day,

we look at the politics of music, particularly playing live. We've got the lead singer of

Weetus, joining us for that. Before that though, as ever, we kick off with the columnists.

The columnists with Libby Raichy, Libby Purvis and Rachel Silvester on Times Radio.

And we say hello to Libby Purvis, hello Libby.

Hello. And hello to Rachel Silvester. Hi.

Nice to be with you, so after all the fun of the Coenation on Saturday, the concert last night,

today it's all about volunteering. The King and Fighting millions of Brits to support calls

in their local community on back holiday Monday with the big help outs. What do you make of the state

of volunteering right now, Libby? I think this is a good idea. I think I should probably stagger

out and help to fill some rabbit holes on a pitch in the village this afternoon. I think a lot of

volunteering ended or was very much reduced with COVID and the great everybody lurking doors

for other movement. I think it's a good way of cementing different ages and kinds of people

together when it's well run. There is a rather fascinating bitter irony here that some of the people

who got arrested the other night were metropolitan police backed volunteers who were busy handing out

flip flops and rape alarms to lone, helpless, hopeless women in Soho. And the police apparently,

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