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My name is Steve Anglesey.

This week we are going to take in Boris Johnson, Northern Ireland, coronavirus, the EU.

We're going to be talking about standards and fairness in our politics,

and why those things don't seem to matter much anymore.

I'm going to be discussing them with the Irish journalist Matt Cooper and the English

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