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of use. Hello and welcome to a very intriguing and

interesting couple of hours, wouldn't you say? I would, that's exactly what I would say.

Because it's a sort of a best of, it's some top tens, which aren't top tens, it's best

of the guests, it's ranty rants, the rantiest of the ranty rants and some general fun and

games from this year. Would you have a nice Christmas, by the way? Well, I'm assuming that

I did, Simon, yes, because obviously we're in time traveling mode. I should just state

that if anyone's listening to this live and feels like texting in, don't, we're not

actually here, we're on holiday. But in a special way, we're always here. We're always

here, sort of always here for you. The way Stalin perpetrated the myth of control. Well,

it wasn't actually myth because he wasn't control, but there was always a light on it

in the Kremlin and the myth was that it was always Joseph Stalin working hard on behalf

of Mother Russia. And we are in some sense, just like that. There is always a light on in

New Broadcasting House, which represents the fact that we're working on your behalf.

I think the irony of all this is, is that you always accuse me of being a rambling

trope, but you're the person who did politics degree, aren't you? I did history in politics.

History and politics. A little bit of Russian history. A little bit of politics, a little

bit of history. Yeah. And Joseph Giu-Jesvili from Georgia, he's

part of the curriculum. So I'm just giving a Stalin-esque analogy to the way we work, basically.

Excellent. I'm glad to see after all these years, it's finally rubbed off on you. I don't

think anyone's described you as a Stalinist, though. No, but I'm just, it's interesting

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