I'm Edvasium. We're going to be unpacking the politics of the day from Tony Blair's unsolicited advice to why northern men are making a comeback and what using corporate jargon says about you. Let's make hay of today's news. I'm touching base now with the very northern Robert Crampton.

Welcome to the show, Robert. Hi, Ed. How are you? Very well. And circling back to the host of the podcast, Politics at Sam and Anne's. It's Anne McElvoy.

Also quite northern. Yes, Robert and I were discussing it. We think you come from County Durham.

I do come from County Durham, which makes pretty much everyone else. I think he, even, Robert,

a southerner in my eyes. It's so true, you're the genuine article. Yeah, you have to come from Northumberland,

unless you're going to go Scots to get beyond us. Talking of which! What a great segue.

Let's begin with the Scotsman Tony Blair.

He's issued a long list of criticism about the current Labour Party under Kier Stama. In a 5,700 word essay, we've got artificial intelligence to count it.

The former Prime Minister argued Labour's lacking a coherent project

and risk consigning Britain to relegation from the Premier League of Nations. On Labour's leadership battle, he said that a change of leader won't do anything to help if nothing is done to improve the party's policies. He spoke to Times Radio Breakfast this morning. What's the country been doing these last years? It's been kind of shuffling the pack, right?

You try this problem and so that doesn't work.

Try another problem and so that doesn't work.

So you end up in a situation where because there's no clarity of direction

with a clear project for governing the country, with a clear plan for governing the country,

then you're constantly,

especially in today's world, which is really tough environment for politicians to operate it.

Anne, you spent enough time around Cameroons like me to know that all of this would have been

absolutely music to my ears. I mean, it's like watching your favourite TV series, you know, Basking in the Godfather Part 2. This was just fantastic, wasn't it? And I can't believe you've got a single word of criticism for St Tonya. Well, no, I was just said, that is not the response in the Labour Party this morning. So as far as they're concerned, it's, you know, it's kind of, oh, here he comes again.

You know, it's been like the shining, you know, someone leaps out any minute from behind a cupboard.

Here's Tony.

I think, you know, as you say, as a diehard Camarine, Ed, you know, this is the tradition which

kind of you were schooled in your politics and the politics that kept you in power pretty

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