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Hello, Bugleers. I am Andy Zoltzman. Welcome to Bugle Issue 4,275 sub-episode A for a

bought mission to do a full Bugle episode this week. Why is there no full episode this week?

Well, I blame time. There isn't enough of it these days and it never stops. The remorseless

little shitbag that it is. Normally, I do reach a vague rapprochement with time whereby it

lets me record a bugle, with the trade-off that I don't then also have time to invent more dance

moves. But this week, no luck, the little clock-waggling life-interferer simply ran out.

However, we do have a very special treat for you from our recent live show in London.

We dedicated a whole section to the extravaganza that is the United Kingdom in 2023,

and you could hear it in full in this sub-episode. Over the next 25 minutes,

we will bring you the full smorgasbord of life and politics in Britain today,

shoplifting, accusations of wokery, dishonest MPs and the biggest question of all.

What's better, Britain or vampires? If you are a premium level voluntary subscriber to the bugle,

you'll get to hear the first of our subscriber-only ask-and-the-episode in which I will field your

questions with my version of answers. If you're not currently a voluntary subscriber and would like

to become one and thus elevate yourself to a higher plane of human life, go to the buglepodcast.com

and click the donate button, and thus you will help keep this nearly 16-year-old podcast free,

flourishing and independent. As it enters the second 12th of its scheduled 192-year life span,

you will also earn the right to farming questions for future askandes, which will take place

on a monthly basis. Okay, I will now pass over to me, Chris Addison and Alice Fraser from just

a couple of weeks ago, live in London's renowned London District.

Right, let's crack on. We have the best thing ever competition. Round one clash.

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