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Hello and welcome to Trigonometry. I'm Francis Foster.

I'm Constantine Kissen.

And this is a show for you if you want honest conversations with fascinating people.

Our brilliant guest today is a political economist of Brown University in America

and a returning guest to Trigonometry Mark Blight. Welcome back.

It's lovely to be back. It's also nice to be thought of as well.

Was that fascinating? Was that a fascinating guest? Absolutely.

Well, you were always good to be fascinating.

You are. And we know that you will be again.

But last time we had a brilliant conversation, it was about a year ago.

And if you remember, we were talking about the fact that one lockdown is probably affordable.

Two or three hell lot more difficult.

How do you assess the year that we've had since?

Well, I don't know how many Martinez you've had involuntarily.

Over the past year, but I'd say my pandemic drinking reached Olympic levels and, you know,

had to be dialed back. So that was the main personal cost.

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