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risk. Hello and welcome to this special Saturday edition of Coffee House Shots. I'm James

Hill and I'm joined today by Michael Stevens of the Rousey Think Tank and Gabriel Pogrand

at the Sunday Times. Now, Michael, first of all,

this is going out on Saturday. We're expecting to have Kirstama shortly announced the timetable

for the UK recognising Palestine at the United Nations. And this is alongside a number of other

countries who expect to do so next week, including France and Australia as well and Canada.

Just talk us through sort of what what actually means in a simple process

and why it's been so significant in kind of getting here in the first place.

Well, it is a significant moment.

There are statements from both the United States and the Israelis

that this will mean nothing on the ground, which I think is true. I don't

see any end to the current offensive in Gaza or plans for the Israelis to leave the West Bank,

for example. But in terms of the rhetoric around the conflict, it's quite notable that most

of the G7 have still not recognized the state of Palestine. It was always, you know, during the Cold War,

the role of countries like India, for example, or non-aligned countries to express solidarity with

leftist movements. And the West generally stayed clear of it. Not only that, I think there was an

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