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Hello there, how is everyone?

We are all good, but we are not in the same place.

Shall we explain where we are?

This is Beth. I'm in London.

Ruth?

So I am at home in North Berwick, which today has been voted by the Sunday Times,

the best place to live in the whole United Kingdom.

And I am in a hotel room in New York City.

I'm about one block from Bloomingdale's,

and I am here because I've been at the UN all week at the Commission for the Status of Women.

This is electoral dysfunction where this week we will discuss the Tory donor Frank Hester,

what he said about Diane Abbott and what it tells us about how parties continue to grapple with the rouse about race. Also, Lee Anderson and the Reform Party, he was a Labour Councillor,

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