Welcome to the Times Red Box Podcast. I'm Carol Walker, keeping the throne warm for

Matt Chawley this week. Coming up on today's podcast, we went across the four corners of

the UK to speak to reporters for dis-united kingdom. A great chat about what they're all

doing for the Jubilee and some other big local stories that are making the headlines.

It's coming up in just a moment, but first, let's speak to our columnists and it's Wednesday,

so it's Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton.

Just let me ask you, Alice, do you get on with your neighbours? Is it all sweetness and

light? Well, actually, do you know what? I've just seen my neighbour farm out today because

we're discussing because both of us lost chickens last night, her fox. So, yeah, we do

get on. We have to get on and I'm more worried that they might, the fox might take our

puppy. She, I think, he thought was a bit soft, I'd say. But yeah, we talk about farming

together. Shared stories of the escape chickens. What about you, Robert?

Yeah, we got on pretty well. We've got the WhatsApp group for the streets, which we started

in Covid, like a lot of people did and that was all very nice and now it's kind of, it's more

about now, do you know, good plumber, which is met with a deafening silence. There's no one's

to give up their plumber. But yeah, it's nice and we don't, we don't talk about farming in the

middle of Hackney, but we do talk about cats. We talk about cats and we talk about the kids playground

and it's all, yeah, it's good. Well, I'm glad it's all, all harmonious. The only thing I find

is that the WhatsApp chat is just, there's just so much of it that I can't keep up with it.

I've muted, I've muted. Yeah, I've muted the alerts on that one, but I haven't

looked at it and it's always all very friendly. Alice, your column today is all about

nostalgia, whether we're spending too much time with this unhealthy obsession with looking

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