Hello, hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day

from Donald Trump's struggle to achieve world peace to Angela Raina unleashed and a Christmas market ruined by a private party.

And joining me as two people you'd never want to unleash at a private party. It is the new state's political correspondent Megan Kenyon.

Hello, Megan.

Hello.

Thanks for being here.

And former Times diary editor-edster Patrick, hello, Patrick. Hello. How are you both? I'm fine. Yes. I'm all right. I always like to start with a really difficult question. How are you? Are you well? Well, Megan has decided, revealing secrets, said she's offered a luxurious spa treatment.

Yeah, this afternoon.

I'm just going to sit offered a luxurious spa treatment.

Yeah, this afternoon. I'm just going to sit in a sauna, basically. See, I can't abide a spa. What do you think, Patrick? I was just like, just leave me alone. I think the lovely thing about a sauna is you spend some time without your mobile phone. It's not all you without. Well, that is true, too. Yeah. No, I startled the horses.

That is exactly why I'm going.

I don't want to look at my WhatsApp.

Yeah. you with that. Well, that is true too, but yeah, no, I... To start all the horses. That is exactly why I'm going,

I don't want to look at my WhatsApp. Yeah, I think... Lucky old Australian teenagers, by the way, they don't have to anymore. They've been banned social media, which they ban it for adults. Well, then ban the phones. They'll be doing, they'll be, you know, sort of digging into other weird social media that gets around the social media

about, I'm sure. Maybe we'll talk about that a little later. At least if not today, then another day.

Let's you know, sort of digging into other weird social media that gets around the social media about, I'm sure.

Maybe we'll talk about that a little later, at least if not today, then another day.

Let's begin by talking, though, about Donald Trump, which is just as much fun, and the difficulty he's having achieving world peace.

Because, like, he keeps boasting about ending his wars.

He says he's ended eight wars.

But some of those diplomatic achievements are looking, well, fragile, even more fragile than they were at the time. He's clearly working hard to end the war in Ukraine after a fashion, but unsurprisingly, Keevan Moscow can't agree on how to do that. President Zelensky is insisting today still that he isn't prepared to give up land to Russia, as he has always insisted. And in the Middle East, phase two of the Gaza peace deal is getting nearer, but we're not there. We learned today that Trump's plan to put Tony Blair on the Gals of Board of Peace is a no goer because some Arab states have objected. And in one of the wars that he definitely claimed to have ended was the conflict between Cambodia and Thailand, which I personally appreciated a huge deal, because while he ended it, I was was literally in Cambodia and Thailand was on my way

home so thanks for that Donald but they've been exchanging far again in the past few days as well

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