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Well, good morning, Zend.

It's Friday, the 17th of May, May 17th, it's light drizzle in Saltford. Light drizzle, yeah. It is light drizzle. It's pretty

grim. It's awful out there, actually. Dark and a bit drizzly. Hope it's better wherever you are.

The Papers podcast straight to the front pages.

The Financial Times, BT shares surge 17% as new chief vows to put squeeze on groups short sellers.

Do you play the stock market, do you?

If you do, that might be of some interest to you there. It's not of great interest to me, but the Financial Times front page sports a photograph of Kier-Starmor. He,

well, he put on one of those bizarre displays yesterday, these days much loved by party leaders. He had a white

shirt on him with the sleeves rolled up to indicate he means business. And he stood in a

television studio, surrounded by Labour MPs, and he delivered six pledges that Labour Labour will deliver on when, if and when, they

perform the next government or part of the next government, whether they win a majority

or whether they go into coalition.

So there you are.

Also on the front page of the Financial Times,

we don't often spend any time on the Financial Times.

Reality TV, Finfluencers,

charged with promoting high-risk trading scheme.

I find the whole idea of influencers.

Bizarre, but yet kind of strangely interesting. Number of people,

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