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But this is all a bit weird, isn't it?

I assume you're not listening on your commutes.

Maybe you are still out walking the dog,

but you're doing it trying to keep a safe distance from other dog walkers.

I'm not in our usual studio in the news building in London Bridge

where the Times offices are. I'm not in Parliament either with the mobile recording kit. Instead I'm at home in my office

sitting at my desk where I normally write the red box morning

email.

I try to make sense of the news at 5 a.m. every weekday morning, which is even harder at the moment

than it is usually, at least try to sum up everything that's going on

in sort of five six hundred words but it's still trying to do that you can sign up the times

dot code at UK forward slash redbox frankly you've probably got the time to read it these days.

I'm also not joined by three times colleagues because that would breach quite a lot of the

restrictions that Boris Johnson has put in place.

So instead, what we're going to do in this episode is try to get a sense of what is happening around the world by tapping into the Times's network of foreign correspondence dotted around the world to find out what they make of different governments handling of this

extraordinary global pandemic. I warn you I'll probably use the word extraordinary quite a lot

during this episode. What we're essentially going to do is a sort of your revision of misery going to various

capitals around the world and asking if they are giving their governments their

nul poin in their handling of this crisis.

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