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of journalism. Well, welcome to our fourth. Fourth and slightly delayed. Right. So because

election special. Yes. But the reason it's Tuesday, I think, contains, well, this is kind of like

what Sam Harris would call housekeeping,

but why it's late contains a sort of parable of the state of Britain.

Yes.

Mr. Kelly, if you'd like to elaborate.

Also, anyone watching this on YouTube explains why I look so ragged.

Is that I, yesterday I drove back to London from Stuttgart,

having watched possibly the least entertaining football match of my life,

Scotland versus Hungary.

Yeah.

But having had an amazing day in Stuttgart with my Scottish wife and my youngest son.

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