I'm Miranda Sawyer and I'm hosting the brand new podcast paper cuts.

From the mail's obsession with Woke to the daily stars' war on pigeons,

to all the things the Guardian is telling you not to enjoy, paper cuts digs into the private

mania of the UK press and what that tells us about Britain today.

I'm joined by some of the UK's sharpest commentators and funniest comedians to pick out the most

eye-popping stories the morning press has to offer and serve them up for your incredulity

and entertainment. Paper cuts, we read the papers so you don't have to.

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Welcome to the Commentary Magazine Podcast. Today is Wednesday, April 3rd, 2019.

I am John Pothor, it's the editor of Commentary, the 70-odd year old monthly of intellectual

analysis, political property and cultural criticism. From a conservative perspective,

we invite you as ever to join us at CommentaryMagasing.com where we give you a few free reads

and ask you to subscribe 1995 for a digital subscription and 2995 for an all-access subscription,

including our beautiful monthly magazine in your mailbox, 11 times a year.

No wroughtman still on vacation with me here in New York, A, but Greenwald, senior editor,

High Abe. Hi, John. And from Washington, Christine Rosen, our senior writer, High Christine.

Hi, John. So in line with the newest theme, running theme here on the Commentary Magazine podcast,

which is that the Democrats are going crazy, I'm going to stipulate something and then ask you

guys to respond to it and talk about what it might mean. And the stipulation provided to us by

our friend Scott Emergut of Ricochet, who is once again selflessly producing this podcast today,

because we had some really, really bad sound problems on the last podcast. Noah is our producer,

as well as of course, key on air talent. And in his absence, we don't do it very well. So

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