Well, let's face it, Donald Trump is everywhere. He's going to be everywhere.

Elon Musk's going to be everywhere. The tech bros are going to be everywhere.

And the idea that complex problems can be resolved by Gordian knot solutions.

That's just slicing straight through complex realities to get a simple answer.

That's going to be flavour of the month.

It's going to infect our politics because of the amount of attention we're paying

to everything that's pouring out of the States.

And it's going to demand a bit of response from proceeding in a northerly direction type politicians

from Kirstarmat to our own John Swinney here in Scotland.

Those are the headlines. Now for the podcast.

Hi, Jones, and welcome to this week's Leslie Riddick podcast. And after Blue Monday, is this

cheery Tuesday? Ah, I hate me yes, I do it's because, yes,

Anna, there's only one place to begin,

other than just on a purely personal basis,

we welcomed, we F.A. Devlin Fraser,

to the world, our fourth grandchild on, on what, five to 12, midnight on Wednesday.

And it's great. And yeah, and maybe kids is going to be a central theme to this as well. But we've got to

start off with the inauguration of the of the orange one yesterday and oh god did you actually watch no no

I mean actually a friend of mine sent me an email just before it and sort of said I get sent

two links to kind of quite esoteric think pieces about the discovery of a sort of woman centric

norman person or no roman age community about the discovery of a sort of woman-centric Norman,

pro-no, Roman age community that's been unearthed in Dorset.

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