Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day,

from whether the government is taking anti-Semitism seriously enough to whether Donald Trump is actually a genius,

and why in the TikTok age we still need the tabloids.

And joining me are two people the tabloids, I think, would call boffins. And they are Matthew Syed. Hello, Matthew. Hey, Hugo. How are you? Would you wear that badge with pride? Boffin? A geek, I would take. Boffin doesn't that carry a sort of, yeah, I think possibly. I don't know. Let me, can I reflect on it? I think a boffin's a geek with a PhD. Have you got a PhD?

No.

Or just a geek then.

Sarah and Sarah Deitum as well. Hello, Sarah. How are you?

Hello, very well. Lovely to be with you. Happy to be a boffin? I mean, more than happy to be a boffin, although I feel like I'd probably come under the rubric of hairy-led feminist or something like that

in ye old tabloid terms.

I'm not sure what I am, but I think I might be a nerd.

Anyway, let's crack on.

Look, there's only really one place to start this morning, and so I guess we have to start there.

The government has promised further action to protect Britain's Jewish community

after yesterday's terror attack in North London, in which two people were stabbed. Kirstama has

been speaking in the last hour. There's no getting away from the fact that this was not a one-off.

This has been a series of attacks on our Jewish community, particularly in recent weeks.

And there is a very deep sense of anxiety,

of concern, about security, about safety, about identity, frankly.

Matthew, I'm interested, well, I'm interested in both of your thoughts on this, obviously,

but where do we start with this? The problem here, the problem of violence here, is one of a few few people and yet it seems to reflect a big mood, a big mood in both how this has responded to by the public, by

parts of our politics. Where are you? What are your thoughts this morning? Completely,

Hugo, breaks my heart. I don't get recognised often in the street, but the day before yesterday, I went to the

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