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Hello, and in memory of the giant of reggae music, Slide Dunbar, who passed away last week,

pull up to the bunker baby in your long black limousine. I'm Andrew Harrison, and we're trying something a bit different this time to see if you like it. We live in a world of takes, hot takes,

cold takes, tepid takes, sideways looks, serious takes, more opinion

columns than anybody can handle or remember for that matter. So we're going to round up the weirdest,

the boldest, and occasionally the best of them every four weeks or so in a takes of the month

edition. And to help us stare into January's opinion vortex, and maybe bring some of the old vibe back, we have two survivors from one of our much-loved late podcast's paper cuts. Miranda Sawyer presents our Fab Toot Nanties to Me podcast and is a former mirror columnist, so she knows what she's on about. Hello, Miranda. Hello, hello. I'm a survivor as well. I quite like that papercut survivor. Yeah, like you're doing the Beyonce dance, aren't you?

And John Ellage is a regular on Oh God What Now, author of a history of the world in 47 borders, and New Statesman Colonists, so he too knows what it feels like to stare at a blank screen trying to crack out an idea while the deadline ticks down. Hello, John. How are you? Hello, I'm all right, a whole podcast about what's in the papers.

That's a really good idea.

Someone should try that.

He's not leaving this in.

Anyway, John. How are you? Hello, I'm all right. A whole podcast about what's in the papers. That's a really good idea. Someone should try that. He's not leaving this in.

Anyway, look, so, right, January obviously was dominated by Donald Trump's bizarre and terrifying attempts to impose his will on the world.

Toploving the Venezuela and leader over Christmas, threatening to take Greenland and tariff the hell out of anybody you disagree with him,

insulting NATO troops and Britain's war dead, and eventually climbing down after European nations

finally stood up to him. But columnists are hostages to fortune. And on the 11th of January,

before Trump went mad at Davos, the Telegraph went for the That Aged Well Award,

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