Building a coffee business?

Serving the best Americano in town is up to you. But winning back time and growing your business, leave that to SumUp. Take orders and payments anywhere with the new SumUp terminal. Turn occasional customers into regulars with a free loyalty program. And with the SumUp point of sale system, you'll always know when you're running low on your best-selling blends. Visit sumup.co.uk to learn more. Wake up! The Jones is a redo in their garden. Love that porcelain paver and all that fencing. I knew it. They've been with their landscaper to Juson. A mini-digger? No wonder she was so smug at Zumba. Right, I want a sunken seating area. She won't have that? For materials, tool high, timber and paving. Don't waste time.

Deuton's got the lot.

Like Terales, porcelain and paving from only 22 pounds per square meter.

Love it.

All trade prices exclude VAT at 20%.

So now you can keep up with the Joneses.

And the Evanses.

And the Patels.

Welcome to the Mona Charon Show, so glad you could join us.

I'm delighted to welcome today.

My former colleague in the podcasting game, Damon Linker,

together we did a podcast called Beg to Differ for five years,

and before we decided we could. we did a podcast called Beg to Differ for five years.

And before we decided we couldn't stand to do the daily news, well, I decided I couldn't stand to do the daily news for a second Trump term.

But anyway, I'm checking back in with Damon.

Damon is the author of the Substack newsletter Notes from the Middleground.

He's also a senior lecturer in political science at the University of Pennsylvania and an author and prolific commentator.

Damon, great to see you again.

Great to be back with you, Mona. This is this is going to be a nice

repeat of some not so nice things that we had to talk about in the old days.

So here's what I propose to do. I think that we should review how bad things are, which may take a while.

...