Hello, you're listening to the Times Red Box Politics podcast, I'm Patrick McGuire.

Today is Parliament broken and how might we fix it?

I'll be speaking to Chris Bryant, the Labour MP and author of a new book, Code of Conduct,

about that. But first, it's time for our Columnist panel, on all new game, Hansard Haudam.

The Columnists on Times Radio.

Yes, I'm joined by Patrick Kidd from the Times Hello, Patrick.

Hello. And Dorothy Bern. Hello, Dorothy.

Hello.

Great to have you both. How are you, Dorothy? How are you?

I'm very good indeed. It's a lovely sunny day here at Murray Edwards College, Cambridge.

It's pretty sunny here in London too, for once.

Yeah, I'm glad to hear it. Patrick, how are you? I'm well, I'm well, good, good.

Still plugging away through August. Yeah, there's been an awful lot of rain, hasn't it?

That really has. I mean, we had dreamers far too hard, and then it just rained, and I wish

we'd just had something bland in the middle. Also, I mean, we won't talk about cricket

for longer than we need to, but it's outrageous that there's now no test cricket this month.

No, the scheduling was very strange. And no county championship until September either.

So we have this some snack rounders, the hundreders, outrageous, outrageous. Right,

women's goal. Women's goal. And the women's World Cup football as well.

Yeah, the women's World Cup England do very well, of course.

Lots and lot forward to, even if we've got no band stokes. Right, let's talk about

a subject close to my heart. Political books, Nicholas Sturgeon, is writing a deeply

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