Hello, you're listening to the Red Box podcast. I'm Kate McCann in for Matt Chawley, who's

back next week. Coming up on today's episode, how to start a political party. Over a hundred

new parties have been registered so far this year. Have you ever thought about making your own?

Well, we'll hear from people who started their own party to varying degrees of success.

They'll explain how it works and how to avoid any potential pitfalls.

First though, as usual, it's the columnist panel.

The columnists with night at the Marriott, India Night and James Marriott, on Times Radio.

Yes, it is Indianite and James Marriott, who both join us now. Good morning.

Morning. Lovely to have you both with us. Let's start with climate change, shall we? Because we've

been talking a little bit about U-Lez already, India. And without decision for the Mayor of London

to be allowed to go ahead to push as U-Lez charge out to the rest of London,

he's sort of winning the argument on trying to cut emissions. But today, Tony Blair has said that

British shouldn't be asked to do a huge amount on climate change when countries like China

are emitting far more. Is that the right attitude, do you think?

I don't know about whether it's the right attitude, but it's certainly true. I mean, it seems to

me that Britain is like the really nice, well-meaning people in the small cottage doing everything they

can while the landoning neighbours on the giant estate are carrying on as before. So it's certainly

true, I think, that rather than kind of jumping ahead of the curve domestically, we should be doing

a lot more to help developing economies to come up with modern green solutions, extracting minerals

in a responsible way and so on and so forth. So yeah, I think I think I think he's right. I still

think of course everybody, even if they are in the little cottage, should do what they can.

But it's a very kind of difficult thing to balance because you're asking a lot of people

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