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This is Deep State Radio, coming to you direct from our super secret studio in the third sub-basement

of the Ministry of Snark in Washington, DC, and from other undisclosed locations across America

and around the world. Hello and welcome to our podcast this week. We are fortunate enough to have

a conversation with one of our great friends, the Asia Pacific Editor of the Washington Post

and a Firefield, who is coming to us live, ish, from New Zealand.

That's nice. We'll be joined in momentarily also by Rosa Brooks.

So, I think we have to start with the fate of your Prime Minister.

When you were in Washington just two weeks ago, I said,

oh boy, just send an order and it's great. And you said, yeah, but nobody here much cares for her.

And I was like, what? How could this possibly be? Then literally hours later,

because you're a psychic or something. She says, I'm not running anymore. Maybe she got

word of your opinion. And she kind of shocked the world. Presumably you were not shocked,

but can you explain a little bit the why somebody who is so widely admired around the planet

felt that whatever the domestic political environment was, it warranted her taking a break?

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