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Hello, I'm Hugo Rifkin, and now we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day

and helping me out are two of the best purveyors of quality journalism, it says here, from the Times and the Sunday Times. And they are Emma Duncan. Hello,

Emma Duncan. Hi, Hugo. Good to be with you. How are you? Very well, thanks. Good to have you on.

And Patrick McIntyre. Hello, Patrick. Good morning, Hugo. You're coping? I'm surviving. I'm here.

You're having a busy week?

Your book is everywhere.

Yeah, it'll be in the shops on Thursday, which is scary.

They're putting it in the shops as well.

Apparently.

Remarkable.

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