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

from the continuing pressure on Kirstama over Peter Mandelson to nihilism on the internet and the joys of typewriters and joining me the times as resident Luddite James Marriott. Hello James. Hello. I feel obviously reluctant speaking into an electronic microphone. Yes. For you I will concede to use a microphone. What I'm going to try and arrange for next time is some sort of like giant gramophone funnel type thing that goes directly from your mouth to the ear of every single listener.

Like a kind of hearing trumpet or something like that.

Exactly. Yes. That would be altogether more fitting. And at the cutting edge of technology always,

Libby Purvis. Hello, Libby. Hello. Do you miss your electric typewriter?

I was just laughing because any minute now our electricity may be cut off.

Oh really?

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