Welcome back, it's Ed Vasey, and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day,

from whether David Lamy deserves any sympathy to Elon Musk's record-breaking pay package,

and Andrew Mountbatten Windsor being summoned to the US Congress.

Well, as I'm the speaker of this show, I have summoned

the former diplomatic editor at the time is Michael Binion. Welcome to the show, Michael. Thank you.

And the Labour peer, Tangham, Debenair. Welcome to the show, Tangam. Hi, Ed. Hi, Michael.

I should have said, of course, Tangam, Debenair, you're not just a Labour peer.

You're the chief executive of opera something.

What's it called?

It's called...

UK Opera Association.

You are the chief executive of the UK Opera Association.

And you're also the chair of judges for the women's

prize for non-fiction.

It's a lot of reading and a lot of opera.

How do you fit it all in?

I get it very early.

And you're learning Arabic?

Yes, that's why I'm actually speaking to you from home, because my Arabic lesson is straight after this. Did you not think about moving your Arabic lesson? No. We can do some here. I did Arabic. Do you and Michael want to have a brief conversation in Arabic? Michael, you start. Mahabha, kifik. Mahabhani. Al-h. Kif heilik. Alhamdala.

Ah, me.

That's what, top of the morning, do you, Squire?

Yeah, that's it. Pretty much. Good. Well, I just don't know how you do it, Tangam, Debener. I'm so impressed. We're going to talk about opera in a minute, so we won't explore your current opera work at this moment in the show.

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