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Hello, you're listening to the Times Red Box politics podcast.

Surely you're still away, so it's Patrick McGuire in the hot seat for another four days.

Today we're talking the winter of discontent and the lessons it can teach. Today's politicians,

as they reckon, with months of industrial action. But first, it's today's economist panel,

a real cracker today, with Danny Finkelstein and David Arodovic's absence, John Stevens,

police officer of the Daily Mirror. The columnist on Times Radio.

Usually at this time, I'm going to choose the morning, it'll be time for Finkelvitch,

but David is away. So I'm joined by Danny Finkelstein, morning, Danny. Good morning.

And John Stevens, a political editor of the Daily Mirror, morning, John.

All right, Patrick. Let's get cracking immediately, shall we?

The big story of this morning, rail strikes, Mark Harper and the RMT aren't any closer to a deal.

And in the sun this morning, we read that David Cameron, reputedly,

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