Hello and welcome to another edition of the For the Many podcast. Today, recorded in front of a live audience at the Politics Festival at King's Place, deep in the belly of the Guardian Beast, as I like to call it.

Now, Jackie, apparently with a warm-up act for Paul Mason, does it get better than that?

By the time we've finished, these people are going to be in a state of frenzied political excitement for Paul Mason, although as it's

already been pointed out to me, if you had a political then diagram, there would not be an

enormous amount of overlap between us and Paul Mason.

But anyway, you've got that to look forward to later.

Well, I remember during the election campaign, doing five or six news nights with Paul Mason,

which was an experience, particularly when he called me a racist.

I didn't appreciate that, I have to say.

So if I see him tonight, you might need to separate us.

Leave him here and he's not worth it.

Well, we know that.

Let me tell you what we're going to be talking about

over the course of the next 60 minutes or so.

Mainly some of the news of the week,

the US migrant crisis, Melania's coat. I don't

know if you've got a coat with a slogan on the back Jackie. I dread to think what it might be.

Lots going on on Brexit, the airbus thing. And of course, fuck Boris. I don't think they know what

that means. We'll explain it later. Also, the hospital

scandal in Gosport. I think we ought to touch on that. Legalising cannabis, after all,

you were known as Jackie Spliff, weren't you? And possibly the future of the Speaker of the House

of Commons, John Berker, who should, by rights, have resigned yesterday, but he didn't.

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