Hello and welcome to another episode of the For The Many podcast. I'm Ian Dale.

And I'm Jackie Smith. Yes, he is not having to entertain himself and you on his own this week. Everybody will be relieved here. Yes, indeed. We are

separate, but together, if you see what I mean. Last week, for those of you who bothered to

listen last week, I did it on my own because we couldn't get Jess Phillips's computer to work

properly. And the previous week, I think it was only a 20 minute one, wasn't it?

Or was that the previous one?

I don't know.

No, I think it was.

We are back in fine form today.

Hopefully you refreshed after your holiday and me in, well, towards the end of my holiday.

Yes, I am.

It's just as well, of course, because several of our listeners have noticed that

after our constant whinging about not having adverts on LBC for our podcast, we then got

adverts on LBC and, as you say, then proceeded to then mess up the recording of the first one

and have you on your own for the next one. So all these poor

people who've started listening going, what's all the fuss about? Anyway, today is going to be

brilliant listening listeners. So please don't turn off just yet. And we should welcome all of the new

listeners that have come to us as a result of these adverts on LBC.

Let me just explain how this is going to work today. We're going to talk about Boris's first

month in power, or as you might say, Jackie, Mr. Johnson's first month in power. The Dorothy

Byrne-McTaggart lecture, which is a lot more interesting than it sounds, if you've never heard of what Dorothy Byrne has said. She's the head of, what is she head of,

head of politics and programs for Channel 4. Yeah. Yeah. We are going to talk about whether

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