Happy New Year, wonderful people. Here's hoping the year ahead is happy and fulfilling for us all.

And remember, keep asking questions, keep communicating with one another and with me and keep positive.

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Okay, now it's time for this week's monologue, which for many of you, I suppose, will be the first of the year 2025.

I've said before that I've said before that I feel I have no country anymore. In fact, I know I have no country, none that I recognise, which is the important part.

Some will say that if that's how I feel I should leave, to which I reply and go where,

because at the moment it's the same all over.

But, you know, I have lived in Britain, and Britain as I knew it in past years is gone.

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