What most impulse.

Hello and welcome to this week's what most people think, which is live from the Edinburgh

Friends, which is sort of a posth thing to say.

But when I say that, what I mean is I'm in a travelodge, which is in Edinburgh, while the Edinburgh Fringe is happening. And I should bring in Rachel Fairburn, this week's guest, a popular returnee to the show. Oh, hello. It's good to have you back. Rachel, just put it into words for me. How delighted are you not to be at the Edinburgh Fringe this year just talk us through that there are no words I feel thrilled elated I feel like a normal person how many shows

how many shows did you not see today uh thousands thousands I've not seen thousands of shows today

and I feel great about it it is it's a funny relationship that comics have with the Edinburgh Fringe.

We are going to talk about it later and whether or not it has diminishing relevance.

I mean, I'll say right now it absolutely does.

But I suppose we can talk about whose fault that is.

Was it bad comedy?

Was it bad planning or other things?

But we will politically this week we're

going to talk about pensioners for palestine uh which i don't know if that is a splinter group of

was it is it palestine action the group are called rachel palestine live oh listen you're

asking me i don't friggin know i will say it's nice to see the older people out still doing

stuff though i'm into that i'm not going to keep my powder completely dry. I think one of the problems is people retiring too young. Let's just put that out there. There's a lot of time that pensioners, pensioners and protest now is a thing. My grandparents, all they did was play canasta, but things have changed. And so we're going

to discuss whether or not, you know, the government prescribed Palestine action. I should probably

find out. Wait a minute. Let's just find out. I mean, I don't know if me even Googling this is

going to put me on a list somewhere. Right, Palestine action. Government prescribed them,

but then it leds to the, you know, the site of seeing pensioners put in meat wagons, which can we just say, right? Before we get into any of the semantics around, it's sort of funny. Pensioners getting nicked, put in headloss. Sorry, sorry if you are a pensioner, but there's something in Congress about it, but we're going to get into that as well. We'll also maybe talk a little bit about Keir Starmer, just going increasingly right wing on immigration. As I say, we're going to talk about the Edinburgh fringe in the second half of the show. And then in the Patreon only with the summit happening this week in Alaska, between Trump and Putin, we're going to talk about a little bit about the politics of that,

but also about the macho vibes that are going to be on show there.

You know, who's going to do the strongest handshake?

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