BP is working to bring more lower carbon energy to the UK, like developing offshore wind,

and we're keeping oil and gas flowing from the North Sea. It's and not all. That's how BP is backing Britain. Well today we're mostly in oil and gas.

We increased the proportion of our global annual investment that went into our lower carbon and other transition businesses from around 23% in 2023.

BP.com slash and not all.

Halifax presents bad move good, bad move, good move.

trusting your other half to put up shelves to hold the China your lovely Nan left you.

Oh yeah, jobs a gooden. Oops.

Good move.

Joining the one in five first-time buyers who choose a Halifax mortgage.

Halifax, the home of first-time buyers.

Halifax first-time buyer mortgage completion volume as a percentage of total market, December

2022 to November 2023. Hello and welcome to the Politics Without the Boring Bits Podcast with me Ed Vasey.

For our big thing today, we look into spies of the past, present and future

with the author of the intelligent spies handbook

and a form ahead of GCH Q. First though, this. The columnist.

Well, I'm delighted to be joined in the studio by Tamandra Hartnus.

Welcome to the studio, Tamandra. Hello, you walked up the stairs last week because there was a fire alarm, but you managed to take the lift today.

Yes, I was very relieved because I also had a suitcase with me because I've just come back from the Royal

Statistical Society Conference in Brighton.

My life is pure drama.

It's stunned now, aren't you?

I'm literally...

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