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It's been quite a week again. There's an awful lot of names. We've had to pair them all down just to get them down to the requisite nine or ten that we're going to put in the list this week. And I'm delighted to say that I'm joined once again by Laura Donsworth, who's to my left, who's going to have some very unusual situations to

suggest to us, and Kevin O'Sullivan, to my right, who's been here, of course, many times before

and knows the drill. We've got a slightly different look this week, but don't be alarmed.

There's plenty of plankery to go along. And Laura, I should ask you to kick us off, please, with your first nominee. All right. Well, I do have a couple of unusual

ones in my mix. I know. Right, so I'm going to start off with the sort of the more highbrow one.

I'm dragging the, uh, the COVID drum again. Yes. Just one more time. Just one more time.

It's almost gone, isn't it? It's nearly gone. It's almost gone, apart from the young people that the environmental modelling group wants to mess with.

Yes.

So the reason that I've made them my plank is because they've basically openly acknowledged in black and white pretty much for the first time that vaccine passports are just a tool to make people get vaccinated.

Really?

Yes, they have.

It's down there in black and white.

Now, you call them the environmental modeling group.

Until now, I've never heard of them.

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