Hello, you're listening to the Times Red Box Politics podcast. I'm Patrick McGuire.

You've got the great podcast coming up for you today. It's PMQ's. Yes, not Prime Minister's

questions. Patrick McGuire questions. I'll be joined by Isabel Harbin and Laura Spirit

to answer everything you want us to know about British politics, but we're afraid to ask.

But before then, it's time for today's columnist panel.

The columnist on times radio. Yes, it's a Wednesday, so I'm joined, of course, by Robert

Gramps and Hi Robert. Hi Patrick. And Alex Thompson is not here, but instead,

as his customary when I'm sitting here for much surely, I'm joined by Phil Tinline, the historian

broadcaster all through the Times political book of the year. And Patrick McGuire, Radio Show

regular, how are you Phil? I'm fine, how are you? I'm great, great to have you, of course.

I should say Phil, last week, and you can listen about this on the Red Box podcast if you haven't

heard it, we discussed why August isn't silly season. And almost as if to rebuke us for that,

there's a story about a big cat, a panther, prowling the fields of England in the papers today.

So I feel maybe we were premature in declaring August the most serious month.

Robert, have you ever seen a big cat? No, but I mean, you could still say it was serious,

because if it works through, it is real. Then that is actually a proper, that's kind of

an important story. Is it in Blackburn, somewhere like that? It's the Staffordshire Panther,

that's all right. Oh, Staffordshire, right, because we had the beast of Bodmin, don't we?

Yeah, yeah. The beast of Burford, I think. Your producer was telling me about the beast of

Burford. The beast of Burford. Yeah, I think I love these stories. They're great to write about.

You know, been sent in pursuit of a big cat? No, not in pursuit of a big cat. I think,

imagine you want to think about a big fox once. They found a 38-pound fox in County Durham.

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