Hello, this is the red box podcast. I'm Matt Shawley bringing the best of my times

radio show. You can listen live Monday to Friday, 10 till one on your DAB radio, your

smart speaker or download the times radio app. It's Wednesday, so coming up PMQ's unpacked.

Sometimes it's been a little bit dull recently, Kirsten and Richie Sinak are injecting

enough drama, so we thought we'd correct that. Tim Shipman, as ever, is here to provide

the political analysis, but just to try and live in things up, we've got Peter Dixon,

the voice of the X Factor. He is going to, yeah, live in things up, joy, PMQ. So that's

coming up in just a moment. But first, get ready to get very cross, as someone says,

they don't like Elton John. It's time for the columnists.

The columnists with Alibert, Alice Thompson and Robert Crampton on Times Radio.

Yes, it's that time we take a look at the day's news. Alice, we've got Alibert,

so Robert Crampton's here in the studio.

Morning. Nice to see you. Hello.

And Alice is doing some live reporting for us. We can go live to the scene. Alice, where are you?

And I am at a degree ceremony. Well, a non-ceramony, because they haven't got their degrees,

but we're trying to have a degree ceremony here. So can you tell us which university or

can you not tell us the fear of reprisals? I have, absolutely. I know, I'm at Cambridge,

which I wasn't at, but my doctor is at. She is queuing up, and some of them have got their

degrees, but a lot of them haven't. I don't know if they're going to get them before October,

actually, now. So they're having to ask their employers and the next set whether or not they

can go without having a new degree at all. And so why, so what, is it, is it,

it's apparently what subject you've got? So if you chose a subject with a particularly

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