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Hello and welcome to an extra special festive edition of the newsagents.

Why are you looking at me like that?

You just sounds like sort of we're

sitting down for a story with mother. No. Hello children. Shall we begin? No, we're building up. This is welcoming the audience. Ah, I don't like doing that. Well, what is wrong with you? Why do you always have to insult? Why do you always have to insult our audience? Well, you're the one who swears at them.

No, I'm bringing them in.

I'm bringing them in.

And actually, appropriately enough, in our final show before Christmas, we've got a particularly festive question from John in Essex, who says famously Emily was told to, apologies to my mother, fuck off by Marjorie Taylor Green. If Lewis and John could tell one person to F off, who would it be in Y?

Well, surely did it.

Did Emily Maitlis. Too late. She's good. Marjorie did it. And she did it with such gusto. Also, Emily's not here to answer back. So frankly, that would be quite good. Yeah, perfect. Good. Perfect. Because we'd be in a lot of trouble. Indeed. This year, I suppose the person who has made me want to say,

fuck off more than anyone else, is J.D. Vance. You know, coming over, lecturing Europe on free speech,

then piling into what a hellhole London is and how it's, you know, become a sewer and all the rest of it.

We do not have a homicide rate in the UK

anywhere that compares with every city in America. You do not fear for you're going to be shot

dead in London, frankly. You do not have a huge problem with free speech. You have people

who are civil to one another, a far cry from what you see

a lot of the time in America. So bugger off. Stop telling us that Europe is rotten when you don't

have the exactly the most perfect place yourself to live in. But you just didn't avail of yourself

of your own opportunity. You asked to say, where who you would tell to fuck off.

You just told him to bugger off,

which is very World War II, I must confess.

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