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on a link in the show notes. Well, I'll kick off with what is undoubtedly for my UK listeners.

Well, actually, I saw this breaking news around the world on CNN and Fox and all that

kind of stuff because yesterday our prime minister decided to roll back the net zero and environmental

policies upon which they put in their manifesto back in 2019. And also not really allowed to do that because we have a parliamentary system.

So any massive changes of policy he's meant to take to Parliament, we don't have a presidential

system. He can't just stand up and make speeches. And yet he did. So there's all sorts of

fallout from that. I think he could well face some consequences. But decided to, very, very strangely, move back a

bunch of the environmental promises they'd made. Now, one of those was the petrol and diesel

car ban of 2030, which never was a petrol and diesel car ban. Now, you know, it really did make

all of that. I can't tell you, if you're not in this country, how much of the news cycle yesterday. I mean, it just blew the backdoors off of all the media

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