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Welcome to the Times Opinion Podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery and this week I'm joined

by two Stella Times columnist Rachel Sylvester and Matthew Paris and also in the week

where the Greek crisis has been hogging the headlines by our economics

editor Philip Aldrich. Here are our three topics for the week.

Michael Gov once said the government was divided in its approach to terrorism

between those who wanted to shoot the extremist crocodiles as they neared the boat

and those who thought it was also necessary to drain the swamp.

David Cameron tried waving his rifle around,

but this week he's committing the government to a swamp draining campaign,

putting himself at the head of a generational struggle

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