Hello and welcome to the Political Party podcast. This one featuring Aaron Bastane and what

a week to be talking politics. And by the time you listen to this, who knows what will

have changed? And that's what's remarkable is how quickly some of the discussions may

date, but enjoy it anyway. Sometimes it's good to talk about politics and not just the

minute by minute, running story of what's going on in Theresa May's, given if she's still

Prime Minister by the time we listen to this, who knows what's going on. Before we talk

about Aaron, I'm doing some live dates before Christmas. That I'm very excited about doing

two nights at the South Bank Centre, which is very exciting, beautiful venue on London

South Bank. I'm doing the first and fifth of December with my now fully updated Brexit

through the gift shop show. So I did it in Edinburgh and I'll be updating it, given what's

happened this week and what will happen between now and the first and fifth of December.

You get to get to that at the Southbank Centre.co.uk. So that's the first and fifth of December

at the Southbank Centre an hour of up to the minute, stand-up and impressions. And then

two very special Christmas specials of this show, the Political Party, at the Leicester Square

Theatre on the 19th and 20th. It'll be different guests on different nights. On the verge of

being able to tell you it is, I'm very excited, but I can't do that yet, but you can get

your tickets already for that. So Aaron was on. I've wanted to have Aaron on for ages.

We almost made it happen early in the year and he was a brilliant guest. Of course, as

you know, I believe in sitting down and talking to people across the political spectrum,

whether you agree with them or not. Aaron is exceptionally bright, clearly an intellectual

who does a lot of really hard thinking. So regardless of whether it's left or right,

I just think it's really refreshing to sit down and opposite someone who's tried to think

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