Hello and welcome to the political party. This is the first weekly show of the year, so

it's nice to get back into the swing of things. This show features Sophie Jarvis, who is head

of public affairs at the Adam Smith Institute, which I'm sure many of you have heard of before,

if you're familiar with Adam Smith. This legacy, you can broadly guess where their politics are,

but as we talk about in the interview, they are slightly more rebellious and provocative,

perhaps more than Smith himself. But it's a wonderful conversation and always refreshing to talk

to people from different parts of political spectrum to think about things. We don't really

talk about libertarianism much in British politics, so it's good to have it on the podcast

and good to talk about some of the work the think tank is doing and some of the surprising

angles they might have on things. I won't ruin any of that, but it's a wonderful discussion. You

may have seen Sophie on various TV outlets and herder on the radio, so it's a pleasure to have her

on the podcast. By pure chance, I asked her to come on and then the following day we were both

on five live together, so I think it's always nice to have met the person before doing the interview,

so that was a nice coincidence. So I'm on tour first and foremost, the tour starts very, very soon

on Monday the 28th of January, which is very soon. That's at the other palace tickets for that

of a selling very well. There's only a few left. I'm delighted to say and then goes to various

other places. On the 1st of February, the Camboli Theatre on the 2nd of February, the Gloucester

Guild Hall on the 3rd of February at Solford Keys, the Low Ridge, something else gets a Manchester,

that has already sold out at the Hazelett Theatre in Madestone on the 9th of February. Lester,

I think, so far the only East Midlands Day on the tour, the Sue Townsend Theatre on the 15th of Feb,

also these are February, not January. I'm a fool. Camboli Gloucester Solford, Madestone,

and Lester are all February, North Allerton on the 18th, Darlington on the 19th, Barnard Castle on

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