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Hello, snowflakes, and welcome back to the new European podcast.

It's a British eye on European politics and culture from the people who bring you

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How are you doing? In a moment,

I'm going to be joined by the author and journalist James Ball, is the global editor of the Bureau

of Investigative Journalism. He's written about the unfolding nightmare of Brexit and the current

issue of the new European. And we're also going to talk about the holes and the unfairness in the

government's tax hike to pay for social care and the NHS backlog.

And after that, we'll be putting more putrid politicians and pompous pundits into the hall of shame.

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