I'm Ed Vasey and we're going to be unpacking the politics of the day.

Joining me are two of the finest minds from the Times and Sunday times.

Sarah Dytum, welcome to the show.

Good morning.

And Emma Duncan, welcome to the show.

Hello, good to be with you.

You sound very upbeat, Emma Duncan.

I am very upbeat. It's a very beautiful sunny day and it's New Year's Eve and we're going to have fun.

Are you? What are you going to do?

I am going to go out to a party tonight wearing something that I discovered in an attic not very long ago, which is my mum's cat suit, which I reckon dates from the late 1960s, is psychedelic in colouring. It is also sort of 100% crimpline which is stretchy and very convenient if you're

expecting to be fed a good dinner as I am so you're going as Diana Rigg to some party broadly speaking

yeah and is it a dinner party or a you, let's all get drunk and dance about party?

I think it's a let's get drunk and dance about party.

It is in a flat that's got a view of the fireworks tonight.

So it's also, yay, let's watch the spectacular fireworks party.

Sarah Dytum, where are you going tonight?

Well, I have been brutally evicted from my own house by my teenage children, so I am taking myself and a slow roast pork loin and my husband ran to a friend's house who live about five minutes away.

And I plan on having a very chilled, very nice time.

Brilliant. You're not wearing any of your mother's clothing then?

No, I think I actually raided all of my mom's, all of my mom's vintage clothing when I was a teenager

went through a phase of wearing an absolutely gorgeous smocked beber dress that was hers um beba barbara

a smotped beaver dress beberber, B-I-B-A.

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