Hello, I'm Matt Ford and I'm Alice Levine and we're the presenters of British Scandal.

People do strange things, don't they, Alice?

I don't like the tone of your voice, what do you mean?

On our didn't mean you, I'm at the entire British public who in 2022

followed a live stream of a lettuce with a wig on.

Entirely normal behaviour.

There's more normal than what was going on inside Downing Street.

For this series on British Scandal we're taking you inside number 10,

covering the shocking and very short premiership of Liz Truss.

Listen to British Scandal wherever you get your podcasts.

I'm John Bachelor with my colleague Mary Kistle,

executive vice president, Stephens Incorporated,

former senior advisor to the Secretary of State.

Mary, the the coup in Niger followed by the coup in Gabal,

following the coup in Burkina Faso, following the coup in Mali.

That's enough.

Francophone coups are suggestive that there is a policy change underway,

eco-was the economic unit of West Africa so far has threatened intervention,

but it's not acted.

Macron was not separated from all of this, he's been making many visits

as the president of France to Francophone Africa.

The U.S. in West Africa, let's limit here to the Sahil.

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