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Thank you. Welcome. Welcome to Oh God what now, now under the supervision of industry regulator off pod. I'm Andrew Harrison. On today's edition, turn another page on the teenage rampage,

votes for 16-year-olds. Will they stack the next election for Labor, hand a chunk of support to Jeza and Zara's Corb-Tarn, a party on the left, or are there rather more reform-curious youngsters

out there than we thought? And will this mean Starmor has to open the door on more fundamental voting reform?

Plus, the Epstein saga is raging out of Trump's control. Could it possibly be not the lies,

the corruption, the cruelty or the incompetence that sinks him, but the hunger for conspiracy

that he himself stoked? And back in Blighty, Labour has suspended four backbenchers for persistent knob-headery,

and Diane Abbott's been suspended again too. Is the Labour Party getting too heavy-handed and

work at it all lead? Today's panel is guilty of persistent podheadery. Hello to author of

A History of the World in 47 Borders and Jolly Goodt Substacker at The Newsletter of Not Quite Everything.

John Lodge, hello, John.

Hello, I like the optimism that nobody else would have been suspended from the Labour Party between us recording this and it actually going out. Yeah, well, you never know, but I mean, you know, as of timestamp, yeah. So, John, it's farewell to Offwat, the Office of Water Services, not the office of

we and turns, as it's farewell to Offwat. The Office of Water Services, not the Office of Weenterns, as it was described to me once, is to be abolished and a new body will take on its powers. Plus, those of the Environment Agency, Natural England, and the drinking water inspectorate. Like, it's going to be like a kind of big watery transformer. Are you holding out much hope for a less sewery seaside?

I mean, that does sound like quite a sensible move, doesn't it? Kind of consolidating the powers

in one agency instead of having them all butting heads all the time. It'll be a simpler process.

So you can't really sort of argue that off what was any good. It absolutely failed to either

keep our rivers clean or bills low or to stop

all the money flowing out to passing Australian private equity firms. So it does kind of sound

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