This is the Guardian.

It's a slightly different kind of episode this week and me and the Politics Week

the UK team are off on our holidays for a few weeks but we thought it would be

worth leaving you with some of our most memorable moments and

interviews from the past year. Everybody has either been to the funeral of

somebody he did know personally or somebody he would know like a second hand.

We are the most trusted profession and we're being dragged through the courts by the least

trusted group of people in England. Now what does that say about this country and

about the people that's leading it? Things were all right there, you know, we had money

left over every week. Now we're working to live, aren't we?

So...

Every time we do a food shop, that thing's gone up and this thing's gone up.

And when you add it all together, with three children and pets and everything else to afford, you know, it's...

Yeah, it's scary.

It's scary.

It's been another year of the cost of living, hitting people really hard,

with a huge number of people coming out on strike.

In May, the Royal College of Nursing, which up until late last year had never been on strike

before, was standing its ground against the government and its pay-offer.

And I had a fascinating conversation with

Francis O'Grady, the former General Secretary of the Trades Union Congress, and

Pat Cullen, the General Secretary of the R. Cun, about the treatment she felt

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