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It's all about what people think and why politicians do what they do.

Each week we're going to look at the most important social, political and economic trends,

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Bedbugs in Paris, let's talk about it.

The French capital is crawling with the pests as the number of sightings are stored in recent weeks.

They live inside the seams of sofas and multiply in the crevices of furniture.

The questions are whether those bedbugs have come across the Eurostar,

come across trains, come across flights.

The bedbugs have arrived in London.

The tiny little things have caused no end of drama recently.

Social media has been buzzing with news of a bedbug outbreak in Paris, and it's apparently spreading.

When we thought the COVID pandemic was over, we'd get ourselves into a bedbug epidemic.

London, appeared to be next.

Last week, the mayor said it can't, made a statement.

This is a real source of concern.

We're taking steps to make sure we don't have those problems in London,

in relation to regular cleaning of, not just the tubes and our buses,

but talking to the Eurostar as well.

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