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an exciting mix of discussion interviews and stories. This week we discuss our

Len McCluskey interview in which the Unite leader warns Ed Millerman against

seduction by the Blairite. I ask whether tattoos will ever hang in the

Lou, and we talk spring books with our culture editor Jonathan Derbyshire, hear about

America from our US writer Nicky Wall, and we follow up on the role that

Reddit played in the hunt for the Boston bombers.

I'm joined by a political editor, Rapar Bear, editor of the Stagers George Eaton to talk about the week in politics.

We're going to start off with the fact that George you interviewed Len McCluskey of Unite, the Union, who provide 28% of Labour's funding and he had some fairly harsh

words for the Blair rights in the cabinet he named Jim Murphy, Liam Burn and

Douglas Alexander what have they done to annoy him? Well, I think his concern is that they will take labor into a position that he defines as austerity light,

where they either match the spending cuts the toys are planning after the next

election or introduce significant cuts of their own.

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