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It's the now show.

Hello, I'm Steve Puntz, and I'm Hugh Dennis.

With us at Ivo Graham, Dairy Lions,

huge Davis, Emma City and Luke Kempner.

And this is...

The Now Show.

Welcome to the final show of the current series.

Normally, we'd all go for a meal afterwards,

but this time we've just sent everyone a Scotch egg to eat on Zoom.

And it's not every week that there are earnest discussions about Scotch eggs.

I don't remember ever having a discussion about them except once,

with a lawyer after a food poisoning incident,

but this week, the Ovoid Snack was a centerpiece of heated discussion

on what constitutes a substantial meal,

with which alcohol can be served.

As the rules on England's new tier system were passed by Parliament on Tuesday evening.

Labour abstained, not so much because of the motion,

but because there were more than six of them,

and they didn't have the House of Commons counted as work.

Covid restrictions might or might not be worth the short or long-term damage

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