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Hello, this is the Red Box Podcast. I'm Matt Chawley.

I hope like me. You had a good weekend. It's been an absolutely soon case.

When I prized open the door, my state sponsored 34-bottom wide switch, let the cheese board breathe,

and queued up to have a go and carry Johnson's lazy Susan.

Less of that, I think, throughout the rest of the episode.

In fact, coming up on today's episode, we're looking at scientists with the news that Jonathan Van Tam is to step out of the spotlight and return to his microscope.

We're going to hear about the impact of the pandemic on the experts we turned to from the surge of media requests to the deluge of abuse and threats,

which puts some of our brightest and best speaking out in public.

That's coming up later in the episode, but as ever, we kick off with our columnist panel.

It's Monday's, it must be Libby Raichee. It's Libby Purvis and Rachel Silvester.

So, without getting into the study, we rehearse everything about parties.

I feel like we're sort of at the place now that everyone knows them at parties.

We know he was at them. There's a question of whether or not that's on him at the cost of his job.

Is Operation Save Big Dog an Operation Red Me?

Is re-announcing nonsense about a child to stop migrants across the channel and shutting down the BBC?

Is that going to save him, do you think, Libby?

No, no, it's not.

I mean, I have to say part of me now longs to give Boris a ruffle, aren't we hug?

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