Well, they say a week is a long time in politics.

Try an hour.

We're down to that now with Trump's attacks on Iran, facilitating attacks by Israel, prompting a ceasefire.

That's now the way to get diplomatic results, apparently.

And Trump then, a gas that Israel responded to what looked like a sneak

bomb from Iran. I mean, this would be laughable if it wasn't so very serious. We take a look at

what's involved. We look also at the attempts to proscribe Palestine action, which look very

destined to simply encourage support for this soon-to-be-banned

terrorist group. And we look also at the likely rebellion against Labour's cuts to PIP payments.

Those are the headlines. Now for the podcast. Well, hi chums and welcome to this week's leslie ridder podcast

Leslie is the Reverend I am jolly might have said it's been a hell of a week

she never said things like that oh it's been a hell of a year oh I see right yeah you know you put

the voice on it could have been a wee sweary like that yeah of course

but it's hell of a h-e-l-l-o-v-a hell of a that kind of innocent one we're still all reeling from

Donald Trump saying the F word you know exactly massive f-bomb yeah anyway right i digress instantly

yes in the the week that Donald Trump sent a bigly beautiful bomb to Iran to get the

Iranians back to the negotiation table that they hadn't actually left on behalf of Israelis

who have absolutely no intention of negotiating anything with anybody. It was a bit like a rerun

of Iraq's 45 minutes to launch weapons of mass destruction. Only this time wasn't so much 45

minutes as maybe a year, maybe two years, maybe four, but they aren't actually doing it anyway.

And then today Israel, after or 30 minutes to go before the beginning of an enforced ceasefire,

sent as Trump said, a load of bombs, the likes of which he's never seen before,

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