Welcome to a Friday night edition of Tisky Sour.

Unusually, I'm joined by Ash Sarkar on this Friday evening. How are you doing, Ash?

I'm really good, Michael. How are you? Very well. Tell us about the swag you're wearing.

Well, this is a new piece of Navara merch, the Hate Landlord's cap, which has been

directly inspired by having to listen to Michael Kvech day in, day out. You can find it on shop.varamedia.com.

And I will say one thing, which is I have a theory that all of humanity broadly falls into one of two

categories. You're either someone where all sunglasses look good on you or you're somebody where

like all hats look good on you. Now, I don't have a sunglasses face. I find it really difficult to

wear sunglasses. And if you're part of Team Hat Gang, thoroughly recommend you get in this one.

The Hate Tories sunglasses are coming out next summer. So wait for those if you are team

sunglasses. Tonight, we are talking about the Tories, fleeing, soon act sinking ship,

the latest from Kanye West. I'm sure you have seen some of that on Twitter already. And we're talking

about the crisis in that ambulance service and a very, very unconvincing defense of Lady Susan

Hassey, who we've all come to to know just this week. Labor have held the city of Chester in the

first by-election since Rishi Soonak became prime minister. The seat became vacant after Labor MP

Chris Mavison resigned following allegations of sexual misconduct towards a junior member of staff.

It's now been won by Samantha Dixon, a local counsellor in the city. She gave this speech when

the results were announced. The people of Chester have sent a clear message to the conservative

government. They have said unreservedly that Rishi Soonak's conservatives no longer have a mandate

to government. His government is on borrowed times. Dixon could well be right. The resulting

Chester was pretty definitive. She won 61 percent of the vote. That's up from 50 percent in the

2019 election. And she almost doubled Labor's majority. For the Tories, it was the worst result

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