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Coming up, we have award-winning columnist Marina Hyde on another Tabinot Week for Boris Johnson.

Edward Helmore explores the astonishing rise of the controversial podcast star, Joe Rogan.

The Guardian's deputy music editor, Laura Snapes, chats to singer George Ezra on fame, friendship and coping with OCD.

And finally, writer Alex Meshakis asks, are you a jerk at work?

First up, Guardian columnist Marina Hyde reflects on a week that saw Prime Minister Boris Johnson explain to the comments

why he's under police investigation for multiple breaches of his own COVID laws and peddling a pedophile-based conspiracy theory against the leader of the opposition in the process.

This piece is read by Jan Ravens.

If you ever wondered what Jim Jones' corpse would have looked like if it had spent three weeks getting bleached and bloated by a Guyana River,

it floated up to the House of Commons Dispatch Box on Monday at 3.30pm.

Let's begin with some real talk.

The Prime Minister is under police investigation for multiple breaches of his own COVID laws.

At least four gatherings or parties in which Boris Johnson was directly involved are being probed by the Met, including one in his private flat.

In total, police are investigating twelve potentially law-breaking downing street parties, which took place after the British people had been ordered by him to live under the most draconian restrictions imposed in peacetime.

The global Britain that Johnson promised saw him Monday been off a call to the Russian president, who was apparently on the brink of an invasion,

so that he could explain that he needs to wait for police officers to decide if he went to an illicit party in his own home.

The Conservative MPs somehow able to make their peace with all this, increasingly resemble cult members, accepting the latest transparent lies and failures of a cult leader.

Suitcases full of cool aid seem to have been wheeled into Boris Johnson's meeting with Tory MPs on Monday night.

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