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hello and welcome back to oh god what now the winter winter flu jab of politics podcasts and don't know Bill Gates' 5G microchips feel good in the bloodstream.

I'm Andrew Harrison and this week, as 2025 spins around the plug hole of posterity, we have a special guest to look back on the year in party politics and in Westminster.

John Crace is the Guardian's common sketchwriter, a man who visits the Palace of Westminster every week that it's open to bear witness to events therein, much in the manner of Malcolm McDowell, in that bit in Clockwork Orange when he's got his eyes held open with wires. You can share John's incredulity by reading his latest book of Guardian columns, The Bonfire of the Insanities.

Welcome back to the podcast, John.

Thanks so much for having me, Andrew. So the book is subtitled, How Does This Government Thing Work Again? We've now had 17 months of Starmer in power. You'd think that have, even by trial of error, they've got the hang of it by now, wouldn't you? You would have hoped. and three days, no, it was a week, in fact, after the general election last year,

I made the mistake of writing, it feels like the grown-ups are back in charge.

Yes.

And it's almost as though they've been determined to prove me wrong.

And because it feels like there's been one calamity after another and that they don't actually, you know, 14 years out of government and they are ring rusty. Yeah, it's like a muscle. And if you don't use it, it's just atrophied. Yeah. I mean, we're going to be talking about, you know, most of the big themes of the year inside Westminster.

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