I'm Ed Vasey. We're going to be unpacking the politics of the day

from what the arrest of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor means for the royal family to a row

between Kier Starmar and Donald Trump over air bases and whether aliens exist. Joining me now

is the City AM opinion andion and Features Editor,

Alice Denby.

Hello Alice.

Hello, Ed.

And the former Times diplomatic editor.

Michael Binion, hello Michael.

This is giggling.

It's a very concept of my name.

I always giggle because I get this very strict script to read out

because we have to pretend this becomes a podcast so i have to

pretend this is in a box this discussion yeah i can't refer to anything i've talked about on the radio

show before and otherwise drives my producer around the bend so i can't for example bring up the fact

that i've been talking about livery companies and it turns out that Michael Binion is a leather

seller yes indeed and my stationer say leather seller to you alice leather seller sounds like a bit of a

tongue twister doesn't it like how many times can you say that well they're pretty ancient

michael what is a leather seller and why are you the master of the leather sellers? They are one of the older companies.

Leather and medieval terms was extremely important substance.

It was the plastic of its day.

It's the only substance that was flexible and it was used for all kinds of stuff.

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