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Thank you very much for tuning in.

I hope you're all in a kind of festive mood after kind of spending the whole year trying to make sense of the wild world of British politics and well beyond

Britain as well. Yeah, maybe a few days we can all just relax and switch off and have a good time

and then try and make sense of it all again and again and again. Anyway, at the end of the podcast,

I'll let you know what is planned for the Rock and Roll Politics Cooperative over the festive

period. For this podcast, if it's okay with all of you, I thought I would look at what we do know at the end of this year because a lot of kind of

political reporting is about what we don't know, you know, speculation about X, Y and Z,

oh, if so and so does this, what happens to so and so will so and so survive?

And the answer quite often is we don't know.

But it's a very easy column to write.

You know, oh yeah, this is going to happen, this is going to happen.

And when it doesn't happen, political commentators forget that they ever said it would.

That's the way we get away with

predictions that go badly wrong. But what we do know is always much more interesting than people,

I think, in the media tend to realize. I always think of Herkir-Bot, the Agatha Christie detective, you know, when he's

with his psychic Hastings, and the two of them are walking along in the middle of some who done it.

And Poirot says, Hastings, it's all in front of our eyes. And Hastings, it's a good Lord, Poirot,

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