What Most Impulse.

Hello and welcome to this week's episode of what most people think.

And this is, given the way that the December calendar falls, this is going to be the last major sort of political show of the year.

We're doing the Christmas special next week.

So I thought I'd go do a kind of special this week where we do a report card for the main party leaders and look back at the big political stories and the shakers and movers in 2025.

And for that, I've got Simon Evans in.

And do you think that's fair, Simon?

Are we in the bit of the year where we're doing reviews and looking back on stuff

because there's just less stuff happening?

Is this like world's strongest man territory yet?

I don't know exactly because nowadays we live in such a 24-hour new cycle and world in world events have a habit of sort of overlapping.

Obviously, in terms of parliamentary events, yeah, I think it ended with the budget probably, didn't it?

That was the last big sort of scheduled activity.

But God knows, you know, if some of the diversity barriers at the Christmas markets fail to do their job. Who knows what might happen?

God willing, this will be the last big story that we do.

But yeah, the budget was kind of like, it was people's lives for a while, wasn't it?

I do think that there was a kind of symmetry between the ashes in that there was a lot of buildup,

a lot of anticipation, and it just seems to make everybody

sad and annoyed. I don't follow the cricket as much as I should do, and as much as people

expect of me, but it seems that there's been an extraordinary degree of disappointment there

and not even justified because they know that where they've got the stock, they've got the actual, you know, the bloodlines are good.

They should be a lot more competitive.

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