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Before we begin, I would like to draw your attention to not one but two

Americano events that are coming up in the upcoming days. One is on Saturday, the 19th of October,

at Churchhouse in central London, and that is at the Battle of Ide ideas. I'm going to be doing a live

Americano podcast with Kay Andrews of this parish and Richard Johnson, who is a lecturer at

Queen Mary University, and we're going to be looking at the election, race, and class in

particular. After that, I've already flagged this on the

Americano show, but I'm doing it again. We will be hosting Nigel Farage at the

Emanuel Centre in London, in Westminster, for an evening discussion on Thursday, the 24th of October.

Tickets are beginning to run out, so if you haven't got your ticket, book it now.

You can do that by going to spectator.com.ukuk forward slash book your tickets.

It is at the Emanuel Centre, as I said, and there is a drinks reception

before the event starting at 7.30. So be prompt. I am delighted to be joined today by Shruti

Raja Kapalan, who is an economist at the MercArthur Centre at George Mason University,

and a fascinating author about many things, in particular,

the nature of Indian Americans, because Indian Americans, I don't know if you've noticed,

have featured quite prominently in this election.

We have Kamala Harris,

who is of American Indian descent. We have Usha Vance, who is J.D. Vance's wife. We've also

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