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Head to octopusevo.com to get started today. Hello and welcome to the Red Box Politics Podcast on the Times I'm Matt

Shirley. This week we talk comedy, tech and why we need a party of fruitcakes and nutters.

First, last week we asked you to post reviews on iTunes telling us where you're listening to the

podcast. Hello to Dougseysey who's listening in Japan

Tom Platzie who listens to Red Box on his sunny veranda in Rajasthan and also hello to the person who

said they listened to the podcast on their commute to Liverpool Street

slightly less glamorous but you're also welcome

joining me this week the only three people in the country who it seems

haven't resigned as a front-bench spokesman

for UKIP.

Matthew Moore, the Times Media Correspondent, asks why all the jokes are on the left.

Polly Mackenzie, former Lib Dem Downing Street Policy Chief and new head of the Demos

think tank on regulating the future.

But first, Times Columnist Matthew Paris on the slow death of a political party.

I never thought I'd say this, but I'm actually missing UKIP. I know I know there's this

idiotic apology for a remnant of UKIP still there what what's his name Bolton and

whoever Bolton's girlfriend or ex-girlfriend is or was, but they're no threat.

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