Oh, and welcome to Not Another One, and a weekend episode in which Tim Ian and myself,

I'm Miranda Green with Tim Montgomery and Ian Martin, are going to chew over

some of the things that have happened in yet another extraordinary few days in British politics.

I should say we are not joined today by Steve Richards, but chaps, I think that's okay because

Steve has been on every television screen that I've turned on

and on every radio station that I've flicked on in the kitchen as I've had a desperate

cup of tea in the middle of editing and commissioning articles on the leadership crisis in the

Labour Party. And he's been great, hasn't he? But he has been. It's been like the Steve Richards Broadcasting Corporation.

I have to interrupt you there, Miranda.

The veteran, Steve Richard.

Well, okay, that's right.

So should I have formally announced that we are collectively thinking of taking,

you're doing a letter before action?

I think that's what the powerless move is

to the British Broadcasting Corporation for calling Steve Veteran.

Because we're all in danger of having that epithet thrown at us now, aren't we?

Having reached a certain time of our careers,

and we think it's actionable.

It does. Anyway, Steve, if you're out there, a certain time of our careers and we think it's actionable. Makes us to a very honest.

It does. Anyway, Steve, if you're out there having a break but also listening, we've got

your back on this whole veteran thing.

And also we're grateful for Steve's very interesting point that most by-elections, he says,

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