Hello and welcome to Not Another One. We join you this week with a not the cheeriest of backdrops, I have to say, dear listeners.

I'm Miranda Green and I'm here with Steve Richards, Tim Montgomery and Ian Martin.

And we thought today, because there's so much going on,

that we would do another one of our, what we call our tapass episode,

so that we can offer you three topics.

But we think we probably should

start with the political ferroarian reaction to the murder case in Southampton of a

student a knife a knife attack a fatal knife attack and the police actions

when they attended now obviously you, it's a horrific case.

You know, knife crime, young lives cut short,

is all too evident in news coverage quite a lot of the time.

But this particular case has sparked a dramatic reaction from Nigel Farage, which the commentary

seemed to be as one interpreting as a kind of bid to kill off a threat from the right, from

the Restore party, which is doing a little bit too well for comfort in terms of

reforms prospects in the maker field by-election. Steve, I'm going to come to you first, because I

know also you've got to potentially leave us at some point. So what's your reaction to the political

reaction? Because we're recording this on Tuesday afternoon, and of course the Home Secretary is due to make a statement to the political reaction because we're recording this on Tuesday afternoon and of course the

Home Secretary is due to make a statement to the House on it as well.

So it's clearly one of those awful cases that has sort of gripped the national imagination,

but then of course gets used sometimes.

Yeah, well I share that reaction. I think, you know, Nigel Farage is

a sharp reader of the political mood and he knows exactly what he's doing. And what he is doing

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