generations. there a real romance to the moment, no doubt. and to end the beatles, if you could say this, to sort of end on this note as opposed to the note in 1970 when they broke up, and there was everybody fighting with each other, here they are all together with that classic beatles harmony and nobody had harm onies like those guys, and there is a romance to the moment no question. is there any hesitation, and have you heard of any hesitation about how this has come together from mccartney or any of them? well, famously george harrison called it rubbish in the 1990s, but the question that i am asking is was he referring to the demo, the quality of the demo or was he referring to the song? i choose to believe that he was referring to the technology. me, too. i am going with that option. okay. we will go with that one. mark, thank you for being with us, and appreciate your time, and let s all go listen to it again as soon as the show is over. thank you, john an
good evening. we start with the european elections. it s still early with exit polls coming in from around europe, but we ve had our first projection of what the next european parliament will look like, and in many countries, far right parties have made big gains. exit polls show a historic win for marine le pen s national rally in france and is on course to trounce president macron s party. far right parties have also made substantial gains in austria and germany. exit polls say 27 countries voting, most of them since thursday, 373 million people were eligible to vote. that is considerably more than the 244 million who will be taking part in the united states in november. so, this is a very big deal, not only because it will set the direction for this parliament at a critical time in europe, with war in ukraine, the economy stuttering, migration a major concern for many, but because what happens in this election so often has a bearing on the direction of domestic politics in
more of the seats. the most headline grabbing outcome appears to have been in france, where the far right national rally party has taken more than 31% of the vote. that s more than double the coalition which supports president macron. he has responded by calling an entirely unexpected snap election. translation: the rise - of nationalists and demagogues is a dangerfor our nation, but also for europe. i say this even though we have just celebrated with the whole world of the normandy landing, and in a few weeks we welcome the world for the olympic and paralympic games. yes, the far right is both the result of the impoverishment of the french and the downgrading of our country. so at the end of this day, i cannot act as if nothing had happened. added to this situation is a fever which has gripped parliamentary and public debate in our country in recent years, a disorder which i know worries you, sometimes shocks you, and to which i do not intend to give in. however, today the c