rascal, peanuts? peanuts and cherries? almonds. correct. that puts alex forsyth slightly in the lead. that was the laura kuenssberg and katya adler memorial cake quiz. now going to quiz you what has been in a newscast. newscast. newscast from the bbc. hello, it is adam in the studio. it is alex also in the studio. it is lewis, also in the studio. shortly we will be joined by the magic of technology by the real life mayor elsewhere in the country, but lots of places in the country are battening down hatches tonight because storm eunice is heading their way and this is after storm dudley passed through, but it seems that this one is going to be even worse and i thought we could get an update
we probably didn t get the worst question wrong. i won it. i m not sure about the quality of the questions. only one person used to work on university challenge here. lewis used to. i was on it, if you remember. you didn t win. what s the secret, just know everything in advance, all of human knowledge? have a massive brain? the secret is. actually they wouldn t be happy if i gave away the secrets. what a tease. get lewis to write you some questions. then you would really get some politicians on the ropes. lam available. let me know when he s doing it, i m not here. good luck with the quiz, and good luck getting home, alex, because i know you are travelling through the storm. i ll be stranded in a car. thanks to both of you and thank you for listening and watching this episode. goodbye.
on, but first of all i thought we could talk about the cost of living which lewis has been looking out on newsnight. inflation is 5.5%, the highest it has been since you were born probably! i think that is literally true, certainly since the early 1990s. i don t think, since you were born, it is a different story, but let us not dwell on that. it is 5.5% and that is the highest level and if we use the oldmeasure of inflation, rpi it is even higher and the scary thing is for millions of people across the country, who are already have had a decade of standard of living slips, the worst is yet to come on the bank of england is saying we would expect a peak of inflation around 7% in the spring and although the general expectation is that it will then start to obey after,
to play in supporting young j people who are victims - of sexual violence and abuse, i think is absolutely outrageous. - he has no part to play and it s incredibly patronising - given the victim shaming that he and his advisersl pursued over the last couple of years. - it s an absolute outrage. is it damaging to the yorkshire brand that he s got the word york in his title? is it damaging to the yorkshire brand that he s got the word york in his title? well, we are. we re very proud in yorkshire, and we have a lot to shout - about yorkshire tea, yorkshire cricket, - our yorkshire dales - and yorkshire, the pennines. we won t necessarily be . talking, you know, in those same terms about the prince. no, no. you mentioned the yorkshire dales. did you happen to watch celebrity mastermind on saturday teatime when chris mason of newscast fame had that as his specialist subject? well, how marvellous. i need to watch that on catch up. - yeah, he actually did very well, and he did much bette