it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. where do you think that the story has kind of got to? well, it carries bubbling along, doesn t it? so, it s not quite, i don t think, necessarily yet at the kind of, the obvious comparisons for the daily telegraph is expenses, mps expenses the best part of 15 years ago. it is generating a lot of news, loads and loads of pick up in lots of different news organisations but it isn t necessarily the top story everywhere, every day for days and days on end but they have got shedload
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Parliament. Hello there and welcome to the programme. On the day theresa may makes a u turn and announces she wa nts a makes a u turn and announces she wants a general election onjune the eight. Labour mps condemned the change of heart. What i cannot understand from what is the leader of the house has said today is how any of this makes things clearer. But ministers argue an election is necessary. To provide the clarity and the stability that the entire United Kingdom needs. Also on this programme, the Foreign Secretary tells mps the us military response to the Chemical Attack in syria was necessary and appropriate. And what will brexit mean for the uks Creative Industries . But first, it is rare for political secrets not to speu is rare for political secrets not to spell out somewhere. But there was genuine surprise around westminster when journalists were called to Downing Street and theresa may announced she wanted to hold a general election on june the. Announced she wanted to hold
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are they going through your back catalogue? michael laughs i don t think so. there have been re editions of things where we have changed odd bits and pieces. i think i had one, you will like this, i had a poem aboutjumping up and down on drain covers, and the word i used for that when i was a kid was bonking. bonking on the drains. so we agreed that probably we would take that one out. so the poem, a lovely poem, i really like it, we are bonking, we are bonking, we are bonking on the drains. it is not in the latest edition of that book. what is the new word? no, the whole poem came out. michael, what are you reading on this world book day? i am reading a wonderful book called i m black so you don t have to be. it s by a former colleague of mine, and yours, colin grant, who was the son of two jamaicans, and he is writing about his family. this is a beautiful, wonderful book, and he has used a wonderful device, each person in his family has a separate chapter, so you see the world thro