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Welcome to the Times Opinion Podcast. My name is Tim Montgomery and in a little while

we'll be joined by Anne Trinaman, the Times is parliamentary sketch writer and also

Peter Kelner of U-Gov and Polster to the Times and we'll be talking about the state of UK politics.

But we're going to begin with Richard Fletcher, our business editor and Phil Ulrich our economics editor to talk about the state of the world economy.

My friends here have just been to Davos in the Swiss Alps to talk with business leaders

and central bankers and many of the great and the good about the tides washing over our economies

around the world. Now this is very unfair as someone steeped in politics I

get to go to Blackpool and Bormuth and Manchester

and Birmingham for I getaways and you get to go to Davos.

But without me continuing my jealous mode,

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