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Listen to eight years hard labour wherever you get your podcasts. Hello I'm Helen and I'm Stephen and this week on the podcast we discuss intervention in Syria the return of crime to British politics a new centrist party and the

lessons from Emmanuel Macron. So Stephen, let's start by talking about Syria.

We're recording this on Wednesday afternoon.

It's pretty, well, as I said, it's a pretty fast moving situation,

but one of the reasons it's such a fast moving

situation is I saw Donald Trump tweets from 31 minutes apart. The first one

that said, Russia, we're coming for you, you don't get to back animal Assad, like

gassing his own people and then yeah half an

an hour later one that said something like we need to talk there's no point in

having an arms race and it was like is this the same person tweeting this or

was just literally like as the Fox News segment like the pundits change he just reflects the

opinion of whatever he's heard last. But I mean he he does there there is I think

it may have been the notion gross which is the thing where they

tracked his tweets and what was on Fox News at the time I mean it's odd because it

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