Hello, this is Hugh from Badgays and you're listening to a preview of Extra Badgays,

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all with an eye for the horrible and the homosexual. This week we discussed the British sexting

scandal featuring the Tory MP William Ragg, plus the new FX miniseries feud Capote versus the Swans,

which tells the story of Truman Capote's infamous unfinished final book, answered prayers.

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Enjoy the preview. So I guess the question for us, because so far this seems like an avowedly heterosexual news story is what's the gay element?

Well, all these numbers seem to have been harvested during another honey trap operation with a different conservative

MP who goes by the name of William Ragg.

And I'm going to send you his official portrait right now, Ben.

How old do you think he is?

Oh, my goodness.

He, okay.

So he really could be anywhere between the age of about 7 and 59 in that photo.

I would say, yeah, somewhere between 16 and 70 is my guess.

Yeah.

He has that sort of like eternal schoolboy look that some conservatives have, which is not a

compliment, like a sort of ruddy-faced, you know,

hair out of place vibe. But he was actually born in 1987, so he's younger than me, which, yeah.

I thought, okay, I thought for sure that person was at least 50.

He's been a Tory MP since, uh, honorable gentlemen's, he's been, he's been in an MP since 2015, so nine years.

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