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Aug 2021
37m 38s

We Are Never Ever Getting Back Together

THE TIMES
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Matt Chorley speaks to the Times Scottish political editor Kieran Andrews and editor of the Courier David Clegg about the alliance and feud of Nicola Sturgeon and Alex Salmond, that has dominated Scottish politics for a decade.


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Emma Woolf and Daniel Finkelstein discuss Greta Thunberg and the nappy tax.



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