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Jan 2024
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What should we make of Liz Truss's resignation honours? How does Iran use proxies to attack the US and Israel? Why was the election in the Democratic Republic of the Congo so expensive?


Join Rory and Alastair as they answer all this and more on today's episode of The Rest Is Politics.


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