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it is world book day when we are recording this episode. i hope you had some good costumes to hand. first of all, though, it is day two of what the daily telegraph is calling the lockdown files — all those whatsapp messages between matt hancock, the health secretary during the early stages of the covid pandemic, and borisjohnson and rishi sunak and all their advisers and their pollsters and dominic cummings and patrick vallance and chris whitty and basically everyone who had anything...

others and basically everyone who had anything to do with covid. the weird do you think that story has got to? weird do you think that story has not to? �* , ., ~ got to? its not quite i think necessarily _ got to? its not quite i think necessarily yet _ got to? its not quite i think necessarily yet at _ got to? its not quite i think necessarily yet at the - got to? its not quite i think necessarily yet at the kind l got to? its not quite i think| necessarily yet at the kind of obvio...

Heard her critique of that process, that sense from her that she thinks its going to be too long—winded. now, today is world book day, as many parents will have experienced and as i have seen many parents talking about on social media today, so we managed to rope in a real—life author to come and talk to us. it is former childrens laureate and broadcaster michael rosen, who is here. hello, michael! hello! so, i am an author specimen for today! well, i mean, your latest book, getting better, ...

Spotted this, did you spot that? because the telegraph used their specialists in different areas. so that is isabel oakeshotts view from telegraph towers. what about the views of some of the people who have been caught up in all this? well, matt hancock in particular is very punchy in his response, as you might imagine, not least because of that sense of betrayal. and he says that it is outrageous and that she is pursuing an anti—lockdown agenda, as he puts it, and that it is not in the public...