Starmer’s China Syndrome – plus Green MP Siân Berry on the new power balance on the Left

After the collapse of the China spying case, do we have to accept that Britain is way past being able to spar with Beijing? Especially when we depend so much on their students? Green MP Siân Berry talks about the party’s future under new eco-populist leader Zach Polanski, how to square green infrastructure with their support’s suspicion of development, and whether the Greens would enter a coalition with Labour to keep Farage out. And in the Extra Bit for Patreon people… Sunak’s back, sort of. What do ex-PMs get up to these days? And the terror of the A.I. Margaret Thatcher ChatBot. 

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ESCAPE ROUTES 

• Raf recommends Film Club on BBC iPlayer. 

• Rachel recommends The Finest Hotel In Kabul by Lise Doucet. 

• Siân Berry recommends The French Lieutenant’s Woman . 

• Ros recommends The Line on ITVX. 

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