Audio newspaper for a visual world All Obu gloves welcome to issue four thousand and nine of the bugle, which three hundred and installments of this austere, Journal of Record for the week beginning Monday. The ninth through the summer two thousand- and sixteen with me and he's awesome here- live in London where the payments are paved with paving slabs for the most part and joining me from Mumbai, India, which has one Again, just missed out in its attempt to be crowned, worlds most relaxing and laid back city. She asked out of the top three thousand cities at least it is the bugles official rest of the world correspondent Angenor,

fount of wisdom, Anavar, Paolo ND, hello, hello. Yes, we did lose out that spot and narrow margin. We were right up there with Oslo and Tokyo the cleanest, most technologically advanced environmentally conscious city. But then the small issue of twenty million people in a crowded space got in the way, but otherwise when the when Fit in Mumbai. That's it when it doesn't just did you go for a walk about three hundred yards is equivalent to smoking. About sixty cigarettes in terms of lung Health, that is correct. That is correct and and that's when you're walking inside your home. I don't if you want to go into the details of what happens out, I think the other day I realize that there are more people in my apartment. Complex then all of Hungary that's.

Struck me as a disproportionate balance of human humans in one place versus another. I mean, I think there were trains that have more people on them than live in New Zealand as well. That is correct. That is correct. That is correct. You know the the overarching religion that governs the western world. What is that that Christianity, right, you guys, have a thing in that the Ark Noah's Ark Everyone gets in there with livestock, and you know it's a it's a helpful everything you're trying to save all these animals, and it's you and a bunch of goats in your wife and everything and the ship. And your ceiling getting on local chain in India is Noah's Ark every morning, typically the morning commute it sixteen million people all their belongings moving to some destination in the hope of an income.

We will touch more on the glory of Mumbai's. Suburban train use later in the in the show come before we start. So. This is the people for the week beginning Monday, the 19th of December fifty years ago, on this day, uh United Nations adopted the outer space treaty, which was formally signed in January of nineteen sixty seven. The little title of the Outer space treaty was the treaty on principles governing the activities of states in the exploration and use of outer space including the moon and other celestial bodies. Now speaking as someone with a celestial body. This is a very important piece of legislation. For me, Treaty was aimed at stopping humanity behaving like, and I quote, the treaty as much of an absolute dick in space. It has always tended to on earth included rules like no nukes in space, and you cannot own Jupiter as well as practical advice such as how to play snooker in zero gravity and polite etiquette for making

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In the in the top story this week in and I'd like to know what you think of this bunch of people in India arrested for not standing up during our national Anthem ACT Ii feel I I was just curious to to understand whether this was standard practice around the world or we were unique in our patriotism during motion? Pictures This is a really old story for the um I mean is it necessary to display patriotism? This is a Supreme court ruling. Standard. There are something like thirty million pending cases that Preme court in India is not quite got around two hundred or something like that, but they have managed Also, an edict direct. In all cinemas to play the national anthem before the start of film, and it is mandatory for everyone to stand up as a mark of respect And I mean you have what you work in the film industry.

Do you do you? Do you, because you you, you write full for various movies. Do you actually saying the Indian National Anthem Wells was writing scripts well and a couple of things here. I will get in and look at the script writer in the Hollywood motion picture industry, which is the opposite of the motion picture industry. We don't necessarily just seeing during the national anthem, we sing throughout the motion picture occasionally interrupted by the thing the western world known as dialogue. We could say that we consider that an impediment to story telling, which is usually told through song. And also you know a lot of people finding this very amusing. You know people are upset that or not upset, but they're they're using this as they be wielded by the fact the people of stand up during the national anthem, but but we hear on We see it as a logical extension of patriotism in the today season. If you can,

send up to show your patriotism Office Christmas Party, two is playing or when fifty shades of grey the sequel comes on, then how do we really know you're a patriot? How how do we do it and the supreme court has sensibly also ended in that ruling that great institution left behind by the british and- and I mean that literally because the building was left behind by you, in which Us Supreme Court decides the the the haves and the have declared that one of the things you have to do. Why ill as standing up for the national anthem, one of the things the sure owners have to do is we have to make sure that they do not bolt the doors, so you have freedom of access, so I guess in some way frightened by the national anthem, where you want to run away. You have the freedom to do that, because they're not going to bolt the doors

so there is also critical desicion decision for Supreme Court to take in in a situation where they have fourteen billion, pending cases of to do in terrorism. This was the key priority. Having the doors not bolt, when the national anthem played during office Christmas Party too, hangover, four extreme Bangkok, when that happened, I really I really I don't know about you. At B b, I value systems are different yeah. I I I I I live in. You know to tropical regions and he'll be sure of battery, or doesn't by standing up every time. A Judd, Apatow Comedy plays that how it works here, so the police detained twelve people for not standing at a film in uh in uh.

If I'm pronouncing this wrong through Van Anthapuram, also known as Trivandrum the Film Festival of of Carol and now, I think I know that there is a time and a place for which, which is am and that time was in about the year. One thousand seven hundred and thirty am that place was probably somewhere up a pretty mountain on a sunny day, but something before a film. I do not just and I don't see how watching a film requires an overt compulsory display. National. By to me, that makes as much sense as singing the national anthem before drinking a milkshake, filling your car up with petrol or taking a dump. So the last thing this planet needs right now is more pointless. Nationalism that said The indian national anthem is quite fighting it's about it until researching this story, and why so researching? I mean that in the sense of Alisme Circa, two thousand and sixteen, which is looking it up a couple of things on Wikipedia um, the international teams

written by the Nobel Laureates, Rabindra Nath Tagore a HIM to Indy pluralism, to his own, rather the reflective in Cali Music, somewhat at odds with some other national anthems that largely focused on killing the shit out of as many enemies as possible, now I don't know what do you think I mean what would tug or have thought of this all sounds vault of Bengal only Pro wrestling circuit in the early 20th century I mean how would how would he have reacted to this compulsory ization of a national anthem in Cinemas. Well, you know, I think, I think started to go who was in the steam wrestler from my home town, actually go to once the capital of the empire. He he, I think, would be quite surprised that this was the national anthem because he had originally written the first of us as a welcome for George, the sixth who never actually showed up, and I think that that that a lot of it was written and

praise. But a lot of people don't know this, but we had only six days between in which to prepare for independence. Our independence was supposed to be a month after we got it, but one of your viceroys in governor generals got got a stomach upset, as is common in Delhi um and the things got moved around, and so in six days we had very quickly come up with a lot of things and national bird a national. Some various national symbols. I would not want to be in the parliament house or anywhere in the vicinity even that week, because I'm just thinking of all all the things that must have been thrown leaders like Nehru and Gandhi like people coming into ostriches and penguins Is this all right and then I know we need a bigger national animal. You know, and I think old, all the music that got rejected. Do. You know they were coming in with some early David Bowie at the said. No, don't get us a different song, so a lot of if they had to sift through till we got to this. So I think

I would be very surprised that this was the pick right and not something from Bruno Mars, for example, well there only. I could only imagine this scene that is play down Indian movie Theater, since this laws passed recently. What are we going to see today dad Well, some we're going to see the angry birds movie. Oh well, we bet sing the national anthem. Then I suppose yes my bad. I had no point watching a film originating from a smart phone game involving catapulting birds at pigs without first expressing pride in our country. No dad, I'm pretty sure that's. What's Rabindranath Tagore had in mind when he penned on national anthem in one thousand nine hundred and eleven he had been thinking This is really going to focus people's minds on the need for tolerance and cooperation between the various peoples of our vast and diverse nation. When they sit, for two hours of mindless commercially, driven, entertainments and popcorn. Yes, some that is well, I took all rolled. You are entirely correct, I think, Andy you've, just summarized one hundred years of indian history

free birds, which is just hasn't, been done by the grill. Of course, colonialists overtime. I think I think it took a video game app on Iphone to finally understand the entire post colonial struggle, I'm Just surprised that there's a lack of patriotism in other countries, you know uhm, you know why? Doesn't God save the queen on before extreme wrestling or whatever it is. That's odd, sky, television. I think one of the. I think it's one so the smartest things the Supreme Court could do because uh, It's really hard to get a bunch of Indians in one room and get them to listen to anything. So if you've got them in a dark hole and- and I prefer the previous vision when they bolted the doors and you've got the doors bolted. Then you can make them do anything. It's going to stop with the national anthem, but then you can sign them onto a preferred, Citibank, credit card. Anything you want really. I mean you

it's not I mean you'd, like God, save the queen to be played before wrestling events. We have something close to that. My local ice hockey club, the mighty Stretton Red Hawks, who I've been watching quite a lot, recently, never secure installation, and I think this is probably I don't know if this is across all ice hockey matches in Britain, but they played God save the queen. Just a recorded Instrumental save the queen before every match before a lot of grown men start whizzing around an ice rink we'll be checking each other into walls and try to walk a small round bits of vulcanized rubber into a tiny girl, God by man kitted out what MR stay Puft from Ghostbusters and it is unbelievably good fun to watch, but not exactly an activity that you would think as the full under but it attention of her majesty the queen and therefore requiring theme, song or indeed the fall under intention of God, and even if the party was taking some time out from trying to reboot his obviously malfunctioning computer, by repeatedly switching it off and on again at the wall.

He's unlikely to want to be reminded that he needs to save the queen. I mean, I doubt if he's listening in to the Stratton ICE rink thinking, oh they're, singing I've got to save the Queen ice hockey match what is shifting playing as Elizabeth I know and she joined a bracket will hold its. She then knowing full sir, in which case yeah she probably does need a bit of savings with all due respect. She does not have the physique to hockey. In the end, I excel South division. One all step up to the plate with a classic gold- save, I think, with national anthems, and we we see this out. I mean we still seem to be living in an age of increasingly reg. Lee demanded over displays of patriotism, but I think unless national anthems can be, updated week to week to reflect changing national ethics and priorities good and bad. Then I, I think we need to really consider singing in my head a lot less. I mean, for example, if God save the queen, had an extra verse. It was topical verse that could be updated about

you look good and bad things in writing about institutional cover. Ups, about Britain being the more generous nation when it comes to charity in the world, about massively under funding public services but being taller it's intolerant, open minded, xenophobic, happy and furious was fostering innovation, social equality, creativity and drunk vomiting on war memorials. Then I see I see no need to sing about the queen, or God was going about bye. Business sports, an national anthems go together like Friday nights and fist fights, in other words, more often than would be ideal and the fell. Protests have continued a number of players throughout the you have been refusing to stand or just need. During the playing of the STAR Spangled banner before before matches led originally by capper Nick and uh. This is very much. This is they've been kneeling or not. Standings is not an active

massively aggressive protests are not mean Ching Voodoo dolls of George Washington and watching his chewed remains into a stars and stripes bucket. It's just been kind of passive, silent protest, and yet companies been he criticized for being, I'm see american bright vaults, so so Chris brought brought balls you use at the gym, Sonic it, which is this ai, so it will be bright Bart if we were in Germany right now, or in the late 30s. Ok, let's call it Breitbart, then. Let's try to get away from that german connotation. Breit Bart which allege news alleged website that will, in January, become the first website ascent to be a sitting? Member of the? U cabinet and, of course, the outlet person,

does by Hermann Goering via Ouija board. So I read on another website, I'm in favor they criticize company for full his coach, anti american protests and said that fans of boycotting the NFL because of it now what company has been doing call American Lee, as it happens, is just by, as I said, peaceful protest against Social in Stace another article in Forbes it just is not had much impact on writings. I guess we don't know the truth on how much the writings of come down because of the pro just. How much was the law and how much it was just that Americans have suddenly realized that cricket and snooker or fall better sports in american football. We may never know, but what does it tell us about the nature of the NFL if have been abandoning their sports becaus of this process. That fans had been thinking. Well, I love this sport. It's

Combination of intricate chest, like tactics and brute life endangering violence, are followed. It started on evolution since I was a little nipper. It provided me with a patchwork of unfolding dramas that have been part of the tapestry of my life, but now that I know that someone involved in it does not think exactly like me and is the capacity for independent thought I'm done with it done. Perhaps, though, you know is being an American in the sense that, when one hundred million or so Americans fail to vote in presidential elections, it's clear that there truly second thing to do is to express no political opinion whatsoever or at least keep storm and take the money, Andy. I I don't know if you've been following this turkish currency thing, but it seems like the turkish currency is plunging. It's uh plunging I'm trying to think of a clothing example of how far deep it's plunging. That seems inappropriate to mention this, since

society, but it's still under another and the with the what the turkish president they they've, been wonderfully democratically elected to the recipe deal gone, I'm I mispronounce this band and also is the first time in the history of the world. An indian person is doing it took a sex, and but it is even even those just the pronouncing of the name, but Mister Adogon, who has had a clean record, no coups against him at all or any sort of accuracy of stifling the freedom of the press, etc. He went, and he said: ok, the currencies plunging. What you need to do is we've got any foreign currency. If you've got you s dollars, if you've got euros exchange them for turkish lira. Do it proudly and preferably do it while singing the national anthem,

now, the last spot. To I, I I received from a vase trust, worthy news, source and India NEWS website, but good give be given we as we in the post truth world, it doesn't really matter. The point is here trying various methods, indeed trying to try to get people to exchange their currency, and it is an approach that the the way the world would look at is the opposite of the other approach. This is work for so many years and and that approach it in the world can be summed up, as economics And- and the question I have is that you know had years of economics right. You have the mouse clusium theory of rent? You have the theories of Ricardo, you have purchasing power parity theory, but in the modern in the modern world. I feel like we're living in an era of the economic. Systematic, add despots, economics,

one crazy lunatic who was elected so for example. You know if you're worried about corruption and black money, you have a leader in a certain country. I will not name which would just says well what, if we just made money illegal, someone's like wow, what a brilliant ideas, and then someone says so Well, our currency is collapsing, and someone says well: should we maybe have the Reserve Bank by the currency and prop it up against the dollar the mad lunatic theory of economics is no just get your into population, to show up at various currency exchange booths, run by Thomas Book and sing really loudly while changing currency, because we get the feet of the people through voice and melody you will. You will have a direct impact on the food see and the New York Stock Exchange, and I think that that the mad theory of economics I

because he had to state you know, and I'm really looking forward at the to watch other things will happen in economics that makes it sound like these. Are policies divides by a Pixar villain? in certain cultures. If they're running into tree and they're like well, we don't have enough printed currency. They then decide of. Can we just get old speakers and all the Starbucks is we have to start printing currency Well, you say you mentioned bakers, bakers, jumped on boards with President President, the one in his colt patriotic money, changing one humble biker quoted on AFP, was offering free bread, the people who changed two hundred and fifty dollars into turkish lira and said these words with the help of God, we will raise the lira and annihilate the dollar. I mean that's. That is a. That is a big.

I think you have to set achievable goals in life and the annihilation of the world's dominant currency might be a step too far for a single baker from Istanbul but Fair play to him for a ten it is not the only person who's been offering freebies two people who responding to the president's economic auto money. Changing arms there have been offers a free bus tickets, free haircuts, free weddings, free fish, an free tombstones, Now, if you took advantage of all those offers at once, that would be a weird collection of things to come home with. At the same time, I do I've changed all our dollars into lira and look at this lot of freebies tombstone bus ticket haircut wedding license fish.

Looks like you're going to kill me a lot with your lover and change your identity, uh yeah yeah, you might be. You might be right about that, but why have you got the fish? I like fish, I like fish. It is indeed a fantastic summary of stuff Andy and I really think, like you, like you, said I think you could ever get economic prosperity unless you look at currency as a zero sum game, which is the only way you can prop up your currency is by distroying another currency, and I think that is a fair. We need to think about world Economics not the way we thought about it. Thanks to Adams, within about this for two hundred years just to create a stable monetary policy so that all currencies can give and take a little. No, I think the way it has to happen is by getting your entire population to make bread starts hanging making tombstones while planning destroy another currency, just to add to that just a little. Prime minister movie. In fact,

in a similar move said that anyone who can move away from currency and move away from cash money in India he's giving. Them refrigerators, washing machines and promise he's going to send some money directly to their bank account if they suddenly switch to digital transactions, here, of course, has solve the problem of how he would make all these five hundred elite, two million illiterate people licks it for them to be able to read and write to be able to have a digital back up. But that's a different problem at still have a washing machine and some sort of a fruit, mixer Russia NEWS now and the I have briefed members of Congress. That's according to their analysts. The Russians did actively seek to help contribute to Hillary Clintons,

election defeats that the Kremlin was deliberately trying to put the dart into Donald Trump and to catch you Vladimir Putin's fishing. Yet hey. What happened is the at the Russians hacked into the Democrats, one computer, I think, and so on, Hillary out for load of newsletters about Gulf out of farmers only dating website and released a lot of other email stuff that might have damaged our election campaign. I'm Adams, it doesn't pay that's been Trump and Putin get on alarmingly well for manage a about to become president of the United States. And a man who appears to be entirely casual about genocide happening in Syria that that makes me more than a little bit uncomfortable any web? Well! Well, I don't know what what here is making you uncomfortable Andy, because you know Donald Trump, who I listened to very carefully the other day. He said because he's a true statesman he's a leader,

You know in the great tradition of Say, Benjamin Disraeli, you know somebody you guys had uhm and in that vein he made in one of his most eloquent speeches. He said I putain 'cause. He knows some stuff about stuff. We feel like, if it's not a fair summary of foreign policy. I do not know what is, and you know I think the way Russians look in diplomacy is really the way more of us should look at diplomacy. You know, they'll, say in some documents that some sort of a peace treaty but then they'll go back to Moscow, sit around and be like. What is this, This is just some agreements on paper signed in a higher, the coffee was better this and then, or worse russian accent of history of the world. Point one point: two: I enjoyed I I enjoy the russian accent, don't be proud of it over. Thank you Andy, thank you Andy, not since the during the cold war

the Soviet Indian Alliance. Has there been such a strong, a temper, an indian person to reach out to Moscow as what you heard about a minute and a half ago? But happy and we had you know. I think this this whole. Of NATO and all these alliances where people actually on other things, they say It's really outdated concept right, because, everyone's attention span is now a couple of minutes. The Russians go back to Moscow, they said well what what is this? What is this? This is just some stuff on paper. I don't need to honor it basically, my border does not end at the edge of Turkmenistan or whatever the Russians think the border ends now quarter ends on the western edge of Syria, russian border will keep ending wherever Vladimir Putin thinks it ends that day after he's done fighting with his bare swimming across the oh god or whatever it is. He does for fun. I do get it I said, is that Putin is essentially playing a cold war. Computer simulation, I find deeply

tackling either man who has the humanity of a dinosaur, skeleton and a moral compass that when's, unerringly, towards total here's, the kind of man You can imagine waking up every morning and whilst other people might have a coffee or a shout of person serves up who ginger stand, in front of a mirror in the nude going, and actually it appears that he has now had the costing vote in the. U S, presidential election. These are all times we live in old times. Barrack Obama, those not taking it lying down. He says, I think there is no doubt that when any foreign government tries to impact the integrity of our elections, we need to take out, and we will at a time and a place of all in choosing now bear in mind, he is going to be out of a job in proximately, one months time. This sounds like the first thing he's going to do when he finishes is: try to bombard flooding Putin with spam emails from wherever he chooses to retire too.

This is also the thing that that I'm quite interested in Indian. I want to ask you about this, which is that, of course, large number of facts are being laid in front of the american people and they're being told that the Russians did hack into the the various emails of the Republican Party and the Democratic Party, and they choose to selectively release what they wanted to release, but the american people have sort of wholeheartedly. So United in not believing these facts, and I find that that's really interesting this very interesting time. The early part of the Essentially, a trade for sentry for facts that's very interesting type of where facts are and what their places, because I think what the american people have shown us now is that facts should not get in the way of the truth should be whatever it is. They believe which is the truth, which is Teclea lie, so I think that these were

we have come to mean various things depending on what they wanted to meet. So I think the real successor, Vladimir Putin, is that he's been able to change the death, mission of the word fact well on the sub of the sort of post, truth error, an fake news, um Facebook Hoover come on some criticism for that that rolling, sharing, fake news stories, they have been in the news with the news that they've announced new features to combat fake news but box. The question arises: will this news be out and used by the breaking fake news that Facebook season looks like a bug. A owns a one hundred and fifty percent scale replica of Willy Wonka's chocolate factory in his secretly, sending all the sweets it produces to the saudi Arabian Roll family, be screams of his coffee, rude or anything other than ninety two degrees celsius, so a logical tennis that if he even has the word Jokovich blood out of his eyes. Andy keeps the colony of purebred, Indians in a joint cajones garden in an attempt

pretty perfect ice hockey team or is that You can use actually so fake that it spins a full one thousand, two hundred and sixty degree, three one slash two twists and is, to all intents and purposes true. Your social media feeds two trumpets latest, much to the Trump cabinets include Exxon, Mobil, chief executive Rex Tillerson. As secretary of states. In a world. Where many expect the effects of climate change to lead to greater instability and conflict tiller experience at the head of a company that is eagerly helped to accelerate climate change could be absolutely invaluable. I think that is the logic logic behind that Exxon. Of investing around one percent of their profits in alternative energies. From that's what I from what I could find in a two minute, search engine research projects which I think counts as hard edged investigative journalism in the post, truth world-

that is equivalent one percent of Exxon's profits going to alternative, that is how of a shock savaging? twenty seals in your living room and offering your box of tissues to help clean up the mess. I think I'm not a scientist, but still at least it shows that the shark does yeah um. Another man in line to join Trump's cabinet is the former Texas Governor Rick Perry. Who wants suggested that the deepwater horizon disaster was quotes an act of God. If so, the big man certainly delegate to the axe down a very human chain of command box, perhaps the biggest challenge of full Big Donald's in his quest to win the Nobel Prize for loony leadership Ets. The show The quantity of absolute nutters, who appeared to be coming to the four of global politics at the moment, Anyone know you been having a look at some of the contenders for not

leader of twenty seventeen and it's possible trump might not even make the podium. That is correct and, in fact, Donald. Poop in comparison is almost saintly. It's almost pope like in comparison. So my favorite leaders. Right now is the current leader of the Philippines Rodrigo Duterte, who recently announced that when he was mayor of a certain town in the Philippines, he is currently conducting a big war, and draw and they've been a number of extrajudicial killings and executions all across the Philippines. But his claim was that when he was the mayor of a town, We actually went around killing people and when he said this, His popularity soared his popularity, and up by six thousand points goes to show that this is the world.

We get at the end, it's it's wonderful really because I don't know about you, but I'm really. Tired of the justice system you know, is the invented in some some liberal democracy mechanism to give fenders to the peace. But I think we're at the point and will Reggie will ready as a world where a judge listen to a case and be sitting on his judges table with a gun under the disk, holding the gun and shooting the person point like when he's found guilty. I think where there at I think trigger two hundred and thirty is just stating that right so he's highly encourage ing of anyone who wants to go out there and shoot a person suspected of being a drug dealer to be a fat? Isn't due process? I don't know what is you say, You want a system whereby the judge has the gun me mean to take each sort of accelerated that this even further by

pointing himself as a freelance judge and dispensing a guilty verdict before any evidence. Was heard. I he's he's so keen on streamlining bureaucracy that he's taking justice into a into a whole new era. Yes, look judge, jury executioner is three jobs, he's fused it into one. I mean that economic progress and it's just him going around with a gun and it's very different. You know I'd like to bring up another example: Andy it's very different, for example, than the leader of Gambia. John Mays, the leader of Gambia, and, and he goes around as the leader of Gambia carrying a plastic rocket launcher. It's just something he carries around. He had it with him when he met President Obaba now. My thing is that that's plastic, that's plastic is not getting anything done with

it's just the figures. Carry it around. It's really an affectation dirty, isn't messing around with stuff he's walking over that actual gun, and I think that maybe is a world leader who's doing what he says he's going to do he shooting with the face. I think that that is the leadership of the 21st century only say that, of course, not not. Everyone agrees with that claim. They have been counter claims that thought it was not in fact involved in death squads and those claims were made by Rodrigo. Do turtle himself. So I guess what do you believe he was or wasn't involved in those squads depends on whether you is Rodrigo, Duterte or Rodrigo Duterte at different times at different times of his crazy life image, british leader coming out and saying something similar Mcdavid camera would not even fess up to having waxes jungle prong in a dead pigs, outlet alone, gangland, slayings and you're going for that. Call John Major: are primates from the 1990s r softly spoken

Well, I can't imagine him having come out said. Yes, when I was a boy in London, a close out, fifteen kills at my local neighborhood just to keep things moving, so you know the oval for the cricket exactly at the exactly you know and- and you know the trouble. The trouble with your country, for example, is that there is a voice. There is a new Indian Anna Counter opinion right, do touches doing away with that. If Duterte is agree- Another opposing dirty, then again, that's two jobs that are infused into one again and economic benefit right to beat the proposition and the opposition at the same and I think Britain is at a loss when your prime minister is not walking around the local neighbor shooting drug addict in the face. I think somehow democracy suffers.

In fact, if you look at this landscape, if you look at this landscape added the world as it is, I have a question for you actually, because in the post truth world, what is making me really sad. Is that the great lunatic leader of our time, King Jong on is appearing the most normal among all these people who are competing. How do you feel about that? Well, I'm which I guess like when Adaland and Djokovic started challenging Roger Federer at the top of the tennis rankings. You thought he was untouchable, unassailable, but a federal responded by whether he can never quite go back to that level of Domen send Kim Jong he's got a huge challenge. With him not only from Trump but also, as you say, from send, then on you mentioned in the in the Gambia that recently lost an election convincingly He decided that he hadn't lost the election and when armed soldiers are sent to take over the offices of your electoral commission.

But it's not generally assigned the results of an election are being one hundred percent respected. Precisely precisely at that, that is really the right approach. You know when you do not only disagree with but, but you disagree with the institution. That's having the thing in the first place, you know to maybe in cricketing terms the way to look at it is if- see, for example, you're unhappy at the results of lords you'd necessarily just beat up the other team, but you burned down lords. It's not. That seems to be the approach here, Gabby again a sensible approach, I think the, Only thing now to wait and watch is whether Donald Trump will appoint Connie a west as the chief I can Secretary of the United States and then we'll have to see what Kim Jong Hunter has to play Google

features section now, Adams trying news. Well, I'm a vibe. It is tough times here. In London we have royal strike going on southern trains, run out of trains in and out of London, but check the the trains all I have to get in and out of under, which are there for the most important trains on the net because they are on a full strike this week, no, frames at all we're running today on my part of the line which was a marginal improvement on their usual level of service. At least you knew where you stood this morning now the governments trying to in agreement with southern trains, on steps to improve the service. Later suggestion for how to improve southern train service is to flood the lines to turn them into canals and then to float a single turd up and downstream every hour. Nothing most commuters will accept that as a as a comp, Now you mentioned, suburban trains in Mumbai are

that's one of life's great challenges, isn't it I mean it's, you know people used to look at you know. Climbing Everest is one of the most difficult things running a full minute, mall getting to the South pole getting to and from work in mumble. I must be up that in terms of the biggest physical challenges facing humanity. Well, that's correct, and it you know the way I'm going to describe this is the treaty experience in India is one where the environment smells faintly of urine continuously, not smell faintly of urine. At the same time, it's it's an aroma that I best described as as sort of gently fecal, that's that's the environment that you're in all the time. So you get into it. It's a mass humanity and, if you're able to make it out off the train probably in another city.

Probably not in at your destination you're, probably in another country, If the train has moved in the direction it promised to that is a success. Sometimes sometimes the trains have moved back Sideways lot of fog going on in Delhi right now, sometimes people across city trains are waking up find themselves in South India when they were supposed to be India, so in comparison, fuel problems are very mild your emails now and animal, we have this email. Maybe you can help with from. Outsiders perspective. This came from Robin can rot in Schottland, who writes

if you lose a judging from the comments of people on Facebook, the biggest problem with breaks a right now is that Ramona's like me on June things: yes take enough about it. How could this come about? I dread the politics of fear. The economic consequences, my stomach grounds of the potential impact on on national dinner plates. Once pastor has been sent back where it came from that this was not discussed. Enough of this was not discussed enough rolled in the campaign to fight the pastor and all of the Non british foods will be banned and we will only be able to eat Lancashire, hot pots and gravel. Then it hit me rob continues. We need a mascot like a sports mascot. He says has anything bad ever had a mass Olympics World CUP football teams, nothing bad as ever had a mascot. So I ask you: what Mascot for Brexit could enthuse the forty eight percent of Brits who voted

states, I'm not one of I wouldn't know who arsenal your view on this. All I can see you know, look at a huge joint and similar may little finger um marching around trying to cheer people up about it. I think I think that might work. I mean it we have the Olympics here in twenty twelve, we essentially have two giant sperms representing the Spirit of the Olympics, any any suggestions from your indian perspective as to a cuddly toy? figure that might inspire bridge to get more. Means all leap into the unknown. I don't know if if this this got reported didn't in the british press and even to a foreign six three, Mr Boris Diaw, Wilson was in was in India and he was doing a tour of India and there were several unsuccessful attempts for him to climb on top of an elephant during a press photo shoot and in the end, a rather sort of mediocre photograph, was taken of him standing next to an elephants bottom, and I don't know if it that way

some sort of a metaphor for where we are with Brexit, but but I have that photo half of your foreign secretary, dressed as a marauder standing next to a giant, indian taskers, Bottom as a sort of summary of of where nationalism and PAN Europeanism Stand, and I don't think he's smiling. That's the other thing I noted on photograph, a dookie or emails coming in to hello bugles at the bugle podcast dot com. Next weeks, episode is a Christmas special that will have been pre recorded in fact directly after this episode, but do keep in coming in for the new year's episodes, hello, buglers at the bugle, podcast dot com and grab. Thank you. Very much once again for your glorious contribution to the bugle you'll, be back in January, where you will be here in London for your next appearance on the

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