What can we expect in 2025? The Matts take a view on the key issues facing the world in the next twelve months … plus: how to deal with a bully like Elon Musk. What can Keir Starmer do in the face of lies and slander spread across the sewer of X? And how low will Kemi Badenoch sink in her efforts to trump the populism of Nigel Farage’s Reform?
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