This week on @tricycle2024, Emily 🗣️ Tamkin, Tom Hamilton and I quiz Arthur Goldhammer about Macron's incredible snap elections gamble, infighting in the French Left, the 'Meloni model' for Le Pen-Bardella and much more about France. Listen & subscribe! open.spotify.com/episode/5HWiZ1…

Recording shortly, out this afternoon. Any questions for Joe and Marie?

This podcast does not contain any particularly breaking news about the election. But it does contain: Polls! Polls about "polling"! Edinburgh vs Glasgow! Joe's shorts! GROT! Matt Warman! Reeta Chakrabarti, for some reason! And more polls! pod.fo/e/24cf40

You can watch this week's episode of The Polling Station is full and glorious technicolour now! youtube.com/watch?v=mXDSzG…

What's the collective noun for a group of Portillo moments?

Get ready for election night with our print-out-and-keep game of #BigshotBingo! Which top Tories will topple on Thursday? Keep score as the night progresses!

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For #GTTO folk – now that the Tories are out, what's the most pressing political concern for you? Reply with any others!

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