As 2025 spirals around the plughole of posterity, The Guardian’s parliamentary speechwriter John Crace joins us to look at the year inside the Westminster Village. Did Farage successfully cross over from consequence-free rabble-rouser to horribly plausible Prime Minister? Will the growing racism allegations halt his ambitions? Is there more going on in Starmer’s government than meets the eye? And what did we learn from the launch of Your Party, the fall of Angela Rayner and the Tories’ gap year? 
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• John recommends <a href="https://www.bbc.co.uk/iplayer/episodes/p0f2cxpr/blue-lights">Blue Lights</a> on BBC iPlayer. 
• Rachel hates Christmas pop but she likes <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/526mDk6dMvJqgtMpsEy8PP?si=a083f37e40e642b2">White Wine In The Sun</a> by Tim Minchin and <a href="https://open.spotify.com/track/46w8k81V0eSBx64XuVHxT2?si=1bac73167d9e483b">Christmas Time (Don’t Let The Bells End)</a> by The Darkness. 
• Andrew recommends the science fiction novel <a href="https://uk.bookshop.org/a/13277/9781857987621">Blood Music</a> by Greg Bear. 
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