Anita Anand

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Anita Anand is in the chair and lines open at 12.30 on Saturday.

But let's go to our second question for the evening, which is from Phyllida De Salis.

The welfare bill will rise by £80 billion in the next few years.

I'm sorry to say it, but it's quite scary.

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Anita Anand's in the chair.

Lines are open from 12.30 on Saturday.

And I wrote a short book.

This was my first collaboration with Anita Anand, with whom I do the podcast.

And it's this extraordinary story because the Koh-i-Noor diamond, which is the symbol of all the pain of colonialism, the reason that Indians and Pakistanis and Bangladeshis and Afghans and Persians all feel this, is it's become a symbol of everything that Europeans did bad to them.

And why is it still sitting in the Tower of London, they say.

Really enjoyed it.

Listen, till the next time we meet, it's goodbye from me, Anita Anand.

And goodbye from me, William Durrant-Paul.

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