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Suella Braverman is (still) the Home Secretary.

That's despite ongoing calls from within her own party for the Prime Minister to sack her for comments she made about the police and so-called 'hate-marches' in an article in The Times, which wasn't signed off by No.10.

We speak to senior backbench Tory Tim Loughton, author of The New Snobbery David Skelton, as well as More In Common's Luke Tryl - and we ask who Suella's extreme politics and language really speaks for.

Later, we look at the far-right Vox party in Spain after its co-founder Alejo Vidal-Quadras was shot in the face yesterday in an attempted assassination attempt.

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We’re on the brink of yet another government shutdown. If Congress fails to pass legislation to keep the federal government fully up and running past Oct. 1, it would be the country’s fourth shutdown in the last decade.

This has us wondering: Why does passing the federal budget often get so messy?

On the show today, Molly Reynolds, senior fellow at the Brookings Institution, explains how the federal budget process is supposed to work, why it often breaks down and why other countries don’t seem to have the same problem. Plus, how we can make the process smoother, given the Congress we’ve got.

Then, we’ll get into why the FTC is suing Amazon and how it might shape what “monopoly” means in this day and age. Plus, is President Joe Biden’s footwear really worth a headline?

Later, how one listener is thinking about the kind of change our democracy needs. And, a Jekyll and Hyde-style mix-up involving a popular California university.

Here’s everything we talked about today:

• • “What is a government shutdown? And why are we likely to have another one?” from Brookings

• • “Biden’s budget kicks off a long and likely painful process on Capitol Hill.” from The New York Times

• • “Congress has long struggled to pass spending bills on time” from Pew Research

• • “Why Don’t Other Countries Have Government Shutdowns?” from Foreign Policy

• • Opinion | “The Democratic Party Has an Old Problem and Won’t Admit It” from The New York Times

• • “Biden campaign’s secret mission for reelection: Don’t let him trip” from Axios

• • “U.S., 17 states sue Amazon alleging monopolistic practices led to higher prices” from The Washington Post

• • “FTC Sues Amazon for Illegally Maintaining Monopoly Power” from The Federal Trade Commission

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