"oh, my god, how do you know ed balls?"omeone said to me the other day, assuming the only reason you might know my guest on political thinking for this christmas special is because of his dancing on strictly come dancing, winning the celebrity best home chef, or making all those documentaries on bbc two. i gently pointed out to someone who was about my children's age before all of that stuff he actually was a serious politician, being when i first met him the adviser to the shadow chancellor gordon brown and then to the chancellor himself, before becoming education secretary, shadow chancellor and a candidate for the labour leader. all that feels though like a very long time ago. welcome to political thinking. a long time ago. it's christmas after all and while we're recording this before christmas it's being broadcast afterwards. given you just produced a cookery book or at least a book about christmas cooking, reflections, tips, people are sitting there wondering what they should do with the christmas leftovers. what is t

what is the ed balls recommendation?ost important thing for post—christmas leftovers is chips — homemade chips. my mother—in—law is brilliant at making homemade chips, cut some potatoes, double cooked in a pan, and you can get quite ——through quite a lot of cold turkey or cold goose if the chips are good and crisp and nice and salty. the other thing i learned over the years, in our family nobody wants leftovers so therefore you have to cook thinking, "let's not have too much to hang around in the days afterwards." i assumed you were going to come up with a recipe for turkey lasagne, or the man who used to be my book agent used to recommend a turkey hash you could have after christmas. doesn't it make you feel a bit gloomy? turkey lasagne. .. oh, god, let'sjust move on from the turkey. that's my view. there are lots of people thinking, "thank god the christmas cooking is over." i get a sense it's a highlight for you. the idea of cooking for christmas for the family is a pleasure for you. i love christmas cooking and i lov

"oh, my god, how do you know ed balls?" his dancing on strictly come dancing, winning the celebrity best home chef, or making all those documentaries on bbc two.

ed is performing tonight at madison square garden. >> is he >> part of -- tomorrow night, i should say part of jingle ball. iheart radio even though yoular in the east. but we are going to be looking at a lot of wet weather. record highs in the central plains we're looking at heavy snow out west and then for tomorrow, we expect more of the same, a lot of sunshine in the east that snow will be making its way >>> good morning, i'm meteorologist kari hall. our temperatures chilly today and highs only reaching into the mid 50s and more days like this leading into the start of the weekend. frosty and freezy conditions in the inland valleys for the next several days and then we get ready for heavy rain to move in on monday and that continues into early next week. san francisco will also have cool temperatures. we're only looking at highs that will reach into the 50s and mid 50s for the weekend and, of course, more updates on the rain coming. >> all right, nice sign. thank you. >> keeping it close, like my dancing. my people! >> there you go. >> actually, they're ed people. >> ed people >>> coming up next, singer, songwriter by the name of e

ball jackpot to win. he said it feels great to win big. he's especially happy that his jackpot raised $78 million for public ed.like there's a direct reason that we were entrusted with this and that's why we were so deliberate about making sure that this goes and does as much good to those less fortunate as possible. >> now, godfrey opted for the lump sum total of $496 million after taxes, and you're right, we cannot see him, which is a good thing, because if i saw his face, i'd go looking for him. see if he'd adopt me. >> we would drive down there looking for him. >> it's not that far, only a couple hours away. we could do it. what's coming up next? >>> there's a lot going on. right now at 5:30 on this friday, a lot of new developments about abortion. clinics can now sue texas over the state's new law, but that abortion ban can stay in place. we're going to break down what today's supreme court ruling means. >>> plus we haven't seen inflation skyrocket this high in nearly 40 years. we're going to break down which goods have gone up the most. >>> and a big legal victory for the u.s. what it means for wikileaks

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