nazenin? britain has beenin serious issues. nazenin?endum, brexit, theresa may and now this, that this has become the new normal. maybe that's why we don't want to pay so much attention. it doesn't interest us as much. it is the new normal. but certainly, the one event that stands out as the channel for debate on the environment, as you mentioned. how theatrics actually replaced the content theatrics actually replaced the co nte nt of theatrics actually replaced the content of what was such an important topic, the environment, but at the end of the day, with ice sculptures and michael gove going with his own tv camera. this has become the new normal, and it needed to stand out and think different. annalisa is talking about a lack of substance, nazenin talking about theatrics replacing that substance, but we have seen considerable economic debate over the manifestos of the leading parties, haven't we? what is interesting to me is that before it was declared, the election, borisjohnson before it was declared, the election, boris johnson a

my guests this week: iranian journalist nazenin ansari, italian film maker annalisa piras, and michaelk due to illness, so the other three will have to do more heavy lifting for me. there are conflicting accounts of how many people have died and how many have been arrested in iran in the past fortnight. what started as a wave of protest against rising petrol prices seems to have turned into a wider howl of outrage against crushing inflation and unemployment. its the biggest show of public defiance to iran s ayatollahs in a decade and they don t like it. nor can they like what they see in neighbouring iraq, or lebanon, both countries where tehran now exerts huge influence and both of which are also convulsed by public protest.