Chris Mason

This is good.

Phew.

My time as chief political correspondent when I spent many hours standing in Downing Street, the only thing anyone remembers is the coat I used to wear.

Which, I mean, better to be remembered for something rather than nothing.

Shame it's not the analysis, though, or the breaking loads of stories.

The mild tittering you heard was from Faisal, who's here in the studio with me.

You go for the twofer, don't you?

Because you're never far away from that gilet.

You go for a gilet jacket combo.

And it kept me dry.

And if this was a Radio 4 podcast, we'd say the pathetic fallacy in action whereby the weather matches the events that are unfolding in front of our eyes, which we will unpick on this episode of Newscast.

Newscast.

Humanity's next great voyage begins.

We are in the midst of a rupture.

And Faisal doesn't have a laptop, so he can't look up anything.

He's just going to have to live on his wits.

Chris, there's so much happening with the Labour leadership plot arc that I feel we should maybe catch up with some things that happened in between the last episode of Newscast and this episode of Newscast, or where we're going to start the story from today on Wednesday.

We're recording at quarter to seven.

And I'm thinking back to Tuesday night.

And before I went to bed, looking on social media and looking at what...