Ian and Simon invite Cllr Suzy Horton and Cabinet Member for Education, on the show. Suzy talks to us about the challenges of the last week, how teachers and students are responding to the unprecedented closure of schools, cancellation of GCSE and A level examinations and potentially ending the school year early.

With so many things changing this week, a budget that barely anyone can remember, our guest pulling out, and well.. the country gripped by 24/7 coverage of the Coronavirus pandemic Ian & Simon put their slant on things.

Ian and Simon welcome Portsmouth political stalwart John Ferrett onto the show to discuss life as an independent councillor in a partisan Portsmouth. What's next for him? What future does he feel the Labour party has in store?

Ian & Simon are joined by local activist Ivy Burrows, Video search engine CTO & programmer - Craig Stadler www.peteyvid.com and co-founder of local independent news organisation Star & Crescent www.starandcrescent.org.uk - Tom Sykes

We ask, what is Fake News? Is it new? How can you avoid it? Who does it help?

Ian and Simon discuss the value of listening to whistleblowers, the value of truth when everyone is calling everyone else a liar and somehow end up talking about trade deals and Huawei and what is an 'Australia style' trade deal anyway?

Cabinet Member for Health, Wellbeing & Social Care Matthew Winnington is our very first guest by telephone. Matt talks about the issues retaining GP provision in Portsmouth. Apologies for any issues with the sound. Simon forgot to press all the right buttons on our new mixer and had to recover Matt's call from the Facebook Live Video feed.

Ian and Simon mark the UK ceasing to be a member of the European Union by holding their first live podcast and inviting listeners to call in. The audience may have been too drunk, tired, shy (or all of the above) to call in, but the boys opine about Brexit and the future for the UK in their usual style. *note* some swearing in this episode.

Ian & Simon talk without authority on President Trump's latest attempt to throw the world away in nuclear war before moving on to discuss the first casualty of Labour's leadership race as they decide who should replace Jeremy 10 out of 10 Corbyn before finally discussing one of the motions to be raised at the full Portsmouth City Council meeting January 14th - the first since October.

In what will probably be our last podcast of 2019, Ian and Simon discuss how things went locally and nationally in Thursday's General Election. With Stephen Morgan bucking the disastrous national trend for Labour to retain the seat in Portsmouth South.

With calendar commitments keeping the two incumbents away from our microphones Ian and Simon decide to subject themselves to the Pompey Politics Podcast Pot of Pondering questions they'd subjected their guests to.

Ahead of Thursday's election the insightful nonsense continues.