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"own decisions about who to kill and when well Rory maybe that's a good place to end and to trail question time tomorrow because one of the things we're going to be talking about is prisons and the last time I was inside a prison one of the things they were briefing me on was the use of drones they were having to tackle the drones being used to smuggle in drugs and telephones and very sophisticated operations going on inside prisons using drones to get stuff into the prisoners I thought that was a very neat and useful segue we're also going to be talking about the right wing of politics more generally how do the Tories restore Britain and reform deal with each other we're going to talk about Abdul El Said who's just won this primary in Michigan and what that says about the future of the democrats and I want to talk about the river Rine because I'm very very very alarmed about what's happening in the river Rine good looking forward to it very much see you then"