Krishnan Guru-Murthy , Presenter

In recent weeks politicians have told us to learn to cook, buy value food, turn the lights off and work longer hours or the especially helpful: get a better paid job. 

Few places show the cost of living crisis more clearly than the shelves of supermarkets.

Lisa Nandy is the shadow minister for levelling up, and spoke to us from parliament’s central lobby.

We spoke to Reverend Mark Blue, president of the Buffalo branch of the civil rights organisation, the NAACP, who met President Biden during his visit to the city.

We spoke to the foreign policy analyst and adviser to the Kremlin, Andrey Kortunov

We spoke to Democratic Unionist Party MP Sammy Wilson.

We spoke to Senator Lisa Chambers – the deputy leader of Ireland’s Upper House and the European and Foreign Affairs spokesperson for the governing party, Fianna Fáil.

He’s one of the founding fathers of Grime, who got into a very public spat with David Cameron when he was prime minister about whether the music genre glorified violence. 

We spoke to Jonathan Powell, who was chief of staff to Tony Blair and a chief British government negotiator for the Good Friday Agreement.

We spoke to the Prosecutor General of Ukraine, Iryna Venediktova, who is overseeing the first war crimes case involving the Russian soldier that began today.

We spoke to the Israeli Arab MP Aida Touma-Sliman, who is the chair of the women and gender equality committee in the Israeli Knesset.

Northern Ireland Minister Conor Burns is the prime minister’s special representative to the United States on the Northern Ireland Protocol – he joined us from Washington DC.

We spoke to Fabrice Pothier, former director of policy planning at Nato.

We speak to Katy Balls, the deputy political editor of The Spectator, and broadcaster Ayesha Hazarika – who has been a political adviser to senior Labour Party politicians.

We speak to former Russian Prime Minister, Mikhail Kasyanov.