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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 2 October 2023

⏱️ 148 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

Okay, that's six of the ragu and the linguine. Make a move, everyone please.

0:05.1

The customers are rolling in at Stefano's new restaurant, so he needs another chef,

0:09.8

someone with a cool head and an appetite for success.

0:13.0

More flour in the bechamel, let's go.

0:15.1

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0:18.0

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0:23.5

quality candidates immediately. To start hiring, visitindeed.com slash try today. It is three minutes

0:31.4

after 10. And you know, just looking at some of the stories that we may discuss today, it occurred to me

0:37.2

that two of them,

0:38.2

they don't play into each other at all, but they could be viewed alongside each other.

0:43.8

Jeremy Hunt is poised to raise the national living wage to £11 an hour. And of course,

0:51.4

the other story about shoplifters being treated like fraud or shoplifting

0:55.8

to be treated like fraud and corruption by a new police unit.

1:00.0

And the question of what's happening at the moment, how much should staff do in shops to

1:05.8

prevent shoplifting?

1:06.7

And I can't help wondering whether there's something fundamentally wrong about the idea of people on 11 pounds an hour being required to risk their personal safety to protect goods on behalf of a company that's probably posting profits well into seven figures.

1:21.8

I hadn't spotted that little link before, but we may address it further later in the programme, because I want to begin with this.

1:29.6

Well, is there a German word for taking no pleasure whatsoever in being proved right?

1:34.4

There should be, shouldn't there?

1:36.2

You know how Chardonfreude is taking pleasure from other people's misfortune?

1:40.1

It was best expressed, I think, by the American writer Gore Vidal, who said,

1:46.5

where he expressed the opposite of it, actually.

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