This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Very good morning to you. It's three minutes after ten. Quite a lot to get through today,

although given that we are in a general election period and there's a NATO summit on our doorstep,

the news diet is surprisingly thin, unlike modern British school

children who are of course increasingly obese and a large part of the reason for that is contained

within the boutiques and outlets flogging saturated fats in various different guises to our

little treasures. We'll return to the question of whether or not teachers have a responsibility to somehow

seek to protect the health, the physical health of children as well, of course, as the educational health.

Remarkable story, harking back to Friday's tragedy here in London of the Polish porter whose heroism, heroism,

heroism prevented the terrorist from committing more carnage, has released a tiny little

statement of almost, almost beautiful simplicity. I'll share that with you later in the program.

The report in America into Donald Trump's abuse of power is damning, but of course it will be completely ignored by people who like him.

And that is, I guess, today's entry into the great issue of our time, which is, of course, the...

Well, I've been thinking a bit about it.

Bear with me on this one, all right?

This idea that people like being lied to. I worry sometimes that we don't learn from our

mistakes and by we, I mean people who like their politics, evidence based, you know, and you look at Brexit and you sort of think, well, it doesn't work.

I always think back to a call from about 10 years ago, which at the time was just hilarious.

Now it feels like a canary down the coal mine.

You can prove anything with facts, James, she said.

And we all chuckled.

Now we seem to be living in a world where facts have achieved a sort of derisory status.

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