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

It's three minutes after ten. Good morning to you. You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC. I hope that doesn't come as a major shock to you.

I think we're going to wade straight back in to this very, I mean, it's depressing, but it's important.

This attempt by the Education Select Committee, or at least the chairman, Robert Halfern, to insert white privilege into a conversation about kids not doing very well

in school. I do, would you believe, and I'm going to give you an indication of my age now,

when I started doing this program, approximately 13 years ago, it was black kids who were doing

worse in school. Every single white right-wing commentator on the planet was

queuing up to castigate the parents, to blame it all on them. There was an awful lot of stuff about

absent fathers. That's why black kids do so badly in school. So lo and behold, it's upside down

now and the class element never, ever, ever, ever, ever gets mentioned.

That is what intrigues me most.

Let me just get the ducks in a row first on what's coming up also in the program.

Did you see that program about Amazon destroying millions of unsold products, including smart TVs and laptops?

You know how my brain works.

I've just seen a link between the two stories. The poorer you are, tragically, the more damaged you will have been by the coronavirus pandemic in terms of

your education. And one of the major areas in which your education would have been damaged,

of course, would have been access to the technology. Remember when we're going to be

dishing out laptops to everybody in the country? Well, they didn't, of course. And it turns out

that Amazon is routinely destroying millions, millions of them. Well, millions of products. They

won't all be smart TVs and laptops rather than, for example, I don't know, divvying them up to

the poorest pupils in the country. We'll try and work out why and what happens next a little later in the programme. Speaking of jobs, because of course people get paid to do this, we may, all things being equal, at 12 o'clock today, have a little bit of a nudge towards labour shortages. I again, once again, I find myself needing a little bit of a nudge towards labour shortages.

Again, once again, I find myself needing a little bit of guidance from you on how best to handle these mounting tales of Brexit benefits.

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