Four minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. It's Thursday. So from 12,

we will be hopefully indulging in the weekly fun and frolics that is mystery out. Before that,

inevitably, we will be looking at some of the coronavirus-related stories and anything else that tickles our collective fancy.

But we begin as we must with a

slight reprise of conversations that we were having last summer, never mind yesterday, and

my job, of course, is to try to laser in upon the simple inquiry that allows us to open up

veritable vistas of contemplation and cogitation. I really like this. Why do we have an

Amber list? Your thoughts, please. 3456.0.673. And given that even the red list is a little bit

ropy around the edges, given the number of flights coming into this country from, for example,

India, you know what the green list is. There's not really anything edges, given the number of flights coming into this country from, for example, India.

You know what the Greenlist is. There's not really anything on the Green List except Portugal.

I know technically there are other countries, but unless you're planning on a quick holiday in Port Stanley on the Falkland Islands, I think that's more a technicality than an actual potential tourist destination.

Just to get the B word in early, the fact that Portugal can not only be on our green list,

but also be welcoming us with open arms while the European Commission contemplates

the possibility of a broader union-wide policy is yet more evidence that all of the

nonsense we were fed in the run-up to the referendum about not being able to make our own

decisions independently was an awful lot of nonsense. But I think we'll focus on the farmers

probably this week, as opposed to the lies about borders from 2016.

And then one newspaper reports today that 270,000 people are going to fly to ambalist countries

from the UK by the weekend. I don't know how the Daily Telegraph in this case have calculated

that number.

I suspect that they've done a multiplication of the number of flights we reported yesterday had left the country on one day.

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