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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

An epidemic of shoplifting

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 23 August 2023

⏱️ 142 minutes

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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

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning to you. I hope you're well.

0:04.0

Mary London's here tomorrow, so you can fill your Ula's boots to your heart's content. What time's Ian? Ten o'clock. Ten o'clock tomorrow. You can speak to Sadiq. And there's quite a lot. You might want to put it. We may even have to break the habit of a lifetime and go all in on the blooming ultra-low emission zone. So hold your horses on that one.

0:02.0

I'm going to talk about reparations a little later. bit of a lifetime and go all in on the blooming ultra low emission zone so so hold your

0:21.8

horses on that one i'm going to talk about reparations a little later in the program they've popped

0:26.0

up quite a lot on my radar lately and by radar i mean in the in the in the news in the papers in the

0:32.1

me jar um and and there is a proper dichotomy emerging there's a proper tension between people who think it's absolutely inevitable

0:39.8

that the descendants of slavers should face some form of financial penalty

0:46.2

and the descendants of slaves or the enslaved should face some sort of financial compensation

0:51.4

and people who somewhat predictably object furiously to the proposal.

0:58.8

I'm minded to confine the conversation to people who know either that their ancestors were enslaved or,

1:08.7

because I'd like to be balanced, or know full well that the wealth into which

1:14.6

they were born was built in large part on slavery.

1:18.5

But that's coming up a little later in the program.

1:21.0

I'm going to begin with shoplifting.

1:22.6

Oh, I may go a bit Brexit as well.

1:24.7

I say a nice story.

1:26.0

It's an horrible story about a quarter of the UK music

1:28.5

industry workers having done no work in the European Union since Brexit. I just want to know what

1:34.1

that means, what the ramifications of that are. But I need you to tell me. Is it just me?

1:42.4

Or is shoplifting a sort of unique crime?

1:44.9

Is it the first crime you sort of,

1:46.4

if you're lucky growing up?

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