Three minutes after ten is the time. I was going to start with some unalloyed joy and happiness,

but you've ruined it by complaining already before the show has already started. My inbox now

filling up with people. John in Edinburgh, I think, goes further than anyone else. Good start, James.

The Sahara is in Africa, not the Middle East. Get a grip. Get a grip, John. I mean, by all means, point out a minor faux par in my little aperitif just before the news there. But get a grip's a bit strong.

Ibrahim also adds, James and Saharan is in North Africa, and he just puts a nice friendly emoji John in Edinburgh.

I'd be more Ibrahim. Be more like Ibrahim. And Paul, I think just goes for the middle ground. Dear James, Sahara is not Middle East. It is North Africa. So we'll begin the program with an apology today. Makes a pleasant change from ending it with one. But there we is. Obviously, I need, slip at the tongue, lad. Slip of the tongue. The unalloyed joy that I wanted to start the date with.

And do you know what? Do you want to know a secret? Do you? A little secret? A little pre-program secret? A little tactical switch-up secret? Little pre-match chat secret. I toyed with the idea today of doing a topic we've been doing on this program for not far off, 15 years, which is how does Boris Johnson keep getting away with it.

And I was going to focus in upon the F. Jenny Lebedev story. we've been doing on this program for not far off 15 years, which is how does Boris Johnson keep

getting away with it? And I was going to focus in upon the F. Jenny Lebedev story, which prompted

Dominic Raab to reportedly lie on his behalf in the House of Commons yesterday, and the Nazanine

Zegari Ratcliffe story, which of course, Boris Johnson, her plight was made immeasurably worse

by Boris Johnson's intervention.

And it has already been reported that her family believed that he had not only made it worse

by another slip of the tongue, but also then sort of briefed the sun on that 400 million

pound debt in a way that had been kept out of the British media previously in order to pass the buck from himself back to Tehran.

But then I thought, no, take a day off.

Not today.

Not to even let Liz Truss have her little moment in the sun, which will almost certainly

involve a selfie being posted on Twitter of Liz Truss enjoying her moment in

the sun because if this story isn't about Liz Truss, then what is it about? And I mean that.

Listen, a little bit of a dig, a little bit of a giggle at the expense of incredibly self-important

preening politicians, but ultimately not today, not today, not a how does he keep getting away with it today.

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