Four minutes after ten and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC. It's not just quotes from

the actual White House that have been left out of some coverage of this Chegos Island story,

but quotes from the governor of the actual Falkland Islands, apparently being omitted in favour of

people from opacely funded think tanks. What a tangled web we weave. Thankfully,

there is a rather splendid lawyer in this country who you may have come across before.

He's indefatigable. He is tireless. And if I tell you for how many years he has been working on

this case, you probably won't believe me. You'd have to sort of

chop his leg off and count the rings to work out how old he is and how likely it is that he could

actually have spent the number of years that he claims on this case, which Colin in Portsmouth

and others are being encouraged to get incredibly furious about,

despite the fact that until yesterday they had never heard of the place.

A beautiful example of how right-wing media can conspire with profoundly dishonest right-wing journalists

to create or to encourage fury among people who understand almost nothing about the issue under

discussion. So a little bit more on that. We will indeed be speaking to the lawyer who has spent

46 years on and off working on the case for the Chagosians, beginning when he was 21. But we're not going to start

with that. Oh no. What are we going to start with? A bit of an odd one, this. We're going to talk

about assisted dying later in the program. And then in the final hour, I've got two contenders.

We always do something a little bit different on Fridays. And it was National Poetry Day yesterday. So in the final hour, I've got two contenders. We always do something a little bit different on Fridays.

And it was National Poetry Day yesterday. So in the finest traditions of this program, we're going to mark it 24 hours late.

Or we're going to have a discussion about atheism and the fact that the balance of belief has now tipped towards atheism. And it occurred to me on the way down, so I was feeling even

more pompous than usual. That atheism and poetry are quite obvious bedfellows, aren't they? Which

poem do you think? I've got one in mind. If you pay far too much attention to this program,

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