Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. As things stand,

I think we're going to take a day off from examining the scandals surrounding Boris Johnson.

Another one, of course, popped up shortly before the end of yesterday's program.

And it's more than likely that another one will pop up before the end of today's.

I'm referring to the apparent refutation of his insistence that he had nothing to do

without decision to evacuate animals from Afghanistan,

reportedly at the expense of human beings who,

according to Dominic Cummings, were subsequently killed.

He's made that swap pretty clear.

But I, and then ideally it'll be mystery hour at 12,

although we could be overtaken by political events.

Sue Gray's report could drop before then,

in which case clearly we will wade straight back into that territory.

But I want to begin with this story. There's something a bit,

something a bit scary. Scary, it's a wrong word, too emotional. There's something a bit

rum going on when they actually say the quiet bits out loud. So some reports today,

the mail in particular picks up on this, are actually describing the threat of benefit cuts to force unemployed people into any job after just four weeks of claiming.

They're actually describing it as red meat.

Now I mentioned to you, I think, last week, that red meat is a figure of speech designed to describe something

bloody that is thrown to rabid dogs to keep them busy so that they won't attack you.

That's at least what I understand the figure of speech to be. That's how I've always used it.

It's not what you would call sustaining. It is distracting. Red meat is used to keep angry animals busy when they would otherwise be turning

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