Good morning. It's three minutes after ten and you are listening to LBC.

Probably the wisest decision you will make all day. Quite a lot to get through today.

I have a bit of a yen. It's up to you, obviously, as always.

Paul McCarney has weighed in on the subject of the Rolling Stones.

I think for the first time in decades.

And it's almost like a great weight has been lifted from my shoulders.

Because now that Paul McCartney himself has validated the opinion that I've always held,

I find myself thinking that I might pluck up the courage to share that opinion in public.

But we shall see.

There are obviously much more important matters in front of us,

some of which you probably won't be reading in your newspaper this

morning, depending upon whether you, A, take a newspaper and B, which newspaper you take. But the

inflation worries and job vacancies reaching record high combined to create rather

important worries on the immediate horizon. You'll be aware of the rise in race hate crimes. That seems

particularly unpleasant news, doesn't it? Not least because so many foreigners have been sent

packing as a result of that vote back in 2016. So how could race hate crimes be rising still? I suppose

there's some relief on the horizon because the two minutes of

hate seems now to be redirected at unemployed people rather than foreign people. So hopefully

we'll see a decline in race hate crimes and an increase in people lambing eco-protestors and

being vile about unemployed people instead. Also looking at vaccination levels where the UK has

slipped from its lead in Europe, which is a bit of a worry, I would argue, particularly as that

is blamed upon a slow uptake in younger groups and also the growing gap between the rich

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