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It's three minutes after 10. Good morning. Monday. Hope you had a lovely weekend.

If you're very good, I'll tell you what gig I went to last Friday on Friday night.

I put one of the finest gigs of my life, actually.

And that's such a lovely thing to happen when you're 50. How old am I, Keith? 54 am I now?

Well, this has started well, hasn't it? This is like tuning into the sort of musings of

Donald Trump Tribute Act. We will get on to the mental state of the president at 11 o'clock today.

I've always been slightly wary of going all in on the

mental acuity thing. I don't know why, given the way that other people spoke about Joe Biden.

But it seems to me that if you don't have the qualifications or the diagnostic tools,

it can be slightly choppy waters. But three commentators who I hold in very different regards,

I would loosely say say one deeply admirable

former newspaper editor who is a bit of a journalistic hero of mine, one absolutely bonkers

Brexeter and one former Tory MP turned columnist who I always find thought-provoking and interesting,

have all written pieces in the last few days suggesting that Donald Trump's mental state,

mental fragility is now so serious that he should be removed as president.

I just wonder why now?

We may get on to that in the next hour of the

programme. I think in the final hour, as things stand, we'll turn our attention back to these

horrible attacks on synagogues that are understandably causing great fear and upset among

British Jews and try to work out how we can properly separate

perfectly reasonable criticism of the Israeli regime with repulsion, perfectly necessary repulsion

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