Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. Do you know that today is the day that mystery I was invented for?

And that's not even a figure of speech. It's actually true. Way back in the mists of time, some may say, in the archives of radio history.

We had to come up with ways of filling time on days where we're prevented from discussing political issues by

the unfolding situation in Yorkshire and therefore we just came up with some we had sort of almost

like a brainstorming session it's the closest i've ever come i think to london w1a that superb spoof on

on bbc style meetings I think, I think, could

we call it a brainstorming session? I think we could. And Mystery, I was one of the features that

popped out of the bottom of it, soon, of course, to be a board game and with you on the program

today from 12. So stay tuned for that, a little light relief. And I'm tempted, unless you make an extremely strong case to the contrary,

I'm very tempted to return to that question of whether the younger state agent,

who was filmed harassing Chris Witty on his walk through St. James's Park,

should have, as his employer has deemed, deserved to lose his job. I'd listen to Nick's phone

in with that old pendulum feeling with each call or each case being made, wondering whether or not

my mind would change. But as you know, I'm very conscious of a changeable mind being

kryptonite to the traditional phone in format so hopefully by 11 o'clock

I'll have developed a pungent opinion of my own which I will then furiously defend in the face

of attacks from all angles. The first hour though I don't think is necessarily an issue of opinion.

I think it's an issue of experience. You could have run out of words, really,

to mark the madness of the times in which we live, to mark the sorrows of our changing face.

No, to mark the way in which we discuss things now, which were almost unthinkable two years ago,

as if they're relatively commonplace. It struck me listening to the news headlines

that in pretty much any other circumstances, an announcement that the government would be picking up

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