This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

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Shall we begin with a complaint from Stephen and Milton Cleans? Mr. O'Brien, he writes, can you please tell us the Hong Kong Fui story? I thought it was just me that missed it, but Chris Moyles was also waiting to hear it. Help us out, you're the worst tease ever. I don't know that I can return to that topic, Stephen. I felt that we dealt with it chapter and verse towards the end of last week.

But if you're very, very good, then I may reveal the earth-shattering news regarding Hong Kong Fouy for people of my generation that we unearthed on the program last week.

Here's an interesting take, with which I completely agree.

It's a very good journalist called Tom McTague, who writes for the Atlantic, a relatively new outfit that specialises in sort of what you might call long reads, really detail heavy, thorough journalism.

But this is a tweet, so it's neither detail heavy nor thorough.

But I think it's bang on the money.

He says it's perfectly possible to support Brexit and support the EU in its bid to hold a multinational corporation to account for an order of medicine that will save people's lives.

This refers, of course, to reports that the European Commission is a sort of mixture of

bewildered and furious at news from AstraZeneca that they're only going to be able to deliver

a smallish proportion of what was agreed and what was contracted. But he goes on, and this is also true.

It's perfectly possible to oppose Brexit and conclude that the UK vaccine rollout has benefited from the UK being outside the EU.

As we've mentioned daily on this programme, we are currently playing a blinder in the context of vaccine

rollout. Tom's also written a much longer article in which he explores the possibility of,

by looking at the current catastrophe through the lens of Boris Johnson's track record,

it's easy to imagine him sort of claiming some sort of victory despite this world

beating death toll. And because, well, he doesn't, he doesn't make this point, I would add

this point, because he's become the embodiment of Brexit and people still can't admit that

that was a terrible mistake and probably never will. It gives Boris Johnson almost a suit of armour, a superpower,

in that people are desperate to approve of him, to applaud him. So watch this space. It'll be

very interesting to follow, certainly. But that point there about a multinational corporation

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