It is three minutes after ten and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

What would you do?

What would you put on this list first?

Things that we should.

Things that you should.

Or we, should we do we?

Let's do we, not you.

Things that we should know more about.

Things that we should talk about more.

There's a weird dynamic involved in our time together every day because the stuff that

is most important is not necessarily the stuff that makes for the most engaging, I never mind

enjoyable times together. Do you see what I mean? It's why Thomas finishes doing the news at 10 o'clock

in the morning and we don't

immediately start talking about the three stories that have been adjudged to be the three most

important. I mean, I know this is a statement of the bleeding obvious, but it some days comes

into sharper focus than it does on other days. What could possibly be more important than

senior military figures warning of some fairly hefty problems on our rather close horizon?

As a former NATO chief has joined their numbers today, saying that it is time to think the unthinkable and consider bringing back conscription to deter Russia from all-out war.

It's, it's, I think the newsagents discussed this yesterday, actually. Jack was listening and he says it's

more preparing the country to deal with a war, James. We need more paramedics and mechanics, etc.

It has been generation since we had to think about how we as a country would deal with a war, James. We need more paramedics and mechanics, etc. It has been generation since we

had to think about how we as a country would deal with a live battlefront on or near our borders.

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