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

Good morning.

Three minutes after ten.

I hope you had a splendid weekend.

And amazingly, I think, for the first time since I started doing this for a living, I got the answer to the question I asked you in the run-up to the news there during the actual news.

There are clearly some fairly ugly beasts in the game at the moment.

This government's appalling, appalling attempt to wash its hands of,

forgive me if you find this language unpleasant, but it's not

as unpleasant as burying a loved one on Skype. Washing its hands of all the blood in which they

are currently covered is clearly very ugly, very callous and very cynical. But from the perspective

that often intrigues me the most, I don't know that there is anything that weird going on,

because listening to the news there, having just asked you the question of why is the coronavirus

catastrophe being successfully kept from the very heart of the news agenda? You know, we're more

likely to be having a conversation about whether you're going to pop around the ice cream parlor

today than about the fact that Boris Johnson actually shut down his own pandemic response committee within days of becoming

prime minister. I mean, just think, right? So that was confusing me at 9.59. Then I listen to the news

and I come out of the news thinking, I kid you not, what is it about Primark that gets people so hot?

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