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Good morning. It's three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

A bit of a weird one this morning or at least it's going to sound weird for about the first

30 seconds, and then hopefully it will become less weird.

But I want you to focus for a moment upon the recent Supreme Court decision in the United

States of America regarding abortion.

I want you to just reflect for a moment on how earth-shattering that decision is and how completely at odds

it was with what we presumed to be true. In the context of progress, we're not having a phone

in about abortion. We're having a phone in about trade unions and industrial action. But here's

the link. There's no such thing as a final victory.

There is no such thing as a as a as a as a as a as a as a final conclusion. I've only realized this

relatively recently. I'm not a young man anymore but I had grown up presuming that some victories were permanent,

some progress would be permanent.

But just pause for a minute now and have a look around.

There are things happening in this country that we used to warn of or speak of in slightly hesitant terms, because we thought we might sound bonkers.

There is a great line from Noam Chomsky, who has had a bit of a nightmare in recent years, but remains, if you look at the full canon of his work, an incredibly astute philosopher or social commentator or whatever you prefer.

And he has always described the process of privatization as being one which sees right-wing governments deliberately running down publicly owned institutions to the point where they can turn around and say,

well, we're going to have to privatise this.

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