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

Quite a lot to get through today.

But how nice it is to begin with what is almost undiluted good news.

There are a few flies in the ointment of this vaccine reaching out today or beginning to be

administered today. Chiefly, of course, the skepticism that surrounds the science in some corners.

I may attempt, I may attempt this morning to map the difference between what you could loosely describe as healthy skepticism and what has to be described as very, very dangerous delusion.

Because it's not perhaps quite as clear as it initially seems.

But given the absolute...

Good grief, that was close.

Given the absolute mess that many areas of public policy have seen in the course of 2020,

I think... And he was so wary of doing

this because, of course, it involves opening the door to contradiction and correction, but I

suspect that Kate Bingham has played an absolute blinder. I think that I made a mistake of lumping her in with Dido Harding, both, I think,

wives of Conservative MPs, both given these incredibly big and important jobs and leaving

open, wide open, I think, accusations of cronyism.

But remember that the vaccine task force and indeed the vaccine rollout is being undertaken by the NHS, not by the private sector.

This isn't going to be done by Serco with a bunch of, but through no fault of their own, clueless characters on minimum wage.

This is the NHS,

what is left of the NHS

after 10 years of austerity stepping up to the play,

which gives me a hell of a lot more confidence

than the Circo test and trace,

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