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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.3913 Ratings

🗓️ 19 October 2023

⏱️ 137 minutes

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Summary

This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

Transcript

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0:00.0

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. It's Thursday. So mystery

0:05.4

hour on the way at 12, all being well, which will bring some very welcome and some may say much

0:10.2

needed light relief from the horrible, horrible diet of news upon which we have been, which

0:18.3

we've been visiting every day now since that are...

0:21.6

Sort of repetitive descriptions.

0:24.6

I think it's important to introduce other descriptions sometimes.

0:27.6

So you could say the worst incident of anti-Semitic mass murder since the Holocaust.

0:32.6

It puts things in perspective somewhat, doesn't it?

0:34.6

Well, there are so many attempts at distracting us in place.

0:39.4

And although the death toll was epic and it was the largest incident of anti-Semitic mass

0:45.3

murder since the Holocaust, the death toll for Palestinians is now considerably higher and rising,

0:50.2

which is why since the very beginning of this, I've made it quite clear that I'm not going to recalibrate my compassion according to where a child or a civilian was born or under what star they may have come into this world. Five minutes after ten is the time. We are taking a slightly less, I don't think it's less serious, but we're looking at British politics

1:14.1

or rather at the British Prime Minister today and you are allowed to, you are allowed to question.

1:23.1

I was about to say you're allowed to make fun of him, but even in the context of such grisly times,

1:30.5

I don't know that that even sounds right. The Private Eye magazine cover that I read out to you

1:35.0

yesterday, Private Eye, of course, a satirical magazine. I woke up this morning to see that

1:40.0

apparently there's been an outcry against it. I couldn't really find anyone outcrying against it.

1:47.4

But the difficulty of plotting that safe course couldn't really be clearer, could it?

1:54.3

And anybody essentially stepping out of line runs the risk of getting absolutely attacked from all sides.

2:00.6

BBC front page.

2:01.7

The Daily Mail's front page today is actually a masterpiece.

2:04.2

You've got to give credit where it's due.

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