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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Is it right to stop Russians competing at Wimbledon?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2022

⏱️ 144 minutes

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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 97

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0:00.0

Katie Bolter.

0:01.0

Oh wow.

0:02.0

Tennis is full of noise.

0:04.0

Pressure.

0:05.0

Manifest.

0:06.0

Intensity.

0:07.0

But what really makes me feel alive?

0:09.0

It's the focus in that quiet.

0:13.0

A moment to breathe.

0:17.0

To reset.

0:18.0

To hydrate.

0:20.0

That's what really makes me feel alive.

0:23.6

Britta, the official water partner of the LTA. Pick up Britta's filtration range online or at your

0:29.2

local store. Good morning. It's four minutes after 10. You're listening to James O'Brien on

0:33.1

LBC. You could be forgiven for thinking otherwise, given some of the coverage of everything

0:37.3

from people who insist on working from home to the domestic travails of the Duke of Sussex.

0:42.4

But we are currently living in a fascinating constitutional time.

0:45.7

We are seeing an assault upon our democratic norms, the likes of which I was about to say, I've never been seen in the Western world, but had not been seen in the Western, well, the English-speaking Western world until Donald Trump became President of America.

0:59.0

When I said to you yesterday that Boris Johnson would deal with his latest scandal, this conflation, this combination of law-breaking and lying, by just straight batting it, blocking it, until

1:15.5

it goes away or until I think we finally got the right analogy. And in fact, it's such an

1:19.2

obvious analogy. I'm a little bit embarrassed that it took me so long to get there. I was talking

1:22.1

about icebergs melting at one point. But it's flames. So the flames of our righteous indignation,

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