Hello. Four minutes after ten is the time. You are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where I'm trying to think of puns and word plays involving the word ping, but I've got nothing at the moment.

The absolutely nothing. The big story of the day, of course, is Labour's surprise victory in Bally and Spett, and that's two by-election losses on the turn for the Conservative Party.

I think it's fair to say both of which they were expected to win, Cheshire and Amersham and, of course,

Bally and Spen, where the vote was split, the perhaps left-leaning vote was split by a rather

unseemly intervention, according to many reports from George Galloway.

But they're over the line, which means Keir Starmer is safe for now, I think, from any

internal attacks. We'll have a look at what that may mean for the broader vista of British

politics a little later in the programme. But as ever, you know, I, you know what I'm like.

I get these, I get these little sort of ego boosts.

That's not right.

I'd be a bit more kind to myself.

I get a bit over-excited when we spot something before everybody else does.

You probably don't share my excitement about it.

But I just, I love the things that really matter that haven't yet

made I don't want to say the mainstream news but haven't yet made the headline so obviously

in the in the last month it would have been the really rapidly rising problems in schools

caused by bubbles and and I think two weeks ahead of the game on that we were simply because

we talked to each other about what's going on in our lives and it takes a while for stuff sometimes

to filter from life to news particularly when you're still exploring waters as uncharted as the

coronavirus waters.

Six minutes after ten is the time.

And I think we might have stumbled across something similar with the Pings, the app, the instruction that you need to self-isolate.

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