It's three minutes after 10, a very good morning. Indeed, to you, you can tell how fatigued we are by the pandemic, by the alacrity and the enthusiasm with which we find ourselves looking at a almost, it's not unanimous, but there is a broad consensus on the front pages that the biggest story in town involves food policy. And the reason I mention relief is simply because it is big enough to give us a day off from the daily dirge of death, thankfully, less prominent now, less prolific and infection.

Where we, I'm doing it already.

I don't know how to do it anymore.

Well, am I the only one who thinks it's important that we currently have the highest number of

new infections in the whole world? Am I? Every politician I hear being interviewed on every

television and radio station in the land. They're not asked about it. Excuse me, Minister.

We're lifting all restrictions on Monday and we've currently got the highest number of new infections in the world. Could you just square that circle for us?

Oh, wow, wow, wow, vaccine rollout. And I'm sure I've misread this graph, so let me

apologize in advance. Get Offcom online too, will you? I want to cover my backside before I say

this out loud. The graph I'm looking at

has us, in terms of how quickly we are currently vaccinating people, and this is official data

collated by World in Data, last updated 14th of July 2021, London time.

This is the rolling seven-day average per 100 people in the total population for vaccines that require multiple doses, each individual doses counted.

We're now behind the world average.

Canada, Malaysia, Italy, France, Taiwan, Germany, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand,

world, Thailand, all above United Kingdom. Hey? So, I don't know, if you see a cabinet minister,

pretend, pretend that you're on the phone to your mum and ask them to talk to your mum. Like,

do it like they, you know, like Tom Cruise does outside Leicester Square cinema when he's doing a premiere and he spends a couple of hours pressing the flesh and rolling the red carpet and then people give him his phone and say, Mr. Cruz, Mr. Cruz, Tom, Tom, Tom, could you say hello to my nan? And they give him the phone and Tom Cruise goes, hi, it's Tom Cruise here. If you see a cabinet minister, can you do that with them? Can you go, oh my God, I'm so excited.

It's Robert Jenric.

Robert! and they give him the phone and Tom Cruise go, hi, it's Tom Cruise here. If you see a cabinet minister, can you do that with them?

Can you go, oh my God, I'm so excited.

It's Robert Jenric.

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