Good morning. It's three minutes after ten and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

Once again, hard to know where to start. It is one of those days, one of those weeks, one of those

years, I fear, where the truth becomes ever quieter amid the clamour of the contorting

client journalists and sycophantic politicians, many of whom were telling you, what, about a month

ago, that if the Prime Minister was found to have broken the law, if any fixed penalty notices

were issued, then that would definitely be a resigning issue. That would be the end, that would

see them reach the end of their particular tethers and demand the Prime Minister's resignation.

I think Sajid Javid said words to those

effects as recently as January, that if if a law has been broken, then any minister's position

would become untenable. And here we are. Law has been broken. And yet somehow they are

contriving to defend him. But no matter, because anybody defending Boris Johnson with even a scintilla of integrity.

And listen, I understand why people who get paid to do it, do it.

Of course, it's, you know, we've all got mortgages to pay and kids to feed.

And if you had been in the business of flogging the country Boris Johnson or indeed the Brexit,

the ludicrous Brexit that propelled into power and is now falling apart around his ears,

then you too would probably struggle to, it would damage your brand, wouldn't it?

I mean, you could never trust me again if I now turned around.

I said, oh, by the way, that Brexit and that bloke that I told you would be brilliant,

turns out absolutely shocking, probably the most disgraceful individual ever to hold office in this country, never mind the highest office in the land. Well, I told you he was a good bloke, and that you should definitely put all your eggs in his particular basket and that Brexit would improve your lives. Look, turns out I got it wrong.

Anyway, here's what I think you should do today.

So, I mean, I get it.

I understand why newspaper editors and newspaper columnists have no particular choice but to

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