This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

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

Breaking news in Nice, as you will be aware, a knife attack in a church, in a place of worship, something that I know many people aren't religious, but the targeting of places of worship always upsets me even more than what I suppose you could call ordinary barbarism because it means that all faithful,

all believers feel like targets, we'll be catching up with events there.

Staying in France, actually, in a very different context in the second hour of the programme.

I think it's fair to say that France, the governments and France and Germany and the scientists

advising the government of the United Kingdom all favour a national lockdown scientists advising the government of the United Kingdom

all favour a national lockdown, but the government of the United Kingdom doesn't. Now, if this

was March, that would be fine, because you'd be thinking, well, nobody knows what they're up to,

and it's perfectly possible that we will swim in a different direction from everybody else

and get it right while they get it wrong. But given that that's now eight months ago and we got it categorically wrong, I worry. I'd rather not worry,

but I do worry that we are already making the same mistakes we made last time because of two very

simple problems. The first is an almost psychological inability for men like Boris Johnson ever

to admit even to themselves that they have got

something wrong. And second, I do feel this notion of exceptionalism is part of the problem. But we'll

find out what you think in the second hour. I've got a sort of thought experiment for you

from 11.

And before all of that, the investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party,

and I choose my words quite carefully, this is an investigation into anti-Semitism in the Labour Party,

not an investigation into allegations of anti-Semitism in the Labour Party.

And as someone who traces his political consciousness back to figures like a Nairn Bevin,

I find it still a curious combination of utterly baffling and heartbreaking to see how such vile views, such vile thoughts managed to infest a party which I always, naively

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