Five minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning to you. What is that we should do some experiments together, shouldn't we? So why is it that sometimes when you've had a weekend off, when we say goodbye to each other on Friday, and then we say hello again on Monday, sometimes it feels like two minutes has passed and sometimes it feels like ages and ages of what are the are the secrets of making... What's the word?

Is it etiolating?

Is that a fancy word for stretching out? Is that right? Is that... I've probably used it incorrectly. Attenuating? What's the word for stretching? Well, elongating's a bit. I would like you know me. I like to use 14 syllables when two would do. But anyway, what is the secret psychologically of stretching out the week?

I think doing something on Friday night. syllables when two would do. But anyway, what is the secret psychologically of stretching out the weekend?

I think doing something on Friday night is probably quite a good idea.

Or maybe getting up early.

Doing some gardening makes the weekend feel a bit longer.

Anyway, I digress slightly.

Partly because I'm a little wary of the first topic that we're going to discuss together.

And by wary, I mean, I turned to it with a heavy heart.

And the reason for that is I've got, I've felt for some time that immigration was about to make an almighty comeback as a very destructive force, rhetorically speaking,

a very destructive journalistic and political force in this country.

If you think about it, there is an inevitability to right-wing media and right-wing politics,

trying desperately once again to turn immigration in any way, shape or form.

I think the days of fondly and naively believing that people were able or indeed keen

to make a distinction between refugees and perhaps people coming here under the radar or illegally in a genuine literal sense,

I think the days of thinking people were keen to make that distinction, or even perhaps

to understand it, are probably behind us. But the desperation is so easy to understand, you know, that the people that told you that leaving

the European Union would make it easier to control our borders, couldn't start screaming

immediately, could they, about the fact that it actually made it considerably harder.

Withdraw from the Dublin Agreement means that the ease with which people whose asylum applications are

adjudged to be or have failed cannot be easily sent back to other European Union countries.

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