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Halifers.com for details. Good morning. It's three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James

O'Brien on LBC. As with last week, I'll endeavour in the course of today's program and indeed

for as long as needs be to pepper are conversations with contributions from people who really know

what they're talking about. But as ever, and as I thought was demonstrated quite magnificently last

week, there's every chance that people listening will be able to ring in with contributions of comparable expertise,

knowledge, understanding and, of course, empathy.

So it's slightly different flavour from usual proceedings, I think, inevitably.

It also means that the, that's the word, the urgency of coming up with a clever question to ask you

is slightly diminished on a morning like

this. But I am interested in quite what or how the previous mastermind, the evil genius of

Vladimir Putin appears to have miscalculated so badly, although it is, of course, early days.

I find, and you know this, because unless you've just tuned in by accident for the first time,

you've heard me do it before, I find that sometimes apparently trivial stories can provide

a way into really big and complicated issues that sometimes commentary and a big and complicated

commentary can't provide. And two things this weekend occurred to me. One happened to me and one

I was reminded of by events that the first is a palomine who is a barber of all things. Not as you

would expect for a fully paid up member of

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