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

And it's Friday already. How the heck did that happen? Three minutes after ten is the time.

A very good morning indeed to you. I think we will begin today, although as ever I am open to persuasion from you, but I think

we'll begin with a question of what should happen to Alexander Cote and El Shafi, L. Shaikh, otherwise

known as two of the so-called Islamic State Beatles. It's a fascinating question that. I hope we can

come out with some fascinating answers,

although I fear my own response to the question is fairly nasty, brutish and short,

but we must all try to be better. I'm also drawn, oddly, to a story about handshakes causing anxiety.

What do you think is the time limit afterward? You know when you're shaking hands with someone?

Yeah, everything's so complicated. I've started shaking hands because I sort of responded to the Me Too by deciding that kissing a woman hello is up to her so I wait to see what the lady wants to do. When you shake hands, what's the time limit before it all begins to feel a bit weird? I shall be telling you later in the programme.

It doesn't mean you feel weird.

We'll have a look at Sir James Dyson's latest intervention.

It was a one million-bound gamble effectively on electric cars.

Nick has just been discussing electric cars in all their glorious technical detail.

2017, not long after, of course, the referendum result in which he was one of the very few massively successful business people to suggest that we should leave the European Union.

The other, of course, was the JCB bloke.

He's got a lovely chateau in France, I discovered recently.

But he's had to change his mind about that.

He's had to back down on his electric car project

because his designs are not commercially viable.

Measure once, cut twice.

A luxury not currently afforded to anybody else in the country

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