Good morning. It's three minutes after 10, and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, you lucky, lucky people. I just stopped myself then from opening the program by sounding sleesier than I think I've ever sounded before in my life. Because there are, of course, several meanings of the word passion. I was about to open the show by saying, today I'd like to talk about passion. Poor old KeithKeefe, looks deeply uncomfortable. Not that sort of

passion, you filthy, filthy animals. I'm talking about passion in the sense of extreme behaviour.

When you see someone consumed by an emotion, a level of emotion that you find quite hard to share. And I'm going to give you two

very odd, odd in the sense that I think they're quite contradictory, although I presume there

will be some people listening who don't find these positions contradictory at all. But they are, to

me, very contradictory positions. And I'm going to try to bring your attention back to the insulate

Britain protests on the M25 this morning via a slightly different path from the ones that we've

explored together before and certainly via a slightly different path than the ones explored by

anybody else commenting on this issue.

And it only just occurred to me as I walked through the door.

So it might fall apart like the proverbial cheap suit before I even get to quarter past.

Let's find out, shall we?

So at the weekend, there were more so-called anti-vax protests in London, and there were cameras there, and some of the

footage filmed was absolutely breathtaking. Some of the people there were, forgive me,

absolutely bonkers. If you're screaming about Nuremberg trials, if you're screaming

about death threats for BBC journalists, if you're listening to Pearce Corbyn,

a man so utterly unhitched from reality, he's in danger of making his brother look like a genius,

then I'm afraid you're lost to the sort of reasoning that I employ on this programme.

Now, that sounds incredibly arrogant and dismissive and of course

it plays into the narrative of nonsense that these people are being fed because that means I'm

either paid off. Do you remember when I was supposed to be in the pay of George Soros?

And then it was Bill Gates. Who's paying my bills now? Do we know? Are we keeping up with

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