This is London Calling.

The doctor told me that after a very busy October and November they had a quiet few weeks at beginning of December and now those cases are rising once again.

So the great fear is that what is happening in London

and the south east will now spread to the rest of the country driven by this new strain

of the virus that does appear to be much more contagious.

Welcome to London Calling with me James Derrypole and my very good friend,

Mr Toby Young.

I just want to reassure listeners by the way Tobes that you and I

we're not we're not going to fall out this year but I think people people didn't

like the sound of mommy and daddy fighting last year. Yes, no, I think we continue to model what it is for two people that disagree to communicate in a fairly good-humoured way about it and not fall out over it.

And also it's the grit.

I think we hopefully will continue to do that.

It's the grit that makes the pearl isn't it

Tobe it's that kind of because actually before this podcast started you

you and you're in your this is so typically you and which is why we're

kind of yin and yang you because you love your kind of

your formalities you wanted to wait till Boris had given his speech at 8 p.m. tonight

telling us what frankly we already know he's gonna he's gonna bring back the lockdown.

It doesn't really matter what the

details are. We know what he's going to do and it seems to me to be irrelevant

to the to the to the broader picture and also relevant to the reasons that people listen to our

podcast people listen to it for our banter and our interplay. That's probably true but I

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