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Three minutes after 10 is the time.

A very good morning indeed to you.

I am James O'Brien and you are hopefully going to call me today because we've got an awful lot to talk about it,

albeit that we will punctuate proceedings with across to the House of Commons at approximately 12 noon.

Now, can I confide in you? I know you like it when I open the programme by confiding in you.

There's a daily wrestle between the personal and the political on this program.

I appreciate that I need you to use yourself as a lens through which to view the story.

I think your perspective on any given episode is much more interesting if you have a personal

investment in it or skin in the game. It's that slightly unpleasant figure of speech that

we sometimes use, isn't it? Especially if we're talking about stuff like, oh, I don't know, investment in it or skin in the game. It's that slightly unpleasant figure of speech that we

sometimes use, isn't it? Especially if we're talking about stuff like, oh, I don't know, universal

credit or labour shortages or COVID or pretty much. Well, no, not pretty much anything, because

sometimes a frank exchange of opinions can be rather invigorating, can't it? But I do think

the personal is political

and it is more interesting for the rest of us listening

when the person speaking has a personal investment in

or personal experience of the story under discussion.

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