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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Should we be happy about divorce law reforms?

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

News, Daily News

4.3914 Ratings

🗓️ 9 April 2019

⏱️ 133 minutes

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Summary

Listen to James O'Brien's phone-in show, which will make you think - and possibly change your outlook on the big stories.

Transcript

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0:00.0

Leading Britain's Conversation.

0:04.0

This is a podcast from LBC, James O'Brien.

0:07.5

Thank you for choosing LBC this morning.

0:09.3

You are indeed listening to James O'Brien,

0:11.4

where we will be turning our attention in the course of this morning

0:15.6

to the suggestion that criminals with dyslexia

0:18.0

could get more lenient sentences under new guidelines.

0:21.0

The fears that social media companies having to reveal some of their most sensitive and commercially

0:27.2

valuable secrets might also pose a threat to our freedoms.

0:31.8

And the question, of course, of whose fingerprints exactly are going to end up on Brexit if, or indeed when,

0:40.5

it finally happens. We'll be turning our attention to Jeremy Corbyn, I think, later in the

0:45.6

programme today. Before all of that, though, divorce seems to be a very broad welcome for changes to legislation that will scrap fault-based divorces

0:57.9

and see the biggest overhaul of divorce in half a century.

1:02.7

Now, I quite like mornings like this. I do occasionally appreciate that I give the impression

1:10.7

of being a bit of a know-it-all.

1:12.3

So I always enjoy the subjects where I can happily say I know nothing.

1:16.6

And I know nothing about this, oddly.

1:19.2

My parents didn't divorce.

1:22.3

Amazingly, Mrs. I. Brian is still married to me.

1:24.8

So I have very, very little understanding of the detail.

1:28.5

And of course, when friends go through the unfortunate business of splitting up,

1:33.5

it is ordinarily not something that, unless you're a very, very close confidant of one and not the other,

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