Try four weeks of The Spectator absolutely free. And for this month only, you'll receive a Spectator

wireless phone charger. Go to www.spictator.com.uk forward slash charger. Hello, and welcome to That's Life, Spectator Life sideways look through the confines of your

kitchen window and what's left of the outside world today. I'm Bennett Expense and I'm Andy Shaw.

And on this podcast, we'll be poking fun at the people, words, and ideas that have popped up

in the news over the past few weeks. Unsurprisingly, a lot of them revolve around an ailment

that starts with the letter C. That's right. After over a month of lockdown, cabin fever

has truly set in, and the bickering that this nation became renowned for in the wake of Brexit

has begun again in earnest.

The latest narrative to have emerged around the Prime Minister, Boris Johnson, who has been away

from the front lines with a bout of coronavirus, is that through a cunning conniving scheme,

he manipulated a whole pandemic by deliberately catching the disease and stage managing a Christ-like resurrection

just to get a bump in the polls. It must be tiring being an evil genius of that kind of

magnitude. I think I'd need a few weeks off at Checkers too, if I'd thought of that.

On the subject of evil geniuses, our guest for this episode is social commentator and

founder of the Free Speech Union, Toby

who is also the author of How to Lose Friends and Alienate People, which, despite what you may

think, was not a foreshadowing of the rise of Jeremy Corbyn, recently tried his hand at stand-up comedy,

and then described the experience in his spectator column, as a bit like someone who wakes up

from a general

anesthetic in the middle of their operation. Well, I suppose if he'd done that a few weeks later,

the ward that he woke on would have at least had a ventilator to help him breathe and calm

the nerves a little bit. Toby, it's very nice to have you with us. How are you enjoying lockdown?

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