Three minutes after 10 is the time. Quite a lot to get through today. I need a little bit of help, actually. I think perhaps there's an element of condescension in my approach to the topic that we're going to be discussing in the next hour. And I currently think it's justified. But you may disagree. And if you do disagree, I want you to feel doubly welcome to contribute to the conversation we're going to have in the next hour.

Because we touched upon it yesterday, and it is a lot more widespread than perhaps we realized.

People utterly persuaded that the British media is somehow deliberately not reporting upon the ongoing protests in France, the so-called

Gilles-Jean protest, which began as an objection to fuel duty increases that Emmanuel Macron's

government were poised to introduce and which has since morphed into a variety of grievances, most recently pension reform

and some sort of form of privatisation of previously public.

You see, you can already work out why it doesn't get reported much in the British media

as I begin to explain what's going on.

But lots and lots of people who I have to presume are decent and thoughtful and intelligent

have been persuaded by their online echo chambers that there's something weird going on, something

sinister, something suspect. So I haven't told management that I'm doing this, obviously,

because they'd probably pull the plug or lock me in a cupboard.

Neither have I sought permission yet from George Soros to conduct this conversation.

So come 11 o'clock today, we'll just have to wait and see how long I can get away with it.

On the other side of politics, it's a pretty neat divide between people of a very Jeremy Corbyn-flavored persuasion and people of a very

Brexity-flavored persuasion.

Oddly, they concur on this one.

Brexity people are convinced that the British media is not reporting the protests in France

in more detail because they're dedicated to stifling anything that makes any European Union

country government look bad. Well, you're going to have to explain the logic to me on that one

because it's tricky. The left wing position is a little bit easier to grasp. The idea is that if we saw

those French protesting, I know that the history of public protest in France is as long as you're on,

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