Good morning. Three minutes after 10 is the time. And, well, almost a sense sounds a little bit odd.

Oh, isn't it nice? We're going to talk about burglary. But it does mean that we're going to start the show today without being constrained by coronavirus.

Something else I tried to explain to you yesterday, perhaps not very well.

And I try to convey how important, even though they are in a state of

constant decline, newspapers are. And it's an example of that today. Why are we talking about

burglary? Well, Priti Patel's made some pronouncements and they've won some front pages. Therefore,

it feels when I turn up at work in the morning. And when I turn on my radio and hear

the bulletins, it feels like that's the most important story in town. I don't think it is. I don't

even know if it's right to say that Pritty Patel has made some proposals. Boris Johnson,

no doubt, will be trying to hitch himself to whatever bandwagon starts careering down Whitehall

later today. But it's interesting and it is clearly

something that's potentially relevant to absolutely every single one of us.

There's another problem here as well that I'm going to torture one of my own analogies to

try to convey to you. You know, when I talk about having your nose right up to the picture,

you've got your nose so close to the picture, you can't work out what the picture is.

And then you take a few steps back, and you can see that it's not a sort of splodge of magenta and green,

but it's actually a beautiful field full of tulips or something like that.

So that kind of makes sense, right? So sometimes you're so close to the action, you can't see the bigger picture. I guess it's just a roundabout way of saying you can't see the wood for the trees. Sometimes I worry that you have to step so far back to see the picture that you can't actually see anything anymore.

And I feel a little bit like that about crime.

You know, we could pick a little piece of the issue to talk about together.

Historically, as a middle-aged white man presenting a radio phone-in program who has never had any experience whatsoever of stop and such,

I'm supposed to start thumping the table and

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