This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after ten is the time. Very good morning indeed to you.

Question mostly for my listeners of the female persuasion. Would you delay the menopause?

Would you, had you been given the opportunity medically, to delay the

menopause in order to make it easier to have it all, as they used to say, the career and

the family? What do you think a restaurant in Cornwall has been named? Prompting accusations

of racism from some locals. I don't know whether we should giggle, but I will be.

I'll share that with you later in the program. And I'll be taking calls on this one.

Low and middle income households more exposed to any looming recession than they were,

or you were over a decade ago, just the time of the last financial crisis.

I always struggle to get this quite right, but I've never quite crashed and burned on the scale

that I could do in the past.

How close are you to the edge?

In terms of finances, how much wriggle room do you have?

Because if any of these forecasts are correct, then that's the question we all need to be asking ourselves.

How well insulated are you from any looming economic problems, possibly.

Some would argue probably even a recession.

And I'll tell you about the backer of both Brexit and Boris Johnson, who is poised to make a, well, he's got

300 million quid riding on UK firms doing badly after Brexit. I'll say that again, actually,

because Boris Johnson, of course, in his early speech as a Prime Minister, talked about people

who had bet against Britain. There is a donor to his party who has

reportedly bet about 300 million quid on some of Britain's biggest businesses seeing a crash in

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