Has the side hustle gone all laid back? Your plan's gone way off track. Or are the orders

flowing, but it's hard to keep going? It's time to bring the fire back, instead of getting

sidetracked. It's time to crack a Costa. Side hustle without the struggle.

Try a can or bottle of silky smooth Costa coffee latte today.

Crack a Costa.

Four minutes after ten is the time and reluctant though I am to burden you with my own problems so early in our week together.

I am beginning to wonder whether or not the news diet being so undilutedly grim,

grimmer perhaps even than the discharge is making their way into the rivers and seas of these islands.

How do I stop you from not listening?

How do I stop you from thinking, oh, do you know what? I'm going to, I'm going to listen to some Mantavani or I'm going to put on the human league. Because I don't, I mean, there are days when I do this for a living, remember, and there are days when the accumulation of headlines is such that I do find myself thinking, oh, I wonder if I would I get into trouble?

How much trouble would I get into if I played a few records?

Something upbeat, like, I don't know, Uptown Girl by Billy Joel, that will get things going. I'm quite into a new bank called. This is the kiss of death for these lads. I think they're from Doncaster. I'm quite into a new, newish band called the Raitans. I'm really enjoying the ratings.

I can play a few tracks.

Very, very upbeat.

No, no.

Do you see what I mean, though? Because where do I start today? You're probably aware of the fact that there's a strike unfolding in Felix, though, which is Britain's biggest port. That's going to have all sorts of impacts upon the supply chain, one imagines, which is already struggling under the weight of various pressures, some of which, not

all of which, will of course be a direct consequence of Brexit. Barristers are also on strike as

well. So you've got sort of white-collar, blue-collar extremities there. Barristers are on strike because

they have been treated appallingly for the best part of 12 years, but particularly in the last

few years. You look at those stories

and you turn your attention to care homes, which are in absolute crisis because, again, of a

staffing shortage. And you look then at the NHS, which is creaking at the seams. Ambulance

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