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

It's three minutes after ten. You're listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

18% of children now leave school as low achievers. But of course, today we find ourselves

addressing the question of how many children

will skip school altogether today in order to show their solidarity with the opposition to

or the attempts to fix climate change. It's an interesting one there. I suspect that Greta

Thunberg will be recorded as one of the most significant individuals of the 21st century.

But as, what's this, Justin, I always want to call him Pierre.

As Justin Trudeau has discovered, things that you do in the past can come back to horn you.

So if Greta Thunberg turns out not to be one of the most significant figures of the 21st century,

I'll put my acknowledgement and admission of a mistake in early. So we'll talk about

that first. We will move on to Justin Trudeau and I suspect we'll also find time for the question

of why children are leaving school with no qualifications. On a much greater scale than they were

just a few years ago.

It's a 24% increase since 2015.

But hey, glance at the polls,

and no one seems to think it has anything to do with the incumbent political party.

Four minutes after ten is the time.

Here's a nice one as well.

I put a side order of this on just because like me, you enjoy

a little bit of semantic pedantry occasionally, semantic pedantics, it would be called if I was

ever to turn it into a board game. A council has baffled residents and historians by planning to

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