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in conditions. Good morning. It's three minutes after 10 and you are listening to James

O'Brien on LBC. Can anyone remember when it was my New Year's resolution?

What year was it?

Was it the beginning of last year or the year before I had a New Year's resolution?

Not long ago.

To pay a little bit more attention to both Scottish and Irish

or more pertinently Northern Irish politics.

I'm very conscious of having become a little bit calcified

in the London bubble, in the Westminster bubble, long before the Tories started talking about

red walls and leveling up, it seemed to me a dereliction of duty, frankly, in the context of the

United Kingdom, that Scottish politics and the situation in Northern

Ireland rarely got covered at all. And it's a timely week to be reminded of that, isn't it?

Holmesa Yusuf, the incoming leader of the SMP, making an astonishing admission yesterday that

the auditors to Scotland's governing party quit six months ago and replacements

I get to be appointed. I mean quite what that means I do not know but it can't be good. Financial

times go to town on that story today. All sorts of questions now being asked about the governance of the

Scottish National Party, but of course no answers as yet forthcoming. But it is to Northern

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