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Good morning. Three minutes after at ten is the time. A minister has resigned, which is a moment of significance when it comes to the vultures circling.

A still, what's the word I want? A still twitching prime minister. But it isn't a good sign, obviously. I'm still twitching prime minister, but it isn't a good sign, obviously.

Do you ever get haunted by television sort of catchphrases or television moments?

Is it because of social media? Is it because of memes? Is it because things get clipped up?

And therefore they assume a place in our consciousness that they wouldn't have assumed back in the day. You can probably only name sort of three or four moments from television

in the pre-meem era that could be loosely described as immortal. We mentioned the elephant in the

Blue Peter studio, didn't we? There's Del Boy falling through the bar on only fools and horses,

or in fact, probably two from that series. There's the Batman and Robin sequence as well from the Christmas special. But it's pretty hard,

isn't it, in the days before memes, to think of the things that have become immortal, the

moments that have become immortal. This morning, I don't know if you watch Succession, or indeed if you've listened to

the full disclosure interview with Brian Cox, who played Logan Roy, but this morning I'm haunted

by this moment. I love you, but you are not serious people. But also, as I prepared to talk to you about keir stammer's latest

travails um that classic mitchell and web moment when they are dressed as nazis and sort of

survey the situation uh the unfolding military situation. And David Mitchell turns to Robert

Webb, I think, and says, are we the batty? And you might be a little puzzled by the second

one, but not, I presume, by the first one. The second one is because I am for good or for ill, and I hope that this doesn't come as a major surprise to anybody.

I am a member of the media. And sometimes I feel as though I have one foot in and one foot out.

I will resist any urge to shake it all about for the duration of this morning's

programme, I promise you. But I don't like the, oh, and the chandelier as well, of course, in a only

foots and only fools and horses. It's extraordinary. It was like the pre-me meme machine. The pre-me

meme machine. I am obviously a member of the media, but the one thing I'm not very good, I'm not a normal

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