Good morning. It's three minutes after ten, and you are listening to James O'Brien.

Potentially apocalyptic events unfolding in Russia. I speak of a speech, that's where I say,

potentially, but Vladimir Putin's latest intervention appears to, well, it does signal a potentially enormous escalation.

We'll have a proper look at what that may mean a little later in the program, that sense of game change, for want of a better word, in Ukraine, in that war, growing by the day at the moment, which is why I remain so grateful to the assembled ranks of experts and academics and people on the ground correspondence on the ground who've helped us make some sense of it over the last few days.

And I'm going to call upon similarly expert individuals to help us out today.

This phrase trickle down economics.

Listen, I want to have a conversation today.

I spent a lot of time, if you'd indulge me for a moment, for a scintilla of self-examination.

I think by the end of...

Keith, mate, come on.

Keith just pretended to be asleep.

It's outrageous.

I have to...

It's only four minutes after ten.

I'm getting trolled by my own colleagues.

I...

By the end of Boris Johnson's administration, in fact, possibly at the beginning of it,

um, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, it was, wasn't even worthy of analysis.

The administration was so devoid of principle, of policy, of politics. It was, I mean,

you know, and I know that Boris Johnson, if he

thought that he could have got the keys to Downing Street by being the most woke, liberal, decent,

generous, anti, I don't know, statue politician in the history of the United Kingdom. He had

...