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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Unrest in Leicester

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 20 September 2022

⏱️ 144 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

Three minutes after ten. A very good morning indeed to you. And inappropriate, I think, to talk about

0:06.4

being back in the room or normal service being resumed or anything like that. An awful lot of people,

0:10.8

I think, perfectly, understandably remain deeply moved and somewhat dazed by events yesterday

0:17.0

and, of course, of the last couple of weeks, almost. And I was, even as someone who cut

0:23.5

his teeth on newspapers, I was slightly surprised this morning to find that some papers have no

0:28.0

room at all for any other news. A couple of pages of international news, perhaps, or one or two pages

0:33.6

of home news, but you're getting past the fold, as we say, past the centrefold before

0:38.7

you reach anything that is not related to yesterday's, I mean, unprecedented and remarkable

0:44.1

events. The picture editors and the photographers have really come into their own. The telegraph,

0:50.3

which is a, I mean, some morning struggles even to merit the description of a newspaper has pages that are works of art today.

0:57.8

If you're looking for one newspaper to keep for posterity, I would suggest the telegraph simply because, although its comment pages routinely give Netflix a run for its money on the comedy front, the newspapers today, the sheer size,

1:11.5

the only sort of full-sized broadsheet that's left on our newsstands,

1:15.2

is quite beautiful, and truly beautiful.

1:19.6

And I've had some strange thought this morning.

1:22.2

It was the eye newspaper that drew my attention in this direction.

1:25.6

And what I want to do today we'll talk about

1:28.3

this for an hour then we'll probably talk about these um very troubling and for many of us

1:33.6

confusing events in lester where there is a sort of form of sectarian warfare unfolding on the streets

1:38.9

of the city and i think in the final hour we might have our first Brexit phone in in a very long time

1:46.2

because the disappearance of that American free trade agreement over the horizon is profoundly important.

1:53.2

The first hour though looks at the question of how we provide us ahead of state. And it's not a thought I've ever had before.

2:04.4

I mean, as a younger person, I probably lent a little bit towards republicanism. I remember when I

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