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Success has many hands, ladies and gentlemen. Failure, of course, has only one.

Last night, sleepy Joe Biden looked like someone had propped him up in front of the TV cameras

and given him some kind of booster jab to make him look more alert than usual.

Incredibly, the 46th President of United States then hailed his Afghanistan adventure of recent

days, an extraordinary success. His words, cue incredulity all around the world as Afghan refugees

arrive on the shores of dozens of countries all over the place to make a new home because

they don't want to live in Afghanistan anymore thanks to the Taliban, thanks to ISIS K, and thanks

to the blundering of Joe Biden, the worst president of the world has ever seen. Today,

we will take stock of just what that ridiculous description means. And in what world,

would anyone think what happened was somehow ordained, planned or even orchestrated by Joe Biden?

A man who literally couldn't tie his own shoelaces if you didn't have some help.

We're kicking off this morning, though, with a different call to arms.

Toby Young, editor of the Daily Skeptic and General Secretary of the Free Speech Union joins us,

as skills are reopening with new restrictions, more testing and dire warnings from the teachers that things can only get worse.

He'll also address the insane vaccine passport plan,

as he calls it, which Boris Johnson appears to be pressing ahead with, and he'll tell us why

test and trace staff are being laid off, because there's nothing for them to do, right? What on

earth is going on inside of Downing Street? Does anybody know? 0344-491,000. Tonya Buxton joins

us too with the latest from the Open for All campaign,

news that more and more children have been given antidepressants

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