Good morning. It's four minutes after ten and the Prime Minister is scheduled to, I think I would say, address the nation.

It's billed as a news conference and, of course, is rightly described as such, but it feels to me a little bit more significant than a run-of-the-mill meet-the-media moment.

Not least because it was only put in the diary last night, we will expect him to talk about

two things, well, one thing, but the domestic and international consequences and ramifications

of that one thing. Donald Trump's deranged war in Iran and the increasingly obvious impacts

that they are likely to have upon ours, impacts which

Kirstama will be called upon to ameliorate, even as various liars and traitors in our political

and media establishment continue to try to blame him for it. Listen, on a lower level,

it's not very convenient for ours, is it? I mean, the worst thing that a phone-in host can be called upon to do is to launch a phone-in off the back of a 45-minute-long live broadcast of somebody else or other people speaking. But one thing that helps is when it kicks off on the top of an hour so that you could hit 11 o'clock fresh and new. So I mean, we now have to

talk among ourselves until quarter past 10. I can't get a phone in up and running. I suppose

we could have booked a guest, but none of us thought of that in time. And therefore, it is to me,

that the baton is handed next. I, and I'm fine with that that because there's something I want to really get off my chest.

And it is a front page.

And I know I'm, I go on about this.

But if you did what I do for a living and you had spent now the best part of, I think,

about a decade and a half, listening to people, not so much on this program anymore, but

you know that they're out there with extraordinary influence and power. But you were listening

to people who have been persuaded of the most ridiculous things. Listening to people who, for example,

in the middle of a crisis caused in large part by our dependence upon fossil fuels, people with big platforms and loud hailers and political offices or at least political positions calling for more dependency on fossil fuels. I mean, is there anything madder than that? I will

mention Brexit briefly because there will be few examples. Touch would, please God, in our island

history of a population being so successfully persuaded to smash itself in the face with a rusty old

frying pan. And there are other things as well, putting Boris Johnson in Downing Street,

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