This is LBC from Global, leading Britain's conversation with James O'Brien.

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. I hope you're coping with the current round of madness and confusion as well as can be expected.

We on this programme will, as ever, try to bring you the information and the facts that you need to at least make an informed decision,

even if the decision you make after getting all the necessary information turns out to be the wrong one.

A position, I i think in which

we could all find ourselves in the coming months i am very conscious at the moment of the groundhog day

nature of some of our encounters i've been conscious of it for months it particularly kicked in

during the the sort of full-on lockdown that we endured over the course of the summer, it was

difficult some mornings to conceive of a world in which we'd talk about anything else.

And of course, there were still back then people clinging to the notion that the government's

response in the first phase was anything but appalling. I don't really think,

with a couple of very curious exceptions, I don't think anybody's laboring under that illusion anymore,

but as we have established, myriad times on the program, just because you dropped a clangor yesterday,

doesn't mean you have to drop or you will drop another clangor today. And yesterday's

announcements are now in

place. You could, and I do worry, actually, oddly. It's possibly even going to sound like a vague

word of support or sympathy for the current regime for our vote leave government. But the way that

newspapers work increasingly feels a little bit like

the way that radio phone ins work, in that everything has to be turned in to an argument,

everything has to be turned into a form of debate. So perhaps inevitably, we find ourselves

today already being bombarded with claim and counterclaim with regard to the

latest plans. I think it would be absurd not to note that particularly with reference to

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