Three minutes after ten, a very good morning to you.

I've done it already, you know.

It's pathetic, frankly.

Every time I have a couple of days off, I hope you had to spend at Easter, by the way.

I sort of catch myself in quiet moments, contemplating new approaches to our time together in the morning.

I thought, possibly it's time to start relying a little less on the newspapers to decide what the conversational agenda may be.

I've mentioned this to you before.

Most people outside of this business don't pay any attention at all to the newspapers anymore, but we still are, if you like, enthralled to them.

But there you go.

I hadn't even got on air yet this morning before I referenced

the fact that the Daily Mail is having a fit of the vapours, the likes of which you have never seen before in response to labours, to my mind, relatively mild, if possibly misguided, so-called attack ads. We'll get on to that a little later in the programme, I suspect, because we begin inevitably with the doctor's

strike, the non-consultant doctor. Does it reach your ears differently if I say non-consultant

doctors? I still think, despite having covered this in some depth over the years, when I say

junior doctors, you sort of get an image of Doogie Hauser. Do you remember Do Doogie Hauser, MD, schoolboy doctor? He's a very good American sitcom, ran for quite a while. You say junior doctor, and you think of someone in short trousers, or someone with a Fisher Prize stethoscope. Junior doctors, sort of, you know, not a proper doctor, almost all of them are junior doctors. You're a junior doctor unless you're a consultant. So if you're saying non-consultant doctors, does it reach your ears differently from

how it would reach them if I were to say junior doctors? I don't know. I do know this. If you

want to earn a good whack as a British trained medic, go somewhere else, hop overseas.

Go to Australia, for example, where record migration has seen a population surge

and the government is luring Britons to fill skills gaps with the prospect of tripling their incomes.

28-year-old nurse from the Isle-Rle arrived in Australia last year, and she has done precisely that.

Biggest two-year population increase in Australia's history. But of course, our government has

borrowed their stop-the-boats, propagandists in order to somehow create the idea that you can move

the traffic in the opposite direction. You couldn't make it up, could you? I don't know how to do it, because I've failed already in my bid to not allow the newspapers to set the tone, because sometimes you don't know what to do. If you don't turn your attention to the newspapers, I've been doing this job for quite a long time now. In fact, I'm reaching the point where I'm going to stop telling you how long I've been doing this job because you might start thinking,

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