Good morning. It's four minutes after 10 and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

One of the things that I puzzle over quite a lot is the frequency with which you can return to the same territory.

I say you, I mean we, the frequency with which we can return to the same territory.

So only really happened twice in all the time that we've been spending our mornings together,

that it has felt normal and natural to return to the same territory almost every day.

The most obvious one, of course, was COVID.

And it actually felt inappropriate for months to talk about anything else.

And the mind was certainly focused by the fact that I was often presenting the program from a shed at the bottom of my god, a glorified shed, I grant you, at the bottom of my garden.

The idea of doing a phone in about anything else in those sort of circumstances just seemed weird when the reasons why you were listening to me broadcast from a shed at the bottom of my garden were essentially the only story in town.

And the other one, which was a slightly more personal perspective, was Brexit, of course,

because there were so few outlets that were telling you the truth or giving you the facts that you needed to have, to develop,

however you voted in 2016, post-2016, to develop informed opinions about what was actually going on,

which I think is why people

who were listening to this program at that time would be the least shocked and surprised in the

country by the absolute mess that has subsequently transpired. But war should be on that

list, shouldn't it? I mean, obviously wars in which we are engaged would be.

I was still at school when the Falklands needed defending from that Argentinian invasion,

but I imagine, and do you know, there will be people listening to the program now

who can remember listening to LBC during the Falklands conflict. I presume it was the great Bob Holness

and Douglas Cameron presenting the breakfast show at the time and Brian Hayes in this slot. But I

imagine that the Falklands would have demanded attention pretty much every day, wouldn't it? If

British troops were engaged on the ground, you would feel a little

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