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

Three minutes after ten is a time.

There's some remarkable stuff in the news today.

The Daily Mail publishes an incredibly detailed, accurate and timely explanation

of why that ludicrous phrase,

Australian-style points-based system for immigrants, is utterly, utterly nonsensical.

As a general rule of law, of course, if Nigel Farage has been saying it over the last few years,

and everyone with a functioning brain will know that it's complete hoaxom.

But to see it explained in such terms in the mail is very encouraging.

We may turn our attention to that later in the

program if you were worried about that interrail story and there was rather good news yesterday.

But I wonder whether, as some suggest, it really does provide a sort of analogy or distillation

of Brexit negotiations. At the front page of the Times carries a very troubling headline about criminals no longer

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