Three minutes after ten is a time. A very good morning indeed to you. I hope you had a splendid weekend. Be warned it is going to be a windy one. I'm talking about the week ahead. I'm not talking about any gastric issues in the studio. It's going to be a windy one. And so, knowledge is power. I'm sure you haven't missed it. We've done it, but I'm sure on Mystery Hour, where get the names from but storm dudley i mean if you've brought up if my generation and my geographic

background storm dudley makes you think of either harry potter or lenny henry harry

harry potter because dudley worseley was of course the the bane of young harry's life at privet drive

and dud and lenny henry because i one of the first times I understood what could be loosely described as a political joke

was when Lenny Henry told a joke about, we're probably going to get this wrong now.

It was definitely Dudley, wasn't it?

When Lennie Henry was telling a joke about the National Front wanting to pay people to go back to their parents' country of origin, the West Indies in Lenny's case. I can't have been it. I barely into double figures, but he was, oh, that's great. They're going to give you £10 to go home. That's great. It's come from Dudley. And I just got it. I understood why that was funny. And looking back, that was quite an interesting

illustration of issues that would over the years become a lot more complicated and a lot more

important to me. Five minutes after ten is the time. Speaking of important, let me just set you

a little stall. On the one hand, we have the very strange sight of, for my money,

and I know that this is increasingly accursed for the Conservatives,

I express a degree of mild admiration for a member of the current cabinet.

And within hours, they're either filmed snocking their mistress in direct contravention of

coronavirus restrictions or they, what was the last one? Who was the last one?

Nadim's a harwee now. He's trying to sort of bring, one step down from book burning, I think,

bringing in restrictions about what teachers can say to their children about politics. We touched on this last week. I said to you, I think, bringing in restrictions about what teachers can say to their children about

politics. We touched on this last week. I said to you, some children have been told that the

Prime Minister had loads and loads of parties while they couldn't even see their own nan,

and missed out on all manner of experiences that we would normally take for granted. And they were

asked how they feel about that. It turns out they thought that Prime Minister was bang out of order and incredibly hypocritical. How could you not arrive

at that conclusion? Answer, in a world where teachers are not allowed to ask you how you feel

about the fact that the Prime Minister attended lots of parties and lied about it, and stepped

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