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listening to james o'brien on lbc it's like Christmas has come early, hasn't it? For people with their

radios tuned into LBC at the moment. Lots to get through today, but a slightly different show,

I think, from normal, because, well, obviously the scenarios are pretty bleak, aren't they?

And yet Christmas is around the corner,

and we are perhaps all in need of some sort of festive cheer.

So I will, as ever, do my best to make sure the pudding contains all of the most essential constituents

and yet still retains a sort of festive zing.

And to that end, we'll start with the NHS,

because it's odd, isn't it?

The numbers that I just shared with you there before the break,

I'll remind you of them in a moment,

are genuinely staggering.

We yesterday saw more new cases announced of COVID-19, and we do seem to be finally leading the world

when it comes to this new strain than anywhere else except America.

I mean, America and crack, even I now, I'm probably going to tire of pointing out the two

things that they have in common in terms of recent democratic developments, but at least America has found the fire escape. We have not. So

36,804 new cases. I haven't got the hospitalisations figure in front of me, but we're heading

towards what was the peak back in May. And, you know, this sort of cavalcade of grimness

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