Four minutes after at 10 is the time. Good morning to you.

I thought I was going to have to begin the program today by complimenting Boris Johnson

because I agree with him on both obesity advertising, as you know.

There's a whole chapter on it in my last book.

And indeed on he's just said that anti-vaxes are nuts. But of course, it's Boris Johnson who's agreeing with me. So as you were, we're going to talk about face masks today, and we're going to talk about them in the context of the broader truth, or rather the bigger picture. And the bigger picture is this thing that I'm obsessed with, as you know,

and many of you are obsessed with it as well. And if you're not obsessed yet, you will be,

if you stay tuned. Because this really weird development that has seen an opinion be given the

same weight as a fact. And a really weird interpretation of freedom or liberty. And it's

usually perpetrated by people who lack the intelligence to realize how stupid they are and call

themselves libertarians or classical liberals or something like that.

So they're not all stupid. Some of them are just incredibly selfish or sociopathic.

But most of them are just stupid. And they think somehow that laws and, I mean, the ones that bankroll,

the think tanks and the shills, of course, they are rich and not stupid, but they don't think

that laws and taxes and things like that should apply to them. Rules and taxes are for the

little people. And if you get some of the little people to agree with you, they usually call

themselves libertarians or classical liberals. So it's a weird one, isn't it? Because the face mask, when I was a kid,

I think, I think, and this is going to be the line of inquiry that I'm keen for you to pursue today,

I think we'd have just got on with it, wouldn't we? Now, I know you're going to tell me that there

was skepticism about the seatbelt law coming in. I know you're going to tell me there may even,

there was probably skepticism about drink driving rules. Almost certainly there was. You could

probably, if you found a rock heavy enough and looked under it, you could probably find some

individual prepared to still argue against the smoking ban in pubs and clubs and things.

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