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

Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. Could I ask you to do me a small favour in the course of this morning's programme?

Could you remind me just sporadically that it's Tuesday? I've got that post-bank holiday malaise where you're not malays, it's just a condition, a

syndrome, post-bank holiday syndrome, P-BHS, whereby in my mind it's Monday.

So bear with.

Four minutes after tennis time, coming up a little bit later in the program, we'll have a look at suggestions that staff should get extra paid leave to care for sick

relatives, but only a very brief look because the story we're going to cover in the first hour

speaks to similar territory. I, like you, am fascinated to learn how scientists have ended up

arriving at the conclusion that social media does not make teenagers unhappy after

all. It tallies with something that we've tickled slightly on the program in recent weeks.

And as Theresa May is told that a deal with labour would cost her job, I suspect she'd see that

as a price worth paying.

So drag us out of the current Quagmire. And speaking of the current quagmire, if you ever need

an illustration of just how low we've been brought by chances, liars, racists and con artists,

consider this. Consider this. Sir Julian King, who is the European Commissioner for Internal

Security, he's British, and is staring back from Brussels,

a good old Britain. And he, like many other people outside this country, is asking what has

happened to British politics. This latest inquiry comes after a UKIP candidates video suggesting that he,

and I apologise for what I'm about to say, but, and also we'll do this when I'm a little bit

more immersed in the issue. We'll have a conversation about whether or not you should talk

about despicable people or whether actually talking about despicable people somehow inflates and highlights despicable people.

And Jim Chowdrey's back in the news again today. My view very much when he was having his

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