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

Four minutes after 12 is the time. I owe you an apology. Don't tell anyone I told you this, right?

But I think I only got the question right in the last hour at about 1242.

And then of course Phillips O'Brien from St Andrew's University joined us at 1245 or shortly afterwards to discuss matters Ukraine.

So there's a lesson for us all there. I'm not sure what it is and I'm certainly not sure what it is for you, but there's a lesson for me there.

Try sometimes, particularly with the stuff that you think is going to be easy because it's Brexit and that's your middle name.

Try a little bit harder to come up with a more focused and clearer question and it'll just be more

fun for everybody. On the other hand, of course, it gave me an opportunity to wax a little bit

more lyrical than I usually do on the question of where we are now politically and why it's so

important to continue calling out and standing up to the sheisters and liars that have led us to this pretty pass. A day in February in 2024 when

the world's words World War III and recession are being bandied about quite casually and

which in 2016 were apocalyptic examples of so-called Project Fear. How weird,

what a difference eight years makes to go from insisting that they're completely hyperbolic

exaggerations to describing them as in one case a reality and in the other a very, very real

danger. But that's enough of the news.

It's Thursday. It's five minutes after 12.

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