Good morning, Giles.

Yes.

I'm not going to ask you how you are.

Well, it comes and goes.

We've talked quite a lot about whether or not what we do about the podcast this week.

It's all quite difficult because we have just before we've started recording.

We've been chatting with Neil about something else.

I'm feeling all reasonably jolly and they let's do the podcast.

The Mood I was in an hour ago when I was on Times Radio and trying not to cry when I was talking is very different.

And also the reason why I might want to.

It's not I'm so sad because of dead babies and dead old people and dead bombing although I am.

But I was actually the way tears so often are self-pity when they were asking me to talk about it on Times Radio on the slot that I usually do.

I didn't really want to and I felt it was awful because I don't feel that any opinion is worth voicing or there's nothing new to say or you can't help anything.

What does it matter what I think?

I'm not the next book but nobody is.

So there you are.

I think my main thing that I thought was shut up, shut up, shut up.

All you people on social media.

All you people with my opinion about this.

Something like this happens and you come in with your sympathies wherever they may be and they're not going to change from this.

They're just exaggerated.

And then just thinking oh and what and now I have to talk on the radio about it.

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