Good morning. It is three minutes after ten, and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC, where we, well, I'm getting a touch of the, I don't know quite what it is, join the dots or something. I heard a government minister being interviewed yesterday, and I couldn't work out what it was that it reminded me of. I've had a bad week, haven't I? Let's be honest. Apart from yesterday, when we were delighted to talk to the gentleman in receipt of that rather lucrative

contract that had absolutely nothing whatsoever to do with Matt Hancock, if you haven't

listened to that conversation yet, I urge you to head over to the LBC website. But not only

did I inflict one of my most muddled introductions ever upon you,

but I also failed to recognise the gravitas of a story

that I think you probably would have expected me to be at the front of the queue

for recognising.

I refer to the Daily Mirror's scoop, oh yeah, as if.

I refer to the Daily Mirror's scoop, oh yeah, as if. I refer to the Daily Mirror's scoop earlier this week about Christmas parties,

parties being held at Downing Street while the rest of us were, I mean, not allowed to do so.

As the ball has continued to roll, I've remembered stuff like students getting fined 10,000 pounds for having

parties in precisely the same period that they were apparently having a right old knees up

at Downing Street. And then, of course, on a much more serious note, and it was you that reminded

me of this, as ever, with your calls on Wednesday's program, The other people, normal people, ordinary people, or voters, as we used to call ourselves,

were prevented from all manner of ordinarily normal behaviours by the rules put in place,

by the people who are in government.

The gentleman who had to spend Christmas Day looking at his newly

born grandchild through the patio doors because bubbling left him unable to enter the house.

Not necessarily something that would have been enforced by police, but his own conscience told

him not to do it. And that may well prove to be the angle that we take at the top of the show this

morning. It's not necessarily an opportunity, and again, maybe it is,

but it's not necessarily an opportunity to give another coating to the Prime Minister

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