Good morning. It's three minutes after ten, and you are listening to James O'Brien on LBC.

I hope you had a splendid weekend. I may bore you later about my adventures in restoring a lawn

roller, which took up much of my weekend. Yes, I am feeling every one of my 50 years, and yes,

I did derive an in an ordinate amount of pleasure from the stripping and the sanding and the the scouring and then the priming and the painting of an old Victorian lawn roller that I happen to find. But I probably won't bore you with the details of that too early on in the programme. Because there's quite a lot to get through today. I don't know whether we need a sound effect for this, Keith, but we're probably going to have a Brexit phone in. I know you like to alert each other.

I know you like to ring around. Alert your family members, particularly the ones who are now

finally. And inevitably, let's be kind, seeing the light and realizing even regretting the decision

that they were persuaded by epic effort and expense. Never forget that if you're

feeling impatient or unkind towards people who bear a, they will always bear a degree of

responsibility for the completely self-infected catastrophes and crises that the country currently

faces. Don't forget that the most rich and powerful men, I'd like to say in this country, but a lot of them, of course, non-doms, Rupert Murdoch, only pops over to, doesn't even have a wife here anymore, does he? They're getting divorced. So, you know, don't forget the amount of effort and expense that people like Rupert Murdoch and the owner of the Daily Mail and the owner of the Daily Telegraph, the owner of the spectator, that's the same person, by the way, put into persuading your beloved family members to vote for economic sanctions. I mean that. I know it sounds a bit glib, but they never ever forget the effort that was put into persuading people to vote for this madness. But I know you like to ring around and alert each other that it's on the horizon.

So that will probably be landing at about 12 o'clock today,

unless, of course, the flight is cancelled.

In which case, we'll have to talk about something else.

Because I think, just to give you a bit of a priming,

I think that Kirstama is getting it about right on this for reasons that I'll explain

in a little more detail come 12 o'clock, but which can probably all get filed under, don't let the

perfect be the enemy of the good. And also, you know, this is a generational problem now, not an electoral

cycle one. Come 11 o'clock, I bit Groundhog Day, back to COVID. And probably still the question that most intrigues me. I got on, well, I don't know why I'm doing this today. I never normally do this. The grown-up presenters do this, don't they? You start the show with a quick run-through about what's coming up later. I normally just dive into what we're doing first. And even then I often hit the first break four or five minutes late. So goodness knows why I've decided to give you a quick heads up and digest about coming up later. Not least because I often change my mind. So we could do something completely different come 12 or indeed 11. But I noticed on the tube this morning, because I always come into work by public transport,

what with being Jimmy from the block, I noted lots of people wearing masks again.

I only really clocked it today.

I don't know whether that was just an anomaly.

The tube I get is often the one coming in all the way from Heathrow.

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