This is London Calling.

London Calling.

We're starting to see some signs of a flattening and maybe even a falling off of infection rates and

hospitalizations, but don't forget that they're still at a very high level by

comparison with most points in the last 12 months are really very high level and so

the risk is if you take your foot off the throat of the beast as it

were if you allow things to get out of control again.

Welcome to London calling with me James Delling,

and my very good friend Mr Toby Young.

Tobes, I've got to tell you about my adventures

with the The reopening.

Uh-huh.

Did you go at all?

No, I didn't manage to leave the house, unfortunately.

I just been stuck in my shed in my garden working my way

through piles of to-do lists. Well as I'm sure you know the great reopening was was

intended to be the British response to the mass protests in Italy

particularly where I think something like 50,000 restaurants have opened up in defiance of

the authorities and when the

when that the Italian police rolled up the the diners all told them where to shove

it and it being Italy you know that they're not they're not

taking this stuff lying down and and the Italian government is more or less

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