MICHAEL

Hello and a very warm welcome to episode 0442 of Five in the Eye. As regular listeners know, this is the show on Colourful where we sift through the Christmas Pudding of news to find a handful of sixpences that we feel warrant discussion. I’m Michael Ohajuru - looking forward to looking back over those stories that have caught our eye.

PHILAnd this is Phil Woodford joining Michael via Zoom and revealing that our top story is going to be the controversy surrounding Baroness Mone and her involvement with a firm supplying PPE to the government during the Covid pandemic. She and her husband were grilled by the BBC’s Laura Kuennesberg, but many were unimpressed with the answers given in the interview.

MICHAEL

And for story number two, we head over to America, where the Supreme Court of the State of Colorado has ruled that Donald J Trump is ineligible to stand in the Republican primaries, because of an obscure clause in the constitution that bars people who’ve incited insurrection from holding office. The starting gun has been fired on a year of political intrigue.

PHIL

What’s story number three this week? Well, the UK’s Supreme court has ruled that AI can’t own a patent. An inventor has to be a person for the purposes of protecting intellectual property. What exactly does all this mean?

MICHAEL

And at number four this week, it’s the price of Christmas markets. Some people have claimed that it’s cheaper to fly to Germany than to buy something to eat at a German-themed Yuletide event in Birmingham!

PHIL

And to wrap up the show this week at number five, we check on Santa’s sartorial standards. Mums and dads were complaining about Father Christmas’ lack of headwear and shoes when they visited the Newcastle Metrocentre with their youngsters.

MICHAEL

Santa is on the naughty list this year! And that’s this week’s Five in the Eye!

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