The Need for Gratitude in Ukraine

'I love deadlines ... I love the whooshing sound they make when they go by.'

Monday 4pm was the cut off for Boris Johnson to hand over his phone and Whatsapp messages to the Covid Inquiry. 48 hours later that phone still hasn't reached its end destination.

Johnson says he's cooperating. The phone is with his lawyers. But the inquiry is waiting...

Meanwhile the Cabinet Secretary Simon Case has delivered a shot across the bows to his old boss accusing those who criticise the civil service of 'self-defeating cowardice'.

On today's episode we look at the political fall out and we also ask how an organisation like the BBC should cover a story about itself from the inside.