The Corona Virus is largely contained in China with an antidote just around the corner, or it’s the start of the Zombie Apocalypse. Today Balls Radio suggests the reality is somewhere in between. More people are likely to die I the UK if legislation is passed allowing motorised scooters. Richard Kazimer joins Phil Dobbie to pursue his favourite pastime of denigrating Donald Trump, this time focusing on his claim to be the saviour of the blue collar worker, during his speech at Davos last week.

Two great controversies have emerged this week. First that whole thing about Huawei. The UK has defied President Trump’s demands to have nothing to do with them, yet still hopes for a good trade deal after Brexit. What was the UK government thinking? Then there’s the punctuation on the new Brexit 50 pence coin – let’s call it a Bretcoin. It’s missing a comma, apparently. Who proofreads this stuff?

Balls Radio is back! Today Phil Dobbie discusses the jingoism around Brexit day this Friday and hoiw the basic stumbling block of Brexit – the border – remains unsolved. Who do we believe o the need for border checks across the Irish Sea – the EU or BoJo? We’ll find out by the weekend. Plus, the government pledges to reopen a railway line to Fleetwood. Is that instead of the HS2?

In the 1960s movie Village of the Damned all the women of an English village simultaneously gave birth to identical blonde children, bent on taking over the world. Today, two blondes, Boris Johnson and Donald Trump, have similar ambitions, with a similar dishevelled appearance. Now Boris is stacking his new, uber-right cabinet, with blondes too. Obviously, we can’t count Sajid Javid because he doesn’t have any hair at all. On Balls Radio Phil Dobbie draws the parallel between Village of the Damned and the nightmare government leading us to a Halloween Brexit.

Rory Stewart is standing out as a Tory moderate which is possibly a but unfashionable these days. But he seems to have caught the attention of the centre ground. Could he be the surprise outsider who becomes the next Prime Minister. Or will it be Boris who will tell the occasional joke, whilst systematically destroying the country? Is he the PM represented by Emma Thompson in the BBC’s Years and Years. Plus, Phil Dobbie suggests ideas for Fathers Day.

Tory candidates just submit their nominations for the plum job of Prime Minister today. Phil Dobbie looks at the promises of a few of them. Will Michael Gove survive past day one? What about Boris Johnson’s tax cut for the rich. Phil Dobbie also suggests a simpler tax system that does away with income tax altogether. And there are some REAL NUMBERS to address those who are downplaying the significance of a Hard Brexit. Plus, a trade deal with the US – Balls radio looks at how that worked out for Australia.

How many times have you heard Brexiteers claiming everyone knew what they were voting for. That leaving without a deal was always the preferred option. In today’s Balls Radio Phil Dobbier digs deep on a survey that Nigel Farage has been quoting from to show how well he expects the Brexit party to do if there was a general election. What he didn’t tell us was the survey shows only one in four people want to leave without a deal, and not even his own voters are convinced.

On Balls Radio today Phil Dobbie suggests someone parks a Go Home van outside No. 10 – one of the vans used to tell migrants to leave. It seems only fair. So will she leave today – or will she just set out the steps to determining a timetable that can be used to prepare a plan for her eventually leaving date? The decision probably won’t rest with her – listen in to find out how you can tell when you are not wanted any more, and more about the small village in Berkshire that she will be returning to.

President Trump’s Project Fear over Huawei has seen Google pulling out of future Android updates for Huawei phones. A genuine security concern or just another piece of America’s growing protectionism? Also today, Phil Dobbie asks how does someone who looks like Ned Flanders become the most dangerous man in the world? And happy birthday to John Stuart Mill. Who?

On today’s Balls Radio Phil Dobbie discusses the axing of the Jeremy Kyle show, the latest on Brexit talks and the state of UK politics, plus Donald Trump’s trade war and a happy birthday shout out to Madeleine Albright.