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Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365

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Can confirm. A left-leaning radio show is currently the most popular in the UK’s commercial ‘Talk’ sector, despite being in neither of the traditionally ‘prime time’ slots. Modesty prevents me from disclosing further details…

27.02.2026 20:57 — 👍 657    🔁 62    💬 41    📌 2

Beware The Green Menace 🤪
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

27.02.2026 17:34 — 👍 99    🔁 5    💬 14    📌 1
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There's something about The Bill.....

27.02.2026 09:58 — 👍 133    🔁 4    💬 46    📌 5

Wasn’t the manager, mate.

27.02.2026 16:47 — 👍 12    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Extraordinary that in these fractious & divided times, so many of us can unite around the single, simple fact that Matthew Goodwin is an irredeemable twat.

27.02.2026 14:29 — 👍 4499    🔁 622    💬 177    📌 36

Should have opened with this.

27.02.2026 14:25 — 👍 240    🔁 22    💬 21    📌 1

Can’t blame this on Morgan McSweeney.

27.02.2026 14:24 — 👍 718    🔁 97    💬 94    📌 9
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Has the person behind the Allister Heath headline generator created something similar for Kemi Badenoch?
Breathtaking lack of self awareness from the leader of a party that polled 1.9%.

27.02.2026 11:51 — 👍 469    🔁 91    💬 75    📌 11
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The gift that keeps giving.

27.02.2026 09:09 — 👍 186    🔁 9    💬 13    📌 1

Karl Turner for Leader!

27.02.2026 09:38 — 👍 117    🔁 5    💬 34    📌 0
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Gorton and Denton.
Just a simple question for Reform:

Does this mean Matt Goodwin is now a ‘Shadow’ MP?
😜

27.02.2026 08:02 — 👍 1391    🔁 189    💬 116    📌 18
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So the Telegraph is taking this well

27.02.2026 07:06 — 👍 5870    🔁 1097    💬 411    📌 288

Yesterday, the magnificent Allister Heath headline generator demonstrated how thin the line between parody & reality can be.
Today, Dick Littlejohn uses his Daily Mail column to explain that he 'knows' how much better 'things' were 25 years ago, because he has been watching old episodes of The Bill.

27.02.2026 09:07 — 👍 1253    🔁 153    💬 115    📌 14

Kemi Badenoch is currently explaining to a mirror why she was the real winner last night while listening to Will Powers’ Adventures in Success.

27.02.2026 07:58 — 👍 1246    🔁 124    💬 91    📌 4

For good or for ill, some potential Reform voters will be more repulsed by graceless bad losers than they are by racist liars.

27.02.2026 07:52 — 👍 715    🔁 76    💬 49    📌 3

Matt Badloss?

27.02.2026 07:22 — 👍 330    🔁 35    💬 9    📌 2

Pretty comprehensive then!
See you at 10am.

27.02.2026 07:04 — 👍 710    🔁 28    💬 63    📌 2

CNN, you had a good run

26.02.2026 22:59 — 👍 145    🔁 32    💬 13    📌 1

Nobody paid to explain or understand politics has the first idea what’s going to happen in Manchester tonight. Their guess is, quite literally, as good as yours. And unless the result is a truly comprehensive victory, it will tell us next to nothing about the bigger political picture. Night night x

26.02.2026 22:57 — 👍 626    🔁 32    💬 46    📌 6
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HydroShunter launched at Kidderminster as UK’s first hydrogen-powered shunting locomotive enters the market - Severn Valley Railway

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We can put ETCS on a steam train!
www.networkrailmediacentre.co.uk/news/world-f...

Do better! We can put 🔋 in a 1970s tube train!
www.railtechnologymagazine.com/articles/gwr...

Even crazier! We can put 💦 hydrogen in a 1950s shunter 🤪 svr.co.uk/news/hydrosh...

A pattern emerging here...? 🤔

26.02.2026 18:58 — 👍 98    🔁 13    💬 6    📌 3
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James O'Brien Daily Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show. Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...

Maternity Care.
Fly-tipping.
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26.02.2026 18:56 — 👍 83    🔁 6    💬 14    📌 0
26.02.2026 18:52 — 👍 203    🔁 13    💬 2    📌 1

Fair.

26.02.2026 14:12 — 👍 1009    🔁 58    💬 127    📌 8
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Nurul Amin Shah Alam, Blind Rohingya refugee dumped by CBP, dies in cold "They just left him."

Second write-up of the same unconscionable story.

www.motherjones.com/mojo-wire/20...

26.02.2026 13:32 — 👍 141    🔁 47    💬 12    📌 6
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1000 times YES!

26.02.2026 13:13 — 👍 464    🔁 71    💬 15    📌 2

All Hail, the patron saint of ‘Unhinged Headlines’ received g the respect he deserves.

26.02.2026 11:48 — 👍 761    🔁 140    💬 221    📌 14

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