James O’Brien

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Hi James. Saw this on holiday and was reminded of you

A charmless admission from Nick Timothy that he credulously believes racist falsehoods bsky.app/profile/best...

Nick Timothy here, still making inflammatory falsehoods about migration

Trump’s Efforts to Control Information Echo an Authoritarian Playbook

“Firing the top statistical official sends a clear signal to others across the government that you are expected to compromise scientific integrity to appease the president… This puts us in dangerous territory far from an accountable and reality-based government.” @peterbakernyt.bsky.social

I also wonder when it becomes feasible that anyone still there is complicit in and/or comfortable with the racist bile that subsumes the site.

It’s been obvious for some time that Musk’s platform is deliberately & dangerously hideous. There is nothing to stop politicians, up to & including the government, removing themselves from it entirely. Their every utterance would still be reported, regardless of how it entered the public space.

Might I encourage you to listen to Parts I & II of Aesop, before the final part is out next week? And maybe to recommend it to someone who you think might enjoy it?

He is the most political topic I have tackled, and the most accessible, so a perfect introduction to this podcast.

From August 18 for a fortnight!

Literally Orwell. ‘1984’ is here.

The only surprising part is that they haven’t done this yet.

I do wonder whether a point will come when ‘dealing’ with Trump will be rendered an irrefutable & catastrophic mistake & the Mark Carney approach will be utterly vindicated. (Don’t @ me if you think it *already* looks like a catastrophic mistake. I used ‘irrefutable’ for a reason!)

Wow.

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Why a potential fast track to the civil service fast stream should be exclusively open to working class students… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

How on earth is it August already?

It’s surely also well past time that President Trump was awarded the Booker Prize, half a a dozen Oscars, the Acacia Road Primary School Award for Exemplary Orangeness, the Nobel Prize for Physics, BAGA gymnastics award grade 5 (niche) & at least 3 Cycling Proficiency Bades (possibly even nicher).

It was close to poignant, wasn’t it? With a little bit of contrition for what’s happened to the country, as opposed to him, I could almost have felt sorry for him.

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...

Did @balconyshirts.co.uk close down the facial recognition technology debate for ever with his ‘sinister future government’ zinger?
Weight loss jabs: the ‘deserving & undeserving’ users.
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On Radio 4 just now, Steve Baker says he regretted calling himself 'Brexit hard man'. Says it backfired badly and it constantly haunted him.

[Nods to @mrjamesob.bsky.social]

A spear of of orange light cutting through the skies above Brentford…

I think an actual superhero might be leaving/visiting my manor…

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Starmer’s ‘threat’ to recognise the state of Palestine; ‘influencers’ in Downing Street & everywhere else; the value of a degree…
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7/10

Your secret’s safe with me.

Qatar, Saudi, Egypt join call for Hamas to disarm, give up Gaza rule Arab countries including Qatar, Saudi Arabia and Egypt joined calls Tuesday for Hamas to disarm and end its rule of Gaza, in a bid to end the devastating war in the Palestinian territory.

How much about this have you seen mentioned in the UK media?

"Qatar, Saudi, Egypt join call for Hamas to disarm, give up Gaza rule"

@mrjamesob.bsky.social - have you seen this?

www.france24.com/en/live-news...

You were great. Take care.

Farage’s firestarter politics A year after riots swept Britain, Reform’s leader and his supporters are warning of future unrest unless their policies are followed. The message is a threat wrapped in respectability

Four right-wing voices – Nigel Farage, Lee Anderson, Allison Pearson and Matt Goodwin – suggest the only way to prevent rioting is to give those taking to the streets what they want.

All four called on the government to ban or crack down on the dramatically less violent Gaza protests or XR.

‘Friends, this is how democracy dies.’

Funny that.

Given everything that has happened on Twitter/X in the last 2 years it is astonishing that the govt hasn’t even reviewed its use of the platform

'Why does James O'Brien allow the caller to refer to someone's skin colour while calling them a maniac?'
'That's not his real skin colour, mate.'

Idiots' Corner returns and listener Daniel's accusation is an 'absolute classic'.

Farage’s firestarter politics A year after riots swept Britain, Reform’s leader and his supporters are warning of future unrest unless their policies are followed. The message is a threat wrapped in respectability

“Farage, Anderson, Goodwin and Pearson frame their interventions as warnings – do what we say to prevent this deplorable violence.

“That is certainly how they would choose to frame it. But the more you read and the more you hear of what they say, it sounds instead like a threat.”

Trump says Epstein ‘stole’ Virginia Giuffre from Mar-a-Lago staff role President says pair fell out because Epstein poached staffers, including Epstein accuser who died in April

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