If Starmer is playing a blinder, Sanchez is knocking it out of the park.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
If Starmer is playing a blinder, Sanchez is knocking it out of the park.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
“Why do you love the Ayatollah?” is the new “Why do you love Hamas?”
It's the sane rhetorical trick.
You replace criticism with accusation, and hope the argument never happens.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
“Why do you love the Ayatollah?” is the new “Why do you love Hamas?”
It's the sane rhetorical trick.
You replace criticism with accusation, and hope the argument never happens.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
"It's not for me to comment" is so obviously the go to avoid the question response in current LP media training.
06.03.2026 10:09 — 👍 3 🔁 1 💬 0 📌 0
Just as Musk shows that being the richest man in the world still isn’t enough, Trump shows that being the most powerful man in the world still isn’t enough.
For some people, the problem is that someone, somewhere, still has something they don’t.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
I mean, it's how his "Board of Peace" works.
06.03.2026 10:57 — 👍 0 🔁 0 💬 0 📌 0
Trump
Starmer
NEW: Trump says UK PM Starmer, “should be giving us, without question or hesitation, things like bases”. (New York Post)
Astonishing that the US president thinks he can issue commands to the leaders of foreign nations, including allies.
Countries need to keep telling him “no”. Sovereignty matters.
If Starmer is playing a blinder, Sanchez is knocking it out of the park.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
Why can’t the British media grasp this?
For all the region’s complexity, the basic point is painfully simple.
Don’t back genocidal megalomaniacs.
Don't be seen as backing genocidal megalomaniacs.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
Britain shouldn’t be getting dragged toward war because of Bahrain, Qatar, or Oman.
These are authoritarian monarchies with poor human-rights records, not liberal democracies.
If you actually look at these regimes, it becomes easier to argue for their overthrow than to justify defending them.
Britain shouldn’t be getting dragged toward war because of Bahrain, Qatar, or Oman.
These are authoritarian monarchies with poor human-rights records, not liberal democracies.
If you actually look at these regimes, it becomes easier to argue for their overthrow than to justify defending them.
I remember when ‘Brexit Means Brexit’ became a way for silly people to insist that they supported something they could neither justify nor explain. Obviously the context is very different, but something similar is already happening with the ‘war’ in Iran. And it’s mostly the same people doing it.
06.03.2026 08:10 — 👍 2160 🔁 473 💬 143 📌 12
Thank you, Sir, for speaking plain truth.
06.03.2026 01:51 — 👍 2758 🔁 876 💬 92 📌 56
Demographically, most progressive defectors are frustrated lower middle class Millennials - not affluent urbanites or a PMC ‘lanyard class'. Though they have liberal social values, many are frustrated graduates; Millennials with a mortgage or rent they are struggling to afford - primary school teachers, IT support or clerical workers. In short, the face of the modern social democratic voter.
Labour is losing voters to progressive parties disproportionately.
And they are not mainly "lanyard" professional or working classes, the oppositional forces of Blue Labour and right discourse.
It's squeezed millennials in service careers. Which our politics ignores.
The Art Of War.
05.03.2026 18:35 — 👍 18 🔁 6 💬 1 📌 0
Yesterday, the White House used Call of Duty frames in their Iran war hype video.
They are hyping the prospect of war like an exciting video game.
Yes, I know this administration has no bottom.
No class, no integrity, no honor, no decency.
Yet they never cease to shock me.
...
Every time I worry that I'm exaggerating, they make me realise I'm understating.
www.theguardian.com/world/2026/m...
As the Spanish PM decries the war in Iran, other politicians are unable – or unwilling – to speak against the US president
Yes, and don't forget childish.
For Trump in particular, the "fireworks" aspect is part of the appeal of war.
Threads thread: thriller_instinct 3d Is it okay to bully 40 and 50 year olds who are on social media just for being on it, cuz like why are you here - 254 Q 3.1K G 28 746 corporateash 18h ••• My ICQ UIN is 7231680. That number is burned into my consciousness. I inadvertently learned that you could see private conversations in public chat rooms when using Telnet instead of a browser on GeoCities. I can tell you the difference in audible dial-up handshakes between 1200, 2400, 14.4 kbps modems. I needed a edu email address to join Facebook after my university was admitted. We were here at the beginning. We made social media. You wouldn't be in my Top 8. I have usernames older than you. 852 Q62 G6 72
“I have usernames older than you.”.
Holy shit
Why can’t the British media grasp this?
For all the region’s complexity, the basic point is painfully simple.
Don’t back genocidal megalomaniacs.
Don't be seen as backing genocidal megalomaniacs.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk #lbc
"The U.S. is being run by
gung-ho nutters like Trump and Hegseth."…….
Former NATO commander and British General Sir Richard Shirreff delivers a stark warning for Britain to avoid being dragged into America's illegal war on Iran.
-Analyst News
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’
Netanyahu: ‘These So-Called Genocide Experts Have Probably Never Committed A Genocide In Their Lives’ https://theonion.com/netanyahu-these-so-called-genocide-experts-have-probably-never-committed-a-genocide-in-their-lives/
05.03.2026 22:00 — 👍 2539 🔁 527 💬 32 📌 22
BREAKING: Moments ago at the White House this took place.
A bunch of old people praying for a convicted felon, adjudicated rapist, who appears to have just blown up 100+ Iranian schoolchildren, while he hides the Epstein files, in which he appears in thousands of times.
We are a joke.
BBC Verify has pieced together verified videos, satellite imagery and expert views after a deadly attack near a primary school in Minab, souther Iran, which suggest the area was hit more than once "by multiple simultaneous or near-simultaneous strikes".
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Séamus Malekafzali @Seamus_Malek X.com Israeli opposition leader Yair Lapid says that Israel should depopulate and destroy every village in southern Lebanon, with the Yellow Line in Gaza as the model, and that "it may not be pleasant to scrape off two or three Lebanese villages, but they brought this on themselves." NEWS 0:45 2:44 PM • 3/5/26 • 103K Views
The “reasonable opposition” to Netanyahu has similar genocidal, expansionist goals:
05.03.2026 23:06 — 👍 127 🔁 52 💬 11 📌 5
Pretty funny that Michael Gove is dunking on me now he’s editor of the Spectator to promote its ‘bias-free’ reporting when as a politician he wouldn’t answer any of my press inquiries on the massive Brexit fraud he oversaw as Vote Leave’s co-convener
05.03.2026 14:39 — 👍 921 🔁 257 💬 58 📌 7
Trump says he "must" be involved in choosing Iran's next leader, flays Sir Keir Starmer anew, and hopes the Kurds will put their boots-on-the-ground.
My latest update for LBC News, with John Stratford presenting.
🎧: audioboom.com/posts/887020...
