It's probably for the breast
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It's probably for the breast
It's a living.
The world's largest academic association of genocide scholars - the 500-member International Association of Genocide Scholars - has passed a resolution saying that the legal criteria have been met to establish Israel is committing genocide in Gaza. genocidescholars.org/wp-content/u...
Two months ago I visited Four Seasons Total Landscaping in Philadelphia the unlikely site of one of the most surreal moments in recent political history. Strange place for a press conference. Fascinating place to stand.
Flag, Marry, Avoid… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
Wait. What?
Dragon House in York was defaced with racist graffiti last week, targeting a family who’ve been part of their community for over ten years. One window cleaner from Crystal Clean Services stepped up to clear the abuse.
This is a wonderfully detailed bit of reporting. On the other hand, Kemi Badenoch is adamant that Kemi Badenoch never commits gaffes…
I turn on my TV and a TV presenter is asking a Govt minister why they are talking about rolling out free childcare when the big issue is asylum hotels. This is objectively insane.
It is insane to me that the richest man in the world is using his global megaphone to call for millions of British people to be rounded up and deported (including my family) and somehow this isn’t even news.
🐍 MEDUSA - Here's Looking At You, Kid 🪦 Before Medusa was monstrous, she was beautiful. And before she was beautiful, she was powerful. She is a riddle that defies solution, from a time before the shape of things was settled. 🍊 open.spotify.com/episode/67sR... 🍏 podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/a...
Gareth Southgate can do this. Why can't Starmer?
Back once again for the renegade master, D4 Damage with the ill behaviour... Er, join me at 10 on LBC.
I’m almost nostalgic for the days when these shitweasels used to whine about not being able to talk about immigration without being called racist, or ‘waycist’ as one of them used to ‘joke’.
Thread.
Well this is awkward…
Ben Obese-Jecty is the only Conservative MP and frankly one of the vanishingly small number of MPs, full stop, to react to this stuff in a normal way.
If Angela Rayner lived in a cardboard box, the Telegraph would claim she nicked it.
❗The biggest neo-nazi music festival in over a decade is coming to Great Yarmouth and we need your help to stop it. hopenothate.org.uk/2025/08/28/g... Things deteriorated somewhat in your absence.
As ever, Dan is on the money. But when did facts ever stand in the way of a Sun front page reportedly based on Michael Gove’s testimony?
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Almost four years out from an election & paying *the actual fucking Taliban* to torture & murder people who risked their lives to escape them is getting the full ‘both sides’ treatment in Brexit Britain.
If any news event should bring @mrjamesob.bsky.social back from holiday it's this: A power plant providing electricity through osmosis: www.theguardian.com/world/2025/a...
An excellent question! Give him my best. And it is sort of about poo…
Combination of "they think they're above other black and Asian people" (Badenoch, Braverman), they're spineless, and they're sociopathic climbers. iirc the only senior Tory to publicly criticise Zac Goldsmith's race-baiting mayoral campaign *before* the result was Baroness Warsi
Genuinely baffled as to what Bertie Jenrick would have to do for any of the one in ten Tory MPs from an ethnic minority to go “steady on”. Turn up at their house in a Klan robe?
Don’t message me if you don’t like the line-up. Stand. And fight. And fight. And stand. And stand and fight. And fight and stand. And fight and fight and stand and stand. And stand and fight and fight and stand. And fight and stand and stand and fight…
Can Ed Davey do mystery hour please?
It was more of a saunter tbh.
What an honour for them…
Evening.
Zeus is smiling on me this evening. Out September 11 for hoi polloi… 😉
‘Reused as a door-sill.’ Look on my works ye Mighty, and despair!
Sitting in for the great @mrjamesob.bsky.social all this week on @lbc.co.uk. Join us!
Yesterday’s show was as another exercise in clairvoyance. I don’t think we’re ever going to see a plurality of journalism that properly reflects Trumps’s depravity & corruption. Never mind Putin’s. Not sure I’ll ever fully understand why.
Great photo. Absolutely awful headline.
Aye.
You've GOT to be kidding me! The Conservatives - who oversaw every single thing on this list - are trying to claim that only the Conservatives would "stop the madness" - that they created...? So incredulity aside, what about the list itself? Let's go Debunking! 1/34
I mean, you could google it. But I’m in a good mood. It’s a famous Tony Hancock line.
I remember the Conservative party criticising Labour reducing the number of jury trials like it was last month.
Does Magna Carta mean nothing to Chris Philp? Did she die in vain?
You @mrjamesob.bsky.social and I are great fans of @iandunt.bsky.social - this is a great read (thanks to @chrisrivers50.bsky.social for highlighting)
@hancock2001.bsky.social listened to your contribution on @mrjamesob.bsky.social LBC programme today and here i am following you now. What was thr book you mentioned about the future of europe please?
Always a pleasure to listen to @thehistoryguy.bsky.social. Quite brilliant on @mrjamesob.bsky.social 's show. @lbc.co.uk #LBC
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One way to understand the awfulness of what Trump is doing is to imagine FDR trying to ‘negotiate a ceasefire’ with Hitler in 1942 but with Churchill completely excluded. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
How To Be Right is currently part of Audible’s 2-for-1 deal. Link here: shorturl.at/aamKk
Word of the Day is ‘copemate’ (16th century): the friend in life who gets you through. It’s one of the 365 entries in Words for Life, an almanac of my favourite words and etymologies to give (I hope) each day a boost.
In other news, Britain released some surprisingly good growth figures...
UK economy grew 1% in first half of 2025 US economy grew 0.6% I present these figures without comment
Again: shock.
People often don’t believe me when I tell them that even the Sun & the Mail greeted an interview I conducted with Nigel Farage, at his request, by condemning the obvious racism he displayed. I remain amazed that other interviewers still struggle to expose him. I won’t get another chance.
'Honest Bob' Jenrick, a politician obviously & deliberately embracing xenophobia, does some weapons grade xenophobia & the BBC *apologises* for a Thought For The Day contributor calling it xenophobic. Licence fee payers need to know who makes these decisions & why. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Revealing the nationality & ethnicity of charged suspects in some serious crimes could turn out to be a major mistake. Or it could steal the country’s most prominent racists’ lunch. The men with ‘medieval attitudes’ harassing women joggers & new taxes: the fairest of them all… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
Listening to @mrjamesob.bsky.social on catch up. Was stuck in traffic listening to the lad complaining about the BNP being shut down and people either side of me saw me crying laughing 😂😂😂
Excellent Full Disclosure interview with Kevin Rowland this week. Very enlightening. Good stuff from @mrjamesob.bsky.social www.youtube.com/watch?v=Y4J_...
This was the subject of the last hour of the @mrjamesob.bsky.social show. The "free speech" lot want to take us back to the 70s to mid-90s environment where public misogyny, racism, homopobia, and so much more were everyday norms and were widely acceptable. They can get f***ed.
People who haven’t listened to the show don’t know what happened on the show. That is all. Use your noodle.
And thank you @mrjamesob.bsky.social for having me on again today to discuss this debunk! (I'm on at 1h50mins!)😊 www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/...
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I’m going to stop phrasing these invitations as questions. It turns out that people ‘answering’ them without listening to the show rarely* provide interesting or illuminating responses. Snark over. Almost ⬇️ *never, ever, ever
Why does Trump blame Zelenskyy for the war in Ukraine? Are the building trades set for an AI- related boom? tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
As the National Guard move into Washington to combat a largely non-existent crimewave, my live chat with @mrjamesob.bsky.social this morning on @lbc.co.uk about why DC is a soft target, and where this could all lead. 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/876215...
@monkemma.bsky.social really pleased to hear your Substack open.substack.com/pub/monkdebu... featured on the @mrjamesob.bsky.social LBC show this morning. When I read the Substack earlier, I thought it would fit in well under James' "Missed information" feature ! Great work. Thank you!
A great interview from @mrjamesob.bsky.social with a fascinating artist. Sensitive, insightful, funny #youngsoulrebels #dexys #thereisalight #kevinrowland youtu.be/Y4J_a6km-tI?...
"Disastrously wrenching our country out of the European Union was a cranky obsession of relatively few plastic patriots who hoodwinked a minor majority subsequently regretting the giant con." Spot on by Kevin Maguire. ~AA www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
Issuing a correction: I’d previously argued that Lime’s e-bike accident insurance policy in London was effectively useless, as customers had to lose an entire kidney to claim. And who could lose a kidney riding a Lime bike? Then a reader got in touch! www.londoncentric.media/p/london-lim...
Hounslow Council to the rescue!
I appreciate logic isn't their strong suit but how will the Faragists who lie about the UK being much more dangerous than US cities square their lies with Donald Trump's lies about US cities being really, really dangerous?
Those who were outraged at the federal government using its lethal power at the Waco siege of 1993 are not bothered when in 2025 Trump sends in federal troops into US cities. It is a fascinating contrast.
Brexiters used to say that once we had left the EU, UK politicians could no longer use the EU as a scapegoat for our failings. The same Brexiters have since chosen asylum seekers as an alternative scapegoat. And they haven't totally given up on the EU either.
Not only is he one of the best at helping you ask the right questions about the political and social landscape @mrjamesob.bsky.social does great insightful interviews for the arts. This is great youtu.be/Y4J_a6km-tI?...
Thank you.
Palestine Action, the case against proscription & the killing of Anas al-Sharif & his journalist colleagues. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
Somebody wasn’t listening to today’s show…
My first thought too. Our cultural references are uncannily aligned.
@mrjamesob.bsky.social please tell me you’re covering the Palestine action arrests and journalist killed by Israel on your show today
Letter of the day (in the Times)
I was in there after the game on Saturday. We looked surprisingly tight btw. For a side that’s mostly only just met!
My favourite pithy politics post in a very long time. Bang on the money.
My mate Mike (Sanchez) & I grew up about a mile apart but never met irl until this night last month. If you don’t know, he’s a rhythm and blues legend (ask Robert Plant). I saw the Big Town Playboys in Kidderminster so knew who he was when he got in touch to say he enjoyed the show. Love this photo.
Brexit was an attempted counter-revolution against many of the changes this country has gone through since 1945. It has turned out to be a failure with elements of farce. This has driven many people on the Right completely mad.
I had my first confirmed Fringe punter today who came from my appearance on Mystery Hour via @mrjamesob.bsky.social. Although he failed to correctly answer who invented darts. Which is, of course, the Earl of Dartmouth. How To Win A Pub Quiz runs until 25 Aug. www.thestand.co.uk/fringe/2427/...
Says here you’re a DJ too! A man of many talents. Where can we see the pics?
Another happy @mrjamesob.bsky.social listener ordering pizzas. Have a great holiday in Devon, Nick!
We go again…
My pleasure.
Ooh.
Not sure about that.
This is brilliant. As with all things alt/far/extreme right, the blend of sinister & ridiculous is heady. Perfectly realised here.
Lovely lunch Michael Sheen by @sarahhemm.bsky.social:
Really can’t stress enough how good this production of A Midsummer Night’s Dream by Open Bar Theatre is. It would be a treat even if it wasn’t staged in a pub garden (the magnificent Red Lion, Barnes in our case). Do catch it if you can. They’re on tour. www.fullers.co.uk/event-finder...
www.npr.org/2024/12/02/n... What Trump team's Christian Zionism beliefs mean for Gaza war, West Bank settlements : NPR
If you are in Edinburgh, go & see Joe Tracini. 8.25pm at the Underbelly, Bristo Square. Every night until the 24th. He is amazing & the show is incredible.
Somebody wasn’t listening today!
How can world leaders & Israeli citizens stay Netanyahu’s hand? tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
