James O'Brien, the last voice of the informed and reasonably educated left in UK media. Alas it will not halt the inevitable slide of the UK into darkness come 2029

Don't go on holiday again please! The country goes to shit everytime your away!

Wee change from "Now this is a story all about how....."

@mrjamesob.bsky.social embarrassed, ashamed, and scared for peoples safety

Welcome back but please can we talk about something other than small boats. 🙏

Tank, fly, boss, walk, jam, nitty-gritty?

Will you be able to cover this appalling story James? bsky.app/profile/doct...

Ive Heard they are in custody, if not they should be ! Ciné ignorant people

Welcome back James 🥳

It'll be flag shaggers, Trump, and those uncaring people who jet off on holiday when the climate is warming at a faster rate than our borrowing requirements.

Slightly disappointed you didn’t lead with the disgraceful attack on a NHS nurse in Halifax,West Yorkshire. A symptom of the ridiculous Flag waving going on in the UK.

Thabj god

Get a grip, lad. Looking forward to it.

Nice time in the Peloponnese? 😎🙌 We return in October - cannot wait to see our little house on the hill 😂

Welcome back James.Hope you had a great holiday .All is fine in the world,so not much to discuss.

It'll be great to have you back... with more Mystery Hours coming up on the Thursdays!!!!

Urgh, welcome back to the hideous cheap nylon flag waving 😫

We’ve never needed you more! Please bring reason and facts to this chaos! Unlike the rest of your co hosts who seem to be washed up farages bs!

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Welcome back, you’ve been sorely missed.

Sanity returns to the airwaves

Thank goodness you're back, it's been hard getting through it.

Looking forward to your return draped in the St Georges flag, wearing Stone Island attire and a very red face.

Done. Good to have you back. You had some good cover......some.

Flags versus bunting…pandemic bunting, Platty Jubes bunting were fun and communal. Flags are aggressive and divisive. That’s all. Richard in Leigh on Sea

James idiots corner was empty in the last 2weeksit should have been full with the presenters in the 2nd week (not Emily)

The lyric is "D for damager", it's sampled from a rapper called A.D.O.R. who explains in his song 'One For The Trouble': "It's the A for ally, D for damager O for out of here, R for the renegade master"

Word

This is the response I got from my council today.

Welcome back James 👏👏

Welcome back

A classic tune, reminds me of Ibiza in the 90s.

You're a real wild child, James

Bigger and badder and rougher and tougher

Welcome Back. You've been sorely missed. Good catchup this morning.

'Your Da paints roundabouts' is the new 'Ya dad sells Avon'

Good and thank you. This means that I can listen to LBC again for 3 hours a day.

I'm expecting at least 2d6 damage.

How's your resistance stat?

Another week of editing intellectual agility to fit the capacity of my pooh dimension brain. Good fortune to you. Aka: welcome back!

Bangin’

Welcome back - Parking tickets as usual eh? 😁

Thank goodness for that! I hope you and your family had a good break James but you're the only one who makes sense of this mad, mad world to me. Welcome back👋

.. whilst you were away the world righted itself and there's unlikely to be any topics needing discussion. Oh, wait... See you at ten

We all wish for that first bit, don't we?

🤦‍♀️ I have OCD, I'm listening but un-live or half-live or catch-up-live from the beginning.

Sanity has returned although Lewis & Ed were great.

Here's a question, Would a Farage government be shorter than the Liz Truss one and cost twice as much 🤔 Personally, I think it would! Hope your break went well!

Please tell me you're going to mention this mad tweet:

But... if she likes 'normal' bread... normal, non-woke bread apparently... Why does she buy sourdough? I mean obviously it's so she can whine about having to eat bread she doesn't like, but surely she doesn't think people are so stupid as to... Oh. Never mind.

Given how the world is insane in the membrane at the moment a few Cypress Hill quotes in the programme please

Please, lets not talk about a story of Camilla as a teenager. Thanks. sigh..

😁🙌🏾💃🏾

Deadline day special?

Welcome back, you have been sorely missed.

Can’t wait!

So glad you're back but I will say @eddavey.libdems.org.uk was fantastic on Friday. Would actually listen to @LBC if he were your cover more when you're off James. Hope you had a lovely holiday.

Yes totally agree he was a breath of fresh air

James, why should I put up with flags on my street imposed by non residents who verbally abuse residents who question their motives. Typical EDL and Reform activist behaviour. Peter Solihull.

So, transfer deadline day, yeah?

D4 damage! Did someone cast magic missile?

sorry I've discovered Woman's Hour whilst you've been away

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I can’t tell you how happy I am that you’re back. 🥲Listening on catch-up and my mental health is already on the mend. 😊 Thank you for restoring my sanity 😘👍🏼

How very 1995 😇

Welcome back! You were missed…

So glad to have you back James. On the current subject, the reason we are not an exercise nation is a hangover from Victorian times when sport was for the idle rich, while working people should not waste their time on sport. This a sporting infrastructure was not provided

And work was manual and housework was physical and food was healthier, in general (less/not processed). This may have been discussed; I'm on catch up!

Would you run for PM please? Nobody likes Corbyn.

You are hereby required to provide a hot cup of coffee after the lukewarm breakfast.

There had better be pot holes in today’s show James. Welcome back. You were missed!

No talk of inheritance tax please

Can't Matthew Wright cover your next holidays pls?

I 2nd this @mrjamesob.bsky.social

No.

I like Matthew but Lewis Goodall did well and should have covered the whole slot not just half of it. I’m not a fan of MP’s doing it.

Or Robbie Vincent?

No need, it’s been a Quiet fortnight 😉

My local village has now few flags ripped by wind and rain, becoming soon rubbish and washed paint on roundabouts Local post office has a flag on the window but the shop is been run for years by local residents from Bangladesh and India They incite hate a titles growing trend #nigelfarage

Nothing to be proud of going in the night time after pub drinks to hang flags or paint roundabouts Those morons don't even know what St George represented or he was, or patron of what cities Same people who if you ask them to paint something for the community you can't find them

Love the misspelling of ‘our’ at the bottom. Nice touch

Welcome back, finally 🙌 Can't wait to see the topics after soo much happening 🤦‍♀️

Farage has empowered certain people to do exactly what he wants them to.

You mention the cultivation of grievance as the main growth industry in Britain right now, and I think that's a pretty good way of putting it. A cult of grievance, in fact. An angry, resentful, self-pity party. What a country. 🤦‍♀️

Welcome back. I think @LBC missed a trick getting Cleverly on last week. The timetable really called for Matt ‘Alan Partridge’ Hancock to sit a shift. He was so terrible last time,e.g., remember the cut gesture to get rid of a caller? He was so bloody awful that he was magnificent.

Back on to talk about parking tickets? Nothing terribly concerning going on in the country right now so you should be able to ease your way back into it!

Looking forward to the new “asylum hotels under the hammer” segment

Is that Jacob the Victorian cocktail stick??😳😳

Can we have a medical phone about DJT so Dr's can cheer us up as autumn approaches 🙏

Power to the people. 😎

He *says* he's been on holiday, but he's *actually* been all over the country painting roundabouts and hanging England flags on lamposts like a "Racist Banksy". I'm joking obviously. Welcome back James! I prefer the Fatboy Slim remix of that song tho... D4 Damager, Power to the People!

D4 is a derogatory Dublin term meaning insufferable posh wankers. It’s also where RTE is based it and means all them. You making a move to Radio Éireann? 🤣

Could be worth an outside bet for the presidency?

Ohhh. Now that’s a good shout. Imagine the chaos? And they thought Michael D was outspoken? There’d be no putting Uachtaráin James O B back in his box! 🤣

Wondering why people seem to have a problem with all these flags popping up on lampposts???...

I don't think anything much has happened whilst you were away, James. Potholes and unfair speeding tickets all morning, I guess!

Well that's gonna be in my head all dead.

Have you been playing Dungeons & Dragons again?

Feels like Christmas Day 😁

Glad to have you back. You're part of my routine, it's difficult when your away! ♥️ @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Wes Streeting's GBF (Get Britain/Britain's Fit) is a great idea! Naysayers sit on their a*ses and moan about not having the Thames and countryside to wander around? My town has a recreation ground, a large park, and a sports centre w/ free outdoor equipment and a basketball court. Go Outdoors!

Mr. O'Brien, James, Flags and Tags are used to deter opposing cultures and gangs. The Shane Meadows film 'This Is England' is about racism and skinhead culture.

Yes please!👍😊

😂

Glad you're back. Re flags - as an ex resident of N Ireland I can assure you that flag flying is equal to my dog lifting his leg against a lamppost. It says this is my territory - you're not welcome here.

I’ll be there with bells on 😁

Great to hear you back!

Thank god. You missed all the racism. Please send help.

I'm looking forward to resuming my usual weekday routine of listening to your show but concerned that you may focus on petty or localized issues, today, when the world is in such a critical state. Please, stick to discussing major global events.

So glad you're back - v few voices of sanity (and compassion) being heard atm

I love how much I learn by listening to/following you, which now includes stuff about song lyrics being D&D references and not just arbitrarily citing the first letter of a word, as my daft brain assumed "D for damage" meant for the last 30 years. Scenes. Pure scenes.

Shame was just starting to appreciate the cut of Suella's cloth 🤣

Ill Behaviour... [scours Players' Handbook] I don't know that spell - is it Poison damage? And did you just reveal yourself as a guest at Critical Role's O2 show next year?

What a relief! Looking forward to listening at 11 am from here in Austria. 😀