I'd posit that the Centre for Policy Studies should subject itself to far more public scrutiny. #bbcaq

That vox pop sequence was like the rightmost panel of the Garden of Earthly Delight. #C4News

Can we have the same Labour guy against Farage as last time? Liked the cut of his jib.

Notably, #C4News leads on Trump and Farage while the on-brand BBC News barely mentions either.

I don't often catch Tom Swarbrick on #LBC but it appears to be playtime for the shouty Wetherspoons demographic to eulogise that straight-down-the-line upstanding geeza Nigel Farage in the knowledge that the host will just soak it all up.

I am 58, and it has never occurred to me that I might throw a shoe at a radio. Feel I've been missing out. #bbcaq

Danny Kruger using the Zia Yusuf move, there. At least he didn't say "hands up if you support Reform", but then that wouldn't work on radio. #bbcaq

Call me a reactionary but I kind of miss the days when newscasters like Richard Baker and Reg Bosanquet didn’t open with headlines like “Beef! Grief! Heath”. #C4News

So what's this Mervin guy saying: that if Burnham becomes PM he's going to invent snooker and appease Hitler? #bbcaq

FAO Anita: if you're going to read out a post from someone comparing now to 1976, either precede it with the phrase"some fuckwit called Rob wrote" or don't bother. #bbcaq

Any Answers is going swimmingly. #bbcaq

Can't get a Reformer on the fourth chair, so onto Plan B: opaquely-funded Tufton Street johnnie. #bbcaq

FAO baldy man 2. Rupert Lowe also does the fake beer drinker grift. #bbcqt

You’ll have to trust me on this one, but I knew *exactly* what the Reform supporter would look like before the camera found him. #bbcqt

Has there been a change in the #BBCNews editorial stance, or is Sally Nugent going to be summoned before Robbie Gibb and pals for gross misconduct?

James O'Brien correctly insinuating that Nick Ferrari didn't do his job of interviewing Farage properly, but why not tell him to his face during the 10am handover? Would make for good radio. #LBC

Today's diary didn't include watching a BBC camera crew try to capture footage of Andy Burnham alighting a train only for a transport cop to chivvy them so far down the platform that they give it up as a lost cause. #WATO #BBCWATO

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Nah, you're being pedantic because Major previously replaced Thatcher mid-term. The 1992-1997 Government was the last one to begin and end with the same PM.

Red Dwarf went from the BBC 27 years ago. #bbcaq

Sunday with Laura Kuenssberg should be the next programme to go. Followed by Kuenssberg herself. #bbcaq

Alex, if Reform chicken out of sending a panelist, you have no obligation to argue their points for them. #bbcaq

"The sexist pervert isn't here to defend himself...." #bbcaq

So it's up the Government to find the money, therefore, don't ask #bbcaq panelists about it, is the gist of what Mr "I'm 82 you know" phoned in to say.

There are actual words and there is also "overexaggerating". #bbcaq

So #bbcaq has come from a village again and the bonehead fourth panelist is getting applause again. Sensing a pattern.

Fuck me, I leave the room for a minute and when I come back in #C4News is showing Farage's "nuanced" speech again.

I fail to see any nuance in that #C4News Farage clip.

Was there just a space-time continuum glitch on #C4News?

Is it me or has #bbcaq started only coming from smaller rural places, just so the rightwing fourth panelist gets some applause?

So it's two hours into a show entirely comprising @mrjamesob.bsky.social decrying media overexposure of Farage's latest grift and up pops a trailer for smegma-in-human-form Nick Ferrari summoning up Farage like some combination of Candyman and Mr Punch. #LBC

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Bad example. The ‘good name’ speech is from Othello and is spoken by Iago, who is probably the biggest villain in literature.

Stewart Lee's routine depicting Richard Littlejohn chiseling new words on a gravestone should be part of media studies in the national curriculum. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Mariella Frostrup acquired her distinctive vocal timbre through the practice of smoking like an industrial chimney of the type that Fred Dibnah would scale. Wonder if she's since kicked the habit. #bbcaq

Seemingly, Gibb's been on the blower to the #bbcaq producers instructing them to find the biggest Berkshire hunt imaginable and stick him on the fourth chair.

Happy anniversary to the launch of Labour's 2017 manifesto, when Laura Kuenssberg used the exact same language as the Conservative Party website to describe it:

The difference between a #C4News Special and the regular C4News continues to elude me.

Re. nostalgic callers to @mrjamesob.bsky.social today, my main memory of GE 1997 was that Armando Ianucci sent a whore in a helicopter to Chris Mullin's fast-returning Sunderland constituency to engineer the new government's first sleaze scandal.

That #bbcaq audience turned on a penny there, from sarcastically applauding Tom Montgomerie early on to genuinely applauding him when he appealed to their nimbyism later.

"Chris Mason is not here to defend himself." #bbcaq

What's Sajid Javid got to do with David Attenborough's 100th birthday, Miriam? #bbcaq

"Planifesto" wasn't funny the first time you said it, Miriam. #bbcaq

Gary Gibbon's just a slicker Chris Mason, really, what with ministers "spewing out" support for Keir Starmer. #C4News

You could sell tickets to contortionist fans prior to "going over the side" during a bout of cruise-based gastroenteritis, given that it affects both ends simultaneously. @mrjamesob.bsky.social

Re. JoB's preamble on LBC , the commentator who *immediately* comes to my mind is one that @mrjamesob.bsky.social always omits to call out, even though he is equally culpable as Kuenssberg, Bruce et al, with added annoyance value courtesy of the salivatory manner of his delivery. Chris Mason.

Maybe ... just maybe ... Alex could have mentioned that the Tory panelist had just entirely swerved her question. #bbcaq

Clinical anxiety can be far from being a "mild mental health condition". #bbcaq

So I did an image search on the name "Priapus" and the top find was Chris Mason reporting on the Mandelson affair.

"Going to have to interrupt you here so we can fit the shit comedy question in." #bbcaq

Actually, kudos to Mordaunt for allowing herself to be seen in public after her utter humiliation on The Last Leg the other week. #bbcaq

"Rebecca Morelle is not here to defend herself." #bbcaq