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Really powerful callers on @mrjamesob.bsky.social show this morning. Thanks for just letting them speak, James! @lbc.co.uk

I am going to give up recommending individual calls on @mrjamesob.bsky.social - take almost any call on any day of the week and you hear humanity and goodness and empathy. Breathtaking contributions - listen to spring chicken 54 year old just before 11am news xx

Ratcliffe is, quite obviously, factually, morally & intellectually wrong about immigration. But his racist comments will be 'both-sided' everywhere because people who simply don't like seeing non-white faces aren't ashamed to say so anymore.

Mate, it was 1066. Move on.

Just because someone is rich and highly successful in business doesn't mean their brain can't be utterly melted online.

Father Jack’s let himself go.

Before I got there, he accused a lawyer of ‘smearing the dead’. Paul Dacre is, of course, the editor who described the Miliband brothers’ late, war hero father as the ‘man who hated Britain’ then doubled down when Ed made a heartfelt plea for compassion.

I was in the High Court today to watch Paul Dacre get cross-examined. Will report back on tomorrow’s show.

Likely-historic photo by NBC News of all the Epstein victims asked to raise their hands if they've not yet been asked to meet with the DOJ as Bondi testifies in foreground

❌ Being outside of the EU has proved to be disastrous for our steel industry in a more protectionist world economic order. Britain is isolated on the world stage and Brexit is to blame.

We've reviewed grainy video footage from what was probably the hidden camera in Epstein's office in Palm Beach. In one clip, a woman kneels near Epstein's groin, while he puts his feet up on the desk. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/11/u...

This article includes new photos of surveillance equipment in Epstein's New York mansion.

Jeffrey Epstein directed an aide to procure hidden video cameras in 2014. “I’m installing them into Kleenex boxes now,” the aide replied. www.nytimes.com/2026/02/10/u...

The most important people in the Epstein files & why society doesn’t care anywhere near enough about them… tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

Here’s the LBC recording of Bannon talking with Farage about getting rid of Theresa May, just as his text messages to Epstein suggest he’s work with Boris Johnson to the same end youtu.be/nU0F8rP7dr4?...

On Labour’s certainty that Starmer has failed and paralysing fear of what a leadership contest actually involves www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...

One of the maddest elements of Brexit - and there are *many* - is the rewards that continue to be lavished on the blithering idiots who sold it & continue to be proved wrong about everything every day…

Uncharacteristically mild wording from Ian but unerringly accurate as always.

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Hello. Former Index On Censorship staffer here. To be very clear, having your request to speak at a society of which you are not a member does not count, in any sense whatsoever, as censorship. nation.cymru/news/uproar-...

Left: Nigel Farage calls for an end to working from home Right: Nigel Farage's Reform UK advertising a job which is working form home

You might as well tee up ‘I Got You Babe’ & have Bill Murray waking up to this news.

VAN HOLLEN: Did you in fact make the visit to Epstein's private island? LUTNICK: I did have lunch w/ him as I was on a boat going across on a family vacation. My wife was with me as were my 4 children and nannies. We had lunch on the island. That's true. For an hour. We left with all of my children

1. Trump Commerce Secretary Howard Lutnick has been caught brazenly lying about his relationship with Epstein. In October, Lutnick claimed his relationship with Epstein was "absolutely done" after a single meeting in 2005. That is absolutely false.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social @lbc.co.uk For those looking: harpers.org/archive/1941...

I'm not going to block *everyone* who fails to understand this, but I will if the incomprehension is personalised & expressed aggressively or obnoxiously. In short, don't be cultish! x

EXC: Nigel Farage has been accused of having no solution to Britain's problems by his own candidate. Matt Goodwin repeatedly attacked the Farage in historic posts, as well as the Reform party as a whole www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...

When he was a Tory politician (you remember, just after he was binned as a Labour one) female colleagues were free to express their disgust at his blatant misogyny. “Lee is an odious sexist,” was Anna Soubry’s irrefutable conclusion. I wonder what his current colleagues will have to say…

Last week, we voted to lift 450,000 children out of poverty and selected 500 schools to get free breakfast clubs. That's the change we should be focused on, that's the change voters want, and it's only possible because Keir Starmer secured a five year mandate. He must see it through.

Perhaps I’m old-fashioned but an actual resignation has always struck me as a much more courageous vote of no confidence than a mere call for one…

A 1935 Sinclair Lewis political novel has a title almost identical to this.

It’s a bit special.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social See below re the Reform letter in G&D - my reply to Rob Ford's post. This is a bigger story than not having an imprint. I believe it was a deliberate attempt to deceive voters, and then the printer had to come up with a story to cover for being found out. It's not an error.

Hate-filled fake videos about London are everywhere. We've obtained a recording of a TikToker confessing to secretly filming Londoners in their homes for clicks. He says it's not political. He just wants to make money from far-right anger. Read what he says: www.londoncentric.media/p/london-tik...

This! Labour’s leadership is being talked about as if it’s some kind of poisoned chalice. In reality it’s a chance to take over the first term of a government with a huge majority. It’s the political opportunity of a lifetime.

I was in a studio with no cameras for a couple of days. So audio only for these two. And we dropped Mystery Hour because of breaking news. Back to normal tomorrow!

Reform UK are seeking to fob off blame for their illegal leaflet on a printer error. That won’t stand up with the police - responsibility for making sure the law is followed lies with the party commissioning and distributing the leaflets.

“Difficult decisions have been taken,” Will Lewis states in his farewell note, displaying the same lack of personal responsibility he has shown since he was, calamitously, put in charge of the Post a few years ago

Will Lewis has just told staff at the Washington Post he is stepping down

Is anybody ever gonna take a step back and realize the "Russia Russia Russia" people — derided as lunatic wine moms — were actually underplaying the foreign influence stuff, and the loud people who kept insisting it was all fake are now saying Jeffrey Epstein was kind of a cool guy?

the perils of being a commentator

Absolutely

Good grief.

Acive duty military are being ordered to buy a ticket to Melania and watch it, whether they want to, or not. www.thedailybeast.com/obsessed/mil...

I wrote this yesterday - Starmer could still turn his premiership around, if he finally, FINALLY, finds the courage to address the grubby circs which allow people like Mandelson to rise so far. bylinetimes.com/2026/02/07/t...

This is a political piece, but it has lessons for all writers in how to craft a story that really lands with readers. The focus, the intelligence and the skill stand out a mile in the current pathetic crop of writing on Reform.

Not Moscow?