That's the problem with human rights. They don't just protect rights for yourself but also for people you don't like and many find that intolerable. #r4today #ECHR

Will surprise few that Ferrari thinks Thatcher privatised the railways and that the power cuts were under Labour when they were actually under Ted Heath's Tory Government. #Ignoramus. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Like many Matthew Wright exaggerates Farage's popularity in saying he's hugely popular. In polling he has a consistent net negative score with about 30% viewing him positively and up to 60% negatively. #LBC @lbc.co.uk @matthew-wright.bsky.social

Often happens on #LBC that a presenter ends a call because it's a bad line when I can hear the caller perfectly. I'm sure there's a credible technical explanation. @lbc.co.uk

I liked Badenoch's retort about empty seats that the fringe events are full. Could that be because fringe events are held in quite small rooms? #r4today #CPC25

Politicians sacking judges and Ministers deciding sentencing policy: there are chilling historical precedents for the attacks on an independent judiciary being proposed by Robert Jenrick. #r4today #BBCNews #CPC25

Important to note but rarely mentioned that Lord Wolfson who did Badenoch's review of the ECHR is not an independent KC but the Tory Party's Shadow Attorney General. #r4today

Caller is wrong to say people would be acting lawfully if their sign said "I oppose the ban on Palestine Action". People have been arrested for signs that contained the words "Palestine" and "Action" in any formulation. O'Brien seems to have missed that. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

The Thatcher years were grim but these are the darkest political times I've experienced. I would never have believed I'd see mainstream UK political parties embracing policies the National Front and BNP were reviled for in the past. #BBCLauraK #BBCNews #LBC #UKPolitics

Commentators even when critical of Starmer always say he's a decent man, a man of integrity. Have they forgotten all the lies he told to become Leader and again to become PM? Not to mention the greed and venality of accepting £19K of clothes from Lord Alli. #Starmer #r4today

Memo to @matthew-wright.bsky.social: Someone from the right-wing, obscurely-funded Institute of Economic Affairs is not "an independent economist". #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Matthew Wright who was only 5 when I started work is convinced my generation had loads of disposable income when young. My first take-home pay was £10 a week and my tiny rented room was £5 a week. Even allowing for lower prices most of us weren't living the life of Riley. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Every time I turn on my radio or TV some highly-paid, over-paid gobshite presenter is questioning whether the country can afford the UK's very low State Pension. #LBC #BBCNews #PoliticsLive @lbc.co.uk

Today Ferrari is fulminating about "NHS tourism". I wonder if he'll mention Mrs Badenoch who flew into the UK from Nigeria to give birth to Kemi and then flew home again. That's how the Tory Leader got her British citizenship. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Ferrari says people should "disagree agreeably" as he always does with people. The same Ferrari who last week got so angry when a caller challenged him that he not only cut him off but said be was banned form listening to his show. 🤡 #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Ferrari has just had a meltdown and banned someone from listening to his show. How does that work? #LBC has blocked me on X, as have several of their presenters, but they can't prevent me listening to their station. @lbc.co.uk

Worth sharing this cheeky little comment by the #Guardian's Andrew Sparrow in his piece on Mandelson's interview: "Cole did not ask Mandelson whether, in his current role as Ambassador, there are any other charismatic, criminal liars he is at risk of being conned by." 😄

Andrew Marr tells Paul Novak "Nigel Farage is No 1 in the polls". Not true! His party leads in the polls but Farage himself has a negative rating. And a majority think a Reform Government would do a bad job. (YouGov) #LBC @lbc.co.uk

A day when James O'Brien and Nick Ferrari are in agreement: that Graham Linehan should not have been arrested because inciting assault on trans women is nothing more than distasteful. This is a terrifying time to be a trans person. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Polly Toynbee delighted Nick Ferrari by saying that fleeing from a war zone shouldn't qualify you as an asylum seeker. I bet if she was fleeing a war zone she'd want it to. And if Toynbee says that then the Overton Window hasn't just moved. It's shattered into tiny pieces. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Say what you like about Tories but they have some breathtaking chutzpah. Penny Mordaunt, sitting in for O'Brien on #LBC, was a Tory MP for 14 years and a Minister for some of that time and she's going to talk about why nothing in Britain is working. 😲 @lbc.co.uk

Now Lewis Goodall says Lucy Connolly had the benefit of an open trial. She didn't have a trial at all for the good reason that she pleaded guilty. How can highly-paid broadcasters be so ignorant? #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Why the hell didn't Lewis Goodall point out to the Tory MP Matt Vickers that the Labour Councillor, unlike Lucy Connolly, pleaded not guilty and was found not guilty by a jury? #LBC @lbc.co.uk @lewisgoodall.com

Man on #LBC talking rubbish about difficulty of giving plastic bags back to Ocado. I have a weekly delivery and every driver asks me if I have any bags to return. @LBC @matthew-wright.bsky.social

This isn't about patriotism. It's about nationalism, and that's a different beast. There's no genuine "respect" behind putting up these flags. Quite the opposite. Those doing this are weaponising the flag to spread division. That's ultimately disrespectful to the flag www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

There will never be a reason for the UK to ask the IMF for a bailout www.taxresearch.org.uk/Blog/2025/08...

I've got ChatGPT but have never used it. I'm now unlikely to because I see you now have to prove your age to do so. Why? Is it a source of porn? And surely this will restrict its use as an educational tool. #LBC #AI @lbc.co.uk @matthew-wright.bsky.social

Three #LBC presenters - Swarbrick, Kentish and Goodall - are constantly stirring up conflict between the young and the old. It's a handy distraction from the multiple ways the system is screwing everyone - which has nothing to do with having the lowest state pension in Europe. @lbc.co.uk

In case you didn't spot it Nick Ferrari managed to squeeze out the old lie that you can claim benefits for having acne. Fortunately his interviewee told him it was nonsense. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

#LBC Political Editor who came from The Sun is busy repeating the old chicken nuggets nonsense. IA puts it well: "The chicken nuggets were a minor detail, blown out of proportion for agenda-driven narratives, not the core reason for the tribunal's decision." @lbc.co.uk

This morning a caller to Ferrari corrected Farage's claim that VPNs give access to the dark web but #LBC have chosen to use a clip of that false claim by the blustering buffoon for one of their trails. @lbc.co.uk

Ferrari says Starmer made his statement on Palestine yesterday in the Commons. Good to see Ferrari is as on top of things as usual. The Commons isn't sitting. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Ferrari interviews former Labour MP Siôn Simon who says Corbyn is "a revolutionary Communist who doesn't believe in democracy", a statement of such gobsmacking idiocy I thought even Ferrari might challenge it but he doesn't. #LBC #YourParty @lbc.co.uk

"300,000". Nick Ferrari knocks 200,000 off the number of people who have an interest in the new political party. #YourParty #LBC @lbc.co.uk

I wish this IT industry woman would stop talking about "on-boarding customers". She's not working for a shipping company. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Ferrari is another #LBC presenter made nervous by what a caller is saying because these shit-stirring broadcasters never learn that if you dog-whistle the racists will come to you. @lbc.co.uk

#LBC presenter Ali Miraj appeared as a guest on Ferrari's show and complained that today it's not enough to not be racist; you have to be anti-racist. What in the name of all that's holy, and indeed secular, is wrong with being anti-racist? @lbc.co.uk

O'Brien is backing Starmer's purge of MPs. Apparently it was OK for Tories to vote against the whip on Brexit because they were standing up for the national interest but Labour MPs standing up for the disabled is not OK. To us one of his own phrases: what a balloon. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Henry Riley has just secured his future at #LBC with an all-out assault on Jeremy Corbyn who according to him is only popular with people at vegetarian dinner parties in Islington. 🤡 @lbc.co.uk #ukpolitics

On #LBC Iain Duncan Smith says without qualification that work cures anxiety and depression, then goes further and says those are not medical conditions at all. Needless to say, Ferrari did not ask him for his medical qualifications. @lbc.co.uk

Kemi Badenoch has got off lightly. Unlike TV viewers she was close enough to see Reeves was in real distress and to see the tears but chose to gleefully and gloatingly draw attention to it. In other contexts that would be called "workplace bullying". #PMQs #r4today

When a caller points out inaccuracies about #PIP Nick Ferrari says "I'm not on PIP so I don't know how it works in detail". Does the lazy slob not have access to Google or an AI programme? #LBC @lbc.co.uk #WelfareReformBill #DisabilityBenefits

Well done Matthew Wright who when referring to the Mail's hysterical front page on Glastonbury said he would point out for balance that there's an arrest warrant out for Netanyahu for alleged war crimes. But Wright will need to watch his back. #LBC #Glastonbury #BobVylan @lbc.co.uk

Not quite up there with "sausages" but Starmer just said "who secured stronger rights for writers?". Though I'm all for stronger rights for writers. Didn't take any questions after his speech. Just rushed off stage like his arse was on fire. #Starmer #welshlabour #skynews #LBC

Caller who accused you of ageism then himself talked about "old duffers" running cricket clubs. Motes and beams mate! (Declaration of interest: I'm an old duffer but I don't run a cricket club or anything else.) @matthew-wright.bsky.social #LBC @lbc.co.uk

Gather ye rosebuds while ye may Old Time is still a-flying: And this same flower that smiles today, Tomorrow will be dying. - Robert Herrick #Gardening #poetry

Nick Ferrari doing an all-out assault on Greta Thunberg this morning. Extraordinary how much she enrages a certain type of middle-aged right-wing man. Enrages them far more than the horrific genocide taking place in Gaza. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

There's a case that the £35k threshold for Winter Fuel Payment is too high but no justification for pitting the young against the old as Goodall, Swarbrick, Kentish and now O'Brien are all doing. A wealthy country should be able to look after both. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

FACT CHECK: Tory Boy Tom Swarbrick ranted against restoring the Winter Fuel Payment and said 95% of pensioners own their homes and have no mortgage or rental costs. The actual figure is 74%. #LBC @lbc.co.uk #WinterFuelPayment

Just as well that men like Nick Ferrari don't have to give birth if they can be so traumatised by a doctor doing a rectal examination for prostate cancer. ❄️ I've had two and all I could think of was "this is why I could never be a doctor". #LBC @lbc.co.uk