From 4 on @lbc.co.uk 4 - Musk's xAI creates sexualised images of women and teens. Surely we regulate now? 5 - Can Labour put money in your pocket AND protect pensioners and benefits claimants? 6 - What have music lessons done for you? Phone: 0345 6060 973 Text: 84850 Alexa, send a comment to LBC.

Lest you missed it yesterday, my full drivetime programme on @lbc.co.uk can be found on catch-up here: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/... Back again today from 4-7pm.

Good night, Lord Haw Haw.

Oh.

From 4 on @lbc.co.uk 4 - the ECHR wades into the Shamima Begum case...should they be? 5 - Starmer's New Year Address...did it inspire you? 6 - EV charger installations fall in the UK for the first time. So what happens now in 2030? Ph: 0345 6060 973 Text: 84850 "Alexa, send a comment to LBC".

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Happy New Year to all! If you missed any of my programme last night on @lbc.co.uk, you can find it all on catch-up here: www.globalplayer.com/catchup/lbc/... And I'm back again today from 4-7pm...I hope you'll join me!

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Glad to be quoted by @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social in his look ahead to 2026: "under Trump, the US is enduring “an act of attempted national suicide" inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

From 4pm on @lbc.co.uk 4 - Why do we deluge A&E with minor ailments? 5 - Does Lord Wolfson's alleged conflict of interest tell us it's time for new rules? 545 - Good news, for once, about our rivers. 6 - Your predictions for 2026 Ph: 0345 6060 976 Text: 84850 "Alexa, send a comment to LBC".

‘At what point do you actually stand up? It’s a question of what’s the straw that breaks the camel’s back.’ @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social predicts an ‘inevitable confrontation’ between Keir Starmer and Donald Trump in 2026.

From 4 on @lbc.co.uk 4 - What is "Britishness" to you? 5 - Government grants to help you install heat pumps and solar panels are coming....do you want them? 6 - Have you been able to see a dentist lately? Plus Eurostar updates. Phone: 0345 6060 973 Text: 84850 "Alexa, send a comment to LBC"

From 4 on @lbc.co.uk 4 - Calls grow for Alaa Abd el-Fattah to lose his UK citizenship. I don't think it's that easy. Do you? 5 - Putin plays Trump like a violin. Again. Do you see any chance of peace? 6 - GP waiting lists grow. Tell us your story. 0345 6060 973 84850 Alexa, send a comment to LBC

You can still read me in @theipaper.com today.... inews.co.uk/news/world/m...

"A White House spokesperson referred POLITICO to ICE for questions about the agency’s operations. ICE did not respond to questions about its protections against potentially excessive surveillance". www.politico.com/news/2025/12...

Taking the day to give one final shove to the London lurgy. So no 3pm show for me on @lbc.co.uk today. But 🤞 back tomorrow at 4pm.

From 3pm on @lbc.co.uk 3 - Will "gap-year" military training solve the UK's army recruitment crisis? 4 - Were Trump's airstrikes on Nigeria purely performative? 5 - Multiple top royals will travel to the US next year. Will that contain Trump? 0345 6060 973 84850 "Alexa, send a comment to LBC"

Tonight @lbc.co.uk: 7 - The US launches air strikes on Nigeria, but only seems concerned about Christian lives lost there. 8 - Extended interview with Del Amitri's Justin Currie, author of The Tremolo Diaries 9 - Have you ever failed at something, and learned from it? Call us, text us, Alexa us!

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From 7 tonight on @lbc.co.uk: 7 - have ever made a pilgrimage (broadly defined)? 8 - who do you want to see leading Labour and the Conservatives next Xmas? 9 - is 2026 the year the UK will have no choice but to stand up to Trump? Ph: 0345 6060 973 Text: 84850 "Alexa, send a comment to LBC"

Trump talks to children calling NORAD to track Santa. Via the White House pool.

Undoing the harm caused by this administration - massive censorship & intimidation of media outlets at home, and transnational repression of international bodies & civil society abroad - is going to absorb a lot of time & effort in the next presidency. www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Tonight on @lbc.co.uk from 7pm: 7: you've heard the political leaders' Xmas messages. What's your message to them? ~7.33: we'll track Santa's live whereabouts for our younger listeners. 8: Are you splurging or economising this Xmas? 9: If you've got cooking questions, our listeners have answers!

Maga's biggest fear is coming true and Trump won't survive it Most damaging of all is a bombshell letter apparently written by Epstein from prison 🔎 Analysis by @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social trib.al/UmfxyDt

NYTimes again.

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Fresh questions fueled by latest Epstein document release. My live update with @tomswarbrick.bsky.social on the UK's @lbc.co.uk: 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/882302...

You can watch here:

EJ Thribb.

The President of Peace is going to name a new class of of battleships after himself.

Bill Clinton ups the ante.

Trump still wants to take over Greenland - and he won't stop there The US President is appointing a special envoy to the Danish-administered territory 🔎 Analysis by @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social trib.al/F65xkX7

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Per NY Times’s Michael Grynbaum on X, this is Sharyn Alfonsi’s email to her “60 Minutes” colleagues in full:

Bari Weiss is the logical endpoint of corporate media. This is what happens when people who hate journalism are in charge of it. The only way journalism works is when it’s independent from the power it’s supposed to hold to account, which means ownership can’t have anything to do with those in power

The murder of CBS News by Trump operative Bari Weiss means it even more important for the BBC to contest Trump's specious "defamation" lawsuit in Florida. American journalism has collapsed. The rest of us need to double down.

The NYTimes again. “A Correspondent Calls It ‘Political’”. Like, she’s the only one?!?!

The CBS reporter who led the story calls pulling it a "political" decision. "The decision was made after Bari Weiss, the new editor in chief of CBS News, requested numerous changes to the segment." www.nytimes.com/2025/12/21/b...

CBS News — b. 1927, d. 2025. RIP.

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NYTimes back at it again. "A new level".

This should call down the conspirscy theorists apnews.com/article/rele...

This is how adrift the United States has become.

The final show of 2025: Kemi Badenoch’s hideous response to the misogyny crisis. The biggest moment of the year. Thrillers on the literature curriculum. And @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social. Ho Ho Ho! tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx

My "American Week" for @tomswarbrick.bsky.social's programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk. This week: Trump dances on the graves of Rob and Michele Reiner, makes stuff up out of thin air during a primetime TV address, and renames the Kennedy Center...after himself. 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/882178...

“Uninhibited”.

There is no floor.

Shocker.

Umm….

Got into London last night to discover my late mum’s Christmas Cactus is still doing its thing. I shall attempt to equal it across my 9-day run of shows on @lbc.co.uk starting Xmas Eve! Dec 24/25/26: 7-10pm Dec 27/28: 3-6pm Dec 29/30/31/Jan 1: 7-10pm Join me, call me, text me, Alexa me!