I would like to thank @mrjamesob.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk for fitting me in again. I apologise for the rather bleak analysis... but it is just honestly where I think we are. The escalation from "Area Denial" to "Access Denial" is a big shift in where the world economic security will sit.

Bad night for Nige

Orbán's electoral crushing is a far greater achievement than most people outside Hungary realise. He systemically consolidated power for 16 years, fixed the electoral map, abused govt power for political purposes & censored media. The hurdles that Hungarians overcame for this moment were immense.

Listening to Kemi Badenoch and feeling almost envious of a life lived entirely undisturbed by reality.

The Pope is dignified, courageous and self effacing. Little wonder Trump hates him.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social what was that caller going on about “mothers drinking in pubs”. Errrr what about dads drinking in pubs ??

The Family Stone is the best but the most awkward Christmas film ever

@mrjamesob.bsky.social listening back to today’s show. I was at an Essex comp in the 80s. There was a Youth Club. I was both not allowed to go, and too anxious to go. I was scared of the boys and girls who went to it.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social do you think Nick ever listens to your show ?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social please tell Nick that the victims of a crime in a criminal trial are kept apart as part of due process. There must be no accusation of them concurring by the defence barrister. The trial may fall apart.

@mrjamesob.bsky.social why isn’t St Carol of Vorderman on Celebrity Traitors @carolvorders.bsky.social

Watching the Bibi & Don Show treat this like some grand victory, while people returning to northern Gaza dig the rubble for loved ones' remains, is pretty revolting.

Bad people can thrive in their lifetimes, but history will (almost) always catch up with them eventually. Trump can preen and pout and posture all he likes, but his only reward will be eventual ignimony. In the meantime, every well-deserved slap in his face should be treasured. #NobelPeacePrize

@lbc.co.uk can you get Ferrari off the station . He’s embarrassing you .

@mrjamesob.bsky.social do you think Ferrari knows you’re talking about him ?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social re y/day and not calling racism out, I’ve noticed that is on the left always say “everyone is entitled to their opinion” but we never get that respect back from the far right

@mrjamesob.bsky.social did you watch channel four Trump V The Truth yesterday evening ?

@mrjamesob.bsky.social “oh I like this one” 🤣🤣. I had this tune played for entrance of the bride when I got married at Guy’s Hospital Chapel in 1991. I did my nurse training there .

@mrjamesob.bsky.social morning lovely . DAB radio “high definition “ we can hear every swallow. Not good for my misophonia

@mrjamesob.bsky.social this caller is wrong, the trustee doesn’t still own the property as a trustee , even though the beneficiary is a child under 18

Just listened to Nick Ferrari at the top of the hour 7am @mrjamesob.bsky.social this is biased nonsense “journalism “ is how people are brainwashed. Surely @lbc.co.uk has to do something about it .

I know it’s only a few , but I am really really frightened of England at the moment

I don’t understand why there are so many complaints about conditions in the UK now as compared with 4 years ago .

The racists, homophobes etc. they’re everywhere . They live amongst us. They’re our neighbours, our family. 😳

Someone said to me, “The UK will be a Muslim country in 40 years.” 📊 Current data: Muslims = ~6.5% of the UK population (2021 Census). No credible projection shows a religious takeover. Facts > fear. #FactsMatter #TruthOverFear

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@mrjamesob.bsky.social not sure why the Cambridge maths graduate is unemployed. Don’t these students get courted by big firms whilst they are undergraduates?

There's no placating the Brexiters, no reasoning with them, no basic comprehension or adulthood. You can't debate papers behaving like the Sun or the Mail this morning. There's nothing to debate with. They view all trading relations with Europe as humiliation.

If you want to continue to queue at EU airports, just go in the 'all passports' queue, nothing stopping you.

Whatever the merits or otherwise of his deal(s), Starmer is at his most confident right now in the Commons. Commanding.

Coverage of idiots claiming ‘betrayal’ or ‘surrender’ isn’t just bad journalism, it’s a dereliction of our duty to explain things. I’d actually forgotten just how bad it got but here we are, straight back to treating liars & spivs like authorities of equal weight to experts & honest brokers.

“Norman you are as bright as a mushroom and a brainless as garden furniture”

@shelaghfogarty.bsky.social please correct this woman, your bladder does not drop because you have a vaginal birth. The breast don’t drop because of breast feeding .

Yes, the work can be mentally tough. But who else gets to poke their head out of their office to see what the commotion is, only to see a guy who sat crying with you a couple of months ago because he thought he would never even stand, let's alone walk again, doing this! UNBROKEN Lviv

When you have a bony bottom and a bony spine , park benches are very u comfortable

@mrjamesob.bsky.social listening to Friday. Hannah and eating disorder. Eloquent woman. Did you notice she never used the word “like”, which our speech has become annoyingly peppered with nowadays?

I will never understand how a group of bigoted women go all out to destroy the rights of a tiny, marginalised group of predominantly harmless women instead of using their centuries of built up rage to actively destroy the patriarchy and the actual men who do us real harm.

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Those women outside court with their popping corks , have peed me off

Benefit 102 of 5 stone weight loss: being able to fit everything for a week holiday, in a cabin size bag.

Very useful framing by @brianklaas.bsky.social of two kinds of “knowingness:” “Type 1: People who think they know but they don’t; and Type 2: People who don’t want to know. Type 1 Knowingness can be cured. When someone also has Type 2, it’s much more stubborn.” www.forkingpaths.co/p/knowingnes...

Losing weight is losing weight . It looks the same no matter if you use an injection or bariatric surgery or don’t .

@mrjamesob.bsky.social can you find me the source of the statistics you quoted about how much of benefit is claimed fraudulently

I’ve started a trend . Sitting alone on a stairwell at a gig. Now I have three new Dutch friends .

Friends in the UK often ask me what it's like to raise kids in Germany. My answer is always the same: The key to German parenting isn't fostering independence, or teaching rules, it's the ability to hold Bratwurst Brötchen & Maß in one hand, while holding the baby in the other.

Another mad element of that press conference is that Trump & Vance were ordering Zelensky to thank them personally for aid that Joe Biden had provided. All while insulting Biden & ignoring Zelensky’s frequent previous expressions of gratitude.

Zelenskyy has 'fallen into a trap’ set up by Trump, argues Matt Frei.