James O’Brien

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Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk Author: https://www.waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke-britain/james-obrien/9780753560365

Manchester mayoral election results, showing Kemi Badenoch’s Tories in fifth place.
Guardian headline on a story about characters in films playing the cello: ‘Say cello to my little friend”!
A letter in the i newspaper today heaping praise on my column in yesterday’s edition. (Shared here exclusively & entirely to show off.)
An abandoned black sock on my tube train this morning…
Mail on Sunday unquestioningly reporting Nigel Farage’s claim that his phone was hacked by Russian agents. Just as they did his lies about French police telling him he’d been the victim of an assassination attempt. It’s even written by the same journalist.
My daughter telling me in a text that she might go to Tipperary on Sunday. And me hilariously replying: “It’s a long way”.
Brian Cox as Logan Roy in Succession: “You are not serious people.”
The Centrist Dad Handbook front cover fear single word endorsement ‘Finally’ from yours truly.
Trump, Melania, Epstein, Maxwell. Partying together.
An NYT crossword featuring the clue: 19A: Actor Ray of “Field of Dreams”.
‘Entrepreneur’ Ben Delo, who was pardoned by Donald Trump after pleading guilty to financial crime & now backs Nigel Farage, explains in the Daily Telegraph that he hates ‘lying politicians’ because he is autistic.
Trump’s maddest post yet.
Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail being an even bigger idiot than usual.
Daily Mail front page attacking Keir Starmer for Donald Trump’s disgusting behaviour…
Report that the Catholic Cardinal of Jerusalem has been prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday mass for the first time in centuries by the Israeli police.
A headline from the Kidderminster Harriers website: ‘Boro’s Johnson signs’
Daily Mail front page regurgitating Badenoch’s claim that appointing Mandelson USA ambassador makes Starmer ‘unfit to govern’.
A photo of an umbrella shop in Holborn, London called James Smith & Son.
My lovely new umbrella with a duck head handle…
Me honouring the grave of Takezo the (no longer) Unrivalled.
The Irn-Bru I ordered because the chippy I just visited for the first time had no Vimto.
Donald Trump’s endorsement of the UK’s deal with Mauritius over the future of the Chagos Islands. You read that correctly.
A picture of the battery-powered train I’ve been wanging on about this morning.
A notice describing the train I’m on breaking the world record for distance travelled on a single battery charge.
The Daily Mail warmly describes ‘The Donald’ in a story about his invitation to Putin to sit on the Gaza ‘peace’ board.
A tweet by Daniel Hannan.
A whole fried chicken, butchered & cooked at Inyun in Brentford. Delicious.
Donald Trump marks the murder of Rob Reiner & his wife, Michele, by insulting him in the vilest fashion & claiming that he was killed for criticising Trump.
A big box of Kidderminster Harriers programmes.
Farage announcing a boycott of the BBC in June 2024. Eighteen months before the one he announced yesterday.
Telegraph headline stating that ‘most people think Britain was better 50 years ago’.
A Kent parish council informs constituents ta that it may be prevented from putting up Christmas lights by the flags currently adorning all the lampposts.
BBC report that police are focussing on a 'ladder placed against the side of the Louvre' while investigation a recent theft from the art gallery.
FT graph showing massive UK public support for the opinion that it was wrong to vote to leave the EU.
Honest Bob Jenrick holding a judge’s wig in a manner that makes it look like his ventriloquist’s dummy.
My empty tube carriage this morning.
Patrick Minford writing for the Mail.
Me at the helm of a little speedboat.
The cover of Clown Town, Mick Herron’s new Slough House novel. Out September 11.
Description of an altar stone dedicated to Zeus in Kalamata archaeological museum. Concludes: ‘Reused as a door-sill’.
Times front page: photo of Trump & Putin under ‘Peace In Their Hands’ headline.
Me & Mike Sanchez at the Hundred Club last month. A lovely friendship forged online between two sons of Kidderminster finally gets face-to-face.
Kidderminster Harriers scarf…
A spear of of orange light cutting through the skies above Brentford…
A promo photo from the best time-travelling TV series of all time, Quantum Leap.