Martin 🇬🇧
@ffellmartin.bsky.social
Making the migration..
70yrs, male. Creative, maybe ADHD don't know yet. Trying to keep an open mind.
70yrs, male. Creative, maybe ADHD don't know yet. Trying to keep an open mind.
Just a thought, the House of Lords would make a great ballroom.. with added tacky gold leaf of course.... call it the Farage Room maybe?
Coming to a dystopia near you...
Coming to a dystopia near you...
At first I thought this table was a joke. But no, the proposals to restore the Houses of Parliament really are costed at a min of £8.4b and to take 19 yrs; max, £19.4b and 84 yrs. A normal country would go: that's absurd. Let's build a new one for a billion.
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
committees.parliament.uk/publications...
February 6, 2026 at 9:33 AM
Just a thought, the House of Lords would make a great ballroom.. with added tacky gold leaf of course.... call it the Farage Room maybe?
Coming to a dystopia near you...
Coming to a dystopia near you...
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What is Peter Mandelson discussing with Jeffrey Epstein in this email?
The "G" is clearly Gordon Brown. The "Brown" isn't, at least I think it isn't.
The "G" is clearly Gordon Brown. The "Brown" isn't, at least I think it isn't.
February 2, 2026 at 11:54 AM
What is Peter Mandelson discussing with Jeffrey Epstein in this email?
The "G" is clearly Gordon Brown. The "Brown" isn't, at least I think it isn't.
The "G" is clearly Gordon Brown. The "Brown" isn't, at least I think it isn't.
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Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs.
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Drugs policy approach needs to change, Zack Polanski says
The Green Party leader of England and Wales says there needs to be a
www.bbc.co.uk
February 2, 2026 at 12:06 PM
Drug laws have never stopped people from using drugs.
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
They've stopped people from using drugs safely.
It's time to legalise *and* regulate.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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Richard Littlejohn wrote about fly-tipping in yesterday’s Mail, today Boris Johnson turns his attention to a bus driver sacked for beating up a thief. Anything, literally *anything*, to avoid addressing the now utterly undeniable shame & humiliation of their pathetic cheerleading for Donald Trump…
January 31, 2026 at 1:52 PM
Richard Littlejohn wrote about fly-tipping in yesterday’s Mail, today Boris Johnson turns his attention to a bus driver sacked for beating up a thief. Anything, literally *anything*, to avoid addressing the now utterly undeniable shame & humiliation of their pathetic cheerleading for Donald Trump…
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Bit like everyone listening to your show James, where would we be then? Hmm?
Bit like everyone listening to your show James, where would we be then? Hmm?
January 30, 2026 at 12:33 PM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Bit like everyone listening to your show James, where would we be then? Hmm?
Bit like everyone listening to your show James, where would we be then? Hmm?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
I think China is pretty much what Trump, and his backers, would like to make the US into, with him of course as supreme dictator. It is jealousy, pure and simple, maybe with a little projection thrown in.
I think China is pretty much what Trump, and his backers, would like to make the US into, with him of course as supreme dictator. It is jealousy, pure and simple, maybe with a little projection thrown in.
January 30, 2026 at 10:24 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
I think China is pretty much what Trump, and his backers, would like to make the US into, with him of course as supreme dictator. It is jealousy, pure and simple, maybe with a little projection thrown in.
I think China is pretty much what Trump, and his backers, would like to make the US into, with him of course as supreme dictator. It is jealousy, pure and simple, maybe with a little projection thrown in.
We would appear to be in a "choose your dictator from the few available situation."
BREAKING: President Donald Trump warns the UK against getting into business with China, saying it would be "very dangerous."
He seems to have forgotten he has agreed to visit Beijing in April and invited Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit later next year
He seems to have forgotten he has agreed to visit Beijing in April and invited Chinese President Xi Jinping for a state visit later next year
January 30, 2026 at 9:44 AM
We would appear to be in a "choose your dictator from the few available situation."
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Re town centers, I feel looking at Ipswich, that there is a huge need for housing, a need for 15min living, and a large amount of possible housing stock near to buildings designed for shopping... allow and promote change of use and get people living there.
Re town centers, I feel looking at Ipswich, that there is a huge need for housing, a need for 15min living, and a large amount of possible housing stock near to buildings designed for shopping... allow and promote change of use and get people living there.
January 29, 2026 at 11:27 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Re town centers, I feel looking at Ipswich, that there is a huge need for housing, a need for 15min living, and a large amount of possible housing stock near to buildings designed for shopping... allow and promote change of use and get people living there.
Re town centers, I feel looking at Ipswich, that there is a huge need for housing, a need for 15min living, and a large amount of possible housing stock near to buildings designed for shopping... allow and promote change of use and get people living there.
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Paging @iaindale.bsky.social x
Why did you delete this, Matt Goodwin?
January 28, 2026 at 5:22 PM
Paging @iaindale.bsky.social x
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
James I think in some ways you are suffering from Future Shock..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_...
James I think in some ways you are suffering from Future Shock..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_...
Future Shock - Wikipedia
en.wikipedia.org
January 28, 2026 at 11:49 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
James I think in some ways you are suffering from Future Shock..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_...
James I think in some ways you are suffering from Future Shock..
en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Future_...
The Twatmobile?
January 27, 2026 at 3:46 PM
The Twatmobile?
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
James I get the feeling he is doing his job like a barrister who knows he is going to lose the case but also knows that if he flirts a bit with the judge he might be in the running for a dinner date later.
James I get the feeling he is doing his job like a barrister who knows he is going to lose the case but also knows that if he flirts a bit with the judge he might be in the running for a dinner date later.
January 27, 2026 at 10:29 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
James I get the feeling he is doing his job like a barrister who knows he is going to lose the case but also knows that if he flirts a bit with the judge he might be in the running for a dinner date later.
James I get the feeling he is doing his job like a barrister who knows he is going to lose the case but also knows that if he flirts a bit with the judge he might be in the running for a dinner date later.
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Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
January 26, 2026 at 5:04 AM
Rest in Peace Alex Jeffrey Pretti🙏🏾 The VA ICU Nurses send him off right 💔
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You always think that all the apologists, cheerleaders & sycophants - on both sides of the Atlantic - will surely cut the umbilical *this time*. But they never do. And the rest of us still aren’t equipped to deal with the full horror of what that means.
January 24, 2026 at 5:45 PM
You always think that all the apologists, cheerleaders & sycophants - on both sides of the Atlantic - will surely cut the umbilical *this time*. But they never do. And the rest of us still aren’t equipped to deal with the full horror of what that means.
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Former French General Michel Yakovleff,
"Trump reminds me of that toxic abusive father who comes home"
"Beats his wife and rapes his children"
"And says I'm the one who brings home the money every month, I'm the reason you eat"
"That's Trump's attitude"
"Trump reminds me of that toxic abusive father who comes home"
"Beats his wife and rapes his children"
"And says I'm the one who brings home the money every month, I'm the reason you eat"
"That's Trump's attitude"
January 24, 2026 at 12:24 PM
Former French General Michel Yakovleff,
"Trump reminds me of that toxic abusive father who comes home"
"Beats his wife and rapes his children"
"And says I'm the one who brings home the money every month, I'm the reason you eat"
"That's Trump's attitude"
"Trump reminds me of that toxic abusive father who comes home"
"Beats his wife and rapes his children"
"And says I'm the one who brings home the money every month, I'm the reason you eat"
"That's Trump's attitude"
Trump's advice to Ukraine..
"Just lie down and enjoy it."
"Just lie down and enjoy it."
January 24, 2026 at 11:03 AM
Trump's advice to Ukraine..
"Just lie down and enjoy it."
"Just lie down and enjoy it."
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"Hands up anyone who is too far up Trump's arse to call him out for being a cowardly, ignorant draft-dodging moron"
January 23, 2026 at 9:23 PM
"Hands up anyone who is too far up Trump's arse to call him out for being a cowardly, ignorant draft-dodging moron"
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Today’s show provided a platform for military personnel & their families to respond to Donald Trump’s shameful
comments about NATO forces in Afghanistan.
(There is some tumbleweed where Nigel Farage’s condemnation should have been.)
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
comments about NATO forces in Afghanistan.
(There is some tumbleweed where Nigel Farage’s condemnation should have been.)
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
James O'Brien Daily
Daily News Podcast · Updated daily · Welcome to the best bits of James O'Brien's LBC phone-in show.
Listen back to all the highlights in a 60-minute bite sized chunk of his show with new episodes ever...
tinyurl.com
January 23, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Today’s show provided a platform for military personnel & their families to respond to Donald Trump’s shameful
comments about NATO forces in Afghanistan.
(There is some tumbleweed where Nigel Farage’s condemnation should have been.)
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
comments about NATO forces in Afghanistan.
(There is some tumbleweed where Nigel Farage’s condemnation should have been.)
tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
You dont have to imagine, listen to @mrjamesob.bsky.social 's radio prog of yesterday. Many callers with deeply emotional first hand experience phoned in. I was in tears listening.
imagine being the father or mother or son or daughter or sibling of one of those brave British troops who died in Afghanistan, and having to listen to this crass ignorance
January 24, 2026 at 7:30 AM
You dont have to imagine, listen to @mrjamesob.bsky.social 's radio prog of yesterday. Many callers with deeply emotional first hand experience phoned in. I was in tears listening.
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If i was Trump, and i could see the British right losing their dignity slavishly praising every awful thing i say or do, i too might try and see how low they'll go.
"We're thinking of invading the Maldives because the hotels look really nice and we want them"
Bev Turner "He's such a visionary."
"We're thinking of invading the Maldives because the hotels look really nice and we want them"
Bev Turner "He's such a visionary."
January 23, 2026 at 11:33 PM
If i was Trump, and i could see the British right losing their dignity slavishly praising every awful thing i say or do, i too might try and see how low they'll go.
"We're thinking of invading the Maldives because the hotels look really nice and we want them"
Bev Turner "He's such a visionary."
"We're thinking of invading the Maldives because the hotels look really nice and we want them"
Bev Turner "He's such a visionary."
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“The United States government under Trump has made a deliberate, calculated, and shameful decision to embolden and enable Nazi-glorifying elements within his party; to elevate and amplify Nazi messaging”
My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts:
My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts:
The Trump administration has a Nazi problem | Mehdi Hasan
Think I’m exaggerating? Consider the copious amounts of evidence
www.theguardian.com
January 22, 2026 at 11:59 PM
“The United States government under Trump has made a deliberate, calculated, and shameful decision to embolden and enable Nazi-glorifying elements within his party; to elevate and amplify Nazi messaging”
My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts:
My latest for the Guardian, and I bring receipts:
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Property developer brain does not understand military alliances
Trump's speech included a line that any non-US NATO policymakers breathing a sigh of relief today should note: he doesn't see the point of defending territory the US doesn't own. Which would seem to rule out Article V.
January 22, 2026 at 12:02 PM
Property developer brain does not understand military alliances
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Trump is obviously ill with some kind of virus and would be excusable but the irony is that they cannot say that because then they would have to admit he is ill and not the superbeing they have spun him to be.
Trump is obviously ill with some kind of virus and would be excusable but the irony is that they cannot say that because then they would have to admit he is ill and not the superbeing they have spun him to be.
January 22, 2026 at 10:18 AM
@mrjamesob.bsky.social
Trump is obviously ill with some kind of virus and would be excusable but the irony is that they cannot say that because then they would have to admit he is ill and not the superbeing they have spun him to be.
Trump is obviously ill with some kind of virus and would be excusable but the irony is that they cannot say that because then they would have to admit he is ill and not the superbeing they have spun him to be.
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I understand the logic of providing Trump an off-ramp so he can back out with some dignity, but I think it's dangerous to do so. Each time these issues are resolved this way, he will be tempted to conduct himself this way again. What he needs is a public spanking.
January 21, 2026 at 8:17 PM
I understand the logic of providing Trump an off-ramp so he can back out with some dignity, but I think it's dangerous to do so. Each time these issues are resolved this way, he will be tempted to conduct himself this way again. What he needs is a public spanking.