Briefcase Michael
@briefcasemike.bsky.social
Socialist. Republican. European. Trans ally. Follower of UK politics for over six decades.
Also clinging to the wreckage of the site formerly known as Twitter under same handle as here.
No legal expertise should be inferred from my nickname.
Also clinging to the wreckage of the site formerly known as Twitter under same handle as here.
No legal expertise should be inferred from my nickname.
James O'Brien says 'the notion that our system is over-generous to pensioners is a valid one'.
The UK State Pension is one of the lowest in the developed world.
As O'Brien constantly says: that's not an opinion, that's counting. #LBC @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social
The UK State Pension is one of the lowest in the developed world.
As O'Brien constantly says: that's not an opinion, that's counting. #LBC @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social
November 27, 2025 at 11:14 AM
James O'Brien says 'the notion that our system is over-generous to pensioners is a valid one'.
The UK State Pension is one of the lowest in the developed world.
As O'Brien constantly says: that's not an opinion, that's counting. #LBC @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social
The UK State Pension is one of the lowest in the developed world.
As O'Brien constantly says: that's not an opinion, that's counting. #LBC @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social
On the #BBCNews website they say they can't quote the line that was removed from Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture for legal reasons. So does that mean nobody can now accuse Trump of (well-documented) corruption on any BBC programme? #LBC @lbc.co.uk
November 26, 2025 at 11:00 AM
On the #BBCNews website they say they can't quote the line that was removed from Rutger Bregman's Reith Lecture for legal reasons. So does that mean nobody can now accuse Trump of (well-documented) corruption on any BBC programme? #LBC @lbc.co.uk
That stickler for factual journalism James O'Brien says when Boris Johnson had Covid he was put on a ventilator. Not only is that untrue but he later admitted on TV that he had Covid only to a mild degree. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 11:15 AM
That stickler for factual journalism James O'Brien says when Boris Johnson had Covid he was put on a ventilator. Not only is that untrue but he later admitted on TV that he had Covid only to a mild degree. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
Ferrari spends hours of airtime attacking "woke", diversity, BLM, multiculturalism etc and then every so often, like today, does an item where he does a lot of hand-wringing over rising levels of racism in the country. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
November 21, 2025 at 9:47 AM
Ferrari spends hours of airtime attacking "woke", diversity, BLM, multiculturalism etc and then every so often, like today, does an item where he does a lot of hand-wringing over rising levels of racism in the country. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
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In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals.
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November 20, 2025 at 10:48 AM
In April, I wondered what a trans toilet ban might look like in practice. Trans people and their cis women allies have been sounding these alarms for years. It now seems clear that the UK government took all these dire warnings as policy proposals.
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
www.irishexaminer.com/lifestyle-co...
Nick Ferrari weirdly obsessed with the effect of naked cycling on people's genitalia.
But it makes a change from an obsession with the genitalia of trans people. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
But it makes a change from an obsession with the genitalia of trans people. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 10:01 AM
Nick Ferrari weirdly obsessed with the effect of naked cycling on people's genitalia.
But it makes a change from an obsession with the genitalia of trans people. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
But it makes a change from an obsession with the genitalia of trans people. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
Terrific call from a Motability user telling Ferrari that instead of taking the word of a caller talking through his arse Ferrari could go online and quickly find actual facts about the scheme. But if Ferrari started doing that he wouldn't have a show. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
October 30, 2025 at 9:56 AM
Terrific call from a Motability user telling Ferrari that instead of taking the word of a caller talking through his arse Ferrari could go online and quickly find actual facts about the scheme. But if Ferrari started doing that he wouldn't have a show. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
It's not just black and brown people. The right don't like any minorities who are targets of their prejudices appearing in TV ads. Remember the furore when McCain put two gay dads in a commercial in 2017? #LBC @lbc.co.uk
October 27, 2025 at 10:43 AM
It's not just black and brown people. The right don't like any minorities who are targets of their prejudices appearing in TV ads. Remember the furore when McCain put two gay dads in a commercial in 2017? #LBC @lbc.co.uk
Nick Ferrari just described himself as "a journalist".
I wish he wouldn't do things like that. I was shaving and almost cut my face. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
I wish he wouldn't do things like that. I was shaving and almost cut my face. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
October 20, 2025 at 8:33 AM
Nick Ferrari just described himself as "a journalist".
I wish he wouldn't do things like that. I was shaving and almost cut my face. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
I wish he wouldn't do things like that. I was shaving and almost cut my face. #LBC @lbc.co.uk
I doubt that many voters struggling with very high home energy costs and food prices up by 37% in the last five years are as obsessed with the China spying case as the Westminster/Media bubble are. #r4today
October 15, 2025 at 6:56 AM
I doubt that many voters struggling with very high home energy costs and food prices up by 37% in the last five years are as obsessed with the China spying case as the Westminster/Media bubble are. #r4today
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
October 13, 2025 at 8:59 AM
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
October 12, 2025 at 7:34 AM
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'm sure there's a credible technical explanation. @lbc.co.uk
October 7, 2025 at 9:34 AM
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'm sure there's a credible technical explanation. @lbc.co.uk
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
October 7, 2025 at 7:30 AM
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
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
October 6, 2025 at 9:45 AM
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
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
October 5, 2025 at 10:54 AM
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
October 1, 2025 at 6:47 AM
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
September 21, 2025 at 7:12 AM
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
September 20, 2025 at 8:51 AM
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
September 17, 2025 at 8:57 AM
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
September 16, 2025 at 8:25 AM
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
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
September 15, 2025 at 8:32 AM
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
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