James O’Brien
Broadcaster @lbc.co.uk
Author: waterstones.com/book/how-they-broke…
- I forgot to finish this story on air today. Soz.
- Train delayed due to a swan on the track.
- Today’s show provides some clarity on this. (Although the polling hadn’t been published at the time.)
- Starmer’s immigration speech: the fallout continues. Sadiq Khan takes your calls. Macron, cocaine, misinformation & wilful credulity. tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
- Bingo.
- The government’s abject surrender in the immigration conversation will not necessarily lose them votes. But it won’t win any either because a) for good or for ill, the small boats are the really emotive issue & b) people who simply resent immigrants will always favour Farage. He’s one of their own.
- Today on James O’Brien Daily: - Habemus Papam - we have a new Pope! - The new UK-US trade ‘deal’ - Two men found guilty of felling the Sycamore Gap tree tinyurl.com/4rrn2mkx
- Free speech latest.
- Pete Hegseth’s culture war hits West Point. Books banned, syllabuses scrubbed, two professors resign in protest, the librarian quit. www.nytimes.com/2025/05/08/u...
- Ah. Proper scrutiny.
- www.economist.com/britain/2025... quite the chart from @archiehall.bsky.social
- In electing a serious and fearless progressive, the College of Cardinals looks like pretty much the only electorate in the world that hasn't had its brains boiled by far right propaganda & toxic social media. For a Catholic of my generation, this is an almost unbelievable development.
