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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 06/09/2026

Robert Jenrick says a non-violent heckler who had her hair pulled and was struck with a walking stick at the Reform conference (something the police are now looking into) "should get a life". #LBC #ProtectOurWomen #Reform @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 16/08/2026

Let's do a counter-factual: UK Media: "Why did Burnham ignore a plea from fire brigades stretched to breaking point to issue an emergency phone alert about the risk of wildfires? That's why the alert system was created." #LBC @lbc.co.uk #BBCNews

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Will Hutton was wrong. Louise Casey did NOT say that 1 in 4 people are on disability benefits. It's actually around 10-11% of the population. Casey said that 1 in 4 people might qualify as disabled but that would be on the broadest definition of the term. #LBC @lbc.co.uk @matthew-wright.bsky.social

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

BBC continues its entrenched tradition of discussing a trans issue without any trans person or any representative of that community as a participant. #r4today #trans

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 26/07/2026

#LBC News described Wes Streeting as "openly gay". Do we really still need the word "openly" in the UK in 2026?! @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

The pre-title sequence in #HeartstopperForever includes a glorious tracking shot as the boys run along a stone pier at dusk. I live for tracking shots. I was more excited by that than the hand-job at the end of it. Or, as actor Joe Locke called it, "a pier-job". #Heartstopper #Netflix

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 25/07/2026

Like most others Matthew Wright says Burnham said he would end homelessness when he said rough sleeping. Different things. And who are these "may-errs" of whom Matt Frei speaks? "Mayor" is pronounced "mare". #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

James O'Brien likes to claim he's more accurate than others but like most others he's confused rough sleeping with homelessness and then said the Privy Council is meeting in No 10 when it's the Cabinet meeting. Same idiot boasts of his Politics A Level. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

This will be my abiding image of Starmer. Trans rights are a niche issue for most people but it's emblematic of his duplicity. The UK has dropped from 1st to 22nd in Europe this year as a positive place for #LGBTQIA people, largely because of the demonisation of trans people. 🏳️‍🌈

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 18/07/2026

What? Matthew Wright says few women worked before Thatcher. My mother, born in 1916, worked her entire life and every office I worked in was full of women. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 17/07/2026

Nit-picking review of #HeartstopperForever in the Guardian which refers to "the writers". There's only ever been one writer of Heartstopper and that's Alice Oseman. Snide comments are one thing but ignorance like that is unforgivable.

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 15/07/2026

On Friday the #Heartstopper movie launches on Netflix, the finale of the 'world-conquering cultural juggernaut' (Guardian) that is Alice Oseman's epic masterpiece. Some cried at every TV episode so be prepared. Whether I did so is between me and my tear ducts. 😭🏳️‍🌈🏳️‍⚧️

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 13/07/2026

James O'Brien back on air today with his all too familiar repertoire of unpleasant scatological analogies. His producer should remind him he's no longer a little boy in the dorm at Ampleforth before he starts farting into the microphone. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 12/07/2026

Why is Ali Miraj pronouncing the name Tuchel incorrectly? I think Wayne Rooney does the same. Don't they notice the way other people say it which (I've checked) is the correct German pronunciation with a hard C sound? #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

Some of the callers to Robert Jenrick on #LBC today have been more robust with him than most mainstream interviewers and have shown him up as being a master of sophistry and changing the subject. @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 09/07/2026

"Honest Bob" Jenrick starts as he means to go on - with a whopping lie, saying other parties had been demanding a by-election in Clacton for weeks. No they hadn't. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 26/06/2026

Just for fun I asked AI if James O'Brien's frequent boast of being the most successful speech radio show in the history of commercial radio was true. AI said "No" and added: "the "most successful in history" claim is promotional/self-referential rather than conclusively proven". #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 24/06/2026

We often bemoan political ignorance in the general public but #LBC presenter Ben Kentish describes Starmer as "Britain's elected Head of State". Starmer is not the Head of State and the one that we do have is hereditary and not elected. @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 13/06/2026

Both presenters on #r4today have awarded David Hockney the knighthood that he refused in 1990. Hope he comes back and haunts their studio.

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 23/05/2026

"A lot of people are asking who funds the Taxpayers' Alliance" says Matthew Wright but then instead of asking the grifter from Taxpayers' Alliance he says they'll maybe talk about that another time. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 17/05/2026

People calling #LBC to call for restrictions on marches and demonstrations in London would love living in a country like Russia. They also have no awareness of how hard-won the right to protest was in this country and how seriously it is now under threat. @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

It's always fun to hear James O'Brien say "onveronns". 😄 You'd think he'd learn how to say a word that he loves so much. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

O'Brien is always attacking distortions, lies and omissions in the media but today he keeps saying Starmer only accepted some free glasses, omitting the £16,000 of clothing and all the other freebies he took, claimed to total over £100k since 2019. #LBC @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Jeremy Corbyn @jeremycorbyn.bsky.social · 05/05/2026

I have referred Sky News and GMB to Ofcom over disgraceful and baseless smears that have been made about me. There is nothing antisemitic about supporting the people of Palestine. I will continue to speak out against racism, apartheid and genocide. novaramedia.com/2026/05/05/j...

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Jeremy Corbyn Reports GMB and Sky to Regulator Over Antisemitism ‘Smears’

The former Labour leader was the subject of ‘disgraceful’ claims suggesting that he is responsible for antisemitism in Britain by presenter Cathy Newman and former cabinet minister Nadine Dorries. Har...

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 01/05/2026

James O'Brien (who is no longer on X) says Zack Polanski hasn't expressed any sympathy for the victims, only for the alleged attacker and should apologise. ⬇️ #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 19/04/2026

Caller criticises Starmer. Matthew Wright does that "What about Boris Johnson?.......he was worse" thing. That's like me being unhappy with my GP but saying "At least he's not as bad as Harold Shipman and hasn't tried to kill me." #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 10/04/2026

I remember people being intrigued by and often admiring of the writer Jan Morris 50 years ago but today Rowling and her band of vicious online trolls would be misgendering her, calling her a cross-dresser and shouting "You're a man!" at her. #r4today

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 05/03/2026

To mark #WorldBookDay2026 I'm going to dress up as J.K. Rowling and go and harass, misgender and verbally abuse some local trans women.

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 01/03/2026

Reform's Richard Tice says the Green Party is fomenting antisemitism. Amazingly, Lewis Goodall doesn't ask how that fits with the Green Party having a Jewish Leader. #LBC #Greens @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

The Sage of Leicester Square James O'Brien is making an increasing number of mistakes. Today he thinks there was a General Election in 2016 and yesterday he thought Keir Starmer went to a comprehensive school. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 25/02/2026

"We don't make anything anymore" is something you often hear on phone-ins.* There are 195 countries in the world. The UK is currently the 12th largest manufacturing nation, lower than we used to be but still with a significant manufacturing sector. #LBC @lbc.co.uk *rarely corrected.

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 23/02/2026

Ferrari turning his fire on Zack Polanski this morning and saying the Green Party - which is a national political party, not a pressure group - should stick to things like recycling. Coincidentally there's a by-election this week in which Greens are strong contenders. #LBC

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 22/02/2026

I'm actually missing Lewis Goodall. Iain Dale who is "sitting in" for him is spouting that old gammonite favourite that kids who were naughty in his day are now said to have ADHD. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 16/02/2026

For people who say they want to "protect children" transphobes can be very abusive on social media and in some cases outright deranged. You wouldn't want them anywhere near children. 🏳️‍⚧️

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 15/02/2026

Trans children are not "choosing" a gender any more than gay children are "choosing" to be gay. And Cass saying most trans children "grow out of it and go on to be gay men" shows astonishing ignorance and confusion about both sexuality and transgender. #bbclaurak 🏳️‍⚧️

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

FACT CHECK: James O'Brien says the US Superbowl has the largest global TV audience. Not true. Sunday's Liverpool/ManCity football match viewership globally was at least 3 times the size of the Superbowl audience. #LBC @lbc.co.uk @mrjamesob.bsky.social

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 11/02/2026

Some brass neck for the Tesco boss to complain about the cost of welfare when many of Tesco's lower-paid employees have to top-up their incomes with Universal Credit. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 09/02/2026

I'm old enough to remember James O'Brien saying he would stop talking about a "Corbyn cult" because it was insulting. 10.10 am today: "Corbyn cult". He's also talking about a "Starmer cult" but not the sizeable O'Brien cult who think he's our leading intellectual. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 06/02/2026

This morning Ferrari is obsessing over cousin marriages among Muslims. Curiously, he hasn't mentioned the history of cousin marriages in the Royal Family. He usually loves anything Royal. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

O'Brien can understand visceral hatred of politicians who are liars but not the visceral hatred of Starmer. Someone so ignorant of the lies that Starmer's political advancement was built on shouldn't be commenting on politics. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 27/01/2026

Andy Street on the radio again talking about his new Tory groupuscule "Prosper". To be fair you'd want something to get you out the house if your partner was Michael Fabricant. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 26/01/2026

Ferrari attracts idiots like moths to a flame or dogs to a discarded kebab. Caller says there's no such thing as bisexuality; people are just confused. I think he's confused comedian Al Murray's act with a TED Talk. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 24/01/2026

Even Greg Swenson from 'Republicans Overseas', who often shows up on MRI scans of Trump's internal organs, was unable to defend what Trump said about our troops in Afghanistan although he did defend pretty much everything else Trump said. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 22/01/2026

Ha ha. James O'Brien with his oft-mentioned Politics A Level thought that if Andrew Gwynne stands down as an MP his successor could take over his seat without a by-election. 😲 #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 14/01/2026

First scatological reference from James O'Brien at 10.05 today. His obsession with excrement and flatulence is quite worrying. #LBC @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 11/01/2026

A woman from Toby Young's ludicrous Free Speech Union told #LBC they don't currently have a policy on child sex abuse images. Paul Brand gently told her that maybe they should get one. @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Henry Riley on #LBC keen to make a distinction between Reform and "the nasty far-right". Reform ARE the nasty far-right. Just look at the stuff that comes out of their mouths. @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Glad Iain Dale read out my post on #LBC. But an aspect of political donations he hasn't mentioned is the remarkable correlation between donations to parties and receipt of honours and peerages by the donors. If it's not causation it's one hell of a coincidence. @lbc.co.uk

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 27/12/2025

Iain Dale is incredibly naive if he thinks that if people donating large amounts to political parties don't say explicitly in words or writing that they want something back it means they want nothing in return. Corruption works on winks and nods. #LBC @lbc.co.uk #UKPolitics

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Briefcase Michael @briefcasemike.bsky.social · 25/12/2025

It was worth switching on #LBC in the kitchen to hear presenter Henry Riley ask people who have gone overseas for Christmas to phone and tell him why they are abroad and not listening to LBC. How does that work? @lbc.co.uk

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