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Gillian Craib

@gilliancraib.bsky.social
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Left leaning. Brexit was madness. Politics and current affairs. #FBPE. No DMs please.

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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 08/09/2026
This is a disgrace. Brave RNLI volunteers being called scum for risking their lives to save others at sea is just plain wrong. So I've signed an open letter of thanks for the RNLI letting them know these thugs do not speak for the rest of us. Add your name?
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 06/08/2026
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 24/07/2026
Are you worried about this too?
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 16/07/2026
Please, please, please let this story make the print edition…
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 12/07/2026
This is so outrageous. The Government wants to reclassify Coastguard Rescue Officers as "volunteers" so they can get out of paying them an hourly wage when they go out to save lives. Join me and sign the petition to demand the Government scrap plans to strip rescue heroes of their pay:
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Nick Abbot @nickabbot.bsky.social · 22/06/2026
There's 'The Whole Show Podcast' of my Friday and Saturday shows, and now 'TWSP PLUS', with extra weekly episodes of all the stories I couldn't fit in the weekend shows, and a weekly news letter update. Full details here... www.lbc.co.uk/article/nick...
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Nick Abbot launches The Whole Show Plus for his most loyal listeners | LBC
Nick Abbot fans can now get even more from The Whole Show with the launch of Nick Abbot: The Whole Show Plus.
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 03/06/2026
The next 48 hours are crucial. The government has just launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploitative zero-hours contracts. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stamp out zero-hours contracts: protect all workers from exploitation
The next 48 hours are crucial. The government has just launched a consultation on guaranteed hours. Sign this petition asking them to stand firm on their pledge to tackle insecure work and ban exploi...
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 11/05/2026
Put this person in charge.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Nigel Farage’s partner, a former waitress not known to have any private money, bought a £1 million house for cash shortly after he secretly received £5 million from a Thailand-based cryptocurrency billionaire - the same house that he claimed, months previously, that he was about to pay for himself.
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 13/05/2026
Too often, outsourcing comes at the expense of our services and the workers who keep them going. If you want public services to work for people, not just profit, sign the Record of Support for Labour’s insourcing pledge. www.megaphone.org.uk/petitions/of...
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Official Record of Support: Back the Biggest Wave of Insourcing in a Generation
Outsourcing companies frequently compete to win public contracts by reducing costs: it's a race to the bottom on the pay, terms, and conditions for their workers. This has a knock-on effect for servic...
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 12/05/2026
This cause is close to my heart - please sign: you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ma...
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Make Pet Care Affordable: Weeks left to act
Corporate vets are trying to derail new plans for affordable pet care. Sign the petition to cap fees and save our pets!
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Ash Oro @ashoro.co.uk · 13/04/2026
I would like to thank @mrjamesob.bsky.social and @lbc.co.uk for fitting me in again. I apologise for the rather bleak analysis... but it is just honestly where I think we are. The escalation from "Area Denial" to "Access Denial" is a big shift in where the world economic security will sit.
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
I’ve just signed the petition to ban councils using bailiffs to collect debt. With council tax going up this month, we need to act now before millions of people have the bailiffs come knocking. Can you sign and share? you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/ba...
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Ban the bailiffs - protect vulnerable families
I’ve just signed the petition to ban councils using bailiffs on vulnerable people. With council tax going up this month, we need to act now before millions of people have the bailiffs come knocking. C...
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 07/04/2026
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 02/04/2026
Uber wants to launch driverless taxis in the UK in September. Uber drivers and passengers are fighting back.
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 21/03/2026
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 13/03/2026
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...
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UK energy prices are soaring – and propagandists want to sell you a false reason why | George Monbiot
The war on Iran has put fossil-fuel prices centre stage, but don’t believe those who tout ‘maximising the North Sea’ as our salvation, says Guardian columnist George Monbiot
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 19/02/2026
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir. you.38degrees.org.uk/petitions/st...
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Stop Palantir taking over our public services!
Our public services aren’t for a secretive profit-hungry US tech firm. Sign the petition to tell the Government to scrap all contracts with secretive US tech firm Palantir.
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 12/02/2026
I just signed the campaign calling to say NO chlorinated chicken on our supermarket shelves!
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LBC @lbc.co.uk · 20/01/2026
'Don't support your own leader, support the foreign leader who wishes you harm.' @mrjamesob.bsky.social reacts to the Daily Mail columnist who would 'take Donald Trump, warts and all, over our hopeless lawyer of a PM'.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
Imagine how much coverage this story would have received in normal times…
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Peter Stefanovic @peterstefanovic.bsky.social · 20/01/2026
🚨The Petition calling for by-elections to be called automatically when MPs defect to another party now has 43,000 signatures! Let’s get the 100,000 needed! petition.parliament.uk/petitions/73...
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Claes de Vreese @claesdevreese.bsky.social · 17/01/2026
Copenhagen town hall square, Denmark right now. Massive solidarity with Greenland demonstrations. Source: dr.dk
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Nick Abbot @nickabbot.bsky.social · 12/01/2026
Are you dreaming of the good old days of 2025? The book of the year, including the definitive A-Z is out now in eco, woke hippy e-book form and in paperback for those who hate trees. Also read by a robot, if you can't be bothered to move your eyes. www.amazon.co.uk/dp/B0GFVT19S...
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 30/12/2025
Here we go again. Trump has told the UK that if we want a UK-US tech deal, we need to buy chlorinated chicken from the US! 🤢🐔 How dare he try and impose poor food standards in Britain. Sign the petition to keep chlorine-washed chicken off our shelves:
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Sara Monajem @saramonajem.bsky.social · 23/12/2025
This photo suggests that Farage is pleased that the elders in England lose their shelter, care and well-being.
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 27/11/2025
Mine earlier today with @mrjamesob.bsky.social on the UK's @lbc.co.uk 🎧; audioboom.com/posts/881216...
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November 27, 2025 - Trump orders "re-examination" of Afghan migrants after Washington attack
Simon's live roundup with James O'Brien on the UK's LBC.
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Reform Party UK Exposed @reformexposed.bsky.social · 28/11/2025
Zia Yusuf rattled as he’s asked about Nathan Gill
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Zia Yusuf rattled as he's asked about Nathan Gill
Reform UK's Zia Yusuf seemed to be easily rattled as he was asked about Nathan Gill's conviction.
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/10/2025
What a hideous man he is. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
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Female survivors of grooming gangs demand apology from Nigel Farage
Exclusive: Five women said Reform leader’s comments that they were victims of other types of sexual abuse were ‘degrading’
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Simon Marks @simonmarksfsn.bsky.social · 27/10/2025
Mine this morning on @lbc.co.uk with @mrjamesob.bsky.social 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/879645...
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October 27, 2025 - Trump and his top supporters fuel suggestions he will seek unconstitutional third term
Simon's live update for James O'Brien's morning programme on the UK's LBC.
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Led By Donkeys @ledbydonkeys.org · 27/10/2025
Farage: epic grifter
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Straight to ‘let’s have a debate about whether racism is racism’ for *almost* all of the UK media. Nothing learned from the lessons of Brexit, Trump & Johnson. But on we go.
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Daily Herald #FBPE #NAFO 🇬🇧🇺🇦🇬🇱 @dailyherald.bsky.social · 28/10/2025
Keir Starmer: "I said we would stand up for renters. We’re doing exactly that.     This Labour government is abolishing no fault evictions, ending rental bidding wars and introducing legal protections for tenants.     Promise made, promise delivered."
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 23/10/2025
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 18/10/2025
@gadgetdetective.com really enjoyed your piece on Clive Bull’s LBC show last Friday 👍
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 12/10/2025
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 07/10/2025
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity
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Renewables overtake coal as world's biggest source of electricity | BBC News
Renewable energy overtook coal as the world's leading source of electricity in the first half of this year - a historic first, according to new data from the global energy think tank…
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 08/10/2025
Trump administration’s farm aid plans delayed by shutdown
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Trump administration’s farm aid plans delayed by shutdown
Officials have readied nearly $13 billion from an internal USDA fund, but there’s no final decision on how much will be used for farm aid — or when.
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 29/09/2025
In the Finnish capital Helsinki nature and city life blend seamlessly
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In the Finnish capital Helsinki nature and city life blend seamlessly
Set against an archipelago of forested isles and the waves of the Baltic Sea, the Finnish capital lives in harmony with nature — locals take artistic inspiration from their wild surrounds and warm up…
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Gillian Craib @gilliancraib.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
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Donald Trump is 'racist, sexist and Islamophobic', says Sadiq Khan amid feud with US president
The mayor hits back following the US president's UN address in which he claimed London wanted to operate under Sharia law.
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
Having mispronounced Azerbaijan & mistaken Armenia for Albania last time he mentioned this conflict, Trump has now settled on a formulation of words he is much happier with. And after all, what’s 4000 miles between friends? As the expression goes…
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Loved The Producers at The Garrick. A tonic and a treat. Everyone was brilliant but Andy Nyman & Marc Antolin really own the title roles.
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 16/09/2025
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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21/09/2025
So sad to see John Stapleton has passed away. He was extremely kind to Lucy & me as we found our feet in broadcasting after moving from print, as he had done years before. Such fond memories of dinners with him & his late wife Lynn, including one quite surreal evening I might talk about tomorrow…
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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Colin Sydes aka Lord SydesJokes #FBPE #FBR #Resist #Resistance @sydesjokes.bsky.social · 14/09/2025
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