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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/10/2026

Keith’s on holiday. He just sent this with the caption ‘Thinking of you’. Might sack him when he gets back. Too cruel to do it now.

A branch of the US chain ‘Waffle House’.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/10/2026

Sensational. Can’t believe it dropped just after I filed a column about her epic ridiculousness, though.

Kemi Badenoch describes herself as captain, coach and owner of the Conservatives.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 28/08/2026

Amazing mural in Southend. Artist still working on it in bottom left of pic.

A massive mural of Sir David Attenborough on the seafront in Southend.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 25/08/2026

The Kew Gardens fox I was just talking about.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/08/2026

Once again, I think we can all agree that the real story here is Kemi Badenoch’s miraculous resurrecting of Tory fortunes.

Manchester mayoral election results, showing Kemi Badenoch’s Tories in fifth place.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 30/07/2026

Not sure who did this but they should be arrested immediately.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/06/2026

A Piccadilly Line portrait. Every picture tells a story…

An abandoned black sock on my tube train this morning…

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 24/05/2026

This looks like bullshit stenography to me. Glen Owen also ‘reported’ Farage’s lies about French police & a monoglot mechanic ‘telling him’ his car had been ‘tampered with’ in an ‘assassination attempt’ when he was trying to distract attention from something else. Also, Putin *wants* him to be PM!

Mail on Sunday unquestioningly reporting Nigel Farage’s claim that his phone was hacked by Russian agents. Just as they did his lies about French police telling him he’d been the victim of an assassination attempt. It’s even written by the same journalist.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 22/05/2026

Dad joke of the day already sorted…

My daughter telling me in a text that she might go to Tipperary on Sunday. And me hilariously replying: “It’s a long way”.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/05/2026

Might just play this clip on loop for three hours this morning…

Brian Cox as Logan Roy in Succession: “You are not serious people.”

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

You can never get completely away from a ‘job’ like mine…

An NYT crossword featuring the clue:
19A: Actor Ray of “Field of Dreams”.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 08/04/2026

Nothing says “I cannot cope with lying politicians” like backing, er, Nigel Farage and, um… ‘In 2022, Delo pleaded guilty to a United States Bank Secrecy Act violation and received a 30-month probation sentence. In 2025, Delo was pardoned by President Donald Trump.’

‘Entrepreneur’ Ben Delo, who was pardoned by Donald Trump after pleading guilty to financial crime & now backs Nigel Farage, explains in the Daily Telegraph that he hates ‘lying politicians’ because he is autistic.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 05/04/2026

The bravest man Nigel Farage has ever met…

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 02/04/2026

If the stakes weren’t so high, the contortions of these idiots would be hilarious.

Stephen Glover in the Daily Mail being an even bigger idiot than usual.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 01/04/2026

This is an extraordinary front page for a British newspaper to run. Donald Trump’s delinquency, derangement & imperilling of international security is somehow a stick with which to beat our own Prime Minister, who has negotiated the current horror show rather well. It is actually sickening.

Daily Mail front page attacking Keir Starmer for Donald Trump’s disgusting behaviour…

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

This looks grim. But it’s also an interesting test for all the grifters who use the meaningless phrase ‘Judeo-Christian values’ as a euphemism for hatred of Muslims.

Report that the Catholic Cardinal of Jerusalem has been prevented from celebrating Palm Sunday mass for the first time in centuries by the Israeli police.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 21/03/2026

Well that was quite the double take at the latest news from Kidderminster…

A headline from the Kidderminster Harriers website: ‘Boro’s Johnson signs’

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 12/03/2026

And the co-host of Peter Mandelson’s drinks reception before last year’s White House Correspondents Dinner was…

Daily Mail front page regurgitating Badenoch’s claim that appointing Mandelson USA ambassador makes Starmer ‘unfit to govern’.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 07/03/2026

A little bit obsessed with all the nut clusters currently ‘ashamed to be British’ because Starmer didn’t sign us up to this shit show.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

If anything, the shop where we bought it on Valentine’s Day is even more gorgeous…

A photo of an umbrella shop in Holborn, London called James Smith & Son.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 06/03/2026

Hideous weather *but* the more beautiful your umbrella the less annoying it is!

My lovely new umbrella with a duck head handle…

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 31/01/2026

My first (and probably last) ‘train spot’!

A picture of the battery-powered train I’ve been wanging on about this morning.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 20/01/2026

At this stage, the Mail using an affectionate nickname in a headline on this story feels a bit like their infamous ‘Hurrah for the Blackshirts!’ front page. Plus ça change…

The Daily Mail warmly describes ‘The Donald’ in a story about his invitation to Putin to sit on the Gaza ‘peace’ board.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 19/01/2026

The world’s wrongest man, Daniel Hannan, contending that Trump’s utter unfitness for office only emerged *yesterday*… Because it’s the only way the irredeemable idiot can cling on to the delusion that he’s not an irredeemable idiot.

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James O’Brien @mrjamesob.bsky.social · 04/01/2026

Thinking of becoming a food influencer in 2026 😉 There’s a new little Korean place in Brentford where they butcher & fry a whole chicken for you. Magnificent! They only do ten a day but also offer tenders, wings etc. Anyway, it’s called Inyun, just by Kew Bridge & it’s absolutely fantastic.