James O'Brien takes a look at Tory leadership hopeful Dominic Raab's interviews and pulls them apart one-by-one.
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'Rishi Sunak isn't even British!'
Sangita Myska eviscerates this racist caller who says Tory party member won't vote for Sunak because 'he doesn't represent Britain'.
Listeners have branded this James O'Brien’s best monologue yet as he explains every twist and turn of the deceit and dishonesty engulfing the government.
Listeners are branding this James O'Brien’s finest monologue yet as he explains in forensic detail why the Owen Paterson scandal has hit the public so hard.
This is James O'Brien's ferocious reaction to Keir Starmer being cleared of any wrongdoing in the 'non-story' Beergate saga.
"Everybody who warned Project Fear was going to happen was shouted down by the people now in power.
"Before your very eyes the Government are saying the predictions were right - and it was part of our plan."
David Lammy schools this caller who tells him he's "not English" because he's not white.
"If you were doing Sanskrit at Eton, you would have got your grade put up. If you were set to be the first person from a bog-standard Comprehensive to go to Oxford, you would almost certainly have seen your grade go down. They can fix this NOW."
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'This is my country.'
Sangita Myska educates this caller who tells her to 'shut up' about improving the UK because she wasn't born here.
James O'Brien absolutely destroys Brexiteer after Brexiteer as 'all of their chickens have come home to roost almost at exactly the same time'.
This is one of his most explosive monologues yet...
Eddie Mair invited the seven Cabinet ministers who previously criticised the proroguing of parliament on to his show, but all seven refused. So how was he going to fill that time? 😂😂😂
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"We sadly got a PM who was a charlatan, a narcissist and a liar, and that's why my daughter is dead."
James O'Brien is moved to tears by grieving father John who urges people to remember bereaved families when casting their next vote.
Lady Gaga performs the American national anthem at President-elect Joe Biden’s swearing-in ceremony.
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'Leaving the EU has made leaving the UK much more difficult. We asked to be treated like this Ian - we said we want to be third-country nationals, we want to have all of that bureaucracy.'
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“I feel incredibly proud to say I am a gay man and also an Olympic champion.”
Gold medal winner Tom Daley says he hopes his performance will inspire young LGBT people to realise “you can achieve anything”.
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This is James O'Brien's utterly savage and epic takedown of 'monstrous bullying coward' Boris Johnson on his last day as PM.
LBC listeners are branding it James' most exceptional monologue yet!
James O'Brien: "A pivotal moment in British history. Boris Johnson wrote an article sticking up for statues of dead racists. Marcus Rashford wrote a letter speaking up for 1.3 million hungry British school children."
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'How hard do you wave your flag while booing England players? Why are you using up a seat a proper fan could have?'
James O'Brien's fiery clash with a caller who boos footballers taking the knee.
James O'Brien lists the 'worst' of Boris Johnson.
'While the rest of us have been reeling with disgust and horror at what this man has done to our democracy, Liz Truss has been taking notes.'
When this caller says breaking the law on 20 separate occasions is not as bad as the Labour Party challenges him to explain why, without mentioning 'cheese or penises'.
It does not go well...
'Every single promise has been broken. Every single lie has been exposed. And it has barely started.'
James O'Brien thought playing back these Brexit promises would be fun, but was instead left fuming...
'Six French people being late for work is enough to bring our economy to a grinding halt?
'Why do you lie? You lie because it's preferable to the truth.'
James O'Brien squashes the right-wing media's refusal to accept that chaos in Dover is due to Brexit.
'I feel like an idiot.'
This funeral officer who stopped family from attending cremations broke down in tears wishing he was 'more lenient' as the government partied away.
'Stop it now, get up from your desks, walk away, no more.'
In an extraordinary call this serving civil servant urges his colleagues who are facilitating Boris Johnson's 'lies' to quit.
'An administration built entirely on lies and the bogus charisma of one of the most fraudulent individuals ever to inhabit public life in Britain, has come to an inevitable and inglorious end.'
James O'Brien's unrelenting farewell to Boris Johnson.
"Most men who want to abuse women don't feel the need to change their gender to do it".
hits back at JK Rowling's claims she's destroying women’s rights telling LBC "abusive men are the risk to women, not trans women"
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'There is NO cutting back. There is NO Money Saving Expert. You could put me into one of those households and do every trick in the book and I wouldn't even get close to scratching the sides of what is needed.'
says how he'd stop rising energy bills.
"Tyrone Mings, Marcus Rashford and Harry Kane will stop taking the knee when they want to."
Listeners branded James O'Brien's response to Priti Patel's "despicable conduct" around the England team as his best yet.
'But this - this is cowardly and shameful.'
Andrew Marr slams Liz Truss and Kwasi Kwarteng for an 'utter dereliction of duty'.
As Brexit nears completion, James O'Brien, who has predicted nearly every twist and turn, has delivered what has been described as, his most powerful monologue yet.
. rebukes Kwasi Kwarteng's mini-budget:
'If the scales don't fall from your eyes today they never will... they think you are so pathetic that they are going to give people like me more money and have you believe that they are actually helping you.'
'How can you be so selfish?!'
This desperate motorist pleads with eco protesters blocking the entrance to the Blackwall Tunnel asking them to move so she can get to her sick mother in hospital.
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'Opportunistic, dishonest, callous, cruel, disingenuous, deceitful, uncaring, contemptuous and gross.'
A fuming James O'Brien destroys Health Secretary Steve Barclay over his 'disgusting' claims about striking healthcare workers as the NHS is 'on its knees'.
Food Campaigner Jack Monroe on George Eustice: 'Somebody who claims £196,000 in expenses in a single year is in no position to tell other people to buy cheaper biscuits.'
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James O'Brien skewers Tory MP Steve Baker for 'telling Chris Whitty to stay out of science'.
James O'Brien rips into Tory MP Andrew Rosindell after he claimed some Universal Credit recipients 'quite like getting the extra £20 but maybe don’t need it,' but warned against a second-job ban for MPs who are 'human beings' with families...
Tories wipeout in London as new poll shows every Conservative MP in the capital will lose their seat
'I have had enough of being told by shadowy old businessmen and lazy, ignorant hacks – who aren't real scientists – that the science is wrong.'
Andrew Marr's furious response to those dismissing the climate crisis, as the UK faces a record-breaking heatwave.
'Germany in the thirties started off with vilifying a minority...'
Lord Alf Dubs who fled Nazi Germany as a child tells that Gary Lineker was right to call out the language used by the Home Secretary and others.
This Brexiteer blasts the 'lies and corruption' told by the 'unelected dictatorship of the EU' but after a 17-minute call with James O’Brien, he fails to offer a single example…
…James signs off with a love to the family.
This LBC caller voices opposition to Meghan and Harry holding hands while leaving a service for the late Queen.
James O'Brien wasn't having any of it...
Nadine Dorries is still earning a huge salary as an MP but has not sat in Parliament for a year. asks: How can we make sure MP's work for their constituents?
'This is frankly pathetic.'
Andrew Marr's devastating takedown of 'idiotic heavy-handed policing' as people have been arrested for protesting against King Charles.
This passionately 'anti-woke' caller accepted James O’Brien’s invitation to explain what the phrase actually means.
It did not go well... at all.
'How have we created a country in which the people in charge can stand accused of such epic and fatal failure by their own colleagues while we sit here absolutely certain not a single head will roll.'
reacts to a damning report into the government handling of Covid.
‘Vicious, vile criminals have received less abuse and criticism from the British media than the daughter-in-law of the new King.’
James O’Brien slams the ‘ghouls’ and ‘vampires’ complaining about Meghan and Harry holding hands.
'I am calling her rhetoric racist, I am.'
Tory peer Baroness condemns Suella Braverman's language and tells we need a grown-up as Home Secretary, not a 'Trump tribute act'.
Former BBC Trust chairman Lord Chris Patten: "Look, the words 'Nadine Dorries' and 'culture' should not appear in the same sentence."
'I don't care what your understanding is - I deal in the facts!'
James O'Brien educates caller who falsely claims refugees will be able to return to Britain if their asylum applications are approved in Rwanda.
'What's wrong with her? What happened? Who hurt her?'
A 'heartbroken' and 'disgusted' James O'Brien rips Home Secretary Suella Braverman to utter shreds for 'dreaming of deporting completely innocent and decent fellow human beings'.
Human Rights Lawyer Emma Reilly reveals that the UN is actively sharing the names of Uyghur dissidents with the Chinese Government, telling Maajid Nawaz the actions of the UN here are 'criminal.'
James O'Brien tears into Priti Patel for going to Poland to 'pretend' that she really cares about refugees.
"You can turn what 'ship' around? The ship you've been on for your entire career?!"
James O'Brien is on the verge of swearing during this blistering dissection of James Cleverly's 'crayon written' article on the state of the country.
"In the old days 'taking personal responsibility' was almost a synonym for 'I am about to resign'. Well, I don't know what it means now."
Andrew Marr's devastating takedown of Boris Johnson, in response to the Sue Gray report's "gruesome detail".
'Twelve front pages about Keir Starmer's curry... today not a single syllable about Boris Johnson, the Lord, and the spy.'
is staggered by the lack of media coverage on Boris Johnson concealing his attendance at the Lebedev villa party while he was Foreign Secretary.
'In the next 60 seconds I'm going to raise £20bn for you.'
This caller amazes Nick Ferrari with tax proposals that could be enacted 'tomorrow' to help Brits with the cost of living.
This is James O'Brien's epic monologue on the state of Brexit following the disappointing local election results for the Tories and Labour.
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'I'm living in a country where people are leaving potatoes on the shelves in foodbanks because they can't afford to boil them and later a man, whose wife is richer than the Queen, will be charged with addressing the cost of living crisis.'
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Hugh Grant has told LBC, the Conservatives "bad people" who need "to be stopped," whilst campaigning for opposition parties ahead of the general election.
Do you agree with him?
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'The difference between what he actually wrote and how it was presented to us... is breathtaking.'
Here James O'Brien reads out the exact extract from Harry's memoir where he says he killed 25 members of the Taliban whilst in the military.
It's déjà vu as James O'Brien, for the first time in ages, tries to find out what a Brexit voter thinks they voted for.
After James O’Brien clashed with this listener who called for a ‘ban on paper’ to stop people protesting against the monarchy, James signed off with a ‘love to the family’.
If you know, you know…
James O'Brien signed off today's show with some affectionate words for Boris Johnson.
Eddie: “What about people who have changed their minds on Brexit?”
Liz Truss: “I don’t think people have changed their minds”
Eddie: “You have”
Liz Truss: “I have, thats true…”
'They're just so stupid. They're just so thick.'
This is James O'Brien's devastating takedown of the Tories' 'utter failure to understand anything' about their own Brexit deal.
James O'Brien on Nadine Dorries: "If you're wondering why Tory MPs had to go after Keir Starmer in such a vile and dishonest fashion today, then you probably missed PMQs yesterday."
'Will you say sorry?'
James O'Brien plays back a former Brexit Party MEP's promise on fishing back to her three times in this heated exchange.
Prince Harry's car was "spotted" at Heathrow airport "less than an hour" after the end of the coronation ceremony, as the Duke dashed home for son Archie's fourth birthday.
"Lockdown kills. It's as simple as that."
Maajid Nawaz questions why the British public is being "scared and bumped into supporting another lockdown".
James O'Brien responds to MP Natalie Elphicke saying Marcus Rashford should have practiced penalties instead of 'playing politics'.
'But you're in government, it's your job for god's sake!'
Eddie Mair's heated interview with Tory MP Sir Iain Duncan Smith on the cost-of-living crisis.
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After a string of calls from business owners who face losing their companies after Brexit, an angry railed at the "throbbers" and "fraudsters" who led us here. This is vintage O'Brien.
'Oh it's even worse than I thought!'
In his immediate reaction to #PMQs James O’Brien delivers a compelling analogy for Liz Truss’ attempt to defend her tax cuts.
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Nick Ferrari: Playtime is over! Priti Patel and Liz Truss are not up to dealing with the Ukrainian crisis get them both out and get in some grown-ups!
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Millennials watching 'Friends' for the first time on Netflix say the show is sexist, homophobic and transphobic. How have our values changed over the last 15 years? #DarrenOnLBC
Harry and Meghan have become 'hate figures' because of 'envy' and their ability to make a 'mockery of the Royal Family', James O'Brien explains.
James O'Brien was at his most baffled by reports that an MP walked in on Carrie Johnson performing a sex act on Boris Johnson, as he sought to get her a top Foreign Office job.
In this harrowing call to James O'Brien, the cost of the energy crisis on Brits is laid bare as this single mother breaks down admitting she is eating her children's leftovers.
James O'Brien: "When you elect a joker, you get a tragedy. Tens of thousands of lives could have been saved by an earlier lockdown and Boris Johnson is still claiming he's done a really good job."
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'Stop being frightened of the Polish carpenter next door, because you absolutely have more in common with him than the likes of Jacob Rees-Mogg.'
This James O'Brien caller demanded the public stand up 'shoulder to shoulder' against a 'toxic' political system.
'I'm of this country.'
An emotional Sangita Myska becomes tearful in this exceptionally powerful reflection on being told to 'shut up' by a bigoted caller.
“The BBC chairman should not be selected by the government of the day. Not now, not ever,” says Gary Lineker
Suella Braverman has (via the Daily Mail) invited James O'Brien to visit Rwanda before he 'casts aspersions on this beautiful, welcoming country'.
responds to the Home Secretary's invitation.
'It's the flimsiest lump of red meat that I think the Daily Mail have ever thrown into the mix.'
exposes the knots the Tories have tied themselves in over their fury at Sue Gray becoming Keir Starmer's chief of staff.
'Priti Patel's refugee policy is working absolutely perfectly. People fleeing war in Ukraine cannot get into this country for love nor money.'
James O'Brien's brutal assessment of the UK's treatment of Ukrainian refugees.
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"I don't want to talk about this idiot today. I don't ever want to talk about him again."
is incensed that he must once again devote time to Boris Johnson, a man who has "lied about everything since the day he was born."
A Conservative councillor who called Ian Wright a 'typical black hypocrite' amid the Gary Lineker row has resigned from the party and is being investigated by police
'This is the only programme in Britain where you get the news before it has actually happened!'
predicted that Boris Johnson would claim he couldn't give his WhatsApps to the COVID Inquiry as he forgot the phone's passcode - 35 minutes later it happened.
'That’s one the grossest things I've ever heard come from the mouth of a politician - and I'm in the United Kingdom in 2023!'
is appalled by Business Secretary Kemi Badenoch 'sneering' about carers.
Gary Lineker has said he will 'keep speaking for those with no voice' after after tweeting about the new government asylum policy. asks: Should Lineker be sacked for his latest Twitter outburst?
