…and to be clear, neither is a good option

For Kemi it’s less “my country right or wrong,” and more “Trump’s America right or wrong.”

Today on Radio Thurlbeck we’re listening to Billie Eilish’s HIT ME HARD AND SOFT, specifically The Greatest.

“All my love and patience…”

Thurlbeck Radio would like to apologise. What we thought was Oh Mickey, is somehow Oh Piggy and you’ve been listening to:

“Oh Piggy quiet Piggy, quiet Piggy,
Don’t start a riot Piggy”

and I’m sure you can guess what was “…taken by he hand.”

Our engineers are looking into it.

#piggy

Good morning, and welcome to Radio Thurlbeck.

Today we are playing Golden Hours from the Brian Eno album Another Green World - and don’t you sometimes wish there was another green world to disappear to?

“Perhaps my brains are old and scrambled…”

Make it stick.

Drop the orange, the mango Mussolini. Drop it all and call him “piggy” trump. In every conversation, every post - what did piggy say?

In every comic ballroom or monument, have “PIGGY” in place of his name.

Make it stick. Make it hurt.

Tom, book arrived today including Schrödinger Variations which is lovely.

One comment though. The cat will fit in the box. Its skeleton, being semi-liquid at room temperature, ensures that any cat will fit any box.

It’s decanting the things that has scientists baffled…

Sorry, Tom. Every time you mention a cartoon from your new book, I skip immediately. The book is ordered and I can’t wait to read it - without your spoilers!

Normal appreciation will be resumed as soon as possible…

Do you get the chance to visit guitar shops on your travels, or have you been warned off them? Have you ever considered a mandolin? (I have an itch to learn the mandolin myself, truth be told)?

I’m fascinated by the plotting process, so how do you go from idea (the moon turns into cheese) to a novel with the story, sub-plots and engaging characters?

“…to spare the Slug King’s sensitive skin…”

Beautifully done!

Does the WIP have a title yet? Just curious, I’ll read it anyway…

And as he’s so fond of putting his name on the flag - as quoted from your own blog entry “especially one with acknowledged — indeed, celebrated — criminal tendencies”

A feculent guilty spoon!

Happy anniversary!!!

“…Oh, and you can have Lavrov too…”

What a beautiful day. What a beautiful day, @mrjamesob.bsky.social to stage a coup in Moscow, call back any planes in Alaska and send a text to Donald saying, “Hey, we know how much you love Putin and we think you should keep him for your very own. Thank you for your attention to this matter!”

@mrjamesob.bsky.social love you James but partway through your Putin-Trump dialogue, I lost LBC on my tv, replaced by Heart. Now I don’t want to worry you, and of course it may be purely coincidental, but now that you’re talking about brickies you’ve come back. Be careful…

@mrjamesob.bsky.social There’s a scene in Fight Club where a character, asked why he had done so much damage to his opponent, replied “I wanted to destroy something beautiful.”

I would be proud to be your chum!

Welcome home! I hope your head catches up with you soon…

Superb!

@mrjamesob.bsky.social Morning, James. Good luck to Kidderminster Harriers tomorrow!

Truro City are pushing to be champions in the South, so here’s to you turning up in Cornwall next season.

All this talk of the Premier League being the best in the world when it’s not even the best in England..!

@mrjamesob.bsky.social I agree with Kemi Badenoch, we should use our Brexit freedoms in response to the madness of the Fanta Fascist - especially our new freedom to move closer to the EU

Rejoin - it just makes sense

The time has come, @mrjamesob.bsky.social said,

To speak of many things.

The idiocy of Brexit,

The delicacy of Mings.

And a nation stands and applauds @mrjamesob.bsky.social !

This is what we want to hear from our politicians!

…or a Netflix serial, maybe?

It’s probably been asked before but, which of your books would you most like to see made into a movie? The one you’d love a Scott or Spielberg to be directing?

…dated from the “chaos with Ed Milliband” tweet

@mrjamesob.bsky.social James, I’ve been saying this for years: this is now year 10 in the age of stupid

The phrase “useful idiot,” comes to mind…