There's no need to listen Billy. The topics are so few and far between they are on a loop. He's probably going through a mid-life crisis. Reports of Trump groping women probably sends his imagination into troubling areas.

Does he? I didn't listen today. I thought 'binary' was the word of moment?

Wasn't it Mike Rackabit that thought O'Brien would one day have a complete meltdown on-air?

Oh go on then Bangla [damn you] I did switch him on on the day of the high court ruling on Brexit but I swear to god it was for only about 3 or 4 minutes and then it went straight back off.

Well you can't bloody lie can you folks.

Well, I am now two weeks into my O'Brien boycott and I must admit I feel a lot better.

I do have a sneaking feeling what is making him rather more cranky than usual. The devastating incisive Newsnight interviewer is sitting at home fulminating to his adoring fans whilst a proper journalist is sent to the US to cover the election.

I think it was Cayce. I just hope when JOB launches into "I'm mad as hell and I'm not going to take it any more", it goes on the LBC site.

Perhaps JOB's 15 minute rantings should be renamed 'The vagina monologues'

Haha. If he has a sense of humour, he might appreciate that.

Trying hard not to mention that he is a complete t**t at times

Sorry, but IMO your statement is just not true, ID strikes a completely different tone to his program and engages all callers with respect. I think I have only ever heard him cut one caller off when the caller was on a "all gays will go to hell" rant.

It is strange that he never gets to host any of the election results programmes. You'd think, with his vast political insight and role on a BBC flagship news programme, he'd be a shoe-in to anchor an election night special.

He only acts kinda MAD when discussing Mr Trump or Mr Farage.

Shallow & unkind thought - but there might well be a full melt-down..... if ....come 10.00 am tomorrow, there is a President Trump

Maybe he doesn't want to as he has a family ?

Remember that is not the word that Trump used.

He would kill to be invited to do it, if he was the 'serious journalist' he professes to be.

William Hickey and computer games columns notwithstanding.

Really, I didn't know that - all the more weird IMO

Really first class show with Iain Dale, has great sensitivity. He grow and grows.

Yes, I like Iain too. One of the few presenters who hasn't fallen in love with the sound of his own voice.

When Iain Dale and Nick Ferrari take calls, they allow the callers to express views alternative to their own. One of Ferrari's catchphrases is when, having had a discussion with a caller whom he clearly disagrees with, he says "well, it's a view" and then continues.

There is a difference between challenging callers in strong terms (arguing the points they make, having a heated discussion) which is what Nick Ferrari and Iain Dale do with some of the callers they disagree with, and being outright disgustingly rude to people of a different view, like James O'Brien.

O'Brien can't cope with alternative viewpoints, and refuses to have them on his show these days without belittling them and mocking them.

So true. Can't see LBC getting rid of O'B due to politically correct type hassle. Can see them moving him to another slot and give someone else a chance in the morning (and the callers / listeners!) whether left, right, down the middle or from Mars.

That's just wrong.
Can't remember if you're one of the non listening devotees but whatever what you said is not true.

I think J O'B would kill for the opportunity to cover more of the major 'journalistic' events on LBC. To be fair, hard as it is , I don't think objectivity without beating about the bush is James's' style for the big media reporting where factuality is more in demand. I venture, his cross-examination and delving into semantics would see him lost up his own fundament in due process....

Really!!! Then I've been listening to J O'B's impersonator. Time to turn around?
Cue: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sWM4-Eg4GT8

Edit: I've spent half my life in being taken as Bonnie Tyler. It freaks me out, as it did my late mother! Oh well, perhaps it's something to do with the Welsh.

Ferrari has an incredibly annoying habit of muttering whilst callers are speaking. But at least he does give them a fair crack of the whip.

So what?
I didn't say he never did it but that he doesn't do it all the time as chief claimed.