I always wondered how he managed to give so many gifts to so many people he mentions! And here was I thinking he was made of money. He is as cheap as chips but with expensive tastes.

He's almost as shameless as Cristo used to be ..................

JOB's phrase for the opening monologue was "growth, growth, growth". Has he been to the Advanced Hair Studio?

Did he actually say that? I thought he just went to Costco and bought a trolley full of chocolates and Prosecco.

He keeps going on about only liking Walkers mince pies because they've got whiskey in them, as though it's something slightly illicit. He evidently doesn't know that when you cook with booze most of the alcohol evaporates.

He's switching Twickenham's lights on again this year. I wonder how much he charges for that.

I cheered Irene from Enfield this morning when she was talking to Nick F

I know he was talking about the film Daniel Blake , but the issues are real and there are so many people with no voice,

He then took a call from someone who has had no probs with the DWP
That is not the experience of so many people
There is very little support for people to wade through the system ...I know because i have helped people with mental illness

I turned him off after that

Yes. I think it might have been last year but maybe the year before he was bragging about the fact that the front desk had advised him a parcel had been dropped in for him with compliments of the season from some local butcher.

The only way to deal with the DWP is to leave any pride, self respect and intelligence at the door as you walk in.

Bit like having a chat with J O'B ............

Yes, he has been much more subdued, this week. Still, not even James could start a fracas about, 'Breastfeeding.' It's one of his very favourite topics - he, truly, becomes one of the girls and brims over with empathy.



Hi makeba

Due to the sensitive nature of Boris' new job - he, obviously, has to behave himself. Yet, on a rather silly & superficial level - I miss his LBC slots

So, yes, on that level, a smart move by Mrs May

Happy Friday to you All x

Vince Cable not good enough then? Poor Lib Dem - hard pushed to get even a local gig these days. As for what SA chargy es: I don't know, a free box of fairy lights?

Perhaps the Mayor lets him try on that big shiny gold chain!

And if he adopts the right stance just to catch the sun's rays, it will twinkle all on its own, too!

Or has James O'Brien finally cottoned on to how the UK economy has been performing since the EU Leave vote. Weren'r retail sales at another record yesterday?

All very different from his many doom laden monologues.....

JOB trying not to be judgemental about child free women ...... failing

He even put forward his thoughts by saying he feels the need to patronise child free women. Not that J O'B knows anything about patronization.

Doing a show about childless women?

Must be purgatory for him not being able to shoehorn breast feeding into a female orientated program.

I didn't hear it but. going by the comments, he sounds somewhat judgmental Childlessness isn't always a choice. As somebody whose wife went through IVF to become pregnant, he should be more sympathetic.

Yes, poor James. As an elderly female, this week I have witnessed his patronising diatribe on old people being frightened to death of entering a care home due to the presence of brown people and other foreigners (his hang-up not mine) and the fact that I did not breastfeed my three children (one of whom is happily childless to make matters worse). Fortunately at my point in life I regard such hand-ringing on behalf of others is funny - so bring it on. My only complaint is that The Donald did not mention male genitalia in his various musings - I would have so enjoyed The Penis Monologues rather than The Vagina Monologues: but I suppose life is full of disappointments.

LOL.

BIB. I cannot understand why J O'B is using the expression, 'brown faces'? Why brown? People of mixed-race parentage who may look brown in colour, prefer to be called black, or has all this changed? I don't know whether James has entered a new phase of ultra sensitivity in referring to people of colour by an 'umbrella' term, or has political correctness gone on a upgrade thro' the roof, and deemed the word 'black' as obsolete? If so, surely that would only leave 'ebony' as an accurate dictionary alternative?

I guess that to his ears "black" sounds offensive. Perhaps he thinks using "brown" has a softer, more fluffy edge to it. That's the problem with the liberal elite; they are in constant fear of using the wrong terminology.

Well my friend's husband is black and he is happy to call himself black.

Just dipped into Matt Stadlen's 15th show and it's as insufferably bland and dull as his first two shows. Tonight he was lecturing us on climate change "Armageddon" as he called it (via the usual sneering at Trump). As always, anyone who held a contrary position was repeatedly interrupted - almost shouted down. Everything he talks about is so right-on, on-message with the liberal-lefty, identity politics so loved by the Oxbridge media set. He's so nauseatingly sure of his blinkered bien-pensant groupthink, he gets quite affronted that callers have a different viewpoint. Not the best sort to run a phone-in programme IMO.

It's all very odd because few black people are actually black. They ARE brown.
When I was young, the correct term was 'coloured', then it became 'black' and then people started to use the term 'of colour'.
No wonder people are confused.
Personally, I can't see why it matters but then I'm not black.
Mind you, I couldn't care less whether I'm called white, pink or beige.

Just as full running of the tram is restored in Croydon, this video has emerged. Taken of a driver falling asleep earlier this year, on the same track where the recent disaster happened. Andrew Castle will be discussing this.
http://www.dailymail.co.uk/news/arti...led-seven.html

To clarify, he was boasting of the merits of fatherhood at the time, when making the smug comment.