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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

I'm surprised by my own opinion on juries

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.5840 Ratings

🗓️ 2 December 2025

⏱️ 157 minutes

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This is a catch-up version of James O'Brien's live, daily show on LBC Radio. To join the conversation call: 0345 60 60 973

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0:00.0

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0:07.5

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0:12.6

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0:17.2

together so you can feel confident through every stage from picking a primary school

0:22.1

to selecting a secondary school find the best school to shape your children's future at the times

0:27.3

dot com forward slash schools guide so we make our way to the oracle and all plans go out the window

0:33.5

i say tk max for the christmas decorations he says pro cook roasting t, roasting tins, essential. I say I get my essentials at Oliver Bonas. He rolls his eyes. Ah, forget the shopping. Let's go bowling. Honestly, it's like retail tennis. But the late night hours, let us get it all done. Squabbling stops at the gorgeous cozy club. He's nibbling a salmon crostini. I'm sipping a hot chocolate. And we both smile because we know Christmas wouldn't happen without each other. Search the Oracle and make a day of it this Christmas. Three minutes after ten is the time. A very good morning indeed to you. I hope that you are well. There is quite a lot to get through today. You won't be surprised to learn. I haven't reached any final decisions about exactly what it is we are going to do.

1:12.4

We're definitely going to start with jury service,

1:16.5

or at least the imminent abolition of many, many jury trials.

1:20.3

That is likely to unfold on our watch.

1:22.4

We're expecting David Lammies' speech in which the finer detail will emerge at about half past 12 today. I'm drawn also to the

1:31.4

Attorney General calling upon Nigel Farage to apologize to contemporaries who have been

1:36.8

queuing up to claim that he racially abused them at school, including some of the worst

1:41.7

anti-Semitism imaginable, citing gas chambers and holocaust and much else.

1:47.7

And it just occurred to me that if you were a Jeremy Corbyn fan, if you were still a Jeremy Corbyn

1:52.3

fan, albeit that most, if not all of the accusations leveled at his apparent comfort with

1:57.8

anti-Semitism in the ranks of the Labour Party he led were justified and

2:01.2

accurate, which I appreciate, if you're still a Jeremy Corbyn fan, you still struggle to accept that,

2:06.8

despite all the evidence.

2:08.7

How on earth would you account for the fact that Nigel Farage is absolutely rancid anti-Semitism,

2:13.7

as recalled by a growing number of his contemporaries at Dulwich College, appears to be

2:19.9

going almost unremarked by precisely the same media ecosystem that goes after people accused of

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