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James O'Brien - The Whole Show

We can't let hate win on a day like today

James O'Brien - The Whole Show

Global

Daily News, News

4.3912 Ratings

🗓️ 2 June 2026

⏱️ 147 minutes

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Summary

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

This is a global player original podcast.

0:06.0

Three minutes after at 10 is the time. A very good morning indeed to you.

0:10.6

And what a horrible morning it is. I don't know what to do. I don't often admit that to you.

0:17.0

And if I do it, sometimes a little bit tongue in cheek, because get to decide anyway and you kind of have to go along with it.

0:23.6

It's almost impossible to pick the worst bit of the murder of Henry Novak but I think

0:30.6

probably the police officer telling him as he revealed, stated that he'd been stabbed. I don't think so, mate.

0:38.5

It's probably the most unbearable element of all of it.

0:44.0

And those police officers already under investigation by the relevant authorities.

0:50.6

And the problem is that where you see tragedy and horror and where you feel disgust and heartbreak,

1:01.1

other people see opportunity and feel an almost sort of gleeful relish at the prospect of provoking more violent responses,

1:09.6

just as the same people did after the murders in Southport,

1:13.1

having helped spread profoundly and entirely untrue lies about the murderer in that case.

1:19.3

And, of course, when people, as a consequence of those lies, took to the streets to attack entirely

1:24.2

innocent people and took to social media to call for pogroms in profoundly illegal ways.

1:29.6

They have been lauded and defended by precisely the sort of people who woke up this morning and saw not tragedy but opportunity.

1:37.7

And, of course, some people lack the conscience to recognize that and will instead offer platforms and amplifications of

1:45.7

calls for, I mean, so perilously close, so vanishingly close to violence that you may not need

1:56.0

have bothered with the euphemisms, respond with cold, hard rage, said Nigel Farage.

2:00.2

What does that mean?

2:01.5

If not, do what you did after the Southport killings when I was responsible for spreading deep and racist lives.

2:08.4

And I don't want to talk about that.

2:12.1

I don't want to talk about that.

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