James O’Brien interview: LBC’s mid-morning mouthpiece on the problem with Farage, right wing media and being a ‘heterosexual bruiser’
The IndependentFor free real time breaking news alerts sent straight to your inbox sign up to our breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails Sign up to our free breaking news emails SIGN UP I would like to be emailed about offers, events and updates from The Independent. “A central thrust of my book is the tragedy of having these idiots in charge when something awful happened,” O’Brien says. “The only one that I thought twice about was Jeremy Corbyn,” O’Brien explains, “because he is not in any way responsible for creating the ecosystem in which the awful stuff happened. “There are three prongs to this trident of awfulness that we’ve all been impaled by,” O’Brien says, with a kind of weary truculence, frowning perhaps more at the universe than the webcam. “I think that the McCanns were the canaries down the coal mine when it comes to public,” O’Brien says.