[davidjay]

James O'Brien can sometimes be guilty of bullying a terminally stupid caller, but Maajid Nawaz tries the same trick with people who can run rings round him and ends up getting aggressive when he's being shown up.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[Tubby Isaacs]

[davidjay]

And even that's not his most batshit tweet of the past 24 hours.

[Tubby Isaacs]

Has he had a job offer from Trumptown?

[davidjay]

Listening to him again this afternoon:

Caller talking some nonsense about an European army - uninterrupted
Former Brexit Party MEP - uninterrupted
Caller talking about the British fishing quotas that were sold - shouted down, told that was under the EU so we can take them back, didn't know about the sale or the current foreign ownership.

Then a rant about how we need increased defence spending, the navy to protect our food supplies, "Britannia needs to rule the waves" (he actually said that).

I should give this up for the sake of my health.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I should give this up for the sake of my health.

I appreciate you listening so I don't have to, but your health is more important.

[davidjay]

I should give this up for the sake of my health.

I appreciate you listening so I don't have to, but your health is more important.

It shows the paucity of Saturday afternoon radio if you're not bothered about sports news. Four Extra is usually devoted to a dozen episodes of some drama series and the rest are the usual generic driving anthems/power ballads/chart crap made worse because Saturday is when the grown-up presenters have the day off.

[The Red Arrow]

I'm with Tubbs on this. I think I've mentioned that I've changed my routines to avoid a lot of depressing and dishonest sites and I feel better for it. I'm still angry, but not psychotic.

[Tubby Isaacs]

I think Twitter's actually good in a funny sort of way (not that I have an account any more because it's too addictive). Part of me thinks I should know what this sort are saying. I just google a few sensible people, and they'll be tweeting about it. I think "Jesus!" and then think about something else.

I'd be better off going the whole hog like The Arrow and ignoring them altogether, but I can't quite manage that yet.

[Boiler]

I'm with Tubbs on this. I think I've mentioned that I've changed my routines to avoid a lot of depressing and dishonest sites and I feel better for it. I'm still angry, but not psychotic.

I think I need a period of withdrawal too. If only I could shut the voices of health anxiety in my head up too.

[Tubby Isaacs]

[davidjay]

From the brief bit I heard today before I realised it was a bank holiday so he had the grown-ups gig he's headed towards full-on covidiot.

[Tubby Isaacs]

More from Katwala here. If I've understood things properly, lockdown happened so that Johnson could give his mates contracts. Or something.