benkentish.bsky.social - Profile | ThreadSky | a Reddit-style client for Bluesky

📻 It’s another high! After record-breaking figures last time around, absolutely thrilled to have added a further 33,000 listeners in the last quarter and a total of 111,000 more (⬆️29%) in the last year. Thank you to everyone who joins us each night and to the brilliant team who make it all happen.

submitted 17 days ago • 0 comments

AS IT BROKE: Trump says US will seize Gaza, depopulate it of Palestinians, and turn it into the next Dubai. Mine for @benkentish.bsky.social's late night programme on the UK's @lbc.co.uk 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/864872...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

This week’s @inews.co.uk column, on why Rachel Reeves slashing disability benefits even further would be a disaster👇 inews.co.uk/opinion/rach...

submitted 23 days ago • 0 comments

'You want your own nephew to be put to death?' 'Yes!' Caller Matt leaves @benkentish.bsky.social shocked, after saying his criminal nephew should be given the death penalty.

submitted 24 days ago • 7 comments

Just listened to @benkentish.bsky.social on @lbc with Faron Paul. Listen back to it on Global player, you won’t be sorry A softly spoken intelligent and thoughtful giant of a man ! www.gov.uk/government/n...

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments

The point isn’t whether or not Elon Musk did a Nazi salute at the inauguration - it’s that it’s completely believable that this immensely powerful man, who’s accountable to no one yet seems to be the unofficial VP of the United States, might have done a Nazi salute at the inauguration. Terrifying.

submitted 32 days ago • 6 comments

‼️Listened to @benkentish.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk show last night and was transfixed. Excellent discussion about #Musk and the threat he poses. Appreciate you joining the dots, and I wonder too what his ultimate objective is? ‼️https://youtube.com/watch?v=RERPuI3Nhr8

submitted 32 days ago • 2 comments

"It's the best thing that's happened to the world." "What we really need is a benign dictator." "He won't be greedy. He's a good man." Three jubilant Trump fans call @benkentish.bsky.social.

submitted 33 days ago • 36 comments

Reasons for Keir Starmer to stop and think before racing into Trump's embrace. My live chat last night on the President's inaugural address with @benkentish.bsky.social on @lbc.co.uk 🎧: audioboom.com/posts/864067...

submitted 33 days ago • 1 comment

Very glad I live in a country where the head of state can’t overrule the judiciary to pardon convicted criminals or unilaterally withdraw the country from international organisations. What a ridiculous political system.

submitted 32 days ago • 5 comments

@benkentish.bsky.social getting ready to face angry pensioners on @lbc.co.uk !

submitted 37 days ago • 0 comments

Opinion | If her growth plan doesn’t work, it won’t just be Reeves that could find herself out of a job 🖋️ @benkentish.bsky.social 🔗 trib.al/CZXDSHR

submitted 40 days ago • 0 comments

Parked my car near Regent Street earlier - anyone seen it?

submitted 46 days ago • 4 comments

Not sure the Met Office needs to remind us to steer clear of amber snow

submitted 51 days ago • 1 comment

On the show: 🔴 How much of a danger does Elon Musk pose to Britain? 🔵 Should England be boycotting next month’s cricket match against Afghanistan? 🌑 How is the broken social care system affecting you?

submitted 51 days ago • 6 comments

It’s the final LBC show of 2024! Join me as we head into 2025 to reflect on the year just gone and the one to come. And whatever you’re doing, a very very happy New Year!

submitted 53 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Christmas all! Hope it’s a wonderful day with family, friends & too much food. Also thinking of those not spending the day with the people they’d want to be, for whatever reason, and hoping there’s still peace to be found (DMs open if anyone’s feeling particularly lonely). Have a good one! 🎄🧑‍🎄

submitted 60 days ago • 3 comments

Senior politicians meet so many incredible campaigners, activists, public sector workers, business leaders, headteachers, doctors etc. who would make brilliant parliamentarians, then ignore them all and go and give peerages to their former advisers and random ex-MPs instead.

submitted 65 days ago • 2 comments

I spoke with @benkentish.bsky.social on lbc about whether all refugees do long to go home, and whether the right to asylum is temporary youtu.be/8jCdsLjq35g?...

submitted 73 days ago • 9 comments

Talking about this on the show now - join us @LBC

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

✍️ Wrote about how Britain’s loneliness epidemic is the forgotten factor behind our increasingly sick nation - and how the government seems to be ignoring it. This week’s @inews.co.uk column here: inews.co.uk/opinion/wes-...

submitted 82 days ago • 0 comments

"The idea they pay thousands of people minimum wage, then go home with millions is indefensible." @benkentish.bsky.social says wealth disparity is out of control and bosses of corporates should consider pay cuts to boost worker salaries. @theblackfarmer.bsky.social | #StormHuntley

submitted 82 days ago • 2 comments

The job of an MP is to do what they think is best for their constituents and the country, not just what their religion says they should do. There are very valid arguments on both sides of the assisted dying debate but decisions should be made based on the facts of the matter, not religious doctrine.

submitted 86 days ago • 6 comments

✍️ This week’s @inews.co.uk column is on a tricky subject: why the government needs to do more to help pensioners downsize. Read here: inews.co.uk/opinion/hous...

submitted 89 days ago • 5 comments

Good article from @benkentish.bsky.social - overhauling the property tax system, replacing council tax and stamp duty with a proportional annual tax - would create the stick we need to achieve this (though carrots also essential) inews.co.uk/opinion/hous...

submitted 89 days ago • 2 comments

Surely the first time the words “BDSM dungeon” have been uttered on @LBC? 😜 A really interesting conversation about OnlyFans and whether there’s anything inherently wrong with sex work. Thanks to everyone who called! Join us again tomorrow from 10pm.

submitted 89 days ago • 1 comment

Yep. Or that in just the first 6 months of this year foodbanks in the @trusselluk.bsky.social community had to provide 1.4 million emergency food parcels. 500,000 for children. A 69% rise compared to only 5 years ago. Truly appalling. Totally fixable.

submitted 95 days ago • 2 comments

The news that people inheriting land worth at least £1 million will have to pay tax on it has drawn significantly more outrage from politicians and the press than the news that 1 in 3 children in Britain are now living in poverty…

submitted 95 days ago • 24 comments

On the show tonight: 🔴 Is Keir Starmer really waging a “class war” against the wealthy? 🔵 What’s it like growing up in care? ⚫️ If 11-year-olds are carrying knives, should their parents be prosecuted? Join us from 10pm!

submitted 96 days ago • 1 comment

Both are encouraged!

submitted 98 days ago • 1 comment