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Want LBC stories before everyone else? Set us as your Preferred Source on Google It has long been my prediction that St George’s Day will become a...
Top Gear might be off air, but Kemi Badenoch is auditioning to fill Jeremy Clarkson’s shoes as a put-upon motorists, raging from a sofa about red...
Anyone who has seen the film Conclave will know that even those with the greatest ambitions of becoming Pope must not be seen to actively seek the...
As social media trends go, the soft days off craze is, on the face of it, hardly the most destructive idea to be shared. Listen to this article...
What do teenagers know about real life? Quite a lot, actually. How much power do they have to make a difference? Well, maybe a little bit more. Listen...
In need of a lift after a difficult week, Sir Keir Starmer took a leaf out of the playbook from nearly every PM who has come before him… Stating how...
By William Mata England’s football team have faced calls to boycott the World Cup. They should listen to them, but ultimately play on. The reasons...
By William Mata “But didn’t you go to the cinema last week?’ a friend of my wife’s asked me, recently, when she heard I was going again the...
By William Mata Gareth, a 36-year-old supporter of far-right causes, was quoted this week as saying he is going to start going to church. His new...
By William Mata Confused as to what it means to be a man? Unsure how to act or fit in? Well, don’t worry about any perception of ever-changing...
By William Mata Sir Keir Starmer recently called pro-Palestine student protests on October 7 “un-British” - and in doing so, sounded not...
By William Mata Any football fan of my age will remember going into a very boisterous school hall at 7am to watch England play Nigeria and, later,...
By William Mata It’s not often I’ll write a column in defence of Transport for London, but I am willing to stick up for the heartwarming sight of...
By William Mata At the end of a particularly traumatic news week, perhaps a glimmer of positivity has been the election of Dame Sarah Mullally as the...
By William Mata City of London Police says it wants the ability to implement harsher punishments to cyclists who do not stop at red lights. And why...
By William Mata A couple of weeks ago, a friend sent me a personality test. The questions included: ‘Have you read Raven Leilani books?’ Yes. ...
By William Mata In what’s becoming a late summer tradition almost as unwelcome as an actual rain shower, the Met Office is about to release its...
2 August 2025, 07:00 By William Mata Growing up in a middle-class town, the one issue that dominated the local paper week after week was ‘will...
26 July 2025, 15:05 By William Mata It’s 2040: Oasis, needing money once more, have completed a summer series of gigs; Taylor Swift has just...
28 June 2025, 10:44 By William Mata It was not the James Bond news we were hoping for. There was no announcement of a new film, nor an answer to the...