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Why Putin is even less of a human than Stalin was

Plus: Jonathan Powell delivers an extraordinarily generous gift to scheming Blairites three months before the election

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

21 February 2015

9:00 AM

LBC likes to tell us it’s ‘Leading Britain’s Conversation’, though in the case of weekday pre-lunch presenter James O’Brien you’ll have to sit through a series of bombastic monologues from the host before any punters get a word in edgeways. O’Brien knows everything, and he doesn’t mind telling you. Still, I understand that running a talk show is no job for timid introverts who might burst into tears if callers start giving them a hard time.

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