LBC Radio presenter Gob on a Stick Serial book editor Co-host of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.socialhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkq6o3pykk2llmost ready for lift-off. Candidates have been briefed. They're all here! Call in with your questions now on 0345 6060973. Watch on @GlobalPlayer, the @LBC app or the LBC Youtube channel Going live at 7pm!30 Apr 2026 17:54 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkq6o3pykk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkpb4dvpac2lNew episode of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast 120. I Just Can't Wait to Meet the King @Tessadunlop and I discuss the King's state visit to the United States, how to stop the Jewish community feeling unsafe in the UK & more! https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/120-i-just-cant-wait-to-meet-the-king/id1307053842?i=100076460566230 Apr 2026 09:05 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpb4dvpac2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkpaozikpc2lNew episode of the IAIN DALE ALL TALK podcast 364. Dame Mary Beard I interview the wonderful @wmarybeard about her new book TALKING CLASSICS: THE SHOCK OF THE OLD. Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/364-mary-beard/id1475913485?i=100076460484230 Apr 2026 08:58 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkpaozikpc2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkl4hwngic2lJoin me for live coverage of the King's speech to Congress. It starts from 8pm. And remember you can watch the whole show live on GlobalPlayer, the LBC app or the LBC Youtube Channel. I'm then heading to Dulles airport to get the overnight flight back to London!28 Apr 2026 17:31 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkl4hwngic2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkktdsfrsk2lNew episode of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast 119. Another Near Miss I dial in LIVE from washington as @Tessadunlop and I discuss the King's safety after THAT White House Correspondent's dinner. PLUS, has your life expectancy gone down? Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/119-another-near-miss/id1307053842?i=100076393813628 Apr 2026 14:48 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkktdsfrsk2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkfs7coips2l26 Apr 2026 14:44 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkfs7coips2lhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkdyk666ls2yReunited after 14 years with the best friend anyone could have, Daniel Forrester. Spent the morning in NYC at Smithfields in NYC watching West Ham win, then went to the Theodore Roosevelt museum and birthplace, and I'm off to see CHESS this evening. Great day! @DPForrester25 Apr 2026 21:33 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkdyk666ls2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkbyr7hvbk2yWATCH: I'm a talking head in tonight's Channel 5 docuentary on the history of state visits to the US. Tune in at 8.50pm!25 Apr 2026 02:31 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkbyr7hvbk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mkbc2cxcrc2yNew episode of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast 117. Perran Moon River @tessadunlop and I discuss the Westminster psychodrama, drawing in Christine Keeler, Harold Wilson, Profumo and more - plus Tessa snogs a Labour MP Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/118-perran-moon-river/id1307053842?i=100076333906424 Apr 2026 19:45 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mkbc2cxcrc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mk6lgpt7wc2yOn my @LBC show... 7pm Will Shabana Mahmood's agreement with the French change the dial on small boats? 8pm Cross Question with Lucy Beresford Gawain Towler Jovan Owusu-Nepaul Benedict Spence 9pm Why are we accused of being racist if we decalre we're proud to be English?23 Apr 2026 17:55 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk6lgpt7wc2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mk35tjpjas2yNew episode of the IAIN DALE ALL TALK podcast 363. James Macintyre I talk to @James_Macintyre about his new book GORDON BROWN: POWER WITH PURPOSE. Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/363-james-macintyre/id1475913485?i=100076297474422 Apr 2026 09:13 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mk35tjpjas2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjyqrdaubk2yNew episode of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast 117. When You Wish Upon a Starmer @tessadunlop and I talk Keir Starmer's statement in the Commons re how he handled Mandelson - plus 100 years since the Queen's birth, and more! Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/117-when-you-wish-upon-a-starmer/id1307053842?i=100076248893521 Apr 2026 10:14 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjyqrdaubk2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjwzrm2jbs2y7pm Did Keir Starmer do enough to hang on to his job? 8pm Cross Question with Joe Robertson MP Sarah Olney MP Alex McIntyre MP Angela Epstein 9pm You calls on the vetting scandal20 Apr 2026 17:50 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjwzrm2jbs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjtv2aegvs2yNew Article: Oh Mandy - The Sequel... The Scandal That Exposed Starmer "Starmer reminds us that he was a barrister. He knows that ignorance is no defence in a court of law. It follows therefore, that it is no defence in the court of public opinion." Read https://www.iaindale.com/articles/oh-mandy-the-sequel-the-scandal-that-exposed-starmer19 Apr 2026 11:47 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjtv2aegvs2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjpbcl4aek2yCome and see @steverichards14 and me in London at lunchtime on 14 May, discussing our Thatcher and Blair books. Tickets https://www.datathistle.com/event/2954882-iain-dale-and-steve-richards-thatcher-and-blair/59701-stationers-hall-london-ec4m/17 Apr 2026 15:43 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjpbcl4aek2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjofx2cu3c2yNew episode of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast 116. Vetting away with it @tgessadunlop and I discuss Mandelson's vetting - and whether it's a Westminster village story (Tessa thinks so!) - the decline in reading and more! Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/116-vetting-away-with-it/id1307053842?i=100076190627817 Apr 2026 07:34 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjofx2cu3c2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjnidnktk22yThis was my opening monologue to tonight's show on the Mandelson vetting issue. I don't normally post these, but I am proud of this one. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rWAALhAhHWQ16 Apr 2026 22:44 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjnidnktk22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjkxzstdes2yToday I was a guest on @MarkCarruthers7 excellent RED LINES podcast, along with historian James Hawe, to talk about British-Irish relations and our appreciation of Ireland. Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/anglo-irish-editions/id1479562988?i=100076158299515 Apr 2026 22:47 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkxzstdes2yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjkfetacd22yOn my @LBC show... 7pm Is it now time to accept we need to pivot away from the US? 8pm Cross Question with Edward Morello MP Andrew Lewin MP Alex Burghart MP Lara Brown 9pm Could a social media ban do more harm than good?15 Apr 2026 17:13 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjkfetacd22yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjke2y54222yNew episode of the IAIN DALE ALL TALK podcast 362. Paul Bessell Paul Bessel discusses his new book FINDING DAD, a memoir-investigation into the life of his father, Peter Bessel: a Liberal MP (1964-1970), a key prosecution witness in the 1979 Thorpe trial. Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/362-paul-bessell/id1475913485?i=100076141486815 Apr 2026 16:50 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjke2y54222yhttps://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjhwktv4tc25On my @LBC show... 7pm Welfare v Defence. When will the penny drop with the government about defence spending? 8pm Cross Question - Scotland special, with Stephen Flynn MP Melanie Ward MP Andrew Bowie MP Susie McCabe 9pm Faith Schools14 Apr 2026 17:43 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjhwktv4tc25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjgvfyuwhc25New episode of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast 115. The Man Who Sold the War @Tessadunlop and I talk men and war, Trump's blockade of the Strait of Hormuz , Viktor Orbán's defeat in Hungary and more! Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/115-the-man-who-sold-the-war/id1307053842?i=100076119638414 Apr 2026 07:49 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjgvfyuwhc25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjff4dob4c25On my @LBC show... 7pm Phone-in with @EdwardJDavey 8pm Cross Question with David Simmonds MP Luke Akehurst MP Colin Seymour aka Crystal Poppy Coburn 9pm Should the government be intervening on Spotted Dick in our school dinners?13 Apr 2026 17:25 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjff4dob4c25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjd7bpkwbs25NEW SUBSTACK: My Sunday newsletter Includes an article about the local elections and the LibDems Read https://iaindale.substack.com/p/iain-dales-sunday-newsletter-no-34912 Apr 2026 20:35 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjd7bpkwbs25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mjd2bba5qc2512 Apr 2026 19:05 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mjd2bba5qc25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mj6ahkwokk25NEW SUBSTACK: 14 new political books published this month. In which I recommend some of the mist interested current affairs titles coming this month. Read https://iaindale.substack.com/p/fourteen-political-books-published10 Apr 2026 21:13 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj6ahkwokk25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mj4zddzo5s25New episode of the WHERE POLITICS MEETS HISTORY podcast 114. No Orban No Cry @tessadunlop and I talk the ceasefire under stress in Iran, whether JD Vance is hurting Viktor Orbán's chances in Hungary, the dying art of letter-writing and more! Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/ie/podcast/114-no-orb%C3%A1n-no-cry/id1307053842?i=100076056402210 Apr 2026 09:33 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj4zddzo5s25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mj3dnmdaes25On my @LBC show... 7pm What are the chances of a deal between Israel and Lebanon 8pm Cross Question 9pm Robert Hardman joins me to talk about his new biography of Queen Elizabeth II09 Apr 2026 17:32 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mj3dnmdaes25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3miytfp5y2s25On my @LBC show... 7pm How come both the US and Iran are claiming victory? They can't both right, can they? 8pm Cross Question 9pm How do you rate the British government's performance in the Iran war?08 Apr 2026 17:36 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3miytfp5y2s25https://bsky.app/profile/iaindale.bsky.social/post/3mixw223thc25New episode of the IAIN DALE ALL TALK podcast 357. Carl Cashman "Is your success down to your political skills or the fact that every LibDem wants to shag you? "Are you going to leave that in? See if I did. @carlcashman.bsky.social Listen https://podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/361-carl-cashman/id1475913485?i=100076014614208 Apr 2026 08:51 +0000at://did:plc:efmouw2762j2a6p2kr6klysk/app.bsky.feed.post/3mixw223thc25