Maybe we can cure Trump, but can we cure hate?
A poignant message for today, as Donald Trump fights COVID-19 like nobody has ever fought before, is there a vaccine for the much bigger vir...
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20 of 50 episodesBeware Boris’ COVID Marshall Army
New enforceable laws will be introduced to ensure no more than six people gather together at any one time. Marshalls will be there to enforc...
Corona virus is popular again
COVID-19 is making a comeback. In this edition of Balls Radio Phil Dobbie says its becoming increasingly popular with young people, who enjo...
Staying alive with the help of toenails
We’re all emerging from lockdowns unsure of what’s real any more. In which alternate reality do we find Tony Abbott as a trade envoy for the...
You’ve had your fun, now get back to work
Later this week Boris Johnson will outline plans to being lifting the lockdown. Other parts of the world are doing the same. Protestors with...
Self-employed go hungry whilst Rishi overthinks it
Over five million self-employed people will be struggling right now, as work dries up and incomes disappear. Chancellor Rishi Sunak found it...
The Chinese Virus is Bad News For Trump
The US President is repeatedly referring to COIV19 as the Chinese virus, in the hope that he can deflect the blame from the slow response he...
Buybacks, paybacks – the economic answer to the crisis
The Sun this week asked why Richard Branson isn’t offering to sell his island retreat to pay the wages of Virgin Atlantic staff. Phil Dobbie...
Herd but not seen
The UK is pushing ahead with plans for herd immunity, even as other countries push ahead with isolation plans. Could the UK, ironically, be...
Washing our hands of it all
Whilst Italy is in total lockdown, the UK Prime Minister is telling people to wash their hands more often, an Australian politician reckons...
From Wuhan with Love
For many the most marked impact of the Corona Virus is that they will have to wait till November to see the new James Bond movie. Apparently...
WHO declares another case of Johnson impregnation
The World Health organisation has confirmed another case of coming down with a Johnson induced pregnancy, bringing the known total to six al...
Dredging up the good old days
Donald Trump this week suggested he would rather watch Gone with the Wind than an Oscar wining movie made overseas. Remember the good old da...
Boris’ Honeymoon Could Soon Be Over
Destroying the BBC, an unworkable migration strategy, crazy bridge talk – could the Boris bounce be over soon? Phil Dobbie suggests that goi...
Reshuffle and go home
Boris Johnson will send some of his cabinet back to where they came from, maybe because Dominic Cummings doesn’t like that. The same thing a...
The rise of right-wing socialism
Donald Trump and Boris Johnson have one thing in common – besides their hair style and fashion sense. They both like to spend big with gover...
Have you got problems with wind?
The entire UK nation has had a wind problem. Is it diet related? Lon today’s Balls Radio Phil Dobbie puts Storm Ciara in perspective. We als...
Limbaugh – freedom for all (whites and entitled)
Steve Keen joins Phil Dobbie on today’s Balls Radio to discuss Donald Trump’s State of the Union address yesterday, plus the Presidential Me...
Canada Plus What?
At last Britain is free and ready to discover its place in the world. The war is over, as Nigel Farage declared, without him getting his sui...
Farage's Pathetic Brexit
There was no more pathetic sight than seeing Nigel Farage and his band of merry Brexiteers waving their tiny Union Jacks on his last day at...