Martial law, Man City's tax bill and Christa Pike: LBC's Thursday crowd

Andrew Marr hosted the two busiest clips of fifteen uploads, one with Simon Marks on Trump's Time interview, one with Dan Neidle and David Conn on City's accounts.

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Trump refuses to rule out martial law over midterms

Andrew Marr had the day. Both of LBC's busiest new clips came from his program on October 1, and both had passed six figures within nine hours.

The bigger of the two picks up Donald Trump's Time Magazine interview, in which he would not rule out declaring martial law around the midterms. Simon Marks, the station's regular voice from Washington and the guest of our last note here, joins Marr to talk it through, along with Pete Hegseth's speech to what the description calls the "Woke Department."

The second stays closer to home. A week after Manchester City were found guilty on 115 charges of breaching Premier League financial rules, tax expert Dan Neidle sets out why he has reported the club to HMRC over Roberto Mancini's contract. David Conn, the investigative journalist who has spent years writing about City's finances, then gives Marr his reading of the new twist.

The rest of the fifteen uploads ran across the station's schedule. Lewis Goodall joined Shelagh Fogarty on Christa Pike's failed execution in Tennessee, a full Iain Dale show went up, James O'Brien explained his reservations about rejoining the EU, and Nick Ferrari asked Suella Braverman, now with Reform, where patriotism ends and xenophobia begins.

The channel as a whole is running about a quarter above its usual daily views, past two million a day. Among the broadcasters near its size, only TalkTV comes close to that, and Times Radio and CBS Sunday Morning are both a little busier than usual as well.

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The videos drawing views on LBC right now

Man City reported to HMRC over 'avoiding millions in tax'161,322 views · 2026-10-01 'Genuinely sinister' | Lewis Goodall reacts to Christa Pike execution85,251 views · 2026-10-01 Iain Dale on LBC56,907 views · 2026-10-01 'It's madness! But logical...'39,098 views · 2026-10-01 Suella Braverman: I’ve been racially abused by the Left32,543 views · 2026-10-01

The numbers

Here is how LBC's week looks in figures.

subscribers

1,530,000

total views

1,801,067,718

views per day

2,037,830

typical day: 1,607,858

compared with similar channels (subscribers)

CBS Sunday Morning

1,880,000

People

1,550,000

LBC

1,530,000

ETimes

1,530,000

TalkTV

1,470,000

news.com.au

1,390,000

Times Radio

1,300,000

Times Now World

1,290,000

Arise News

1,250,000

As of October 2, 2026 · Data source: Trari Social News, Trari Traffic Trends and Ranking Platform, Google YouTube

Subscriber, view, like and comment counts are YouTube's. Rates, usual days, rankings, comparisons and categories are Trari's own calculations.

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