| 1 | Sep 14, '25 | I find it almost unbelievable that George Abaraonye reacted as he did to the murder of someone he had met, someone whose hand he had shaken. For him, Charlie Kirk was not an abstra | 63.8× | 2M | 22k | 2.7k | 1.3k |
| 2 | Jul 2, '25 | This lot didn't even manage 12 months. | 49.8× | 1.5M | 7.6k | 1.1k | 136 |
| 3 | Jan 7, '25 | He demanded an enquiry into whether Boris had eaten some cake. But he won't allow one into the gruesome sacrifice of thousands of girls in the name of anti-racism. | 42.9× | 1.3M | 29k | 6.4k | 396 |
| 4 | Aug 8, '25 | "By Our Sovereign Will, We do hereby dissolve Our present Government, finding it no longer fit to serve the Realm. Let it be known: We summon a new Parliament forthwith, that bette | 39.9× | 1.2M | 19k | 1.9k | 659 |
| 5 | Jun 27, '25 | To say this at Glastonbury, surrounded by a five-mile fence, with pricier security than the Royal Family, and with a special on-site jail for fence-jumpers, requires an almost supe | 39.2× | 1.2M | 8.7k | 1k | 691 |
| 6 | Oct 18, '25 | George Abaraonye has been removed as President-Elect of the Oxford Union in a confidence motion by the required two thirds majority. That majority came largely from life members, w | 36.4× | 1.1M | 30k | 2.9k | 502 |
| 7 | Jul 5, '25 | I fear this is going to upset people, but a genuine question. Why, 11 years after same-sex marriage, 20 years after civil partnerships and 58 years after the legalisation of homose | 24.8× | 760k | 9.4k | 664 | 253 |
| 8 | Jul 17, '25 | Labour backed raising the age of consent from 16 to 18 for getting a tattoo, buying alcohol, watching porn, opening a bank account, purchasing cigarettes, using a sunbed or being t | 21.7× | 665k | 9.9k | 2.2k | 468 |
| 9 | Jul 17, '25 | Talking to a group of pleasant, clever socialists last night, it hit me that the defining characteristic of the Left is not compassion; rather, it is the conviction that compassion | 19.5× | 599k | 21k | 1.9k | 1.6k |
| 10 | Dec 3, '24 | Your regular reminder that, had the world followed France and built nuclear reactors half a century ago, there would now be no rows about decarbonisation, no IPCC, no Greta Thunber | 19.3× | 593k | 19k | 2.6k | 819 |
| 11 | Jan 6, '25 | I couldn’t believe @Keir_Starmer actually said this, and watched his speech twice to check it wasn’t some kind of deepfake. Raising concerns about the worst scandal of the past 20 | 18× | 553k | 19k | 3.7k | 253 |
| 12 | Mar 7, '25 | "America has changed sides in the middle of a war", says Churchill's biographer, @aroberts_andrew, launching an excoriating attack on the Trump administration. His closing words ar | 17.3× | 532k | 13k | 4.1k | 1.3k |
| 13 | Jul 7, '25 | Remember how, when footage of the Manchester Airport fracas first emerged, public figures piled in to attack the police? Adnan Hussein MP called it "a complete abuse of power". @Lu | 15.6× | 479k | 8.1k | 1.4k | 162 |
| 14 | Mar 9, '25 | The last couple of weeks have been revealing. A number of Americans, including some whom I counted as friends, have been prepared to spew bile about Canada - Canada, for God’s sake | 12.7× | 390k | 7.4k | 799 | 182 |
| 15 | Apr 6, '25 | The House of Commons has been poorer, duller and meaner without @Jacob_Rees_Mogg. If there is now a by-election in North East Somerset, I hope the people of that loveliest corner o | 12.1× | 373k | 5.9k | 760 | 50 |
| 16 | Jan 8, '25 | My cab driver just now, a Brit of Pakistani origin, on the rape scandal. "Do Labour think Muslims want to go easy on paedos? I've got two little girls. I want them bastards castrat | 12.1× | 372k | 16k | 2k | 281 |
| 17 | Sep 3, '25 | There's always a Tweet... | 11.6× | 358k | 9.3k | 2k | 153 |
| 18 | Nov 29, '24 | How it started… How it’s going | 11.4× | 349k | 6.1k | 1.2k | 591 |
| 19 | Sep 5, '25 | Can we have a general election now, please? | 10.8× | 331k | 7.1k | 478 | 20 |
| 20 | Nov 3, '25 | I just voted for the automatic deportation of foreign criminals. 162 Conservative peers joined me. But we were voted down by 146 Labour and 48 LibDem Lords - a majority of 45 which | 9.7× | 299k | 8.4k | 2.2k | 186 |
| 21 | Mar 4, '25 | I appreciate @AngelaRayner’s warm words about our American cousins on the BBC just now. But she three times described the USA as “our oldest ally”. One of our alliances predates th | 8.9× | 274k | 6.5k | 422 | 358 |
| 22 | Jul 18, '25 | The police now won’t prosecute this case, even though Palestine Action claimed responsibility, and even though the vandal filmed herself committing the crime. Britain used to be a | 7.1× | 219k | 8.5k | 1.6k | 185 |
| 23 | Dec 1, '24 | Few outside Pakistan are aware of the atrocities being committed there. Soldiers are firing live rounds at peaceful protesters. Dozens, maybe hundreds, have been killed. Friends of | 6.0× | 183k | 4.8k | 3k | 96 |
| 24 | Oct 13, '18 | You think Churchill was a racist? Just wait till you hear about the guy he defeated. | 5.4× | 0 | 29k | 6.2k | 47 |
| 25 | Aug 30, '25 | The Appeal Court judge who overturned the closure of the Epping migrant hotel, David Bean, was a founder of Matrix Chambers, a former treasurer of the Society of Labour Lawyers and | 5.3× | 163k | 6.9k | 1.8k | 106 |
| 26 | Jan 7, '25 | How it started…. How it’s going | 5.0× | 155k | 5.4k | 1.2k | 349 |
| 27 | Feb 14, '25 | There's enough gas under Lincolnshire to boost GDP by £110 billion, yield £26 billion in tax and cut carbon emissions by 218m tonnes through lower gas imports. But we carry on buyi | 5.0× | 153k | 7.5k | 1.8k | 178 |
| 28 | Jun 16, '25 | They. Are. Fleeing. FRANCE. | 4.9× | 150k | 6.6k | 419 | 50 |
| 29 | Nov 26, '24 | Pakistan's military-backed rulers are now threatening to shoot protesters. Britain cannot be indifferent to the fate of a country to which we are so closely linked. The authorities | 4.6× | 142k | 4.9k | 2.5k | 26 |
| 30 | Sep 23, '25 | Say the wrong thing online and you'll get locked up. Actually attack someone with a knife and you'll avoid jail. How is this not #TwoTierJustice? | 4.2× | 129k | 7.5k | 1.4k | 105 |
| 31 | Jul 4, '20 | My late mother was in Peking when student mobs smashed statues. She told me about the demented atmosphere of those days, the way respectable people cowered before rioters. I could | 3.5× | 0 | 12k | 6.4k | 552 |
| 32 | Aug 1, '25 | Britain is rushing to become the first state in the world where foreigners, including those who broke into the country illegally, are given more rights than citizens. | 3.4× | 104k | 5.8k | 1.6k | 110 |
| 33 | Apr 16, '25 | Barbados is absurdly demanding £3.9 trillion in reparations, not from the African kingdoms that took slaves, but from the nation that stamped out the trade. Starmer should respond | 3.4× | 103k | 5.7k | 1.2k | 73 |
| 34 | Feb 1, '20 | One day in and so far: ❌No food riots ❌No medicine shortages ❌No gridlocked motorways ❌No migrant camps in Kent ❌No collapse in house prices ❌No emergency tax rises ❌No world war W | 3.3× | 0 | 12k | 2.3k | 84 |
| 35 | Jul 9, '19 | Australia is offering us a free trade deal.🇦🇺 Brazil is offering us a free trade deal.🇧🇷 China is offering us a free trade deal.🇨🇳 The US is offering us a free trade deal.🇺� | 3.2× | 0 | 14k | 4.4k | 37 |
| 36 | Feb 16, '25 | There is no blasphemy law in England. There is no law against burning your own property. Police DEI training sessions do not overrule parliamentary statutes. Why must the existing | 3.2× | 98k | 5.7k | 1.3k | 54 |
| 37 | Nov 3, '17 | When the European Arrest Warrant was introduced, we were told it would be used to extradite terrorists, not elected regional politicians. | 3.2× | 0 | 9.5k | 7.4k | 0 |
| 38 | Apr 10, '19 | “Brexit chaos” makes it sound as though the mess in Westminster is the fault of 17.4 million Leave voters. It’s not. It’s the fault of those politicians who, after promising to res | 3.0× | 0 | 12k | 4.1k | 13 |
| 39 | Feb 15, '25 | There is literally nothing that can surprise me about this man any more. That Starmer is keeping him on as Attorney General is the single strongest indictment of our prime minister | 2.9× | 88k | 6.2k | 2.1k | 98 |
| 40 | Jul 18, '25 | Everyone dislikes people traffickers. But you know who I dislike even more? The human rights lawyers who go to Calais and hand out their numbers, sometimes on phones in waterproof | 2.9× | 88k | 5.8k | 1.2k | 49 |
| 41 | May 27, '20 | My son is about the same age as Dominic’s. If this were going on outside my house, I would do anything necessary to move him somewhere else. | 2.7× | 0 | 9.8k | 1.7k | 51 |
| 42 | Jul 7, '22 | Yes, he had his flaws, but let's also recognise @BorisJohnson's virtues. He was generous, brilliant, spirited, incapable of malice, infectiously optimistic, unable to hold grudges. | 2.5× | 0 | 9.6k | 1.5k | 53 |
| 43 | Nov 18, '17 | Twitter may regret de-verifying people of whom it disapproves. Until now, a blue tick simply meant authentication, but henceforth it implies endorsement. Suddenly, Twitter is in th | 2.4× | 0 | 9.4k | 4.3k | 4 |
| 44 | Apr 19, '20 | Just a thought. Given that the roads are empty, shouldn’t councils be taking the opportunity to fix lots of potholes? | 2.4× | 0 | 14k | 1.7k | 5 |
| 45 | Dec 13, '19 | Seriously, Remainers, did you think 17.4 million of us didn’t mean it? That it was some sort of joke? | 2.3× | 0 | 13k | 2.4k | 17 |
| 46 | Jun 3, '20 | What. Is. The. Point. Of. Closing. Schools? | 2.2× | 0 | 11k | 2.5k | 58 |
| 47 | Feb 12, '22 | If you campaigned against fracking, fine: it’s a democracy. If you opposed nuclear power, fine: we’re all entitled to our views. But please don’t now complain about rising energy b | 2.1× | 0 | 11k | 2k | 35 |
| 48 | Sep 5, '20 | The police are fearless against people who don't wear masks on trains, or buy bottles of wine, or sit in their own gardens. But against protesters who wreck property, or prevent th | 2.1× | 0 | 11k | 2.6k | 13 |
| 49 | Jun 2, '20 | Is there a sillier sight than British protesters chanting the “hands up don’t shoot” slogan at unarmed London coppers? | 2.0× | 0 | 12k | 1.9k | 21 |
| 50 | Dec 15, '21 | The restrictions were supposed to be a temporary response to a one-off situation. Yet they are in danger of becoming a standard tool for governments. From my speech on "Plan B" tod | 1.8× | 0 | 9.3k | 2.2k | 189 |
| 51 | May 5, '18 | Ninety-six million people were murdered in the name of Marxism, some shot into pits, some starved as deliberate state policy, some arrested in the night and tortured to death. No o | 1.7× | 0 | 6.6k | 3k | 17 |
| 52 | Jun 4, '19 | For the love of God, what is happening to this country? | 1.7× | 0 | 7.5k | 1.9k | 38 |
| 53 | Jun 11, '20 | If only we hadn't had ten weeks of TV presenters stoking the hysteria.... | 1.7× | 0 | 10k | 1.6k | 10 |
| 54 | Jun 1, '19 | I have a horrible vision of every Tory MP losing his seat, a Lib-Lab government cancelling Brexit and scrapping the Lords, leaving me as the last Conservative standing - still in t | 1.7× | 0 | 4.8k | 811 | 19 |
| 55 | Jun 6, '20 | You want to argue that the risk of outdoor transmission is tiny? Fine. That non-vulnerable people should be free to take risks? Absolutely. That the lockdown was too harsh all alon | 1.7× | 0 | 8k | 2.4k | 35 |
| 56 | Jun 15, '19 | Channel 4 News has given up any pretence at accuracy, seriousness or responsibly. I won’t appear on it again. | 1.6× | 0 | 7.2k | 1.7k | 7 |
| 57 | Jul 16, '18 | Why should we listen to calls for another referendum from people who, by definition, don’t accept referendum results? | 1.6× | 0 | 6k | 2.3k | 3 |
| 58 | Jan 17, '19 | I’m getting slightly tired of being told why I voted Leave by people who voted Remain. | 1.6× | 0 | 7.9k | 1.7k | 3 |
| 59 | Jan 28, '22 | I am prepared to listen to a wide range of views about the lockdowns. But I draw the line when broadcasters (or Labour MPs) who spent two years screaming for harsher restrictions n | 1.5× | 0 | 9k | 1.5k | 14 |
| 60 | Jan 7, '25 | How about we bring together the five great Anglosphere democracies in a diplomatic, military and economic union, including unhindered free trade, free movement of labour and an ins | ⚡ 1.5× | 10.8M | 6.3k | 656 | 508 |
| 61 | Aug 25, '22 | Macron’s government has threatened to blockade the Channel Islands and to cut electricity supplies, and has formally asked Brussels to take tough action against the UK so as to mak | 1.5× | 0 | 6.6k | 1.6k | 40 |
| 62 | Aug 30, '22 | It is happening even earlier than expected. People who supported the lockdown have now backdated the moment that they changed their minds, and are retrospectively furious about pol | 1.4× | 0 | 7.7k | 1.4k | 48 |
| 63 | May 4, '19 | Forty years ago #OTD, Margaret Thatcher inherited a country that was poor, indebted and pessimistic. Eleven years later, she left it rich, confident and free. | 1.4× | 0 | 5.2k | 1.4k | 21 |
| 64 | Jan 7, '18 | So, according to Twitter. Making an off-colour joke years ago disqualifies you from serving on a quango. Supporting Hezbollah, the Soviet Union and the IRA qualifies you to be prim | 1.4× | 0 | 5.5k | 2.3k | 0 |
| 65 | Oct 31, '19 | Boris did the deal to get us out that you thought he would never achieve. You then blocked it. Now you want to string out the uncertainty even more. Blame Boris? Just how stupid do | 1.4× | 0 | 6.9k | 1.5k | 2 |
| 66 | Jun 12, '20 | Britain was not just early in abolishing slavery. It poured blood and treasure into extirpating the foul trade internationally. Even at the height of its life-and-death struggle wi | 1.4× | 0 | 5.9k | 1.9k | 133 |
| 67 | May 7, '19 | Hmmm. Holding a second vote in Turkey is "dictatorship". But holding a second vote in the UK is democracy? | 1.3× | 0 | 5.5k | 2.1k | 23 |
| 68 | Sep 26, '19 | Did anyone pretending to be offended by the reference to the Surrender Act complain when Yanis Varoufakis made these widely publicised remarks? Anyone at all? No? Then your confect | 1.3× | 0 | 5.5k | 2.1k | 67 |
| 69 | Mar 25, '19 | People are not stupid. If MPs vote to cancel Brexit, they won’t blame Brexiteers. They’ll blame the MPs who, you know, voted to cancel Brexit. | 1.3× | 0 | 5.7k | 1.7k | 3 |
| 70 | Dec 13, '19 | I am so proud of my diffident, stubborn, bloody-minded countrymen right now. Despite all the pressure, all the bullying and hectoring, we rejected extremism and voted for a Conserv | 1.2× | 0 | 7k | 1.3k | 14 |
| 71 | Mar 13, '19 | Eighty-six per cent of MPs were elected in 2017 on manifestos promising to honour the referendum result. Now Labour - helped by a handful of Tory Euro-zealots - have gone back on t | 1.2× | 0 | 5.3k | 1.9k | 4 |
| 72 | Dec 3, '19 | "As a small country..." We are the world's fifth economy and fourth military power, a nuclear state and one of five permanent UN Security council members. We're home to the planet' | 1.2× | 0 | 5.4k | 1.8k | 32 |
| 73 | Jan 19, '22 | You want to get rid of Boris because you hate Brexit, or because you’re pro-lockdown, or because you want to keep the BBC licence fee? Fair enough. But because he stepped into his | 1.2× | 0 | 6.1k | 920 | 18 |
| 74 | Aug 28, '19 | A prorogation normally happens every autumn. This parliamentary session has lasted three years - the longest since the Civil War. What kind of screwed-up mindset do you need to see | 1.2× | 0 | 5.3k | 1.7k | 14 |
| 75 | Nov 14, '19 | “Hello? BT? I’d like someone to install broadband.” “No problem, comrade. We can get an engineer to you on 20 March 2033.” “Great! Can you make it the afternoon? I have the gas com | 1.2× | 0 | 6.3k | 1.4k | 10 |
| 76 | May 25, '22 | If you backed green levies, don't complain about fuel poverty. If you opposed trade deals that lifted tariffs on imported food, don't complain about food poverty. If you wanted a l | 1.2× | 0 | 6.3k | 1.3k | 47 |
| 77 | Oct 27, '20 | For half a century, Republicans accepted a Left-leaning Supreme Court without questioning its legitimacy. The moment the tables are turned, Democrats want to change the rules. #SCO | 1.2× | 0 | 5.8k | 1.6k | 50 |
| 78 | May 5, '20 | Prof Ferguson's private life is none of my damn business. But the fact that he has condemned 65 million of us to house arrest on the basis of something he plainly can't believe in | 1.2× | 0 | 5.7k | 1.4k | 24 |
| 79 | Sep 17, '20 | Lockdowns might have been justified as an emergency response - a way to buy time and build capacity. But they are not an answer to an endemic virus. They offer no exit strategy. An | 1.2× | 0 | 6.3k | 1.3k | 17 |
| 80 | Sep 20, '18 | Today, Theresa May went as far as any British leader could go to accommodate Brussels, offering money, acceptance of EU regulations and other one-sided concessions. She was rebuffe | 1.2× | 0 | 5.1k | 1.7k | 7 |
| 81 | Sep 15, '18 | My least favourite phrase in politics: "Doing nothing is not an option". Doing nothing is always an option. Often, it is the best option. | 1.2× | 0 | 6k | 1.3k | 13 |
| 82 | Sep 19, '20 | If you want another lockdown, with all the loss of liberty, livelihoods and, indeed, lives, the onus is on you to prove your case. "Better safe than sorry" won't cut it. You need t | 1.1× | 0 | 5.6k | 1.4k | 26 |
| 83 | Jun 3, '20 | Odd how many people think that it's fine to have mass demonstrations, but not to reopen schools. | 1.1× | 0 | 6.6k | 1.1k | 5 |
| 84 | Mar 10, '22 | Unpopular opinion. I feel deeply uncomfortable imposing economic sanctions on people who have not been found guilty of breaking any laws. We are not Putin’s Russia, for Heaven’s sa | 1.1× | 0 | 6.1k | 698 | 37 |
| 85 | Nov 22, '19 | Two possibilities: 1. All the opinion polls are wrong, and 95 per cent of the country hates the Tories. 2. The BBC's audience is unrepresentative. #bbcqt | 1.1× | 0 | 6k | 1.2k | 4 |
| 86 | Jun 18, '20 | We are becoming demented. Not a single person is singing it with malicious intent. Not a single person has until now been hurt by hearing it. Why do people keep looking for reasons | 1.1× | 0 | 5.1k | 1.2k | 15 |
| 87 | Feb 25, '22 | It’s somehow symbolic of our age that Twitter has banned Donald Trump but not Vladimir Putin (@KremlinRussia_E). What were the grounds for banning Trump, again? Something about “th | 1.1× | 0 | 5.7k | 1.4k | 22 |
| 88 | Oct 21, '18 | A gentle reminder that 17.4 million is a bigger number than 550,000. | 1.1× | 0 | 4.8k | 1.1k | 4 |
| 89 | Jun 20, '22 | A few commentators tried to warn during the lockdown that every day of it would mean more inflation, higher taxes and a slower recovery. They were called callous killers. Now, thos | 1.1× | 0 | 5.6k | 1.2k | 23 |
| 90 | Nov 22, '20 | Margaret Thatcher, who inherited a Britain that was poor and demoralised, and made it it rich and free, was toppled 30 years ago #OTD. She was brought down by people who felt we wo | 1.1× | 0 | 5.5k | 1.1k | 32 |
| 91 | Aug 28, '19 | We're leaving. You don't get to tell us how to conduct our domestic politics any more. | 1.1× | 0 | 5.4k | 1.2k | 8 |
| 92 | May 7, '20 | Beth Rigby never lets up, does she? So many useful and important things she could ask about concerning immunity, spread, the latest science. But, every day, it’s some attempted got | 1.0× | 0 | 5.5k | 762 | 1 |
| 93 | Nov 20, '20 | The freedom to travel, to congregate, to buy and sell, to exercise property rights - these things are our birthright. They are not prizes to be earned through good behaviour as tho | 1.0× | 0 | 5.4k | 1.2k | 27 |
| 94 | Jun 13, '20 | Violent protestors should be dealt with in the same way, whether they are on the Right or the Left. Without impartial law, we cannot have an open society. I am astonished by how ma | 1.0× | 0 | 5.7k | 1.1k | 11 |
| 95 | Mar 1, '22 | Lift the ban on fracking. | 1.0× | 0 | 5.4k | 734 | 7 |
| 96 | Sep 25, '20 | Few have suffered more than the 18-year-olds - yanked out of school with no goodbyes, their leavers' celebrations cancelled, no final summer, a miserable university experience, a l | 1.0× | 0 | 5.3k | 970 | 15 |
| 97 | Sep 13, '20 | No doubt John Major and Tony Blair see themselves as distinguished elder statesmen, and perhaps a few others share that view. But I'm pretty sure that most voters will see two poli | 1.0× | 0 | 5.4k | 941 | 5 |
| 98 | Jun 20, '20 | Lenin enslaved an entire country, Charlotte. | 0.9× | 0 | 4.9k | 802 | 20 |
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