| 1 | Apr 21, '25 | Please let it be ‘Tom’ | 298× | 15.8M | 481k | 17k | 6k |
| 2 | May 16, '24 | Ah well, there’s always next year… | 129× | 6.8M | 134k | 4.1k | 1.5k |
| 3 | Oct 14, '23 | All of us in the UK who are not Jewish - an immense, an overwhelming majority - have a responsibility in these troubled times to make our Jewish fellow-citizens feel valued & s | 67.5× | 3.6M | 19k | 2.6k | 276 |
| 4 | May 6, '23 | Two women, rivals for the empire of the galaxy… | 45.6× | 2.4M | 17k | 1.2k | 543 |
| 5 | Apr 2, '23 | Please make it stop | 44× | 2.3M | 12k | 1k | 281 |
| 6 | Oct 16, '25 | I’m not sure that the police designating Villa Park a no go area for the fans of a visiting team is a cause for celebration - particularly for a Birmingham MP. | 39.1× | 2.1M | 18k | 885 | 385 |
| 7 | Feb 5, '23 | It would be nice to see a Yazidi girl - perhaps one of the many abducted, enslaved & raped by the organisation that Shamima Begum so enthusiastically joined - given a similar c | 37.5× | 2M | 11k | 1.3k | 165 |
| 8 | Dec 25, '24 | Amid everything that was perfect about that Gavin & Stacey finale, the sheer monstrousness of Sonia deserves a more than honourable mention. | 35.5× | 1.9M | 15k | 162 | 240 |
| 9 | Jan 5, '23 | If Shakespeare has taught me anything, it’s that royals talking to ghosts never ends well | 33.7× | 1.8M | 15k | 2.1k | 145 |
| 10 | Nov 20, '24 | Really tempted to enter this | 32.5× | 1.7M | 47k | 666 | 274 |
| 11 | Dec 31, '22 | I would rather boil my head than use BCE/CE. Who does anyone think it fools? | 26.3× | 1.4M | 3k | 265 | 70 |
| 12 | Jul 5, '24 | Emma Wall my General Election hero of the night | 25.7× | 1.4M | 12k | 461 | 428 |
| 13 | Nov 25, '24 | Never change, Daily Telegraph | 24× | 1.3M | 34k | 1.5k | 1.1k |
| 14 | Apr 3, '23 | Phew | 22.6× | 1.2M | 7.9k | 360 | 87 |
| 15 | Sep 14, '20 | Good on them | 20.8× | 0 | 31k | 18k | 130 |
| 16 | Apr 23, '23 | I have not the slightest objection to paying for media that I value & don’t want to see go bust | 20.5× | 1.1M | 3.6k | 125 | 20 |
| 17 | Nov 29, '24 | It’s lucky we have a famously competent state, a well-funded health service, & courts with plenty of time on their hands, or I’d be worrying that this is a terrible decision | 18.8× | 999k | 13k | 2.2k | 552 |
| 18 | Apr 1, '24 | Not really, because secularism & Dawkins’ own brand of evangelical atheism are both expressions of a specifically Christian culture - as Dawkins himself, sitting on the branch | 17.8× | 944k | 5.8k | 883 | 1k |
| 19 | Apr 14, '23 | “Not the actor” will be on my tombstone… | 17× | 905k | 5k | 217 | 46 |
| 20 | Apr 27, '23 | Direct ancestors of King Charles had people hanged almost to the point of death, cut down, castrated, disembowelled, beheaded, cut into quarters and stuck on spikes | 16.6× | 882k | 2.9k | 409 | 153 |
| 21 | Sep 21, '24 | Honestly, this is ridiculous. Why shouldn’t members of the Government look good? They’re representing the country. Cut them some slack! | 15.4× | 818k | 2.8k | 263 | 62 |
| 22 | Sep 10, '24 | Oh no | 14.8× | 786k | 14k | 426 | 115 |
| 23 | Sep 16, '23 | Congratulations to @RosamundUrwin for having the courage & determination to get this story into print, & give a voice to women who previously had been voiceless. And to hav | 14.5× | 772k | 4.1k | 328 | 70 |
| 24 | Feb 24, '21 | I’m a huge admirer of the modesty Modi showed in naming the world’s largest cricket stadium after himself. | 13.5× | 0 | 31k | 4.7k | 144 |
| 25 | Jun 19, '24 | Parade your concern for the planet by destroying endangered lichens. | 12.8× | 680k | 6.4k | 696 | 117 |
| 26 | May 6, '23 | The Coronation standout for me was, I think, Penny Mordaunt’s magnificently imposing performance as Athena | 12.4× | 661k | 5.8k | 255 | 63 |
| 27 | Feb 9, '24 | I neglected to mention in this clip that Putin also launched a chemical attack on my home city, which is another reason I don’t like him much… | 11× | 586k | 3.8k | 449 | 410 |
| 28 | Nov 21, '23 | This rests on two pretty dubious assumptions: firstly, that in this one case the notoriously unreliable sources for Elagabalus’ reign are to be trusted; and secondly, that Roman as | 10.7× | 571k | 3.5k | 390 | 147 |
| 29 | Nov 16, '25 | I'd missed this, but it is completely shocking that a lecturer in an English university could possibly be teaching students the blood libel. And not just because it is - duh - a li | 10.5× | 557k | 4.1k | 570 | 328 |
| 30 | Nov 13, '23 | A Britain without its Jewish citizens would be a maimed & diminished country indeed. How awful & shaming that it’s reached the stage where such an eventuality can even be c | 10.4× | 555k | 3.7k | 519 | 54 |
| 31 | Oct 17, '23 | England! with all thy faults I love thee still... | 10× | 532k | 2.6k | 254 | 58 |
| 32 | Nov 19, '23 | “A biographer of Napoleon, Patrice Gueniffey in Le Point magazine, attacked the film as a "very anti-French and very pro-British" rewrite of history.” It sounds brilliant! | 9.5× | 504k | 3k | 259 | 120 |
| 33 | Jan 13, '25 | Very much hoping that @bphillipsonMP will recognise it's not remotely progressive to cancel a project that gets Latin taught in state schools, costs only £1 million a year, & w | 8.9× | 474k | 3.5k | 518 | 78 |
| 34 | Jun 17, '23 | My kind of parenting | 8.7× | 464k | 3k | 136 | 40 |
| 35 | May 22, '24 | This must rank as the most hilariously inept general election announcement of all time | 8.1× | 431k | 7.7k | 441 | 65 |
| 36 | Dec 24, '22 | There are delicate & ethereal portrayals of the baby Jesus, and then there’s this absolute unit… | 8.1× | 429k | 3k | 211 | 52 |
| 37 | Jul 31, '25 | AI is rubbish at history. It just makes stuff up. I gave ChatGBT a go yesterday, thinking it might boost my productivity, and it fed me a completely bogus quote by Pindar. But maki | 7.8× | 415k | 3.6k | 487 | 247 |
| 38 | Dec 24, '24 | The big news I’ve been keeping from you all. What this doesn’t mention is that the film is a musical - so I’ll get to sing as well as do top action stunts with whirlpools and stuff | 7.5× | 399k | 5.9k | 135 | 98 |
| 39 | Dec 21, '24 | It is a shameful: denying those students whose parents can’t afford to pay for it the chance to learn a language that opens up immense vistas of fascination | 7.3× | 389k | 2.9k | 421 | 88 |
| 40 | Jun 16, '25 | What this report doesn’t mention - perhaps because it’s an even more sensitive issue than ethnicity - is religion. We know there are passages in the Quran & Muhammad’s biograph | 6.9× | 369k | 6k | 856 | 545 |
| 41 | Dec 25, '23 | One of us, having been given a tweed suit by Santa, is partying like it’s 1937, and one of us isn’t | 6.5× | 348k | 2.9k | 54 | 32 |
| 42 | May 6, '23 | Oh, my sweet summer child, what do you know of fear? Fear is for the long night, when the sun hides its face for years at a time, and little children are born and live and die all | 6.0× | 316k | 2.8k | 98 | 48 |
| 43 | Dec 19, '24 | I see the Government think the study of Latin should be exclusive to private schools. | 5.9× | 315k | 2.7k | 464 | 77 |
| 44 | Oct 22, '22 | Really want someone dull & grey who understands accountancy to be prime minister, not going to lie | 5.9× | 0 | 17k | 716 | 58 |
| 45 | Oct 19, '25 | My new favourite sportsman | 5.9× | 312k | 4k | 122 | 233 |
| 46 | Nov 29, '24 | Just in case this is being attributed to me rather than to Spider Man, I absolutely did not write this | 5.4× | 284k | 3.6k | 122 | 116 |
| 47 | Jul 5, '24 | Worth remembering, of course, that Osiris’ penis was devoured by fish | 5.1× | 273k | 2.9k | 493 | 82 |
| 48 | Nov 6, '24 | He did write the definitive study of Eugene McCarthy, & is a world expert on the presidential election of 1968 - a year not without certain parallels to this one! | 4.9× | 261k | 2.8k | 136 | 303 |
| 49 | Nov 27, '24 | Christians have traditionally viewed Muhammad as a false prophet. Muslims have traditionally viewed the Bible as a corrupted text. It would be fun watching those two particular cir | 4.6× | 243k | 3.2k | 283 | 135 |
| 50 | Dec 29, '24 | It bewilders me that an education secretary who proclaims her ambition to “drive up standards in state schools” wants to make it so difficult for state school students to study a l | 4.6× | 242k | 2.9k | 414 | 88 |
| 51 | Jul 4, '24 | That second independence referendum going well, I see | 4.5× | 238k | 3.6k | 260 | 73 |
| 52 | Aug 18, '23 | Inside an oak that is reputedly the last surviving tree from the Birnam Wood that Macbeth would have known | 4.2× | 221k | 2.9k | 214 | 45 |
| 53 | Feb 6, '24 | Delighted now to reveal that Thursday's episode of @TheRestHistory will be on THE CANTERBURY TALES! | 3.7× | 195k | 2.7k | 100 | 18 |
| 54 | Feb 24, '21 | Not always a good sign for countries when leaders start pulling that trick... | 3.6× | 0 | 9.5k | 896 | 12 |
| 55 | Oct 4, '25 | “Since the readmission of the Jews to England in the 1650s (thank you Oliver Cromwell) until 1960 (when a Jewish student was killed by fascists), not a single Jew was killed in our | 3.5× | 188k | 4k | 747 | 368 |
| 56 | Nov 16, '25 | First Abbey Road, then this - truly, he is living the dream | 3.5× | 184k | 3k | 50 | 83 |
| 57 | Feb 7, '21 | Heroic is the word. | 3.4× | 0 | 8.3k | 1.3k | 66 |
| 58 | Jan 2, '25 | The boat in which Grace Darling & her father, the local lighthouseman, made their attempt to rescue the crew of the SS Forfarshire, shipwrecked off the Farne Islands in Septemb | 3.3× | 174k | 2.8k | 264 | 73 |
| 59 | Nov 29, '24 | Light from darkness | 3.1× | 166k | 2.9k | 189 | 32 |
| 60 | Mar 21, '25 | Beyond honoured to have become a trustee of the great cathedral of the Enlightenment | 3.0× | 160k | 3.9k | 104 | 64 |
| 61 | Feb 21, '21 | Up bright & early for today's stroll through the capital: a tour of Roman London. We shall walk the line of the city walls, and then visit the sites of its vanished monuments. | 2.9× | 0 | 5.3k | 974 | 679 |
| 62 | Feb 15, '19 | This is a Yazidi I met in a roasting refugee camp, with his 2 surviving children. He lost 2 daughters (both under the age of 12) to the beds of ISIS rapists, & his 2 elder sons | 2.9× | 0 | 3.8k | 2.3k | 93 |
| 63 | Nov 29, '24 | To the bonny banks of the Tweed! | 2.9× | 153k | 3.4k | 41 | 69 |
| 64 | Jul 13, '18 | Not to be a pedant, but if there’s one thing cricket does have, it’s boundaries | 2.8× | 0 | 6.1k | 1.4k | 5 |
| 65 | Dec 21, '24 | An absolutely mad medieval carol service at @StBartholomews - queues round Smithfield to listen to readings from the Wycliffe Bible and sing hymns in Latin & Middle English. Wi | 2.7× | 142k | 2.9k | 262 | 100 |
| 66 | Sep 4, '25 | Wishing all my followers a very happy 1,100th anniversary of the coronation of Æthelstan in Kingston-upon-Thames today! | 2.7× | 142k | 3.2k | 327 | 76 |
| 67 | Jun 12, '20 | The statue of the man who warned against appeasement has to get boarded up to stop it being vandalised by anti-fascists; the statue of the man who visited & praised Hitler, &am | 2.6× | 0 | 5k | 1.3k | 77 |
| 68 | May 1, '25 | A very happy birthday to our cat, Edith - 19 today! | 2.5× | 134k | 9.9k | 242 | 42 |
| 69 | Oct 26, '20 | It's stupefying that France should be suffering boycotts over a bunch of CARTOONS when China's incarceration of the Uighurs seems barely to raise an eyebrow in Muslim countries. | 2.3× | 0 | 3.9k | 1.2k | 62 |
| 70 | Feb 18, '22 | A supposedly liberal newspaper whipping up a Two Minutes Hate against a writer for commercial gain - how utterly repellent. | 2.2× | 0 | 5.7k | 590 | 59 |
| 71 | Jun 2, '18 | “I am a Hindu, a Muslim, a Christian, a Parsi, a Jew” - Gandhi “Only a Hindu could say that” - Jinnah | 2.1× | 0 | 3.2k | 1.6k | 78 |
| 72 | Aug 30, '18 | On a train, a father is making his son laugh so uncontrollably & joyously that everyone else in the carriage has stopped talking to listen & smile | 2.1× | 0 | 6k | 401 | 7 |
| 73 | Apr 9, '21 | RIP Prince Philip: a cricketer who always called Istanbul Constantinople, had a fascination with UFOs, & who was - as the Queen still is - a living link to the heroism of the g | 2.1× | 0 | 5.3k | 598 | 70 |
| 74 | Jun 10, '20 | A reminder that slavery isn't just something that happened centuries ago... | 2.0× | 0 | 3.7k | 1.3k | 44 |
| 75 | Nov 6, '19 | I'm not convinced that the Tory launch - which seems to consist of insulting people who died in a fire & comparing Labour's plans to mass murder - is entirely displaying the ma | 1.9× | 0 | 4.3k | 916 | 13 |
| 76 | Mar 13, '21 | Startled to learn from Trevor Phillips in The Times today that Britain has "more people of colour in high ministerial ofice than the whole of the European Union put together." | 1.9× | 0 | 3.8k | 962 | 58 |
| 77 | Mar 24, '22 | 2170 years of hurt… | 1.9× | 0 | 5.3k | 375 | 33 |
| 78 | Jun 20, '21 | Honestly, who needs the hassle of international travel when you can go on holiday to Cornwall? | 1.8× | 0 | 5.1k | 268 | 21 |
| 79 | May 2, '21 | Amazed people don’t seem to have liked #LineofDutyFinale. I thought it was perfect. There is no criminal genius conspiracy - only contingency & incompetence. A perfect 2021 con | 1.8× | 0 | 4.6k | 370 | 26 |
| 80 | Aug 12, '20 | Franz Nopsca, the gay Hungarian aristocrat who, as well as studying the dwarf dinosaurs of Transylvania & pushing the radical hypothesis that birds were dinosaurs, was also the | 1.7× | 0 | 3k | 803 | 170 |
| 81 | Aug 24, '21 | Oh, there's a new Spiderman trailer out, is there? And there I was thinking the reason I'd suddenly got 1,000 new followers over the last 24 hours was because loads of people were | 1.7× | 0 | 4.4k | 364 | 15 |
| 82 | Oct 27, '22 | As ever, the inability of American liberals to understand the world beyond the US in anything but American terms is a thing of wonder. (The likelihood of the right-wing party in th | 1.6× | 0 | 3.9k | 370 | 144 |
| 83 | Apr 5, '22 | I love the idea that a British university, by dropping Britain's most signficant female novelist in favour of an American one, is somehow decolonising itself. | 1.5× | 0 | 3.2k | 570 | 96 |
| 84 | Feb 25, '21 | Oh dear - I seem single-handedly to have destroyed prospects for the next Spider-Man in India. | 1.4× | 0 | 3.5k | 382 | 21 |
| 85 | Apr 6, '20 | Surprised how unsettling I find the news about the PM: largely, I think, because he is a man of such immense appetite, a man who so clearly enjoys being alive, a man I had rather a | 1.4× | 0 | 3.8k | 333 | 12 |
| 86 | Dec 14, '21 | Agrippa has the absolute look of someone who'd be good at rugby. | 1.4× | 0 | 3.8k | 206 | 30 |
| 87 | Jun 16, '24 | The wild flowers at Hampton Court are gorgeous | 1.4× | 74k | 2.7k | 168 | 20 |
| 88 | Sep 2, '18 | Mark Antony. | 1.4× | 0 | 3.3k | 523 | 4 |
| 89 | Apr 15, '19 | One ray of light: all the treasures and relics that could be saved have been saved - or so it seems. The crown of thorns has not been lost in Holy Week. #NotreDame | 1.4× | 0 | 2.9k | 739 | 26 |
| 90 | Feb 24, '21 | I’m not going to lie - I totally love Kohli. | 1.4× | 0 | 3.2k | 544 | 14 |
| 91 | Dec 14, '22 | This "latest venture" being a women's refuge for survivors of domestic & sexual abuse? What a total monster. | 1.4× | 0 | 3.6k | 256 | 44 |
| 92 | Mar 23, '20 | Everyone who was worrying he was a fascist now worrying he’s not fascist enough | 1.4× | 0 | 3.1k | 557 | 33 |
| 93 | Mar 8, '19 | A haunting photo of my great-aunt, taken c. 1910. She died aged 18 three years later. I can’t quite believe it’s not a painting. It certainly seems pregnant with a novel... | 1.3× | 0 | 3.5k | 319 | 28 |
| 94 | Aug 26, '19 | Canada's going to get nuked - bigly. | 1.3× | 0 | 2.8k | 478 | 17 |
| 95 | Nov 19, '21 | Did you hear about the non-binary prospector? They found gold in them/their hills. H/t @popbitch | 1.3× | 0 | 3.2k | 362 | 58 |
| 96 | Sep 3, '22 | Via the Times, the good news stats table of the day | 1.3× | 0 | 3.3k | 277 | 20 |
| 97 | Jul 28, '18 | Huge thanks to the Hungarian builder who, seeing my mother in a terrible state of panic about a deluge forecast for tomorrow, went & unblocked her drains, & then refused to | 1.2× | 0 | 2.9k | 492 | 3 |
| 98 | Jan 3, '22 | Great news for abandoned baby twins | 1.2× | 0 | 3.2k | 324 | 29 |
| 99 | Jul 30, '21 | Wonderful news. Congratulations to everyone who has fought the fight for so long. Hoping the Government will accept this ruling, & save the £2 billion of taxpayers' money they | 1.2× | 0 | 2.6k | 451 | 24 |
| 100 | Jun 3, '18 | It must be a slight worry to the Lib Dems that their highest profile politician at the moment is Jeremy Thorpe | 1.1× | 0 | 2.5k | 525 | 1 |
| 101 | Oct 15 | More KING ARTHUR today on @TheRestHistory, as we explore the emergence of knighthood, the invention of chivalry, and the role played in both by the greatest knight of the Round Tab | 0.5× | 26k | 300 | 28 | 9 |
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