| 1 | Dec 30, '22 | The endless line at Geneva Airport to get through passport control for British passport holders. No queue at all for EU or Swiss citizens 🤷🏻♂️ | 102× | 14.2M | 19k | 3.6k | 255 |
| 2 | Jul 10, '23 | .@TheSun has made the most serious allegations about a BBC presenter. Now needs to provide evidence or potentially face the mother of all libel actions | 26.2× | 3.6M | 13k | 2.2k | 133 |
| 3 | Mar 11, '23 | This is so interesting. And just shows the absurd inconsistencies. Just read final sentence in this adjudication, and ask is audience not able to do same with Gary Lineker? | 25.3× | 3.5M | 19k | 5.7k | 296 |
| 4 | Aug 11, '24 | Crikey- you may be right @elonmusk - it feels like imminent civil war in London this evening - people from all races and religions sitting in the sun, having picnics, walking dog | 24.7× | 3.4M | 27k | 3.8k | 345 |
| 5 | Jan 19, '23 | There’s the old Enoch Powell line that all political careers end in failure. This one hasn’t. Goes at a time of her own choosing, head held high | 19.8× | 2.8M | 20k | 1.5k | 83 |
| 6 | Sep 26, '23 | ‘Multiculturalism has failed’ says Suella Braverman who is from Kenyan and Mauritian background and married to a Jew, serving as Home Secretary in a govt led by someone whose famil | 19.5× | 2.7M | 27k | 6.1k | 362 |
| 7 | Nov 18, '24 | A word on @AllisonPearson free speech row and what she describes as a ‘Kafkaesque’ threat to it. Today on @TheNewsAgents, we asked her to appear. She said ‘No. And if you get any a | 18× | 2.5M | 11k | 2k | 181 |
| 8 | Feb 8, '24 | Sorry. This is nuts. A presenter on a news channel uses platform to advance a conspiracy theory about a cancer in children linked to vaccines which is baseless, and OFCOM says it’s | 17.8× | 2.5M | 22k | 4.6k | 231 |
| 9 | Jul 12, '23 | This is an awful and shocking episode, where there was no criminality, but perhaps a complicated private life. That doesn’t feel very private now. I hope that will give some cause | 17.5× | 2.4M | 14k | 1.5k | 80 |
| 10 | May 15, '23 | Don’t want to go over the top, but this is absolutely jaw-dropping. Someone who was in the cabinet when legislation on voter ID was agreed and went through parliament acknowledges | 16.3× | 2.3M | 16k | 7.6k | 289 |
| 11 | Mar 25, '23 | What’s astonishing is the sheer, crass stupidity and avarice. You go on a zoom ask for 10k a day(not sure about whether in $ or £), and don’t even bother to check whether company i | 16× | 2.2M | 13k | 3k | 211 |
| 12 | Nov 6, '23 | Trump in court: Counsel: did you prepare the 2021 financial statement Trump: ‘I was so busy in the White House, focusing on Russia and China and keeping our country safe’ Counsel: | 15.8× | 2.2M | 20k | 3.2k | 228 |
| 13 | Jun 1, '24 | She is gold. Pure gold….. | 15× | 2.1M | 18k | 1.7k | 950 |
| 14 | Mar 2, '23 | Weird that I don’t remember JRM complaining about a right-wing stitch up when David Frost stopped being a civil servant advising the government and became a Tory minister in the Lo | 15× | 2.1M | 16k | 3.3k | 85 |
| 15 | Feb 11, '25 | This is so nuts. The president sits at his desk in the Oval Office while Elon Musk stands answering questions with a small kid on his shoulders. I mean. Where to begin | 14× | 1.9M | 17k | 2.1k | 532 |
| 16 | Jan 8, '23 | Please tell me I misheard this: “I hope what I say to my father and brother remains private,” #HarryTheInterview | 13.8× | 1.9M | 16k | 1.1k | 100 |
| 17 | Dec 31, '22 | Dear @thetimes - The headline and graphic accompanying this article are deeply misleading. I didn’t receive - nor sought - a penny when I left the BBC (and I’m pretty certain nei | 13.4× | 1.9M | 9.3k | 1.5k | 53 |
| 18 | Mar 22, '23 | Yeah if only doctors, nurses, porters, ambulance drivers, care home staff had worked as hard then maybe they’d have been entitled to parties too | 13× | 1.8M | 19k | 2.8k | 40 |
| 19 | Jul 10, '23 | No longer bound by BBC rules on impartiality, let me just say what a moronic and offensive comment. If I’m not mistaken didn’t you have a deputy chief whip appointed even tho his p | 12.8× | 1.8M | 19k | 3.8k | 91 |
| 20 | Oct 9, '23 | One photo is from Labour Party conference today. The other from Tory conference last week. Compare and contrast….. | 12.5× | 1.7M | 9.5k | 2.1k | 68 |
| 21 | Feb 5, '23 | Hold on - wasn’t it those pesky free markets - that she champions - reacting in horror to £45 billion in unfunded tax cuts? That led to surge in cost of borrowing, near collapse of | 12× | 1.7M | 19k | 3.6k | 85 |
| 22 | Apr 4, '23 | You can be absolutely sure Trump will have HATED, HATED that. Guess when you’re under arrest court staff don’t hold doors open for you | 11.9× | 1.7M | 10k | 825 | 93 |
| 23 | Feb 20, '23 | Just been sent this. So Europe forming some kind of economic Union? Why has no one thought of this before….. | 11.8× | 1.6M | 14k | 1.6k | 95 |
| 24 | Aug 19, '23 | Really think inconceivable that @RishiSunak AND Prince William (the FA President, no less) wouldn’t be at the World Cup Final if it was the men’s team playing. Happy to accept migh | 11.5× | 1.6M | 9.3k | 885 | 42 |
| 25 | Oct 3, '23 | Oh my. The positioning of that microphone…… | 11.2× | 1.6M | 18k | 1.7k | 131 |
| 26 | Jan 25, '24 | This video needs to be watched and listened to extremely carefully. It is clear that Trump is planning an extraordinary vengeance purge and declaring war on the agencies whose job | 11.2× | 1.6M | 8.9k | 3k | 1.1k |
| 27 | Mar 10, '23 | Lucky there are no producer guidelines on whether you need to declare facilitating an £800k loan to a prime minister while applying for a job as chairman of a broadcasting organisa | 11.1× | 1.5M | 22k | 4.5k | 54 |
| 28 | Oct 3, '23 | Heckler was speaking v quietly. I was about thirty feet away and hadn’t heard him. He is a Conservative member of the London Assembly and was muttering concerns about Stella soundi | 10.3× | 1.4M | 12k | 3.1k | 153 |
| 29 | Jun 5, '24 | Two quotes: Rishi Sunak: "Independent Treasury officials have costed Labour's policies and they amount to a £2,000 tax rise for every working family" Treasury Permanent Secretary: | 9.7× | 1.3M | 9.8k | 3k | 182 |
| 30 | Jan 29, '23 | This is a gracious letter, but attack on media really ill judged. He tried to bully the press into silence with ferocious threats of legal action. That’s not a good look. But the p | 9.6× | 1.3M | 9.9k | 1.3k | 39 |
| 31 | Oct 15, '24 | No way. That is SHOCKING BEYOND BELIEF. Our elected PM meets a singer. Whatever next? | 9.6× | 1.3M | 12k | 928 | 73 |
| 32 | Mar 10, '23 | Incredible. So the BBC launched a war without a battle plan. | 9.2× | 1.3M | 11k | 1.5k | 42 |
| 33 | Jan 23, '23 | BREAK: I understand that Richard Sharp was on the panel to select the head of BBC News. I also understand there was unhappiness about his inclusion on the panel at the highest leve | 9.1× | 1.3M | 9.6k | 2.7k | 55 |
| 34 | Aug 8, '24 | Anyone else woken up this morning to listen anxiously to the news and feeling relieved, prouder of who we are, and just a bit more disdainful of the Tommy Robinsons and Elon Musks | 9.0× | 1.2M | 32k | 3.3k | 164 |
| 35 | Jul 23, '24 | What a truly revolting thing to say….. | 8.9× | 1.2M | 14k | 1.8k | 273 |
| 36 | Nov 25, '24 | When a petition like this can be so easily manipulated, what is its point? | 8.2× | 1.1M | 14k | 1.8k | 227 |
| 37 | Oct 6, '23 | ‘Boost our transport’ says man pictured on private jet. Who thought the optics of this were good? Extraordinary | 8.0× | 1.1M | 14k | 2.2k | 42 |
| 38 | Nov 15, '23 | This is so dangerous and irresponsible. When parliamentarians - law makers, for goodness sake - say ‘ignore the law’ and that judges are ‘enemies of the people’ you are on a very s | 7.9× | 1.1M | 13k | 3k | 96 |
| 39 | Jan 31, '24 | Sorry. Maybe I have false memory syndrome, but I don’t remember the Brexit campaigners during referendum warning companies that cost of doing business was going to rise steeply and | 7.7× | 1.1M | 12k | 3k | 130 |
| 40 | Oct 2, '23 | Overheard in security line at #ConservativePartyConference James Daly MP pulls security officer aside and asks to jump queue cos he has to be on stage in 15 mins. Security guard re | 7.4× | 1M | 13k | 1k | 67 |
| 41 | Feb 23, '24 | ‘He’s given our capital city away to his mates.’ This is really appalling rhetoric. I mean, just say it Lee: because he’s a Muslim his only ‘mates’ are going to be Muslims too. And | 7.3× | 1M | 11k | 1.7k | 87 |
| 42 | Jun 7, '24 | A photo that I suspect will haunt @RishiSunak | 7.3× | 1M | 13k | 1.9k | 198 |
| 43 | Apr 30, '25 | What a headline. It’s not compulsory | 6.9× | 953k | 19k | 1.5k | 314 |
| 44 | Jun 22, '24 | Disgraceful for Farage to use the word ‘expansionist’ to describe EU. Expansionism is what happens when you invade another country’s sovereign territory, like Russia did in Ukraine | 6.6× | 919k | 13k | 2.8k | 162 |
| 45 | Jul 27, '24 | Who’d have thought the meme of the #Paris2024 opening ceremony would be Keir Starmer….. | 6.4× | 886k | 13k | 833 | 119 |
| 46 | Sep 11, '23 | Shocked I’m telling you. Shocked by what the Telegraph is reporting. Just as a matter of interest was it the BBC waving the EU flags, or concert goers? Cos if it’s the latter maybe | 6.2× | 858k | 9.1k | 1.5k | 34 |
| 47 | Dec 11, '23 | That is a good question….. | 6.2× | 858k | 16k | 5.9k | 129 |
| 48 | Apr 13, '24 | The @AngelaRayner saga. I get it. Attack dog attacked. Karma. But really? A police investigation into whether she was registered at wrong address? Is that it? Not that she voted tw | 6.0× | 833k | 13k | 2k | 57 |
| 49 | Dec 30, '23 | The Truss Awards FFS. Can we just do away with resignation honours altogether?Just because you give money shouldn’t get you a gong. Keep them for people who serve their communities | 5.7× | 796k | 13k | 2.2k | 37 |
| 50 | May 15, '23 | Leading Brexiteer, Sir Rocco Forte, says he might move to Italy, over unhappiness with the way Brexit is going and prospect of a Labour government. How wonderful to have an Italian | 5.7× | 794k | 10k | 2.5k | 91 |
| 51 | Jul 31, '24 | Shameful. The idea that the thugs behind this call themselves ‘patriots’ is risible. What they did last night in a town understandably consumed by grief was odious | 5.4× | 755k | 12k | 1.8k | 98 |
| 52 | Mar 9, '23 | Booooommmm - Back. Of. The. Net | 5.3× | 739k | 9.8k | 739 | 20 |
| 53 | Jul 24, '24 | Oh golly gosh. Liz Truss saying Kamala Harris has proved she’s not up to the job as VP. My ironymeter has just exploded into a million tiny pieces | 4.9× | 681k | 17k | 2.3k | 196 |
| 54 | Jun 9, '23 | This makes such a mockery of the ‘honours’ system. Honours dished out by a man who has decided he has to resign with immediate effect because of what he’s found to have done | 4.7× | 652k | 9.2k | 2k | 24 |
| 55 | May 24, '24 | I know political campaigning is tough - but: DON’T let the microphones be set up so you are filmed with a crane coming out of your head DON’T be filmed underneath an exit sign And | 4.5× | 619k | 9.5k | 1.6k | 184 |
| 56 | Apr 18, '24 | What a headline. It’s got everything 😳 | 4.1× | 574k | 9k | 2.3k | 193 |
| 57 | Jul 24, '23 | Tributes will rightly be paid to a fantastic journalist and brilliant broadcaster - but George was the most decent, principled, kindest, most honourable man I have ever worked with | 3.9× | 549k | 13k | 806 | 20 |
| 58 | Dec 30, '23 | In nearly every walk of life when you get a job you are on three months probation where contract can be ended at any moment. Do 49 disastrous days with Liz Truss and you get an OBE | 3.8× | 535k | 13k | 2.6k | 33 |
| 59 | Sep 16, '24 | You’re right: no one should be trying to kill your father. Political argument is for the ballot box. But you mocked and joked about the grievous hammer attack on Nancy Pelosi’s hus | 3.8× | 524k | 9.6k | 1.2k | 49 |
| 60 | Jun 7, '24 | What a vivid and shocking contrast: the sacrifice of all those brave men so that 80 years on the prime minister could cut short his visit to where they fell so that he could return | 3.6× | 500k | 10k | 2.1k | 62 |
| 61 | May 28, '24 | What. A. Waste. Of. Time. | 3.6× | 494k | 11k | 1.3k | 32 |
| 62 | Oct 5, '22 | For 4 years when I was US Editor I went to endless Trump rallies where we’d be accused of being ‘enemies of the people’ - the ‘we’ were the media, but also ‘liberals’, civil servan | 3.5× | 0 | 27k | 5.5k | 120 |
| 63 | Oct 28, '22 | After tumultuous week, worth reflecting: In the 37 years from 1979 to 2016 there were just 5 prime ministers. In the 6 years since 2016 we’ve also had 5 PMs Something pretty destab | 3.4× | 0 | 26k | 5.7k | 251 |
| 64 | Mar 11, '25 | You start a trade war. Then cry ‘foul’ when the country you’ve targeted retaliates (which is what happens in a trade war). And then you promise hell, fire and brimstone cos you’re | 3.3× | 464k | 13k | 1.8k | 143 |
| 65 | Jun 4, '24 | I have to say a well constructed thirty minute head to head interview with Starmer and then another with Sunak would yield far more than this constrained but shouty debate | 3.1× | 435k | 9.6k | 759 | 32 |
| 66 | Oct 12, '22 | And this from the Daily Telegraph cartoonist…. | 3.0× | 0 | 26k | 3.8k | 233 |
| 67 | Feb 25, '24 | Oliver Dowden suggesting problem with Lee Anderson’s remarks was that they could have given impression of Islamophobia is totally wide of mark. Lee Anderson spoke with great clarit | 2.9× | 397k | 9k | 1.4k | 29 |
| 68 | Sep 29, '22 | Waspish line from @AngelaRayner - 'Liz Truss has finally broken her long painful silence with a series of short painful silences.' | 2.8× | 0 | 25k | 3.4k | 80 |
| 69 | Aug 22, '24 | What a monumentally shit thing to write. Maybe this kid loves his father and was overwhelmed by occasion | 2.6× | 358k | 9.1k | 519 | 40 |
| 70 | Mar 12, '22 | And tomorrow it’s Newcastle vs Chelsea. One team operating under special licence; the other free to do what it likes. Welcome to moral ambiguity…. | 2.6× | 0 | 20k | 4.6k | 140 |
| 71 | Jun 7, '24 | Sorry, did @RishiSunak really just say that his return early from D-Day to give an interview to ITV’s @PaulBrandITV so he could attack Starmer should not be politicised???? I mean, | 2.5× | 351k | 8.4k | 1.7k | 61 |
| 72 | Oct 14, '22 | I float this. Throughout the Tory leadership contest there was this whole narrative that Liz Truss has been under-estimated her whole career. Is it possible that it’s completely th | 2.5× | 0 | 22k | 2.3k | 46 |
| 73 | Oct 18, '19 | Wow. #Erdogan tells news conference the letter sent by @realDonaldTrump telling him not to be a ‘tough guy’ wasn’t in line with diplomatic or political customs. He said they wouldn | 2.4× | 0 | 11k | 5.9k | 224 |
| 74 | Jan 14, '22 | So who’s having the worst week? A. Boris Johnson B. (HRH) Prince Andrew C. Novak Djokovic | 2.4× | 0 | 18k | 2k | 82 |
| 75 | Jul 24, '22 | Hang on - so we’ve taken back control of our borders cos we no longer want to be part of the EU, but Grant Shapps still expects the French to let us come and go as we please across | 2.3× | 0 | 18k | 3.5k | 102 |
| 76 | Sep 11, '22 | Could this Dan Wootton related to the one below? Just asking… | 2.0× | 0 | 18k | 2.1k | 88 |
| 77 | Sep 12, '22 | I’m in the ‘God Save the King’ camp, but a kid wanting to protest against the monarchy? Is that an arrestable offence in a country that cherishes free speech? Sincerely hope not | 2.0× | 0 | 15k | 1.8k | 149 |
| 78 | Nov 28, '21 | And that’s a wrap. Farewell USA. Have had a ball. | 1.9× | 0 | 20k | 280 | 29 |
| 79 | Sep 8, '22 | I have known @thehuwedwards for 30+ years from when we were young,ambitious political correspondents. At times it was like the Hunger Games as we all fought (each other) to get on | 1.8× | 0 | 20k | 356 | 43 |
| 80 | Oct 13, '22 | A cabinet minister until a few weeks ago has just told me @trussliz ‘has unleashed hell on this country.’ The language being used by senior Conservatives, the incredulity, the cold | 1.8× | 0 | 14k | 2.8k | 84 |
| 81 | May 29, '25 | The paperback edition out today, with new chapter on Trump, Musk and Farage (which sounds like a dodgy law firm…..) | 1.8× | 244k | 313 | 44 | 23 |
| 82 | Sep 9, '22 | I am totally bewildered @metoffice. Why is it a mark of respect to give us the weather forecast for today, but not tomorrow? Or to put it another way, why is it disrespectful to gi | 1.7× | 0 | 15k | 1.3k | 122 |
| 83 | Aug 24, '22 | Umm. Have you missed top line? Am sure @maitlis had something to say about relationship between BBC and Conservative Party…. | 1.7× | 0 | 14k | 2.5k | 134 |
| 84 | Sep 11, '20 | I cannot exaggerate the bewilderment in Washington over what UK government is doing over #GoodFridayAgreement. Why, a senior official asked me, is Britain doing something that will | 1.7× | 0 | 9.9k | 3.7k | 58 |
| 85 | Sep 11, '22 | @danwootton Nothing speaks ‘quiet reflection’ like having a friend film it to post on social media | 1.7× | 0 | 17k | 726 | 22 |
| 86 | Sep 23, '22 | £ crashing against $ Borrowing soaring Unfunded tax cuts Interest rates climbing Inflation at 10% Make it easier to frack Fair to ask what narrative would be if this were happening | 1.6× | 0 | 12k | 2.4k | 73 |
| 87 | Jul 23, '22 | Total nightmare for all those families. But isn’t this just logical result of us wanting to take back control of our border, and the French, therefore, having to take back control | 1.5× | 0 | 12k | 2.1k | 38 |
| 88 | Oct 19, '21 | Some personal news: I’m off.. After 7+ fab years in DC, 3 books, 3 presidents (one kept me busier than others) it’s time to return to the UK and BBC mothership. Planning a long bre | 1.5× | 0 | 15k | 229 | 21 |
| 89 | Jul 7, '22 | Wow. @BorisJohnson blames the herd instinct of the Conservative Party in Westminster for his demise. No attempt at self reflection for the problems and travails that have led to th | 1.5× | 0 | 13k | 1.6k | 27 |
| 90 | Feb 3, '22 | Has there been anything like this? - it’s the night of the long knives in reverse The resignations from @BorisJohnson inner circle in one evening of: - chief of staff - policy chie | 1.4× | 0 | 10k | 1.9k | 53 |
| 91 | Apr 24, '22 | I think the support for @AngelaRayner would have a wee bit more force if it didn’t look like they were copying each other’s homework…. | 1.2× | 0 | 11k | 1.3k | 15 |
| 92 | Apr 29, '22 | Just seen headline ‘Boris jailed for two and a half years’ That made me look twice…. | 1.2× | 0 | 11k | 747 | 9 |
| 93 | Jan 4, '22 | There are 1000s of people - fully vaccinated - who haven’t been able to get to see family members and loved ones in Australia because of travel restrictions still in place. But som | 1.2× | 0 | 10k | 1.2k | 40 |
| 94 | Aug 7, '22 | If you delete the word ‘Partygate’ from this tweet and insert ‘January 6 inquiry’ instead, this could have been written by any Trump ultra, who refuses to see anything wrong with t | 1.2× | 0 | 9.2k | 1.8k | 32 |
| 95 | Dec 10, '22 | Sorry. Poor form from Ronaldo not to stay to shake hands with the victors, Morocco. For a man who is such an iconic figure…shabby | 1.1× | 0 | 11k | 383 | 16 |
| 96 | May 3, '22 | My computer has just asked me to confirm I’m not a robot, but I’m worried if I do this and press ‘verify’ I might end up being taken to a dodgy website….. | 1.1× | 0 | 11k | 771 | 25 |
| 97 | Apr 18, '22 | So why did he pay the fixed penalty notice in that case? | 1.1× | 0 | 8.9k | 1.4k | 17 |
| 98 | Oct 3, '22 | What is jarring (to use the Schapps word) is that this such a humbling moment for the government and the chancellor, and yet the tone of @KwasiKwarteng is pure arrogance | 1.1× | 0 | 9.4k | 1.3k | 15 |
| 99 | Oct 15, '22 | Miriam Margoyles on @BBCr4today 😳😳😳😳😳😂😂😂😂😂🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈🙈 | 1.0× | 0 | 10k | 423 | 18 |
| 100 | Sep 19, '22 | A line that has a very sharp and piercing point. Wonder whether anyone in the Abbey felt a sharp, stabbing pain | 1.0× | 0 | 9.3k | 792 | 57 |
| 101 | Oct 19, '22 | Why did @Peston think that having the script line ‘Jeremy Hunt’s cuts’ would end well? | 0.9× | 0 | 9.2k | 550 | 48 |
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