| 1 | Mar 12, '23 | I am aware of a vile and obvious libel against me made on here last night and am taking legal advice accordingly. Thank you for all your expressions of concern. | 72.3× | 11.2M | 42k | 2.7k | 232 |
| 2 | Oct 28, '23 | How can calling for a ceasefire be controversial? It’s literally asking people killing civilians to stop. You can ignore the calls, disagree with them or try to explain why the kil | 23.6× | 3.6M | 34k | 6.9k | 246 |
| 3 | Mar 19, '23 | Exactly 200 years after William Wilberforce founded the Anti-Slavery Society, here’s Suella Braverman at a facility to which she hopes to deport trafficked victims of modern slaver | 21.7× | 3.4M | 25k | 6.6k | 140 |
| 4 | Apr 25, '23 | Several household name BBC journalists should be required to explain why, *for seven years*, they have failed to do what @MarinaPurkiss does here with consummate ease... | 20.3× | 3.1M | 28k | 5.5k | 1.1k |
| 5 | May 6, '23 | The police have arrested what appear to be peaceful republican protesters in Trafalgar Square. It’s in everybody’s interests, especially the Met’s, that they explain exactly why as | 19.8× | 3.1M | 40k | 10k | 181 |
| 6 | Mar 8, '23 | If you’re cross about being compared to Nazis, then calling for your critics to be silenced & sacked probably isn’t the best way to prove them wrong. | 13.6× | 2.1M | 37k | 5.7k | 108 |
| 7 | Jun 19, '24 | Lads, you literally put the son of a KGB spy in the House of Lords & refused to investigate Russian interference in U.K. politics. Pack it in, you look ridiculous. | 10.4× | 1.6M | 36k | 5.8k | 335 |
| 8 | Oct 17, '24 | "And now you can't even block me on Twitter..." | 10.3× | 1.6M | 42k | 6.7k | 832 |
| 9 | Mar 10, '23 | I wonder whether the BBC has created a situation where anyone prepared to present MOTD tomorrow immediately becomes a de facto supporter of legislation currently being cheered to t | 10.1× | 1.6M | 27k | 3.5k | 61 |
| 10 | Jan 29, '23 | Suella Braverman broke the ministerial code. Sunak put her back in the Cabinet a few days later. So did Priti Patel. Johnson promoted her. You can see why Zahawi thought he could s | 9.5× | 1.5M | 29k | 6k | 69 |
| 11 | Dec 18, '22 | That Jeremy Clarkson column is right down there with the Hopkins one about cockroaches. Gobsmacked that it got published at all and staggered that the editor of The Sun wasn't aske | 9.2× | 1.4M | 27k | 3.1k | 67 |
| 12 | Nov 4, '23 | After thirteen years of Tory rule, an unprecedented number of people are sleeping in tents. The Tory response is to ban tents. | 8.7× | 1.3M | 29k | 7k | 122 |
| 13 | Mar 8, '23 | Gary Lineker standing by his words because he has principles; Suella Braverman blaming her words on someone else because she doesn't. | 8.6× | 1.3M | 27k | 3.9k | 57 |
| 14 | Nov 11, '23 | The Home Secretary deliberately incited hate & violence on Armistice Day at the actual Cenotaph. Household name journalists, editors & politicians gleefully joined in. This | 7.8× | 1.2M | 24k | 5.1k | 128 |
| 15 | Jul 5, '24 | Boris Johnson put his own brother & the son of a sanctioned KGB spy in the House of Lords. On his *first day in the job* PM Sir Keir Starmer has promoted a former chief scienti | 7.5× | 1.2M | 25k | 3.4k | 295 |
| 16 | Aug 7, '24 | From now on, a vote for Reform is clearly a vote for racist riots. That’s why Farage is so rattled. #FaragesRiots | 7.4× | 1.1M | 29k | 5.6k | 176 |
| 17 | Mar 22, '23 | You’ve spelt bullshit wrong, lads. | 7.0× | 1.1M | 25k | 3k | 37 |
| 18 | Mar 10, '23 | Thanks to @garylineker & @IanWright0, somebody is currently trying to explain to Tory donor, Boris Johnson loan facilitator & Boris Johnson-nominated chairman of the BBC, R | 6.7× | 1M | 31k | 4.9k | 42 |
| 19 | Feb 17, '18 | My youngest has had my old phone for a couple of years. Just for games, which I download for her before disconnecting the internet. Still has my old contacts though & it turns | 4.9× | 0 | 111k | 20k | 23 |
| 20 | Apr 27, '18 | Brexit latest: Outrage as people who voted to abolish free movement discover that abolishing free movement means movement will no longer be free. | 3.9× | 0 | 62k | 29k | 68 |
| 21 | Jun 2, '22 | If this was Meghan’s kid the Mail & co would have wanted him in the Tower by teatime. | 3.6× | 0 | 96k | 6.7k | 636 |
| 22 | May 24, '20 | I don’t want to jump the gun or anything but Boris Johnson isn’t a very good Prime Minister, is he? | 3.2× | 0 | 79k | 9.4k | 64 |
| 23 | Dec 5, '24 | My first book, the chillingly prescient but also very entertaining ‘How To Be Right’, is on special offer on Kindle for the whole of December. A steal at £1.99. Treat yourself or s | 2.7× | 423k | 280 | 43 | 42 |
| 24 | Jun 15, '20 | There’s something rather significant about Boris Johnson speaking up for statues of dead white supremacists while Marcus Rashford speaks up for 1.3 million hungry British children | 2.5× | 0 | 55k | 12k | 101 |
| 25 | Feb 26, '22 | Until last week, Russian oligarchs could buy a British passport, no questions asked. Today, there is no ‘legal’ route to the U.K. for Ukrainians fleeing Russian war crimes. Both ar | 2.4× | 0 | 49k | 13k | 201 |
| 26 | Apr 14, '18 | Dropping bombs on a country but voting against allowing refugee children fleeing the conflict to come here. That’s got to be worse than running through a wheat field. | 2.0× | 0 | 35k | 14k | 31 |
| 27 | Nov 24, '21 | *people* | 1.9× | 0 | 51k | 5.2k | 76 |
| 28 | Dec 20, '21 | If they served cheese & wine at COBRA meetings, maybe the Prime Minister would turn up. | 1.9× | 0 | 48k | 5.7k | 40 |
| 29 | Oct 4, '20 | This Sainsbury’s social media chap has a better grasp of reality than the best-paid columnists in the country. Kudos to Chris. | 1.9× | 0 | 46k | 5.7k | 269 |
| 30 | Jun 12, '20 | My favourite politicians are the ones who vote to close libraries but claim that statues of slavers are of immense educational importance. | 1.8× | 0 | 39k | 9.1k | 113 |
| 31 | Nov 27, '19 | If the chairman of the Spectator (@afneil) really can’t get an interview with the ex-editor of the Spectator (@BorisJohnson), he could always ask the current deputy editor to have | 1.8× | 0 | 30k | 13k | 130 |
| 32 | Mar 12, '21 | The Mash Report, a comedy program critical of the government has been axed by the state broadcaster, reportedly for political reasons, and at the behest of a director general appoi | 1.7× | 0 | 33k | 9k | 159 |
| 33 | Dec 8, '21 | If you think these lies are bad, wait until you hear about Brexit. | 1.7× | 0 | 42k | 5.9k | 53 |
| 34 | Oct 4, '22 | Children of immigrants who despise other immigrants probably shouldn’t be in charge of immigration policy. They often seem to be dealing with personal issues that shouldn’t be anyw | 1.7× | 0 | 39k | 6.1k | 228 |
| 35 | May 17, '20 | I've read the Mail on Sunday 'story' twice so that you don't have to. Keir Starmer bought a field behind his parents' house in 1996 so his late mother could care for rescue donkeys | 1.6× | 0 | 35k | 7.3k | 88 |
| 36 | Apr 5, '20 | Why are we demanding footballers hand over their money and not, say, Jacob Rees Mogg? Or the Queen? | 1.6× | 0 | 35k | 6.6k | 37 |
| 37 | Dec 9, '21 | It’s very hard to escape the conclusion that Cressida Dick prioritises keeping her job over doing it. | 1.6× | 0 | 38k | 5.4k | 62 |
| 38 | May 27, '20 | I would say - and for once I'm actually vaguely qualified to comment - that BBC managers, already bruised by lack of access to ministers, have bowed to pressure from the government | 1.6× | 0 | 36k | 6.3k | 51 |
| 39 | Dec 4, '19 | Our Prime Minister has been publicly owned by a beef burger. | 1.6× | 0 | 34k | 7.5k | 59 |
| 40 | Aug 28, '21 | Just opened a packet of paracetamol. Or ‘a new hospital’ as Sajid Javid would call it. | 1.5× | 0 | 38k | 5.1k | 59 |
| 41 | Jun 30, '20 | If you’re in Leicester & you think you’ve got Covid-19 you’re still allowed to drive to Durham with your family, right? | 1.5× | 0 | 34k | 5.6k | 26 |
| 42 | Jun 7, '20 | If, God forbid, there is a second spike it will be because the government failed to provide clarity & leadership at every stage of the lockdown. Cummings was the final nail in | 1.5× | 0 | 31k | 6.7k | 87 |
| 43 | Oct 23, '20 | There are two types of people in the world: 1) People who look at Marcus Rashford's timeline & feel a combination of warmth, concern & gratitude. 2) People who look at Marc | 1.5× | 0 | 35k | 5.5k | 69 |
| 44 | Dec 8, '21 | Fancy an early night tonight. But I’m worried that thirty of my closest colleagues might have an illegal party downstairs without me noticing. | 1.5× | 0 | 38k | 4.1k | 41 |
| 45 | Oct 20, '20 | It's not Andy Burnham they've humiliated, it's themselves. It's not Andy Burnham they've insulted, it's the people of Greater Manchester. | 1.5× | 0 | 34k | 6.1k | 27 |
| 46 | May 24, '20 | He. Didn't. Get. Any. Childcare. | 1.5× | 0 | 34k | 5.5k | 36 |
| 47 | May 6, '20 | Why do you think he’s deleted this? | 1.5× | 0 | 29k | 7.9k | 149 |
| 48 | May 25, '20 | He should probably mention that the day of the wholly unjustified trip to Barnard Castle was his wife's birthday. | 1.5× | 0 | 32k | 6.5k | 50 |
| 49 | Jan 11, '20 | Good grief. I had no idea how much of this shit she’d put up with - and I have to follow the news for work. | 1.4× | 0 | 29k | 6.1k | 460 |
| 50 | Oct 23, '22 | Boris Johnson is, by some distance, the worst thing ever to happen to British politics. A serial liar, a proven cheat, an enemy of common decency. If he has finally buckled under t | 1.4× | 0 | 31k | 5.6k | 80 |
| 51 | Aug 17, '22 | Everywhere you look, there's a sense of a country teetering on the brink of something awful. I've been speaking to people about their concerns every day for 20 years & never kn | 1.4× | 0 | 31k | 5k | 113 |
| 52 | Oct 19, '22 | Even I'm bored of pointing this out, but British politics broke when Brexit lies were presented by almost all of the British media as an equal & opposite counterpoint to realit | 1.4× | 0 | 30k | 6.1k | 124 |
| 53 | Jun 15, '20 | The people arguing that hungry British children should be denied help in the school holidays seem to be *exactly the same people* that argue we should 'help our own' instead of sen | 1.4× | 0 | 30k | 6.1k | 59 |
| 54 | Jan 19, '22 | What an amazing coincidence that the right time for Boris Johnson to lift all covid restrictions just happens to be the precise moment that Boris Johnson is most desperate to appea | 1.3× | 0 | 31k | 5.3k | 80 |
| 55 | Dec 17, '21 | A lot of Tories seem shocked that Boris Johnson turned out to be Boris Johnson. There were quite a few clues. | 1.3× | 0 | 35k | 3.5k | 56 |
| 56 | Jul 7, '20 | It took him *one day* to shift from ‘Clap for our carers’ to ‘Castigate our carers in a desperate, shameful bid to wash blood from my own hands.’ When people show you who they are, | 1.3× | 0 | 28k | 6.5k | 49 |
| 57 | Dec 7, '21 | Wow. | 1.3× | 0 | 33k | 3.6k | 362 |
| 58 | Feb 24, '22 | When people tell you who they are, believe them the first time. | 1.3× | 0 | 29k | 5.7k | 157 |
| 59 | Jul 31, '20 | All roads lead to Barnard Castle. The sheer shamelessness of it, the epic sense of entitlement you would need even to contemplate lying so brazenly, the sickness at the heart of go | 1.3× | 0 | 28k | 5.9k | 82 |
| 60 | May 24, '20 | Big moment this. The Prime Minister is blatantly & demonstrably lying to the British people on live television. Some poor souls will tug their forelocks & welcome it, of co | 1.3× | 0 | 27k | 6.4k | 39 |
| 61 | Aug 18, '22 | Sewage being pumped into our seas by businesses making enormous profits while Tories call for *less* regulation of business sums up the state of the nation. | 1.3× | 0 | 28k | 5.9k | 67 |
| 62 | Jul 8, '22 | A genuinely beautiful story about a little boy who grew up to support sending refugees to Rwanda. | 1.3× | 0 | 30k | 4.8k | 138 |
| 63 | May 28, '20 | I almost envy people who can look at the death toll, the rule-breaking aide & the hopeless Prime Minister & think: “Yep. That Johnson is a class act. Great government this. | 1.3× | 0 | 28k | 5.7k | 64 |
| 64 | Nov 5, '20 | Trump supporters chanting ‘Count the votes!’ in Arizona and ‘Stop the count!’ in Michigan sums it all up perfectly. It’s the most obvious manifestation of his regime’s successful a | 1.3× | 0 | 29k | 5.3k | 143 |
| 65 | Mar 13, '22 | Hiding in plain sight for years. | 1.3× | 0 | 24k | 7.5k | 239 |
| 66 | Aug 17, '20 | What exactly is Boris Johnson taking a holiday from? It's certainly not work. | 1.3× | 0 | 29k | 4.3k | 31 |
| 67 | Aug 24, '22 | Thank you, @maitlis. Speaking the truth in a time of universal deceit is a revolutionary act… | 1.3× | 0 | 27k | 5.9k | 245 |
| 68 | Sep 1, '22 | It seems quite fitting that Boris Johnson’s final official speech as PM should involve barefaced lies about Gordon Brown & a suggestion that new kettles might somehow alleviate | 1.3× | 0 | 29k | 5k | 44 |
| 69 | May 23, '20 | If anything does for Cummings, it will be the stories of other people's endurance. The unattended funerals. The unvisited parents. The struggles to look after our kids while we wer | 1.2× | 0 | 25k | 6.4k | 45 |
| 70 | Oct 20, '20 | See what happens when you trust Boris Johnson? If only there'd be some clue in the way he's treated his wives, mistresses, children, employers, constituents, manifesto promises, pa | 1.2× | 0 | 27k | 5.7k | 59 |
| 71 | Jul 23, '22 | If the French are responsible for the mess in Dover, it rather rubbishes any claim that *we* have taken back control. | 1.2× | 0 | 29k | 4.3k | 76 |
| 72 | Mar 4, '22 | Imagine being reduced to pretending that you really believe Gavin Williamson deserves a knighthood, Priti Patel cares about Ukrainian refugees & Boris Johnson has led the world | 1.2× | 0 | 27k | 5.4k | 82 |
| 73 | May 23, '22 | If you've spent your entire adult life lying to wives, mistresses, employers, interviewers, colleagues & voters, lying to Parliament is unlikely to trouble your conscience. | 1.2× | 0 | 29k | 4.4k | 45 |
| 74 | Oct 11, '21 | If they can turn you against doctors, firefighters & teachers, they can turn you against anyone. | 1.2× | 0 | 28k | 4.8k | 119 |
| 75 | Jun 9, '20 | I don't want to speak too soon but leaving the European Union doesn't seem to have made any of the racists any happier... | 1.2× | 0 | 29k | 4k | 43 |
| 76 | Oct 31, '22 | This deliberate & inciteful hatred of humans, in this case refugees, is all they've got. It's all they've ever had. It's how Brexit happened. It's how Gullis ended up in Parlia | 1.2× | 0 | 25k | 5.6k | 72 |
| 77 | Jan 11, '20 | Her breakfast causes drought & murder, her wedding bouquet could have killed her niece, she rubs her baby bump because she’s vain or ‘acting’. And they published all this crap | 1.2× | 0 | 27k | 4.6k | 105 |
| 78 | Jan 1, '20 | I see we’re already at the bit where we’re being urged to ‘come together’ by the people who lied & cheated to tear us apart in the first place - and who still can’t describe a | 1.2× | 0 | 24k | 6k | 70 |
| 79 | May 24, '20 | He. Did. Not. Get. Any. Bloody. Childcare. In. Durham. | 1.2× | 0 | 27k | 4.5k | 26 |
| 80 | Mar 25, '22 | Still trying to process a Chancellor who’s offered zero help to the country’s poorest during an unprecedented cost of living crisis trying to shrug off questions about his wife’s h | 1.1× | 0 | 25k | 5.3k | 66 |
| 81 | Oct 17, '19 | I only started coming to work by tube because of Greta Thunberg. And now I run the risk of the train being hijacked by the lunatic fringe of Extinction Rebellion. Would they rather | 1.1× | 0 | 27k | 3.6k | 32 |
| 82 | Dec 19, '21 | We’ve spent five years pointing out, sometimes calmly, sometimes kindly, sometimes neither, that whatever you think you voted for was & is never going to happen. It might be he | 1.1× | 0 | 25k | 4.9k | 92 |
| 83 | Jul 7, '22 | You see those people being proved completely & catastrophically correct about Boris Johnson? Just wait until you hear what we said about Brexit. | 1.1× | 0 | 27k | 4.3k | 51 |
| 84 | Jun 30, '22 | Presumably, former chief whip Gavin Williamson got his ridiculous knighthood for keeping schtum about the extra-marital blow job that is now public knowledge anyway. What an utterl | 1.1× | 0 | 26k | 4.6k | 75 |
| 85 | Mar 4, '21 | I think I've worked it out. If Priti Patel is found guilty of doing something then it's no big deal & we should all move on. If Nicola Sturgeon or Meghan Markle are accused of | 1.1× | 0 | 26k | 4.4k | 70 |
| 86 | Dec 30, '21 | Running out of tests *after* insisting that frequent tests would assuage any need for further restrictions barely raises an eyebrow now. We have become completely inured to epic sh | 1.1× | 0 | 25k | 4.6k | 63 |
| 87 | Aug 19, '20 | This Tory tactic of being in power for ten years then complaining constantly about how shit everything is is nothing if not bold. | 1.1× | 0 | 26k | 4.4k | 60 |
| 88 | Apr 12, '22 | They can’t back down. Half of it’s Brexit, half of it’s the Johnson cult. They’ve inflicted immeasurable damage on our country & installed a leader so corrupt they have no choi | 1.1× | 0 | 24k | 5k | 76 |
| 89 | Dec 8, '21 | It's not difficult. He will say absolutely *anything* to get himself out of short term trouble. Whether he's talking to wives, mistresses, colleagues, the Commons or voters. The tr | 1.1× | 0 | 25k | 4.6k | 45 |
| 90 | Nov 20, '20 | Can’t believe Priti Patel is a bully. She seems so nice. | 1.1× | 0 | 29k | 1.6k | 26 |
| 91 | Dec 17, '21 | I know a lot of people aren't ready to hear this yet - and I know there's still a massive majority of those people in Parliament and the media - but electing a Prime Minister on th | 1.1× | 0 | 26k | 3.6k | 60 |
| 92 | Jan 11, '21 | If you do find yourself affected by temporary shortages of certain foodstuffs, do remember that ‘sovereignty’ is a perfect substitute for most ingredients in most recipes. | 1.1× | 0 | 25k | 3.9k | 68 |
| 93 | Oct 19, '22 | One day soon, our children & grandchildren will look at the last few years of British political history and wonder, more than anything else, why on earth people like Nigel Fara | 1.1× | 0 | 24k | 4.5k | 49 |
| 94 | Nov 21, '20 | Priti Patel bullies people who work for her. None of the people trying to ‘defend’ her work for her. Funny that. | 1.1× | 0 | 27k | 3k | 28 |
| 95 | Oct 14, '22 | If committed Lib Dem Liz Truss had decided in her twenties to infiltrate the Conservative Party in order to become leader & screw it up from the inside, how exactly would she h | 1.0× | 0 | 26k | 2.9k | 129 |
| 96 | Mar 5, '21 | Can't we just give the nurses the £350 million-a-week Brexit bonus? | 1.0× | 0 | 24k | 3.8k | 22 |
| 97 | Sep 4, '22 | Beyond brilliant. These ludicrous discussions & pretty much all political panels dance around the fact that we’re governed by dissembling imbeciles propelled to power by the ep | 1.0× | 0 | 24k | 3.5k | 441 |
| 98 | Jan 17, '22 | After a week of Downing Street scandals & with more on the way, the front page of today's Daily Mail states that Sir Keir Starmer is "under mounting pressure to apologise". And | 1.0× | 0 | 24k | 3.7k | 65 |
| 99 | Nov 6, '20 | What if all the people being proved completely right about Donald Trump & Boris Johnson were also right about Brexit? | 1.0× | 0 | 24k | 3.1k | 45 |
| 100 | Dec 4, '21 | Rocco Forte on the radio. Voted for Brexit and now can’t find staff to work in his restaurants & hotels. Unhappy about how few of his workers are British. His father came here | 1.0× | 0 | 24k | 3.1k | 72 |
| 101 | May 26, '20 | I don't want to jump the gun or anything but Dominic Cummings isn't that clever after all, is he? | 1.0× | 0 | 25k | 2.1k | 26 |
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