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1Apr 29, '25I’m trying to imagine turning 18 and my mum presenting me with 4000 emails.110×18.2M195k5k6.2k
2Oct 2, '17Number of Americans killed on battlefields in all wars in history: 1,396,733 Killed by firearms in the US since 1968: 1,516,863 (NYT)43×0105k72k9
3Jul 1, '23When they came for Nigel. We said nothing. You’re a brave soul Toby. It’s one bank. And you don’t know why. When they come for you, I promise I will say something. But it’ll be sar17.2×2.9M4.1k25618
4Mar 4, '23God you’re horrible. A wildly complex issue, reduced to your desire to win an argument and promote yourself.16.1×2.7M8.8k46832
5Jul 15, '23This is absolutely fucking brilliant. She’s Sherlock.14.3×2.4M13k774861
6Oct 20, '25How many people said, “All Hamas have to do to make this end is release the hostages”?13.2×2.2M76k18k3.6k
7Jul 11, '23Stop it. You’re more emotionally intelligent than this. We don’t know the complexities of what his family are going through. Or what dark thoughts are running through his head. Irr12.6×2.1M6.5k20734
8Jun 22, '23No stop it. It’s totally legitimate to say it’s mad we don’t put this empathy onto migrant boats. Totally legitimate. But don’t dehumanise these people. There’s a kid on there who’12.5×2.1M6.4k22321
9Aug 22, '23I’m a serial killer. I chose to end my serial killing. I did it before other serial killers. And for that, some gratitude is overdue.12×2M10k82057
10Jun 21, '23You are a nasty piece of work Toby. “Likely and “precipitated”. And “leading” cardiologists. Show us that they have access to his body . Show us that they had access to his medical10.6×1.8M6.2k31720
11Nov 2, '24And now, the end is near. @rustyrockets10.6×1.8M18k1.1k354
12Jun 1, '23It’s time to stop piling in on this human being.9.8×1.6M8.7k28825
13Sep 25, '23Who’s “we”? If big Pharma are silencing the little person. What are you doing? Isn’t a really famous person sending a car to a 16 year old’s house a neat metaphor for the things yo9.0×1.5M4.6k21020
14Jul 18, '23Dan Wootton regularly told us he was morally superior to Caroline Flack. He sat in judgement over her. Let’s see how that checks out.8.7×1.5M14k1.5k47
15Oct 29, '23Peter Hitchens is pathetic8.3×1.4M5.4k271284
16Aug 29, '20As he was privately fighting it himself7.4×039k2.5k67
17Jun 19, '23Isn’t that just a hate crime?6.9×1.1M4.5k29219
18Oct 19, '24It was exactly like leaving the LAPD6.5×1.1M12k491226
19Jun 17, '23I realise this is simplistic. But encapsulated in this scene, is everything that a lot of people think the Tories are. As a piece of PR it’s such a disastrous vignette. Classless ,6.4×1.1M8k1.5k68
20Jul 14, '24No we’re fucking not6.1×1M9.2k31752
21Aug 4, '24Give me these illegal immigrants. Over these legal residents. Any day.5.9×985k8.9k576100
22Apr 9, '24Oh that’s weird because it did the opposite of killing me. 40 people worked around the clock to save my life when I was in a coma and expected to die. At the end of it, no bill. Th5.7×941k18k2.5k111
23May 29, '25All illegal. It’s not their land to take.5.2×870k38k6.6k401
24Nov 26, '24And barely anyone says anything5.0×830k4.6k1.7k165
25Jun 23, '23No, you haven’t.4.9×811k7.9k36518
26Mar 27, '24You’ve cut Prince William out of that picture. Harry is literally named in the suit as ‘an example’ of some Diddy has met. He met Prince William at the same event. All that courtes4.7×789k6.4k81384
27Jul 5, '25Dear @BBCWorld . How do you know, factually, that the strike on a bustling cafe killed a Hamas operative? How have you verified this?4.7×783k25k3.9k302
28Oct 19, '23I’ve been really surprised by how much I’ve come to dislike Rishi Sunak. He’s just a bland cautious wet nothing, with no ideas. He can’t even come up with a phrase that allows him 4.6×767k5.3k52355
29Oct 2, '20If Melania got it from him that means it travels a lot further thru the air than previously thought4.5×023k1.6k28
30Jul 11, '25An astonishing scandal. They were denied food. Then when they went to get food. They were shot for getting the food.4.3×722k20k5.7k373
31Sep 30, '22I approve this message4.2×018k2.6k43
32Jul 27, '23Remember, he made it clear to us that he was morally superior to Caroline Flack. And morally superior to all the people he sat in judgement over. Especially Phillip Schofield. Mora4.2×698k5.5k67117
33Apr 20, '25He will be in Prison.4.2×691k11k33759
34Oct 10, '25I agree with me4.1×687k8.1k454201
35Feb 12, '21It’s good to get that cleared up4.1×021k99838
36Sep 26, '24His son studied in his friend’s quiet apartment when there were people outside his house. There is no 20 thousand pounds.4.1×674k6.7k30646
37Nov 25, '23I’ve not always voted labour. But I do find it hard to imagine anyone sound of mind looking at the last 13 years: Brexit, austerity, the inner workings of the government during Cov4.0×668k6.4k1.5k125
38Jul 5, '23Thanks for everything you did for me 5 years ago today NHS. Thanks to the 40 people at Lewisham who saved me. Especially my consultant Vic Happy 75th. Couldn’t do it* without you (3.7×619k6.5k4729
39May 26, '22To be fair this is fucking good3.6×016k2.6k116
40Sep 10, '25I love you so much @GaryLineker You are a force for good in the world.3.5×574k8.6k52826
41May 19, '25I think @GaryLineker is a brave and principled man. He cares deeply about children being starved by Netenyahu . About the vast numbers of innocent people that have been killed with3.4×566k15k1.6k97
42Oct 28, '23Johnathan Freedland as effective and powerful as ever.3.4×565k4.1k941131
43Aug 8, '23He’s just a pub thug who became an MP.3.3×556k5.4k42712
44Oct 6, '25The Daily Mail has held its nerve & gone ahead with a 2025 piece asking, “why do adverts have black people in them?”3.3×549k6.7k1.1k521
45Apr 30, '25No. He sounds insane.3.2×531k5.8k16838
46Feb 26, '24You’re a deeply unpleasant person3.2×524k4.5k19020
47Mar 6, '25Good god. What’s happened in his life that’s led him here3.0×504k5.7k34362
48Jul 13, '25Just a technical error. Nothing serious.3.0×503k14k2k185
49May 20, '25What’s everyone’s breaking point?3.0×491k7.6k2.9k249
50Sep 11, '24What about if you vote for a particular candidate because you think immigrants eat dogs?2.9×489k8.8k35540
51Apr 5, '25Just an awful awful awful man.2.9×484k6k667176
52Nov 7, '19Netflix must be shitting themselves2.9×014k1.2k20
53Jun 24, '24Wonderful2.7×452k4.1k908335
54May 24, '25He is such a bad human being. So staggeringly soulless and cruel.2.6×430k7.8k935110
55Aug 4, '23Dear @danwootton, remember you went on about ITV having lots of questions to answer about Phillip Schofield? In the spirit of intellectual honesty, and consistency. Could you then 2.5×420k5.2k96413
56Oct 20, '22Free the Krishnan Guru-Murthy one2.5×012k1.4k7
57Oct 20, '25As soon as I sobered up2.5×414k6k56984
58Mar 23, '19You aren’t there. It was the most gentle group of humans I’ve ever encountered. It was really good humored and populated by people who basically worry that that if we leave, especi2.4×011k1.6k6
59Aug 31, '24“Alleged” Christ. Find a single report where the BBC has called a Russian air strike on Ukraine “alleged”. Good luck. The way we report on Israeli government decisions is one of th2.3×385k7k1k85
60May 11, '19What she is saying is simply, categorically and faultlessly not true. This is Britain. Old people furiously applauding rabid paranoid bullshit about an institution that was success2.2×08.1k1.9k85
61Sep 4, '21View post on X2.2×09.9k1.5k46
62Mar 10, '23What’s the policy again?2.2×360k7.9k1.4k25
63Jul 10, '25Why isn’t this called out so much more?2.2×360k12k3.3k151
64Mar 4, '20This is Vic, head of ICU at Lewisham & Greenwich who won the big NHS award at the end of last night. He’s also the consultant who saved my life. He decided not to come to the a2.0×011k6517
65May 17, '25What’s everyone’s breaking point?1.9×324k9.4k2.7k177
66Nov 12, '24Well said. The thing that is not said enough about @GaryLineker is how brave is. Almost no one says anything about what’s happening in Gaza. Almost no broadcasters speak out as tho1.9×323k9.3k2k77
67Oct 12, '25What are we about to discover?1.9×323k5.1k798118
68Apr 2, '20View post on X1.9×07k1.9k46
69Jun 16, '25“Despite 34x more Palestinian deaths, Israeli fatalities received 33x more coverage per death”.1.8×307k14k3.8k539
70Jul 21, '23Hypocrisy is at his core. There are no beliefs. His opinions are for money.1.8×306k4.3k51311
71May 4, '24You mean the biggest re-election result for any mayor and an 11 point gap?1.8×304k4.2k31015
72Oct 1, '24Thank you underground transgender mafia.1.8×304k5.3k22140
73Dec 23, '18Who are the morons who wrote the headline about the morons who turned out not to be morons? Prejudicial, nasty, inaccurate journalism that all said they didn’t do anymore. There ar1.8×07.5k1.3k1
74Aug 4, '24To those saying this is happening because British governments haven’t an honest conversation with ordinary British people about Immigration. You don’t storm a holiday inn full of f1.8×294k4.1k65036
75Jun 22, '19I’ll always remember the consultant telling me that I was moments from dying. And had Jeremy Hunt achieved his wish of closing down Lewisham Hospital, the extra journey time to the1.7×06.3k1.9k13
76May 24, '25A doctor in Gaza had her 9 burned and dead children handed back to her this morning. Yeah, I want Palestine to be free.1.7×289k6k1.1k63
77Jul 19, '18Could have split these into two tweets. But both Cliff Richard and I are pleased to be in your thoughts.1.7×08.7k6355
78Mar 24, '25The director of a documentary that won an Oscar LAST MONTH. And still. Barely anyone says anything.1.6×270k11k4.5k227
79Nov 7, '24And barely anyone says anything1.6×268k14k4.7k201
80May 14, '25For the rest of my life, I will never understand why @Keir_Starmer doesn’t call out the govt of Israel for using starvation as a weapon of war. Watch Channel 4 News, see those star1.6×263k5.5k1.3k66
81Jul 14, '25800 starving Palestinians have been shot whilst collecting food. Just… Say something about it.1.5×248k6.7k1.1k53
82Apr 4, '25Sometimes I like being reminded what an absolutely useless twat Boris Johnson is1.5×244k5.2k41918
83Jul 18, '18Last full day in hospital. Every facet of my life would be worse without Rebecca in it. How will I ever thank her? I was in a coma for nine or ten nights (I just learned). That’s a1.4×07.7k1192
84Sep 10, '25Goodness me, I love him1.4×227k6.8k45162
85Apr 13, '25Did he say this about the aid workers shot in the chest in Gaza and put in a mass grave?1.3×222k7.9k1.8k86
86Dec 20, '21Great interview by Adil Ray and Charlotte Hawkins of Dominic Raab on @GMB this morning. Dominic (talking about that garden photo) says Downing Street is the “cockpit of the emergen1.3×05.7k8255
87Dec 28, '20Brilliant1.3×05.6k765241
88Oct 21, '25Maccabi Tel Aviv are one of 138 teams with active stadium restrictions imposed by UEFA, most of which include a ban on all away fans.1.3×213k5.2k679129
89May 25, '24Remember when he missed the early Cobra meetings about Covid because he was writing a book about Shakespeare?1.3×209k6.7k58611
90Mar 21, '19When they ask her one day what she’d say to her 16 year old self, she’ll say, “nothing really, nailed it”.1.2×05.5k87236
91Oct 22, '22The Krishnan Guru-Murthy suspension makes no sense. Because you’re being controlling. You’re saying an employee in broadcasting can’t privately say to another colleague the word “c1.2×06k35211
92Oct 20, '25He might be one of the worst people in the world.1.2×196k6.3k1.2k140
93Mar 30, '20More Americans have now died with Covid-19 than died on 9/11. By the end of this week (if trend lines hold) more will have died than died in the Iraq War. By Monday the chances are1.2×04.6k91637
94Jun 8, '19The “deep regret” comes 5 to 6 hours later. Not 20 years later. He must have had a shit load.1.2×05.7k5165
95Jul 24, '24Truss: “She’s got the job because of a crazy situation”. A) She hasn’t got the job - she’s going to stand in an election. B) Truss didn’t stand an election but got the job because 1.1×182k4.7k52945
96Mar 26, '24Says a man who’s spent years bullying Meghan.1.0×166k5.5k33417
97Sep 28, '21Dinner with my mentor & friend. I might never have worked again without his support on The Big Breakfast. We had dinner (at Rowley’s, ran into the rain to get a cab, abandoned 0.9×05.2k358
98Jun 16, '25They are some of the poorest people in the world. In one of the most perilous positions in the world. 34x as many have died. Most women & children. With an average age of 18. T0.9×154k5k1.8k192
99Jun 8, '25According to UNICEF, the government of Israel has killed or injured 50,000 children0.7×121k5.8k2.1k93
100Jun 28, '25Yes @Channel4News and @louisa_compton This is the documentary. The BBC would not air.0.7×110k5.1k1.8k133

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