Philip Parr @PhilipLParr

@BBCNews For the love of God, will one of your producers please tell Shaun Ley to stop hollering pointless questions at anyone who comes within earshot!

It's a topsy-turvy world ... Peter Bone is talking good sense on Vic Derbyshire.

@MirandaFrance1 @prospect_uk Talking of half-remembered selves ... Hi Miranda! Just stumbled across this (we're not exactly in the epicentre of the literary world up here). Excellent review. Hope you're drafting another book of your own.

@captainward Happened in Civil Service selection too. A fellow interviewee asked which school I attended. I told him he wouldn't have heard of it. He replied, 'Oh, I've heard of most of them.' Of course, he looked utterly blank when I told him the name of my comp. He was wearing an Eton tie!

Why is stock trading an 'essential industry'? Here's what the FTSE's done over the last 2 weeks: londonstockexchange.com/exchange/price… Panic falls, crazy rises, so we end up exactly where we were. And every day the traders clog up trains & Tubes that are needed by USEFUL members of society.

@gazettenewsdesk Why are you still running this story? Hawkshead has cancelled the festival, but this story might prompt people to congregate there. Get on it, you're meant to be a NEWSpaper.

@bbcquestiontime Is it within your guidelines to broadcast questions from the same Tory activist 4 times in a year? If it is & you give activists from other parties similar opportunities, fine. But if Ryan Jacobsz keeps slipping through your net, your net needs mending, urgently!

@VoteLabour118 @wlate17 @RoadTaxWhypay @skwawkbox Thank you! I was wondering who the hell he was, mainly because he has that Gove/Raab making-a-point-without-pointing thumb gesture. Thought he must be a Central Office-trained Tory footsoldier and here's the proof.

@RoryStewartUK Eurosceptic? Really? What he actually said was that hubris and arrogance from a Tory PM singly failed to achieve results when negotiating with Europe. The EU is a very different organisation from the EEC, but some things never change.

@RoryStewartUK @Arron_banks The most staggering aspect of this is that Arron Banks genuinely believes that one of his insults would ever be treated as anything other than a compliment.

Presumably the argument is that Johnson isn't quite 'bad' enough yet. Give it time, Quentin, I'm sure he'll oblige, given half a chance.

Quentin Letts @thequentinletts

7 years ago

Mugabe was a bad man yet he helped win his country independence. As we have learned here this week, that's never easy.

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@RoryStewartUK @BBCr4today Can't say I was delighted to move into a Tory constituency 9 years ago. I am delighted now that it's not (if only for 6 weeks). But you would be getting my vote even if Cummings' puppets hadn't removed the whip. We need noble, principled MPs, not egomaniacs. You're admirable.

@RoryStewartUK Please support Edenside's efforts to remain open, as Cumbria CC seems to be building a (spurious) case to close it.

In case anyone thinks Trump can't win because the US public aren't that stupid. Well, this one has won twice. x.com/ColeMoreton/st…

Cole Moreton @ColeMoreton

11 years ago

Merry Christmas from Nevada assemblywoman Michele Fiore. Guns don't kill people, Santas do.

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@prodnose Cheers Dan. On Sat night BBC led with the nutter in Leytonstone and relegated THIS to 2nd story! Glad you, at least, understand.

@Les_Dubh Holy Moly! I checked LAST WEEK for any news and there was nothing, not even on her label's website. Thanks, Les.

Astonishing, even by Tory standards. Firm promise in manifesto, gain maybe 1m votes, renege on promise 2months later! gu.com/p/4bxp6/stw

Writer of the best episodes of the best comedy ever. So sad when real talent dies far too young. RIP Harris. You were a genius.

@RoryStewartUK Excellent piece. Many of issues you raise are challenging. But govt could fix OAP fuel poverty tomorrow if it was so minded.

@designandbooks Holy moley. What a star. Cambridge it is then. Do you feel intellectually intimidated by her?