It's my #Twitterversary! I have been on Twitter for 11 years, since 10 Aug 2011 (via Twi Age 🥳).

How did the Foreign Office manage to spend £4,333.30 on two trips to the hairdresser? Why has their spending via government procurement cards shot up 45% since last September? And why won’t they answer these and dozens more related questions? Read all about it in my letter:

anyway great to see some recognition of the REAL victims of this economy, ie anyone earning over £150k, first time buyers who can afford a £425k flat, and bankers who need a bigger bonus.

look, the important thing is a payrise for you would be INFLATIONARY AND BAD but more £ for millionaires is GROWTH GENERATING AND GOOD, it's very simple, their money is just different ok

There are roughly six million households in the UK with a total income of less than £20,000. For the same cost as this policy we could have given each of those households £1,000. Which would do more to boost the economy?

Twelve years into this Conservative bin fire, I see that we have now slipped seamlessly from everything being the fault of the previous Labour government to everything being the fault of the next Labour government.

A pensioner breaking down because she can’t pay her bills; a full-time working mum scared she’ll lose her home; an 8 week-old baby living in a flat with no heating or hot water. This is the reality outside Westminster. The first of our special reports🧵itv.com/news/2022-10-1…

Context: the UK’s institutions and British society are dominated by those who have attended fee-paying schools. For example, the new cabinet is 60%+ private school (vs 7% of population). Private schoolers remain significantly over-represented at Oxford and Cambridge themselves.

Tomorrow's Paper Today 📰 WELCOME TO THE UK 🔴 No beds 🔴 No fresh air 🔴 No toilet doors 🔴 No compassion #TomorrowsPaperToday

The habit of MPs to leave in disgrace but write a little letter about their best bits is wild. Imagine if we all did it. ‘So sorry I got drunk at the office do and did a wee in that pot plant - I *know* HR have to sack me. But remember the project I managed in 2007. Nailed that.’

This is my cousin, if anyone can help or knows anything please get in touch

Hello and welcome to the UK, where people can’t afford to live. If you’re just joining us we are in week four of discussing our top story: Nigel Farage might have to bank at Halifax.

The people saying 'why didn't they come forward before?' are often part of the reason they didn't come forward before. Just enrages me.

Problem for Tories is when they shout “Angela Rayner!” most people think… Yeah but Wragg, Mone, Johnson, Ashcroft, Sunak, Hancock, Zahawi, Hunt, McVey, Pincher, Bone, Jenrick, Braverman, Patel, Benton, peerages, donors, expenses…. The stench of Tory degeneracy is overpowering.

This is such a great and true thread

Exactly this And the coverage will overshadow the important issues we actually need to talk about

Ah Farage, the gift that gives on giving. Like Herpes Simplex 1.

It's astonishing that Labour are going to win the biggest majority of the postwar era and the BBC cannot stop talking about Reform. Reform's relative success is absolutely part of the story but they are not the main story.