Well used ashtrays at COP11. Perhaps they should try harm reduction products?

May you all be damned - @cjsnowdon

Britain's top ten taxpayers contributed £2.72bn in 2024. Britain's national debt goes up by £2.72bn every 6 days, 8 hours and 24 minutes.

Our second to last panel of the day: @Elksy91, @cjsnowdon, & @papaioannoy shared how consumer groups can counter anti-THR narratives. Stream here:

BMA are striking for the 13th time since 2023 That’s equal to more than 50 days lost to strike action They are asking for a 26% pay rise, the highest public sector uplift…after receiving a 29% pay increase over the last three years. Here’s why we shouldn’t give them an inch🧵

Bonkers

OK, the LNER knife attacker was “UK-born”. So were the 7/7 terrorists. So were the Woolwich Barracks, London Bridge and Westminster Bridge murderers. So was Axel Rudakubana. They grew up watching Blue Peter; but they heard ancestral voices prophesying war. Me in @spectator.

If anyone was in any doubt as to how Labour MPs and BBC staff march in lockstep, look no further than attempts to discredit the estimable Robbie Gibb.

No one is forced to buy The Times - or else risk a prison sentence - in order to read any other newspaper.

Almost uniquely among public bodies, the BBC’s gets formal protection from transparency. With its journalistic output now mired in a series of grave scandals, that is no longer sustainable Sunlight is the best disinfectant A thread on the BBC & the Freedom of Information Act

'Still a brilliant news organisation? Give me a break.' @NickFerrariLBC responds to the BBC World Affairs Editor John Simpson claiming that 'only the corporation's enemies could possibly be glad' at the resignations.

$1bn = £761,785,000. Britain’s national debt rises by the amount Trump is threatening to sue the BBC for every 42 hours and 40 minutes.

Sounds an awful lot like asking for a bribe to me... EU to demand €6bn from Britain for rearmament

UK’s Smoking Ban Blocked After EU Member States Raise Legal Concerns https://t.co/taMDuNdNXk

Great to see one of my investigations in @Telegraph! We've handed £20m in aid to Ethiopia to “improve its economy”, including funding for their tax collection service. Why are we doing this when our own tax code is the longest and most complex in the world?

Taking from my pensions savings to deliver inflation busting increases to state pension spending today. The cruel irony here is there’s no way I’m getting state pension. The system will have long since collapsed by the time I retire. Good to know more will be taken from me to

The annual remuneration of both Davie and Turness (as of July 2025) was £970,000. The national debt goes up by £970,000 every 3 minutes and 16 seconds.

Imagine working your whole life, 45 years in work, 15 in retirement, only to hand over £1.3 million to the taxman. Well, you don't have to, because that’s the reality for the average British household 💷 Researcher @strickia explains our new paper, Lifetime Tax 2025 👇

We Conservatives should ask ourselves why (beyond pure electoral reasons) we have been unwilling or unable to say that the triple lock at least needs to be looked at. It's something that every think tank knows to be necessary, and it's very brave of @TiceRichard to say this.

🚨 Confirmed from the Government, racism is okay, provided it is against the right people. Discrimination based on skin colour should never be acceptable.