Robin Down 💙

@monstroso Always the trick with Agatha Christie - look who has the cast-iron alibi to begin with and it’s likely to be them

She’s very good at wrong-footing readers. You do push on through the books to find out the solution, which perhaps takes you out of them. How much depth is there to the characters? Do you care about them? I’m not sure. I’d say it’s mid range Christie.

Ok. Here’s the 2nd of my #CharlieCanRead posts to celebrate this year of reading, where I discuss the books I’m getting through in 2026. Today, Agatha Christie and Towards Zero goallin.org.uk 1 🧵

@EdwardJDavey Ed - please focus on real issues. Yours sincerely. The electorate

Winston Churchill helped defeat fascism in Europe. He deserves better than being replaced by a badger 🦡

@jomickane @EdwardJDavey I assume you’re joking

@EdwardJDavey If only we had a leader that was proud of their country and its history, somebody like Trump 🙄

@nicholas_mee Indeed!

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@nicholas_mee I had one in AMR colours - lovely thing but had to go to make way for the Shooting Brake

@robindown5 The UK started off with 20 to play with. We’ve already exported x2 to Australia as they didn’t get this model and can therefore import under SEVS scheme and save a fortune on luxury car tax. We will be running out soon!

@MartinSLewis Not on IHT, but can you please look into @Sky treatment of vulnerable people. Twice now my elderly parents have had Sky add extra products to their package and refuse to acknowledge that they couldn’t have requested it. Looking at forums I think my parents aren’t alone in this

Do you have practical questions on Inheritance tax? I'm planning to cover it in detail on my podcast this week (with specialists). So please suggest your questions by reply here (or email martinlewispodcast@bbc.co.uk) and podcast producer Simon will collate.

@nicholas_mee Lovely

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@lucymarionbrown @monstroso @MarkHam80780803 @JohnCleese Learn to read Lucy. You’ve just self-owned

@monstroso @MarkHam80780803 @JohnCleese 1. There are 2. Our police even attend them

The Law of England and the Scottish Law are the only acceptable Law in Britain

Russia must be delighted with Trump’s tantrum - threatening to invade a country because….checks notes…he didn’t win the Nobel peace prize. You really couldn’t make this up

@TommyLYeah Just a ridiculous number of turnovers in this game

FFS Jimbo. Secure the football!!

@BBCNewsnight @nicholaswatt Well. The important question is “are the Tories more electable now that Jenrick has gone?”. I think the answer has to be yes

"This is the first time a Leader of the Opposition will be said to be doing well when one of the key members of their Shadow Cabinet is leaving" Labour's Jake Richards criticises Kemi Badenoch's leadership after firing Robert Jenrick from the Conservative party #Newsnight

@MiamiMarlins_UK @ClaireCoutinho If only Clare’s post were true….

@ClaireCoutinho Nigel Farage can campaign around this topic alone and win the next GE. The energy policy is universally hated across the UK. Easy win for Reform

🚨🚨Wow. A bombshell moment. Ed Miliband has just released the price that you're going to pay for offshore wind for the next twenty years. £95/MWh in 2025 prices. The highest offshore wind price in a decade. Ed will try to spin that this is cheap. It is not. Gas power without a Carbon Tax is under £55. Average electricity price last year (including the Carbon Tax) was roughly £80. And that £95 for wind is just what we pay for the wind power itself. On top, you also have to pay for all the extra grid, paying wind farms to switch off, and having a very expensive backup power station on standby for a cold, windless day like we had just last week. And to try and sweeten the deal for the wind developers, Ed has extended the contracts so we're now going to be locked into these prices for TWENTY YEARS. By DESNZ’s own numbers the contract extension is worth 12% of the strike price to the wind developers, so a true comparison with last year's £82/MWh would be £102/MWh. Wind is getting significantly more expensive, not cheaper. Ed is locking us into a 10% fixed-rate mortgage because he doesn’t want the volatility of being on a 4% variable. He is cementing our uncompetitive electricity prices for even longer at a time when the world is becoming more unstable and we need cheap, reliable energy to compete. Labour promised to cut your bills by £300. This was how Ed Miliband said he was going to do it. But it has never been clearer that he cares more about his own clean power vanity project than he does about your energy bill.

This is what every Londoner has been saying for ages - those who complain about crime here typically don’t live here/the UK (and are likely to be reform voters). Londoners know it’s not the case (and the number is even higher for Londoners talking about their local area).

@TommyLYeah You’ve done very well keeping Kelleher this season too. Top keeper

Janelt fucking brilliant again tonight. Henry, Jensen, Thiago and Damsgaard all class but MoM has to be Yarmo. So pleased he scored, particularly as it happened just after Xhaka had done his best to get under his skin

I suspect @TommyLYeah is enjoying the game tonight 😂

Ps changing the sign to say the bags have been delivered may help you fiddle performance targets but I can guarantee we’re all still waiting for bags to arrive

@HeathrowAirport any chance we can get the bags from the Tenerife flight BA 417? Lots of people waiting….

@RupertLowe10 Total cobblers. You’ve clearly not lived in London for a while. Hate this nonsense being spouted by non-Londoners, whatever their political allegiance

London used to be the best city in the world. I loved living and working there. Genuinely loved it. The whole world wanted to be in London. Now? It is a dump. Outside a few select posh areas right in the middle of the city, it increasingly resembles the third world. It depresses me so much now, I can’t even tell you. It was our city, our great capital city. The best city. Slowly, but now more and more quickly, it has had its heart torn out. Gangs of men, very often foreign, roaming around stealing phones with no consequences. Police don’t care, nobody cares. Why would they? We’re told it’s just part and parcel of living in a big city. NO IT’S NOT. Filthy underground carriages. It stinks. Graffiti everywhere. Fare-dodgers jump the barriers, nobody from TfL does anything. Security guards just stand there gormless. Most don’t even speak proper English. What’s the point in them being there? Honestly? Decency is becoming less and less common on public transport. If you want to listen to your music, or have a phone call, put your headphones in. PLEASE. We don’t want to hear it your conversation. Obviously. So shut up. Dreadful ‘candy’ shops EVERYWHERE. Always empty. I’ll say it if nobody else will. It’s MONEY LAUNDERING. These awful ‘rickshaw’ bikes flying around, blaring out awful noises. Why is nothing done? It’s just insulting to the rest of us. I don’t want to listen to your shitty music. Nobody does. These e bikes. Just strewn across the streets. Piles of them. It's so damn rude. Homeless people, everywhere. Genuinely mentally ill people seem to be more and more common, just roaming the streets. We’ve all seen it. There has to be a better way. And just everywhere is filthy. Rubbish all over. It stinks of weed. The whole place has just got a more menacing feel about it. It’s concerning even holding a phone out in your hand. How on earth has this been allowed to happen? And it gets worse and worse and worse. This is all in those posh areas I spoke about. Head a bit further out. Good luck. Lewisham? Tower Hamlets? Whitechapel? Plenty of others. It’s a dump. It’s filthy, and it does not feel like Britain. It’s certainly not safe for women. It’s like being teleported to a different country, one borough to the next. None of them Britain. I honestly used to love London so much. It’s now a dying city, and it breaks my heart to watch it happen. But. How can we fix it? You know what's coming. It’s estimated that up to one in 13 people in London is an illegal migrant. As many as 585,000 illegal migrants are in the city… Deport them, and we can start the necessary restoration process. I want my capital city back.

@Persistant_Wolf @RupertLowe10 You should have left your flat then shouldn’t you?

@RupertLowe10 I’ve lived here for 10 years It took 3 years before I met 10 actual British people True story