Jan Halliwell

@Matt_Pinner Roar

One word..

@bushontheradio A day in a life

Went to my friend Matt's funeral on Friday. The final walk past the coffin song was Jon Secada - Just Another Day. Inspired. What closing song would you have at your funeral?

@thequentinletts Sit on the fence why don't you🤣

Strange, the feeling after being in the same room (Liaison Committee) as Sir Keir Starmer for 90 minutes: a numbed, half-suffocated, slow-release neuralgia, a vandalistic desire to smash a greenhouse, except you feel too pulverised by ennui to bother.

@afneil Loose talk costs lives as Churchill used to say maybe not give our adverseries or would be adversaries the heads up on what we can and cannot do..Just a thought

Mr Reed also implies that we successfully defended Diego Garcia from Iranian missile attack. Untrue. Let’s set the record straight: One Iranian ballistic missile failed in flight — malfunctioned mid-flight or broke up on re-entry. Either way it never reached the target area. The other was engaged/intercepted by a U.S. Navy guided-missile destroyer nearby, which fired an SM-3 interceptor at it and destroyed it. UK forces played no part in the defence of Diego Garcia. Nor do they have the capability to do so. Mr Reed says UK won’t be dragged into the US’s War. Fair enough. But he’s happy for the US to defend what is a British base — and didn’t even thank them for it.

@ronsterd89 4

@LozzaFox This is the issue with social media and what we write A good friend of mine used to say to me NEVER write anything down just say it... Of course I ignored him🤣

Last night I went out to dinner with my wife and some friends. Some of whom happened to be black and some of whom happened to be gay - not that that should make any difference to anything in in Britain in 2026 - where everyone is so incredibly kind and everyone is so included and welcome. When we arrived at the restaurant I could tell immediately that the manager recognised me - and he wasn’t a fan. In these rare circumstances I tend to overcompensate and be extra polite and courteous to win people round, but nothing worked with this bloke. He was rude to the point of open hostility. Wanting to enjoy the evening - which we did enormously - I just tried to ignore him. As the meal finished and we were leaving, I asked for the gentleman’s name so I could write to the management of the restaurant with my thoughts about the service - or lack therof - He refused to give me his name and proceeded to tell me that he didn’t need to be polite to racists and a homophobes - even after I politely reminded him of the fact that i was sat at a table well stocked with homosexuals and black people. So instead I took a photo of him and said if he refused to give me his name then the photo would help identify him in my correspondence. The minute I did this his entire demeanour changed and he started to realise that there were going to be potential consequences for being so rude and unprofessional. He began to apologise profusely and - long story short - we ended up sat together at the bar with him telling me he was sorry for jumping to conclusions and that he had had a horrible day he had and before I left we gave each other a hug. He even texted when he finished his shift to apologise again. New friend made. So it’s all good! But it reminded me what irritates me about the media. This man had read the one sided dross that the dying media put out and despite the fact that I was sat having a laugh with a very “diverse” table of friends, he refused to let go of his own bigotry and prejudice, to the point where he was happy to potentially jeopardise his job over it. I get that we live in a world where the media likes to make monsters of certain people, and I don’t expect everyone to agree with what I say. I get recognised quite often and commentary goes with the territory, people express strong views - both positive and negative - about what I think, which is great. You may have noticed, i’m very pro free speech and people expressing different views! The more the merrier! I am still however a human being, with feelings and emotions, and I don’t think it’s too much to ask to be able to go out to a restaurant to eat with my wife and friends without a waiter trying to do everything he can to ruin our evening. We don’t often go out to restaurants we don’t know well for just this reason and after last night, it will be a while before I do again. So might you do yourselves a favour dying media? Try to be at least balanced when you write about people. You would have saved this poor chap and myself an unnecessary and unpleasant experience. You are already on your last legs. Perhaps you should ask yourselves why your audience is getting smaller and smaller with every passing day? Many thanks. Happy Sunday. 🙏

@richardpbacon Sociopaths are devoid of empathy and frankly he's a bit thick (Trump)

He also danced on the grave of Rob Reiner

@reece_dinsdale Are you Ibsen!

What a difference a role makes.

@LeeAndersonMP_ @reformparty_uk Your 600k tax would have helped

Vote @reformparty_uk to end this madness.

@TheNewsAgents @maitlis @jonsopel @lewis_goodall The enablers are to blame reminiscent how Hitler was enabled

"When Joe Biden was failing towards the end of his presidency, we were asking if things were right." Is it time to ask those same questions of Donald Trump? @maitlis | @jonsopel | @lewis_goodall thenewsagents.co.uk/article/is-it-…

@DeborahMeaden What a disgusting human being (Trump)

In a sea of disgusting… this still manages to shock.

@DPJHodges Presume there would be a police report knowing sensitive work messages on it

Like I said. They genuinely think we’re all morons.

@bagshaw2112 @elaine_paige Yes Elaine and Karen Carpenter and Barbara Streisand

Let’s see what everyone thinks . For me it has got to be @elaine_paige ❤️

@JohnRentoul He'd be better suited to that position and would probably be relieved not to be PM

Angela Rayner might offer Keir Starmer foreign secretary says Jason Cowley Power-hungry Rayner didn’t want to move first but may have no choice thetimes.com/article/47daae…

@honeymoon250 Other half!

@jonsopel What a vile excuse of a human being devoid of any empathy sympathy a true sociopath (Trump)

Vile. He was a lifelong public servant asked to do a job

@WestminsterWAG It's the New Year for the Iranian people

Just cycled past the Iranian embassy in London, where a group of anti-regime protesters were playing music and dancing in the afternoon sunshine in defiance of the latest brutal executions. God love them. I hope they get their country back.

@annaefoster @lucyacraven @BBCr4today All true Anna I loved listening to you and the wonderful Tony Livesey on 5 Live You are a great role model for any young woman wanting to get into serious journalism

@lucyacraven @BBCr4today How lovely of you Lucy, thank you so much!

#r4today Reflecting on the very hard-working @annaefoster this morning - freshly returned from the Middle East, then all four @BBCr4today shows this week and the Today debate! Such a great presenter to listen to and an amazing addition to the team.

@adamboultonTABB She looks like a timid little girl not the fiery person she is. Maybe she should have retorted what about the A bomb warning you bastards dropped on my country

FFS 🤦‍♂️ 🤷‍♂️

@WestminsterWAG So sad to hear this a true icon many years ago myself and my 2 kiddies were on her Sunday morning show

A wonderful woman, a treasured colleague and a total inspiration. Very sad day. RIP. bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…