Oliver Marre

@guyadams The opening night party is really fun tho.

The Chelsea Flower Show is consistently one of the most shit events of the summer but no-one calls it out because of the celebs/journos/influencers etc are getting free tickets to the opening night thing that civilians are banned from

@ChelsArchie_ Honestly, I have never seen so many bran-new Arsenal shirts in the streets.

Not flying back home, all these a*senal rats who didnt know what the emirates was last week are going to come crawling out of their holes

@DanNeidle Not IMO according to the case law on avoidance.

If Angela Rayner *had* obtained tax advice, it would have told her to wait a bit until her child turned 18. That would have saved her £40k (and a resignation). Would that have been tax avoidance? I don’t think so. Others may disagree.

@piersmorgan @elonmusk Was this because you retweeted @DanNeidle on @ZackPolanski and tax? Many people engaging with that story are getting similar abuse.

Really, @elonmusk ??!

@DanNeidle @ZackPolanski They also seem to think that being interested in a tax mistake by a public figure automatically makes you that person’s political opponent. I advise all sorts of people about tax whether I agree with their views or not.

@OMarre @ZackPolanski Most of them don’t seem aware that Polanski apologised. Some of them think the apology was not actually an admission of anything. Mostly they’re just very very angry.

Since I commented on a @DanNeidle post about the @ZackPolanski council tax mistake, some people have started adding me to the strangest lists. Polanski himself has admitted he was wrong- why the abuse?

@ThatTimWalker - as I’ve said before these aren’t your people.

@DanNeidle Genuinely yes

New idea. Next time we publish a report on a politician, I’ll keep the politician’s name blanked out for a week, and let everyone take positions before they find out who it is.

@DanNeidle The only time I’ve ever been called a “nonce” was by a Polanski supporter on here.

What is it with these people?

@gilescoren @SagarH62 Or, in this case, “batsman”.

@SagarH62 It’s “fewer than” and “batsmen”.

Less than 1% cricket fans can recognise this batter , If you're one of them. Can you guess the batter's name without the help of Google 👇

@BarbaraRich_law @LordThurlow I still think it is prestigious. That’s what I tell the children anyway.

@LordThurlow The loss of prestige of what was traditionally Chancery practice has been gradually happening for years, with no apparent will to reverse it. At least losing the name will bring to an end the line of people who think that reading Bleak House tells them everything to know about it

@guyadams I keep getting one about Hugh Laurie.

Can anyone explain why I keep getting these weird sponsored tweets about Robert Peston in my timeline? What’s the grift/con?

@gilescoren A classic of the genre. I remember when a then-future, now-former, PM told me to “fuck off”. I don’t think he was trying to say anything different tho. And noone cared.

@OMarre Very rarely happened to mine. That was very early in the century. 2000-2001. Best was when we found a talking Tigger in Selfridges that was supposed to say “I’m Tigger!” But it sounded very much like “Wanker!” That got everywhere including the front page of the Sun.

Aaaaaand… The Guardian. Feel like that’s the full house. theguardian.com/uk-news/2026/a…

Bizarre hearing labour party loyalists suggesting partygate was worse than what’s going on now… I was genuinely horrified by Johnson’s time as PM but no question that partygate - like Johnson generally - was trivial.

Wittgenstein's (incredibly typical) response to a university friend taking him for a cheerful afternoon out to watch a boat race:

@TomTeodorczuk @edcumming Mine involved the then editor saying “walk with me” and proceeding to walk into the men’s loo, as the interview continued.

@edcumming Never forget my Tatler interview. "Where did you go to school?' 'And before that?' And before that' And before that?' Had to dimly recall attending Brussels English Primary School as a 4 year old...

Without proper training, looking directly at this level of Tatler can cause permanent damage

@WalkerMarcus I noted that bit!

OLLY ROBBINS KNOWS THE BCP BY HEART! All is forgiven. Give this man a peerage.

🔥 Now Robbins reveals that No 10 wanted to find an ambasssdorial role for Matthew Doyle and that he was banned from talking to the Foreign Secretary about it

Just pointing out that I broke the story 7 months ago that Mandelson failed vetting from the security services and put it to Downing Street...so the idea that Downing Street only found out on Tuesday is complete nonsense. independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…