Ben Collins

@afneil That’s a very long reply to someone you consider irrelevant.

You’re an irrelevant, rather thick has-been and we will never communicate again (life too short). But before I banish you to social media irrelevance (at least as far as I’m concerned) when I hired Fraser Nelson to be Editor of The Spectator in 2009 Brexit was on almost nobody’s agenda, certainly not ours. We never discussed it at any stage. It just wasn’t an issue. When it certainly did become an issue, leading to the 2016 referendum, the decision to back Brexit was entirely that of Fraser and his team. I kept the proprietors out of it and my only advice to Fraser was, whatever side he decide to back, to make the endorsement compelling, informed and in the best traditions of The Spectator. By the way it was a genius appointment back in 2009, even if I say so myself. Under Fraser The Spectator enjoyed the highest circulation, reputation for excellence and profits in its almost 200-year-old history. Now Femi, bugger off and never bother me again.

@OhNoezzz @anon_opin Absolute bollocks.

@anon_opin It's not rocket science.. the big line items on the squandering list are ever expanding welfare state, illegal immigration, and net zero. Then there's a multitude of smaller ones too.

Every year, I seem to be paying more tax than I was last year, but the public services always seem to be worse than they were last year. Sorry but genuinely what the fuck is all of our money being spent on?

@anon_opin Economist and former city trader @garyseconomics explains it well: instagram.com/reel/DShefpRio…

This will played in a museum one day.

@Nigel_Farage Coward.

PMQs today will be rigged again by the Labour party. I will sit in the gallery.

@liamgallagher You’ve split up with Noel again?

BIG ANNOUNCEMENT IMMINENT

As Mayor of London? You’re going to change the rules of parliament?

@haveigotnews Anything.

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You can’t complain that we don’t have freedom of speech, when you object to freedom of skin colour.

@RevRichardColes Except on Sundays when you get rudely awakened by the dustmen?

@virginmedia It came back on tonight, after your recorded message said it would be back on at 1607hrs yesterday. So 48 hrs off, effectively. I assume we’ll be reimbursed for (a) the service we paid for and didn’t get, and (b) the mobile data that two people working from home used?

@TheBenCollins Hi Ben - Sorry to hear of any service issues. How's the services been since your Tweet? Let us know if you need further assistance.

@virginmedia is the shittest shitshow in the entire history of shit service providers.

Twitter is absolute shite these days. It used to make me laugh every day. Now it makes me angry every day* *…that I look at it, which isn’t many.

@JohnMeersma @fasc1nate Oh do grow up you tedious wet wipe.

On May 10, 1945, a Japanese family made their way back to their home in Seattle, Washington, after being released from an internment camp in Hunt, Idaho.

Last week, I discovered that my SunGod sunglasses had snapped. At the weekend, I logged a claim under their lifetime warranty. Today, a new pair arrived. Frames made from recycled plastic bottles, too. Credit where it’s due: the excellent work @we_are_sungod 👍

@rustyrockets This definitely doesn’t sound like someone who knows he’s bang in trouble and trying to blame everyone else.

My response.

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@reshma_tailor wraps up this year’s @BHTResearch BrainWave innovation conference @BucksHealthcare. Fab speakers; stimulating conversations. Well organised, Reshma!

It’s worth dropping in just to admire Ann’s boots.