Simmy Richman

@Feargal_Sharkey Signed and shared. Might even say hi next time I sit next to you on Tube to WF. No Undertones tattoo though

I need 100,000 signatures to win a parliamentary debate about the ownership of the water industry. Do your thing internet. petition.parliament.uk/petitions/7626…

@jmullinjourno @JohnRentoul @annemcelvoy I was 11. Hence my mum had to take me. I remember it like it was yesterday. Balcony seats, left hand side, about four rows back

@simmyrichman @JohnRentoul @annemcelvoy You must have been 5 simmy … rentoul so young he was still in his thirties

I keep thinking as KS continues of that old 10cc song “Good Morning Judge” that goes “ I didn’t do it, I wasn’t there”

@jmullinjourno @annemcelvoy Working at the excellent The Week magazine as a senior (read only) sub-editor. You?

@simmyrichman @annemcelvoy Yes too clever for their own good… what you up to these days, Simmy?

@JohnRentoul @jmullinjourno @annemcelvoy Had no idea we had this in common: (Hammersmith Odeon, same year)

@jmullinjourno @simmyrichman @annemcelvoy 10cc my first concert: Wolverhampton Civic Centre, 1975

@jmullinjourno @annemcelvoy Too clever for their own good often though, so could be hit (I'm Mandy...) and miss (Life is a Minestone). Still miss working with you, John

@simmyrichman @annemcelvoy Possibly with a better sense of humour

@jmullinjourno @annemcelvoy The British Steely Dan IMHO...

@simmyrichman @annemcelvoy I be went to see 10cc with and without Crème and Godley, most recently on the day I finished my Highers and left school. Id guess 14 May 1980. A Wednesday.

@jmullinjourno @annemcelvoy Oh dear, Mr M. You impressive knowledge of No. 1s clearly doesn't stretch to those records that "only" reached No. 5 (28/05/1977)... 10cc my first gig, btw. With my mum!

@annemcelvoy I thought that was a B side

@leafarbuthnot Lovely piece Leaf. More importantly, haven't heard the word "flibbertigibbet" since I last watched Sound of Music, so excellent work on that too

My first piece as feature writer for the Telegraph is, somewhat unexpectedly, this flibbertigibbet, about my life as a powerful ginger woman: #comment" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">telegraph.co.uk/news/2026/04/1…

@mrianleslie @prodnose Agree with this and also butting in here to tell you how much I loved your book, Mr Leslie

@prodnose OK you should actually be cancelled for this

Always have thought this was a drag of a song to have performed alongside Get Back. Had they played something from early on, I Saw Her Standing There or Ticket To Ride it would have have more playfully fed into the moment.

@aziz0nomics x.com/metpoliceuk/st…

He was suspended from Oxford University after calling to "put the Zios in the ground"

@stephenpollard @Telegraph x.com/metpoliceuk/st…

Here's an extract from my @Telegraph column, 'This Oxford student is the true face of the poisonous pro-Gaza movement' telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/10/1… Actions have consequences, as Anna Karenina famously discovered. That is a lesson now being learned by Oxford student Samuel Williams, who was filmed basking in the acclaim of a group of fellow hate chanters as he proudly revealed his creation to the crowd, “a chant that we’ve been workshopping in Oxford”. Footage of Williams’ chant has now gone viral. “Gaza, Gaza make us proud, put the Zios in the ground,” he screams, the intensity of his rage deepening with every repeat. On one level it is pathetic. Williams’ Instagram posts – now deleted – show him enjoying cosplaying at revolution, with pictures in combat fatigues holding machine guns and, of course, the now-essential keffiyeh scarf. The contrast with his preppy features and Harry Potter glasses is genuinely funny. But there is nothing amusing about incitement to murder: “Put the Zios” – ie me – “in the ground”. Thing is, we Jews have a long experience of what happens when mobs call for us to be put in the ground (and yes, Zio means Jews: only a tiny proportion of Jews are not Zionists). We end up being put in the ground. This isn’t an issue of freedom of expression: free speech has never included the right to incite murder. It’s said the police are now investigating. Good. Williams and his ilk need to learn that you don’t get a free pass if your anger is directed at Jews. But I won’t hold my breath waiting for the criminal justice system to act. George Orwell came up with the idea of a state-sanctioned Two Minutes Hate in 1984. But it’s clear from the CPS’s refusal to act in all but a tiny number of cases that the Two Minutes Hate has been treated by the authorities not as a fictional satire but as the playbook for their decision making, with the state standing and watching a mass outpouring of hate. Not just on the marches, mind. It’s no surprise that Williams is a student, because Jew-hate on campus is now normalised. Last month, Tali, a Jewish student, spoke at a rally against anti-Semitism about her experience at King’s College London. On her very first day there she received these messages: “Is there a f***ing Zionist in this group chat?” “We’ve fished out a Zionist.” “Get ‘em out.” “Can’t wait to see you tomorrow, Tali.” On the first anniversary of the October 7 2023 massacre, she was told: “B***h get down.” “You’re not the messiah you think you are.” “The Zionists are actually everywhere.” “As a group, we should just band together and carry her out.” When she went to the KCL “wellness adviser”, she was told that “it may be helpful to try to understand why the other students are behaving this way” towards her. The only thing unique about Tali’s experience is that she has been prepared to speak openly about the hatred directed to her as a Jew. This is the milieu in which the likes of Williams “workshop” their hate chants. It is a milieu of poison, and it is getting worse.

@aziz0nomics You could use your 10 Yiddish words, throw in some from other languages and call the album Tower of Bagel

Big problem: I probably know 10 words in Yiddish.

If someone calls me Jewish one more time on this app I'm going to change my name to Dr Dreidel and make an album of psychedelic Yiddish rap called "Challah At Me".

@aziz0nomics Same for me on most if not all subjects…#culture-pacifists

I am against the culture war itself, not for one side or against the other. Just enjoy your interests and enjoy your life.

@aziz0nomics Hey John. Keep up the (sometimes hopeless felling) good work. Am guessing you’ve seen this but just in case… theatln.tc/aDTutFh9

It frustrates me that the vast majority of people are either pro-Palestine or pro-Israel at the exclusion of the other, and they don't have much time for someone like me who says that both of those national narratives are valid, legitimate, and real.

Hello @willpavia Is there an email I can get you on please? It's a work thing for The Week magazine

@TomPullin_ Fixed your crop post for you

Maggie Smith, Britain's last coal-powered actor

@dysonjeremy Same! "With us, pig... With anyone else, no pig!" Her and Liz Smith were extraordinary together

My favourite Maggie Smith performance. What a cast.youtube.com/watch?v=BuWt2Y…

@stephenpollard We’d better not tell them that it would work better set to the tune of ‘Sweet Caroline’

Such a familiar tune. Is it by Cole Porter or Irving Berlin?

@MarianneLevy @TheWeekUK Is it the one with Rishi Needs You on the cover you’re after? And where might I send the PDF?

@simmyrichman @TheWeekUK Oh THANK YOU!!

Friends, has anyone got a copy of @TheWeekUK hanging around? Not the latest issue, the one before Advance thanks