Robert Workman

@vicderbyshire @stugoo17 I’m so glad you got treated

10 years ago today I was diagnosed with breast cancer.  I remember it vividly. It was a boiling hot day. Mark was sitting next to me in the GP’s. It was the school holidays - our boys, then 8 and 11, were being looked after by our close friends The doctor simply said, ‘it IS malignant’. I didn’t gasp or weep or scream. But I was crushed When we got outside, I did cry into Mark’s shoulder. And I swore - ‘I can’t fucking believe this’ That was the start of anxiety-inducing tests and scans and biopsies. And all I wanted to know was, ‘is it going to kill me?’ Weeks later it became clear my cancer *was* treatable. And then I was elated - completely on a high - because that meant hopefully I would get to see my boys grow up, and I would get to grow old with Mark ❤️ I cannot tell you how INCREDIBLE the NHS and its staff were - in particular Mr Kothari, and nurses Outra and Emma. So skilled, so kind. So life-saving. I will never be able to thank them enough It’s weird to think a decade has gone by since then. I’ve definitely made the most of life with Mark and our boys and our dogs and our magnificent friends and my gorgeous family. I couldn’t have got through it without all of them.  Oh yeah and Mark and I got married after 16 yrs of being together and our boys walked me down the aisle. God it was life-affirming  I know I am so bloody fortunate to have had a cancer that was treatable. I’m one of the lucky ones, and for that, I am unbelievably grateful every single day

@PippaCrerar I was expecting a shout out for Farrow and Ball

Great TV close up of Keir Starmer's rather bemused face as Donald Trump talks at length about his restoration of Turnberry, including the details of the plywood & paint.

@ZiaYusufUK Are you an ‘activist’ Zia? What should happen to ‘activists’?

Responding to Dan Neidle: I’ve been doing media all day so only now getting around to responding to his drivel. Far left political activists like Dan are being held up as 'economic experts' by the MSM and poisoning the discourse in this country, so they do need to be rebutted. The fact he published his long thread before our 12 page policy document had even been published is a clue that this was not a dispassionate economic assessment, but naked political activism. 🧵

@zatzi Is there a sort of check out procedure for business leaders as they leave? Clock in their cards as they leave by the works’ exit?

This is so depressing. And so predictable. 👇

@kateferguson4 Quite illuminating of Badenoch’s character?

Very shouty start to the morning listening to radio 4 Bit of an assault…

@andrewrawnsley And what is happening to TikTok? A week before Trump’s edict comes in to ban TikTok in America or force it to sell itself to an American company and no British journalist is asking questions. Illustrates Trumpism in a nutshell

Tick tock. observer.co.uk/news/opinion-a…

@kateferguson4 We are both listening to the uncredited Today programme

Bridget Phillipson says Labour is u-turning on winter fuel allowance cuts because they have fixed the economy in just a year. She says “We will expand eligibility for winter fuel allowance. “But it is not ok for multi millionaires to get winter fuel allowance.”

@Steven_Swinford Superb weather this year. Mediterranean conditions. Would this have some effect on numbers?

Some quite staggering official figures this morning showing how many people migrant gangs are cramming onto small boats The number of small boats with more than ***80 people*** has tripled in the past year - there were 33. That's 33 occassions when 80 people crammed onto a tiny vessel, at huge risk to all people on board There were 345 small boats with 60 people or more in the year to April 2025, up from 164 in the year to April 2024 For all the talk of smashing the gangs they have changed their model to make it even more lucrative - record numbers of crossings, record numbers on each vessel - with ever greater risk for those on board

@ShelaghFogarty Is this a piece of quality journalism you are contributing to? Fearless and fact based?

@MattChorley @BBCNewsPR @vicderbyshire Great!

@BobWorkman_ @BBCNewsPR @vicderbyshire No! We’re both continuing our radio day jobs

We’re delighted to announce Paddy O’Connell and @mattchorley as permanent Newsnight presenters, joining lead presenter @vicderbyshire bbc.co.uk/mediacentre/20…

@andyricflair @_DanielRyan Good titles. I shall look out for them

@_DanielRyan Very good! but if you haven't seen them, you should also watch Eastbound & Down, and Vice Principles - from the same people.

@MishalHusain @bbcnadatawfik What is it doing heading the news on a significant day in governing the UK?

The interviewer’s name should be here - and prominent elsewhere in this rollout too - it’s the brilliant ⁦@bbcnadatawfik⁩ 👏 👏 bbc.co.uk/news/videos/c1…

@RevRichardColes @Telegraph At the moment no one knows who owns the Telegraph so expect problems. Cancel from your bank

@RRussellDavies Isn’t it Georgia Meloni, the Prime Minister of Italy?

Why didn't Melania - if it was Melania - wake him up? Wouldn't a wife do that?

@gilescoren They might be beaten by Trump and Narendra Modi! Which would you rather?

Watching the Pope lying in state in St Peter’s, waiting for Philip Schofield and Holly Willoughby to barge the queue…

@steverichards14 @BBCr4today It is a favourite trope of Laura Kuenssberg as well. She constantly says “What our viewers want to know..” I long for an interviewee to say “Prove it”

Amol Rajan joins Emma Barnett as a self elected tribune of ‘our listeners’ on @BBCr4today …telling Kemi Badenoch what ‘our listeners’ want to hear.. how does he know.. ? Do they all agree from left to right what they want to hear?

@xrpadastra @afneil I’ve done a search. He is executive editor at the Mail

@BobWorkman_ @afneil No idea, I guess someone in journalism or tv?

@xrpadastra @afneil Who is Dominic Midgley?

@afneil Did you realise your screenshot has included the top lines of an email sent to you by Dominic Midgely?

@zatzi Which paper does this quote come from?

Lies, damned lies and Labour politicians