Observations on widowhood #1. I eat a lot of omelettes.

God knows it’s a tragically intractable situation but Trump’s answer is to make it 100 times worse.  Of course it won’t happen and they’re rowing back like mad, but as a view into his mind, you cannot get a clearer picture.

@oldtrafffaith @DeborahMeaden At the moment.

New Songs! New Schtick! Old Performer! Dear Old Chipping Norton! Hardly any politics (thank God)! So come along if you can, forget your troubles and sing along to mine!

@elonmusk You seem to be endorsing vigilantism. Nice. (In the UK, when we say "nice" like that, it means the opposite. I say this in order to help you understand the UK, which you clearly don't. )

@proud_native_am Happy birthday, gorgeous smiling girl!

Can someone explain what's meant by the "Deep State"? Isn't it just the layers of bureaucracy that any government needs in order to run the state? It seems to me that the phrase "Deep State" is meant to imply hordes of bureaucrats wilfully sabotaging the country.

@angie_rasmussen @charles_gaba Impressive.

@proud_native_am Yes

@BladeoftheS Perhaps the kind of twazzocks who want to leave the ECHR are the kind who call Richard Madely to tell him. The rest of us are more sensible and are more likely to write to the PM to express support for the ECHR.

@cleckylad Who can!?

@RestIsPolitics @RoryStewartUK @campbellclaret You're both constantly on the move, travelling, at meetings, speaking, teaching, podcasting and reading. I don't mean to sound rude but how do you live? Do you have an army of elves looking after you and do you know what a dishwasher looks like?

@polithinkuk321 Let's start with the customs union and the single market first. Membership of the EU isn't as simple as just deciding to rejoin. After their disgraceful treatment by those thugs Johnson and Frost, the EU will be rightly wary of the UK.

@front_ukrainian Yes

@KaraChrome Oh dear. Do you think I could be done for being in possession of an offensive tea towel?

@MrMichaelSpicer I LOVE MICHAEL SPICER!!!

@Jays_tweets @jimmy_harika @RepAuchincloss The scientists had been working on a vaccine for a virus very similar to the Covid virus for many years, which meant that they adapted the work to the new virus. That's how they turned it round so quickly. And that is why Covid is now a nuisance and not a mass killer.

@BladeoftheS No. Trump is ignorant, but that's not the same as being a moron. His ignorance is deliberate, he doesn't care that he's ignorant - he's risen to the presidency without self-education. He's a very sharp, duplicitous, amoral, dangerous and self-aggrandising piece of work.