Andrew Holgate

Ex Sunday Times Literary Editor. Now writing Death of a Dictator: The Mysterious Execution of Benito Mussolini, for Weidenfeld.

[Andrew Holgate @aholgate]

Completely true…

[WALDEMAR JANUSZCZAK @JANUSZCZAK]

Ai Weiwei on living in London!

[Harry Eccles @Heccles94]

Mate, this is embarrassing.

You are literally not the shadow Home Secretary.

You’re not even an elected politician.

[Josh Glancy @joshglancy]

Such a joy having Craig Brown regularly in the pages of The Sunday Times again. This piece on The Rolling Stones is superb

https://t.co/tulNGVuIUW

[Andrew Holgate @aholgate]

His Girl Friday; runner up To Be or Not To Be (Lubitsch one)

[Simon Schama @simon_schama]

The Third Man ; runner upThe General

[Danny Deraney @DannyDeraney]

Every year, I share this video of French caretakers who take sand from Omaha Beach in Normandy, and scrub them into the letters to give them the gold coloring.

They do this for all 9,386 US soldiers who died.

France also gave us this land as American soil. #MemorialDayWeekend

[Benedict J Smith @BenedictSm55625]

The people of Peckham didn’t want this and @lb_southwark protected their interests over those of a US multinational. This isn’t Nimbyism - people just want more humane homes.

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Imagine if a candidate of any other party was found to have deleted an account with so many disgustingly offensive posts. I suspect we will hear very little of this as the Double Standards Squad continue to ply their trade to the benefit of the 5 million pound man

[Michael Shanks MP @mgshanks]

There was a debate on the future of Britain's energy in the House of Commons today. Not a single Green MP bothered to turn up.

You would think the Greens would care about climate change and the energy transition. Apparently not.

[Chris Bryant @RhonddaBryant]

So growth higher than expected and inflation lower than expected. Net migration and small boat numbers also down. It’s still tough for many families but these statistics are going in the right direction.

[Ukraine Solidarity Campaign 🇺🇦✊🏽🚩 @UkraineSol]

The Reform UK candidate in #Makerfield claims that because he's an army reservist he can't "voice an opinion" on his party's position on Ukraine and Russia. So the army allowed him to stand for Parliament but not comment on world affairs? How convenient...
https://t.co/wjcC4OTn2w

[Andrew Holgate @aholgate]

2/2 And local objections to the Berkeley Homes development had nothing to do with nimbyism, but disagreement with a plan with 20-storey tower blocks that would have been a blight, minimal social housing, and flats that were way beyond the reach of the vast majority of locals.

[Andrew Holgate @aholgate]

It IS run down, does need redevelopment, but that redevelopment mustn’t price out the local community who currently use street. Parts of Peckham are already gentrified with ludicrously expensive coffee shops - Rye Lane serves a very different community and must continue to. 1/2.

[Andrew Holgate @aholgate]

It IS run down, does need redevelopment, but that redevelopment mustn’t price out the local community who currently use street. Parts of Peckham are already gentrified with ludicrously expensive coffee shops - Rye Lane serves a very different community and must continue to. 1/2.

[Sam Bowman @s8mb]

Peckham is 20 mins from Shoreditch by rail and includes some of south London's loveliest streets and parks. It is baffling that some people think that the squalid Rye Lane, below, is something to try to preserve instead of trying to bring up to the standard of its surroundings.

[Michael Crick @MichaelLCrick]

🟣 MAKERFIELD: it's also interesting that Searchlight asked Farage & Tice almost TWO YEARS AGO why Robert Kenyon was a Facebook friend of fascist leader Gary Raikes. This is Kenyon's third time as a candidate. Is Reform's vetting of candidates non-existent, or don't they care?

[Andrew Holgate @aholgate]

Here we go….

[John O'Connell @jdpoc]

Didn't take long, did it?

#Reform's Candidate in #Makerfield, Robert Kenyon, has his X account suspended for racist replies to a constituent, support of British Union of Fascists, and incitement to hatred & violence.

He 'mothballed' his Facebook, I guess, for the same reasons.

[Omid Djalili @omid9]

Comedy palate cleanser. Robert Jenrick about to grandstand but reminded of his defection from one party to another this year is gold. The timing. First line great. Second line superb but crowd not recovered from the first to fully appreciate it 😊

[Stephen Jones @stephenjones9]

So SA teams may leave the two Euro rugby events as Sunday Times predicted in February. They should never have been invited in the first place and have added nothing. Let's hope they dump the URC too, the event sorely needs more focus and less bonkers travel.

[Caroline Lucas @CarolineLucas]

I hope this isn’t true. There are times when it’s more important to put country before party. This is one of them. Burnham’s longstanding commitment to a fairer voting system could transform our democracy & counter dire threat of a Reform UK government https://t.co/PNfl5GnB0X

[Ralph Blackburn @RalphBlackburn]

Breaking: Reform has suspended new Sheffield councillor Nathaniel Menday, after further social media posts were uncovered by my colleague @finnsmithjourno for the @SheffieldStar which included a huge photo of a Nazi flag with a swastika on it and a photo of Hitler's Mein Kamf.

[Faisal Islam @faisalislam]

Q1 2026 G7:

🇬🇧 0.6%
🇺🇸 0.5%
🇨🇦 0.4%
🇩🇪 0.3%
🇮🇹 0.2%
🇫🇷 0%

🇯🇵 (not yet reported but estimates are 0.4%)

[Harry Sisson @harryjsisson]

Trump had one of his worst mental health episodes yet last night, posting over 55 times in 3 hours. Here is the list:

10:15 PM - Accuses Obama of attempting a coup in 2016
10:15 PM - Says Obama worked with CIA to overthrow Trump
10:15 PM - Reposts tweet saying Obama is a “traitor” and that he should be arrested
10:22 PM - Attacks dominion voting systems for 2020 election saying they switched votes
10:22 PM - Says Fulton County, GA had their 2020 fraud exposed (there was none)
10:23 PM - Accuses Obama of personally making $120 million from Obamacare (wtf?)
10:23 PM - Cites quack lawyer Sidney Powell on the 2020 election
10:24 PM - Posts fake JFK Jr account that says Obama wiretapped Trump Tower
10:27 PM - Demands Senator Mark Kelly resign
10:29 PM - Claims neither Biden nor Harris were in charge of the Biden admin
10:29 PM - Attacks Fulton County, GA again
10:29 PM - Posts Fox News clip of Rep Ro Khanna
10:30 PM - Demands Jack Smith be arrested
10:30 PM - Accuses Obama, Clinton, and Comey of treason
10:39 PM - Reposts a tweet from a MAGA account saying they have secret intel proving Clinton and Obama committed crimes
10:39 PM - Reposts a MAGA tweet saying Hillary Clinton should be sent to Haiti
10:40 PM - Says the DOJ is “working hard” to arrest his enemies for treason
10:40 PM - Reposts a tweet attacking his own DOJ and Todd Blanche for no arrests of political enemies
10:40 PM - Posts a TikTok video of people stealing from a convenience store
10:41 PM - Posts a TikTok of someone taking a Door Dash order
10:41 PM - accuses Obama, John Brennan, and Clinton of sedition and treason again
10:42 PM - Posts a video of a man on CCTV footage knocking over food a waiter was carrying
10:47 PM - Calls Obama the “most DEMONIC FORCE” in American politics
10:47 PM - Posts a tweet from Mike Flynn saying 2020 election wasn’t fair
10:49 PM - Attacks Dominion again claiming they stole the 2020 election (it wasn’t)
10:51 PM - Reposts a fake Charlie Kirk account that claimed Obama blocked Hillary Clinton from being prosecuted
10:53 PM - Claims Obama was part of Hillary Clinton’s emails in some way
11:28 PM - Claims a senior Democrat just testified under oath that Senator Adam Schiff leaked classified information
1:13 AM - Attacks the New York Times for reporting on the reflecting pool

This man is clearly not well.