Andy Wigmore

Former diplomat for Belize 🇧🇿 failed Olympian, occasional Hemp farmer and film star, definitely the most handsome of the Brexit Bad Boys 😉

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

Trump is putting HMS Trump 🔔 next to the bust of Winston Churchill in the Oval Office. @WhiteHouse @POTUS @realDonaldTrump 🇬🇧🇺🇸🇬🇧🇺🇸❤️

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

Absolute genius @RoyalFamily @POTUS 🔔

[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

EXCLUSIVE: Darren Jones
🔥 praised Mandelson the day he was fired
🔥was rude about Reeves
🔥took several swipes at Jonny Reynolds
🔥bemoaned the influence of the trade unions
BUT none of these messages made it into the public disclosure on Monday. Fancy that! https://t.co/BFIKlQR2Gt

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

I would not want to live in a world where self-appointed, unelected tech bosses can decide which government polices can actually be delivered and which can’t. Palantir is proud to support the UK’s elected government deliver for the British people, just as it does across the West.

[Nick Robinson @bbcnickrobinson]

In these globally turbulent times one man has regularly acted as a wise, thoughtful and witty guide for listeners of @BBCr4today. The former Head of MI6 Sir Alex Younger has analysed, explained and contextualised the actions of Trump, Putin, Xi and the Ayatollahs. After he first appeared in the programme I was lucky enough to get to know Alex and call him my friend. I’m desperately sad to hear the news I’ve long feared was coming. Alex has died after months trying to cheat the
prognosis he was given whe. They discovered the tumour he nicknamed “Putin”.
We’re always told not to speak of a fight with cancer because it risks implying that only those strong enough survive. I understand that. I really do but sod it. Alex fought so hard to find a treatment to give him a little longer to be with Sarah and their lovely children. And he used every last minute of the short time he did have to be with family and friends and to do what he spent a lifetime in the shadows doing - using his intelligence to understand the world, to explain it but, above all, to keep us all safe.

[Matt Chorley @MattChorley]

I owe Nigel Farage an apology.

During last night’s Newsnight we covered the murder of Henry Nowak and the political reaction to the case, including discussing Nigel Farage’s comments about “pure, cold rage”.

However I referred to “white cold rage”. This was a mistake on my part, a misremembering of the quote. It didn’t change the content of the interview but I should have got the quote right. I apologise to Nigel Farage for this.

[Julia Hartley-Brewer @JuliaHB1]

Labour folk accusing @Nigel_Farage and Reform of exploiting Henry Nowak's murder for political gain really need to take a long hard look in the mirror.

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

@RhonddaBryant 🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣 oh cmon Chris, Mariana is and always has been a leftie loon - she is a perfect example of why people voted for Brexit.

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

You’re very quiet @MayorofLondon ……

[Mayor of London, Sadiq Khan @MayorofLondon]

The death of George Floyd has rightly ignited fury and anguish not just in the USA but around the world. No country, city, police force or institution can be complacent about racism and the impact this has.

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

A perfect example below of why people voted for Brexit - idiots like Mariana Mazzucato still don’t get it.

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Economist Mariana Mazzucato says Brexit led to businesses leaving the UK, shrank market opportunities and damaged investment.

She tells The Fourcast that Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have still not been held accountable for what she calls one of the country's biggest economic mistakes.

Nigel Farage and Boris Johnson have both denied lying to the public.

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

You and your type are a greater threat to democracy and the fabric of our country @EdwardJDavey

[Ed Davey @EdwardJDavey]

Our democracy is under threat. From the Kremlin to Mar-a-Lago, powerful men are trying to destroy our great country.

Our new laws would ban foreign money, block foreign ads, and stop tech giants like Elon Musk buying influence.

We need action now. Only our party is offering it.

[Under Secretary of State Sarah B. Rogers @UnderSecPD]

I will answer Cathy’s question: stating effectively “this video should outrage you” is nowhere near incitement under any lucid standard. Moreover, it is true.

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

@johnsweeneyroar @Nigel_Farage @reformparty_uk Desperate stuff you big cry baby

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

@DPJHodges @Grumpletastic In your soggy dreams Dan

[Camilla Tominey @CamillaTominey]

The electorate has had enough of 'the media'? No, Gordon, they've had enough of an incompetent government which, to quote Pat McFadden, taxes them to pay benefits; of an economically illiterate Chancellor destroying businesses and increasing unemployment; of a police force that thinks racism is a worse crime than murder; of judges who refuse to jail teenage rapists who filmed themselves degrading their victims. They've had enough of so-called progressives telling them women can have penises and had it up to here with Islamists and other useful idiots mourning murderous mullahs on our streets. They've had enough of being branded "far right" by actual antisemites. But most of all - they've had enough of denialists like you pretending that none of this is happening.

[Matthew Elliott @matthew_elliott]

Fun interview with @LiamHalligan this afternoon for the Planet Normal @Telegraph podcast. We discussed my forthcoming book ‘Ten Years On’, the measures needed to create economic growth, and the current political situation. Do have a listen when it comes out on Thursday, and you can pre-order the book via the link below 👇

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

🤣🤣🤣🤣 the BBC at its best….. https://t.co/pVQpYb6yxi

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

“Well, there is one party in particular that seems to be doing very well with young farmers. That I do know. Caleb tells me all his friends, all of them,are Reform.

And I don’t think there’s a farmer alive who’s Labour anymore.” @JeremyClarkson

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

@GHWTowler Hear hear - great idea from the Quibble gang

[Ksenija Pavlovic McAteer I The Pavlovic Today @ksenijapavlovic]

From a Washington scoop to international impact.

The Pavlovic Today was first to report Alexander Manolev’s removal from a Biden-era State Department designation.

Now EUalive says @StateDept has confirmed our story in a follow-up.

For governments, political actors, and sanctioned individuals across Europe and beyond, the question is now clear: who is next?

The Pavlovic Today was first on the story. We are continuing to follow where it leads.

https://t.co/UOxssP0gQE

[Andy Wigmore @andywigmore]

I think is actually very good

[quibble @QuibbleUK]

Hello, we are Jonathan and Abigail - unashamed pedants who want to bring this affliction to bear on all things public policy and practice.
We believe that details matter, especially in public administration. This is why today we are founding quibble: a campaign to fix the small stuff.
Think, for example, about the cookie banner that we click on every webpage. Each instance is not a big deal, so we just put up with it. But its cumulative impact adds up - on average we press it 5 times per day. The European Commission estimates that it costs EU citizens 343 million hours per year.
And who is there to represent the impacts of seemingly minor issues like this in a systematic way? We want quibble to be the answer. In the case of the cookie banner, lots of advocacy has rightly focused on privacy, but has this meant that user experience has taken a backseat? We believe there are ways to improve user experience without compromising on privacy. We will share more about this soon.
Consider another example. Did you know that in some government-run car parks you can be fined for a minor keying error, such as accidentally typing a zero instead of an “o”? Again, we will come to the detail of this quibble in the coming weeks, but for now just consider again the question: who? Who is there currently to systematically represent the interests of the parker who is given an unfair ticket?
An inherent feature of consumer interests is that those who have them rarely have enough other things in common to make collective organisation and representation feasible. This is the gap that quibble seeks to fill. Now of course excellent consumer interest groups exist. But understandably quibbles might not be at the top of their lists. Our hope is that quibble will be complementary; picking up the bottom-of-the-list issues faced by various groups - the stuff they are almost too embarrassed to raise because they are too small.
We are not embarrassed about detail. If you’ve ever had a splinter, you know small things can have a big impact. This is what quibble is committed to tackling, and our wider hope is that by doing so we will also incentivise policy makers to be even more careful about detail.
Check out our website here, including our first four campaigns: https://t.co/gZiqqHbhIL