Richard Ritchie

Author of 'Without Hindsight', 'Canterbury, Cricket & Theatricals', 'Enoch Powell on 1992' and editor of his speeches. Actor, musician & politician - of sorts.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@BBCAnyQuestions I thought the point of this programme was responding to questions from the audience rather than interventions and questions from @AlexForsythBBC. And if she says "all right" and "0k" again I will go mad. Why am I listening to this decline?

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

What's not yet explained by @BBCBreaking or @BBCr4today is how #PrinceHarry arranged schools for his children without the news leaking out? Did #KingCharles really have no advance warning that his son was seeking out schools and a property? Makes no sense it didn't leak.

[Alan Rees @archivist_al]

We had someone in the library this year on the links between I Zingari & @OldStagers & turned out the @HomeOfCricket Library was missing this lovely book by @richardcritchie (before my time in role) so happy to have fixed this hole in the collection #cricket #cricketbooks

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@BBCr4today might perhaps explore in the next hour whether the VAT decision of Fuel is only possible because of BREXIT?

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

This must surely be one of the most nauseating, hypocritical and sycophantic selfies imaginable and one which all concerned will live to regret.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

If I hear one more Labour MP or Minister "paying tribute" to #KeirStarmer having just forced @Keir_Starmer out of office, I shall be sick. I didn't think he was any good, but there are many worse and to get rid of someone just because they are currently unpopular iscontemptible.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@BBCNewsnight Does Baroness Kennedy live in the Newsnight Studios? Can she ever stop talking? Is she the BBC's idea of balance? Or is she the only person prepared to turn up on Newsnight ad nauseam? Well, she makes me turn off.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@bbctodayy That last item on #livingfunerals was perhaps the greatest example possible of a collapse of religious belief, and an entirely secular society. Deeply depressing. And of course no realisation of sin or the need for forgiveness.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@BBCRadio3 I'm sorry but Johan Reuter who is singing the Kindertoten lieder this week on #ClassicalLive is appallingly out of tune. Really grievous! Why has this performance been chosen?

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@BBCNewsnight At a time when Trump believes NATO ineffective and reliant on US support, it seems odd that Europe fails to provide support when America needs it. This is especially the case of UK from whom most is expected. Would be interesting to know what #TonyBlair thinks.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@afneil Agreed. I hate how ministers and MPs have attacked and criticised the character of someone who has neither been charged, tried or found guilty. The fact that #AndrewMountbattenWindsor is the brother of #KingCharles is no excuse. And I also mistrust police motives over #Mandelson

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

I hate how ministers and MPs have in HoC attacked and criticised the character of someone who has neither been charged, tried or found guilty. The fact that #AndrewMountbattenWindsor is the brother of #KingCharles is no excuse. And I also mistrust police motives over #Mandelson

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

Anyone who, through the want of anything better to do, makes the mistake of listening to @BBCRadio4 Any Questions must be struck by their inability to assemble a balanced audience

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

When Ministers say that the most important thing is to keep the "victims" in mind before anything else, one sees the depths they can reach in cant and hypocrisy in order to avoid the questions arising from #JeffreyEpstein and #PeterMandelson

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

Why didn't #PeterMandelson pay for his husband's Osteopathy course? Surely he could have afforded it himself? Why did they involve #JeffreyEpsteinFiles for what was something they could easily afford? Unless of course they couldn't. But that raises deeper questions still.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@BBCr4today So if we were serious about defence and NATO the first thing we should do is spend this £15 billion about to be spent on #netzero , #solar and #heatpumps on #defence instead. This country is just not serious and its priorities are all wrong

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@BBCPM To describe Trump as a populist and Tim Davey as a centrist is hardly objective reporting. It just accords with BBC assumptions. I don't think what Trump said today to the UN is likely to be popular, nor was it intended to be.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

@AngelaRayner The hypocrisy in trying to minimise her tax exposure to taxes she would increase for others is what stinks. Not her failure to seek proper legal advice. She wanted to avoid paying a tax. Ok for her but not for Tories. Hoist by her own petard.

[Richard Ritchie @richardcritchie]

The hypocrisy of #angelaraynerout in trying to minimise her tax exposure to taxes she would increase for others is more shocking than failure to seek proper legal advice. She was ruthless in her attacks on Tories. Now hoist by her own petard.