Robin How

[Robin How @robinhow]

@SnookerOnTNT why do the commentators constantly refer to 'Shaun' but never 'Zhao'? It's always his full name. Either / or, gents, surely?

[Robin How @robinhow]

@UPS So despite both me and the YOU (UPS) requesting this gets redelivered, I get three messages this morning warning me that this will be returned to the sender next week.

What a joke.

You seem to have zero control over what happens if your driver decides not to attempt delivery.

[Robin How @robinhow]

@UPS , how can I contact you about an ongoing problem with one of your drivers?

[Robin How @robinhow]

@UPS This is not going well, is it?! Will @UPS attempt to deliver this package to my home at least once? Or is your service "somewhere miles away and you come and get it"?!

[Robin How @robinhow]

@UPSline_C The @UPS lot have tried but I'm no closer to resolution it seems. Can you do better?

[Robin How @robinhow]

@UPS #BeUndeliverable

[Robin How @robinhow]

@MBrundleF1 , my son was given an old copy of Autosport. Just look at this young buck racing for Tyrrell!

[Robin How @robinhow]

@UKSFO Congratulations Narinder 👏

[Robin How @robinhow]

@Se_Railway Yes thanks. I made it on the bus. I was worried about the passengers who couldn't fit on. Bus was packed like sardines but about 10 couldn't squeeze in.

[Robin How @robinhow]

@Se_Railway people stuck at Meopham who can't get home tonight. Last replacement bus is full, help point doesn't work. 9 or 10 worried people ☹️

[Robin How @robinhow]

@Se_Railway Thanks for the info.

Lots of works dos on now. Consider a double decker tomorrow night?
Cheers.

[Robin How @robinhow]

@SkySportsF1 Nice to see a celeb on the grid that knows a bit about the sport.

[Serious Fraud Office (SFO) @UKSFO]

Breaking news 🚨SFO secures £1.1 million assisted by our first-ever Unexplained Wealth Order (UWO).

The recovery follows the sale of a Lake District property, with the SFO successfully recovering the funds following our first UWO obtained in January.

[Robin How @robinhow]

Just the beginning...

[Serious Fraud Office (SFO) @UKSFO]

🚨SFO First Crypto

This week we have frozen more than £10,000 in cryptocurrency as part of an investigation into collapsed broadcasting company Arena TV.

This is the first time we have frozen cryptocurrency. This action will protect the assets being used to fund criminality.

[Robin How @robinhow]

@SkySportsF1 surely the DRS is either open or not open. Why do you guys always say it's WIDE open?!

[Robin How @robinhow]

@Se_Railway Thank you. Train which was stacked at Farningham Road now moving again.

Will trains stacked at Ebsfleet also get going soon? I have a friend there heading to the same meeting as me!

[Robin How @robinhow]

Come on @TechSpurtVideo , knock a quick one out and review the Pixel Buds 2 Pros in time for me to put them on my Christmas list if they're any good.

[Robin How @robinhow]

@Johnson_1_ @isamutlib @penninehiker @MartinSLewis Crude and blunt is often most efficient.

Also high earners contribute more in tax per person to pay for things like this.

[Robin How @robinhow]

@rickygervais Lost some paint from our bathroom sink and look who was peering out from underneath! Brian Gittins!
#afterlife

[Andrew Neil @afneil]

My Election Day Monologue on @TimesRadio. In praise of British democracy.

It’s election day in the United Kingdom, a seminal event we too often take for granted. We also do it in a very British way. 

There will be no armed guards at the polling stations. No intimidating mobs. Just paper and pencil, trusted tellers and friendly canvassers. 

If the British people decide it’s time to change governments, that will happen quickly and without fuss. The military will not be mobilised. Barbed wire will not be arranged around public buildings. Defeated candidates will not be fleeing the country. Riot police will not be assembling on side streets. 

But a removal van — something we’ve all had to use at some stage in our lives — will turn up sometime Friday morning to help the incumbent move out. Another will bring the belongings of the new prime minister and family. 

A few words from the winner outside 10 Downing Street, a round of applause as he goes through the famous door — and the business of government continues as before. Even with a new broom there will be a sense of continuity. And calm. 

Nobody will contest the overall integrity of the result, whatever minor challenges there are at the margins. The loser will concede defeat and wish the winner well. The winner will try to be magnanimous. 

Nobody will be exiled. There will be no talk of being cheated, of a rigged election, or lawyers getting rich on endless court challenges. No mob will descend on the Palace of Westminster determined to overthrow the result. The pigeons will continue to peck away, undisturbed, on Parliament Square. 

However people voted the result will be accepted. Folks will just get on with their lives and wait to see what the next government has in store for them. 

Such a peaceful, uneventful, very British passage of power is to be treasured. It is perhaps THE distinguishing hallmark of democracy that power is passed in this way, without upheaval or protest, at the behest of the people. 

Democracy requires a winner to be gracious and a loser to accept that they’ve lost, without quibble. That is the British way. It is not now true of that great democracy across the Atlantic. 

It is also the case, if today heralds a change, that a centre right government will give way to a centre left one. Whatever the result the numbers in Parliament who might be deemed hard right or hard left will be de minimis. Pretty much irrelevant. 

There is something quite British about that too. It will not be the case when that great democracy across the Channel votes on Sunday, where the extremes on both sides of the political divide are likely to make up almost two thirds of the National Assembly. 

We broadcasters don’t do British party politics on election day. That can wait until you’ve voted and we know the result sometime after 10 o clock tonight. 

So we will spend the next hour looking at elections in France and America, two countries with their own strong democratic traditions. 

Also two countries, as we shall see, with democratic challenges we don’t face, whatever else may confront us. 

They are our allies — fellow democrats in a world threatened by autocrats — and we must wish them well in overcoming their problems, as we tackle ours. While taking some comfort and pride from the fact that there is something quite special about our own British democracy. 

So let us savour this important day.