Roger Surridge

Man of few words but knows how to spell most of them. Still rides a bike but gave up listening to The Archers long ago and has since taken up the ukulele.

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@JMPSimor It’s exactly what got Farage up the greasy pole in the first place. One-trick ponies all. And why do Reform people all look like they’d be Central Casting shoo-ins for high ranking Nazis?

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@RejoinP God yes

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@TeamAOC I can’t wait for her to be elected president. Will she finally be old enough in 2028?

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@mikegalsworthy It wasn’t Trump who wrote this. It may be fundamentally wrong, but it is expressed with more logic and coherence than Trump is capable of. They’ve just cleverly dropped in “Barack Hussein Obama” and some random capitals to try and make it look authentic.

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

Je suis venu te dire que je m'en vais.
I just came to say I'm leaving. Flouncing from the former Twitter.
No need for any airport jokes — anyway, Austrian Airlines said it much better.
https://t.co/8VLS0FA0WA

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@chrysha22 @williamnhutton Whenever I see Lord David Frost, I think of this: https://t.co/z8F9ffmh8c

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

Michelle Mone has admitted that she lied to the media over her links to a PPE firm. Enough is enough, it's time those in power put an end to this sordid affair. Sign the petition now and demand Mone is expelled from the House of Lords: https://t.co/AQqeskhtdf

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@JohnSimpsonNews At college a glamorous Swedish student invited a select few of us to a party. The invitation specified “Sportswear” so I went in a tracksuit, Trev went as a marathon runner, Martin went in Speedo, mask and snorkel. Other guests were in tweeds and cashmere. We didn’t stay long…

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@edwinhayward Spot on.

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@johonfleur This morning (24 Feb) BBC Today programme said shortages due to weather in southern Europe. BBC has become propaganda dept of UK Govt — and how could it be otherwise when it is totally dependent on govt for fixing & enforcing licence fee?

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@paul_winginit I’ve clearly been away too long. It just looks like a photo of the Underground to me. The aesthetic and smell of the cut-&-shut Paris Metro was and still is much worse, and London is bigger, faster, deeper — more impressive in every way.

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

This is awful. It's like French TV in the 1980s. OK, French TV in the 1990s.

[Armando Iannucci @Aiannucci]

Each smile is a shriek.

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@80_mcswan Yes.

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@GeorgeMonbiot It looks like a slightly overdone but beautifully caramelised tarte normande, but I can’t explain the giant 50p piece.

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

And you lied to her. You misled her, you manipulated her. What a tragic waste of talent you are, Johnson.

[Lionel Barber @lionelbarber]

Boris Johnson rises to the occasion with a fine speech at a time of national loss. Fine oratory too

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

Jesus bastard Christ. These pitiful stunted morally delinquents fucking vandals. He's the president of one of the greatest democracies on earth and one of our closest allies.

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

@ByDonkeys Love LBD. Why TF isn’t the BBC (or even C4) doing this? One awkward question: how come there’s no floodlighting on that southeast corner? Speaker’s residence, I think. Hoping for an inside job

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

What an excellent article.

[Chris Grey 🇺🇦 @chrisgreybrexit]

Post-Brexit Britain is going rotten. New post on my Brexit & Beyond Blog. The moral rot of Johnson's conduct is part and parcel of a deeper malaise in which Brexit and 'Brexit Covid' have created a country that is literally and metaphorically rotting away: https://t.co/uVfJIEl8c4

[Roger Surridge @rogersurridge]

This must have been suggested elsewhere, but wouldn't the Guardian Media Group be the perfect owner (or at least, given £1bn price tag, majority shareholder) for a privatised Channel 4? https://t.co/n9HKzURl3Z