# ![@DAaronovitch Avatar](https://lunarcrush.com/gi/w:26/cr:twitter::140955302.png) @DAaronovitch David Aaronovitch

David Aaronovitch posts on X about in the, iran, london, greenland the most. They currently have [-------] followers and [---] posts still getting attention that total [------] engagements in the last [--] hours.

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### Social Influence

**Social category influence**
[countries](/list/countries)  6.29% [celebrities](/list/celebrities)  5.66% [travel destinations](/list/travel-destinations)  3.14% [finance](/list/finance)  1.89% [technology brands](/list/technology-brands)  1.26% [social networks](/list/social-networks)  1.26% [bundesliga](/list/bundesliga)  0.63% [champions league](/list/champions-league)  0.63% [stocks](/list/stocks)  0.63%

**Social topic influence**
[in the](/topic/in-the) 3.77%, [iran](/topic/iran) #1174, [london](/topic/london) 2.52%, [greenland](/topic/greenland) 2.52%, [bbc](/topic/bbc) 1.89%, [history](/topic/history) #4410, [what is](/topic/what-is) 1.89%, [donald trump](/topic/donald-trump) 1.26%, [epstein files](/topic/epstein-files) 1.26%, [jeffrey epstein](/topic/jeffrey-epstein) 1.26%

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### Top Social Posts
Top posts by engagements in the last [--] hours

"@FraserNelson It's only a 'debate' in the same way as 'can a Jew be English' is a debate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2017248649286176909)  2026-01-30T14:48Z 170K followers, 26.1K engagements


"Much of this is explained in my recent Substack. Thiel's is a deeply pessimistic and authoritarian quasi ideology whose immediate objective is to stop European countries regulating American tech. Orr pretends it's about religion but it's actually about power What a privilege to host Peter Thiel in Cambridge this week for a stunningly original and erudite series of lectures. Thiel is a walking antidote to the modern multiversity. The highlight of our academic year. https://t.co/z1GxCFDfeW What a privilege to host Peter Thiel in Cambridge this week for a stunningly original and erudite series"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2017695523499581941)  2026-01-31T20:24Z 170K followers, 57.6K engagements


"@MatthewdAncona @KonstantinKisin @bbcquestiontime Not often we disagree Matthew but although I don't think he should be barred I don't think he's incisive but rather (as he proved) a plausible weasel who is neither a journalist nor a big thinker"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2018045154943279587)  2026-02-01T19:33Z 170K followers, 31.7K engagements


"A personal view of the Mandelson scandal. https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/oh-mandyr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/oh-mandyr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2018614372407595180)  2026-02-03T09:15Z 170K followers, 41.7K engagements


"I don't understand why her fellow journalists allow Trump's behaviour to go unchallenged. Just out of a sense of their own basic dignity Kaitlan Collins airs split-screen footage showing her remaining composed as Trump snaps at her for asking about Epstein. https://t.co/YoMbKwq6LL Kaitlan Collins airs split-screen footage showing her remaining composed as Trump snaps at her for asking about Epstein. https://t.co/YoMbKwq6LL"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019018963464720870)  2026-02-04T12:03Z 170.1K followers, 60.3K engagements


"Excellent. But a clue as to how this is made possible lay in the [----] election of Donald Trump over Hillary Clinton I didn't know what I would discover when I started to read the Epstein files. I'm not sure many women realize how far our world is run by a club of women-hating men https://t.co/0eFvQZwscg I didn't know what I would discover when I started to read the Epstein files. I'm not sure many women realize how far our world is run by a club of women-hating men https://t.co/0eFvQZwscg"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019037731792490999)  2026-02-04T13:18Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"It may be that this point has been made before but if Jeffrey Epstein hadn't become such a cause celebre in the US in the last year we would know none of this about Lord Mandelson. And it makes you wonder just how many other instances of indiscreet or downright treacherous behaviour. we simply have never found out about because there never will be a release of the oligarch files or the US tech billionaire files. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019096211735662623 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2019096211735662623"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019096211735662623)  2026-02-04T17:10Z 170K followers, 46.7K engagements


"@DrGordonMcCabe Idiot"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019151274940268908)  2026-02-04T20:49Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"He was bound to get there in the end The math aint mathing. https://t.co/KqJab9Ul72 The math aint mathing. https://t.co/KqJab9Ul72"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019152586394255745)  2026-02-04T20:54Z 170K followers, 107.5K engagements


"@PolitlcsUK The third option always was to move out altogether build a fit-for-purpose Houses of Parliament and turn the beautiful old one into a museum of Britain"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019517365583822886)  2026-02-05T21:03Z 170.1K followers, 41.7K engagements


"@ThatAlexWoman Hi Alex can you give a source for this claim about 1605"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019720559710671196)  2026-02-06T10:31Z 170K followers, 18K engagements


"@Daniel_Sugarman I hope you're not accusing the BBC of Jew-baiting"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019776861539008793)  2026-02-06T14:15Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@AVMikhailova Which 'friends'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019889728061939931)  2026-02-06T21:43Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@CL_Meadows But Angel Clare most of all"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020169700924117160)  2026-02-07T16:16Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"'Red Ed' Seriously EXCL: Inside Ed Miliband's plot to return as Labour leader. Red Ed sees himself as a British version of leftie New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani https://t.co/DH8pV0bHNW EXCL: Inside Ed Miliband's plot to return as Labour leader. Red Ed sees himself as a British version of leftie New York Mayor Zohran Mamdani https://t.co/DH8pV0bHNW"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020227178416284146)  2026-02-07T20:04Z 170.1K followers, 54.7K engagements


"@Graemellll I'm not sure Epstein's victims would agree with you Graeme"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020475623659929878)  2026-02-08T12:31Z 170.1K followers, 11.4K engagements


"Wow. That Super Bowl half time show was something"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020771371580792868)  2026-02-09T08:06Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@StewartWood So much political coverage is horse race and processology"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020814867809055146)  2026-02-09T10:59Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@Dannythefink @PWestoff Actually just about everything this man writes in his post is wrong so maybe unsurprising"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020862007038099490)  2026-02-09T14:07Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@supertanskiii If that's the case why wasn't Starmer being forced out last year when Mandelson was sacked"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020863759539970053)  2026-02-09T14:14Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@PWestoff @Matt_Bracken48 @Dannythefink A reply to your what In what way are you not just another 'us white folks are the real victims' merchant"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020884420954075370)  2026-02-09T15:36Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@steve4good I have said it over Tory scandals. Not that one I don't think. But Starmer hasn't lied to the House"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020950619679490199)  2026-02-09T19:59Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@joshxhowie @Serena_Partrick @DrMatthewSweet The suggestion here is that Matthew and I have routinely wrongly called out conspiracy theories that were actually true. So you'll be able to furnish at least a couple of examples. The countdown starts here"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021205691390673177)  2026-02-10T12:52Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"I don't give a toss about my "legacy" but I do give a toss about the traducing of good and often courageous journalists. Who unlike you actually take risks to tell the world what's going on. And yes the BBC employed me this week to present a programme about Iran. It's on in [--] minutes. You'll hear the BBC's Persian Service special correspondent. Maybe come over next week and call him "Ayatollah TV" to his face"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021966026716385645)  2026-02-12T15:14Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"This is crazy. Perhaps Simon could look at what the regime thinks of the BBC before indulging in this hyperbolic attack: Key occasions when the Iranian regime criticised blamed or threatened the BBC / BBC Persian 20092010: Green Movement aftermath + satellite jamming June 2009: During the post-election protests (Green Movement) the BBC said its Persian TV signal was hit by heavy electronic jamming traced to within Iran. This period matters because the BBCs later submissions treat [----] as the point at which harassment of BBC Persian staff and their families commenced in the wake of the TV"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022284341905097202)  2026-02-13T12:18Z 170.1K followers, 21.7K engagements


"This is the same Professor Von Pooter who took to X to complain bitterly about not being invited to supper with me and Alan Rusbridger two years ago. But today his sights will be set on Melania Trump and Peter Thiel You dont win 'em all Reform's Matt Goodwin in S Times: 'Most . people criticising me are nerds.The last thing I want is to be at some dinner party table with Nick Robinson & Mary Beard. I'd rather shoot myself in the head' Hang on I'm not THAT badNerds sometimes have a point. You dont win 'em all Reform's Matt Goodwin in S Times: 'Most . people criticising me are nerds.The last"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2017898441515344019)  2026-02-01T09:50Z 170.1K followers, 41.6K engagements


"Everyone these days is a hysteric"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020529424861417661)  2026-02-08T16:05Z 170.1K followers, 35.9K engagements


"Well that's all a bit embarrassing for the Starmer Out takeocracy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020896772336312569)  2026-02-09T16:25Z 170.1K followers, 67.7K engagements


"I think theres truth in this. And the problem is that once youve both confidently predicted something and advocated it you have a real interest in it coming true I don't do party politics on here and you can have your own opinion of Starmer - good or bad - but what is undeniably the case is that Westminster journalists became massively invested in a hyped-up narrative of their own devising and debased political commentary in so doing. I don't do party politics on here and you can have your own opinion of Starmer - good or bad - but what is undeniably the case is that Westminster journalists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020945786591387844)  2026-02-09T19:39Z 170.1K followers, 46.8K engagements


"@joshxhowie @DrMatthewSweet the first time I heard this meme was when a speaker at the National Conservatism conference in [----] claimed they were putting down kitty litter in schools. The whole thing was a ridiculous scare. See below https://chatgpt.com/s/t_698b318a92188191a8c7d6ddc7bcec6e https://chatgpt.com/s/t_698b318a92188191a8c7d6ddc7bcec6e"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021214430206320942)  2026-02-10T13:27Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"'Lutnick' does sound like a term of abuse in Yiddish"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021301006403842305)  2026-02-10T19:11Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@montie Have you met him Tim Few people are less hateful"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021524580603678878)  2026-02-11T09:59Z 170.1K followers, 11.5K engagements


"@JohnRentoul 'Source'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021539809492361711)  2026-02-11T11:00Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@keiranpedley @WindyCOYS I will try to share it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021554789851783253)  2026-02-11T11:59Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Oh good Tottenham fans suggest [--] interim managers who could replace Thomas Frank https://t.co/Wa11ox3WSa Tottenham fans suggest [--] interim managers who could replace Thomas Frank https://t.co/Wa11ox3WSa"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021555069301531037)  2026-02-11T12:01Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@residentadviser @Richard_Scorer It was yes (allowing for the fact which I'm sure you know that the [--] million figure was an outlier). And the issue of Muslim immigration isn't really about rate (is that different to pace)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022059530537120148)  2026-02-12T21:25Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"Its a question of facts not inches. If something has a precedent its not unprecedented. The Muslim communities in the UK mostly began to be established in the 60s (ie [--] years ago). When people like Ratcliffe complain about colonisation Im pretty sure its these communities they have in mind. And please stop saying come on. Youre not my dad https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022061452043927871 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2022061452043927871"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022061452043927871)  2026-02-12T21:33Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@danielmgmoylan @residentadviser @Richard_Scorer Of course they were immigrants. And the local populations seeing them as aliens both culturally and in terms of religion saw them as such"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022063920106942690)  2026-02-12T21:43Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@danielmgmoylan @residentadviser @Richard_Scorer Hence for example the [----] pamphlet The Menace of the Irish Race to Our Scottish Nationality written by the then Moderator of the Church of Scotland and published by the Churchs General Assembly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022065326264136056)  2026-02-12T21:48Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Richard_Scorer @residentadviser They are but far smaller (except for the Bangladeshis) and not usually who people are complaining about when they focus on extremism sharia courts and grooming gangs. Thats mostly the Mirpuris"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022066162448969782)  2026-02-12T21:51Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Richard_Scorer @residentadviser I dont know about much less but certainly less. Though it cant just be measured by successful terrorists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022067915554783585)  2026-02-12T21:58Z 170.1K followers, [--] engagements


"@LouiseMensch @LaibelWeiner @LauraLoomer Well thats you firmly on my loony list. Where to even start"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022068437963694568)  2026-02-12T22:00Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"I had no idea till just now that one casualty of the newly released Epstein files is Crown Princess Mette of Norway"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2019042867201900739)  2026-02-04T13:38Z 170.1K followers, 15K engagements


"@epkaufm And what do you say Eric That the Epstein emails don't suggest any problem with attitudes towards women by powerful men And what does your invocation of "science" refer to Perhaps a natural desire for older men to traffick younger women"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021960092909023305)  2026-02-12T14:50Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@residentadviser @Richard_Scorer If only you were prepared to ask before you jump to conclusions. I dont mean black people I mean Muslims. And do you really think I havent done my homework on the scale of (and resistance to) Irish immigration"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022055314443710978)  2026-02-12T21:08Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Elephantastick @danielmgmoylan @residentadviser @Richard_Scorer No my goalposts stayed firmly in place - the attitude of "indigenous" people to large scale inward migration. It's yours that shifted to legal definitions"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022271757181186137)  2026-02-13T11:28Z 170.1K followers, [--] engagements


"If you miss me in the middle of The Times You can't find me nowhere Come on over to the Underground I'll be writing right there. https://davidaaronovitch.substack.com/ https://davidaaronovitch.substack.com/"  
[X Link](https://x.com/anyuser/status/1641817643102490627)  2023-03-31T15:00Z 170.1K followers, 1.1M engagements


"A reminder for anyone failing to read beyond the headlines that Keir Starmer never met Jeffrey Epstein had nothing to do with Jeffrey Epstein wasn't in parliament when Peter Mandelson sent his tip offs to Jeffrey Epstein his sole contribution to the scandal being to appoint Mandelson as US ambassador. Just in case you were getting confused. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020420833831747963 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2020420833831747963"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020420833831747963)  2026-02-08T08:53Z 170.1K followers, 364.6K engagements


"Fascinating to see people falling yet again for the Gordon Thomas fantasy that Robert Maxwell a Mossad agent of in order to imply that Epstein was Mossad"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2020982404161339478)  2026-02-09T22:05Z 170.1K followers, 17.1K engagements


"Of course. Now Romero will have his red card rescinded Dejan will suddenly appear on the training pitch it will turn out that Lucas Kudus Danso Betancour Maddison Richy Ben and Uncle Tom Cowleys injuries are less serious than we thought and Mauricio Pocchetino will descend in a shaft of light just before the kick off against Arsenal https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021527140143890728 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2021527140143890728"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021527140143890728)  2026-02-11T10:10Z 170.1K followers, 21.2K engagements


"@residentadviser @Richard_Scorer They're not so very unprecedented. Irish migration to Britain was proportionately at similar levels. It's also fair to say that the migration that people seem to make most fuss about either began [--] years ago or else (in the case of asylum seekers) is not that large"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022043919694156029)  2026-02-12T20:23Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@CamillaTominey @Dannythefink This has been going on since shortly after Musk took over this platform. It's not new"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021608220779770350)  2026-02-11T15:32Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@nicolelampert Straightforwardly stupid comment re the BBC and Lyse Doucet. Do you have any idea what is risked by BBC Persian (and their families) everyday to tell the truth about Iran Including all the times you weren't watching. Do you want a catalogue @simonmontefiore"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021958263856935313)  2026-02-12T14:43Z 170.1K followers, 14.1K engagements


"How America voted for Epstein - an essay . https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/epstein-and-the-pictures-in-our-atticsr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/epstein-and-the-pictures-in-our-atticsr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021958604065321121)  2026-02-12T14:44Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"@epkaufm Have you ever thought of expressing yourself more straightforwardly as in 'don't generalise' But unless I've misread your post generalisation wasn't its real target and my question remains"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2021977859670388940)  2026-02-12T16:01Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"This is the usual conflation of those who cannot speak English at all (160k) with those who can't speak it well (880000). So the actual percentage is [----] of the UK population 1m people living in Britain dont speak English. Areas of our towns and cities have been completely changed. Jim Ratcliffe is right. https://t.co/frTomgouoY 1m people living in Britain dont speak English. Areas of our towns and cities have been completely changed. Jim Ratcliffe is right. https://t.co/frTomgouoY"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022046858902909069)  2026-02-12T20:35Z 170.1K followers, 34.5K engagements


"@residentadviser @Richard_Scorer You come on. It amazes me how ignorant people are about this country's actual history"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022047195781091401)  2026-02-12T20:36Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@red_loeb @simonmontefiore He's a great writer and a good historian and I just don't understand it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022406779196575801)  2026-02-13T20:25Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@Bren4Bassetlaw Nick Fuentes makes exactly the same argument about the Holocaust and antisemitism. Almost word for word in fact"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2022678541687755077)  2026-02-14T14:25Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm really struck by the need that many people seem to have to turn the momentous events in Iran somehow into a story about themselves and their own domestic political enemies. Right now I don't suppose the Iranian Revolutionary guard is spending much time thinking about what a group of demented Maoists in Britain have on their placards. https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010301066626113923 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2010301066626113923"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2010301066626113923)  2026-01-11T10:41Z 170.1K followers, 26.5K engagements


"@bungarsargon 'Radicalised by progressive moms' - what a terrible person you've become"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2010436612656959587)  2026-01-11T19:40Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"I imagine there's a lovely quote somewhere in which Nadhim Zahawi tells everyone what a fantastic leader of the Conservative party Kemi Badenoch is going to be and how he supports her yea and to the ends of the Earth"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2010733146044776577)  2026-01-12T15:18Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@quietmumN10 @FraserNelson You just made that up about 'most of it being unreported' didn't you"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2010739107971154173)  2026-01-12T15:42Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@shashj I'm just wondering what useful strikes the US could make here. I'm presuming that the IRGC is now the main force maintaining the regime. Are they using easily identifiable targets (airbases) etc to organise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011105665675334072)  2026-01-13T15:58Z 170K followers, 47.9K engagements


"@LukeTryl @mancunianmedic @jburnmurdoch I'm interested in the 'both sides' here Luke. Who are the commentators and politicians who are denying that crimes like phone snatching and organised shoplifting have risen"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011126577912766728)  2026-01-13T17:21Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"But you were talking about 'both sides' and 'false binaries' and as opposed to the constant campaign to portray London as a violent crime ridden I can't find an opposite 'side' arguing that crimes such as phone theft haven't risen. Unless Fraser's images (I haven't seen them) are what you are talking about https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011128995887096248 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2011128995887096248"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011128995887096248)  2026-01-13T17:31Z 170.1K followers, [---] engagements


"@KLloyd30053821 @LukeTryl @mancunianmedic @jburnmurdoch Wonderful joke But doesn't really work unless you were around at the time"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011168250869268709)  2026-01-13T20:07Z 170K followers, [---] engagements


"I think all of us prefer the inexpert. We want unqualified teachers to teach our kids people whove failed their driving tests to drive our taxis faith healers to deal with us in A&E the gobby bloke in the pub to represent us in court and RFK jr to run the public health system of the worlds wealthiest country RFK Jr. to Tucker Carlson: We need to stop trusting the experts. Trusting the experts is not a feature of science or democracy it's a feature of religion and totalitarianism. (2025) Fact-check: False. https://t.co/rD2GxUEMaJ RFK Jr. to Tucker Carlson: We need to stop trusting the experts."  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011208772480544771)  2026-01-13T22:48Z 170K followers, 91.6K engagements


"@Harri21263Steve No it really doesn't. You only have to watch GBNews to know that. Good journalists learn to evaluate experts weigh up claims check facts and - these days if they're good - to evaluate statistics"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011429170929410069)  2026-01-14T13:24Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"Badenoch has done well here #jenrick"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011778031719710787)  2026-01-15T12:30Z 170K followers, 41.8K engagements


"Oh the comedy of this Kemi Badenoch is facing calls to publish the "irrefutable evidence" that led to her dismissing Robert Jenrick. One MP ally of Jenrick's says: "Unless he's signed it and sealed it with his own blood just because it's a bit of paper with his name on doesn't mean it's real. Kemi Badenoch is facing calls to publish the "irrefutable evidence" that led to her dismissing Robert Jenrick. One MP ally of Jenrick's says: "Unless he's signed it and sealed it with his own blood just because it's a bit of paper with his name on doesn't mean it's real"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011819004579504365)  2026-01-15T15:13Z 170K followers, 22K engagements


"Personally I don't think this new marriage is going to last"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011844702824222749)  2026-01-15T16:55Z 170K followers, 21K engagements


"Odds on that the 'well known Labour figure' about to defect to Reform is Lord Glasman or else is not well known"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011853802610069896)  2026-01-15T17:31Z 170K followers, 49.8K engagements


"It took no gift of prophecy for me to write over a year ago on my Substack that Jenrick would do this. No inside track. No 'friends of'. No Westminster gossip. Just logic"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2011856210933264825)  2026-01-15T17:41Z 170K followers, 11.7K engagements


"@johnpmerrick @chrisdeerin @TomMcTague But Jenrick has no coherent plan even according to this piece other than to apparently destroy everything from the last [--] years. Whatever that means"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2012141157313323342)  2026-01-16T12:33Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"Guardian looks at possible dealings of the 'Big 5" in Premier League. They are ManU ManC Lpool Arse Chelsea. Um who came 4th morons"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/20122999178)  2010-08-02T07:47Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@emilysheffield I passed one this morning. Probably more than one but I wasn't looking out for them. My council does a pretty good job on litter collection the streets are clean (hugely so compared with 70s and 80s). Be interesting to see if there's any data on this"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2012483732561641533)  2026-01-17T11:14Z 170.1K followers, [----] engagements


"So to summarise the leading takes on here: the Jenrick defection is good news for Badenoch Farage and Starmer and terrible news for Badenoch Farage and Starmer"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2012554927113969768)  2026-01-17T15:57Z 170K followers, 11.4K engagements


"@MrRBourne @afneil @GeorgeFoulkes Seriously"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2012609781022761219)  2026-01-17T19:35Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"Robust this definitely isn't We dont always agree with the US government and in this case we certainly dont. These tariffs will hurt us. If Greenland is vulnerable to malign influences then have another look at Diego Garcia. We dont always agree with the US government and in this case we certainly dont. These tariffs will hurt us. If Greenland is vulnerable to malign influences then have another look at Diego Garcia"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2012610784778432696)  2026-01-17T19:39Z 170K followers, 25.4K engagements


"And so we come to the point with Trump in his imperial phase. As we always were going to"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2012613192447394272)  2026-01-17T19:49Z 170K followers, 15.4K engagements


"@YorkshiremanDan @MrRBourne @afneil @GeorgeFoulkes I didn't do any such thing of course. And why is it that people with Free Speech Union in their bios are always telling others to shut up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2012810224273436952)  2026-01-18T08:52Z 170K followers, [---] engagements


"The other obvious problem with Trump's unilateral tariff threat (once again unsanctioned by Congress) is that it proves that there is no earthly point making a deal with him. Whatever you think you've agreed he will almost certainly rip up whenever the news cycle seems to require it. There is no partner there in the US until either he's left office or Congress asserts itself https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012821479986020474 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2012821479986020474"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2012821479986020474)  2026-01-18T09:36Z 170K followers, 147.1K engagements


"Now Im sure you understand why I have to give this to Donald Trump"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2013024685517156613)  2026-01-18T23:04Z 170K followers, 11.6K engagements


"I don't think this funny any more. In [----] after an operation went wrong and I nearly died from sepsis I spent four days in psychosis. And what Liz Truss is saying here is pretty close to the kind of paranoid fantasies that I suffered from. Robert Jenrick may have joined Reform but who is he getting his orders from Trojan horse. https://t.co/BFk6uppkG1 Robert Jenrick may have joined Reform but who is he getting his orders from Trojan horse. https://t.co/BFk6uppkG1"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2013191858919239733)  2026-01-19T10:08Z 170K followers, 86K engagements


"You are kidding right North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is getting the message: Hes vulnerable to the same quick hit that President Trump ordered to pluck Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from power and toss him into custody in New York. https://t.co/BOSHklQsB7 North Korean leader Kim Jong Un is getting the message: Hes vulnerable to the same quick hit that President Trump ordered to pluck Venezuelan leader Nicolas Maduro from power and toss him into custody in New York. https://t.co/BOSHklQsB7"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2013228867293499758)  2026-01-19T12:35Z 170K followers, 18.8K engagements


"@AVMikhailova @TimesRadio Kate Hoey can't 'defect' from Labour because she isn't in it. She is was ennobled by Boris Johnson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2013351923403903158)  2026-01-19T20:44Z 170K followers, 11.9K engagements


"@sophgaston Which recent Chinese behaviours did you have in mind"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2013685434010816556)  2026-01-20T18:49Z 170K followers, 10.7K engagements


"@sophgaston I'm reasonably sure that Western governments have made noise about all these. Despite most of them touching only tangentially on European interests. Which is not true of the threat to Greenland. It seeks a strange juxtaposition to me this month"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2013689637500285307)  2026-01-20T19:06Z 170K followers, [---] engagements


"@freddiejh8 What do you think she should have said"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2013972875988947342)  2026-01-21T13:52Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"I wonder what makes Luna tick GREENLAND Members of Congress cut the Greenland cake led by @RepLuna making the first cut at the ONE YEAR INAUGURATION GALA at the Trump Kennedy Center in DC Hosted by The Republicans for National Renewal https://t.co/Rlt5XsWc0v GREENLAND Members of Congress cut the Greenland cake led by @RepLuna making the first cut at the ONE YEAR INAUGURATION GALA at the Trump Kennedy Center in DC Hosted by The Republicans for National Renewal https://t.co/Rlt5XsWc0v"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014017496169201938)  2026-01-21T16:49Z 170K followers, 10.4K engagements


"@TomMcTague Needs repeating on all the tourist ads: "London - not as wet as Cork""  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014265766728626494)  2026-01-22T09:15Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"My Mars flight is finally ready and I leave on Monday Speaking @wef in [--] mins. What should I say 🤭 Speaking @wef in [--] mins. What should I say 🤭"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014413091807666220)  2026-01-22T19:01Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@charlesarthur Though I love the way Dreher blames Hollywood for homophobia. No Rod. That's your tribe now. Deal with it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014468276835713196)  2026-01-22T22:40Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"And this is three years out. So much commentary is too excitable and written to be taken notice of rather than to inform or analyse NEW from @Ipsos_in_the_UK: - When you force a choice the public narrowly prefer a Labour government led by Keir Starmer to a Reform government led by Nigel Farage. - Economy / cost of living key battleground issues - Burnham looks the main threat to Starmer 🧵 https://t.co/L7n1J6Wgfz NEW from @Ipsos_in_the_UK: - When you force a choice the public narrowly prefer a Labour government led by Keir Starmer to a Reform government led by Nigel Farage. - Economy / cost"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014663406045794720)  2026-01-23T11:36Z 170K followers, 28.7K engagements


"A monster essay on a modern monster and his monstrous theories https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/the-veep-the-mogul-and-the-antichristr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/the-veep-the-mogul-and-the-antichristr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014715882535112837)  2026-01-23T15:04Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"The Veep the Mogul and the Antichrist: a monster essay https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/the-veep-the-mogul-and-the-antichristr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/the-veep-the-mogul-and-the-antichristr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014717911865118877)  2026-01-23T15:12Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


""A close ally" EXCL: George Galloway WILL stand in the Gorton & Denton by-election if Andy Burnham is Labour's candidate a close ally has told me https://t.co/Ne5lfQB0Qq EXCL: George Galloway WILL stand in the Gorton & Denton by-election if Andy Burnham is Labour's candidate a close ally has told me https://t.co/Ne5lfQB0Qq"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014718204984058110)  2026-01-23T15:13Z 170K followers, 26.1K engagements


"@joshglancy @peterpomeranzev This is one of those moments when you have to try and distinguish between the man and the people"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014733709287502093)  2026-01-23T16:15Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"I'm beginning to feel that a little Zach Polanski goes a long way"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014736431558676558)  2026-01-23T16:26Z 170K followers, 26.4K engagements


"@alexmassie Chicago [----]. Thats my plan"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2014758108300554607)  2026-01-23T17:52Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"I didn't express any indignation. For that you should look at this morning's Sun. Nor do I hold to any consensus about 'winning Davos' which seems to me a piece of willy-waggling. I wondered how you could so confidently assert as 'a fact' that Trump doesn't mean half of what he says. Or in the case of Greenland - according to your analysis- none of what he says https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015000176642117766 https://twitter.com/i/web/status/2015000176642117766"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015000176642117766)  2026-01-24T09:54Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@nfergus Would I have to read your piece more carefully than you wrote it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015005491126993359)  2026-01-24T10:15Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@drdavidbull @nadhimzahawi Simple question to you both: did jewellery stores get robbed when you were in government Nadhim Or when Boris Johnson was London mayor If so can you remind me of your social media posts highlighting the robberies If you can't why are you doing it now"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015019259387068768)  2026-01-24T11:10Z 170K followers, 15.7K engagements


"Since his fans are campaigning for him again here's what I wrote about Andy Burnham last autumn: https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/andy-burnham-for-pmr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true https://open.substack.com/pub/davidaaronovitch/p/andy-burnham-for-pmr=2817om&utm_campaign=post&utm_medium=web&showWelcomeOnShare=true"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015023138078077279)  2026-01-24T11:25Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"He was also Jack the Ripper as I explain in my forthcoming bestseller 'The Bad Bard'. 🎭 William Shakespeare was a black Jewish woman who used used the Bard's name as a pen-name according to a new book. Read the full report from @Craig_Simpson_ here https://t.co/pyLi27hP07 https://t.co/TLrIvHo6fz 🎭 William Shakespeare was a black Jewish woman who used used the Bard's name as a pen-name according to a new book. Read the full report from @Craig_Simpson_ here https://t.co/pyLi27hP07 https://t.co/TLrIvHo6fz"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015055737261641872)  2026-01-24T13:35Z 170K followers, 17.1K engagements


"@CarlGavaghan @thespursweb At this point days after beating Dortmund lots of people. So who's your choice"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015171789966495838)  2026-01-24T21:16Z 170K followers, [---] engagements


"But this isn't even the worst aspect of this incident. The claims by the administration that Pretti was a terrorist and threatening to murder agents are both untrue and create impunity for reckless violence To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti a registered nurse on scene as a legal observer is filming and goes to help the woman up. He is then pepper sprayed and thrown to the ground for no discernible reason. Many To be clear about what this depicts: An immigration officer threw a woman onto the ground. Alex Pretti a registered"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015184887007814119)  2026-01-24T22:08Z 170K followers, 35K engagements


"Oh god the Burnham takes"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015387776103936480)  2026-01-25T11:34Z 170K followers, 17.8K engagements


"@epkaufm Was Alex Pretti a 'minion'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015475150255182184)  2026-01-25T17:21Z 170K followers, [---] engagements


"Also they clearly have no idea what "collude" means Easy to laugh but with its heated exaggeration suspiciousness & conspiratorial fantasy this exemplifies Richard Hofstadters classic essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics. @GBNEWS is exploiting the gullibility of vulnerable people possessed by a sense of persecution. Easy to laugh but with its heated exaggeration suspiciousness & conspiratorial fantasy this exemplifies Richard Hofstadters classic essay The Paranoid Style in American Politics. @GBNEWS is exploiting the gullibility of vulnerable people possessed by a sense of persecution"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015699061311938834)  2026-01-26T08:11Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@SophyRidgeSky Of course. Though Burnham did write that his intention was simply to help the government and didn't mention anything about challenging for the leadership"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015708172330139716)  2026-01-26T08:47Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@CathyYoung63 It's worth remembering that there was a whole lot of Nazi going on before the 'final solution'"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015709524938695068)  2026-01-26T08:52Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"@BachmannRudi @AlfieConn Alfie Conn is a pseudonym. The real person is just another far right troll"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015749412916490390)  2026-01-26T11:31Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"Your timely reminder that momentum can go in both directions Another big beast defection shows momentum is with Reform https://t.co/FNh4hf2X1i Another big beast defection shows momentum is with Reform https://t.co/FNh4hf2X1i"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015792668740133085)  2026-01-26T14:23Z 170K followers, [----] engagements


"Andy Burnham faces a bit of a conundrum now. He's more or less said that only he could win the forthcoming by-election yet he now has to be seen doing everything he can to get the Labour candidate elected"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015793839978533119)  2026-01-26T14:27Z 170K followers, 15K engagements


"@infamousgrouser @gilescoren @domdyer70 Right. It's nearer [--] miles. But essentially you don't like to move from home. Fair enough. Incidentally Scarborough has a crime rate above the national average. But I'm sure that you'll tell me that's all the visitors from London"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/2015919112338174134)  2026-01-26T22:45Z 170K followers, [---] engagements


"Anyone of my BBC tweeps know why the BBC site is down Who's been upsetting the Chinese"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/223138407075942400)  2012-07-11T19:35Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Right. Now for Dick [--] at the Globe. Hope the man playing leccy guitar on Thames river bed keeps it down"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/228468372235513856)  2012-07-26T12:34Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Cleggs argument that an abolition of student fees would have been a realistic option for a majority Libdem government is a fantasy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/250151081231937536)  2012-09-24T08:34Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@TomStevenson_ With respect the abolition wouldnt have been for a year would it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/250151966741786624)  2012-09-24T08:37Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"When is the first Robama debate"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/252511540656340992)  2012-09-30T20:53Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"This Julie Burchill Desert Island Discs is unpredictable funny and just great radio"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/300570321570897922)  2013-02-10T11:42Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"I imagine that anti-Thatcher protestors will gather at Big Ben on Wednesday and all go "bong" together at one o'clock. #funeral"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/323836863087513600)  2013-04-15T16:34Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@froggiewoggie No. I'll be writing a sage and unmissable column. As usual"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/323839291249799168)  2013-04-15T16:44Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"Do you like tortoises Enjoy fairs Going to be in Oxford tomorrow Corpus Christi Tortoise Fair is on 12-5 - http://t.co/AtdaurWp5g. http://on.fb.me/1103oMx http://on.fb.me/1103oMx"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/338284897267490816)  2013-05-25T13:26Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@digeco @KatherineSalahi @iankatz1000 Traitor to what Stephen Exactly"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/375629161466851328)  2013-09-05T14:39Z 171.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@digeco @KatherineSalahi @iankatz1000 I don't think you really believe any of that. Having a sharply different view is not treachery"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/375630941793710080)  2013-09-05T14:46Z 171.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@digeco @KatherineSalahi @iankatz1000 Parties are coalitions in themselves. Sounds like you would prefer a sect"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/375632917621260290)  2013-09-05T14:54Z 171.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@digeco @KatherineSalahi @iankatz1000 You think Blair was part of a secret organisation trying by subterfuge to take over a larger one"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/375635298232705024)  2013-09-05T15:03Z 171.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@digeco @KatherineSalahi @iankatz1000 I think he became an internationalist. Which Labour at its best always was"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/375636526660452353)  2013-09-05T15:08Z 171.3K followers, [--] engagements


"@oliverburkeman @hannahdev It sells. Its what their constituency wants to hear"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/421582478655373312)  2014-01-10T10:01Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"Anne Frank lives again in Amsterdam. My review of the new play in today's Times Arts - http://t.co/RHfArhDOY4 () http://thetim.es/QKcXNo http://thetim.es/QKcXNo"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/466867891489759232)  2014-05-15T09:09Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Why it is it (seriously) that the overwhelming majority of posters of comments under online newspaper articles and columns are men"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/471278240695595008)  2014-05-27T13:14Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@carneross But before you commented on Chilcot did you know that the Maxwellisation process did not begin till November"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/557951536807309314)  2015-01-21T17:23Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@carneross Peter Riddell said on radio this am that some werent sent docs till end November. If true would that temper your view"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/557977928903168000)  2015-01-21T19:07Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@michelerhanson I am slightly baffled by your bafflement Michele. @giles_fraser"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/596650178427428864)  2015-05-08T12:17Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"It is amazing on Twitter at the moment watching people freight old Jeremy with their different contradictory hopes and fantasies"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/631565882418966528)  2015-08-12T20:40Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"I found Jeremy Corbyn's speech strangely refreshing in its unspun dullness. (I haven't seen it; just thought I'd get in first.)"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/648820885172916224)  2015-09-29T11:25Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"Looks like I'll be on @BBCNewsnight tonight talking about you-know-what. Prepare to be unastonished"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/671784026215202816)  2015-12-01T20:12Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@toadmeister Sod that Toby. Theres a line and hes crossed it. @MailOnline"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/726703464940707840)  2016-05-01T09:23Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@jseths I'm dismissive of his nonsense. I'm not dismissive of the problem of people believing his nonsense"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/738479688872538112)  2016-06-02T21:17Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"Ok. I'll ask 'any academic'. Let's see what they say. https://x.com/PleaseDemocracy/status/747005562102124544 https://x.com/PleaseDemocracy/status/747005562102124544"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/747006067066945536)  2016-06-26T09:58Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"In Emily Thornberrys Corbyn-supporting letter to Islington comrades theres not one reference to how electoral annihilation can be avoided"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/770734360089784320)  2016-08-30T21:26Z 170K followers, [---] engagements


"@michelerhanson Yes thatd do it. If I stopped saying Corbyn was an utter disaster for Labour then hed stop being one. As you say easy"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/770748515907735553)  2016-08-30T22:22Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@michelerhanson I don't know what to say to you. Look at the polls on Corbyn. The worst ever for any major party leader. Wake up"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/770762876902641664)  2016-08-30T23:19Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@michelerhanson What else can I do So you're clear Corbyn's history and policies (vide Nato) would make it impossible even to vote Labour"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/770764242001723392)  2016-08-30T23:24Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@michelerhanson If Corbyn leads Labour the party doesn't get my vote. My guess is (& the polls seem to confirm it) millions feel likewise"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/770764622542540800)  2016-08-30T23:26Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@michelerhanson What is wrong with working for Pfizer You're factually wrong on welfare & you still don't engage with Corbyn's uselessness"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/770881997157924865)  2016-08-31T07:12Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@michelerhanson Is that all That's easily accomplished. Just wish for it hard enough and vote Corbyn"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/770943603266945024)  2016-08-31T11:17Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"@JamesHeartfield True But the discussion was "is Corbyn a disaster" @michelerhanson"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/771375171810754560)  2016-09-01T15:52Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"The counter-productive waste of time money and effort to be involved in indulging Theresa Mays educational nostalgia makes me cross"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/773815091133374464)  2016-09-08T09:27Z 171.5K followers, [---] engagements


"1. Grammar schools choose (or usually dont choose) you not you them. [--]. No in practice you cant substitute tests with long interviews"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/773839437088362496)  2016-09-08T11:04Z 170K followers, [--] engagements


"Utter dick. https://x.com/LBC/status/852254755695058945 https://x.com/LBC/status/852254755695058945"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/852254926176759808)  2017-04-12T20:19Z 170K followers, [---] engagements


"@maryftz @OborneTweets Tell me Mary what did you make of the reply I made on @Barristerblog in [----] to your two part attack by Bea Campbell on my BBC programme on Satanic abuse [-----] words. Did you even read it"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/989064953620463623)  2018-04-25T08:53Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@maryftz @OborneTweets @Barristerblog Not engaged Ive written an entire chapter of a book on this. Have you engaged with that"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/989077744339349504)  2018-04-25T09:44Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@maryftz @OborneTweets @Barristerblog Droll. And a useful reminder of the limitations of this kind of exchange"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/989080779442610177)  2018-04-25T09:56Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@maryftz @OborneTweets @Barristerblog I dont mean on Twitter. I mean with someone who essentially doesnt care about the truth or otherwise of the Kelly case. Or Satanic abuse. Or much else really"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/989085511364108289)  2018-04-25T10:15Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements


"@maryftz @OborneTweets @Barristerblog @openDemocracy As a token of your goodwill Mary Im very happy first for you to republish the reply to your two Bea Campbell pieces that @Barristerblog initially hosted. After that we can think about a reply to the Kelly conspiracists"  
[X Link](https://x.com/DAaronovitch/status/989152511079731200)  2018-04-25T14:41Z 171.5K followers, [--] engagements

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