Coffee House

@SpecCoffeeHouse

Tweets from The Spectator's Coffee House team. Sign up to our free Evening Blend newsletter: https://www.spectator.co.uk/evening-blend/

Westminster, London

Joined March 2010

328Following

69KFollowers

Pinned

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 1 h

Two-tier policing has arrived in Epping ✍️ Laurie Wastell spectator.co.uk/article/two-ti…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Essex Police has today tried to set the record straight. In reality, it’s done anything but.

860

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 2 h

As MPs depart Westminster for parliamentary recess, The Spectator’s political sketch writer @Madz_Grant joins @NatashaFeroze and economics editor @Simmons__ to talk about how to sketch PMQs and why Keir Starmer makes for the best sketches. Listen here 👇 spectator.co.uk/podcast/how-to…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. As MPs depart Westminster for parliamentary recess, The Spectator’s political sketch writer Madeline Grant joins Natasha Feroze and economics editor Michael Simmons to talk about how to sketch PMQs...

980

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 3 h

Migrant relocation rumours spark Canary Wharf protest ✍️ Steerpike spectator.co.uk/article/migran…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Uh oh. Protests have broken out outside an empty Canary Wharf hotel after claims began to circulate that migrants were being relocated to the venue from Epping. In response to the rumours spread by...

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 3 h

James O’Brien has disgraced himself ✍️ Brendan O’Neill spectator.co.uk/article/james-…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. For a man who wrote a book called How To Be Right, LBC presenter James O’Brien sure does get a lot of things wrong

3.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 4 h

How Britain ended up in the Afghan asylum mess ✍️ Simon Diggins spectator.co.uk/article/how-br…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. The Afghan data leak has generated a mass of lurid headlines and, no doubt, there is still much analysis, pointing of fingers and assigning of blame to come. But how did it happen that the UK ended...

938

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 4 h

The US trade deal may come too late for Japan’s prime minister ✍️ Philip Patrick spectator.co.uk/article/the-us…

829

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 6 h

Cleverly refuses to back Badenoch on ECHR ✍️ Steerpike spectator.co.uk/article/clever…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Kemi Badenoch might have reached an agreement with James Cleverly about his new role in the shadow cabinet, but it appears the pair remain at odds over the European Convention on Human Rights (ECHR)....

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 7 h

Cabinet ministers urge Starmer to recognise Palestine ✍️ Steerpike spectator.co.uk/article/cabine…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Parliament may have risen for recess but that doesn’t mean that Sir Keir Starmer is getting much of a break. It transpires that the Prime Minister is facing growing calls to immediately recognise...

934

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 8 h

Ozzy Osbourne, the accidental rock star ✍️ Dominic Selwood spectator.co.uk/article/ozzy-o…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. John Osbourne – iconic pioneer of heavy metal – died at his home in Buckinghamshire aged 76 on Tuesday 22 July.

951

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 10 h

The real shock of the Tory reshuffle ✍️ James Heale spectator.co.uk/article/the-re…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Kemi Badenoch has saved the biggest news of the Tory reshuffle for last. This morning, the headlines were dominated by news of James Cleverly’s return. But this evening, the only story causing...

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 10 h

Zelensky’s corruption crackdown is a disaster ✍️ Owen Matthews spectator.co.uk/article/zelens…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Zelensky’s government seems to have seriously miscalculated the mood of ordinary Ukrainian people

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 11 h

Tim Davie must resign ✍️ Hugh Thomson spectator.co.uk/article/tim-da…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Never has the BBC needed to have a visionary in post more to survive. Never has it had someone so clearly inadequate for the job

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 12 h

Bring back the milkman! ✍️ Rob Crossan spectator.co.uk/article/bring-…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Even if you couldn’t care a fig for sustainability, it’s hard not to be impressed with the Nostradamus-esque foresight of the milk float. In an era when Old King Coal ruled the roost and recycling...

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 12 h

The trouble with Gillian Anderson ✍️ Alexander Larman spectator.co.uk/article/the-tr…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Gillian Anderson's most recent performance in The Salt Path may yet turn out to be one of her most controversial

2.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 12 h

London is due a lido renaissance ✍️ Alfie Pearce-Higgins spectator.co.uk/article/london…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. There are 1,000 spaces available for the 6-9 a.m. lane swimming session at Tooting Bec Lido in south London. On Sunday it was fully booked. After a few frantic lengths (at 91m, it is Europe’s...

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · 12 h

Could a secretive Swiss clinic cure my bad habits? ✍️ Jonathan Ray spectator.co.uk/article/could-…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Having just turned 65, I enjoyed a week of firsts. My first ever facial and my first ever yoga class progressed to my first ever impedancemetry session, my first ever photobiomodulation session, my...

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · Jul 22

Boredom is Rachel Reeves’s secret weapon ✍️ Madeline Grant spectator.co.uk/article/boredo…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Perhaps Rachel Reeves' plan is to bore the markets into submission: after all, the stock exchange can’t crash if everyone’s asleep

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · Jul 22

Despite Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s efforts, the British Medical Association has announced this afternoon that the doctors’ strikes are on. ✍️ Lucy Dunn spectator.co.uk/article/strike…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Despite Health Secretary Wes Streeting’s efforts, the British Medical Association (BMA) has announced this afternoon that the doctors’ strikes are on. From 7 a.m. this Friday until 7 a.m. next...

1.0K

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · Jul 22

Ukraine’s anti-corruption institutions are under attack ✍️ Svitlana Morenets spectator.co.uk/article/ukrain…

SpecCoffeeHouse's tweet card. Ukraine’s parliament has passed a bill that destroys the independence of the country’s key anti-corruption bodies.

943

Coffee House@SpecCoffeeHouse · Jul 22

Ex-Unite boss under fire over private jets and million-pound hotel project ✍️ Steerpike spectator.co.uk/article/ex-uni…

868