Keir Starmer facing ministerial revolt over jury trials, claims chief backbench rebel This and more in today’s @thetimes.com diary www.thetimes.com/article/c8ec...

Writing this I had to look through Grok's mentions. Earlier I counted around 8 requests PER MINUTE featuring "bikini" and "her". Thousands of women and girls stripped each day. I found users stripping dozens of women per hour, from female celebrities to gym selfies. www.thetimes.com/uk/technolog...

Spotted on train - a very dapper James Cleverly (hat, smart coat, red socks) Nearly missed his stop as he was engrossed in solving a Rubik’s Cube Seemed like the trickiest part of the puzzle was trying to get all the blues on one side

Oh we all had a history teacher who was like this

Before Jack the Ripper, there came the Thames Torso Murderer. A brutal, cold killer responsible for at least four murders in London, this forgotten figure was never identified. Have Lucy Worsley and a team of researchers finally solved the case? www.thetimes.com/article/3251...

My political predictions for the year

Producers of The Traitors: “We’ve introduced a new twist to the format. It changes everything! This is revolutionary! The greatest show on telly just for greater!” Three episodes in: “On second thoughts…”

Someone has already pitched the sitcom

Sitting with my son on my lap as he laughed his little head off to the first Paddington film was very heaven

Very much enjoying the number of readers who are failing to see that this is a joke

Will there be a Labour leadership contest this year? Yes - it’s written in the stars. This and more in today’s Times Diary www.thetimes.com/article/9cfc...

It’s the @TimesDiary Quotes of the Year, taking in politics, Trump, culture and more Wisecracks and wisdom: the best quotations of 2025 www.thetimes.com/article/930d...

It’s the @TimesDiary Quotes of the Year, taking in politics, Trump, culture and more Wisecracks and wisdom: the best quotations of 2025 www.thetimes.com/article/930d...

“Sure he did the long walk to freedom, ended Apartheid and became one of the world’s greatest statesmen, but that’s his job!”

“Sure he did the long walk to freedom, ended Apartheid and became one of the world’s greatest statesmen, but that’s his job!”

This was the most extraordinary story from this year’s National Archives releases The papers on the royals Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor which vanished while we were reporting on them Cabinet Office accused of royal cover-up after Andrew files withdrawn www.thetimes.com/article/59d9...

The Pope has condemned gambling. I didn’t have that on my 2025 bingo card.

EXC: Harold Godwinson’s lost royal palace - has it finally been found? Me in @thetimes, previewing the new series of Digging for Britain Has dig unearthed Harold Godwinson’s palace? www.thetimes.com/article/c087...

In case you have a spare hour, here’s my Christmas Day show on Times Radio: www.thetimes.com/radio/show/2...

Viewing plans for this evening 11.30pm: Watch England bat first at the MCG 1am: Exchange that horror show for the comparative calm of new Stranger Things

Merry Christmas one and all! May you be surrounded by joy and love!

Having necklaces in the Anne Boleyn Collection seems a little insensitive

It’s a week to go! By which I mean, it’s a week until I host the Times Radio Christmas lunch. Such a fun time with @wlyons.bsky.social, @charlotteivers.bsky.social and @elodieharper.bsky.social with fine wine, history, food and tips to get you through Christmas Day and beyond. 1pm, Xmas Day

This weekend, we had some beautiful carols in a beautiful setting with a beautiful boy #christmas #toddler #carols

There was something of an incident on my train home last night, while waiting for the train to depart. Two, older if not elderly women were sat and playing music* out loud. Another woman objected. The initial pair didn’t take this well.

Nice article in @thetimes.com by @hackblackburn.bsky.social about my unusual career path and how I came to be involved leading the genetic analysis of Hitler's DNA.

I am on today’s edition of The Story from @thetimes explaining the ins and outs of the sequencing of Hitler’s DNA podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/t...

Would have been 80 today. So dearly miss you daddy

Exclusive: Adolf Hitler’s DNA has been sequenced by scientists It has: - shown he had a disorder which impacted his sexual development - debunked rumours about his ancestry - shown a high likelihood that he had a neurodivergent condition and/or bipolar disorder www.thetimes.com/article/e728...

Nick Mohamed’s national popularity just seesawed like a six year old on sweets #thecelebritytraitors

"This inattention to detail was typical of the laziness the show’s narrator was known for. Real shoddy narrating. Just pure crap."

In my Times Diary this morning… Reform are pursuing a “Millwall” strategy www.thetimes.com/article/aa6b...

The historical symmetry of Andrew Mountbatten Windsor ending up in Sandringham Where will Andrew live in Sandringham? Estate has its own troubled past www.thetimes.com/article/0680...

As promised on Times Radio, Jilly Cooper’s dirty joke (or one of them at any rate)

Wes Streeting “forgot” to include the Tories in his conference speech This and more in today’s @TimesDiary Including Jeremy King on dress codes and a campaign to get Bertie Wooster recognised at Oxford Wes Streeting forgets to sing the blues www.thetimes.com/article/9017...

It’s difficult to describe the mood of anticipation at Tory Conference ahead of Badenoch’s speech. Very difficult. Electron microscopes would struggle to detect it.

Penny Mordaunt on plans for a comeback: “I’m styling myself as National Treasure and MP on sabbatical”

No, no, I think there’s not enough puppetry work in modern political oratory.

Robert Jenrick gets a (gradually) standing ovation and one of the higher attendance figures garnered this week. Still plenty of seats available…

Manchester United get a shout out from Laura Trott at Tory Conference. A once titanic force which has fallen into mediocrity, a shadow of its former self, harking back to memories of past glories… Do your own punchline

James Cleverly is a master of spin. Pours a pint (on the second attempt) which is one quarter head - says it’s for Oktoberfest

I have multiple Jilly stories, but one is her favourite joke. Three upper middle class women meet on a train, get chatting and then start boasting about their husbands…

Devastated to hear that Jilly Cooper has died. Even just meeting her in passing, she was just the most wonderful woman.

Not saying it’s already been a long conference, but James Cleverly is on the Guinness at 10.25am

Tories remain top of the props. Hacks at the party conference have received a goodie bag with Haribo and chocolate and also a fake fat packet with Reform’s manifesto written on it. Very good, though a hangover cure which depicts someone in blue just clinging on to life might backfire a little

Jess Phillips is a sellout… at the conference bookshop at least. There are no copies to be had of her memoir. Wes Streeting’s is selling well. Even a biog of Tony Blair has sold a few. What isn’t selling? Keir Starmer’s biography.

Jess Phillips is a sellout… at the conference bookshop at least. There are no copies to be had of her memoir. Wes Streeting’s is selling well. Even a biog of Tony Blair has sold a few. What isn’t selling? Keir Starmer’s biography.

Andy Burnham leads in the wrong direction, and Labour remains able to “agree disagreeably” All in my #LabourConference2025 Diary for @thetimes.com Burnham’s abortive coup dissolves into thin air www.thetimes.com/article/07a7...

For those still up… Farewell to Andy Burnham’s leadership challenge… we hardly knew thee Burnham’s abortive coup dissolves into thin air www.thetimes.com/article/07a7...