Jo Tanner

'The minister has very bravely offered to go through some of the charts from the budget' @dantomlinsonmp joins @EdConwaySky at the screen to talk through the numbers behind today's announcement trib.al/WOFfeba 📺 Sky 501, Virgin 602

"It enables you to have fresh conversations...with a blank piece of paper." Does politics need more cross-party work? Jo Tanner makes the case as to why. @CalumAM | @nationjames | @StraightTie

🔴 On the podcast this week... @TufnellHenry - Labour MP for Mid and South Pembrokeshire…and one of the MPs behind the “Industry First Group.” Recording this afternoon. @CalumAM | @StraightTie | @NationJames

Honoured and delighted to win sports journalist and scoop of the year at the @londonpressclub awards.

Oliver Reed told a 55-year-old woman with two Oscars to be quiet on The Tonight Show, so she got up and walked off the set. He kept talking about her after she was gone, cracking jokes to Johnny Carson about women's lib, and he had no idea she was coming back. Reed said later that the producers had warned him about Shelley Winters before they even started taping. They told him she'd talk a lot and that he should tell her to be quiet if she interrupted him. Then they sat a 37-year-old British hellraiser right next to her and hit record. You can watch it building in the full segment, which runs about 16 minutes. Reed shushes her, she tries a joke and gets a dead stare back, and eventually she says goodbye and leaves. That's when he turns to Johnny and says, "So much for women's lib. Where's the lady that shouted?" And he keeps going. He tells Johnny most women are perfectly happy in the kitchen, then throws in that men make better cooks anyway. That's about when Winters walked back out from stage left with a glass in her hand and poured it right over his head. Johnny, the most powerful man in late-night TV, looked at a soaking-wet Oliver Reed and told him to lick it off. Johnny basically invented the talk show couch, and the whole point of it was that guests stayed out there after their own interview. So Winters had to sit and listen to Reed's entire act from a few feet away, and the producers knew exactly who they'd booked next to each other. Reed also picked a very bad person to lecture about the kitchen. Winters had been in Hollywood since the 1940s and won her Oscars for The Diary of Anne Frank and A Patch of Blue. She ended up giving the Anne Frank one away to the Anne Frank House in Amsterdam. She'd also reportedly dumped a pot of pasta on one of her husbands for complaining about her cooking, so this wasn't exactly new territory for her. Reed called the whole thing a giggle when British TV asked him about it later. People still can't even agree on what was in the glass. Wikipedia has it as whisky, and there's an Austin Chronicle column that swears it was a whole champagne bucket of ice water. Eight years later, somebody cast the two of them in the same movie, a 1983 sex comedy called Fanny Hill.

Dear bra companies, I am BEGGING you to stop making bras with removable pads. 😭 Nobody wants to spend 10 minutes trying to shove a folded-up triangle back into a tiny hole after laundry day. WE ARE TIRED.

For those who missed Rachel with Jordan Brown. This was 10 seconds after she interviewed Mark Allen. Two great friends shattered and in utter turmoil, treated with empathy and human kindness. Snooker (and racing) is lucky to have her.

Earlier this year, a "really weird" email marked the beginning of a life-altering experience for Lib Dem MP Anna Sabine A surgeon watching her Politics Live performance pointed out a big lump on the side of her throat and urged her to get it checked out. The subsequent surgery severed one of Sabine's vocal cords, preventing her from speaking in anything above a whisper Now, @anna4fes speaks to The House mag's @BenGartside about returning to Parliament, her refusal to step back from public speaking, and embracing her newfound social media fame as the ‘Whispering MP’ politicshome.com/news/articl…

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I'm sorry we never got a chance to meet, but getting this note from Dolly really had a an impact on me. She definitely didn't have to take the time to do it. Even for a kid who mostly listened to rap music, she was an icon. A superstar in every sense. Rest easy Dolly. And thank you for the kind words.