Lyn Brown is MP for West Ham

The absolute best book I read last year. Had to stay up all night to finish it as I couldn't breathe.

Get it!! 99p. Then do what I did and go buy physical copies for everyone you know needs to read it 🥰 https://twitter.com/willrdean/status/1542458648860975105

This is a great book. At a ridiculous price. Written by a very handsome man. https://twitter.com/willrdean/status/1542458648860975105

No serious attempt by the Leader of the House to engage properly with my question in the @HouseofCommons today about the recent spate of large-scale trains cancellations, virtually every day, on TransPennine trains serving the Hull and Humber area. @hhchamber

Less than a pound. Run, don’t walk 🔥

If this was a bus route it would have been closed by now.

https://www.bbc.com/news/uk-england-london-61969337

2022 CWA Dagger Awards : Ray Celestin, Janice Hallett & Mark Billingham awarded 2022 CWA Daggers. The winners of the 2022 CWA Daggers, which honour the very best in the crime writing genre, have been announced at an awards cermony hosted by Barry Forshaw and Victoria Selman

Conservative MP Sir Charles Walker asks for an urgent debate about the Education Secretary’s mobile phone.

He says he has been texting Nadhim Zahawi for six months about a badly leaking roof at his local school and nothing ever happens.

A great night at the Crime Writers' Association Awards, lots of fun and the first time I've been in black tie for a loooong time! Lovely to see my editor and agent, a big thankyou to my publisher @bonnierbooks_uk and @The_CWA - congratulations to all the winners! 👏 #CWADaggers

Four out of the seven members of the Privileges Committee are Conservative MPs. https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1542267093558640640

Congratulations to Ray Celestin on winning the Historical Dagger (and the Gold Dagger)! A good night for @MantleBooks and @panmacmillan. Still chuffed to bits at having been shortlisted, @The_CWA! https://twitter.com/The_CWA/status/1542254158505443329

Great London launch for @BloodyScotland 2022 last night. A fantastic programme planned for September. Get your tickets here: https://bloodyscotland.com/events/

This is nonsense and a sign they’re scared of being caught out. The committee members are thorough, fair and meticulous. They’re advised by the former head of the tribunal service. But this is what Johnson always does, throw over the rules or the body that adjudicates on them https://twitter.com/christopherhope/status/1542267093558640640

Oh very jealous I loved his last book The Late Train to Gipsy Hill - can’t wait to read this one ! #bookpost @Bookywookydooda https://twitter.com/nickquantrill/status/1542428496483549185

Remember Lee Anderson? The Tory MP and bogus chef who says you can eat your tea on 30p.

Now he’s trying to silence women for telling the truth about the Tories’ appalling 1.3% rape conviction record.

No-one is going to stop us standing up for victims.

Jesus Christ listening to this interview with Liz Truss and you can feel your will to live seeping right out your pores.

Oh dear.
 
The Secretary of State for Education, Nadhim Zahawi, has ripped up his own plans and is back to the drawing board with his very first piece of primary legislation.
 
Once again, Tory chaos is failing our children.
 
A thread ... 🧵
https://www.telegraph.co.uk/politics/2022/06/29/nadhim-zahawi-u-turns-enormous-grab-power-schools/

it seems like one of my books has won one of these Dagger cuties last night in London. makes me very happy! ☀️🧜🏻‍♀️

thank you ⁦@The_CWA⁩
thank you ⁦@OrendaBooks⁩
thank you ⁦@FwdTranslations⁩

much love
S xxx
(*sent from out of the water*)

“Isn’t it #Brexit” asks Justin Webb on shortage of workers to pick fruit “haven’t we shot ourselves in the foot?” Robert Goodwill Con MP falsely claims we’ve enough British workers to do the work. Not true. We have more vacancies in every sector than ppl available to work #Today

@radiomukhers is currently crying into his CocoPops about the daggers, so do an elderly writer a favour and buy his tremendous book ... please ... or he'll go on about it all day ... I bought it to stop the singing, you can just buy it because its brilliant https://twitter.com/radiomukhers/status/1542422657119002625

Unbelievable! There’s just no sense of urgency with this Government. #Evusheld is the route for many immunocompromised, clinically vulnerable and clinically extremely vulnerable people to “live with COVID” too. Time for Ministers to act!

Labour will re-energise Britain.

That’ll be your money he’s been burning through ✈️
https://www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/politics/dominic-raab-private-jet-angela-rayner-b2112257.html

As you know, in a travesty of Trumpian proportions, I was robbed of the Gold Dagger last night. While I take my case to the Supreme Court, YOU can cheer old Mukhers up by signing up to my newsletter or buying one of my books. Go on, order them here please! https://abirmukherjee.com

It is at least arguable that calling the Committee of Privileges a “kangaroo court” is itself a contempt of parliament.

Didn’t win at the Daggers last night, but had a great time nonetheless. Thanks to my publishers @HarvillSecker for sticking with me and to wonderful wife for putting up with me.

We are over the moon that @MWCravenUK won the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger at last night’s @The_CWA Dagger Awards! 🥂

DEAD GROUND is the fourth instalment of the Washington Poe series and a Sunday Times bestseller.

Couldn't have asked for a better co-MC at last night's @The_CWA Daggers than the personable @VictoriaSelman - or better support than that of @AntonyJohnston, Dea Parkin @DeaWriter & @MaximJakubowski. Great to see (live!) the cream of the crime writing profession bagging awards

The Conservatives are soft on rape, soft on rapists and they don’t like to face the fact that they’re letting sex offenders off and letting survivors down. No-one is going to stop me from standing up for victims. https://www.theguardian.com/politics/2022/jun/30/minister-complains-speaker-labour-remarks-convictions?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other

We had a wonderful time at last night’s 🗡#CWADaggers – hope you all enjoyed the tweet-a-long, too! Congratulations to all the winners, and remember you can see all the details at our website, https://thecwa.co.uk

Huge congratulations to @MWCravenUK for winning the Ian Fleming Steel Dagger at the @The_CWA #CWADaggers awards!

🗡#CWADaggers
So we reach tonight’s final award: the coveted GOLD DAGGER, given to the best crime or thriller novel originally written in English and first published in the UK during the awards period.

🗡#CWADaggers
THE GOLD DAGGER SHORTLIST:

Jacqueline Bublitz: Before You Knew My Name
Ray Celestin: Sunset Swing
SA Cosby: Razorblade Tears
John Hart: The Unwilling
Abir Mukherjee: The Shadows of Men
William Shaw: The Trawlerman

🗡#CWADaggers
THE GOLD DAGGER 2022 WINNER:

Ray Celestin
‘Sunset Swing’
(Mantle, Pan Macmillan)

Levenshulme writer @paulmagrs has won the Crime Writers’ Association @The_CWA award for best crime short story of the year 2022. Hooray! Congratulations, Paul.
#CWADaggers #PaulMagrs https://twitter.com/the_cwa/status/1542250566373498884

An amazing double win for the fantastic Ray Celestin! We’re over the moon that Sunset Swing had bagged both the Gold Dagger and the Historical Dagger at the #CWADaggers 🗡 @MantleBooks @The_CWA

Huge congratulations to crime writer extraordinaire CJ Sansom for his Diamond Dagger win at tonight’s #CWADaggers! 🎉 https://twitter.com/The_CWA/status/1542257119105368064

Congratulations to the 2022 #CWADaggers winners, a super hard pick after such an amazing shortlist. https://twitter.com/The_CWA/status/1542260791134638081

A fabulous book and an incredible series 📚#CWADaggers https://twitter.com/the_cwa/status/1542254158505443329

The winner of the gold dagger and now the Ian Fleming steel dagger. Huge congratulations to the brilliant crime writer @MWCravenUK #DeadGround #CWADaggers

Home after a lovely evening at the @The_CWA #CWADaggers
Congratulations to all the winners and thank you to the hosts @BarryForshaw3 and @VictoriaSelman

Literary Tours in Egypt would like to congratulate @JaniceHallett on her John Creasy New Blood Dagger for The Appeal! 🗡️🗡️🗡️ Looking forward to meeting you at @BloodyScotland.

#CWA #CWADaggers #BloodyScotland https://twitter.com/JaniceHallett/status/1542256414512627714

I’m honoured to receive the Politician of the Year at this year’s Civility in Politics Awards. The award comes with a £1500 donation to my choice of charity which will be Mabon Trust.

@VaseemKhanUK being wonderfully funny…for a change.

At the @The_CWA daggers with my wife and my publisher who for some reason are both planning my death.

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Slightly embarrassing for @trussliz that she warns of 'China extending its influence through economic coercion' - yet doesn't know how many Chinese companies the UK subjects to controls. (The answer is 1).

Our exchange @CommonsForeign 👇

I'm glad that questions are now being asked within the Home Office, but there needs to be a review of children in police custody!

Children are being detained for too long (13 hours on average!) and there's a 6 hour wait for appropriate adults.

@Justforkidslaw @AA_NAAN

With @william1shaw on our way to the @The_CWA Daggers.