The BBC's political editor Nick Robinson ruffled a few feathers after he took to Twitter with a threat to kill ... a cockerel. Robbo was kept up at night by the neighbour's bird at his cottage in Suffolk and tweeted "Awoke contemplating murder" before retweeting a colleague's suggestion that he turn it into lunch. "Interesting," added the BBC's man at Westminster. The bird's owner was less impressed, reported the Daily Mail, and Robinson was subsequently keen to point out that he wasn't really about to wring the feathered fiend's, sorry, friend's neck. "My tweet was a one-off cry of frustration – a sort of anti-cockerel troll if you like – from a grumpy middle aged man who had not had enough sleep," said Robinson. Good job too, otherwise he might have found himself up in front of the beak.
