Still early stages but I think I know who Time’s Person of the Year is going to be. Just a hunch.
Robert Colvile
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Robert Colvile
@rcolvile
Director of @CPSThinkTank, EIC of @CapX, Sunday columnist for @thetimes, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
London
Joined December 2008
- That he has basic manners?Nothing summarises Keir Starmer on the world stage better than this image.
- US: Stop the steal! March on the capitol! UK: Thank you to all my fellow candidates for the civilised fashion in which we fought the election, and to everyone here at Borsetshire Leisure Centre.
- Being anti-Heathrow but pro-Mirpur is quite the flex.
- Today is climate strike day. Millions of people across the world, according to the organisers, will be marching to save the planet. But having dug into what they're actually marching for, I'm profoundly uneasy. So uneasy, in fact, that it's time for a THREAD.
- I have now been sent the Labour dossier on their claim to save the average household £6,700. Even by the standards of modern politics, it is impossible to stress how bloody shoddy these numbers are and how quickly they fall apart. Thread follows, with occasional swearing.
- Why is the BBC using 'reverts' rather than 'converts' here? I know the theological concept involved is that everyone is born Muslim, but they wouldn't use 'apostates' or 'heretics' in a story about Christianity...'Eid celebration can be lonely for Muslim reverts' bbc.in/43GwEykReaders added contextUse of the term "revert" instead of "convert" is controversial, since it implies someone is returning to a natural belief system (claimed by some Muslims to be Islam), rather than adopting one they have freely chosen. wikihow.com/Revert-Muslim#….
- GDP up: 1.2% Triple lock up: 4.7% Someone help me budget this my public finances are dying.NEWS. The State Pension is set to rise 4.7% next April. We know this as it is 'triple locked', ie rises by the higher of 2.5% or inflation or average earnings rise. The final figure has just come in, for earnings up to July and it's the highest of the three, at 4.7%. So based on
- I see Rishi has joined Liz in highlighting the scourge of solar panels on our precious farmland. We have 23 million acres of farmland. Even if we quintuple solar output (the govt's target), it would take up roughly 1/200th of it. Also you can usually still farm on the land!
- I know this is not a new point but the distribution of bank holidays in this country is insane.
- Dear London taxi drivers, if you want to win your war with the 21st century, maybe stop using the phrase ‘Oh, you’re paying by card, are you?’ as though you’re being presented with mysterious spices from the East.
- It's very weird watching Labour just actually do so many of the things Tories whined privately that they couldn't.
