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Giles Wilkes
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Giles Wilkes
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After advising No10 and BIS& writing @FT, now specialist partner @flintglobal, senior fellow @instituteforgov
looking for authentic ways to improve us
- I'm SO glad I never had to learn English as a foreign language. This *looks* like nine consecutive nouns.
- Some people still have faith in the government's ability to deliver large scale IT programmes
- The Venetian method for electing a Doge was literally insane, or genius
- I'm old enough to remember when the point of an Emergency Budget was to solve one, not cause one
- This is an astonishingly important story from @jburnmurdoch. Our suddenly-diminished labour force is an immediate, dangerous drag on UK prosperity. It's a hypothesis, but if NHS decay is the reason, this is THE issue of the decade on.ft.com/3IYrtgP
- The Economist absolutely goes to town on the political roots of the UK's demise economist.com/britain/2022/1…
- When Gordon Brown left No10 in 2010, he was fairly unpopular. He's (rightly IMHO) risen steadily in public esteem since. Ditto John Major from 1997. Honest question: which current figure might see a similar arc of growing post-office popularity?
- This is a HUGE story from @ChrisGiles_ - "Brexit has cut UK productivity by up to 5%, says BoE". Before any kind of Brexit has happened on.ft.com/30Makjf Because percentages sound little, it won't get the coverage it deserves. It's £40-100bn of lost income *every* year 1/
- Not sure I've ever seen @FT take the gloves off like this: "There is no doubt that a substantial proportion of the governing Conservative party shares Patel’s contempt for the England team’s anti-racism efforts" - on.ft.com/3wCdR2L
- Bemused southern Remainers like me, about to be befuddled by the Hartlepool poll result, need constant reminders that there are lots of people who really, genuinely, honestly think that the Government did them a massive favour by pushing through Brexit ...
