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Rachel Cunliffe
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Rachel Cunliffe
@RMCunliffe
Associate Political Editor @NewStatesman. Devout classicist, "indulgent editrix", at one point the only Ancient Greek teacher in South Korea
- Nothing to see here, just the guy who bought Twitter having free speech explained to him by a cat
- So at my cousin’s wedding they got everyone to draw a picture of themselves and made it into a lovely tea towel as a souvenir. Everyone else understood the brief. Me… well this is how I chose to represent myself…
- An anonymous source tells me: “can’t believe he’s been brought down by a sex scandal not involving himself”
- I've said this before, but. If you genuinely believed abortion is murdering babies, you'd do everything you could to prevent the need for it. Comprehensive sex ed. Widely available free contraception. Criminal penalties for men who remove a condom mid-sex without consent.
- Reality of our ageing population: older voters block things younger voters need in order to work and pay taxes to fund things the older voters need. Older voters them complain young are entitled and should "work harder" like they did. MPs indulge them. Rinse and repeat.
- Christ, imagine if he’d got the big calls wrong
- National Insurance is not rising by 1.25%. National Insurance is rising by 1.25 PERCENTAGE POINTS. For the vast majority, that means going up from 12% to 13.25%, which is more than a 10% rise. Got that? Your taxes are rising by 10%. This is a 10% tax hike. 10. Not 1.25.National Insurance to rise in tax raid on workers - how much extra will you pay? thesun.co.uk/money/16541966…
- A quick word on the "there's a time and a place" objection to protest: if you're one of the 24% of Brits who believes we shouldn't have a monarchy, the passing of power from one unelected head of state to another is *exactly* the time to voice your opinions
- A woman has emailed @TimesRadio to say she is planning to *knit* the election result - row by row, colour by colour, for every seat declared - and I honestly cannot think of anything more wonderfully British and fitting for this election. Truly, an inspiration to all
- “Why won’t young people have children?” they ask, surveying the broken housing market, the staggering generational wealth gap, the 42% tax rate for graduates, decades of pay stagnation and the extortionate cost of childcare. “Must be climate anxiety!”
- The number of people (read: men) on my timeline arguing that porn videos just "pop up" on Twitter and poor unsuspecting Twitter users could be caught out if someone glanced at their phone at the wrong moment. What version of Twitter are you guys using?!
