Easy to understand why people want to preserve such beauty
Duncan Robinson
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Duncan Robinson
@duncanrobinson
Bagehot columnist and political editor at The Economist. economist.com/topics/bagehot
London, England
Joined December 2008
- Something very funny about calling an archbishop a "virtue-signaller". I mean...yes?
- I have covid. I am getting by with the support and best wishes of my friends, who are happily not infected.
- Bit weird that a supposedly key part of the British constitution is a pdf that can be updated on a whim. Cool system!
- Reckon every Conservative voting 18-24 year old has appeared on television at some point in the past year
- I expected a honeymoon for Labour and Starmer but I didn't expect it to be this horny
- So many “This is no 1997 when life was good and I was, coincidentally, 25.” takes floating about
- A discount on tuition fees (which he didn’t pay) as an inducement for conscription (which he didn’t do). Tough sell!"You could say to young people: 'Right we'll knock a bit off your student loan debt if you come and take part.'" Sir David Lidington expresses the need for both 'a stick' and 'a carrot' to draw young people into conscription, and makes some suggestions himself.
00:00 - Hunch is that Labour did way too much hippy punching because people at the top of the party like punching hippies rather than because it was necessary
- British voters want American taxes and European public services and have instead ended up with European taxes and American services.A story to go with my earlier calculations UK graduates face 50% tax rate on additional pay from next April ft.com/content/bbaf09…
- Job news: I'm taking over The Economist's British politics column, Bagehot, from January. Please get in touch and tell me things about British politics.
- If it honestly costs £20bn to rebuild House of Parliament, then just go full Victorian: level it, and build something new for a tenth of the cost
