@DanRobJones

Host of The Westminster Review of Books: Deeply researched interviews with authors of the best writing about politics, history and philosophy @WestReviewBooks

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My new project: deeply researched interviews about U.K. & global politics, history and philosophy.
The Westminster Review of Books@WestReviewBooks8 Feb 2025
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Massive news! I read with some panic, but thank God the umlauts are safe. nytimes.com/2025/03/12/style…

The New Yorker Embraces (Some) Modern Language (Published 2025)

An update to the magazine’s style guide did away with anachronisms like “Web site” and “in-box.” But it was limited to what the staff felt were “lasting” changes.

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We have a trailer! The Westminster Review of Books will be publishing new interviews with thinkers on politics, history and philosophy very soon. youtube.com/shorts/ocZ9Cg5Yb…

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Who in Labour today could do this? Rayner perhaps the nearest equivalent, but Prezza is incomparable
max tempers
@maxtempers21 Nov 2024
Reminded of Prescott's hilarious appearance on Top Gear. Fearlessly goes up against the live audience to bat for the M4 bus lane.
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Gareth might be the only person in the world who genuinely thinks £100 million for a 1km mesh tunnel to stop HS2 hitting some endangered bats is good value for money.
Gareth Dennis@GarethDennis7 Nov 2024
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I worked near this thing when I was redesigning the HS2 alignment around Calvert... £100M for a complex, 1km-long structure is really good value!
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The motivation behind the legal challenges forcing absurd spending like this isn't genuine ecological concerns, it's anti-HS2 campaigners trying to make the whole thing so unaffordable that it'll be cancelled altogether.
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One of the things that makes me most pessimistic about British politics is how many MPs now seem incapable of asking a question in parliament without having it written down word for word in front of them.
Tom Harwood
@tomhfh18 Jul 2024
MPs used to gently mock colleagues who read out speeches from the back benches, repeatedly shouting “reading” at them until they put down their papers. If the Speaker won’t apply the rule, perhaps social pressure could make a return…
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Not much of a mandate for the semi-final
Tom English@TEnglishSport6 Jul 2024
England have had a total of three shots on target against Slovakia and Switzerland and have scored three goals. Er, efficient, I guess
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Campaign to build HS3 Oxford-Milton Keynes-Cambridge with an arc of new towns and millions of sq ft of lab space along the route. 🌐🏗️🧱🔬🧪🧬
Samuel Hughes
@SCP_Hughes5 Jul 2024
It looks likely that Britain is going to have some new towns. Many people think that all new towns are dysfunctional white elephants. This isn’t true: well located and well designed new towns have succeeded throughout history.
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Increasingly convinced that this year’s met gala theme ‘Garden of Time’ was a conspiracy to promote Olivia Laing’s new book ‘The Garden Against Time’, published last week
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Looks like Osborne and Balls to Sky News then!
Louisa Compton@louisa_compton21 Apr 2024
BREAKING: Channel 4 becomes the first broadcaster to announce its plans for coverage of the General Election night with @krishgm @maitlis @campbellclaret @RoryStewartUK @RestIsPolitics @cathynewman @clarebalding ensuring C4 will be the home of the best analysis and coverage
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'There is a demographic who should not be allowed to participate in society.' Children are people ffs. What a bizarre, mean thing to say.
CAMILLE PAGLIA STAN ✨ FAN ACCOUNT
@Provokatov6 Apr 2024
Parents. Stop bringing your annoying shithead kids to the supermarket.
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Yes to national service, as long as we make pensioners do it
LBC
@LBC5 Apr 2024
"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.
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One of the weirdest rarely-discussed elements of the Westminster system is how by drawing ministers from the Commons, we make ministerial roles into four day a week jobs.
Peter Ricketts@LordRickettsP18 Feb 2024
A short 🧵on the Cameron effect, 3 months in as Foreign Secretary. The impact of one person representing a middle-sized power will of course be limited. But in my view, he has shown that foreign policy influence = effort + ideas + confidence to go beyond orthodox positions 1/6
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It's insane that the foreign secretary normally needs to spend time each week worrying about planning issues in Little Sibdon-cum-Mendip and parking causing congestion outside the C of E school in West Marptree
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That's before we even think about whether it's a good idea to select ministers from the narrow pool of 350 odd people who have spent the last decade sliding down the greasy staircase of the government benches (stretching the image too far maybe?)
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The Cut has been on an absolutely incredible run the last few days. Just truly sensational discourse-generating content. 10/10 no notes.
Sophia Benoit@1followernodad15 Feb 2024
What if you lied to your husband about where $50k went and then you got so deep into the lie that you had to write a Cut article on it and get dunked on
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This is just... such a weird thing to sack someone for? Probably one of the weirdest social media-pressured firings? He just thinks having to read something in two languages makes driving harder? Genuinely this is so odd.
BBC News (UK)
@BBCNews13 Oct 2023
Wrexham University professor dropped over road sign post bbc.in/3ttpLQF
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It's interesting how this pattern is mirrored in America, where every big story somehow has an element where people get extremely mad at the New York Times.
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There's nothing you can do to convince me this isn't a spoof account
C20 Society@C20Society28 Sep 2023
⚠️BREAKING NEWS // Birmingham City Council's planning committee have just approved plans for the demolition of Smallbrook Ringway Centre. Another devastating assault on the city's post-war heritage and a failure of imagination to not renew and repurpose this landmark building.
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