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Freelance hack. Scotland Editor of The Spectator. Columnist for The Times. Contact:

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  1. 3 hours ago

    On independence, it’s realists versus dreamers

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    15 hours ago

    No leaving until blows through and the ferries are back on! Gonna spend the day labelling Batch 24

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    20 hours ago
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    Newspapers could have had the headline “Number of people in extreme poverty fell by 137,000 since yesterday” Every day in the last 25 years.

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  4. Oct 15

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    Blair was a Trotskyist. New Labour is a Eurocommunist project, sophisticated post-Soviet Marxism. Most non-Marxists too thick to grasp this.
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    Oct 14

    Anyone unaware of the background to this can catch up here

    Celtic Park right now.
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    Oct 14

    I wrote about a day with a deer stalker. He is called Falcon Frost, the best name ever. We went to see the rut.

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  7. Oct 14
    Replying to

    Via , to whose (free) weekly newsletter you should definitely subscribe.

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  8. Oct 14

    From the late David Carr’s profile of Weinstein, published 15 years ago.

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  9. Oct 13

    We class readers, you see, into four grades. Leading reader, first-rate reader, good reader, and reader. Frankly, reader is pretty bad.

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    Oct 13

    The Borderland, from the Three Brethren. Oil on linen, 50 x 70 cm.

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    Oct 12

    Home truth for my fellow Brexiteers. Barnier is probably the good guy. Me for earlier

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  12. Oct 12

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    The Chancellor must get the Treasury to have more realistic, optimistic forecasts & to find the money for a successful economy post Brexit.
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  13. Oct 12

    Thread 🍗👇

    I walked past a Tennessee Fried Chicken the other day, and I wondered how many UK chicken shops are called "[US State] Fried Chicken"...
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    Oct 11

    Self-promoting tweet: it’s publication day for my new book. I’d be most awfully obliged if you bought it.

    20 replies 52 retweets 114 likes
  15. Oct 12

    This essay on George Orwell is characteristically excellent. Read and enjoy.

    3 replies 17 retweets 24 likes
  16. Oct 12

    WANT!

    Replying to @prosperdave
    Did you know about Carden-Loyd Tankettes from the 30’s? There are a million variants and they are all hilarious. Here is an early one.
    4 replies 6 likes
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    Oct 12

    Boy in the studio, doing a painting of my painting

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    Oct 11

    Dunno, does a decade late and double the expected cost count as a reason.

    Why is the Joint Strike Fighter program so widely criticized?
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  19. Oct 11

    Nationals > Cubs but Yankees > than Nationals. Because, obviously. This is America, people.

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    Oct 11

    The SNP is no longer a party that makes things happen, says - but don't write them off too quickly:

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