Duncan Robinson
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Write Bagehot column for the Economist. Comment writer of the year at British Journalism Awards 2024
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How exactly do they imagine the milk gets back into the baby after you pump it??? Just astonishing stuff.
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
How exactly do they imagine the milk gets back into the baby after you pump it??? Just astonishing stuff.
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This is a company that makes breast pumps to get milk out so women can pump at work and and feed their kids breast milk, and yet:
November 23, 2025 at 8:25 PM
This is a company that makes breast pumps to get milk out so women can pump at work and and feed their kids breast milk, and yet:
Yeah it feels odd to spend 1.3bn on bungs and only 200m on infrastructure
November 23, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Yeah it feels odd to spend 1.3bn on bungs and only 200m on infrastructure
Traffic is still traffic, whether it’s green or not. You could do it place-based I suppose but doesn’t seem egregious. In general, not really sure about giving people £4k off a car that - when running costs considered - is cheaper than an ICE too
November 23, 2025 at 9:12 AM
Traffic is still traffic, whether it’s green or not. You could do it place-based I suppose but doesn’t seem egregious. In general, not really sure about giving people £4k off a car that - when running costs considered - is cheaper than an ICE too
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Been banging on about this for years.
As I said in 2017, “At some point, someone will have to tell those on middle incomes that they will have to pay more tax.”
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As I said in 2017, “At some point, someone will have to tell those on middle incomes that they will have to pay more tax.”
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Tax and ‘the rich’
One of the my favourite Spitting Image sketches features the Queen complaining about the behaviour of the rich, to which an exasperated Prince Philip replies, “You ARE the bloody rich!”…
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November 22, 2025 at 8:11 AM
Been banging on about this for years.
As I said in 2017, “At some point, someone will have to tell those on middle incomes that they will have to pay more tax.”
flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/t...
As I said in 2017, “At some point, someone will have to tell those on middle incomes that they will have to pay more tax.”
flipchartfairytales.wordpress.com/2017/04/27/t...
The trombone is a fine instrument. Huge personality
November 21, 2025 at 1:08 PM
The trombone is a fine instrument. Huge personality
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November 21, 2025 at 11:52 AM
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