Patrick Gibbons
@ReleaseGibbons
Broadcast @Spectator. History, Foreign Affairs & Travel. Past: Miami, Mexico, Madrid, Dublin 🏳️🌈 [email protected]
Your 30s should just be a rerun of your 20s but better: spent yesterday on a bar crawl in Brighton but then woke up, hiked and made a carrot cake
🎙This week's @spectator out loud: 🗣 Ian Thomson on Haiti's Hotel Oloffson 🗣 @patrick_kidd on Trump & golf diplomacy 🗣 Mike Cormack reviews Irvine Welsh 🗣 Ursula Buchan on the Palm House at Kew 🗣 @RichardBratby on snobbery & Strauss spectator.co.uk/podcast/ian-th…
this belongs in the crisis management hall of fame
Thank you for your interest in Astronomer.
🎙This week's Edition podcast from @spectator 🗣 @GusCarter & @megreenwell on how private equity is ruining the UK & US 🗣 @DouglasKMurray on conspiracy, Epstein & MAGA 🗣 @questingvole & @LucyThynne on the merits of literary sequels spectator.co.uk/podcast/soul-s…
Niall Ferguson put the chance of a US-China conflict over Taiwan at 50 per cent over the next three years ✍️ Patrick Gibbons buff.ly/d0f6szH
🎙This week's Edition podcast from @spectator 🗣 @ShippersUnbound & @michaelgove deliver their verdict on Starmer's first year 🗣 @KateAndrs & @Freddygray31 on who Zohran Mamdani is 🗣 @Madz_Grant & @DamianReilly on why wedding speeches should be short spectator.co.uk/podcast/claws-…
I remember crying in a faculty meeting in Cambridge. Two thoughts. When I walked out (to disguise it) ,only one guy came out to find out if I was ok. I still remember, GH, thank you. The other is can’t we let people cry? Maybe it is the right reaction.
There exists the possibility that Olivia Rodrigo and Roy Hodgson have had a conversation.
Friends of Rachel Reeves and family underlining to me /others tonight that the reason for her tears today was wholly personal/serious - and that it is wrong to jump to the conclusion it was a mixture of welfare bill chaos and being overburdened. ➡️Hence the K Starmer…
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If you'd like to hear more from Damian, alongside Michael Gove, The Revd Marcus Walker, Fr Julian Large & more, there are still a few tickets available for the @spectator's 'Recovering the Sacred' event at St Bart's next week: spectator.co.uk/church @michaelgove @WalkerMarcus
The Children of ZIRP
After the welfare climbdown, one Labour MP was heard saying: “I don’t understand why this means tax rises when it’s only a few billion pounds.”
After 21 months of war Israel and Hamas ceasefire talks are heating up. Bibi is caught between Trump’s pressure and far-right hardliners. With Iran weakened & Gaza clans fighting Hamas, they're in a bind. can a truce happen? More on this for @spectator ✍️ spectator.co.uk/article/the-wa…
NEW: Chancellor has not resigned. A spokesman for Rachel Reeves said, of her upset: “It’s a personal matter, which - as you would expect - we are not going to get into. The chancellor will be working out of Downing Street this afternoon.”
Rachel Reeves is visibly crying in the Commons chamber after the PM refused to guarantee her position. Uncomfortable to watch
If you'd like to hear more from Damian, alongside Michael Gove, The Revd Marcus Walker, Fr Julian Large & more, there are still a few tickets available for the @spectator's 'Recovering the Sacred' event at St Bart's next week: spectator.co.uk/church @michaelgove @WalkerMarcus
New Holy Smoke: Time for Pope Leo to make some tough decisions. Start by getting rid of Tucho and liberating the Latin Mass. spectator.co.uk/podcast/its-ti…
Shout-out to this Labour staffer
For the latest @TheHouseMag edition, we asked staffers how they would improve the parliamentary estate They have spoken: bring back Karaoke Thursdays, introduce a dry cleaners, and tell constituents how much campaign emails cost to answer politicshome.com/news/article/b…
I interviewed Adam Curtis, and we talked about revolutions, his TikTok account, and HR. spectator.co.uk/article/adam-c…
Why would anyone enter politics today? Michael Gove, Sarah Vine, Rachel Johnson & Hugo Swire explain the personal toll that comes with political life, at the latest @spectator live event: spectator.co.uk/live @michaelgove @WestminsterWAG @HugoSwire @RachelSJohnson
🎙This week's @spectator out loud 🗣@peterfrankopan on Israel's strategy for attacking Iran 🗣@ShippersUnbound on how bad things are for Badenoch 🗣@francispike2 in defence of exorcism 🗣@HermioneEyre reviews @WestminsterWAG 🗣George Young on sculpture spectator.co.uk/podcast/peter-…
