William Atkinson
@WTMAtkinson
Assistant Content Editor @spectator Tory Anarchist and Surrey CCC member 'A total Tory BNOC' - @Tatlermagazine Sensitive Young Man [email protected]
A landlord has just offered me a free pint of Madri. I hope this isn't a comment on my mental health.
Crazy how a few years ago people thought Ben Stokes’ career as a bowler was over and now he hasn’t scored a hundred since the Middle Ages and has turned into prime Dale Steyn
Objectively very funny that the most pressing issues he identifies are all in part problems because of the huge increased pressure placed on them by migration.
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"Quick! A horrible article about my leadership got published today. What should I do?" "Do an interview where you declare that you're the new Javier Milei, but also that you won't touch the Triple Lock."
Tory leader Badenoch says she is Britain’s chainsaw-wielding Milei on.ft.com/3IHvPgc
🗞️ Soul suckers: Gus Carter on how private equity ruined Britain ✍️ Also in the mag: 🔸 Tim Shipman: Can anything stop Reform? 🔸 Rod Liddle: Raise the voting age to 25 🔸 Bruno Retailleau: Islamists vs France spectator.co.uk/subscribe/
That an *English Literature graduate* of Bedfordshire Uni required *an interpreter* should trigger an immediate revocation of Bedfordshire's right to grant visas - and a wider investigation into its degree standards. It won't though, because we're no longer a serious country.
Can someone be fat and still have aura ?
Can someone be fat and still have aura ?
Hang in there, Kemi!
Kein Badenoch seems like EXACTLY the sort of person who ‘journals’ her ‘positive affirmations’.
Liam Dawson has his first Test wicket in eight years! Yashasvi Jaiswal is caught by Harry Brook at slip for 58! #ENGvIND
Liam Dawson has his first Test wicket in eight years! Yashasvi Jaiswal is caught by Harry Brook at slip for 58! #ENGvIND
the lambs:
I’m moving in so much silence rn btw.
This is what they took from us
95 percent of Right Wing nostalgia is just a picture of a woman with unbelievable honkers captioned, “This is what they took from us 😔”
“Sir Roger, pray for me… and for our endangered kingdom.” Evelyn Waugh, Men at Arms
To the dozen (!) people who have now sent me this, please let me repeat: IT WASN'T ME.
To the half a dozen people who have asked so far this morning - no, this wasn't me. But @Will___lloyd's piece is superb - an essential and incisive read that is as brilliantly written as one would expect.
You can’t just say to voters: “Oh we’re letting in an undocumented population equivalent to the size of Swansea over every 5-year Parliament. In addition, we let in 400k LEGAL net arrivals/year. BUT IT DOESN’T MATTER — you’ve been duped. Let’s talk about river sewage and green…
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When Essex Police doorstepped @AllisonPearson over a tweet, Private Eye cheered it on
Are Private Eye jokes now... criminal? PALESTINE Solidarity campaigner Jon Farley was arrested, bundled into a van and taken to the cells during a silent march in Leeds last weekend. What egregious act had prompted the police to act? He was, er, carrying a Private Eye joke piece…
The Wheels on the Bus was written in 1937 but motorised buses date back to the 1890s. There was a forty year period where people were just getting on buses with no idea of what was going to happen.
To the half a dozen people who have asked so far this morning - no, this wasn't me. But @Will___lloyd's piece is superb - an essential and incisive read that is as brilliantly written as one would expect.
So many incredible details in this epic (and at times hilarious) profile of Kemi Badenoch by the @NewStatesman’s ace deputy editor, @Will___lloyd — I think this was my favourite: