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Robert Colvile

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Director of @CPSThinkTank, EIC of @CapX, Sunday columnist for @thetimes, author of 'The Great Acceleration'. Politics, policy and parenting.
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Thatcherism shows where Britain went wrong - and how it can go right

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By Robert Colvile Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
It is a hundred years since Margaret Thatcher was born. Fifty years since she took over the Conservative Party. Thirty-four years since she was forced from office. Today’s voters are Thatcher’s grandchildren – even great-grandchildren. So why do we still care? Thatcher warned that the great temptation in politics was to ‘lose sight of the eternal truths and choose the popular, quick fix’ The last couple of weeks have seen a parade of Thatcher-philia.
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Watching videos at 2x speed, part 2

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By James Gleick, Mark Taylor, Carl Honoré, Robert Colvile Verified
| Language Log
« previous post | Thanks to the productive, enlightening discussion we had in the first part of this post, I could not help but think of "speed" as a category of modern life. That led me to remember a book buried in my dungeon (downstairs study) that I had read about a quarter of a century ago. It wasn't anything like William S. Burroughs Speed. It was more on the order of a history of science work. So I descended the stairs to my basement library.
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Unless the Treasury is tamed, there’s no solution to Britain’s problems

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By Robert Colvile Verified
| The Spectator Australia Verified
Great Britain? How We Get Our Future Back Bodley Head, pp.304, 20 Left Behind: A New Economics for Neglected Places Allen Lane, pp.304, 25 The Tory era is not (quite) over yet, but already the obituaries are in. In particular, two new books from Torsten Bell and Paul Collier seek to bury not just Rishi Sunak and his cabinet but the whole economic approach that the Conservatives have taken since 2010, or perhaps even 1979.
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