Andrew Gimson @AndrewGimson
Author of Gimson's Presidents; Gimson's PMs; Gimson's Kings & Queens; Boris - The Making of the Prime Minister. Contributing editor to ConHome. Joined March 2012-
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🚨🇬🇧🔵 Seeking the next Editor of @ConHome - applications for one of the best jobs in Westminster journalism NOW OPEN: conservativehome.com/careers/
Here are some strong points from Dan Poulter, the MP for Suffolk and North Ipswich, just a couple of months ago, on the lamentable record of Labour-run Ipswich Council. Conclusion: "Much more in council tax but in return receive a lower quality service." eadt.co.uk/news/24131925.…
Tory MPs react to Dan Poulter's defection: 🔥 ‘A nobody trying to be a somebody.’ 🔥 ‘Think I’ve seen him once in the last five years.’ 🔥 ‘I didn’t even know he was an MP!’ spectator.co.uk/article/tory-m…
Albrecht Dürer, Bird with wings outstretched, a scroll above inscribed: "GI GI GIG". 1513 (British Museum)
I’m sure plenty of us have thought about it, but few have actually attempted to follow in Tom’s footsteps. Magnificent.
I’m sure plenty of us have thought about it, but few have actually attempted to follow in Tom’s footsteps. Magnificent. https://t.co/ATyp6JwzXY
@AndrewGimson ...and how Margaret Thatcher sold council houses and created a new generation of property owners. bit.ly/3UlbGP9
Of course, it would be wrong of me not to mention the excellent efforts of my friend and colleague @AndrewGimson a decade ago explaining how Harold Macmillan built 300,000 homes a year... bit.ly/44lh35C
Has anyone yet done some research or written an article or paper on how the Tory centre of gravity has shifted since the war from (broadly) pro-building to NIMBYism? If so, it would be fascinating to read. If not, it would be fascinating to write...
Has anyone yet done some research or written an article or paper on how the Tory centre of gravity has shifted since the war from (broadly) pro-building to NIMBYism? If so, it would be fascinating to read. If not, it would be fascinating to write...
I spoke with the outstanding documentary maker Norma Percy about her programmes like The Death of Yugoslavia, The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs, and, most recently, Putin vs the West for the BBC. Give it a read, she's an incredible historian and I learnt a lot:
I spoke with the outstanding documentary maker Norma Percy about her programmes like The Death of Yugoslavia, The 50 Years War: Israel and the Arabs, and, most recently, Putin vs the West for the BBC. Give it a read, she's an incredible historian and I learnt a lot:
This morning @ConHome, @AndrewGimson, our Contributing Editor, argued @trussliz shows in her book how fatal an ideology can be to a conservative. Why? A thread. bit.ly/44db3M9
Married at 10, abused and forced to flee without her children: an Afghan woman on life under the Taliban theguardian.com/global-develop…
My column in this morning's Times – on Labour's asylum puzzle and the question some around Starmer are now asking: are ID cards the answer? thetimes.co.uk/article/asylum…
'This book is more valuable than one would think from the derision which has been poured on it. Lessons can be learned from it about the difficulties not only of being Prime Minister, but of being a conservative.' @AndrewGimson conservativehome.com/2024/04/26/tru…
The value of Truss's book: it explains why she failed. My review for @ConHome conservativehome.com/2024/04/26/tru…
Truss shows in her book how fatal an ideology can be to a conservative conservativehome.com/2024/04/26/tru…
📚I can see this new book from @RobDotHutton will be a great break from reliving Brexit.
📚I can see this new book from @RobDotHutton will be a great break from reliving Brexit. https://t.co/hr7gwZqfOX
Waxwing flock resting after feeding on Cotoneaster berries in Saxmundham, Suffolk this afternoon (25th April 2024) @SuffolkBirdGrp @BTO_Suffolk @suffolkwildlife
NEW Labour more popular than Tories with @GBNEWS viewers Full story here 👇 telegraph.co.uk/politics/2024/…
From @miriam_cates: Childcare policy should deliver for parents, not GDP figures or the political establishment conservativehome.com/2024/04/25/mir…
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17 Followers 92 Following29th September 1971 Sinn Fein/IRA carried out the sectarian bomb attack on the Four Step Inn, Shankill Rd 2 Protestant men, Alexander Andrews & Ernest Bates were murdered & dozens injured Their funeral was described as one of the biggest of the troubles Never Let Them Forget
I’m old enough to remember when this little booklet enabled anyone to live, love and work in 27 other countries until suddenly it was torn away from us by 37% of the electorate in a faux referendum. I hate this country now.
The American Tourists - breakfast
This Russian 152mm 2S19 Msta-S SPH was in the middle of a reloading process when it was hit by Ukrainian artillery fire. Watch til end. Source: t.me/ButusovPlus/41… #Ukraine
It does rather stick in the craw that after 15 years of unprecedentedly crap pay rises, today’s salary bumps to deal with sudden runaway inflation are the prob. Doesn’t mean he’s wrong, but a never ending squeeze on living standards is hardly sustainable either.
Governor of the @bankofengland Andrew Bailey: “We cannot continue to have the current level of wage increases… the current levels, I’ll be absolutely honest, are unsustainable.”
It’s not just the meeting Val but the name of the framework, all the Royal imagery, Guildhall etc @TimesRadio
Only a Labour government can deliver the change that Scotland needs.
Meetings in London
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"One obvious and continuous function of the monarchy is to confer approbation by word and deed on those things which, in the common judgement of most men and women of British stock, are still deemed honourable – the bonds of family love and loyalty..." T.E. Utley
Their lives, with all the carousing, fucking and fighting and general riotous living – writing seemed like work I might enjoy.
What I want to do vs what I will be doing.
@Paul_Burgin @XanderArmstrong @ManningOfficial @ZelenskyyUa @MrsAmyDAllen @ian_beckett @AlanOlive1 @AndrewGimson @andrew_allison @francesbarber13 @CllrDent @AmyAbroad @Rob2yall @cjfaraway @Huskyteer @anna4labour @v_j_freeman @Kingo1gk Thank you, Paul. A Happy Christmas & Merry New Year to you & @MrsBurgin, as well!
"The reason why it's important to commemorate #Holodomor is that Putin is trying to do the same thing again - namely, to reduce the Ukrainian nation to the status of Russian folklore and deny Ukraine the right to exist as a separate nation", says @sikorskiradek. Watch⤵️