Philip Collins @PhilipJCollins1
Thoughts at https://t.co/Cc1Ft8b86s Cricket at https://t.co/cCz5VxjJpN Writer-in-chief, The Draft (@thedraftwriters) Columnist, Evening Standard thedraftwriters.com Joined April 2012-
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Delighted with the result and win for @RichParkerLab and @UKLabour but commiserations to @andy4wm. I may not share his politics, but his decency, dignity and commitment to the people he represented shone through this evening.
Delighted with the result and win for @RichParkerLab and @UKLabour but commiserations to @andy4wm. I may not share his politics, but his decency, dignity and commitment to the people he represented shone through this evening.
Don’t listen to people who have spoken to people who have done the splits.
Don’t listen to people who have spoken to people who have done the splits.
It would save a lot of misunderstandings if "political correspondents" were renamed "Westminster gossipmongers" - e.g. why do they give Reform more attention than the Greens?, why do they get so much wrong?
Northern powerhouse.
As the results come in, some thoughts on why so few people bother. For subscribers only, alas (though become one). open.substack.com/pub/lookstrang…
Turn for the Tees Valley mayor is just over 30 per cent.
Turn for the Tees Valley mayor is just over 30 per cent.
It's a nom de plume for Owen Jones.
The month on Look, Stranger! open.substack.com/pub/lookstrang…
Quite.
@PhilipJCollins1 Strongly agree. Can always include a "none of the above" option too. Now I can understand why the Conservatives would never consider this, but Labour/Lib Dems? What's their excuse?
The case for forcing turnout higher. lookstranger.substack.com/p/force-the-vo…
At the local elections last year, not even a third of the electorate showed up. That needs to change. Compulsory voting would make politics speak to the young. lookstranger.substack.com
Monty, George Galloway and cricket for Tories: open.substack.com/pub/roundthewi…
Quite right. Labour should stamp on this nonsense at once. The Rwanda scheme is wrong, whether it works or not (which it won't).
Quite right. Labour should stamp on this nonsense at once. The Rwanda scheme is wrong, whether it works or not (which it won't).
The need to reinvent perfectly serviceable things... car manufacturers do it too. Let's electrify the lock, just to make it worse.
The need to reinvent perfectly serviceable things... car manufacturers do it too. Let's electrify the lock, just to make it worse.
I am in one of those hotels where you need a degree in engineering to turn the telly on.
A round-up of what I've been writing the past month or so on my newsletter Look, Stranger! If you like what you see, do consider subscribing. There's plenty more where that came from. open.substack.com/pub/lookstrang…
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That not one but TWO big budget TV dramas have been made about an interview which didn't fundamentally change anything (obvious wrongun was kept out of the public eye a bit more, no further consequences) feels like TV marking its own homework with an A+
. @PhilipJCollins1 Really interesting to hear you in a rambling chat on 5Live today. I've never managed to characterize our relationship at school is a satisfactory way - but rarely have I agreed so fully with a commentator. Never picked up that you were a @ManCity fan at school.
A very good review of the Conservatives' 14 years in power, by @PhilipJCollins1. It's refreshing to read something on what these governments actually *did* - and what the consequences have been - rather than on how things "played" or how the party positioned itself.
What have the Tory years meant? The good (there is a little bit of that) and the really bad. open.substack.com/pub/lookstrang…
Excellent!
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@PhilipJCollins1 Philosophically, sure. But try telling young people that they ought to contribute more to a society that hasn't built them affordable housing, and has given them an effective pay cut if they work in the public sector.
@PhilipJCollins1 This was a great article. Thank you.
@PhilipJCollins1 @dizzylimit @bedfordtwo @OliverKamm Why would I ignore it? Happy to apologise in that case. Had thought otherwise for some reason.
@gavreilly @PhilipJCollins1 @VirginMediaNews Shane would hate the fuss but this is brilliant
Ed Balls doing the nation a favour by referring to Owen Jones as "so intellectually second rate". That sums him up perfectly.
@PhilipJCollins1 @steverichards14 There's also an argument that Callaghan and Gaitskell lost because the left of the Labour Party were very much in the ascendancy
@PhilipJCollins1 Great to see you back in the Times - top column too…
@PhilipJCollins1 Remember it well, and some will claim they got a lift after rolling out of the pub!
@PhilipJCollins1 The fact that we once had a celebrity steeplejack says all sorts of good things about the UK
@PhilipJCollins1 You missed out the corruption stuff - Michelle Mone, PPI/VIP channels, Teesside Freeport, @PrivateEyeNews passim, concessions to builders after party donations, Russian links etc etc
@PhilipJCollins1 Excellent to read you in The Times with your usual insight & candour 🤓
Glad to see the great man back
Well, here's a turn up. Here I am back in The Times, on the lack of intellectual vigour around left of centre politics: thetimes.co.uk/article/labour…
@PhilipJCollins1 Check out @RussInCheshire who has owned this landscape
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