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jonn elledge
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a proud part of the faux zeitgeist. @newstatesman @capx @papercutsshow @ substack. new book A History of the World in 47 Borders out NOW!
Apr 26, 2023 • 6 tweets • 3 min read
Moving the city's government to a desolate bit of the Royal Docks still feels like an absolute embarrassment more than one person is upset with me for calling the area around the ExCel Exhibition Centre "desolate". well, okay then
Sep 4, 2022 • 5 tweets • 1 min read
I do understand why the lobby have to pretend that their sources aren't liars or shysters or transparently fucking stupid. I don't understand why they expect the rest of us to engage in the same delusion, and get all huffy when we don't. I wonder if it's scoops being used as the main measure of success that does it. The lobby hacks other lobby hacks rate most are those who get closest to their sources.
Aug 6, 2022 • 22 tweets • 3 min read
Rishi Sunak says he would make it legal to pay domestic staff in the blockchain Rishi Sunak tells Sky News he thinks it's "unhinged Labour wokery" that landlords can't hunt renters for sport
Aug 6, 2022 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
"I now wake up in the morning and literally do not know where to go. It is upsettingly easy to waste hours doing nothing besides attempting to answer that question."

On the slow and personally inconvenient death of freelance cafe culture

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Aug 5, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
As with his bafflement when everyone started yelling at him for not giving any help to UC claimants: Sunak seems to openly believe his job is to hand money to his party's people, and has missed the bit where you're meant to pretend to care about anyone else Speculating wildly, but I think maybe it's about having risen without trace? Politicians learn where the lines are by speaking to the electorate, Sunak has never had to do that, he's only spoken to Tory members.
Aug 4, 2022 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
I think my issue with the "we must avoid a wage-price spiral at all costs" line is that we're still getting the price spiral bit, and everyone pushing that line seems a lot less worried about that bit Inflation is bad and we should try to avoid it, yes! But I don't remember that bit of the economics profession ever saying "no, THIS is the time when we should be raising wages", it's always "not now, now is bad"
Jul 15, 2022 • 66 tweets • 6 min read
Right, well, I've been stuck indoors for eight days now, I'm still testing positive, and I am officially bored out of my mind, so I'm probably going to get a bit drunk and livetweet the Tory leaders' debate, sorry GUYS THIS WAS VERY OBVIOUSLY A TWEET I SENT SO THAT SANE PEOPLE COULD MUTE THE THREAD I'M NOT LOOKING TO HEAR ABOUT YOUR UNCLE ALAN WHO TESTED POSITIVE FOR 37 DAYS STRAIGHT THANKS
Dec 22, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
I have been thinking too much about Christmas songs. There are like 17 of these
jonn.substack.com/p/and-what-hav… Screw it, here's the next bit
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Dec 21, 2021 • 48 tweets • 15 min read
This is probably my last day doing any real work until New Year, and nobody brought Hungry Hungry Hippos to school, so let's do something else dumb instead:

Tweet me an English county and I will tell you my objective and objectively terrible opinion of it. Wow, this was a way worse idea than I thought it was, bloody hell. Going to limit myself to one every five minutes or so or I won't get anything done and it won't be my last working day after all.
Jul 15, 2021 • 5 tweets • 2 min read
NEWSLETTER! This week: some half-formed thoughts on a half-formed identity, the case for more crowded cities, and finally, a new bit of tube jonn.substack.com/p/england-my-e… contains this
Jul 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 2 min read
Opposing turning areas of outstanding national beauty into brutalist slab housing estates makes you literally fascist I think I could probably also get a few of you on board with "golf should count as a capital crime"?
Jun 14, 2021 • 7 tweets • 3 min read
Cheery bit going out on the ol' Substack later. Sign up here, if you fancy being depressed:
jonn.substack.com/subscribe Image Right, here you go. Most Tory leaders succeed; most Labour leaders fail. jonn.substack.com/p/statisticall…
Jun 13, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
oooh I've just got back from the pub, what channel is it on, I scent numbers not a great sign for the business model that you need to turn off your ad blocker
May 18, 2021 • 14 tweets • 4 min read
abolish! the! home! office!!
May 13, 2021 • 10 tweets • 3 min read
Abolish. The. Home. Office
hey guys would anyone like to guess my plan for fixing the home office? clue: it involves abolishing the home office

(h/t @joeykins82)
Feb 18, 2021 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
One thing I think is unhealthy about the Labour party's forever war is that it's baked in that there's always a chunk of the left that's rooting for the leader to fail because it proves them *right*. This feels like it may, on balance, be a bad thing. But I only started paying proper attention c2014. How much was this true before then?
Feb 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 2 min read
newsletter #2 is out SOON so now's your chance sign up sign up sign up jonn.substack.com/subscribe? YOU MISSED IT YOU FOOLS oh well there's always next week
Feb 17, 2021 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Writing this week's newsletter. If you haven't already subscribed, then a) oh my god how could you and b) it's okay, it's okay, there's still time to correct this oversight, sign up here jonn.substack.com/about c) I just finished a bit headlined "Here's what's wrong with the name of every tube line", and let's be honest that's the sort of shit you people want me to provide you with like some kind of transport-themed performing seal, so jonn.substack.com/about
Nov 3, 2020 • 6 tweets • 1 min read
Well, the big day is finally here so I thought it might be worth a quick thread, setting out some of the key things to look out for tonight. (1/?) Around 7 EST - so just after midnight in the UK - we should behold a pale horse whose rider will lay waste one fourth of the Earth. But that's just an average! According to Nate Silver, on a good night for Trump, the horseman could lay waste to as much as half (2/?)
Nov 1, 2020 • 4 tweets • 1 min read
Had a nice outside lunch with a lovely friend today, and was just thinking how maybe things weren't that bad, when I remembered that this is literally the thing we're about to not be able to do for god knows how long and actually things are that bad aren't they, they're awful I think maybe this winter I'm going to get into going to bed really, really early? maybe that could be my thing
Mar 25, 2020 • 7 tweets • 1 min read
Boris Johnson is putting his arm around you You feel his hand gripping your waist