Emma Duncan
@emmacduncan
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Columnist, The Times. Recommendations of slightly obscure novels more than a century old gratefully received
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The parallel between the SNP and the ANC; or why nationalism is bad for politics
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Stefan Zweig’s account of the loveliness of Vienna before the First World War has a powerful message about the dangers of complacency today
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A woman nobody elected tanks the economy with policies nobody wants. Our electoral system is to blame for this mess
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@rcolvile
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@RenewableUK
My experience of living in a village where there was a proposal to build a wind farm was a massive campaign against it. Same with solar farms all over the country. So maybe lots of people like them a bit, but enough people hate them a lot to stop them getting built
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@AllieRenison
This is Basil, to whom the same thing happened very recently with ibuprofen. He’s fine. Hoping the same for you
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What I learned from trying to get social care for my mother-in-law
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@mrjamesob
It doesn’t say that. It says, in effect, “the west should have listened as carefully to Putin as it did to Greta Thunberg”. Not my col, and I don’t especially agree with it, but I don’t think you should contribute to misinformation
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Stunningly good piece
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My column on why conservation requires us to limit immigration
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When David Brat won his primary he said God acted through the people. Presumably He is a Democrat, then
http://t.co/InqpLYPSzu
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Rishi Sunak is a man with no plan. That’s the problem
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My review of Adam Rutherford’s fascinating book on the dark past and troubling present of eugenics
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@MkBlyth
That’s an artefact of exchange rates. Americans have been richer than Brits in PPP terms since at least the Second World War
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Why is Britain’s workforce shrinking? My piece on the missing millions
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On the importance of buses, and in praise of Manchester’s new bus scheme
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My review of Daisy Hay’s lovely book about the lives and parties of 18th-century radicals
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One Big Number to measure the parties’ economic performance
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My column on how the British economy is edging away from the Anglo-Saxon model towards the European one
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My essay on why older people have a better time — and it’s getting better still
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Stunningly good piece by Alex Massie on parallels between Northern Ireland and Israel/Palestine
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My review of Orderly Britain by Tim Newburn and Andrew Ward: how we got more civilised
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An uplifting story for depressing times: how WW2 internees turned a prison camp into a university
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Lessons from penalty shoot-outs: why the Germans are better than the English at handling pressure
http://t.co/7LAkzie7XX
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My piece on how we should respond to massive American and European clean-energy subsidies
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Pathetic pockets in women’s clothes are a fashion-industry conspiracy to make us buy handbags
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The failure to fund local government properly makes us feel bad about Britain
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My piece about a scheme to encourage middle-class empty-nesters to become foster parents
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My column on why we should put out the welcome mat for Russians
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What the translation business can tell us about the economic impact of AI
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Why is IfG giving this woman a platform? Why is anybody listening to her?
"I'm having a rather more relaxing September than I did last year"
Former PM Liz Truss gives speech on UK economy, saying she's "certainly not" keen on a return to Downing Street
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My column on how Britain can get out of its economic doom loop
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My piece on the murky business behind Britain’s polluted waterways
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Why Starmer is a lucky general
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My piece on why cities need to be at the centre of the growth agenda
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I’ve found our productivity problem: it’s me
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Why and how we need to reform tuition fees
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@tomjrowley
@olyduff
@t_wainwright
@RosieBlau
The best of writers, and just the man to create the bookshop south London needs
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Me on numbers that matter more than those in the budget: how Britain went from having the longest life-expectancy in the G7 to second-bottom (and has a worse cancer-survival rate than China)
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Astonishing
"I’ve never fell off a big chimney. You only fall off one of them once."
#OnThisDay
1979: Extraordinary steeplejack Fred Dibnah was introduced to the nation.
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My piece on parenting: it’s a joy but it doesn’t make us happier
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Why we tend to be pessimists, but need to be optimists — about science, at least
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A liberal society is a good thing, but it has downsides. The growth of single parenthood is among them
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How badly Britain has done compared to the G7 since the Tories came to power
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How we got into the local-government finance mess and how to get out of it
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Britain is less unequal than Germany, according to the World Inequality Database
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My column on why Jacob Rees-Mogg is wrong to try to stop civil servants working from home
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My piece on how Britain risks blowing its chance in the life-sciences industry
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My column on why we need to change planning rules to mitigate climate change
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My column on how Macron revived France’s economy, and why Britain could be the next “sick man of Europe”
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My column on how non-dom status offends against the principles of a good tax system
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Tories aren’t the only nimbys in town
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My review of Edward Chancellor’s gripping prophecy of doom, The Price of Time
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A dark history of nostalgia: my review of Hannah Rose Woods’s enjoyable book
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@createstreets
This is hideous. You need to be careful that your (by and large admirable) taste for tradition doesn’t tip into pastiche
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My column on how central banking got political, and the threat that poses to its independence
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Barratt Britain will be Sunak’s big battleground
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Cyril Ramaphosa (in yellow and black stripes): business-friendly candidate for leadership of the ANC, at a Communist Party rally at the Rugby Club in Nelspruit. South Africa often surprises
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My column on why we should hope Nick Clegg is a failure at Meta
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My review of Martin Wolf’s book on the threat to democratic capitalism
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We shouldn’t be pretending it’s fine to be fat
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My column on how the end of the second era of globalisation is going to hit Britain particularly hard
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@GBNEWS
@GoodwinMJ
I wasn’t born in Britain. How does that make me less entitled to public goods or services than any other Briton?
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Why (and how) we should build on the green belt
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This is the most moving piece I have read for a long time
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Why unis are slipping in the research league
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By making such a horlicks Truss has given some good policies a bad name
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WFH is appealing but it’s just not working
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My review of Paul Johnson’s brilliant book “Follow the Money”
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My column on British mistrust of politicians and how Gove could mitigate it
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@LittleEarn
My clothes are from Margaret Howell. Check out the website and see if you like them. She’s much too expensive for me normally, but she has sample sales at a fraction of the price. If you email shop
@margarethowell
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