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Duncan Robinson

@duncanrobinson.bsky.social
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Bagehot columnist and political editor for the Economist. Columnist of the year at the 2026 Press Awards

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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Ditto Labour's tacit acceptance that only the very rich can be taxed
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Gavin Jackson @gavinjackson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Michael Woodford revitalised the interest in Wicksellian theories of economic stabilisation rather than traditional Keynesianism or Monetarism (see Money in One Lesson by Gavin Jackson for an introduction)
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 12/10/2026
Apathyball bad for all
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Richard Tol @richardtol.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Bagehot in superb form this week www.economist.com/britain/2026...
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The coming fall of pensioner communism
Just like the Soviet kind, it is collapsing under its own contradictions
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
No no you’re completely right about that training being enough, I’m just making a joke that I never managed even that
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I am living proof
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Absolute heroic work from the word “if” there
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Didn’t die! If youre feeling generous, drop some dosh. Particularly if youre a well a to do finance professional. In fact why not have a competition among yourselves to see who can give most???? www.justgiving.com/page/duncan-...
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Not dead yet
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
I will try to match your legacy
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
Half marathon with not enough training: let’s goooooooo
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 11/10/2026
These are fantastic!
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David Higham @oldtrotter.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Something I worked on 42 years ago: oddly the Thatcher government didn't listen. Perhaps we did take a wrong turn back then?
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What a good point
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
I went on the road to Great Yarmouth earlier this year and it’s mad
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If by skills you mean education, then I love skills
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
🫃- me after Gavin has impregnated me with a take
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Education does, sure
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Our point
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Driving a rare area where “skills” might actually boost growth
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
😭
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
What’s the argument? Sounds fascinating
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
All roads lead to Brum
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Fixed
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Only 90 minutes away after this!!!
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Dunno m8
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
There you go
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
My very scientific suggestion
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
If you hate cars, why do you spend so much time in them? Your revealed preference is being stuck in a Mumbai traffic jam
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Look at this half-empty map. Fill it in
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
A beautiful, sweeping motorway smashing its way into Cornwall
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Grow(th?) up
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Todd Kendall @alpinemigrant.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Eating crisps for growth.
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Think they look chic
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Agree. Would have to be pushed by centre right party, which also has the nimbyiest voters
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Those reasons? My personal politics
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Accurate description of the discourse tho! But what’s your example of policies you dislike that you nevertheless support because they get the GDP flowing
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Growth policy = “policy I like”
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
They’ll sell you the disease (constipation) and sell you the cure (more fibre)
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 10/10/2026
Thought we’d passed peak protein and that now everyone was obsessed with fibre
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I couldn’t remember what the reference was when I posted it, but it’s clearly this
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
lol
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
I don’t do news, it’s rude
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Dan Davies @dsquareddigest.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
Get that digital euro up and running internationally lads
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
assets.publishing.service.gov.uk/media/6ac7c3... half-man, half-machine
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 09/10/2026
imagine he was bounced
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Holly Thomas @holstat.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Kind of an ancillary point, but whenever a Meta glasses story happens I have a flashback to Timothee Chalamet arriving at the Kylie Meta glasses launch in a baseball cap with his hoodie pulled over as far as pos, *because he didn't want to be photographed*
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
Chris Leslie's "Which? Man", your time is now
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 08/10/2026
They wrong?
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Duncan Robinson @duncanrobinson.bsky.social · 07/10/2026
The Return of the Master (Poster)
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