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Charles Orton-Jones

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PPA Biz Journalist of Year, former editor EuroBusiness. TCD history grad Florence, Tallinn, Harpole. Founder https://t.co/hrzcRJxo1g 🇬🇧❤️🇺🇦

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31 reasons central planning failed in the Soviet Union. My (in my opinion) masterpiece on why the experiment was an utter disaster. Kip's Law, Bastiat's What you see and what you don't see, Hayek, and so much more.
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RT @DanNeidle: This is very hard to explain:.
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RT @maxtempers: 🚨 NEW: A website has been created to easily identify Motability vehicles. Check in today at . h/t….
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RT @j_amesmarriott: Here is the live link for my debate about the death of literature with @HenryEOliver - happening now!. .
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RT @NeilDotObrien: In Britain we hassle those who do the right thing & coddle those who do wrong. Snippet from my new piece: https://t.co/….
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RT @maxtempers: Tempers Tip: A quick, easy, free way to check if a new car you come across is a Motability is to run the number plate throu….
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RT @lfg_uk: The LFG State of the Nation Growth Dashboard:.
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Jeremy Hunt MP celebrates "brilliant" blocking of a new McDonalds in his constituency. 120 jobs lost. Jeremy Hunt MP also on a currently on a book tour where he wonders why there's no UK economic growth. Er.
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RT @JohnRentoul: Keir Starmer by Jonn Elledge, via @mrianleslie: “A man who moves through politics like a Roomba moves through your living….
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It's Almost Like He Didn't Listen To Me
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RT @staylorish: The editor has admitted they did digitally alter the photograph on the front page, to insert the barefoot child. She says t….
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RT @Sam_Dumitriu: Fun fact: It took @Ben_A_Hopkinson longer to get permission to visit Waltham Forest’s planning archive than it did to get….
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RT @MPrinParr: AI controlled bot farm. This is who you’re arguing with online.
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RT @Sam_Dumitriu: In 1937, London built 80,000 homes. Last year, it built less than half that. To find out why, I looked at two different….
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RT @TheOrwellPrize: Victoria Amelina, killed by a Russian bomb in Ukraine on 1 July 2023, has posthumously won the 2025 Orwell Prize for Po….
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RT @daisychristo: In chess, everyone understands that a new player starts by learning the basics like how the pieces move. In education, t….
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RT @DanNeidle: Reform UK is proposing a "Britannia card" that would let wealthy foreigners pay a £250k fee to move to the UK, and live here….
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RT @lara_e_brown: Shaun Davies, Labour MP for Telford, just told the House that Amber Rudd and Rishi Sunak 'refused to provide a statutory….
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RT @matthew_barber: Daniel Gilbert, a prolific shoplifter who has been in and out of police custody for months was in court last week to be….
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RT @_TheLondoner: EXCL: City Hall gave an East London university a £1.6m grant 11 months after it hired the mayor's wife. No university ha….
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RT @joshi: Sadiq Khan said a new sustainability centre at the University of East London 'embodies our city’s direction of travel' and City….
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