Britain still has Long Covid. Everywhere you look, from courts to hospitals to welfare, we’re paying a massive lockdown premium. So why do we never talk about it? My column from today’s @thetimes https://t.co/CfhHAaFlsm

Very sad to hear about John Carey, a wonderful writer, Merton Professor and longtime chief book reviewer of the Sunday Times. I’ve thought about him most days of my adult life. Just before the pandemic I spent time talking to him about his life and work: https://t.co/2FIr9Xqm9J

John Carey was about the best critic to ever review books in a newspaper. Deeply erudite, always accessible, wise, witty, acerbic and fair. An extraordinary man and legacy.

A significant intervention by @Freedland on the Farage/Dulwich/antisemitism story, which follows a leader in @JewishNewsUK. The more liberal side of the community is now pushing on this issue https://t.co/3dtDOTiJWm

Britain still has Long Covid. Everywhere you look, from courts to hospitals to welfare, we’re paying a massive lockdown premium. So why do we never talk about it? My column from today’s @thetimes https://t.co/CfhHAaFlsm

Farage has the money, the defections and the steady polling lead. But at present he can’t shake a schoolboy scandal. The allegations are five decades old, but his failure to manage them now could still cost him politically My @thetimes political read https://t.co/oSnd9neR0Y

Well deserved, this is a fascinating book

“The similarity between Reeves and Truss…is that at certain points, their political goals came in conflict with the OBR.” The Sunday Times’s @JoshGlancy points out the “strange irony” in the government’s attitude to the OBR.

A spectacular falling out with the OBR leaves chancellor looking shifty

Full column here https://t.co/W10EU5MBVL

In opposition, Rachel Reeves made the OBR a symbol of Labour’s attachment to rules and rectitude. Which makes the current situation all the more extraordinary. From my @thetimes column today

🇬🇧 PM's Attempt To Rescue Budget After Reeves Row ▫The PM is promising action on the cost of living as Tories report the chancellor to financial watchdog over ‘misleading’ statements ▫@HarryYorke1 @Gabriel_Pogrund @joshglancy #frontpagestoday #UK @thetimes

"Rachel Reeves once treated the Office of Budget Responsibility as the oracle. But after leaks and claims that she left out a fact or two, it’s war" | ✍️ @joshglancy https://t.co/3F8fDTJew8

In 2021 I wrote about Leopoldstadt and how Tom Stoppard left it until the end to write about his own remarkable, tragic, extraordinarily fortunate life story. May his memory be a blessing https://t.co/nTZklJyECT

Rachel Reeves once held the OBR up as a symbol of Labour's preference for rules and rectitude. Now she is at war with the watchdog after misleading the public over its forecasts. What happened? My @thetimes column https://t.co/j00yBmAQq5

In retrospect, that "£50bn black hole" research was like the Selzer Iowa poll moment of this year's budget https://t.co/MYBaEsDEq1

For @thetimes's books of the year list, I've chosen eight titles in current affairs and politics. First up, The Hour of the Predator by @giulianode 'An unsettling, dreamlike series of vignettes and meditations on the upending of the international order'

@andrewlownie @TomMcTague @_SwiftPress @danwwang My other choices and lots of other great lists from colleagues are all here 👇 https://t.co/e2fkPpdfMZ

@andrewlownie @TomMcTague @_SwiftPress I loved Breakneck by @danwwang, which really took me inside China's race for global greatness.

@andrewlownie @TomMcTague Can't recommend Hostage by Eli Sharabi more highly. It is a statement of profound and almost unmatchable humanity @_SwiftPress