Jay Elwes

Dep ed at Formerly theArticle, Prospect.
e. [email protected]
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[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

Anna Politkovskaya saw Putin clearer than anyone. She’s being proved horrifically right all over again:
https://t.co/AHXSbjOWS4

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

Ok that’s me done. Time to leave the fashy milkfloat man’s opinion sewer for good. Joining the X-odus.
#Xodus

[The New World: New ideas. New magazine @TheNewWorldmag]

Happy to oblige … and no, we’re not conflating readers and subs. Here’s the breakdown - and these are all full price - we don’t do any bulks, free trials or whisky giveaways. 80% of subscribers are annuals paid in advance. The rest are quarterly or monthly. Total subscriber number is 29,000. Ten thousand of which are digital only. The rest are print/digital bundle. Weekly newsstand sales are circa 5,000 though we just recorded our record newsstand sale before the election of 7,049. We are profitable, have close to a million in the bank, don’t take advertising so we don’t bother paying for independent auditing. As for the interest you recently expressed in lending us your expertise, you’re ok thanks. What’s your next question?

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

The former head of MI5, head of the US National Intelligence Council and others have some pretty clear views on this:
https://t.co/Cz0Y6aEJVr

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

Well, there is certainly one political party that has done nothing about foreign interference in Britain: and it’s not the Labour Party.
https://t.co/2YGyxFGPPw

[Conservatives @Conservatives]

They're watching.

[Agnes C. Poirier @AgnesCPoirier]

I interviewed Françoise Hardy for The New York Times in 2018. At the end of our long conversation, I asked her what was, in her view, the most perfect song.
I wasn't surprised to hear her say: “If I must choose only one song in the whole world, I would choose Charles Trenet’s Que Reste-t-il de Nos Amours”?

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

“We shall slight them on the beaches”.

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

A real journalist.

[A. W. kraft @Daddykraftss]

My article last week explaining why nationalist anti European Polish nationalist bigots would lose. Poland’s election is a battle for the country’s soul https://t.co/ZOGszy6mo5 @JayElwes @sanglesey Now let’s remove PiS sister party from power in 🇬🇧

[ALASTAIR CAMPBELL @campbellclaret]

Very powerful interview with Max Hastings. Well done ⁦@JayElwes⁩ and well done MH for speaking truth to power aka the rabble that the governing party has become. https://t.co/KXGkgv0PD4

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

@MichaelAHann Both reassuring and frustrating at the same time.

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

@MichaelAHann Hi Michael --- Brook was at a comprehensive but was offered a sports scholarship to a private school. This happens quite often. So the private schools aren't necessarily producing these players, so much as hoovering them up.

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

@DAaronovitch Remarkable that he regards Britain both as having finally become a real democracy in 2016, and also as having been taken over by a shadowy "elite".

[Matt Farr @philosofarr]

Robert De Niro’s father could easily have passed for an Austrian philosopher.

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

@benjhibee @BenjaminTDobbin @mestuartbarrie I'll have the "Guru's Jazamatazz" please waiter.

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

@wallaceme Ha! Yes, “laws”, but like all laws, the crucial thing is their interpretation. It’s not that players shouldn’t follow the laws — I don’t think anyone’s quite saying that really. Isn’t it more that the laws themselves have a subjective element?

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

@wallaceme That assumes that the rules can cover every situation in the game — but they really can’t.

[The New World: New ideas. New magazine @TheNewWorldmag]

Thanks to all who came to our event in London's Union Chapel last night - especially our panellists @MatthewdAncona @campbellclaret @Bonn1eGreer @tanit and Patience Wheatcroft 🙏

[The New World: New ideas. New magazine @TheNewWorldmag]

A ludicrous, deluded and superficial party came up with a ludicrous, deluded and superficial policy that didn’t survive its brush with reality, writes @JayElwes https://t.co/DTZUVZKnHL

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

"The Rwanda plan distils into policy form the pure spirit of the new-Tory Culture War era. It was a gesture, a signal, a way of winding up the “lefty lawyers”, nothing more than a wedge issue, designed to manufacture a garish point of political difference."
@TheNewEuropean

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

My latest for @TheNewEuropean
"On the one hand, sending migrants to Rwanda was meant to be such a nasty prospect that it would put migrants off coming to Britain in the first place... on the other, Rwanda was put forward as vibrant and entirely safe..."
https://t.co/j0w4WrryXO

[Jay Elwes @JayElwes]

"But it couldn’t be both a deterrent and the promised land all at the same time. Except, of course, to Braverman, who told Tory conference: “I would love to have a front page of the Telegraph with a plane taking off to Rwanda, that’s my dream, it’s my obsession”. @TheNewEuropean