Patrick Lane

Father of two, husband of one. Bristol Rovers fan and disgruntled commuter. Banking Editor at The Economist.

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@JanPrygoda Aha. Thanks again. Not my article, I should say, but a colleague’s. (I merely wrote the intro for a newsletter promoting it.)

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@JanPrygoda Thanks for all the additional information.

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@econromesh @johnvanreenen @drahuna Thanks, Romesh, and many happy returns

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@econromesh @johnvanreenen @drahuna Thanks, Romesh — and many happy returns to you too!

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@SoumayaKeynes @FT Distraught! But congratulations!

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@AlexSelbyB Alas, no, @AlexSelbyB. Take a bow, Rob Gifford.

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@Eaterofsun @gideonrachman Possibly because its name changed from Premiership to Premier League around then? I’m not sure of the exact year.

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@DuncanWeldon I hope they included the wonderfully named Vic Feather (first one I can remember)

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@DuncanWeldon Going to see it tomorrow. Similarly excited.

[. @mikejakeman]

On Anderson and Broad being back where they belong
https://t.co/lWMWsUB931

[Stephen Bush @stephenkb]

The year is 2100. The UK’s three remaining small villages are given “city status”. The UK’s only remaining town is still, inexplicably, Reading.

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@annemcelvoy The Wall (double album, so helps pass the time), Living on the Ceiling and of course Michael Jackson’s classic, Filler

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@ItsRachelDobbs @jonfasman @rachelsllloyd I do meanwhile manage to grow courgettes and beans in pots in the garden — too many already according to Mrs L

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@jonfasman @rachelsllloyd Don’t know about the whole country but in Reading the council reckons the average wait is between one and 13 — yep, 13 — years. Ours is 4.8. Was 4.4 when I joined the list last year. I think it may end up as a retirement plan

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

I just subscribed to My bookshop adventure by Tom Rowley https://t.co/PP3BouNw2l. Best of luck, @tomjrowley. I see I'm already two chapters behind...

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@whippletom Oh, bad luck. Happy Christmas nonetheless.

[Patrick Lane @Pat_Lane]

@tom_nuttall Welcome back, m’colleague. Hope my daughter enjoys the same tomorrow. Got her pre-travel test in Germany tonight…and was given the QR for someone else’s result. Getting another test in the morning. Wir drücken ihr die Daumen.

[James Astill @JamesMAstill]

My interview with Daniel Smith, a remarkable 89-year-old Washingtonian, who may well be the last living child of an American slave: https://t.co/59h0LQPws3