Rob Willock

"Knight of the Truth"(!)
Global Director of @TheEIU Corporate Network @TheEconomist Group.
Dad of 2 girls, #MBA, bad golfer, #CPFC fan, biker & petrolhead.

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Just bought these on Amazon for my backgammon set. And I hate to be pedantic… okay no I don’t. But I’d have thought that if you run a business that makes dice, you might know how to spell “dice”.
What next - mices, sheeps, feets, teeths, geeses, deers, datas…?
#grammar #pedant

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@KrysiaJ @simeonkerr @FT Darwinian, even.

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@glcarlstrom @JavierBlas It’s a Schrodinger’s Cat of a ceasefire!

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“…the UAE, the nation where Dubai is based…”

@Daily_Express

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Thank goodness for that. It was all looking a bit dicey for a moment there.

#ferrari #IranWar‌ #dubai #middleast

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Imagine seeing British people under attack in the UAE and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division” by calling them tax-dodgers and washed-up old footballers.
People who do that should have no place in British politics…
#hypocrite

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Imagine seeing British people at prayer and thinking “this is a great chance to stoke fear, hatred and division”. People who do that should have no place in British politics.

Freedom to worship is a fundamental British value – one the Conservative Party used to believe in.

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Tough Chessguessr today #1369 5/5

Only 53% got it.

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@Keir_Starmer It’s because British expats in the Middle East don’t pay income tax, isn’t it? 😉

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@allenanalysis I have a super book recommendation for President Trump.

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@Abdulkhaleq_UAE My sentiments exactly, Professor. “With friends like these, who needs enemies!?” https://t.co/uMrJdAAV78

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@nadhimzahawi *abstentions

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@nadhimzahawi The #CRINK alliance is holding, despite:
a) #China being a significant investment partner in the Gulf; and
b) #Russia having thousands of citizens living in the #UAE to escape the Ukraine war and sanctions
These abstenstions will be noted by the GCC leaders.
#IranWar‌

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@ForeignPolicy As did Russia, which has between 100,000 and 300,000 citizens (depending on who you believe) residing in the UAE to escape the war in Ukraine, but now under bombardment from their CRINK ally Iran.

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@ForeignPolicy Didn’t stop China abstaining from the UN Security Council draft resolution demanding Iran end its attacks on Gulf nations.

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@BTCCapitalist21 “I don’t understand…” is never a great way to introduce your hot take.

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@varinder_bansal The Middle East has always looked different from the outside in than the inside out.
Especially for people who have never visited and yet still love to share their ‘wisdom’ about the region.

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@TheDubaiDivots @McInTweet Yeah, I don’t recall hearing that he criticised his audience for not paying tax on the 7 occasions he gigged in the UAE with tickets at £100 a pop.
#Hypocrite
Just a cutting-edge bit about how hot it is here in the summer. And how you have to move an umbrella to stay in shade.🤡

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I guess no more lucrative #UAE stand-up gigs for middle-of-the-road comedian @McInTweet .
He was happy to sell us expensive tickets to his many gigs in #Dubai and #AbuDhabi, but now seems to want to join the cheap “but they don’t pay tax” bandwagon.

https://t.co/kXSEDSAuZD

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@AidanSimardone God help Canada if you are the smartest man there!
I particularly enjoyed the bit when you raised the prospects of expats taking up arms against the UAE government.
Maybe stick to ice hockey and maple syrup forecasts, numpty.

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@TheEconomist It seems that as well as living tax-free in the UAE, we #Dubai expats also live rent-free in the heads of many Brits, including the pompous, populist, spacious noggin of the leader of the Lib Dems, #sireddavey.