Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower

Twitter account for me and St Pancras Clock Tower - context should make it obvious which it’s for. Tower isn’t especially interested in economics or politics.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@MichaelRosenYes @sandiegardener @K4rmaRules This is very sad. The story of the Palestinian family that cared for the remains of British and Commonwealth dead was very moving. I had hope that Jewish respect for their own dead would extend to all.

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@andrewrawnsley A well written essay by you too.

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It was a door chime.

If the insides are still functioning and the old plastic is intact it might have an eBay value to someone who likes that period. I don’t personally and found that 3-D Perspex thing rather ugly.

[Elizabeth❣️ @WorkElizab]

Does anyone know what this is?
It’s been above a door in our house since we moved in. It’s a box with a hole on each side.
Google suggests it’s a Klaus Staudt sculpture, I’m pretty sure it isn’t. 😂
No banana today, we’ve eaten them.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@GIRUxGIRU @TorstenBell Mr Bell does not recognise the welfare overspend like the unsustainable triple lock or the £2 billion bonus pays to former miners from tax rises on the rest of us.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

Blair’s essay was masterful and timely. Britain will be poorer if we end up going back to old Labour and the folly of believing that you make the country richer through Robin Hood fantasies. https://t.co/tuLeu0XFxm

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This is a timely reminder of how people should think about their politics. His use of the phrase Radical Centre chimes with @Radix_UK

[Tony Blair Institute for Global Change @InstituteGC]

https://t.co/27lbhXTsjk

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@PJTheEconomist Well said.

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Excellent piece by Evan Davis on the lucky baby boomers but why we are unfortunate to live in a struggling economy. https://t.co/IygKxCZ2Pt

[Rachel Moiselle @RachelMoiselle]

This video is less than two minutes long and I implore everyone to watch it. It is indeed rather extraordinary.

As Holocaust Awareness Ireland says, Patrick Kielty exhibits utter callousness with respect to the attacks on the Jewish community, astonishingly saying ‘the backdrop of that is obviously the horrors in Gaza, this is a complex thing.’

Boy George remains calm and says ‘if you don’t know any Jewish people maybe that’s the problem.’ He then asks the audience ‘do you know any Jewish people?’

Boy George is visibly taken aback by the ensuing silence, and vocalises his shock twice, remarking that it is ‘weird’ and ‘surprising me a little bit.’ Patrick looks uncomfortable and ends puts an end to the topic with a dismissive ‘mmm’.

Extraordinary viewing. Just extraordinary.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@premnsikka But the triple lock does not deliver for the poorest. Our resources would be better used to focus on need rather than giving someone like me an inflation busting increase.

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@emerdale3 @JackTow73789750 @TracyNeverLabor @GMB The state pension is a benefit ever since the National Insurance Act 1946. That’s why it can be changed. You don’t pay into it. Workers pay contributions and the retired are paid benefits.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@christopherhope @JamesCleverly No. The figures 70 72 and 72 make 214 not 224. But they are not separate. They overlap. So the total is not 214 but at most that. The data is not here to show what the total you refer to is.

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@PJTheEconomist Looks excellent. Politicians love to talk this up without achieving but they have to be persuaded to give up popular policies that actually do the exact opposite.

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@NJM71 @wight1984 I’ve seen this before but it’s quite interesting to read and realise all this was put together in the aftermath of global conflict.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@PJTheEconomist Well written Paul. It was a promise made on the basis of misunderstanding of economics of defined benefit promises. But it got through equally because of the lack of engagement by the opposition parties and even support from Reform. The scale of this gift is extraordinary.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@WASPI_Campaign @PHSOmbudsman @DWPgovuk It is notable how all the replies to your post so far disagree with you. It would not have been right to make younger taxpayers pay to extend a continuing unequal payment to one cohort of affected pensioners.

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@TRobinsonNewEra Tie rack would have done better then.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@FraserNelson You are right to challenge freebies for the elderly. One of the successes of the 20th century was the growth in funded pension provision which gives greater freedom than travel passes. Alas that is now also in serious jeopardy for future generations.

[Peter Tompkins/St Pancras Clock Tower @StPancrasClock]

@CHICAGOjoe60644 @GaiusKonstantin @SeniormanKelzz We called it BODMAS Brackets Of Division Multiplication Addition Subtraction

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@Matt_Pinner All of the above!