Ben Knight

‘But I don't want comfort. I want God, I want poetry, I want real danger, I want freedom, I want goodness, I want sin.'

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

My latest for ConservativeHome tackles reform of primary care.

[ConservativeHome @ConHome]

From @Ben___Knight: The Conservative path to restoring the NHS https://t.co/Dci9ha1csA

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

After 16 years of planning hell, the Northern Iron Dome will be rescoped as a Hull City Centre Parasol. It will cost £232 billion and be delivered by 2068.

[Deuxvingarian @deuxvingarian]

🚨NEW: Andy Burnham pledges to build huge air-conditioned dome over the North if he becomes PM

In a statement on Monday, Burnham will detail how the dome will be kept at 21C year-round

The dome will be powered by making London employees use a hamster wheel during working hours

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

Why are NEETs called NEETs when they could easily be called NEWTs

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

@ShabanaMahmood dear Home Secretary; dealing with UKVI is an absolute nightmare because despite requesting War and Peace, their email system will not accept attachments over 25MB. Can you please fix this?

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

@TeamYouTube we’ve got ourselves locked out of a corporate YouTube channel as we no longer have access to the 2FA mobile number or recovery codes. Is there a way you can trigger a manual review and help us to get access? Happy to provide proof of who we are.

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

Peter Mandelson in unexpected career move

[Mark Gurman @markgurman]

BREAKING: Tim Cook steps down. Ternus to CEO.

[(((Dan Hodges))) @DPJHodges]

Defence of Akrotiri latest. We have had to port our only warship, but have deployed a dog.

[Looking for Growth @lfg_uk]

France: PLEASE USE MORE ENERGY – WE HAVE TOO MUCH.

UK: If you reduce your boiler temperature, you can save £100 a year.

[History, Royals and Other Things @RoyalsOther]

On Friday I had afternoon tea with a friend at the Essex Rose Tearoom in Dedham, visited last month by the King and Queen. Across the road was a very tongue in cheek blue plaque on a pub not visited by the King and Queen.

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

“We need to review your medication”

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

If Iran’s dictatorship can be toppled, that is by any measure a good thing. But any presumption that there will be an orderly transition to liberal democracy is deeply, deeply dangerous.

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

In 2003, the operation to remove Saddam Hussein from power was over very quickly. Toppling a government was proven easy: managing the chaos that followed, and Iraq’s slow descent into civil war, was not.

[Cal @SimpGanassi]

Gotta admire Thatcher’s approval ratings being absolute dogshit all the time besides election years, that’s incredible efficiency

[Emma Revell @emmamrevell]

Imagine the ego-boost if you rage-quit and they had to get 3 people in to replace you

[Alex Deane @ajcdeane]

Steiner’s force will attack from the North

[Harry Rushworth @Hrushworth]

Whilst we’re on the subject of Parliamentary refurbishment scope creep, can I throw in another 100% necessary intervention.

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

@JockineseBear @Anglo_Futurist What are UNESCO going to do? Invade?

[Ben Knight @Ben___Knight]

@Stanley79142726 @Anglo_Futurist This is what I thought. The ideal scenario from a cost-benefit perspective may actually be that the place burns down and has to be rebuilt.

[Tom Harwood @tomhfh]

Some useful perspective from Rishi Sunak: too many lose sight of how poor we are becoming, because our Europoor neighbours are doing even worse.