Timothy Hobden

South African economist now living the dream in Berlin and working in international development and public policy

[Timothy Hobden @timhobden]

@RochesterRSA pretty poor treatment of a good family friend from your Umhlanga store. Any way to escalate and sort this out??

[Timothy Hobden @timhobden]

The website has now automatically rebooked me on some dystopian multi-leg journey invoking a 12hr layover from 10pm in Zurich airport before connecting to Frankfurt and on to Nairobi.

[Timothy Hobden @timhobden]

Flights cancelled due to the @Lufthansa_DE strike and trying to rebook via the Chat Assistant (auto message on call centre just tells you to call later and hangs up) is truly the stuff of shockingly badly designed AI nightmares.

[Timothy Hobden @timhobden]

It’s currently trying to book me on a train which would get me to Frankfurt airport 14hrs before my connecting flight…which is also cancelled 🤡

[Derek Prout-Jones🇿🇦🦅🍷☕️🪂🤿🙏🏻 @DPJ1963]

In certain weird places on earth the date today is 👇🏻

[John Penniman @Historiographos]

I will never recover from this student email.

[Timothy Hobden @timhobden]

When even the IMF is telling you to invest more…

[Isabella M Weber @IsabellaMWeber]

The IMF is not known for being fiscally dovish. But Germany’s hawkishness goes too far for the IMF:

IMF Chief Georgiewa has called on Germany to expand public investment and recommends greater fiscal flexibility on the European level.

https://t.co/rhZUDGwF3k

[Sebastian Borger @sebastianborger]

And, again in nice graphics via ⁦@FT⁩, the sheer madness of the debate in #deutschland. #schuldenbremse muss weg.

[jon henley @jonhenley]

French train passenger uses his national health card to make himself a foie gras and baguette sandwich.

What a country.

[Crispian Olver @CrispianOlver]

I’m sold #SouthAfrica

[Ranjeni Munusamy @RanjeniM]

Yoh Siya can’t make us cry this much

[Rugby World Cup @rugbyworldcup]

Siya Kolisi becomes the second captain to lift the Webb Ellis Cup for the second time

#RWC2023 | #RWCFinal

[Rugby World Cup @rugbyworldcup]

KINGS OF RUGBY 🇿🇦

#RWC2023 | #RWCFinal

[Springboks @Springboks]

For South Africa 🇿🇦
#StrongerTogether #Springboks #RWCFinal #RSAvNZL

[Springboks @Springboks]

Heroic by the #Springboks 🏆
#StrongerTogether #RWCFinal #RSAvNZL

[Justin Sherin @wychstreet]

Judi Dench was on Graham Norton last night to push her new book about her life and work with Shakespeare. After making the point we quote Shakespeare daily without knowing it, this happened:

[BladeoftheSun @BladeoftheS]

Suella Braverman used £25k of expenses to pay her parents Energy Bills for 5 years when she occasionally stayed there rent free.

Then she calls other people scroungers.

[James O'Brien @mrjamesob]

I absolutely believe that somebody told Nadine Dorries this and I congratulate them heartily on keeping a straight face. That she believed such bilge is, of course, utterly unsurprising.