Michael Simmons
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Michael Simmons✓
@Simmons__
Economics editor @Spectator 🎧📺 Listen or watch my new show here https://t.co/0hI6FFDpRg
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- Michael SimmonsRT @MaxJeffery_: I wrote @spectator cover piece about the failing early release scheme. It’s pushing unreformed offenders onto our broken probation service, causing homelessness, addiction and more and more crime... And it’s not even freeing up cells.013018
- Michael SimmonsRT @spectator: The Spectator’s Year in Review is back: book your tickets🎄 On Thursday 10 December we’ll be looking back on the most memorable moments of 2026: from the weird and wonderful, to the funny and tragic. We’ve got a stellar line-up for you across the evening, including @michaelgove, @RachelSJohnson, @ShippersUnbound, @PrueLeith, @hoffman_noa, @mathewparris3, @Freddygray31, @JAHeale, @Simmons__, Will Moore and @lara_e_brown. Plus, special video appearances from @rorysutherland, @thequentinletts and Lara Prendergast. 🎟️ Book your tickets here:06016
- Michael SimmonsRT @Freddygray31: Fo anybody looking to understand the mid-term results, I highly recommend watching this video of The Spectator's event with Christopher Caldwell last night...06020
- Michael SimmonsRT @JAHeale: Legal migrants will settle on the following timelines: 3 years: additional rate taxpayers earning over £125,141, and the highly skilled on routes such as Global Talent and Innovator Founder. 5 years: higher rate taxpayers earning over £50,271, and skilled public service workers such as doctors, nurses and teachers, refugees arriving on safe and legal routes. 10 years: the new standard route for everyone else and refugees who move into work and study. Settlement stays open to them, but they must show a sustained contribution. 20 years: anyone who claims certain benefits while in the UK or commits a visa offence. Refugees will settle on the following timelines: 5 years: those who arrive on safe and legal routes 10 years: those who did not arrive by small boat and have entered work or study 20 years: those who did not arrive by small boat and have not entered work or study 20 years: those who arrived by small boat and have entered work or study 30 years: those who arrived by small boat and have not entered work or study024016
- Doing this tomorrowAdam Smith Institute @ASIBad data. Bad decisions. Tomorrow, The Spectator’s Michael Simmons joins us to discuss flawed statistics, constant revisions and the cost of getting the numbers wrong. Join our Next Generation drinks at the ASI from 6pm. Ages 18–35. Sign up:03301.8K
Bad data. Bad decisions. Tomorrow, The Spectator’s Michael Simmons joins us to discuss flawed statistics, constant revisions and the cost of getting the numbers wrong. Join our Next Generation drinks at the ASI from 6pm. Ages 18–35. Sign up:03113.1K- Michael SimmonsRT @ReleaseGibbons: On this week's Edition pod, @Simmons__ explains how the contract between the British middle classes and the state is fraying: people are paying more, to get less. Plus: how can Britain rebuild its communities? With Simon Jenkins & @GenevieveWGaunt Link below 👇01020
- Michael SimmonsRT @Simmons__: The state is spending more per person than at any time outside the pandemic. Yet a third of us now use private dentists, record numbers have private health insurance, and nearly a third of pupils have had a tutor. Welcome to Top-up Britain. My Spectator cover this week 👇01103.9K
- Michael SimmonsRT @ClausVistesen: The UK is drifting into an equilibrium with EU continental tax levels with nowhere near the same service provisions, for no reason whatsoever other than incompetence and lack of courage. Some countries face decline by institutional design, in the UK it's a political choice.Michael Simmons @Simmons__The state is spending more per person than at any time outside the pandemic. Yet a third of us now use private dentists, record numbers have private health insurance, and nearly a third of pupils have had a tutor. Welcome to Top-up Britain. My Spectator cover this week 👇01024
- Michael SimmonsRT @meganmcelr0y: John Healey has put a keg of ‘Chancellor’s Choice’ behind the bar, free of charge for thirsty Treasury staff and desperate hacks01021
- Michael SimmonsRT @FraserNelson: The Spectator is a tiny outfit, still with an editorial staff smaller than a student newspaper. To pull off a same-day Budget briefing of this quality - and televise it, complete with graphs - is an astonishing testimony to the quality of its people.041012
- Timea would never have allowed thisDan Tomlinson MP @dantomlinsonmpThe boss seeing off a pint of Chancellor's Choice after a long day at the office.10111.5K
Dan Tomlinson MP@dantomlinsonmpThe boss seeing off a pint of Chancellor's Choice after a long day at the office.1.5K56971641K- Michael SimmonsRT @spectator: Sod the state: Michael Simmons on the race to go private 🔸 Douglas Murray: Will we always have Paris? 🔸 Angus Colwell: The dessertification of London 🔸 Maureen Lipman: Bring back proper smoking 🔸 Nicholas Farrell: How to sleep with 1,000 women03013
- Back live again in a few hours. Subscribers only this time 👇Spectator Events @SpectatorEventsLIVE TONIGHT: Join us at 7pm for our post-Budget briefing, where our panel will unpack today’s Budget and give you their unrivalled insights. @michaelgove will be joined by @ShippersUnbound, @Simmons__, @CeeMacBee and Harry Bell, director of financial planning at Raymond James. 👉Sign up to be notified when the livestream starts:001332
LIVE TONIGHT: Join us at 7pm for our post-Budget briefing, where our panel will unpack today’s Budget and give you their unrivalled insights. @michaelgove will be joined by @ShippersUnbound, @Simmons__, @CeeMacBee and Harry Bell, director of financial planning at Raymond James. 👉Sign up to be notified when the livestream starts:
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