Andrew Rummer

When you got into politics to change the world but find yourself spending all the money bailing out people’s own freaking gas bills

Man City has broken Lime bikes. The whole of North London trying to get home at the same time, in disgust

The pandemic and costly energy have helped rekindle Britons’ love of domestic fires. And a new cohort of chimney sweeps is cleaning up economist.com/britain/2026/0…

I wrote a thing about the surprisingly robust demand for chimney sweeps economist.com/britain/2026/0…

@thomasforth Lol. I was literally talking about that Team GB row with my other half while walking the dog last week (yes we are cool).

@AJRummer A nice touch on the Olympics one is that even though the association includes Northern Ireland its name of "Team GB" excludes Northern Ireland. At one point I believe there was even a cope attempt to claim that the GB on Team GB did not actually refer to Great Britain. 🤣

Simples!

Greenland has got to be relieved now the transfer window is closed

Walking down the old railway line with the dog. Middle-aged man coming the other way looks distraught. Maybe his wife has recently died? Turns out he’s just listening to the cricket on a little radio.

I'm taking part in a Spaces discussion on "Google Zero, AI Agents, and the Future of News" at 6pm UK time today. Set a reminder or join the chat via this link: x.com/i/spaces/1OwxW…

Farewell, Zipcar 👋😔

@Barthsnotes Very good

@AJRummer "Dunno, isn't he the Dutch prime minister?"

@I_Am_Yain lol

@AJRummer That's my quant

Via @willydunn in @NewStatesman newstatesman.com/business/econo…

“Donwood's initial idea for the album cover was to create enormous topiary phalluses and digitally introduce them into the gardens owned by the National Trust, but Yorke was unconvinced.”

Source: yougov.co.uk/topics/society…

The way these lines move is fascinating Purple = immigration Green = Brexit

“It’s sudden death, one shot each, until somebody misses.” @AJRummer takes “The Intelligence” into fierce battle at the World Conker Championships in rural Britain bit.ly/4qiMJmK

And hear me on today's episode of The Intelligence podcast talking about the story of conkers (from 19 mins) 5/5 open.spotify.com/episode/5ITGGq…

Read the full story here: economist.com/britain/2025/1… 4/5

🌳🌰 A hard-hitting story from me out this week in @TheEconomist. If leather on willow is the most English of sounds, a close second may be conker smacking against conker. 1/5