Helen Atkinson

I wrote about how The Economist makes charts for Instagram medium.economist.com/charting-new-t…

@AlexSelbyB “Global financial crisis” Alex! Research would never let that wording slide

I'm not saying that Mr Brightside's presence in the charts is a recession indicator, but I'm not *not* saying that either

@AlexSelbyB Only if you read books for 30 mins a day though. Otherwise dead before 80.

This fits in with my ambition to get a telegram from King George in 2073

@AlexSelbyB How did it end up like this?

Doing just fine

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@AlexSelbyB Alig

mmmkay

@AlexSelbyB @tarequelaskar ✅

@tarequelaskar I think that might have come from the genius behind the lettuce comparison

“goodbyers’ remorse” 😂😭 @AlexSelbyB please convey my regards to the copy editor on this

@AlexSelbyB I will get some if the price comes down to free

@baskerhel I reckon the price will come down some more after Christmas

Can't believe these didn't fly off the shelves

@AlexSelbyB Erm, remember how you rubbished the same rat theory when I mentioned it on Friday? He looks so skinny though 🥺

Here's my (slightly flimsy) evidence that it's the same rat. See how he suddenly remembers the trap from last time and refuses to be taken? This makes him a nightmare for people like me. Might have to move house.

Pretty sure this rat has spent the past six months making his way across Europe* like some rodent Liam Neeson, looking for me, finding me, and very nearly killing me *Well, Bexley

@AlexSelbyB If the queue can reach maximum capacity, will there be a queue to join The Queue?

Given the lack of speed, I can see why it wasn't a step chart

@AlexSelbyB @gelliottmorris At least it wasn’t “Sexy and I know it”

1979-80 was a fertile time for chart titles. All credit to @gelliottmorris for the first one, although he just let himself down with an attempted LMFAO chart title

VITAL point: journalism is so elitist (socio-economically) and it’s in absolute denial: “Stop awarding fellowships to elite universities only. Stop developing relationships with elite universities only. And stop making a degree a requirement for jobs because that's absurd.”

@AlexSelbyB I did pass it on! Blame the section editor 🥴

Nice charts too. My title suggestion for the first one ("Show me the money") was rightly ignored

Great piece. The biggest surprise for me is that Amazon's “Lord of the Rings” series will be the most expensive piece of television ever made, with a budget around three times that of “Top Gun” economist.com/business/2022/…

@AlexSelbyB I wish it wasn’t too late for me 💔

Alex is my middle name

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@AlexSelbyB Nah, forget the questions. We are intelligent, that’s all that matters

I have 100,000+ questions about page 22

@AlexSelbyB Cancelled

Bless me, Father, for I have sinned. It is three days since my last Wordle

@AlexSelbyB Sometimes they are only two 🤭 It works out ok most of the time though!

@baskerhel We dodged a bullet there. Also, three carriages? What the hell? I sometimes get ten!

Utterly thrilled not to have travelled into work today

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