John Hancock
27.4K posts
@cwjohn
Retired research scientist. This feed spans everything I take an interest in, often sarcastic or ironic. Overlaps with @JohnMHancock and @Chartwatchmaguk 🇬🇧
Real-terms GDP per capita growth per Prime Minister: Winston Churchill: +0.8% Clement Attlee: +3.2% Winston Churchill: +9.8% Anthony Eden: +4.5% Harold Macmillan: +14.3% Alec Douglas-Home: +2.3% Harold Wilson: +13.6% Edward Heath: +8.1% Harold Wilson: +3.8% James Callaghan: +5.5% Margaret Thatcher: +2.7% John Major: +7.2% Tony Blair: +7.8% Gordon Brown: +1.9% David Cameron: -12.9% Theresa May: -7.4% Boris Johnson: -3.7% Liz Truss: 0.0% Rishi Sunak: -1.0% Keir Starmer: -1.0%
I have a second piece in today’s @ftweekend in which I rant about waiters asking intrusive questions. Because I am old, and have lived too much life for this malarkey. ft.com/content/354685…
The Continuing Story of Bungalow Bill is the worst Beatles song by a significant margin.
#US Secretary of State Marco Rubio says he expects Washington’s war objectives in Iran to be completed in the next two weeks, regardless of whether the United States sends ground troops. ara.tv/iuxa8
“That famous ideological warrior, once again, deciding she doesn’t want to talk to anyone who disagrees with her”. @lewis_goodall asks Liz truss why she’s “slagging off Britain” in Trump’s America, as she takes to the stage to warn the US about the rise of islamism in the UK.
Benny Johnson: We're going to outbreed the left Also Benny Johnson: I'll meet you in the Rest Stop bathroom at midnight after my wife goes to sleep
"She's walking out with that robot like they just got married." mashable.com/video/daily-sh…
Good to see The Guardian getting its April Fool's Day in early. Gaby Hinsliff must have pissed herself when she typed the words "Ed Miliband is an intellectual heavyweight". She's comedy genius our Gaby. 🤣😂🤣
