Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social
Business editor, New Statesman
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Will Dunn
@willdunn.bsky.social
· Oct 13
🚨Some personal news: I'm honoured and humbled to have been asked to take over running the Jumbo Profiterole and XXL Eclair Factory. It's a dream job, but I've got some big choux to fill
I wrote some festive political fiction for the New Statesman's magnificent Christmas issue www.newstatesman.com/culture/fict...
December 20, 2025 at 10:22 AM
I wrote some festive political fiction for the New Statesman's magnificent Christmas issue www.newstatesman.com/culture/fict...
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Moving piece by @anooshc.bsky.social on reading to her toddler and why the Bookstart scheme is a model of progressive universalism. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
What baby books taught me about the British state
The Bookstart scheme, which gives books to newborns, is a remnant from a more beneficent political era
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December 8, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Moving piece by @anooshc.bsky.social on reading to her toddler and why the Bookstart scheme is a model of progressive universalism. www.newstatesman.com/politics/soc...
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Excellent piece from @willdunn.bsky.social. The para below says it all. There is still no indication it might actually be cleared! >> At Oxfordshire’s waste mountain, a national monument to greed
www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
December 6, 2025 at 1:49 PM
Excellent piece from @willdunn.bsky.social. The para below says it all. There is still no indication it might actually be cleared! >> At Oxfordshire’s waste mountain, a national monument to greed
www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
Christmas "sounds like fun", says plump, succulent turkey
December 5, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Christmas "sounds like fun", says plump, succulent turkey
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Great scoop by @robwaugh.bsky.social in Press Gazette. Just searched my emails and I have 113 unread from this spam PR company
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Dubious experts deployed by MyJobQuote published more than 600 times in UK press
A network of apparently fake experts has polluted the British media with at least 600 pieces of often AI-generated and misinformed commentary.
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December 4, 2025 at 5:30 PM
Great scoop by @robwaugh.bsky.social in Press Gazette. Just searched my emails and I have 113 unread from this spam PR company
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pressgazette.co.uk/publishers/d...
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Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 10:05 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
December 4, 2025 at 9:33 AM
Free speechwriting tip for the PM: www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
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What the fuck? The train pictured can carry at least 589 seated passengers. On Monday morning it's £193 per standard single ticket. Why does it have to be empty?
Avanti West Coast Manchester to London train to run empty
Avanti West Coast Manchester to London train to run empty
The 07:00 GMT train will only carry staff to London following a decision by the rail regulator.
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November 29, 2025 at 3:14 PM
What the fuck? The train pictured can carry at least 589 seated passengers. On Monday morning it's £193 per standard single ticket. Why does it have to be empty?
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🚨Some personal news: I'm honoured and humbled to have been asked to take over running the Jumbo Profiterole and XXL Eclair Factory. It's a dream job, but I've got some big choux to fill
October 13, 2024 at 2:39 PM
🚨Some personal news: I'm honoured and humbled to have been asked to take over running the Jumbo Profiterole and XXL Eclair Factory. It's a dream job, but I've got some big choux to fill
This week, I went to that giant mound of rubbish in Oxfordshire www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
November 29, 2025 at 8:50 AM
This week, I went to that giant mound of rubbish in Oxfordshire www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
Happy Crap Friday everyone!
Black Friday and the curse of crapflation
Profit does not just come from making goods cheaper but from making them worse
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Profit does not just come from making goods cheaper but from making them worse
🖊️ @willdunn.bsky.social
Black Friday and the curse of crapflation
Profit does not just come from making goods cheaper but from making them worse
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November 28, 2025 at 11:08 AM
Happy Crap Friday everyone!
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Did Jeremy Hunt write this Budget?
It’s looking like fiscal drag forever
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November 27, 2025 at 9:32 AM
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Massive rise in incapacity benefits forecast
25% higher in four years, during a time of recovering economic growth? It is hard to see how this will not be an attack line from the opposition.
25% higher in four years, during a time of recovering economic growth? It is hard to see how this will not be an attack line from the opposition.
November 26, 2025 at 1:00 PM
Massive rise in incapacity benefits forecast
25% higher in four years, during a time of recovering economic growth? It is hard to see how this will not be an attack line from the opposition.
25% higher in four years, during a time of recovering economic growth? It is hard to see how this will not be an attack line from the opposition.
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Sorry I haven't been active on social media today, I've been flat out making sure everything goes smoothly on my first day as website manager for the OBR.
November 26, 2025 at 12:23 PM
Sorry I haven't been active on social media today, I've been flat out making sure everything goes smoothly on my first day as website manager for the OBR.
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oh you'll find out soon enough my child www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
November 19, 2025 at 12:15 PM
oh you'll find out soon enough my child www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
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Quite the look at how the gilt market intersects with politics from @willdunn.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
November 19, 2025 at 3:44 PM
Quite the look at how the gilt market intersects with politics from @willdunn.bsky.social
www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
www.newstatesman.com/business/eco...
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Excellent cover story by @willdunn.bsky.social who has the inside track on the bond markets influencing the Budget -
feat. the incredible bit of an analysis by one investor who found each welfare rebel MP equals a *£1bn* debt premium over the Parliament...
feat. the incredible bit of an analysis by one investor who found each welfare rebel MP equals a *£1bn* debt premium over the Parliament...
Meet the bond market vigilantes
Governments are now at the mercy of unseen investors
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November 19, 2025 at 11:47 AM
Excellent cover story by @willdunn.bsky.social who has the inside track on the bond markets influencing the Budget -
feat. the incredible bit of an analysis by one investor who found each welfare rebel MP equals a *£1bn* debt premium over the Parliament...
feat. the incredible bit of an analysis by one investor who found each welfare rebel MP equals a *£1bn* debt premium over the Parliament...
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New investigation: how Sky Bet relocated to Malta to avoid £55m of tax/year This kind of tax planning is often reported as "clever, but perfectly proper, and there's no suggestion that any laws were broken".
But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken.
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But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken.
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November 19, 2025 at 9:19 AM
New investigation: how Sky Bet relocated to Malta to avoid £55m of tax/year This kind of tax planning is often reported as "clever, but perfectly proper, and there's no suggestion that any laws were broken".
But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken.
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But here it looks improper. Laws may have been broken.
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Roblox was released to the public in 2006
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www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Roblox blocks children from chatting to adult strangers
One of the world's most popular gaming platforms has faced criticism for its child safety record.
www.bbc.co.uk
November 18, 2025 at 11:18 PM
Roblox was released to the public in 2006
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
This wasn't being mean for no reason btw - it's part of an argument about how the global media ignored Sanna Marin's politics and treated her as a celebrity
November 18, 2025 at 11:48 AM
This wasn't being mean for no reason btw - it's part of an argument about how the global media ignored Sanna Marin's politics and treated her as a celebrity
It doesn't look like I'll be getting a job at the Spectator www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
November 18, 2025 at 10:47 AM
It doesn't look like I'll be getting a job at the Spectator www.newstatesman.com/politics/the...
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If I had to describe the fairly modest moves in the gilt market today, I would say it is a bit like the feeling of slightly needing the toilet after half an hour in the swimming pool.
November 12, 2025 at 11:28 AM
If I had to describe the fairly modest moves in the gilt market today, I would say it is a bit like the feeling of slightly needing the toilet after half an hour in the swimming pool.