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
Among the revelations in this interviewis that Wandsworth was so short staffed, they asked someone doing 5yrs for fraud to keep track of where the prisoners were
November 9, 2025 at 12:33 PM
Among the revelations in this interviewis that Wandsworth was so short staffed, they asked someone doing 5yrs for fraud to keep track of where the prisoners were
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Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
November 6, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Tax policy on the British left is pure "anti-bedtime left". Bizarre idea that you can have a big social democratic welfare state without everyone contributing properly www.economist.com/britain/2025...
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Tice was introduced as “a local man” and a “self-made entrepreneur”, which is certainly one way to describe a man who spent 14 years as the CEO of his grandfather’s property company.
@willdunn.bsky.social's sketch: Richard Tice’s pitch to Tory Middle England
@willdunn.bsky.social's sketch: Richard Tice’s pitch to Tory Middle England
Richard Tice’s pitch to Tory Middle England
At Guildford Rugby Club, Nigel Farage’s number two goes into salesman mode to entice Reform-curious Conservatives
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November 6, 2025 at 9:46 AM
Tice was introduced as “a local man” and a “self-made entrepreneur”, which is certainly one way to describe a man who spent 14 years as the CEO of his grandfather’s property company.
@willdunn.bsky.social's sketch: Richard Tice’s pitch to Tory Middle England
@willdunn.bsky.social's sketch: Richard Tice’s pitch to Tory Middle England
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In another brilliant sketch @willdunn.bsky.social nails the weird folk-public-school vernacular of Reform and the Reform-curious:
November 6, 2025 at 9:40 AM
In another brilliant sketch @willdunn.bsky.social nails the weird folk-public-school vernacular of Reform and the Reform-curious:
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I asked Jimmy Wales why the reporting of the Daily Mail isn't linked to on Wikipedia. Fair play for a frank answer: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I asked Jimmy Wales why the reporting of the Daily Mail isn't linked to on Wikipedia. Fair play for a frank answer: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...
I asked Jimmy Wales why the reporting of the Daily Mail isn't linked to on Wikipedia. Fair play for a frank answer: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...
October 31, 2025 at 7:45 AM
I asked Jimmy Wales why the reporting of the Daily Mail isn't linked to on Wikipedia. Fair play for a frank answer: www.newstatesman.com/technology/2...
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Jimmy Wales: “Elon Musk is very pleasant to me in private”
🗣️ @willdunn.bsky.social meets Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales
🗣️ @willdunn.bsky.social meets Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales
Jimmy Wales: “Elon Musk is very pleasant to me in private”
Mr Wikipedia on Donald Trump, AI and trust on the internet
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October 30, 2025 at 9:37 AM
Jimmy Wales: “Elon Musk is very pleasant to me in private”
🗣️ @willdunn.bsky.social meets Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales
🗣️ @willdunn.bsky.social meets Wikipedia's Jimmy Wales
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The oil market has turned against Putin
New sanctions are not the result of political courage – they are an opportunity presented by the price of crude
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New sanctions are not the result of political courage – they are an opportunity presented by the price of crude
🌎 @willdunn.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/busine...
October 24, 2025 at 8:51 AM
The oil market has turned against Putin
New sanctions are not the result of political courage – they are an opportunity presented by the price of crude
🌎 @willdunn.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/busine...
New sanctions are not the result of political courage – they are an opportunity presented by the price of crude
🌎 @willdunn.bsky.social www.newstatesman.com/busine...
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Can Mary Barton save Britain’s badgers?
Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back
🖼️ The sketch with @willdunn.bsky.social
Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back
🖼️ The sketch with @willdunn.bsky.social
Can Mary Barton save Britain’s badgers?
Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back
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October 21, 2025 at 8:46 AM
Can Mary Barton save Britain’s badgers?
Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back
🖼️ The sketch with @willdunn.bsky.social
Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back
🖼️ The sketch with @willdunn.bsky.social
If you work in Westminster you probably know the DEFRA Badger (aka Betty). I asked her: has Labour betrayed Brock? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Can Mary Barton save Britain’s badgers?
Parliament’s longest-standing protester is fighting to end the culls – but Labour’s Steve Reed is biting back
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October 17, 2025 at 6:16 AM
If you work in Westminster you probably know the DEFRA Badger (aka Betty). I asked her: has Labour betrayed Brock? www.newstatesman.com/politics/uk-...
Spolier: it's cement
October 14, 2025 at 4:50 PM
Spolier: it's cement
Say what you like about Specsavers, at least they're not shaking your head over some burning henbane in the hope that worms will fall out of your eyes
October 13, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Say what you like about Specsavers, at least they're not shaking your head over some burning henbane in the hope that worms will fall out of your eyes
A trip to the optician in pre-Norman England
October 13, 2025 at 2:15 PM
A trip to the optician in pre-Norman England
Harris + Partridge = essential reading
A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
“Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?”
On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
On the late style of Alan Partridge, in this week’s New Statesman: www.newstatesman.com/culture/tv/2...
Alan Partridge’s late style
Can a national joke survive when it’s also trying to become a national treasure?
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October 10, 2025 at 9:01 AM
Harris + Partridge = essential reading
A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
A point in favour of Late Partridge is the books, there is a line in Big Beacon that was so good a fellow train passenger asked if I was okay
October 10, 2025 at 8:36 AM
Brilliant read on the lefty lawyers who actually run Britain
Law is politics by other means. Wrote about Leigh Day, the law firm that love suing the government www.economist.com/britain/2025...
October 10, 2025 at 8:06 AM
Brilliant read on the lefty lawyers who actually run Britain
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🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
October 8, 2025 at 4:50 PM
🚨NEW PAPER🚨
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
We all know the 2022 energy price shock fueled the cost of living crisis. It also caused a profit bonanza for the very rich. We show the US reaped the largest profits ($377bn) of any country. 50% went to the richest 1%, only 1% to the bottom 50%. A🧵 www.sciencedirect.com/science/arti...
I wrote about the Tory conference, having watched most of it on GB News:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
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October 8, 2025 at 10:14 AM
I wrote about the Tory conference, having watched most of it on GB News:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/con...
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Exclusive: 38 police officers were involved in Sycamore Gap investigation
@willdunn.bsky.social: "If only real crimes were taken this seriously"
@willdunn.bsky.social: "If only real crimes were taken this seriously"
Exclusive: 38 police officers were involved in Sycamore Gap investigation
If only real crimes were taken this seriously
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October 7, 2025 at 8:57 AM
Exclusive: 38 police officers were involved in Sycamore Gap investigation
@willdunn.bsky.social: "If only real crimes were taken this seriously"
@willdunn.bsky.social: "If only real crimes were taken this seriously"
With the greatest respect to our Nation's Fallen Vegetable King, 38 police officers seems like a lot
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October 7, 2025 at 7:36 AM
With the greatest respect to our Nation's Fallen Vegetable King, 38 police officers seems like a lot
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Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
President Macron: “Europeans, let's wake up!
We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
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We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks.”
defenddemocracy.eu/macron-democ...
October 4, 2025 at 11:57 AM
Macron remarks are notable- some quotes: "We have been incredibly naive in entrusting our democratic space to social networks that are controlled either by large American entrepreneurs or large Chinese companies, whose interests are not at all the survival or proper functioning of our democracies."
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Enjoy putting together mad pairings of places for the imaginary but generic conference speech I’d write. From Falmouth to Falkirk, Aldeburgh to Aberystwyth, Weymouth to Wick, Plymouth to Peterhead, Lerwick to the Lizard, Brighton to Bo’ness, Mile End to Ealing, Brixton to Bounds Green, Reading to Le
🚨🚨🚨Secret formula for political speechwriting EXCLUSIVELY REVEALED www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
October 1, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Enjoy putting together mad pairings of places for the imaginary but generic conference speech I’d write. From Falmouth to Falkirk, Aldeburgh to Aberystwyth, Weymouth to Wick, Plymouth to Peterhead, Lerwick to the Lizard, Brighton to Bo’ness, Mile End to Ealing, Brixton to Bounds Green, Reading to Le
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From the government's "Pepsi strategy" to speechwriting by committee, this is a brilliant sketch of Labour conference by @willdunn.bsky.social:
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At Labour conference, the main character was Farage
Labour MPs couldn’t stop talking about the absent Reform leader
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October 1, 2025 at 11:06 AM
From the government's "Pepsi strategy" to speechwriting by committee, this is a brilliant sketch of Labour conference by @willdunn.bsky.social:
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
🚨🚨🚨Secret formula for political speechwriting EXCLUSIVELY REVEALED www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
October 1, 2025 at 7:29 AM
🚨🚨🚨Secret formula for political speechwriting EXCLUSIVELY REVEALED www.newstatesman.com/politics/lab...
I know this isn't as compelling as the question of whether or not the Prime Minister gave his parents the use of a donkey field. But it could be argued that it's more important!
New: Headteachers tell us they will have to cut activities or even staff to top up their (already inadequate) meals budgets. Expanding free school meals is great - but who's paying for it?
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Exclusive: how a flagship Labour policy put a £310m hole in school budgets
Expanding free school meals is a great policy, but the government does not seem to have accounted for the extra costs it imposes on schools
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September 28, 2025 at 3:32 PM
I know this isn't as compelling as the question of whether or not the Prime Minister gave his parents the use of a donkey field. But it could be argued that it's more important!