Log inSign up
Image
user avatar
Iain Martin
@iainmartin1
Director @LondonDefConf | Director @EngelsbergIdeas | Subscriber newsletter via link below | Recovering journalist | Financial crisis author
London
reaction.life
Joined February 2010
5,064
Following
93.1K
Followers
  • Pinned
    user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Nov 12, 2024
    After eight action-packed years as a columnist at @thetimes I’ve decided it’s time to move on. The London Defence Conference I run along with @EngelsbergIdeas are growing fast and need more time. I also want space to write another book, at some point…
    220K
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Oct 22, 2022
    Undecided Tory MPs, the hard of thinking, Johnson was calling you yesterday from his holiday abroad. That's a holiday abroad when parliament is not on holiday. If he told you - from his holiday - that it would be different this time, this is a big clue. It won't.
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Mar 19, 2022
    Genuinely don't understand the Prime Minister comparing Ukrainian battle for national survival to Brexit. This is an extraordinary moment of national unity in support of Ukraine. Why needlessly reintroduce division?
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Oct 21, 2022
    Why is Boris Johnson on holiday when the Commons is working?
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Jan 8, 2020
    Takes quite a special sense of narcissistic self-indulgence to treat the 93 year-old Queen, with a husband in failing health, the way Harry and Meghan have today.
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Jan 31, 2022
    This is a completely ridiculous performance by the Prime Minister.
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Mar 13, 2021
    We do not have, and have not had for many months, a functioning democracy with proper parliamentary oversight of the extraordinary powers the state has assumed in the last year. This is what happens when authority is unchecked. Get. Parliament. Back. Properly. Now.
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Aug 4, 2022
    Any sign of the British government?
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Apr 12, 2020
    Baffled by voices demanding rapid end to lockdown. Some of the commentary is borderline deranged. Economy is cratering, sure. Why on earth would we add in patients swamping hospitals, the breakdown of the NHS and perhaps a couple of hundred thousand Brits dying in agony at home?
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Jun 7, 2022
    It seems somewhat implausible that the Prime Minister, not known for his attention to detail, has overnight in the 12 hours since he lost 148 of his MPs come up with a coherent plan for massive reform of the NHS.
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Dec 18, 2021
    No indoor mixing? Really? Though most of us are vaccinated and many of us have had Covid. But still no indoor mixing? From the people who last time they banned mixing, leading to the prosecution of thousands of their fellow citizens, held illicit parties. Incredible.
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Feb 26, 2022
    Thinking back to those years featuring endless analysis about Merkel and how sophisticated, clever and pragmatic she was in guiding sensible German policy. In the end, her Chancellorship has turned out to be a geopolitical disaster.
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Feb 24, 2022
    Corbyn sitting alone in the Commons with arms folded and that stubborn Corbyn look on his face that says he hasn't changed his mind on a single thing in 60 years. Thank goodness the attempts to make him Prime Minister failed.
  • user avatar
    Iain Martin
    @iainmartin1
    Jun 7, 2020
    No room on the Beeb 10 o'clock for the vandalising of Churchill's statue.