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23 January 2019

People like Nick Timothy don’t get fired: they just fail into great new jobs

The last three spots on the Commonwealth Games Organising committee went to a Paralympic gold medallist, the deputy CEO of the Edinburgh Fringe, and the man who managed to lose Theresa May her majority.

By Rivkah Brown

There are two types of people in this world: those of us that need a CV, and those that don’t. Oh, how I envy the happy few who exist so far beyond the realms of meritocracy that promotions and peerages, Telegraph columns and Evening Standard editorships, seem to befall them like heavenly manna; that band of brothers whose slipperiness is precision-engineered for pole-climbing and shit-repelling.

Oh, how I envy Nick Timothy.

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