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tomlevitt.bsky.social
Academic (Responsible Business), novelist, playwright, activist, Bees season ticket holder, Co-founder Fair for You and former Labour MP
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An economist writes…!

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

I like people who like opera. I’m a Cosi Fan Tutte fan fan.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Great discussion on GDP 1.01 and economics generally on @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today programme between @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and Darshini David this morning. Should be part of everyone’s education. West London economists unite!

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

How can companies respond to the rollback of environmental policies in the United States? Listen to the latest 'Frankly Speaking' responsible business podcast with my guest Anne L. Kelly, Vice-President at Ceres: Spotify: open.spotify.com/episode/4kfO... Apple: podcasts.apple.com/gb/podcast/6...

submitted 52 days ago • 1 comment

Just a hunch here, based on an essay I wrote at University 50 years ago: Gene Hackman died of botulism. No evidence of anything else, multiple deaths including of a carnivore. They ate the same toxic meat

submitted 57 days ago • 0 comments

ESG and DEI are neither dead nor dying www.linkedin.com/posts/tom-le...

submitted 67 days ago • 1 comment

It’s funny, in a way - that when it comes to wars and issues of ‘defence’ - there’s no reluctance to find vast sums of money… but when it comes to Climate - it’s all teeth sucking and “that’s a bit expensive”..:).

submitted 68 days ago • 4 comments

Be clear: ESG was created because issues previously regarded as ’externalities’ were found to put investments at risk. One aspect of this is DEI, where previously fishing in a restricted pool for new talent meant that the best were not always chosen. Good risk management >requires< both ESG and DEI

submitted 74 days ago • 0 comments

Spot on. There is no economic, cost of living, environmental or any other justification for backing Rosebank. Only profit, and that can’t be assured, either!

submitted 81 days ago • 0 comments

If Trump is right that US air traffic control is populated by incompetents (due to DEI) there is only one safe way forward: Close down the whole system!

submitted 86 days ago • 1 comment

This is why the failure to finalise a Global Plastics Treaty at the end of last year was disappointing and why the Treaty must encompass an actual reduction in plastics production and use. #plastics #pollution #biodiversity

submitted 103 days ago • 0 comments

Bitcoin from tip“ This tale is the perfect parable for explaining why crypto is nothing but a massive scam which brings misery in its wake. The other clue - Trump and Musk both love it www.bbc.com/news/article...

submitted 104 days ago • 17 comments

70pc of flights are taken by 10pc of passengers. If that 10pc were to halve their flights that would see passengers’ carbon footprint fall by a third (without affecting anyone’s holidays)

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

Pass it on: Liz Truss crashed the economy

submitted 107 days ago • 0 comments

I'm trying to imagine how extremely difficult I'd find it to defend, for example, huge swathes of students who were demanding compensation from the government because they felt they hadn't had student loan increases properly communicated to them

submitted 129 days ago • 12 comments

This would amount to a massive tax cut for the highest paid people in Britain, paid for by higher taxes for low earners and big cuts to public services

submitted 132 days ago • 106 comments

Today Frances Perkins’ family home in Maine formally became an American National Monument. Congratulations to all concerned! If you want to know more about America’s first female Cabinet member (1932) read my book ‘The Courage to Meddle’ on Amazon!

submitted 132 days ago • 0 comments

Sorry to hear that Charles Handy has died at 92. A leading enlightened and progressive thinker on business issues for half a century he will be missed, not least by members of @thersaorg.bsky.social

submitted 132 days ago • 1 comment

Ministers speaking out against assisted dying ‘are giving false impression’, says peer

submitted 154 days ago • 18 comments

“One of the UK’s most high-profile campaigners against assisted dying is being investigated over funding to a parliamentary group that received £55,000 from lobbyists linked to the Christian right.”

submitted 152 days ago • 26 comments

Hint hint!

submitted 152 days ago • 0 comments

Thank you, Gail, for your support for @FairforYou - much appreciated

submitted 154 days ago • 0 comments

So that man Farage was there to address the farmers’ rally today. The organisers sure now how to get a sympathetic response from a Labour government, don’t they? (No)

submitted 159 days ago • 1 comment