tomlevitt.bsky.social
Author of ‘The Business of History’. Academic (Responsible Business), novelist, playwright, activist, Bees season ticket holder, Co-founder Fair for You and former Labour MP
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I taught him science when he was 13 but I’ve not seen him for almost 40 years!
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Ultimately DEI is about making sure that candidates are selected from the widest pool of qualified candidates with no arbitrary exclusions, an approach long mainstreamed by many UK employers. “We don’t want DEI” = “We don’t want to choose from the best”. Crazy
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Add a letter and ruin a movie:
Reservoir Doges
The Malteser Falcon
128 Angry Men
The Green Smile
Apocalypse Nowt
Diet Hard
Some like it shot
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Bjorn free
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Viagra testing laboratory
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Not bad for 11! A child of the world…
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I hope Ralph Fiennes has won. (Apparently you reported this faster than the Italian media!)
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I saw it last week - excellent writing, directing and acting.
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Who else thinks that within hours the timing of the Indian trade deal (not its content) has suddenly become unfortunate?
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Actually this is one case where both are right. Uk is doing very well on net zero (Starmer) but as so many others aren’t we need to do more -and we can. So we should cross our fingers and hope that CCS works (the Blair position)
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Exactly the same happened to me in Malvern a few years ago! One of those rare places where one can hire a dinner jacket and the rest, including black shoes, at 4pm before a dinner at 6!
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But Parliament DID make this decision. That’s what the Court said. As Harriet Harman said today, the law was clear before the GRA and the court has simply re-stated the status quo ante as per the Equalities Act
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When my grandfather died my dtr was 2. She had her own theory as to where he’d gone. One day I announced to the family ‘I’m going to the Post Office’. Screaming, she ran to me and grabbed me, shouting ‘Not the Post Office!!’ which became an in-joke
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‘Ready? Let’s try the Eskimo roll…’
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And that’s without explicitly changing the law, disenfranchising Dem voters, gerrymandering etc etc etc
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“It must be so nice, as a mother, to have everyone be lovely to you even if it’s only for one special day each year! Just remind me, dear, how does one become a mother again?”
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www.waterstones.com/book/the-bus... published 15 May
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I’m off to Italy next week and ‘47 Borders’ is coming with me. I hope that makes up for your mother. (Ps - my Business of History is now available to pre-order! Out May 15)
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#sophiefromromamia was the perfect host! Such a privilege to be sniffed by her and to share a lovely evening
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Just shows how irrelevant the Tories are!
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Absolutely. The price depends on the most flexible commodity (easiest to switch on and off) but as gas makes up less and less of the mix then whatever barmy formula governed it in the first place is less and less justified
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I was at parkrun in London today and met a visiting runner from Alabama. ‘So the flood of refugees has started,’ I said. Pleased to say he thought that was funny
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Quite right too!
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When the truth is the biggest threat we all face is not Putin, or Trump - it’s Climate Breakdown.
The sooner we fight it like a war the better.
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My thought entirely when I heard their cacophony on Monday! Data on tractor fuel consumption is difficult to find but over £10/hour or 11mpg are widely cited. Red diesel effective tax rate is 11p/litre, a massive discount!