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My ‘fond’ farewell to the Advisory Commission on Business Appointments. It died quietly, in its sleep, in October 2025 - aged 50
Prof Colin Talbot
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Prof Colin Talbot
@colinrtalbot
Prof (Emeritus) U. Manchester ▪️LSE PhD ▪️government ▪️co-ops and cooperation ▪️progressive pluralism▪️ex Aikidoka ▪️Arsenal ▪️Born Dover (that's my Castle)
- Killer fact from that is this. The Cummings/Wakefield family ended up in a hospital in Durham - 260m from home. That is precisely the reason the lockdown told people to stay at home if they get sick. So as not to spread the virus around the country.
- Elon Musk has ▪️called on the King to overthrow UK elected Govt ▪️incited against a (female) UK Minister ▪️offered support (and £) to Reform Party ▪️called for “Tommy Robinson” to be freed ▪️said UK is about to have a civil war What is this obsession about?
- I grew up in council houses in Dover and Barrow in a poor working class family. I didn't go to Eton. I feel I ought to apologise to @DominicRaab and the @Conservatives for daring to become a professor at one of the world's top universities. Sorry for knowing my place.
- Daughter just sent me this. Not sure who is responsible, but well done.
- WTAF did they think would happen when the UK left the EU? We are no longer an EU country. They can’t “betray” us. WE LEFT.
- This is utterly bizarre. There is no national emergency. There is nothing that could not have been said in Parliament where he could be questioned. He is trying to manufacture a national crisis to legitimise his illegitimate premiership. NO ONE ELECTED HIM
00:00 - But it is you Nigel. You bought “your” house in Clacton in your partners name to avoid paying extra stamp duty. So resign.‘If it were me, you’d all be demanding I resign!’ @Nigel_Farage says 'it's more likely than not' that Angela Rayner will have to resign in the wake of her tax scandal, after admitting she wrongly avoided paying stamp duty. 'I just don't see how she can survive this...'
00:00 - Boris Johnson’s “landslide”? 2017 Theresa May 42.4% 13,636,624 2019 Boris Johnson 43.6% 13,966,451 Johnson added just 1.2% or 329,767 extra votes It was WHERE he gained votes + FPTP that gave him an 80 seat “landslide”. He wasn’t massively more popular. That’s a myth.
- Have I got this right? Rylan, a @BBC presenter, makes controversial (and ill-informed) comments ON AIR and nothing happens? Meanwhile BBC MOTD loses its best presenter @GaryLineker for … making political comments on his personal social media (not the BBC) and gets forced out?
- A short photo-thread of just some of the responses to the D Day Dodger …
- Somewhat strange to hear @bbcnickrobinson haranguing an NHS Consultant for being on “over £100,000” and claiming to channel the feelings of ordinary people. His salary in 2024 was between £345,000 - £349,000. For presenting radio programs. Which never saved anyone’s life?
- After today’s events the EDL should be proscribed as a terrorist organisation and its leaders arrested and sent to prison. RT if you agree.
- Dear @bbcnickrobinson Pensioners are NOT the “wartime generation”. I am 71 and born in 1952 - 7 years after the end of the war. If you are 65 now, you were born 14 years after the war. You’d have to be 79 now to have been born during the war.
