SimonThorburnClark

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SimonThorburnClark

@ClarkThorburnS

Trustee, Fish In Need (https://t.co/zpSLIAlM0E)

Katılım Mart 2024

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·25 Nis

"Brilliant!" support for my 150km walk to Hereford, from @PaulWhitehouse and @RealBobMortimer - givestar.io/gs/simons-walk… - including a thank you to everyone who's already donated. All proceeds go to @royalmarsden & Fish In Need (link in bio)

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·5d

@holland_tom We may get back to that level of beer consumption if the problems with our rivers aren't resolved soon?

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Tom Holland@holland_tom·5d

Impressed to learn that the average adult in the 16th century Low Countries drank 3 pints of beer a day.

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·10 May

@Kpaxs Obama wrote in his memoirs that a problem in Washington DC was that so many participants were trained to win the argument, rather than solve the problem

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Kpaxs@Kpaxs·6 May

Intelligence is the ability to notice when winning the argument would make you less correct.

Kpaxs@Kpaxs

Whenever you're stuck in a disagreement, come back to this: Are you arguing over what's factual, what matters, or what works?

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·21 Mar

@rcolvile TownieMcTownface?

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Robert Colvile@rcolvile·21 Mar

Thatcheropolis was right there.

Politics UK@PolitlcsUK

🚨 NEW: The proposed names the Government is considering calling its new towns - Elizabethtown (after the Queen) - Pankhurst (after suffragette Emmeline) - Attleeton (after ex-PM) - Athelstan (first King of England) - Seacole (after nurse Mary) [@thetimes]

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·29 Oca

@stephenpollard I think there's a typo in the announcement - shouldn't it read "Bored", not "Board" ?

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Stephen Pollard@stephenpollard·28 Oca

I had to check this wasn't a parody account. Spoiler: it isn't

Board of Peace@BoardOfPeace

The Board of Peace welcomes Belarus as a founding member of our growing international organization.

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·10 Ara

@susie_dent @hayfestival As a 69 year old lawyer I still talk about eg "The Ballad of Reading Goal". Ever since first coming across the word "gaol" it's been "goal"not "jail" for me and I absolutely can't shake it.

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Susie Dent@susie_dent·9 Ara

Thank you to the lovely audience member at @hayfestival who shared that her daughter had once corrected her pronunciation of ‘epiphany’ and told her it should of course be ‘epi-fanny’. Which word have you royally mispronounced because you’d only ever seen it written down?

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·30 Kas

@thomasforth the "office car" collects you from your front door. Configured with all corporate IT including security, so you're working securely on your way into the office...

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Tom Forth@thomasforth·30 Kas

There are so many possible compounding effects of self-driving. It's quite fun (but I think pretty pointless) to think through them. If self-driving cars make congestion tolerable, it'll make the remaining human driving intolerable. Will that accelerate transition or backlash?

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Tom Forth@thomasforth·30 Kas

Self-driving cars and why I think they might fix England's unusually weak second city economies. tomforth.co.uk/selfdrivingcar…

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·12 Eki

@sturgios "We can walk to the kerb from here". Number of times the script is quoted is another good test....

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john sturgis@sturgios·11 Eki

If your favourite film is the one that you have watched more than any other then Diane Keaton is in my all time number one-

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·10 Haz

@MichaelLCrick Congratulations Michael. I thought it was just me who cared. I've made the same promise to my children.

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Michael Crick@MichaelLCrick·10 Haz

If anybody uses the word "pass" when I die, then I promise that my ghost will come back to haunt them. "Passing" is for footballers.

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·19 May

@DPJHodges "Let's go back to MY plaice"???

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(((Dan Hodges)))@DPJHodges·19 May

OK, this is good...

Alys Denby@alysdenby

The EU to Britain: know your plaice

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·21 Mar

@stephenpollard There's a line there somewhere about preferring hot air to academic achievement?

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Stephen Pollard@stephenpollard·21 Mar

Just a pity they're destroying Academy Schools. Oh well, never mind

Bridget Phillipson@bphillipsonMP

Labour is driving progress on renewable energy, pushing down bills with clean power. Together with @Ed_Miliband, we’re installing solar panels on schools to cut costs and move towards Net Zero.

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RiverActionUK@RiverActionUK·3 Kas

Thank you @Mike_Batt & #TheWombles! 🩵💙 #MARCHFORCLEANWATER

Mike Batt@Mike_Batt

We helped lead the march off, with ⁦⁦@HughFW⁩ etc but pealed off after about half a mile, and waved to all the other marchers as they went through. Here’s Orinoco taking Bulgaria back to Wimbledon for his nap. Thanks all!@MarchforWater⁩ #marchforcleanwater

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Jack Perks@JackPerksPhoto·3 Kas

What a amazing turn out for #MARCHFORCLEANWATER lovely to bump into so many people I know and hopefully get the message out to get something bloody done about the state of rivers @theriverstrust @WildFishCons

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·3 Kas

Broadest of coalitions on the streets today. Congratulations to all involved. Now we all need to be listened to @Marchforwater #floodthestreets

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·25 Eki

I'm proud to be representing conservation and education charity Fish In Need (fishinneed.org.uk) on 3rd November. Join the March - so many people care @MarchforWater #floodthestreets #marchforcleanwater

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SimonThorburnClark@ClarkThorburnS·7 Haz

@Adam_Grant_Bell Adding to the questions - and does the presence of the regulator free both the Government and the regulated businesses from "owning" responsibility for their actions/inactions? Rather than "is this right" does the view become "it's OK if the regulator signed off/didn't object"?

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Adam Bell@Adam_Grant_Bell·7 Haz

I want to offer a short theory of why this has happened, not because I'm sure I'm right but because I want to test it more broadly. Fundamentally, it's about the structure of the State and how the Conservatives have failed to reform it. /1

James Murray@James_BG

Millions of words written about the apparent collapse in Tory support, but so much of it just glosses over the fundamental reason. The government has overseen the worst real wage growth in centuries and collapsing public services. It's economic project has objectively failed.

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@holland_tom @Kpaxs @rcolvile @stephenpollard @susie_dent @hayfestival @thomasforth @sturgios