David Willans

@BrentBeshore Hi Brett, do you mind asking your audience what parents with kids in their 20s would go back and change when their kids were 15? I've tried asking but am not getting much pick up. 🙏 No probs if not though.

For those who are 55+, if you could go back and re-live your 30s/40s again -- young kids, demanding career, stretched thin -- how would you change how you spent your time and attention, and why?

Are your kids 20ish? Mine are 15 & 12 and we're definitely in a new stage of family life. What advice would you give yourself in my situation?

@radicalreporter @BrentBeshore Ffs, I may as well be 90 given the cock ups on this tweet. As I was saying... My kids are no longer what I'd call young. Brent's tweet sparked an idea, that I wish I'd known when my kids were young, so wanted to share.

@radicalreporter @BrentBeshore See what you mean, re: the original tweet, but my kids are no longer

@nickducoff @BrentBeshore Their innocence, purity, uninhibited expressions of emotions (no-one is that happy to see you mid week after work than your toddler), imagination, cuteness are a few

@johnnmayyy @BrentBeshore So much this. Especially 'grieving'. I love having a teen and tween. But it is different. Still wouldn't change it for the world.

@davidwillans @BrentBeshore One under-spoken thing I believe is parents grieving the small child they lose as kids come into their teenage years. Part of the pain kids experience I think.

You three do great work on inequality, might be worth talking: @garyseconomics on the economics - its impact and what's coming @danariely on what it's doing societally, culturally and so politically @lokiscottishrap on the human impact that the middle classes will soon feel

@lokiscottishrap @MautnerK do you know anyone?

@dieworkwear have just found your threads, the virtual kind. If you're willing, please can you tell me what's the crease called down the front of suit trousers and, while it might be sacrilegious to get rid of it, is it possible in a wool suit? 🙏

Rishi understood how inflation was measured and gamed it when making his pledge....

Just a little reminder that Government have spent more money on the failed Rwanda scheme than it did on domestic abuse refuges for women and children.

@carlafrancome Great share. The inside left of a lorry is a death trap, when you're sat on a bike behind one of those because the lights have been red for a while and a cyclist goes past you and wobbles down the inside of one, it's terrifying to watch.

Just to say that whenever I’m at traffic lights in front of a lorry like this, I always, ALWAYS, go a bit forward, turn and make eye contact, and check they’ve seen me. Not sure if everyone else does this already. Greeting optional: Winks, salutes, or waves all work … 1/3

@BonsVoeux1 I see your posts, think 'oooo, I'd love to try that' then do nothing about it. Where can I get the beers you find from?

Probably the last garden beer of 2023. Cheers & happy weekend! 🍻

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@Andy_Wheatley Substance wise, it's good, but not great. They're going for carbon neutral by 2030, Microsoft are going bigger - paying to remove more carbon than they emit. Certainly doesn't look like they are bringing their all to 'the world's most urgent priorities'

Seems to be a lot of fawning about this Apple ad but it's a little bit cringeworthy and is coming from a company that's just about to launch millions of new handsets in world that doesn't need them. It feels like a form of noble cause corruption to me. And I'm an Apple fan.

@guyshrubsole I'm in!@

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@JustRed_69 @MikeyCycling @steveball11 @GMB It is different because cyclists don't have a steel shell. If both can't hear and both get hit, the cyclist is dead. The driver just shaken up.

@davidwillans @MikeyCycling @steveball11 @GMB Could be bone conductors. Honestly, your argument is no different to someone sitting in a car (with less available sound) and blasting music. It's the person not the vehicle

'[By looking at your phone at the wheel] effectively your topping up your brain to the level of a drink-driver at every traffic light.' 'It isn't reducing the number of people committing these offences.' @MikeyCycling films people using their phones at the wheel. Is this right?

@johnnyboy9918 @MikeyCycling @steveball11 @GMB Because if you want to change things, you've got to take on the responsibility. Don't you chat to other cyclists at the lights if you've seen them doing something dodge like running a crossing or waiting on the inside LHS of a lorry?

@davidwillans @MikeyCycling @steveball11 @GMB No we don’t, just because an arsehole is using a bike, doesn’t automatically make it my responsibility. There’s no collective responsibility for any other group, so why cyclists?