Neil Thackray

Media Advisor, Non Exec, Sailor. Sometimes all at once.

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@DanNeidle There used to be a website which correlated unusual stats. My favourite was the direct correlation between soft cheese consumption and the number of people who died accidentally from strangling themselves in their own bed sheets. I now eat less Camembert.

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Sunk cost fallacy as policy.

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@MartinSLewis That’s a damn fine speech, technically damn fine, but also just damn fine. Hat tip.

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@Peston What does that even mean. Can’t someone propose some specific policy ideas that are not racist, hateful, economically illiterate or totally vacuous? God help us what a cockshambles British politics has become.

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@DanNeidle Presumably if the donor died within seven years there would be IHT?

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@afneil Sounds like a speech form the BBC Head of Values.

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@piersmorgan What’s the point of doing security vetting if the decision maker is not told the outcome. It makes no sense.

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@RupertMyers Help not keep!

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@RupertMyers I just checked and it’s 11b. However the 100m story is misleading. It’s a seed investment fund targeted at nations impacted by slavery. So not really reparations in the absolute sense. Using their funds to keep the poorest seems morally ok irrespective of the moral genesis.

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@RupertMyers I went to Chichester Cathedral last week. £7 entry. Sign says not supported by state or CofE funds. CofE has around £6b of cash in investment funds. Explain it to me.

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@BaazoFrancis @Rainmaker1973 Look closely at the back of the bus. Def some AI in there .

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@Dnussbaum Wiping out an entire civilisation is somewhat problematic.

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@LBC @lewis_goodall My daughter has been post graduate working for 11 years and owes more money today than she did on graduation

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The @BBCNews coverage of #artemis launch is awful. Huge chyrons blocking the screen. Drivelling commentary. James Burke and Patrick Moore were so much better in 1968

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@maitlis “Witch” ha ha ha

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@duncanwc @stephenRB4 It’s a wonderful book. You’ll love it.

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@bphillipsonMP @HilaryBurrage I’ve had lunch. Hurrah. I’m no longer poor.

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@bphillipsonMP @HilaryBurrage I’m all for this. But is just lunch. It’s not a panacea for solving poverty. That’s bonkers.

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@adamboultonTABB 41. Time to die. Or maybe visit Tahiti.

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@BenFletch @ShaanVP I did it while balancing a glass of wine on my head and playing Yankee Doodle dandee on the harmonica and I’m 65.