Leon Spence

Public affairs working with independent schools to deliver on their charitable objectives.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

This thread is very, very good.

[Emma 💛💙🇩🇰🇬🇧🇪🇺 @MonkEmma]

It was inevitable, wasn't it🙄

Of course the Telegraph would run with something like this👇

So let's remove some of the rose-tinted spectacles and also look at some of that data comparing 1976 with modern heat waves

Because the 1976 nostalgia porn is wearing a bit thin at this stage

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[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@tom_watson Both of these things can be true.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@benjaminbutter 1) Blair
2) Cameron
3) Sunak
4) Brown
5) May
6) Johnson
=7) Truss
=7) Starmer

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@FietserGlasgow I don't know. But why would cyclists be given permission to pedal into oncoming traffic? It must be a one way road, no?

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@AldredKeith I'm certainly not an expert in these matters but surely this is a one way road, the no left-turn sign indicates that anyone turning left would be cycling into oncoming traffic, no?

The 'except cycles' sign must mean cyclists can go straight on?

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@TimesRadio @dcsandbrook @hugorifkind I would suggest @dcsandbrook is wrong about the Starmer / Truss conundrum. Truss was desperately poor for a very short period but didn't have the opportunity to do long lasting damage. Starmer has been dreadful over a much longer period.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@mike_reader Anyone who says this didn’t happen doesn’t understand how Parliament works.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

Why are there so many empty seats at #Qatar v #Switzerland?

#worldcup

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

I wouldn’t call myself a football fan but I have tuned in to the opening game of the World Cup.

What a pile of rubbish.

#WorldCup #gamesgone

[Cat @catdeans]

This is awful. The last ever Denby Pottery going to the kiln. Why is there not uproar? Where’s the government in this?? We all have Denby in our homes, in family heirlooms, as our history and now it’s closing through lack of support, such a sad sad day. #SaveDenby @denbypottery

[BBC Newsnight @BBCNewsnight]

"It is outrageous this idea that you cannot be English or British because of your ethnicity."

Sunday Times columnist Matthew Syed, who won a gold medal for England, tells #Newsnight that he finds the idea "profoundly divisive".

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@gingerbread197 @nwnatur @PolitlcsUK And how has it been deprioritised?

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@7dtdFreak Hard to debate policy with that sort of towering rhetoric.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@JRmonkeybaby @terryelaineh1 @PolitlcsUK I think that perhaps if there are genuine familial concerns that probably a different scenario to a general screening programme. But I'm not a public health professional, I only listen to them.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@JRmonkeybaby @terryelaineh1 @PolitlcsUK Because the risk is higher for black men, which in the opinion of health professionals outweighs the risks of a testing regime.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@JRmonkeybaby @terryelaineh1 @PolitlcsUK Admittedly it comes from an LLM but this explains the situation better than I can why we don't test everyone.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@JRmonkeybaby @terryelaineh1 @PolitlcsUK We can't administer every test to every person because they are concerned. We have to apply tests based on risk, because tests can harm people too.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@JRmonkeybaby @terryelaineh1 @PolitlcsUK I'm sorry your dad died from the disease, it's awful. But unless we practise medicine based on risk the entire system would collapse. We can't do every test to every person (and not all tests are suitable for every person either).

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@JRmonkeybaby @terryelaineh1 @PolitlcsUK Of course white men get prostate cancer too. But surely it is right that medicine is practised on a risk based approach? If cumulatively the risks of testing are higher than the risks of not testing then it's better to not test. That doesn't apply to all ethnic groups.

[Leon Spence @TheLeonSpence]

@whateveraight0 @randolpwilliams @nwnatur @PolitlcsUK Is it racist? Is that the word you're looking for? Probably why you're anonymous?