Tim Coates

Tim Coates, former ceo, Waterstones, is a consultant in publishing and library industries in the US and Europe. He is the author of 'The Freckle Report 2021'

[Tim Coates @coates_tim]

@GlasgowAlbum In order to be separate from England and to access EU investment funds.

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@WomackPhilip @BookBrunch The UK publishing industry is a tremendous asset to the country . A lot of that £7.4bn is export sales and goes to educational and research establishments around the world.

[Tim Coates @coates_tim]

@WomackPhilip @BookBrunch The UK publishing industry is a tremendous asset to the country . A lot of that £7.4bn is export sales and goes to educational and research establishments around the world.

[Tim Coates @coates_tim]

@simon_hogan @Southwarkcathed @organrecitals You are welcome to sing these, if you would like... (I can send scores and texts)

https://t.co/cGPcfKqljc
https://t.co/XhlzsEIM8x

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@mari_marigold Nonsense - we can be multiracial and multicultural - we just have to be nice to people- that's all - it's hard, but that's life.

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@LilyFayed @RAMoulds I don’t agree - if the phone rang you had to answer it - it could interrupt anything - you weren’t free - it commanded your time

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@RuthSzenes Yes ! And capital money can be spent on books - there are some councils that do

[Tim Coates @coates_tim]

The popular and universal assumption is that public libraries just need more money.
Unfortunately, that's simply not true. If they are given twice the money they have, libraries would not improve. That's because the people who run them don't know how. That has to change first.

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There will be no prize for saying the public library service has been ruined but could be put right.
That's because those who destroyed it are still in charge and need and want to say how good they have been.
That's how 'lanyard class' governance works.
Truth doesn't get a say.

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@RuthSzenes You mean because it's not really a library at all?

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Whitby - for a brass band - https://t.co/VM1fT7DGVH

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Let's settle this.

Do beans go with fish and chips?

[Tim Coates @coates_tim]

I think people don't realise that - for all the noise and fuss about local elections and parties - it isn't elected councillors who run councils. It is a group of senior, highly paid, 'officers' who talk across councils, and confer. It is they who decide what happens.

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I was going over some of the discussions about UK public libraries -and why after so many years- they only get worse. My conclusion this time, is that no one anywhere has ever found the way to influence local councils. Not Government, not local people, not press - no one.

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@RegenerationEX What is 'neo-liberalism' and why is it connected to these problems?

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Pickering https://t.co/hje9yKIzFC
Grosmont https://t.co/0NTQynJRUy
Whitby https://t.co/VM1fT7DGVH
Goathland https://t.co/j22XMHE6jU
The Moors and the Sea https://t.co/cGPcfKqljc

[North Yorkshire @visitnorthyork]

Summer or Winter?

[Tim Coates @coates_tim]

Hopeless plea! : About 2 yrs ago a professor from southern California asked me from where did I find the transcripts of the 2 trials of Oscar Wilde (for my book on the subject). At the time I couldn't remember - but now I have! ) -- if anybody picks this up - I can help!!

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@JockHorrorstory I had to look up 'Tall Poppy Syndrome' - but yes!

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For some reason, which I have never understood, it has been my experience that in the UK, there is an ingrained dislike of academic, artistic, or cultural excellence. It is pervasive and destructive and has been the cause of national shortcoming. I wish it wasn't true, but it is.

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@JamesK80P Yes - thank goodness!

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@JamesK80P Yes- many - but it would take time and work to describe them in a coherent way ...

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If you follow this, rather than 'growth' or 'enterprise' it makes much more sense, to me for a country to pursue 'excellence' in everything we do- for each other, for our families, for our work. It is much more admire-able and worthwhile.

[Tim Coates @coates_tim]

For some reason, which I have never understood, it has been my experience that in the UK, there is an ingrained dislike of academic, artistic, or cultural excellence. It is pervasive and destructive and has been the cause of national shortcoming. I wish it wasn't true, but it is.

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@AgeingPunk I agree with you - I didn't mean it to appear the other way round. My own experience of this has largely been in science and engineering, initially, until I had to move into other fields because of exactly this. It was too uncomfortable.

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@pensandpoison You only have to read the first two paragraphs (of the Bible) to realise what an astonishing compilation it is. Complete genius.