robertdodds

Business consultant, Geordie expat, citizen of Cambridge

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

@blaiklockBP @iWalkOutdoors @waitrose They are conscious.
That's the problem with halal and kosher slaughter. Traditionally in this country we stun animals before slaughter. Then the carotid artery is cut and the animals bleed out. Basically, they never wake up. Without stunning they are conscious till death.

[Lord Ashcroft @LordAshcroft]

For every retweet of this post, I will donate £1 to the @VC_and_GC_Assoc up to £50,000.
Time is running out following @I_W_M’s decision to close the Lord Ashcroft Gallery.
Visit while you still can, to honour the bravery of those who risked so much to protect our great nation.

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

@belfastcity_air Please register me for flight updates on flight BA8757 on 2025/05/30 16:50 GMT+01:00 RSRC:101

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@edwest @MaryKenny4 Old saw resharpened. Used to be the last Hapsburg Duke asked about the Austria - Hungary match. It still works though.

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

@darrengrimes Haway the lads!

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@The_RE_LE Cracking jigsaw. Follow the Sappers!

[Jake Fiennes @jake_fiennes]

Why?
When it’s growing in the uk right now!!
I will never understand this

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

@MikeStewart79 @bcs_scotland Wrexham score

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@Aiannucci Calm down. How do you think they get into bars etc?

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@northumbriana @Jen86_north There must be a linguistic term for these unconscious regional expressions. I use it but didn't know you benighted southerners don't. Bit like 'spuggies' for sparrows

[Robert Reich @RBReich]

Wall Street has consolidated into 5 giant banks.

Airlines have merged from 12 carriers in 1980 to 4 today.

A handful of drug companies control the pharmaceutical industry.

Four giants control over 80% of meat processing.

The evidence of corporate concentration is everywhere.

[ECIU @ECIU_UK]

🗓️ ECIU in 2022 🗓️

In August, ECIU analysis showed wind power ‘bonus’ could cut bills by

✂️ £25 this winter
✂️ £45 next winter

'Contracts for Difference' wind farms will ⬇️ household bills quicker, starting this Oct.

https://t.co/XLaL2ZRA0G
@JohnPenroseNews👇🏻

[Tom Holland @holland_tom]

The fog is so thick over Newcastle railway station you’d think St Cuthbert had summoned it to put off the Luftwaffe

[FindingAda @FindingAda]

Coming up at #ALD22:

Human voice, Sophie Scott
Poo & power, Priti Parikh
Health tech, Marcia Rankin-Smith
Stay curious, Aphra Le Levier-Bennett
Energy transition, Yasmin Ali
Maths is for everyone!, Susan Okereke
The candle, Fran Scott

11 Oct, 20:00BST 
https://t.co/pR6ew4ZOoU

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

@spoke_london how we laughed in Cambridge & Oxford at your email "Part-time bike thief and dangerously mature student". Those of us who haven't had a bike stolen in last 5 yrs. Er, nobody. Sort your copywriters out #stolenbikes

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

@crostamollica I think your Fiorentina pizza, delicious in its way, overdoes the chilli. Or you should indicate the chilli on the box.

[Parody Ken Clarke @MrKennethClarke]

Energy shortages, water shortages, rapid inflation, higher interest rates, a damaging Brexit, polio back with a vengeance and a Prime Minister chilling in the gardens of his taxpayer funded homes. I did say he’d be useless didn’t I?

[Tim Spector MD (Prof) @timspector]

UK cases reach 309,000 cases per day affecting currently over 1 in 20 people as this fifth wave of omicron BA5 shows no signs of slowing and hospitals filling up steadily. Still no signs of advice for the public - as U.K. supposedly the first to beat Covid ⁦@Join_ZOE⁩

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

Just got off a bus when it terminated at Cambridge bus station. EVERYBODY thanked the driver as they were leaving. Proper old fashioned courtesy!

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As a (former) food scientist I am very conscious of the power for good in food manufacturing. It needs to be safeguarded by openness and transparency. Too often, it is not. Worth a thought, @waitrose @HolyMolyDips @TimHarford?

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

Something of an error shopping @waitrose picking up Tzatziki from @holymolydips. Looks good, non?

[robertdodds @robertdodds]

Problems: it shouldn't be called Tzatziki - no yoghurt. 'Plant based mayonnaise' - no such thing. These additives used to be labelled as 'substitute' or 'alternative'. It is thickened with the entirely artificial Xantham Gum (also used in oil drilling).