Tom Macfarlane

Partial to a well-reasoned argument.

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@DanNeidle A deal implies reciprocity. The next question should be: did the deal include HMRC agreeing to classify the issue as 2007 Finance Act ‘careless’ rather than ‘deliberate’…?

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@PrivateEyeNews Theres a shortage at mine; Ive moved house and my subscription has yet to catch up. How do I reroute it, please?

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@DrOliverWarren You may find this recent green paper on reforming public sector procurement illuminating, Oliver; perhaps even more so the fact that procurement of healthcare services is excluded from scope. Do you think ‘Healthcare services’ includes NHS IT...? https://t.co/bKdbpntLD0

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@krishgm Inevitable.

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@MichaelLCrick @andybell5news Meaning Trump is arguably the 44th president, not the 45th.

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@JoshuaRozenberg @lawsocgazette In the @prospect_uk interview, Sumption offered only two routes to challenge lockdown in the courts. With an age-based lockdown now being discussed, does the Eqality Act offer a third, @JoshuaRozenberg and @BarristerSecret ?

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@LongWordMonthly @SJG99 Thanks for your thoughts, Rick. Comparison to smokers is interesting; I suppose the difference is that, as Susan suggests, smoking is not one of the 9 protected characteristics in the Equality Act.

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@paulwaugh @BBCRadio4 The 2010 Equality Act, which discerns between direct and indirect discrimination, might suggest that the Covid19 Lock-down is already discriminatory. https://t.co/OaVZ5LL8qX

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@SJG99 @LongWordMonthly The law says that discrimination may be direct or indirect, hence the Coronavirus Act may already be discriminatory... https://t.co/OaVZ5M2JPx

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Anhidrosis (inability to sweat) may have multiple causes; an overdose of adrenalin is, to my knowledge, a new one. #PrinceAndrew https://t.co/Ijt4QZzrtS

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@AnneBlackPharm @HospChiefPharm @NHS_SPS @naattc @AttcMw @iMATCH_ATTC Firewalled. Would you mind sending a copy, Anne?

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“It looks like you’re circumventing the will of parliament...” #borisletter

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@krfarrington @NHSX @iainoneil @lo_jay @matthewsgould @hadleybeeman @tara_donnelly1 @NHSCCIO All the best, Katie. Sounds like youre destined for DWP, in which case they’ll be fortunate to have you. T.

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@JoshuaRozenberg A question on precedents, pls: should the Supreme Court deem Boris’ prorogation illegal, would that not place filibustering - a centuries-old method of avoiding parliamentary decisions - within reach of the judiciary? The consequences for our system seem immense.

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@Peston @BorisJohnson The Delay Act only requires PM to ‘send’ the request to the EU by 19 Oct, whereas the 1978 Interpretation Act deems sending to be satisfied by ‘addressing, pre-paying and posting’. Perhaps ‘testing the limits’ means asking DHL to deliver on 1 Nov...?

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@trainline_eu I need to change a Eurostar booking, please. Apparently, since your website isn’t letting me reset my password, tweeting you is the only way to do this.

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@MichaelLCrick Absolutely. Perhaps your own revered profession could sacrifice “His/her critics will argue...” in kind.

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@lattecoffeect @tesla_truth @elonmusk The risk is that deep-learning algorithms aren’t how the biological brain works and never achieve the required competence. And that in the meantime the traditional manufacturers catch up with Tesla’s aesthetic, battery and motor performance, selling cheaper.

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@lattecoffeect @tesla_truth @elonmusk What presumably stops them is a) the cost of having another production line without SD hardware; and b) that such cars won’t be gathering the driving data from you that they believe will eventually permit full self-driving.