Tim Colbourne

Strategy @Meta. Former deputy chief of staff to @nick_clegg
@[email protected]

[Gail Kent 🌻 @gaillkent]

A fitting and heartfelt piece by ⁦@haroldhongjukoh⁩ in memory of Anthony Lester. I was very lucky to have ⁦@Odysseus_Trust⁩ as a family friend and mentor, who supported my work on law enforcement. I’ll miss him. https://t.co/rSh8eFM7Bj

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

@SteveTransform Get well soon Steve!

[Alex Stevens @ProfAlexStevens]

I have resigned from the Advisory Council on the Misuse of Drugs. Recent political vetting and
exclusion of suitably qualified applicants to join means that the ACMD is losing its independence. A thread to explain follows…

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

@DannyTransform Good luck with your next move Danny. You inspired me to care about drug policy all those years ago. You should be really proud of everything you’ve achieved.

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

@steve4good @WhatsApp Hey Steve. No OOO but you can set your status (bottom left of the screen) to away / not available.

[Dr. Jennifer Cassidy @OxfordDiplomat]

This letter is heart wrenching. It‘s a living embodiment of EU success. It achieved, sustained and is working to keep peace amongst all our nations. German leaders writing, thanking Britain for not giving up on them, and saying they will not give up on Britain either. Remarkable.

[Vicki Hird MSc FRES 🐝🦋 🍃💚🍃 @vickihird]

Means the possible end to mass kill of millions of young male animals. Good news tech.
World's first no-kill #eggs go on sale in Berlin
https://t.co/e6TkeCGnPg

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

@johnharris1969 But if your argument is about democratising space travel, then private investment driving innovation (SpaceX, Tesla) and bringing down costs in the long term for everyone is surely a good thing?

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

On planet Guardian, space travel was a bit like British Rail of old, with ‘modest’ chaps flying about in government rockets that were open to everyone. What a shame Elon Musk came along and spoiled it. Oh, apart from the reusable rockets and electric cars, which we quite like.

[John Harris @johnharris1969]

Latest from me: on the dereliction of the dream of space travel, and the new world of flights into the cosmos for the super-rich https://t.co/bkBQ3VbERb

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

@johnharris1969 If your argument is that space travel/exploration is an unaffordable indulgence given the problems we have on earth, then I respect that though I don’t believe it’s an either/or choice.

[Ian Dunt @IanDunt]

The most dreadful thing about May's announcement on free movement is the pride with which she says it https://t.co/a02UIFpjvB

[Nick Clegg @nickclegg]

WATCH: It is normal to think differently about something we may have thought before. We all do it. It's part of being human. So don't let anyone tell you that we can't think again about Brexit. #PeoplesVote

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

Important choices to be made later this year about who will get access to cannabis on prescription in the UK, and for what conditions. Complete the #UPASurvey and help shape the decisions about to be taken by government, regulators and the medical profession.

[Steve Rolles @SteveTransform]

1. A thread of pedantry on reading the letter to ACMD from @sajidjavid last thursday -
https://t.co/EdfWicQtlr
Firstly - it strikes me that the news headlines about 'Cannabis being available on the NHS' are misleading.

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

The upshot is that those who had hoped rescheduling would take place imminently are likely to be disappointed. Nothing much happens in Whitehall in August, so the earliest we can expect to see a Statutory Instrument is Sept. Not impossible that this will be pushed into 2019.

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

Top lines from the ACMD report on rescheduling medical cannabis:
- standardised medicinal products to be moved to Schedule 2, but NOT raw cannabis
- Patients are going to have to wait for their prescriptions until the DH / MHRA can define those products https://t.co/9G47vbgIvF

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

@AlexStevensKent Possibly - the currency of the MHRA is clinical trials after all. But the strong implication here and in Sally Davies' report is that rescheduling is to take place on the basis of 'good enough' evidence, without waiting years for the gold standard.

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

Top lines from the ACMD report on rescheduling medical cannabis:
- standardised medicinal products to be moved to Schedule 2, but NOT raw cannabis
- Patients are going to have to wait for their prescriptions until the DH / MHRA can define those products https://t.co/9G47vbgIvF

[António Costa @eucopresident]

Politicians come and go but the problems they have created for people remain. I can only regret that the idea of #Brexit has not left with Davis and Johnson. But...who knows?

[Tim Colbourne @twrc]

Brilliant podcast with @dfjsteve - worth a listen in full, but this section on why we're all going to be eating artificial meat - and looking back in disbelief at current factory farming practices - is superb. https://t.co/7yMCu6jbTK

[The Good Food Institute @GoodFoodInst]

Steve Jurvetson discusses clean meat on the Tim Ferriss podcast
Starts at 2:18:27
"This is the inevitable future" 
"There is no technical risk that says this couldn't happen"
"It's going to take some engineering, but not breakthrough science"
https://t.co/GAtd7a0Ocv