How to Improve Your Vocabulary by Tony Randall (1/2)

Working for The Sunday Times is my dream job. But the real privilege is working with the best journalists on Fleet Street. But how many do you follow and read? With The Times and The Sunday Times paywall down this weekend let me introduce you to the best of the best 🧵 1/n

1/2 Pls RT - important. Away/ill for the election? Postal vote not arrived? Persevere!! You can still get an ‘Emergency Proxy Vote’ from yr Council if you phone & ask for Emergency Proxy Vote Application. Be determined if they stonewall.

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Anyone want to join me in Stratford upon Avon on 23 July at 2pm to see this? I have a spare ticket - £20 (outdoors). DM if interested. rsc.org.uk/as-you-like-it…

"But no matter the medicinal virtues of being a true friend or sustaining a long close relationship with another, the ultimate touchstone of friendship is not improvement, neither of the other nor of the self; the ultimate touchstone is witness, the privilege of having been seen

This moment from Kamala Harris’ questioning of Brett Kavanaugh at his Senate hearing has never left me. "Can you think of any laws that give the government the power to make decisions about the male body?"

Blood stocks have dropped to low levels in England—there is a critical need for O-type blood at London’s hospitals. There are 12,000 appointments still to fill over the next 2 weeks – go to blood.co.uk to register and help Keep Your Money to fill them.

In case your networks can spread this opportunity for writers of colour. Thank you. Fossil Free Books Hay Festival Sarah Brown School Of International Futures (SOIF) Palestine Solidarity Campaign Prison Libraries Grp Roundhouse @nefertiti35

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Thinking about potential increase in employer NIC. My small business clients have soaked up over 20% rise in minimum wage in 2 years. Low pay commission recommendation is for another approx 9% bringing compound rise >30%. How do you think they feel?

If you know any older people, on low incomes, who are struggling with their tax, please signpost them to @taxhelp4 . Those below retirement age can get similar help from TaxAid .

I do not understand why what is going on in Afghanistan is not bigger news. Women now banned from “hearing other women’s voices” independent.co.uk/asia/south-asi…

This (and the whole thread). Yes, Reeves was facing hard decisions and wanted to fund services. But no strategic vision was shown. And fuel duty in particular was daft. Missed opportunity to set it back on path to regular inflation-based rises, and fund eg bus travel.

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My Friends Son is missing please RT and share any information you may have 🙏🏿

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The definition of wealth is a widely debated subject. For me it’s when you’d rather significantly increase your VO2 max than significantly increase your bank balance.

“The only man I know who behaves sensibly is my tailor; he takes my measurements anew each time he sees me. The rest go on with their old measurements and expect me to fit them.” ​— George Bernard Shaw

I think that if you’re going to write a piece in the Times urging the government to use and boost more AI, the fact that you are paid by a major AI company should be in the first sentence, or at least first paragraph. I also think that the best scenario for AI is that it