Jeremy Marchant
@jeremymarchant
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I facilitate performance growth through engagement, motivation and relationships at work. Past public governor of 2 NHS trusts. @jeremymarchant.bsk.social
Stroud, UK
Joined November 2010
Does it work when there are other cars on the road? Just asking.
When the driver passes out, this automatic driving system will bring the driver to safety. 🎥 maltedrivescars / IG
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I've just been reminded how in 2010, at a Labour leadership hustings at the GMB conference, I reported that candidates were asked by Mary Turner: "Would you invite Peter Mandelson to join your Shadow Cabinet?" "All of us believe in dignity in retirement," replied Ed Miliband.
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That statement hinges on the word, 'deliver'. Does the Labour party, or any other party, have the skills, ability and (emotional) intelligence to do this? A deputy leader must work with the leader to *lead*; to facilitate the needed changes in others. You don't mention this.
I am standing to be Deputy Leader because I believe this Labour Government urgently needs to go back to the guiding values of our party and movement, and deliver an ambitious programme of popular, progressive policies.
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Why don't we have ordinary novas anymore?
What does the aftermath of a supernova look like? These red filaments are the supernova remnant DEM L71, formed when a white dwarf star reached the end of its life and ripped itself apart, ejecting a superheated cloud of debris: https://t.co/VXnGCJEhA6
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"By paying such disproportionate attention to Nigel Farage's latest outfit, Reform UK, the BBC is compromising its reputation. To many licence fee payers, the broadcaster gives the impression that it hangs on every word uttered by Farage..." @MPMWilko writes to Ofcom over the
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There's been a lot of people coming out to say that the next deputy leader has got to be A) a woman and B) northern. But I feel like this analysis misses the whole point of Angela Rayner. Yes she's a woman. Yes she's from the north. Yes she has an incredible back story. But she
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There's only one explanation for why everyone coddles Trump's ego so much: He's that creepy kid from "The Twilight Zone"
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It’s getting harder and harder to tell uncomfortable truths in Britain. Labour’s planned Islamophobia definition will make this worse. It will stifle criticism of Islam and stop us from telling the truth about things like grooming gangs. It must not happen. We must fight back.
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Quite apart from Tice going out to defend Farage's shady house purhcase and making things ten times worse, for the guy who says he will be the next UK Chancellor of the Exchequer to end on: "I'm not a tax expert - you're asking the wrong guy," is objectively hilarious. ~AA
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Returning from my walk in SW England, I encountered two girls, about 5 and 7, who were excitedly talking about the 'blood moon' and trying to see (it was a bit early). Maybe adults could try to recapture the sense of excitement we all felt when we first encountered such phenomena
Dear Everyone in the Earth’s Eastern Hemisphere: If you can see the Moon at all you're witnessing a total lunar eclipse over the next few hours. The Full Moon is passing in & out of Earth’s conical shadow in space. This event is boring & resembles the Moon going through phases.
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No. I don't think it's a 'magnificent visual feast'. 'Pointless' does it for me.
This synchronized light show of 900 Tesla headlights in Finland rivals the Northern Lights. What do you think of this creative display? đź“ą: Tesla / X
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Mathematics. Imagine the patience required to compute and draw this in 1909. A hand-drawn graph of the absolute value of the complex gamma function, from "Tables of Higher Functions" by Jahnke and Emde, 1909.
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Lucy Connolly called for hotels full of people to be burned down (which later actually happened). She is not a "Free Speech champion". However, this brave lady today has been arrested for protesting genocide. She could face 14 years in prison. https://t.co/xWjrSz4wGC
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I can’t stress enough that when Ms Rayner uses non-Standard English, she’s not “making mistakes”. Like millions of British English speakers, she’s using a slightly different - though still complex & observable - set of grammatical rules from the ones used by eg the King (or me).
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Every word of this 🧵👇It's been clear for a long time that Police Scotland have taken an ideological position, which is that women defending their rights are in the wrong and must pay the penalty by having their legal right to assemble and protest disrupted by trans activists.
Today was a shameful day for Police Scotland. Women must be able to gather together in public to hold their government to account without being harassed and disrupted by an obnoxious man while police stand idly by. No other peaceful protest would be policed this way. 🧵
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The UK is now on its 9th UK foreign secretary since July 2014. In a field that depends on trusted personal relationships and ideally knowledge of complex histories, this ridiculous turn-over shows the priority the UK really attaches to foreign policy, and how when it truly
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Is 'spotting aliens' really the best use of a telescope this size? Or of any sizeable scientific endeavour, given the vast distances, and hence communication delays, between the aliens and us. Or of any endeavour given the risks that contact would expose us to.
In this latest instalment of Future Chronicles, an imagined history of future inventions, Rowan Hooper explores the advances that meant an optical telescope with an effective mirror size of 3000 km could be built on the moon.
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But that's a great cover—by Holger Matthies—for the Bruckner. (And ASMF/Marriner is a better bet for the Siegfried idyll.)
#KarajanDG1970s CD 50 also includes Wager's Siegfried Idyll. To be honest, I find this piece to be a bit sickly anyway, and this performance didn't help a great deal. Karajan wallows and sweats his way through it, but without really delivering much in the way of depth. Oh well.
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In the 2000s, after Charles Kennedy had stood down as leader, the Liberal Democrats were ignored by most of the media - meaning the Orange Book Revolution was almost completely missed. Now they have even more HoC seats, and the party deserves more media attention.
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