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You'll find me @sharefound @shareallianceUK and @shareradiouk but these views are my own

United Kingdom
Joined November 2011
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Great news - perhaps we can at last make progress towards establishing a more egalitarian form of capitalism @ShareAllianceUK - please see our website sharealliance.org.uk
If you’d told me 10 years ago I’d team up with @edballs I’d never have believed you. But life is full of great surprises. This autumn my frenemy and I will bring you a podcast that will explain how political decisions are really made and explore the big economic questions we face
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The disk of faith: showing how we should seek to resolve differences not by tangential negotiation and conflict, but by moving radially towards the centrality of unconditional love - whereby the further we make that journey, the closer we come to one another
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An interesting analysis - thanks. We need to embrace a more egalitarian, disintermediated form of capitalism: with inter- generational rebalancing and mass participation in ownership and responsibility for all. This requires a total change in mindset - not just ‘levelling-up’
Where does today leave Tories like me, who see something beyond the deficit-funded tax-cutting libertarians and the Osbornite austerity merchants? First, we’re realists, so while today is grim we must accept a correction was needed to restore confidence after the Budget disaster.
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Replying to @johnredwood
@johnredwood for Chancellor? - hopefully being 71 wouldn’t be too much of a deterrent ..
The poem quoted by King George VI in his 1939 Christmas Day broadcast, given to him by the then Princess Elizabeth. May it continue to inspire her soul in the same way that she has inspired so many over the past seventy years as our Queen.
“I said to the man who stood at the Gate of the Year, ‘Give me a light that I may tread safely into the unknown.’ And he replied, 'Go out into the darkness, and put your hand into the hand of God. That shall be to you better than light, and safer than a known way.'”
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open.spotify.com/episode/2Df… As inflation soars to 9% today, @ShareRadioUK explains how targeted help from philanthropists could take some of the pressure off those worst affected - if Government is prepared to act as a catalyst to enable that targeting. Listen on Spotify for more -
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Replying to @bbcstrictly
@bbcstrictly please would you include a new genre for folk dancing this year. It’s the one major omission from your programme. Thanks ..
You see - the state does believe in life after death! Hallelujah!
Wow! What an amazing achievement!
Bravo, Zara - many congratulations - you’re a great inspiration for all young people! So pleased to have had the opportunity to write up your achievement in our commentary this week shareradio.co.uk/thinkingalo… - well done! ⁦@fly_zolo⁩ bbc.co.uk/news/uk-england-ha…
Congratulations, David!
Thrilled and very grateful to @BoltonUni for this honour!
Sometimes the moments of defeat and pain are the moments when God is most profoundly with us. Perhaps not in the way we expected, and perhaps not in the way we wanted, but in the quietness, the isolation, and the desolation He whispers to every heart: 'you are not alone.'
‘Love in Creation’ draws together the key Christian understanding, that the nature of God is love, with the three great laws of nature - gravity, light/energy and time - it explores, marvels at & tries to continue to unwrap God’s technology: youtu.be/Q2bBobJWpr4 via @YouTube
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If you can find fifteen minutes this Christmas, visit youtu.be/qavZUd2HvMk to contemplate the deeper meaning of our existence, exploring the bridge between science and faith
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2020 Vision - in these difficult days when Christmas gathering will have to wait another year, please join our online carol service youtu.be/VIT9Wh6TqwA from the Chilterns.
Replying to @WhiteHouse46
@Transition46 - many congratulations on your huge achievement in the election last week. There is extensive reference to your Transition website in our commentary @ShareRadioUK today shareradio.co.uk/thinkingalo… which I hope you will find of interest. It’s great to see your momentum!
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Congratulations, Loretta! Delighted to hear your of your election, great news for Cambridge. I look forward to see your inspiring leadership shaping the future over the coming years ..
Loretta Minghella OBE (1981) has been elected to serve as the next Master of Clare College following Tony Grabiner’s retirement in October 2021. @Cambridge_Uni Full announcement: stories.clare.cam.ac.uk/lore…
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I couldn’t have said it better myself - thanks, Richard!
On leaving The Share Centre I was very moved by the parting gift - a word cloud of what all the staff thought of me as CEO... and all positive words! (At least the ones they chose to print were!) 14 excellent years and I will miss all my former colleagues. A great team!
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Last day of trading for Share plc today. Thanks to @LSEplc for looking after us so well for the past 12 years, and hopefully we’ll be back before too long: following our strategic transformation with our new colleagues @ii_couk .
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