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Tom Levitt

@tomlevitt.bsky.social
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Author of ‘The Business of History’. Academic (Responsible Business), novelist, playwright, activist, Bees season ticket holder, Co-founder Fair for You and former Labour MP

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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 20/09/2026
#girlsowncc “Henry, stop what you’re doing. Come away from the mirror. Brace yourself, darling: they’ve… they’ve cancelled Ru Paul’s Drag Race…”
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 17/09/2026
Absolutely! It was the summer of ‘59… the heat made the itchy spots feel even worse!
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 16/09/2026
I trust Border Force are prepared?
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 14/09/2026
Wonderful Brentford. All this and a football team, too!
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
I’ve watched #BrentfordFC play three times in the last 11 days. Goals for: 16. Goals against: 1. Just saying #COYB
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 25/08/2026
“That baby’s taking far too long - surely it’s someone else’s turn on the breast?” muttered the second horse, who was fifth in line #GirlsOwnCc
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 15/08/2026
I used to be a ’bitter’ person but have gone off darker beers in favour of those with more hops, less alcohol, more taste. They tend to call themselves pale ales. IPA has a distinct heritage - from being shipped to warmer India - and a good IPA is hard to beat!
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“But, father, donning a rabbit costume in front of the maid simply isn’t done,” pleaded Beatrice, already late for the vegan ball #girlsowncc
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 10/08/2026
“But, father, donning a rabbit costume in front of the maid simply isn’t done,” pleaded Beatrice, already late for the vegan ball
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 09/08/2026
Horrockses have a long and interesting history! More in my book “The Business of History” londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 08/08/2026
So proud to make the leader board, and in such illustrious company!
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 22/07/2026
Andy Burnham’s record in Manchester suggests that social enterprise could play a bigger role in our economy - I hope so! Here’s why business schools should allow more focus on the sector: www.unprme.org.uk/post/social-...
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Social Enterprise: What’s in a Name?
As business schools continue to embed sustainability, ethics and social impact across their curricula, social enterprise offers a powerful example of how business can be used as a force for good. Purp...
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 11/07/2026
Ann Widdecombe was a formidable opponent on many issues (though not all) when I was in the Commons but on a personal level she took a genuine interest in colleagues of all parties. Even on the Labour benches many of us would have described her as a friend. A cruel, unnecessary, untimely loss
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 02/07/2026
So sad to hear that Chris Breiseth has died in New York at 89. I wrote a biography of Frances Perkins (1880-1965), 1st female Cabinet member in USA (1932-45), and Chris was my last living link to her. His passion for her and all her good causes was tangible and quite wonderful
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 19/03/2026
Next week I’m hosting TWO London Walks - ‘An MP’s Westminster’ Thu26 and ‘The Business of History’ Fri27, based on my recent book of that name. Come and join me! www.walks.com/guides/tom-l...
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Walks by our guide Tom Levitt - London Walks
Join our guide Tom Levitt for an unforgettable walking tour experience in London, with special insights and stories that bring the city's rich history to life.
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Dale Vince @dalevince.com · 01/03/2026
Again it has to be said - net zero is not the reason for our stubbornly and stupidly high energy prices - the global price of gas is. www.thetimes.com/uk/science/a...
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 05/02/2026
Our discussion was positive, pacy and highly enjoyable! Thank you, Russell. Now you’ve heard the 40 min podcast, read the book! londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu....
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 20/11/2025
Other well written histories are available… londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Dan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 09/10/2025
Who benefits from the abolition of stamp duty land tax? The first answer: people buying very expensive homes. Average saving for someone buying a £10m+ home is £1.7m. Average saving for someone buying a £250k-£500k home is £5k.
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Barry Howard 🔶h @barryhow2c.bsky.social · 05/10/2025
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Fair for You CIC @fairforyou.bsky.social · 24/09/2025
We’re delighted to announce that Currys is the latest major retailer to partner with Fair for You. Our customers can now spend their Fair for You Shopping Card loan online at currys.co.uk, or in the electronics retailer’s nearly 300 UK stores. (1/2)
Two Currys employees, in branded fleeces and high-vis vests, unload a new washing machine from a lorry with Currys branding.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 23/09/2025
When I was an MP (Labour) Dicky Bird came to my constituency to open a new cricket pavilion in a pretty village. At one point, clearly disconcerted, he said to me privately ‘They’re all *** Tories here, aren’t they?’
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Richard Howitt @richardhowitt.bsky.social · 18/09/2025
The big turning point is not for or against ESG, but whether we try to respond individually or understand the new imperative that only collaborative action can succeed. I look forward to delivering my keynote to next week's 'amfori' European Sustainability Summit 2025. www.amfori.org/event/amfori...
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 15/09/2025
Trump says so much that by the law of averages one will make sense some time. Short termism since Friedman has been the bane of business
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 13/09/2025
At 3.15 today I’m talking about my new book at the Chiswick Book Festival. Still tickets left! londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 08/09/2025
In West London next weekend? I’ll be discussing my book, The Business of History, at Chiswick Book Festival at 3.15 on Saturday, 13th at the Tabard Theatre. Come and join us! www.chiswickbookfestival.net
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The Chiswick Book Festival 2025 - 2 - Chiswick Book Festival
Tickets are on sale now for the seventeenth Chiswick Book Festival, which takes place during 10-15 September 2025.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 25/07/2025
Hey @whsmithofficial.bsky.social your company is one of 32 chronicled in my new book on tales and lessons from over 200 years of British commerce londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Fair for You CIC @fairforyou.bsky.social · 03/07/2025
Back in 2013, @tomlevitt.bsky.social was in was introduced to a former banker who had had a big idea. The rest is (you guessed it), history... The new edition of our 'Meet Fair for You' Q&A profiles a man who has been here since even before it all began. www.linkedin.com/pulse/he-her...
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He was here from (before) the start, and soon we bid farewell: meet Tom Levitt
My role at Fair for You is..
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 04/07/2025
I’m so proud of everything @fairforyoucic.bsky.social has achieved but now it’s time to move in
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
It’s Saturday. Time to get your copy of The Business of History. You won’t regret it londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Why does BBC report “80% of respondents to a poll on X agree with Musk” as though this figure had any scientific validity whatsoever?
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 07/06/2025
Thank you Pam Bondi for that useful categorisation of trafficked people into “humans, children and women”
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Of 32 companies studied by Beable 100 years ago (and revisited in my new book) you are one of the survivors, @whsmith.bsky.social - here it is: londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 05/06/2025
Of 32 companies studied by Beable 100 years ago (and revisited in my new book) you are one of the survivors, @unileveruki.bsky.social - here it is: londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk
The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 27/05/2025
Great article by Juan Flores and Mitu Galati in today’s FT: ‘Ur-ESG, Brazil and the Rothschilds’. That ESG investing was happening in 1886 (in this case to further the abolition of slavey) will be of little surprise to those who have read my book! londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 21/05/2025
The Business of History will entertain both those involved in business and the general reader with a sense of curiosity londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 15/05/2025
CEOs would be wise to reflect upon the lessons in this book', says @paulpolman.bsky.social of The Business of History londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 13/05/2025
Business Schools must do better, says Professor Martin Kitchener (Cardiff) talking about my book The Business of History londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 11/05/2025
My new book, The Business of History, is now available from all good booksellers. And some others. londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
The Business of History' - my new book - 15% off in May! 'fascinating new book' says Vicky Pryce londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 09/05/2025
Still coming to terms with being older than the Pope, for the first time
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
@davidsonofaaron.bsky.social - ESG stands for environment, social and governance, 3 categories of investor risk defined by the UN 20 years ago. Your guest on The Briefing Room today needs to read my new book! londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
@alastaircampbell2.bsky.social Please take a look at ‘The Business of History' - my new book - 15% off in May! londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 06/05/2025
The Business of History' - my new book - 15% off in May! 'fascinating new book' says Vicky Pryce londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk
The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 05/05/2025
The Business of History' - my new book - 15% off in May! 'lessons here for the future' says @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 03/05/2025
The Business of History' - my new book - 15% off in May! 'fascinating new book' says Vicky Pryce londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk
The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 02/05/2025
‘The Business of History' - my new book - 15% off in May! 'refreshingly different' says @paulpolman.bsky.social londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...
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The Business of History: Tales and Lessons from Two Centuries of British Commerce - LPP - The London Publishing Partnership
Building on WH Beable’s "Romance of Great Businesses", this book explores how some British commercial icons started, evolved and then coped with an ever-more-complex economic environment.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 09/04/2025
An economist writes…!
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 02/04/2025
I like people who like opera. I’m a Cosi Fan Tutte fan fan.
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Tom Levitt @tomlevitt.bsky.social · 29/03/2025
Great discussion on GDP 1.01 and economics generally on @bbcradio4.bsky.social Today programme between @dianecoyle1859.bsky.social and Darshini David this morning. Should be part of everyone’s education. West London economists unite!
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