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Tom Levitt

@tomlevitt.bsky.social

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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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....

05.02.2026 17:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks to an amazing crew of actors, director Lucy and tech Wally, I really enjoyed the reading before 150 actors and writers last night! The story of William Stead moves on…

13.01.2026 18:10 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

The Fox can be an honorary Dog!

28.12.2025 08:26 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Justice delayed is justice denied. Crucial (for victims and accused) to get rid of the multi-year backlog and apart from an amnesty(!) this is best way to do it

26.11.2025 10:52 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Other well written histories are available… londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...

20.11.2025 19:44 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

$15 would represent almost a doubling of the FEDERAL minimum wage. Only a few states observe it, most states have a local minimum of $10-15 and a few are over $15 (Mass, NY, DC). (My data is a couple of years old)

28.10.2025 22:55 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

09.10.2025 19:44 — 👍 390    🔁 195    💬 15    📌 16
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Thank you everyone at @fairforyou.bsky.social and the Fair Credit Charity. The last twelve years has been an amazing journey of teamwork, bravery and success in combatting poverty amongst our customers and you have all been awesome. (My first ever use of that word - I mean it literally!). Thank you

30.09.2025 09:35 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Two Currys employees, in branded fleeces and high-vis vests, unload a new washing machine from a lorry with Currys branding.

Two Currys employees, in branded fleeces and high-vis vests, unload a new washing machine from a lorry with Currys branding.

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.

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24.09.2025 12:24 — 👍 1    🔁 2    💬 1    📌 0

That thalidomide line is the coward’s answer - explicit disinterest, implicit stirring of the pot, or ‘agitating’ as we used to call it!

24.09.2025 09:19 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank goodness he had Melania there to show him how to manage stairs

24.09.2025 07:05 — 👍 5    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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?’

23.09.2025 17:21 — 👍 11    🔁 5    💬 1    📌 1

Uk will be one of several countries signing up this week leaving only a tiny minority of UN members outside. Agree it won’t have much if any immediate impact on Gaza but solidarity with the majority of Palestinians who live in occupied West Bank which must be the basis of a future Palestinian state

21.09.2025 11:26 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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...

18.09.2025 16:00 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

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

15.09.2025 12:52 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

13.09.2025 07:13 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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

08.09.2025 09:49 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I do tail walking these days, deftly avoiding the need to compare times I used to do! 100th parkrun volunteering coming up soon

23.08.2025 11:32 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

I think you mean my namesake! I write books like londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...

23.08.2025 11:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

Thank you for this! It’s actually worse than this as GDP dismisses most that matters as ‘externalities’, as I explain in my new book The Business of History londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...

13.08.2025 06:31 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

25.07.2025 08:09 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

Those who like Annie’s book may also like The Business of History, 32 High St companies, 100 to 250 years of age. Included WHSmith, Boots, Whiteleys, Gamage and more! londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...

08.07.2025 16:13 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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..

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...

03.07.2025 09:18 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 2

I’m so proud of everything @fairforyoucic.bsky.social has achieved but now it’s time to move in

04.07.2025 06:28 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

I taught him science when he was 13 but I’ve not seen him for almost 40 years!

18.06.2025 17:36 — 👍 6    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

It’s Saturday. Time to get your copy of The Business of History. You won’t regret it londonpublishingpartnership.co.uk/books/the-bu...

07.06.2025 07:26 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Why does BBC report “80% of respondents to a poll on X agree with Musk” as though this figure had any scientific validity whatsoever?

07.06.2025 07:24 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Thank you Pam Bondi for that useful categorisation of trafficked people into “humans, children and women”

07.06.2025 07:20 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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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.

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...

05.06.2025 08:56 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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