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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · 4d

I simply don't believe this:

"77% of Gen Z have brought a parent to a job interview"

Can any Gen Z on BlueSky confirm/deny this is true (in their own experience)

fortune.com/2025/08/14/g...

77% of Gen Z job seekers have brought a parent to an interview—they're even getting them to negotiate pay rises and take their hiring tests | Fortune

Gen Z job seekers are pulling up an extra chair for their Gen X and boomer parents—not just for job interviews, but also to help write resumes, negotiate salaries, and solve workplace conflicts.

fortune.com

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · 10d

Great advert for folding bikes. Maybe @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social or another brand needs a run a "The safest bike is the one next to you" campaign.

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised'

The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · 13d

Isn't this something the US is doing ....

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · 22d

"Dave, did you write the copy for the new parchment paper product"

"Yup"

"Did you get weird about birds again?"

"..."

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · 23d

Today, at the local time travel shop

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · 26d

"What do we want"

"No car boot sale"

"When do we want it"

"22nd September!"

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · 26d

When drawn this way, you can see clearly the huge loss of retail jobs in the past 7 years.

Retail has lost almost 400,000 jobs in the last decade. And business rates are at the centre of the problem.

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Sep 5

Trump could rebrand it the "Department of Peow Peow Peow", and I still wouldn't be surprised.

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Sep 4

Is the ant story just RFK responding to public concerns?

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Aug 29

Despite my passport having nine months to run before expiry, I was blocked from flying to Sweden at the airport gate because my passport issue date is over 10 years ago. I guess another one of those sunny uplands of Brexit....

For anyone with an old passport, check the issue date

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Aug 20

There needs to be a real conversation about service charges in London hospitality. Why are restaurants making customers directly pay staff through 12.5% service charges? Just pay your staff properly and adjust the price appropriately.

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Aug 15

It's that time of year. Hope everyone got the grades they needed. #alevelresults

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Aug 11

Sounds like Kemi might be the next big name to defect to Reform...

news.sky.com/story/kemi-b...

Kemi Badenoch suggests asylum seekers should be housed in 'camps'

The Conservative Party leader appeared to suggest it would be less "hassle" if migrants were housed away from British communities.

news.sky.com

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Aug 8

The Kemi Badenoch narrative gets weirder and weirder.

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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Josef Fritzl case made her ‘reject God’

Badenoch said the Fritzl case was like ‘someone blew out a candle’ when it came to her faith

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Aug 7

I think it's exactly that

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Aug 7

I'm starting to think Kemi's PR team is actively trying to destroy her.

"Yes, Kemi, tell the one about how you grassed on your fellow student..."

www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Kemi Badenoch reveals how she told on exam cheat as teenager

The Tory leader speaks about her background and values in an interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan.

www.bbc.co.uk

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Jul 27

Magnificent.

#Euro25

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Jul 25

It rhymes with the correct answer, that's got to be worth half-marks.

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Jul 24

When you launch a political party and forget to hire anyone in PR...

Paul Brand @paulbrand.bsky.social · Jul 24

Oh! That appears to just be the weblink.

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Jul 24

Read the entire article and there's not one "tilting at windmills" pun. The state of journalism...

The Guardian @theguardian.com · Jul 24

Trump’s war on windmills started in Scotland. Now he’s taking it global

President’s opposition to offshore wind more than a decade ago now threatens a huge industry in the US and beyond

www.theguardian.com

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Jul 22

Corruption at the heart of London's retail district?

A small number of businesses around Piccadilly Circus appear to be "phoenixing" - whereby every time it comes to pay taxes, the owners are replaced, depriving local and national government of millions.

www.londoncentric.media/p/asf-aziz-l...

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops

Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

www.londoncentric.media

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Jul 21

Much like the number of Pakistan run Indian restaurants

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Jul 21

If you had any doubts about the end of civilization....

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Tea in the microwave? Why gen Z are giving up on kettles to make a brew

Two-thirds of UK under-30s have used a microwave to make a cuppa, and one in six say they do it every day …

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Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · Jun 13

What are the major measures of world stability?

Doomsday Clock (currently at 89s)
Democracy index? (currently 5.17)
Global Peace Index (down 0.56%)

Any other good ones?

Tom Holder @tomholder.bsky.social · May 22

Who are these people that really hate dinosaurs? It's like hating Latin or the Peloponnesian wars.

YouGov @yougov.co.uk · May 22

...after all, who doesn't like dinosaurs? 🦖🦕

Love dinosaurs: 15%
Like dinosaurs: 34%
Neither like nor dislike: 47%
Dislike dinosaurs: 2%
Hate dinosaurs: 1%

yougov.co.uk/society/arti...