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If “levelling up” means anything, it means saving a child like Arthur from hell
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“Now it’s a war”
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Is everything we know about food wrong? With Professor Tim Spector
One of the world’s leading scientists reveals why so much of the current advice on food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate. Our daily digital ThinkIns are exclusively for Tortoise members and their guests.Try Tortoise free for four weeks to unlock your complimentary tickets to all our digital ThinkIns.If you’re already a member and looking for your ThinkIn access code you can find it in the My Tortoise > My Membership section of the app next to ‘ThinkIn access code’.We’d love you to join us.Professor Tim Spector, one of the world’s leading scientists, believes almost everything we’ve been told about food and nutrition is wrong. Join us to listen to insights from his extraordinary new book Spoon-Fed, through which he will encourage us to question every diet plan, official recommendation, miracle cure or food label we encounter. Chair: Ceri Thomas, Editor and Partner, TortoisePre-order the book hereAbout Professor TimProfessor Tim Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is a multi-award winning expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome and the author of four books, including the bestselling The Diet Myth.Professor Spector is on the scientific advisory board of health science company ZOE. The ZOE Covid Symptom Study app is being used by over 4m people to regularly report on their health, making it the largest public science project of its kind anywhere in the world.How does a digital ThinkIn work?A digital ThinkIn is like a video conference, hosted by a Tortoise editor, that takes place at the advertised time of the event. Digital ThinkIns are new to Tortoise. Now that our newsroom has closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we feel it’s more important than ever that we ‘get together’ to talk about the world and what’s going on.The link to join the conversation will be emailed to you after you have registered for your ticket to attend. When you click the link, you enter the digital ThinkIn and can join a live conversation from wherever you are in the world. Doors open at 6:20pm for a welcome and briefing. Come early to get settled, meet the team and chat to other members. ThinkIn starts at 6:30pm.Members can enter their unique members’ access code to book tickets. Find yours in My Tortoise > My Membership in the Tortoise app.If you have any questions or get stuck, please read our FAQs, or get in touch with us at memberhelp@tortoisemedia.comRead our ThinkIn code of conduct.What is a Tortoise ThinkIn?A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. It is a place where everyone has a seat at the (virtual) table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.
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28 weeks later
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28 days later
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donald blackmore obit at last
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Photo-Essay: Wee Muckers
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Hot for the spot That Zara Dress 191001
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If “levelling up” means anything, it means saving a child like Arthur from hell
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post
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For the Taliban, the repression of women is official policy. Are all those global heads of government who promised to hold the new Kabul regime to account really doing so?
post
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A modest recalibration of the government’s Covid strategy would lift pressure on the NHS. But the PM will wait until he has absolutely no other option
post
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The plight of Romania – suffering horrendously from Covid – shows that getting vaccine doses to the countries that need them is only start of the challenge
post
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Sajid Javid’s reported plan to unite the two is more likely to starve the care system of funds, as cash is swallowed up by the NHS
post
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The government hasn’t done enough, either before or during the pandemic, to improve air quality. It can atone for that failure at next month’s climate conference
post
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post
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post
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post
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There’s no point pretending that the education system hasn’t been upended by Covid-19
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post
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Society must respond. Here’s how we can make a start
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Good shit – Part 8 – Shitty business
post
Good shit – Part 6 – Eat your shitamins
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The Gut – Part 1 Good shit
post
The world within podcast
post
hostage club colin freeman
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a tale full of sounds and fury…macbeth
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post
191209 Election tour
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Dopamine
post
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post
Photo Essay-American Road Trip
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post
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post
Photo Essay-Epidemic
post
191031 Women in horror
post
Global mental health read out
post
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post
donald blackmore obit at last
post
How To Dress Well readout 191017
post
Photo-Essay: Wee Muckers
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Porn readout
post
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post
The play that goes wrong 191009
post
Travel Well readout
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post
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post
Hot for the spot That Zara Dress 191001
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Rugby in Japan
post
Comeback Kabul Afghanistan 190930
post
How To Fail readout 190926
post
Boohoo 190923
post
The Take: Sexual offence reports
post
Digital vigilantism 190917
post
Cary Grant and leading men
post
Photo Essay-The End of the Caliphate
post
The Handmaid’s Tale and sequel 190903
post
Book1: From self to selfies 190826
post
Tennis: teenage wasteland 190825
post
Book1: My cancer’s worse than yours 190824
post
Melrose handicap 190824
post
Evita’s return: The Lady’s Got Potential, alright! 190819
post
Book1_The Snowman
post
Delirium tremendous
post
Peterloo
post
Photo-Essay: The Great British Summer
post
Charles Manson
post
cape fear
post
Photo-Essay: Circus Love
post
Boris resistance
post
Ageism readout
post
boko haram
post
Apocalypse Forever
post
Photo-Essay: Duterte’s War on drugs
post
Editor’s Voicemail
post
Burn before reading
post
Tortoise InkIn
post
Grass Tennis courts
post
Photo Essay: The Power of Dreams
post
Cast-offs
Throwaway fashion harms the environment – it’s time to tax everything you wear
post
Nordic Masculinity
post
ListenIn – Sinek
post
charlie gard
post
Diary of a carer
post
Rafa Nadal
post
Epstein
post
Stuff and Time
post
The identity trap
post
Photo Essay- Arctic Life
post
The time lord
post
Cruising-picture-essay
post
Marianne Elliott
post
Sitting the new smoking
post
Naked Germany
post
Beat Poet
Lawrence Ferlinghetti’s poetry is among the most popular and penetrating of the 20th century. As a bookseller, publisher and anti-censorship campaigner, he supported some of modern culture’s most significant movements – including the Beat Generation
post
BOOK- Walking back to happiness – Robert Macfarlane
post
Tech turns 30
post
Transylvania: Built on Grass
post
Editor’s Notes – Longevity
post
Dating apps
post
Grandiose Designs
post
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post
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post
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thinkin
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thinkin
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thinkin
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Is everything we know about food wrong? With Professor Tim Spector
One of the world’s leading scientists reveals why so much of the current advice on food and nutrition is dangerously inaccurate. Our daily digital ThinkIns are exclusively for Tortoise members and their guests.Try Tortoise free for four weeks to unlock your complimentary tickets to all our digital ThinkIns.If you’re already a member and looking for your ThinkIn access code you can find it in the My Tortoise > My Membership section of the app next to ‘ThinkIn access code’.We’d love you to join us.Professor Tim Spector, one of the world’s leading scientists, believes almost everything we’ve been told about food and nutrition is wrong. Join us to listen to insights from his extraordinary new book Spoon-Fed, through which he will encourage us to question every diet plan, official recommendation, miracle cure or food label we encounter. Chair: Ceri Thomas, Editor and Partner, TortoisePre-order the book hereAbout Professor TimProfessor Tim Spector is a professor of genetic epidemiology at King’s College London and honorary consultant physician at Guy’s and St Thomas’ Hospitals. He is a multi-award winning expert in personalised medicine and the gut microbiome and the author of four books, including the bestselling The Diet Myth.Professor Spector is on the scientific advisory board of health science company ZOE. The ZOE Covid Symptom Study app is being used by over 4m people to regularly report on their health, making it the largest public science project of its kind anywhere in the world.How does a digital ThinkIn work?A digital ThinkIn is like a video conference, hosted by a Tortoise editor, that takes place at the advertised time of the event. Digital ThinkIns are new to Tortoise. Now that our newsroom has closed due to the coronavirus outbreak, we feel it’s more important than ever that we ‘get together’ to talk about the world and what’s going on.The link to join the conversation will be emailed to you after you have registered for your ticket to attend. When you click the link, you enter the digital ThinkIn and can join a live conversation from wherever you are in the world. Doors open at 6:20pm for a welcome and briefing. Come early to get settled, meet the team and chat to other members. ThinkIn starts at 6:30pm.Members can enter their unique members’ access code to book tickets. Find yours in My Tortoise > My Membership in the Tortoise app.If you have any questions or get stuck, please read our FAQs, or get in touch with us at memberhelp@tortoisemedia.comRead our ThinkIn code of conduct.What is a Tortoise ThinkIn?A ThinkIn is not another panel discussion. It is a forum for civilised disagreement. It is a place where everyone has a seat at the (virtual) table. It’s where we get to hear what you think, drawn from your experience, energy and expertise. It is the heart of what we do at Tortoise.