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Trinity or Darwin? Or both? Says Trinity in text but links to Darwin at bottom.
His doctorate is in philosophy. It was published as Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of Self (Routledge 1987). So it's appropriate to return the biography to the "Philosophers" category.
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:20, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
Letwin mentioned (at least twice) on Question Time tonight that he was not religious: one time he said he was "not a believer", and the other that he didn't "have faith". He also mentioned that he thought the fuss over the "pigs" poster used by Labour at the 2005 election was ridiculous. I don't know whether any of this is considered worthy of inclusion, but given that he volunteered the information about his lack of faith on a major BBC TV programme, I don't think it would be personally intrusive to him to do so if it was considered significant. 86.143.48.55 ( talk) 23:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Corbynista. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.199.186.78 ( talk) 00:40, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
This article need to be tagged. There is no information on his private career and work experiences with bankers, etc. Politis ( talk) 10:06, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Why is this article locked for editing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.82.80.227 ( talk • contribs) 12:20, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
It seems like an extreme form of WP:RECENTISM to devote a third of the article to a single as-yet inconsequential memo Letwin wrote back in 1985 which happens to be a news story. I'd suggest the appropriate way of covering it would be a couple of sentences in the "early career" section (we can of course add material to the later section if there are further consequences for his career other than a half-apology). Suggested wording for the relevant part of that section would be...
I actually keep trying to do this but each time more material is added. I worry that if I go away and come back the article will consist of more information on that memo than the rest of his 30-year career put together, not to mention most newspaper articles on the memo! Dtellett ( talk) 18:24, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
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Is it true that Oliver Letwin invented the poll tax, as claimed on the BBC Radio 4 programme Profile on March 30 2019? If this is true it could be mentioned in the article. Vorbee ( talk) 19:14, 30 March 2019 (UTC)
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Trinity or Darwin? Or both? Says Trinity in text but links to Darwin at bottom.
His doctorate is in philosophy. It was published as Ethics, Emotion and the Unity of Self (Routledge 1987). So it's appropriate to return the biography to the "Philosophers" category.
This article was automatically assessed because at least one WikiProject had rated the article as start, and the rating on other projects was brought up to start class. BetacommandBot 04:20, 10 November 2007 (UTC)
Letwin mentioned (at least twice) on Question Time tonight that he was not religious: one time he said he was "not a believer", and the other that he didn't "have faith". He also mentioned that he thought the fuss over the "pigs" poster used by Labour at the 2005 election was ridiculous. I don't know whether any of this is considered worthy of inclusion, but given that he volunteered the information about his lack of faith on a major BBC TV programme, I don't think it would be personally intrusive to him to do so if it was considered significant. 86.143.48.55 ( talk) 23:49, 24 January 2008 (UTC)
Corbynista. — Preceding unsigned comment added by 146.199.186.78 ( talk) 00:40, 20 October 2019 (UTC)
This article need to be tagged. There is no information on his private career and work experiences with bankers, etc. Politis ( talk) 10:06, 12 May 2010 (UTC)
Why is this article locked for editing? — Preceding unsigned comment added by 144.82.80.227 ( talk • contribs) 12:20, 5 April 2011 (UTC)
It seems like an extreme form of WP:RECENTISM to devote a third of the article to a single as-yet inconsequential memo Letwin wrote back in 1985 which happens to be a news story. I'd suggest the appropriate way of covering it would be a couple of sentences in the "early career" section (we can of course add material to the later section if there are further consequences for his career other than a half-apology). Suggested wording for the relevant part of that section would be...
I actually keep trying to do this but each time more material is added. I worry that if I go away and come back the article will consist of more information on that memo than the rest of his 30-year career put together, not to mention most newspaper articles on the memo! Dtellett ( talk) 18:24, 30 December 2015 (UTC)
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Is it true that Oliver Letwin invented the poll tax, as claimed on the BBC Radio 4 programme Profile on March 30 2019? If this is true it could be mentioned in the article. Vorbee ( talk) 19:14, 30 March 2019 (UTC)