Early Microsoft money is behind new, super-green campus in Ballard (slide show)
09:42 May 23 2013 from Seattle Business Journal
...of the campus. Skillet restaurant has leased most of the first floor. Rose Letwin, the founder of Wilburforce, is the wife of Gordon Letwin, one of Microsoft’s first employees. He is in the famous 1978 photo of 11 early Microsoft employees, including a bearded...
http://feeds.bizjournals.com/~r/bizj_seattle/~3/X6GxKIzQKYQ/early-microsoft-money-is-behind-new.html
Identity cards: How Labour lost power in a case of mistaken ID
09:58 May 10 2013 from The Register
...[in his 2010 book 22 days in May] reports William Hague saying, noting that this was not an area where agreement was difficult. Mr Letwin was also one of David Blunkett’s original “intellectual pygmies”, having opposed the entitlement card plans [as ID cards...
http://go.theregister.com/feed/www.theregister.co.uk/2013/05/10/how_id_cards_lost_labour_election/
trevor kavanagh: PM a political dwarf: sleepy, dopey, grumpy
12:00 Mar 25 2013 from The Sun
...Minister in command of events which are already unravelling in his hands. It was all over the moment he sent sleepy Oliver Letwin into a pre-dawn ambush by the Axis powers — Labour, Lib Dems and Hacked Off. Letwin, remember, is the whinnying clown who once...
Letwin Settles Up – Bins Carbon Reduction Global Agreement
02:59 Jan 03 2013 from Guido Fawkes
...happen is if we try to make it happen and if we build up the moral authority to make it happen by taking the steps ourselves. Letwin has apparently now agreed to settle the bet. Lord Lawson is on a bit of victory lap this afternoon: “Oliver is one of the nicest...
Desperate Danny's comedy roadshow is one to forget
09:31 Sep 25 2012 from The Telegraph
...and boring. Playing to his awkward, geeky strengths. But no. Some heartless adviser – the sort of adviser who used to order Gordon Brown to smile whenever confronted by a camera or voter – had evidently told him to be more "human". Hence the jokes. Lord, the...
Kenneth Clarke fights to keep cabinet post before reshuffle
06:36 Aug 20 2012 from Guardian Unlimited
...expenses, is expected to return to a major role helping to formulate policy in the cabinet office working alongside the Tory Oliver Letwin. Negotiations are being held on whether Laws could attend cabinet. Jo Swinson, Nick Clegg's highly regarded parliamentary...
http://www.guardian.co.uk/politics/2012/aug/20/kenneth-clarke-cabinet-post-reshuffle
Whatever it brings, the reshuffle is just part of a wider recovery programme for David Cameron
11:06 Aug 01 2012 from The Telegraph UK
...reshuffle will be part of the wider recovery programme being organised by No10, which includes a few organisational changes, party conference, and afterwards the unveiling of the Coalition 2.0 programme being drawn up by Oliver Letwin and Danny Alexander....
It's All News to Me by Jeremy Vine: review
10:38 Jun 25 2012 from The Telegraph
...a bloody big story. We should lead on it.” They took the hint; Vampire Cows was dropped. My favourite anecdote is Oliver Letwin dressed in a toga for a comedy hustings, after a gaffe. Vine chased him down and the toga was swiftly removed to reveal a neatly...
After l’affaire Jimmy Carr, Left and Right should agree on flatter, fairer, simpler taxes
11:09 Jun 23 2012 from The Telegraph
...the more time we have to take off work to comply with it. Tolley’s Tax Handbook is now 11,500 pages long, twice what was when Gordon Brown became Chancellor, and the number of tax lawyers has increased commensurately. There isn’t a small business in the land...
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