yes, one by someone I know is not at all how they usually speak or write - it reads like a hostage statement
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yes, one by someone I know is not at all how they usually speak or write - it reads like a hostage statement
£1.80 from April
it’s those chemicals he dumped in the Am
A couple of weeks ago we brought together leaders in adult social care to work out if, and how, they could help break the logjam on reform. You can now read me & @blimeysimon.bsky.social on what happened www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
Airstrip One available to Oceania only for defensive purposes
thanks for posting, Bob - good to see it finally in print today for us old school readers
Yep - even a (surviving) WH Smith at a motorway service area when I wanted a paper to read over coffee. Loads of sweets, though.
Some tough messages here for many of us in and around social care. Welcome candour.
What’s occurring then?
‘Only 23 overseas care workers were granted entry in October-December 2025’
I get that Labour is the main story but if we’re talking humiliation then the Tories losing their deposit surely merits more than one sentence of nine words buried in six pages of news and analysis
‘We’re gonna need a harp for that track.’
‘Just book a session guy.’
‘OK, boss’
- Warren Zevon, Sentimental Hygiene (1987)
‘Only 23 overseas care workers were granted entry in October-December 2025’. Disaster for social care.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
There was a frisson of excitement at Prime Minister’s Questions, as we saw that Harriet from The Traitors, a noted author of detective fiction, was in the Gallery. Lindsay Hoyle took the opportunity to pitch a new book series about a mild-mannered Commons Speaker who also solves crimes. In this week’s episode of Hoyle’s Law, our hero is taking a well-earned fact-finding trip to the British Virgin Islands when he learns that criminal suspect Peter “Mandy” Mandelson may be about to flee there. “I passed this on to the Metropolitan Police in good faith,” the Speaker announced in Wednesday morning, explaining why the arrested peer was blaming someone in Parliament for telling the cops he might abscond. Mysteries remain, chiefly about the clue that Hoyle spotted. Did his hotel put him in the Mandelson Suite? Were they laying in extra stocks of guacamole? Harriet from The Traitors was the BBC show’s break-out star in January, although pedants might note that she achieved this by spraying a
Lindsay Hoyle: Master Detective. My SKETCH of Today in The Case Of the Missing Mandelson.
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Median average pay of social care workers now £12.60/hr - still a full £1 below NHS Band 3 health care assistants with two years’ experience. Imperative that planned Fair Pay Agreement for social care addresses pay progression not just starting rate.
@skillsforcare.bsky.social
Any launch events down south?
Ford Focus for a man of the people
Amol Rajan’s preamble to his interview with Netflix boss Ted Sarandos on R4 Today this morning came in at 2 mins 17 secs - impressive even by his long-winded standards
an Englishman’s inalienable right to spiced beef koftas with roasted veg & grains
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital. www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
Wonder if Yaxley-Lennon knows his US bankrollers laugh at him behind his back. Per Simon Kuper @ftweekend.com
FACT OF THE DAY. 21 February 1946. Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour Government’s proposals for a National Health Service. The service began on 5 July 1948. Its introduction represented one of the greatest social reforms in British History which helped every citizen.
Most confusing to read a letter responding to an article that turns out to be in the same paper. Presumably it ran online earlier?
@thetimes.com
David Dimbleby magnificent on royalty here …
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Ouch. Even before his arrest. Those whom The Times deemed worthier of listing today include model David Gandy,singer Seal and @bethrigby.bsky.social
Healthy life expectancy in UK at lowest levels since official data series began in 2011-13. Grim reading.
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
Deeply touched to receive personalised special offer and free gift from, er, Pure Cremation. On Ash Wednesday too!
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Astonishing donation to @mind.org.uk
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It’s ‘colossal’ - Chris Mason says so. Do keep up.