David Brindle
@brindled.bsky.social
One-time Guardian journo now charity chair and social care commentator
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December 19, 2025 at 10:32 PM
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The Times’ reductive view of local democracy is to “kick out councillors”
December 19, 2025 at 8:02 AM
The Times’ reductive view of local democracy is to “kick out councillors”
Seems mandatory for journos these days to say you ‘sat down with’ the person you interviewed. Woodward & Bernstein’s best work was standing in underground car parks.
December 17, 2025 at 1:27 PM
Seems mandatory for journos these days to say you ‘sat down with’ the person you interviewed. Woodward & Bernstein’s best work was standing in underground car parks.
No question they’ve got the overall winner bang on - ‘The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman’ @londoncentric.media
The FT's favourite non-FT articles of 2025 www.ft.com/content/72d0...
FT journalists pick their favourite non-FT articles of the year
Everything you should read that we didn’t write
www.ft.com
December 17, 2025 at 11:47 AM
No question they’ve got the overall winner bang on - ‘The snail farmer of London, his mafia friends, and a £20m vendetta against the taxman’ @londoncentric.media
Housing ‘famine’, maternity crisis, war on motorists - 60 years ago
OTD in 1966. Harry Worth and Vendetta are on BBC1. The Virginian is on BBC2 while the weekend starts here on ITV with Ready Steady Go!
December 16, 2025 at 8:01 PM
Housing ‘famine’, maternity crisis, war on motorists - 60 years ago
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so great that Labour's adult care policy amounts to a Louise Casey report and an unspecified pay rise in about 2028 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Hospitals in England ‘face dangerous winter overcrowding due to discharge delays’
Exclusive: Analysis of NHS data shows rise in patients ‘stranded’ in beds as flu crisis hits and resident doctors’ strikes loom
www.theguardian.com
December 14, 2025 at 10:10 PM
so great that Labour's adult care policy amounts to a Louise Casey report and an unspecified pay rise in about 2028 www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Cinema in Highgate? The Phoenix in East Finchley, more like, where Stanley Baxter had his hair cut and liked a curry @thetimes.com
December 13, 2025 at 8:20 PM
Cinema in Highgate? The Phoenix in East Finchley, more like, where Stanley Baxter had his hair cut and liked a curry @thetimes.com
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A children’s home in the West Midlands for sale for £1.3 million Vendors boast of a net profit margin of 24%.
December 11, 2025 at 9:10 PM
A children’s home in the West Midlands for sale for £1.3 million Vendors boast of a net profit margin of 24%.
so confusing at this time of year @theipaper.com
December 10, 2025 at 3:36 PM
so confusing at this time of year @theipaper.com
The Times has lost its mind
December 6, 2025 at 6:22 PM
The Times has lost its mind
yes but was she really junior chess champion?
December 4, 2025 at 1:00 PM
yes but was she really junior chess champion?
She would have made a fine cabinet secretary
December 2, 2025 at 5:14 PM
She would have made a fine cabinet secretary
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yeah those double bookings were really awkward
November 30, 2025 at 1:36 PM
yeah those double bookings were really awkward
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Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
Net migration is plummeting. Why can’t Labour say so? | Heather Stewart
An honest debate is needed on this polarising topic as sectors such as social care struggle with recruitment
www.theguardian.com
November 30, 2025 at 12:35 PM
Here's this week's column. Please - please - can we stop talking about migration in a way that's completely detached from the facts? www.theguardian.com/business/202...
MPs endorse Dame Julia Unwin as new Charity Commission Chair - Committees - UK Parliament
The Culture, Media and Sport Committee has endorsed Dame Julia Unwin as Chair of the Charity Commission, following Tuesday’s pre-appointment hearing.
committees.parliament.uk
November 28, 2025 at 10:42 AM
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Think Reeves can chalk this up as a win. A big win actually.
U.K 30 YEAR GILT YIELD DOWN 9.8 BPS TO 5.23%, IN BIGGEST ONE DAY FALL SINCE APRIL
November 26, 2025 at 3:54 PM
Think Reeves can chalk this up as a win. A big win actually.
‘It is difficult to see how current levels of investment will stretch to deliver even the planned social care workforce reforms, let alone leave enough for wider changes to England's broken care system’ - @sallygainsbury.bsky.social
Estimates NLW increase will cost social care sector £1.2bn
Estimates NLW increase will cost social care sector £1.2bn
How does today’s Autumn Budget affect health and social care?
Read the statement from our Senior Policy Analyst @sallygainsbury.bsky.social 👇
Read the statement from our Senior Policy Analyst @sallygainsbury.bsky.social 👇
Nuffield Trust response to Autumn Budget
Sally Gainsbury responds to the Autumn Budget.
www.nuffieldtrust.org.uk
November 26, 2025 at 4:10 PM
‘It is difficult to see how current levels of investment will stretch to deliver even the planned social care workforce reforms, let alone leave enough for wider changes to England's broken care system’ - @sallygainsbury.bsky.social
Estimates NLW increase will cost social care sector £1.2bn
Estimates NLW increase will cost social care sector £1.2bn
Euston station this evening - clever (if only partially true)
November 25, 2025 at 10:23 PM
Euston station this evening - clever (if only partially true)
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I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
November 25, 2025 at 9:26 AM
I wish I didn’t have to share this. But the BBC has decided to censor my first Reith Lecture.
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
They deleted the line in which I describe Donald Trump as “the most openly corrupt president in American history.” /1
Now 15 years for migrant care workers to qualify. Do ministers have any understanding of the desperate state of the social care sector?
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Some migrants to face 20-year wait for settled status
Shabana Mahmood says becoming part of the UK is
www.bbc.co.uk
November 20, 2025 at 6:20 PM
Now 15 years for migrant care workers to qualify. Do ministers have any understanding of the desperate state of the social care sector?
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
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This exchange between Hancock and Johnson on 7th March 2020 speaks volumes about that government’s pandemic leadership.
Hancock: This is a clarion call for you to lead.
Johnson: Ok, I’m off to the rugby.
Hancock: This is a clarion call for you to lead.
Johnson: Ok, I’m off to the rugby.
November 20, 2025 at 7:24 AM
This exchange between Hancock and Johnson on 7th March 2020 speaks volumes about that government’s pandemic leadership.
Hancock: This is a clarion call for you to lead.
Johnson: Ok, I’m off to the rugby.
Hancock: This is a clarion call for you to lead.
Johnson: Ok, I’m off to the rugby.