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November 29, 2025 at 10:05 PM
if you unlock all of them we delete your account
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UK’s problem is that we don’t have enough disposable income, which you can fix by things getting cheaper or by people earning more money, and also either one of those things makes the other easier.
November 22, 2025 at 11:45 AM
UK’s problem is that we don’t have enough disposable income, which you can fix by things getting cheaper or by people earning more money, and also either one of those things makes the other easier.
the real vulnerability was the friends we lost along the way
September 5, 2025 at 8:16 PM
the real vulnerability was the friends we lost along the way
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when there was one set of footprints in the sand, that was when Kirby inhaled you
August 18, 2025 at 2:58 PM
when there was one set of footprints in the sand, that was when Kirby inhaled you
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Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
This is a bit of a atretch/hope: there were 5 protests, with the largest two being up to 300 people, a total of around a thousand or so people.
July 27, 2025 at 9:14 AM
Violent or destructive left wing protest is framed as delegitimising the protesters' stated cause.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
Violent or destructive right wing protest is framed as emphasing the need for urgent action on the protesters' stated cause.
As always, right wing men are treated as elemental forces without agency.
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American money advice: invest in cheap trackers monthly. Don’t try and time the market.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.
July 17, 2025 at 12:22 PM
American money advice: invest in cheap trackers monthly. Don’t try and time the market.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.
British money advice: switch energy provider every quarter, run your washing machine at odd hours to get free electricity and here’s a great trick to get more nectar points.
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Just thinking about wage compression.
In 2004, when I joined the BOE graduate scheme, I was paid £24,000. The minimum wage was £4.85 an hour, or about £9,500 a year for a 37.5 hour work week.
Today the BOE grad starting salary is £36,000. The wage floor is £12.21 an hour or about £23,500 a year.
In 2004, when I joined the BOE graduate scheme, I was paid £24,000. The minimum wage was £4.85 an hour, or about £9,500 a year for a 37.5 hour work week.
Today the BOE grad starting salary is £36,000. The wage floor is £12.21 an hour or about £23,500 a year.
July 17, 2025 at 6:25 PM
Just thinking about wage compression.
In 2004, when I joined the BOE graduate scheme, I was paid £24,000. The minimum wage was £4.85 an hour, or about £9,500 a year for a 37.5 hour work week.
Today the BOE grad starting salary is £36,000. The wage floor is £12.21 an hour or about £23,500 a year.
In 2004, when I joined the BOE graduate scheme, I was paid £24,000. The minimum wage was £4.85 an hour, or about £9,500 a year for a 37.5 hour work week.
Today the BOE grad starting salary is £36,000. The wage floor is £12.21 an hour or about £23,500 a year.
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www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... yes it is 👍
As an NHS GP, I can now prescribe weight-loss jabs – but a quick fix for obesity is not what we need | Helen Salisbury
Few patients will be eligible for the drugs. Better food regulation and social policy are far more likely to give lasting results, says GP Helen Salisbury
www.theguardian.com
June 26, 2025 at 8:12 AM
www.theguardian.com/commentisfre... yes it is 👍
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RSS feeds were good weren’t they
When most of the tube shut down last month due to power failure, TfL got criticised for not announcing on social media. And they said they no long do updates as they don’t reach people in time! We had a simple pure info resource for most brands/services for ten years and we’ve basically lost it!
June 12, 2025 at 6:48 PM
RSS feeds were good weren’t they
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my vet, who's hard of hearing: can you repeat your cat's name
me:
me:
May 8, 2025 at 8:42 PM
my vet, who's hard of hearing: can you repeat your cat's name
me:
me:
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... ever more performative cruelty (especially to migrants, but it's not like Trans people - the establishment's other present favourite group to be seen beating up on - are gonna dodge that blow) and even more destruction of UK state capacity and dismantling of our social safety net. Very grim imo.
April 30, 2025 at 8:46 AM
... ever more performative cruelty (especially to migrants, but it's not like Trans people - the establishment's other present favourite group to be seen beating up on - are gonna dodge that blow) and even more destruction of UK state capacity and dismantling of our social safety net. Very grim imo.
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A good tip for managing your own mood is to focus your worries on a relatively small thing you could ultimately live without. So, for instance, when I read stories like this, I redirect all my worries about what it could mean for the world into what it means for the Community movie.
Wall Street slashes stock market forecasts amid Trump tariff fears
Banks expect gain of just 2% for S&P 500 this year, with JPMorgan and BofA among those lowering estimates
www.ft.com
April 19, 2025 at 10:21 PM
A good tip for managing your own mood is to focus your worries on a relatively small thing you could ultimately live without. So, for instance, when I read stories like this, I redirect all my worries about what it could mean for the world into what it means for the Community movie.
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“The right wing’s war on men consists of inducing insatiable demands in them—for love, respect, money, muscles—and then robbing them of any ability to even partially fill those demands” www.liberalcurrents.com/adolescence-...
Adolescence and the Right’s War on Men
A large part of the media today is devoted solely to making men into terrible people.
www.liberalcurrents.com
April 7, 2025 at 10:19 AM
“The right wing’s war on men consists of inducing insatiable demands in them—for love, respect, money, muscles—and then robbing them of any ability to even partially fill those demands” www.liberalcurrents.com/adolescence-...
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an idle thought I've had at the back of my head for a while is that a lot of white collar/middle class jobs used to be legitimately fun and/or intellectually stimulating and/or ludicrously well paid and now they're few or none of those things, and we don't talk about that at all
April 3, 2025 at 9:41 PM
an idle thought I've had at the back of my head for a while is that a lot of white collar/middle class jobs used to be legitimately fun and/or intellectually stimulating and/or ludicrously well paid and now they're few or none of those things, and we don't talk about that at all
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Digital by default but not for you.
Polish woman, 80, faces deportation from UK after mistakenly filling in form online www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#govtech
Polish woman, 80, faces deportation from UK after mistakenly filling in form online www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#govtech
March 31, 2025 at 7:55 PM
Digital by default but not for you.
Polish woman, 80, faces deportation from UK after mistakenly filling in form online www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#govtech
Polish woman, 80, faces deportation from UK after mistakenly filling in form online www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2025...
#govtech
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More of the approach that's never worked once in political history: screaming "we're racist!" at the far right in the vain hope that people *who despise you* will switch from more racist parties, without your horrified base switching to less racist ones.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
UK to refuse citizenship to refugees who have ‘made a dangerous journey’
Home Office accused of shutting out refugees, as new guidance says those applicants will ‘normally be refused’
www.theguardian.com
February 12, 2025 at 10:43 AM
More of the approach that's never worked once in political history: screaming "we're racist!" at the far right in the vain hope that people *who despise you* will switch from more racist parties, without your horrified base switching to less racist ones.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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I think my model of the UK as committed to everything always being just a bit crap remains utterly undefeated.
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Nothing, neither the promise of wealth nor the prestige of Lords, can deter our national commitment to being a bit crap all the time. It is iron-clad, a principle far stronger than any party or personality.
February 6, 2025 at 3:59 PM
I think my model of the UK as committed to everything always being just a bit crap remains utterly undefeated.
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WEEKEND READ: I spent eight days on a container ship, travelling from Belgium to Finland and back through the North and Baltic seas.
Here’s what it’s like to be aboard these unseen worker ants upon which our global economy relies. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
Here’s what it’s like to be aboard these unseen worker ants upon which our global economy relies. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
Inside the supply chain: my week on a container ship
Vessels like the Timca are the unnoticed worker ants of our global economy, bringing us the cheap food, clothes and household items we buy every day w...
www.prospectmagazine.co.uk
January 25, 2025 at 1:20 PM
WEEKEND READ: I spent eight days on a container ship, travelling from Belgium to Finland and back through the North and Baltic seas.
Here’s what it’s like to be aboard these unseen worker ants upon which our global economy relies. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
Here’s what it’s like to be aboard these unseen worker ants upon which our global economy relies. www.prospectmagazine.co.uk/ideas/econom...
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the thing no one ever really says publicly either is that part of the reason why casual, often (but not exclusively) younger journalists at the Guardian have few rights/unnecessarily low salaries is because the Guardian's union actively focuses on the often older, more senior full-time staff
The Guardian's business model relies on a highly casualised workforce with no employment rights. That's existed without serious collective challenge because in the UK journalism ecosystem, it's a monopolist. It's the only 'liberal' mainstream news org & there's been nowhere else to go.
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December 24, 2024 at 11:45 AM
the thing no one ever really says publicly either is that part of the reason why casual, often (but not exclusively) younger journalists at the Guardian have few rights/unnecessarily low salaries is because the Guardian's union actively focuses on the often older, more senior full-time staff
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