Can we get actual Bob Mortimer to be the BBCs lawyer against trump? I mean, if he can defend Jarvis Cockers mooning the Prince of Pop, he can sort this out in a jiffy.

There unemployment-to-vacancy ratio is about 2:4 at the minute. Jobs have fell consistently each month since March 2022 - and the only growing sectors are not entry positions, like teaching.

But aye… lazy youth and disabled innit.

Poverty is one of the most significant causes of digital exclusion. Systemic approaches to eradicating poverty should be top of a Labour govt's list of priorities, not part of a
plan to deliver a pet project, but if drastic reductions to economic exclusion are on the cards, that's to be welcome

Ditto. Didn’t want to vote green as it’s a middle class party, but no other choice- it’s the only kind party left.

The show was in London, near the tower.

It’s a hard one, as part of violent resistance was because they’d seen their parents peaceful protest fail.
But yes I’d love more ideas than fireworks please

I took my daughter to the immersive gunpowder plot, and was fully expecting it to be overly royalist jingoistic, but it was pretty balanced.

- preventing housing benefits cuts to victims of severe domestic violence
- lifting of the ban on gay people in the military, and
- decriminalisation of homosexuality in NI

It’s so hard to see the decline. See Middlesbrough also.

There’s nearly 20 years life expectancy disparity between poorest and wealthiest parts of the U.K.
But yeah…more austerity, punishing PIP claimants and scapegoating migrants are the policies that’ll definitely fix it 👀

Via @sundersays.bsky.social the Conservatives' draft legislation - absolutely clear that it applies to (and is intended to apply to) legal permanent residents claiming state pension (on the basis of their contributions) or child benefit for British kids.

publications.parliament.uk/pa/bills/cbi...