‘It is a local platform, looking at parking, putting out bins, that’s what councillors do’ - anyone been in touch with the Conservative Councillors’ Association on Kemi Badenoch’s interesting view?
David Brindle
@brindled.bsky.social
One-time Guardian journo now charity chair and social care commentator
Just wait until Linda Snell finds out what David Archer is up to now #TheArchers @thecidershedpod.bsky.social
Cross-party talks are fine-and might be part of a process to sort out social care But Burnham can’t sidestep politics Deciding how to spend billions (or not), & who should win or lose, is the essence of politics From @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/comm...
Burnham can’t take the politics out of social care reform | Institute for Government
The new PM will have to prioritise to make progress on social care during this parliament
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People in social care may be getting a little ahead of themselves, I fear
Referencing the Mail & Telegraph, Andy Burnham issues plea to media to respect the Big Conversation on the future of social care and give people space & the information to consider all options. He says: “Is that too much to ask?” Touching, eh?
Quite exciting to go to bed wondering if there’ll be another 6am policy drop by Burnham that will infuriate Chris Mason
Repost @mickydolenz: This month in 1967, @themonkees released “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” Written by the extraordinary Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 in the U.K. And somehow, it still feels just as much fun to sing all these years later.
Oh dear - it’s health AND SOCIAL CARE secretary, Yvette. The PM has been telling us how important it is …
A real shame, this. One of the best ministerial appointments of recent times:
Cassia Rowland@cassiarowland.bsky.social · 2w agoThe day’s first casualty: James Timpson resigns as prisons minister. This is a big surprise! Timpson had a long history as a prisons reformer before entering government and seen as one of Starmer’s more innovative & exciting appointments. He’s also delivered a big change programme in gov. So: why?
Companies like Coca-Cola, Nestlé & Danone paying virtually nothing to extract English spring water for bottling - extraordinary revelation in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Wary of pinning too much on one unscripted line in a social media video, but it’s certainly encouraging to hear an incoming prime minister pledge to expend ‘quite a lot of political capital’ on fixing social care
Reform’s excitable Layla Cunningham predictably yellow-carded inside first 15 mins on #bbcradio4 Any Questions. Will she still be on the pitch at full time?
Hearing the sound of a squadron of drones being fired up by media orgs to patrol the skies above water bosses’ homes www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...
UK weather: Heatwave peaks at 35C as millions under hosepipe bans
On Thursday, temperatures exceeded 34C for the eighth day this year, breaking the previous record of seven days in a calendar year.
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After care minister Kinnock and officials were badly wrong-footed by @commonshealth.bsky.social @chelfulhamben.bsky.social on health & care governance changes in London a fortnight ago, you’d have thought sec of state Murray, his perm sec and NHS chief exec would be better prepared today. But no.
Apparently serious response to @theobserveruk.bsky.social ring-round on policy on dogs in offices. Anything on deep background?
Thin-skinned & combative. Wasted opportunity to discuss valid concerns about BBC coverage of, and arguably part in, Starmer’s demise.
‘There will be [older] people on wards right now that are so hot, so unhydrated, and will anybody be taking them water to stay alive today? That’s how bad I think it is’ - Baroness Louise Casey at Commons health & social care cttee on the ‘unloved’ policy of elder care
Nick Robinson so affronted that Starmer failed to time his resignation to suit the Today programme. Excellent.
Not sure I’m ready for prime minister Burnham at this point www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Russian warship fires warning shots near UK-registered yacht in Channel
BBC News understands the yacht had drifted towards the Admiral Grigorovich, a Russian frigate which has been operating in the Channel.
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Kind of neat that Noddy Holder (80) tops today’s @thetimes.com birthday list and Xi Jinping (73) brings up the rear
Always a good idea to stay off LinkedIn on honours list day if you are easily triggered