David Brindle
@brindled.bsky.social
One-time Guardian journo now charity chair and social care commentator
But I thought AI was going to wipe out all these entry-level white-collar jobs?
what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service
For 2nd time in recent days I find myself in a town centre where the only shop apparently selling newspapers is a TG Jones (nee WH Smith). In both cases it is closing down. #community #accountabilty #buyapaper
Driven slightly mad just now by all the ‘thank you for having me’ and ‘well thank you for joining us’ on BBC Radio 4 You & Yours. Stop it! It’s a radio programme not drinks with the neighbours ..
Fair enough for @thetimes.com to delight in a rival’s, er, discomfort - but did it need to put FOUR reporters on the case?
Care & support for younger adults is now a £21.3bn UK market, 96% state-funded but 94% delivered by independent providers, according to analysts LaingBuisson. Annual growth 8.6% since Covid. Would tell you more but their report costs £1,650. Link in comments.
Witherslack, the children’s homes company owned by the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, now extracts £1 in every £3 from councils to pay its investors.
So Guardian Jobs is closing. It’s truly the end of an era when Society (Weds), Education (Tues) & Media (Mon) kept @theguardian.com going and job ads funded great journalism - some of it in the supplements themselves. Sad.
Activist journalism - funny, disturbing and courageous open.substack.com/pub/londonce...
Intimidation, illegality and Mr Whippy: We join London’s ice cream wars
London Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can
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Extremely good and a most welcome counter to the erroneous media (also political?) take that this is only about older people
Nuffield Trust@nuffieldtrust.org.uk · 2mo agoTHE BRIEFING ROOM 🎧️ Listen to our Chief Executive @theasrstein.bsky.social discussing the future of adult #SocialCare with David Aaronovitch. On this week's episode, they discuss how the system works in England and some of the common problems experienced by people who need care. buff.ly/2X9KCtB
‘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?
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 · 3mo 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?