We are witnessing the slow death of the prestige career | Alice Lassman
NEW: John Healey quits over defence funding. Devastating letter for the government and Keir Starmer: “You have been unable and the Treasury has been unwilling to commit the resources the nation needs to defend the country at this time of rising threats.”
I just downloaded the new @mainstreamlabour.bsky.social paper by Mathew Lawrence and Alex Williams - The Productive State: A Framework for Manchesterism.
Read it here: actionnetwork.org/forms/the-pr...
White-collar work is at risk across the board, including at elite consulting firms that used to be a pathway to the 1%
Harry Potter shops raided after London Centric investigation…. HMRC officials seize till receipts… ministers treating now central London gift shops as a tax enforcement issue…. www.londoncentric.media/p/harry-pott...
I’m sorry the government is losing John Healey, but I don’t understand why the government made a fetish of a single figure for military spending rather than aiming for, say, better defence & better defence spending)ie less waste).
A socialist politician travels by train from the North to become Prime Minister ...
www.youtube.com/watch?v=vgI9...
Saw Archers Live in manchester last night. Was fabulous fun and @angelabarnes.bsky.social was the perfect host. James Cartwright who plays Harrison was in audience. He also played Theo in Corrie but would nt tell me who the murderer was.
