From today, disabled people in the U.K. will effectively work for free for the rest of the year. Disabled women face an even bigger pay penalty of 30% – or £3.73 an hour.
Lemme tell you what this show is, I was halfway through it earlier in the year and one night I got home from work and wasn't in the mood to watch something stressful so I opted to watch a 9/11 documentary instead
NEW: we need to talk about UK graduate wages, and the idea that Britain sends too many people to university.
American readers should stick around for the UK/US comparisons 👀
Let’s start with this: the UK graduate wage premium has fallen substantially over the last 25 years
Oh, and a bonus chart that I think will fry a lot of people’s brains and break a lot of narratives:
For all the talk of six figure costs of college in the States, here’s how much debt graduates leave university with in the UK and US vs other countries
Workers on the Millennium Bridge, by reducing the headroom of the bridge while they work, have triggered an ancient by-law of London requiring that a bale of straw be hung underneath to warn river traffic:
I hope this weekend you can resist the terrible compulsion to be *productive.* I hope you find time to read and dance and create for their own sakes and not for any profit. I hope you have moments of being just overcome with joy by the weirdness and wonder of being.
this makes me feel less crazy. i feel like some medical professionals hurt more when they poke me with a needle, and with others i feel nothing when they poke me.
if your comms director looks like this all your meetings are structured, your 1-1s are actually about you and your career progression, and you aren’t receiving emails after hours I can tell you that for free