Vincent Anane-Nimoh

[Ben Zaranko @BenZaranko]

Interesting to see Germany take measures to reduce levels of sick leave.

Some mind-boggling context: in 2022, German employees took an average 25 days of sick leave. In the UK, the average was 6 days.

[Greatest Hits Radio @greatesthitsuk]

One more from the old place! Please welcome our newest recruit 👀 @ZoeTheBall in the Afternoon launches 7th September 2026, only on Greatest Hits Radio.

[ThinkLabour @ThinkLabour]

A new national insurance for Britain.

The two feelings shaping Britain today are unfairness and insecurity.

Millions worry about their future in an AI-driven economy. Families fear catastrophic care costs. Too many people feel the system is no longer there for them when they need it most.

Our new report argues for a new social contract: a welfare state built on contribution, security and shared stake. One that supports those most in need while giving everyone confidence that the state will be there when times get tough.

If we want to rebuild faith in public services, strengthen communities and create a fairer future, we need a system that works for everyone.

Read the report here - https://t.co/VhHI6CPtrQ

[Joshi Herrmann @joshi]

Channel 4 ‘moved to Leeds’ - or did it? Great piece by @djstimms with some very gossipy details and an important q hanging over it about how hard it seems to be to properly relocate (ENO is now in Manchester, is it?)

@wyk_exchange is already brilliant.

https://t.co/MjLInsXKfh

[David Miliband @DMiliband]

Always worth listening to Ravi Gurumurthy - especially when the debate about policy is more open.   
https://t.co/wR7iHupzXO

[Netflix @netflix]

THE GIRLS ARE BACK

Sweet Magnolias Season 5 is now playing!

[Louis Mosley @louismosley]

The Met Commissioner has now set out what this decision means: 500-700 officers and staff taken out of frontline services, and a London less safe than it would have been.

Palantir has ~1000 people in London. We are ready to help. The Met wants our help. The Mayor has blocked it.

[Dominic Cummings @Dominic2306]

NB. Some of Healey criticism is right.
BUT it's also right that the WORST parts of the MoD have run rings around him.
He hasn't worked with No10 and HMT to face reality honestly.
HMT is right about the worst parts of the senior MoD and Healey not gripping it.
The MoD is right that HMT processes and general procurement laws make their job impossible, and CO won't support them in changing them.
The CO is right to say that the Mod v HMT battle involves everybody lying.
And No10 is right that everybody including the CO is lying to them and the CO which is supposed to 'coordinate' cannot.
Everybody involved is part lying and part telling truth.
Only a PM determined to face reality and use their full constitutional authority -- a Gvt that controls the Gvt -- can solve this pathological nightmare.
In one week a new PM could get very close to honest budget numbers and be briefed on the secret nuke budgets.
I said before the 2024 election; all discussions of public finances are fake because all Nat Sec budgets are big and fake.
This blow up means the next PM will have to face reality finally - *classify, punt, spin fake accounts* has run out of room after 20-25 yrs.
But NB. this will have big implications for the entire spending plans.
Sorting out the nuke nightmare is huge.
And current spending plans are absurd, pretending to do big cuts in the year before the election.
So it's almost inconceivable the current spending envelopes remain, the new PM will do an emergency budget and a new SR.
Good officials desperate to avoid another PM melting down shd start work on this now so IF there is finally a decent regime in No10, you are ahead of the game...

[Mishal Husain @MishalHusain]

Next episode, coming Friday - @GaryLineker ⬇️⬇️

[Axios @axios]

Scoop: Paramount seeks business counterpart for Bari Weiss at CBS News https://t.co/MXWqqQYO1a

[Theo Bertram @theobertram]

Would you defer your state pension by a year in return for a cash lump sum of £12,500 in your 30s, when you need it most?

This is what @SMFthinktank call the Citizens Advance.

Britain is in need of radical ideas. We believe this is one of them.

[Alzheimer's Society @alzheimerssoc]

Veteran news anchor Jon Snow has shared that he’s living with dementia, speaking publicly for the first time to raise awareness of a condition affecting around 1 million people across the UK.

Jon and his wife, neurologist Dr Precious Lunga, are supporting Alzheimer’s Society @alzheimerssoc and shared the story of Jon’s diagnosis in @DailyMail as part of our Defeating Dementia campaign with the newspaper.

https://t.co/Sy08OWXmms

We’ve partnered with Jon, in association with @Channel4, on a powerful new documentary airing on 20 June. Jon Snow: A Last Big Story looks at how he’s navigating life with dementia, and how, when we all come together, we can change the story.

Thank you to Jon and Precious for their courage and openness to bring much-needed attention to dementia 💙

@jonsnowC4

Photo credit: Cynthia R Matonhodze

[Channel 4 News @Channel4News]

Apprentice Rushid Afzali says society should use the term LEETs (Looking for Education, Employment and Training), rather than NEETs (Not in Education, Employment and Training).

He says the word NEET suggests young people do not want to work and instead portrays them as "absent".

It comes after a new report published this week has found that the number of 16 to 24-year-olds in that bracket has now increased to more than a million in the UK.

Channel 4 News led a discussion on the issue with Rushid, 24-year-old graduate Oscar Brown, University of Manchester Vice Chancellor Duncan Ivison and Kate Nicholls, CEO of UKHospitality.

[Nick Bryant @NickBryantNY]

Are we as journalists, with our excitable coverage of politics, contributing to democratic instability and a crisis of governance? Yes, I would say….

https://t.co/zYU5HIEN22

[Medway Council @medway_council]

The new Mayor of Medway Cllr Douglas Hamandishe and Deputy Mayor Cllr Sharon Jackson have taken up their roles at tonight's Annual Council meeting.
We say thank you to Cllr Trevor Clarke and Cllr Wayne Spring for the past year.

[Sam Greene @samagreene]

Bias declared: I voted Labour 8 May in my western Surrey constituency, so I have a high tolerance for futility.

But much as it pains me to say it, Labour don’t have a Starmer problem. Labour have a Labour problem.

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[Tim Shipman @ShippersUnbound]

Having seen this show multiple times, MPs will be asking themselves “can I get a better job?” And “will the new leader swing the way my heart desires?” Labour MPs will do themselves and the country a favour if they use their heads and ask every leadership contender these questions:

1) What is your plan? Not the vibes or the direction of travel. The actual policies they will prioritise

2) How will you communicate this plan to the voters? (MPs ask yourself if the candidate is a good communicator because without that they are lost)

3) Who is your team to enact this plan both a) in the key cabinet posts and b) in Downing Street. At a bare minimum they should have identified a chief of staff and a director of communications

4) How will your plan persuade the markets not to blow up the government on the launching pad?

If you don’t get proper answers to all these questions move on. Unless they have good answers to all these questions you will be installing another dud

[Netflix @netflix]

SWEET MAGNOLIAS RETURNS JUNE 11!

With wedding bells on the horizon, the Magnolias chase a shared dream, explore the world beyond Serenity, and lift each other up amid a summer of change.

[putasinghonit @putasinghonit]

If ITV did a celebrity version of The Fortune Hotel it would have given it the attention it deserved. Such a great show which was original and full of drama and twists — what a waste of a great format. Scrap all this nonsense and bring it back!!