“In Finland, the # of homeless people has fallen sharply. Those affected receive a small apartment & counselling with no preconditions. 4 out of 5 people affected make their way back into a stable life. And all this is CHEAPER than accepting homelessness.” https://t.co/EH3reri9lz
This is from Nov last year and we are seeing the results of Govt pusillanimity on stopping multiple discharges of #sewage into our rivers and onto our beaches by water companies who reward their shareholders and senior execs, but are happy to pollute public spaces.
Can Britain afford a £15 an hour minimum wage? With me in the studio to discuss this are an £84,000 a year Tory MP, a £250,000 a year journalist, and an investment banker who has just been given a bonus a bonus five times his already astronomical salary.
When I attended my grandad’s funeral, I remember my wife slipping a hand in mine. Shouldn’t need saying, but it’s what normal people do. Any criticism of this is totally unfounded.
Letter in the Times today from Leigh Lewis, who headed DWP between 2005 and 2010, saying that if Simon Case does not have the “courage and conviction” to stand up for the civil service, then he “needs to make way for someone who has”.
And there’s more ….. 🧵
I’m not terribly interested in the lives of the royals but am absolutely gobsmacked at this utterly appalling interview. Bower seems a really sick, mentally ill cretin just interested in promoting himself. The interviewer deserves the sack - immediately!
They’ve just interviewed a woman asking her about the ham sandwich she has brought to #TheQueue
She made it at 7 this morning and there are also some tomatoes in the Tupperware.
I’m losing my mind.
🎵They just want to hold hands.
Happy birthday Harry.
#DukeandDuchessofSussex
Once again regardless of views on monarchy, the viciousness and hypocrisy on Twitter really does shock me sometimes.
Apologies to @thebeatles
Thank you @CounsellingSam for the idea.
"If pre-Covid your profits were 3p, and afterwards they're £500 million, I think we could have a bit of that!"
Ian Hislop says companies that profited from the pandemic should be slapped with a windfall tax.
How disgusting that the Cons have done this under cover of the queen’s death.
All that stuff about ‘Out of respect you must stop striking /protesting / playing sport’ is baloney. It’s only for little people like you and I.
The Govt is crashing on full pelt with their dire agenda.