✍️ @PrudenceIvey: The quality-of-life bores have conceded that there is more to existence than a home office and a big garden
Read more: https://t.co/E1OXZat1LW
A 90-year-old housebound pensioner is convicted of not keeping up with his car insurance.
He doesn't have email, struggles to walk, can't write anymore & cares for a wife with dementia
In our flawed, secretive, fast-track justice system, this kind of prosecution keeps happening
Most foreign correspondents for major media outlets - myself included - have the luxury of being able to leave an assignment when things get too dangerous. Every photo + video in our news media from Gaza this week is taken by someone who cannot escape. https://t.co/2AvEF43fNY
Mortgage on 350k at 2%: £1484 a month and total payment £445,126. Mortgage on £350k at 5.5%: £2149 and total £644,745. To get payment back to £1484, you can only borrow £243k (total payment 447k). And that's why house prices are falling... More here. https://t.co/Tc6LMpD5Rd
For the last month, I’ve been following a Home Office centre for disabled asylum seekers. There are security guards but no care staff. Some residents are paraplegic but don’t have wheelchairs. One woman begs strangers for food.
In tomorrow’s @guardian https://t.co/c7XMBfBWT1
The latest from my very brilliant friend @Ruthie_H_Evans - part of the team who broke the Westwood story. No (alleged) predator is safe https://t.co/7sifCo1ELm
I’ve solved how to get people back in the office. Pay them enough to live comfortably within 30 minutes’ commute/all businesses and bosses take an active interest in solving the housing crisis https://t.co/V4Cx4yYGhK
As Labour sets out plans to head back to Gordon Brown-era housing policy, here's a reminder of what Gordon Brown-era ministers said about their own record at the last party conference:
In the 1990s, the culture industry descended in a ravenous frenzy on the habitats of Generation X. So-called “alternative” culture turned out to be quite profitable, indeed. From the Archives: Thomas Frank on the commercialization of dissent.
https://t.co/Uxi1nXHUFd