I am also shocked by the lack of coverage of this fire. It’s so far only affecting the Union Street buildings, but one of those has partially collapsed, from what I can tell backwards into the station. And it’s not yet contained. This is major and more than halfway down BBC’s homepage.
Graph showing how annual household disposable incomes, after housing costs are set to fall by over £500 between now and the end of the parliament (April 2029)
🔔 New analysis alert!
Our modelling finds that average annual household disposable incomes are projected to grow by just £40 over the course of the current parliament (from April 2024 to April 2029) after adjusting for inflation.
Ugh. Seriously, why?
I love the comment about why most history teachers are left wing.
"Because they study history"
Breaking:
Former Harvard President Larry Summers will resign from his academic and faculty appointments at Harvard at the end of the academic year over his ties to Jeffrey Epstein
He will also relinquish his University Professorship — Harvard's highest faculty distinction.
Until everyone has access to decent housing, a good working environment, healthy food and safe spaces to be active, we cannot expect healthy life expectancy to improve – or the inequalities gap between communities to close.
Read more: www.rsph.org.uk/news/new-ons...
This should serve as a wake-up call for policymakers to address the drivers of ill health, not just the consequences.
We're calling for the Government to invest in public health and preventative measures to close the gap in inequalities and strengthen the building blocks of health.
Healthy life expectancy refers to the average number of years a person born today would expect to live in good health.
A man born in the UK today can expect to spend 18 years of their life in poor health, and a woman can expect to spend 22.5 in poor health.
New data published today by the Office for National Statistics shows that healthy life expectancy is down by seven months at a national level, the lowest level since 2013.
Here's what the data shows ⬇️ 🧵
They are absolutely awful.
A drawing of Alex Pretti carrying an old person wrapped in an American flag. He is saying - ‘Don’t worry. I’ve got you.’
If this doesn’t tug at your heart, make you well up with sadness, you are not human.
Jonesy cartoon in Private Eye No. 1667
Keep your eyes on the Neo-Cons
Vote out every Republican!
Disgusting.
JUST IN: In a new lawsuit, Minnesota officials say DHS mishandled evidence from today's crime scene and made "astonishing" law enforcement decisions. storage.courtlistener.com/recap/gov.us...
"A man treating service members to our country, dedicating his life to serving Americans
Who in his final act on this earth was helping a woman pushed to the ground
And they are calling him a Domestic Terrorist in order to defend their gross abuse of power, their absolute breaching of the law" AOC
So much love Emily. X
100%
And just like that, a little bit of my faith in humanity was restored. Thanks for sharing.
What an amazing job. This is such a lovely read.
www.theguardian.com/lifeandstyle...
Reform’s new London mayoral candidate, Laila Cunningham, was undone by a rare GB News miracle: a good question.
Asked why a party that says the Tories are terrible keeps hiring so many of them, the ex-Tory herself had a rock-solid response:
"I can’t answer that."🤨
Zelensky on Venezuela:
“About Venezuela? How should I respond to that? Well, what can I say? If… If it is possible to act with dictators like this, it means the United States knows what to do next. Thank you”
Omg I love it.
Cheers for libraries! @illibraryassoc.bsky.social
Joyous. I’ll take it :) see you in December for an update.
Here is a copy of the complaint, which describes how Epstein threatened to “burn her house down”
