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As part of our 20th anniversary celebrations, our colleagues have been sharing some of their memories from their time at the PPF. We’d love to hear your stories, memories and pictures too! Tag us and use the hashtag #PPF20

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Hopeless interviewing by Amol Rajan of Chris Philip on Today just now. Neither Philp not Rajan seem to know that much of the "working age benefit bill" goes to *people who work*.

submitted 32 days ago • 23 comments

Has anyone completed the Guardian cryptic crossword, Saturday 22 February?

submitted 41 days ago • 0 comments

Love this beautifully crafted enamel and metal thistle on the door of an former bank on Dumbarton Road in Partick. It's this kind of little detail which really brings joy to my life whenever I spot one. #glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #design #partick #thistle #enamel #designdetail

submitted 72 days ago • 2 comments

Fascinating figures today from the Pensions Regulator. The 4000 smallest DB schemes out of a total of 4818 schemes have assets of £127 bn out of the £1..24 tr total for all schemes. Even the “smallest” 4750 schemes have only just over half the overall total. (Figs estimated as at 30 Sept 2024)

submitted 72 days ago • 0 comments

Good morning, Glasgow. What a way to start the day! #glasgow #goodmorning #goodmorningglasgow #glasgowtoday #sunrise #glasgowsunrise #theclyde

submitted 85 days ago • 14 comments

@jburnmurdoch.bsky.social has done a thing on the decline in fertility www.ft.com/content/43e2...

submitted 89 days ago • 5 comments

Sunrise at the Squinty Bridge over the Clyde in Glasgow. The tower in the distance is the former headquarters of the Scottish Cooperative Wholesale Society on Morrison Street. #glasgow #architecture #sunrise #glasgowsunrise #squintybridge #goodmorning #glasgowtoday

submitted 92 days ago • 2 comments

Royal Exchange Square in Central Glasgow was looking particularly spectacular as the sun was going down this evening. And as always, at the centre of it all was the Duke wearing his customary headgear. #glasgow #royalexchangesquare #goma #lights #glasgowbuildings #architecture #nightphotography

submitted 98 days ago • 2 comments

The western facade of the former Templeton Carpet Factory on Glasgow Green. Designed by William Leiper and bassd on the Doge's Palace in Venice, it was built in 1889. Cont./ #glasgow #architecture #glasgowbuildings #glasgowgreen #templetoncarpetfactory #architecturephotography

submitted 99 days ago • 1 comment

A street scar on a cobbled street in the West End of Glasgow. Street scars are patches of asphalt used to repair a road that are not the same colour, material and/or quality as the surrounding road surface. Cont./ #glasgow #streetscars #potholes #glasgowroads

submitted 109 days ago • 4 comments

Last Sunday we were carol-singing in Glasgow City Centre, and this Sunday we're at it again, but in our wall on the Kelvin Walkway! #glasgow #penguin #penguins #glasgowpenguins #carolsinging #kelvinwalkway #streetart #glasgowstreetart #xmas2024

submitted 109 days ago • 0 comments

Something really weird I noticed today: the gates at the southern entrance to Glasgow's Kelvingrove Park appear to feature the moustache of Charles Rennie Mackintosh, one of the city's greatest architects. 😀 #glasgow #moustache #kelvingrovepark #charlesrenniemackintosh #weird #glasgowhumour

submitted 111 days ago • 3 comments

Umm… this is a little unexpected from the Express. A short travel piece on Helsinki that praises the public transport & pedestrian friendly spaces. It highlights how: “Extensive car-free zones have transformed neighbourhoods into havens of clean air and tranquility.”

submitted 113 days ago • 19 comments

The @glasgowpenguins.bsky.social are putting on a fine dispaly for Christmas this year. Well worth checking out if you're around the West End. For those who don't already know, they can be found on the Kelvin Walkway near the old North Woodside Flint Mill. #glasgow #kelvinwalkway #streetart #xmas

submitted 113 days ago • 2 comments

Day 7 #ArtAdventCalendar I've come to think of our yearly Christmas tree as more of an altar, using beautiful and meaningful adornments to tether the past to the present. Artfully recreated each year, it is at the same time a new tree and every prior tree, a standing wave in the flow of the years.

submitted 124 days ago • 1 comment

📢 Stop sharing your wrapped. Brexit has hit UK music hard – red tape, spiralling costs, and lost opportunities are silencing our musicians. Let’s remind every music fan why Brexit is bad for UK music. Share our UK Music Industry Unwrapped today. 📢👇 www.europeanmovement.co.uk/uk_music_ind...

submitted 127 days ago • 8 comments

Would save money. Ease pressure on councils. And reduce human suffering. Only reason for not doing this is bureaucratic conservatism and political timidity. www.standard.co.uk/news/winter-...

submitted 130 days ago • 8 comments

High monthly turnover rates of nurses and senior doctors are associated with more deaths among patients admitted as emergencies to NHS hospitals in England, this new study finds @joemoscelli.bsky.social www.bmj.com/content/387/...

submitted 140 days ago • 3 comments

Dan is right to be sad. Ditto. I find it unfathomable that the “difficult choices” a new Labour government made impacted most severely the lowest earners and the coldest pensioners. Go after high earners (like me) of any age via income tax. Surely that would have been a less difficult choice?

submitted 140 days ago • 1 comment

"UK treats those on sickness benefits much better than unemployed...to understand why so many more people are claiming sickness benefits now, we must look at the wider welfare safety net." Excellent analysis from @tomcalver.bsky.social archive.ph/loi8d

submitted 144 days ago • 9 comments