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In Britain, the fast-rising minimum wage is catching up with the bottom rungs of white-collar work. In fact, it appears that a rising number of people who earn annual salaries & don't work in low-paid sectors are now being paid below the legal minimum... www.ft.com/content/5f69...

submitted 7 hours ago • 20 comments

There is no appeasing grievance voters. No concession made to their purported grievances will ever be enough and there will always be a spectre further to the right whispering in the grievance voter’s ear.

submitted 4 hours ago • 0 comments

When the Home Secretary is having to argue that the Prime Minister's speech was "completely different to Enoch Powell's", it may be time to pause and reflect on ... lots of things.

submitted 8 hours ago • 63 comments

I don’t vote for nationalists.

submitted 19 hours ago • 0 comments

My grandmother, an asylum seeker, became a civil servant. Working for the British state, she no doubt inflicted “incalculable damage.”

submitted 21 hours ago • 0 comments

Wait, Starmer just did an Enoch Powell?

submitted 1 day ago • 4 comments

My letter to the Prime Minister. #immigration

submitted 1 day ago • 80 comments

Well they're fucking wrong and it's high time someone addressed that

submitted 1 day ago • 17 comments

2025, women only allowed to be perfunctory add on. Many women worldwide happy to support this. Still wondering, 35 years after music assembly where I committed to not be a Christian on account of being a girl, why other girls are leaning into this.

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Hey! I really felt the weight of everything last week, and I wanted a way to talk through it... so I've been working on (maybe the first???) choose your own adventure game set up directly in Bluesky. And here it is! Would you like to visit the Garden of Fortune with me? Enter the garden.

submitted 8 days ago • 84 comments

Visit the Garden of Fortune 👇

submitted 7 days ago • 0 comments

I’m going to coin a law - call it Maugham’s First Law - and it is that nothing Wes Streeting ever says turns out to be true. 🧵

submitted 32 days ago • 28 comments

In a 2013 interview Pope Francis spoke about his love of Manzoni and Caravaggio, Gerard Manley Hopkins and Hölderlin, etc., and of his relationship with Borges: www.americamagazine.org/faith/2013/0...

submitted 22 days ago • 1 comment

What an utter disgrace.

submitted 25 days ago • 1 comment

Watched Interior Design Master. Those booth desks you had to unfold, trap yourself behind, unpack your work and then repack your bag to fold up your desk to get a drink or use the loo? They kept that designer and she was in the top 2?? What?

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

Reading Anne McElvoy on how convenient the Supreme Court decision is for the Starmer government and the rest of the Establishment reminds me that human rights are, for the boss class. An area where there is minimum actual commitment and a lot of lip service.

submitted 26 days ago • 2 comments

What?

submitted 29 days ago • 0 comments

For your mental health I present: Plum’s paws

submitted 31 days ago • 247 comments

Greatly enjoyed listening to Rachel Kushner talk to Adam Thirlwell about Creation Lake on the @londonreviewbookshop.co.uk podcast.

submitted 32 days ago • 0 comments

New — Here is a running list of Dept. of Health and Human Services (HHS) offices that have either been fully eliminated or gutted into non-functionality as a result of today's mass firings (provided to me directly by a CDC staffer):

submitted 42 days ago • 155 comments

The thing about all these pieces complaining about Marine Le Pen's conviction is that not a single one of them bothers to explain why someone found guilty of embezzling millions of Euros from public funds should be allowed to get away with it

submitted 42 days ago • 419 comments

UK Statistical Authority tells DWP to withdraw and correct its dodgy press release: "The statement that the number of people claiming disability elements of Universal Credit has increased by 383% presents an entirely misleading picture to the public." osr.statisticsauthority.gov.uk/corresponden...

submitted 42 days ago • 7 comments

So enthralled by this Anita Desai book that instead I have watched what happens to Bangkok swimming pools in an earthquake. 🙄

submitted 42 days ago • 0 comments

Almost all of the FBPE people I knew were European or married to Europeans.

submitted 42 days ago • 1 comment

Happy Monday, everyone! www.theguardian.com/world/2025/m...

submitted 43 days ago • 3 comments

It is ordinary to work in busy places, where other parts of your work distract you, but for many writers that distraction only comes from the phone, so they understand it as a contemporary issue. Journalists, dramatists, ADHD diagnosis is not about beeping phones, you sweet summer children.

submitted 45 days ago • 0 comments

It’s almost April, the teachers have not finished teaching the GCSE history curriculum because there is too much content and that is still Michael Gove’s fault, but every subsequent Minister at the DfEs problem.

submitted 47 days ago • 0 comments