Or Beige in my case

British schools did stay open .
Children of essential workers and others were in school
Teachers had to educate those at the same time as on line teaching .

So your premise is based on the theory that older people only care for themselves , not their children and grandchildren , not the future of their environment .
Don’t pay tax
Post war population Bulge will soon be gone .
A generation that proved that socialist based investment in people worked

The government’s little-known Green Book England’s delay in enforcing socio-economic duty leaves regions at a disadvantage while the Treasury continues to put money before people

The government’s little-known Green Book

England’s delay in enforcing socio-economic duty leaves regions at a disadvantage while the Treasury continues to put money before people

By John Hall

@oliahercules.bsky.social will cook borsch tomorrow on #SaturdayKitchen 10am live on #BBCOne then at #BBCIplayer. She asks us please to spread the word, especially among 300k strong displaced Ukrainians in the UK+hopes this will be a good boost of morale. #standwithukraine A delicious bowl of borsch!

@oliahercules.bsky.social will cook borsch tomorrow on #SaturdayKitchen 10am live on #BBCOne then at #BBCIplayer. She asks us please to spread the word, especially among 300k strong displaced Ukrainians in the UK+hopes this will be a good boost of morale. #standwithukraine

@nigella.bsky.social

Western Countries Do Not "Need" Immigration But it may still be a good idea to have it

No country "needs" immigration - in the same way that no country "needs" trade... But the countries that chose it grew larger, richer and more dynamic."

Another excellent piece by @akoustov.bsky.social

alexanderkustov.substack.com/p/western-co...

‘Is university still worth it?’ is the wrong question The graduate earnings premium isn’t really measuring what most people think

Turns out (says @jburnmurdoch.ft.com) it's not so much an oversupply of graduates in the UK (the same would be true of other similar countries but it's not) as an undersupply of the kind of jobs that a better-performing, more productive economy would supply.

In your opinion .

Investment in people , in the post war generation, proved to be a success .
1950, 60 investment in education , in health, in nutrition, produced a successful cohort , increased prosperity.
RW and Neo - liberals hate the Boomer success because they prove socialist policies work .

So less austerity to follow , more public investment in housing and education

Carry on buying ‘ stuff ‘ , borrowing money .
VAT for government , profit for finance .

State and Monarchy intertwined post war Britain .
Heralded as the New Elizabethan Age .
The Queen seen as the mother figure, standard bearer, of the Empire / Commonwealth .
A rebuilt Great Britain at the centre

Body language reveals underlying values, Mr Jones , who proceeds to laugh at his interviewee

Does Labour understand how a consumer capitalist based economy works ?
Complaining about Tory ‘ open borders ’ without realising that the influx of Eastern European labour grew said economy .
Thatcher ‘s deindustrialisation replaced by buying stuff , cheap food , cheap debt , cheap goods . Services

Cummings in the Rose Garden shoving his used water glass across the table with an attitude of disdain .
Someone else will clear up my mess.
A similar attitude of disdain when answering the questions .
Owen Jones response says more about him than the woman he laughed at .

Cummings in the Rose Garden shoving his used glass of water across the table with an attitude of disdain ….someone else could clear up his mess.
A reflection on his character ?
How he treats others .

There is hope of accountability. Well worth read.

Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested for Misconduct in Public Office as Epstein Files Undermine His Virginia Giuffre Denials Virginia Giuffre alleged she was raped by Andrew when she was 17. Key emails in the Epstein files - first revealed by Byline Times - add weight to these claims

🔴Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor Arrested for Misconduct in Public Office as Epstein Files Undermine His Virginia Giuffre Denials

Virginia Giuffre alleged she was raped by Andrew when she was 17. Key emails in the Epstein files – first revealed by Byline Times – add weight to these claims

"Opposition is a defined constitutional role - not something you can just claim... It is utterly depressing to see all media cover Farage's shadow-shadow cabinet nonsense as if it is of any consequence or has any substance. I might as well announce my Bermondsey Olympics team for Los Angeles 2024."

When a three bed semi in London costs £800,000 , it doesn’t take much to say a proportion of pensioners have assets over a million .
Down size you cry ….to where I reply ?
Available housing ? Moving cost ?
Av income single pensioner c £14k per year .
I am sure they are laughing

Universities didn't create Covid, didn't choose lockdowns, and didn't set public health policy. By this logic every airline owes you damages for a hurricane.
This is a masterclass in punishing institutions for surviving a crisis. This will accelerate the collapse of UK higher education
#AcademicSky

‘ not as successful or hard working in life ‘ ?
Wealth accumulation given a moral value ?

Forgetting the effect of background on said wealth accumulation .
Poverty seen as a personal weakness ?

No more second jobs any more ?

Exploiting miners in ‘ far off lands ‘ was a political decision, while local miners on the dole watched the imported coal trundling past on rail trucks .

Governments that didn’t care how their policies affected their citizens.
Churchill when he changed the British fleet from coal to US oil.
Unrest ….he had an answer .
Thatcher with her enemies within .
Seen casualties of mining in my family , saw the effect of pit closures.
No simple answer

One Mayor to Rule Them All: Labour and Local Government  - The Constitution Society Colin Talbot investigates whether we are moving towards an increaingly presidential form of local government.

As the chaos of on/off/on again local elections and re-dis-organisation rumbles on … this might be worth a few minutes of your time?

consoc.org.uk/one-mayor-to...

Exploited for the second time by Westminster and Capital as a source of cheap accommodation for asylum seekers

North East Midlands …influx of Eastern European workers who helped regenerate the local economy .
Coal field regeneration fund help ? EU help ?
Distribution centres , food processing , warehousing .
Shirebrook and Sports Direct .
AI and proposed nuclear power station

Recognise the Core and Periphery theory .
That The City , the Core , grew rich on the resources and the labour of the Periphery .
When the Periphery ceased to be an asset , it was abandoned .
Exploited further for its cheap housing , reducing the burden of asylum seekers on the Core .