Duncan Robinson

Agree. Think people really don’t like wage compression

Wrote about it last year - Britain’s big squeeze: middle-class and minimum-wage 
economist.com/britain/2024...

It’s a bit “we had no idea this man was a civil servant called Chris”

As reported in the Guardian months ago! But looks like Wormauld departure now imminent www.theguardian.com/politics/202...

OOOOOO REMMEMBERS SUE GRAY

He should commission Casey to investigate

No 10 ‘has lost faith in Britain’s most senior civil servant’ Keir Starmer’s top team are said to be concerned about Chris Wormald’s performance as cabinet secretary and Downing Street ‘intends to replace him imminently’

Starmer going to be livid when he finds out who keeps putting the wrong people in the wrong jobs. Livid!

No 10 ‘has lost faith in Britain’s most senior civil servant’

www.thetimes.com/article/fa96...

Great bit

Do a TikTok dance each time to say goodbye instead of

How did you dig it out?

Right Blood and Treasure has good reviews in the FT, the Economist, Foreign Affairs, the Irish Independent, the Spectator and Spears.

I couldn’t really ask for more*.

*Except more people buying the book. That would also be lovely.

I’d love this

Magnificent piece

It's not even at the level of 'Tony Blair had Claire Short for seven years, David Cameron and Theresa May had Chris Grayling, Margaret Thatcher had Douglas Hurd, John Major had Michael Howard', it is 'these are not political differences that are visible to the naked eye'.

Mandatory Duke of Edinburgh awards for new arrivals

www.independent.co.uk/news/uk/crim... Depressing.

No, you aren’t imagining it: the Tube is getting louder I SAID, THE TUBE *IS* GETTING LOUDER.

The main cause of the noise is something that will, sooner or later, hit every part of the network: “rail corrugation”.

You aren’t imagining it: London's Tube is getting louder.

Good gonzo reporting: firsthand experience of taking lots of drugs. Hope you’re feeling better now!

Ta

Does the 2024 Lib Dem formula still work? Welcome to the 181st edition of The Week in Polls (TWIP), which takes a look at polling about the Lib Dems and whether what worked in 2024 will work again for the party.

Does the 2024 Lib Dem formula still work?

Excellent thread. No more damaging stereotype than the “prick-genius”. Smartest people I know are nearly always the nicest, too.

You gonna watch it

Tories made the tax system too woke

Always found lack of right wing entryism weird. Incredibly hard to do on the left because it’s full of sociopaths who love arguing with people they hate for three hours every other Thursday. Comparatively simple on right

gosh there must have been more building than we thought

Great chart here from @resfoundation.bsky.social on housing costs by square metre by age. Britain's problems with Nimbyism and the planning system in a nutshell.

Great piece

The ballad of Ricky Hatton After the champion’s death, we must change how we treat the vulnerable

My first article for @newstatesman1913.bsky.social is about what Ricky Hatton’s death meant to me personally

www.newstatesman.com/culture/spor...

What about his point re loss of “macro” in-house expertise at Treasury?

It’s just bizarre

59, even. Christ