Tom Holder

It's like a child who's a fussy eater and the mum has to bring special snacks for the journey.

77% of Gen Z job seekers have brought a parent to an interview—they're even getting them to negotiate pay rises and take their hiring tests | Fortune Gen Z job seekers are pulling up an extra chair for their Gen X and boomer parents—not just for job interviews, but also to help write resumes, negotiate salaries, and solve workplace conflicts.

I simply don't believe this:

"77% of Gen Z have brought a parent to a job interview"

Can any Gen Z on BlueSky confirm/deny this is true (in their own experience)

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Bike thefts at stations 'decriminalised' The British Transport Police will not investigate many categories of bicycle theft, the BBC learns.

Great advert for folding bikes. Maybe @bromptonbicycle.bsky.social or another brand needs a run a "The safest bike is the one next to you" campaign.

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Isn't this something the US is doing ....

"Dave, did you write the copy for the new parchment paper product"

"Yup"

"Did you get weird about birds again?"

"..."

Today, at the local time travel shop

"What do we want"

"No car boot sale"

"When do we want it"

"22nd September!"

When drawn this way, you can see clearly the huge loss of retail jobs in the past 7 years.

Retail has lost almost 400,000 jobs in the last decade. And business rates are at the centre of the problem.

Trump could rebrand it the "Department of Peow Peow Peow", and I still wouldn't be surprised.

Is the ant story just RFK responding to public concerns?

Despite my passport having nine months to run before expiry, I was blocked from flying to Sweden at the airport gate because my passport issue date is over 10 years ago. I guess another one of those sunny uplands of Brexit....

For anyone with an old passport, check the issue date

There needs to be a real conversation about service charges in London hospitality. Why are restaurants making customers directly pay staff through 12.5% service charges? Just pay your staff properly and adjust the price appropriately.

It's that time of year. Hope everyone got the grades they needed. #alevelresults

Kemi Badenoch suggests asylum seekers should be housed in 'camps' The Conservative Party leader appeared to suggest it would be less "hassle" if migrants were housed away from British communities.

Sounds like Kemi might be the next big name to defect to Reform...

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Tory leader Kemi Badenoch says Josef Fritzl case made her ‘reject God’ Badenoch said the Fritzl case was like ‘someone blew out a candle’ when it came to her faith

The Kemi Badenoch narrative gets weirder and weirder.

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I think it's exactly that

Kemi Badenoch reveals how she told on exam cheat as teenager The Tory leader speaks about her background and values in an interview with the BBC's Amol Rajan.

I'm starting to think Kemi's PR team is actively trying to destroy her.

"Yes, Kemi, tell the one about how you grassed on your fellow student..."

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Magnificent.

#Euro25

It rhymes with the correct answer, that's got to be worth half-marks.

When you launch a political party and forget to hire anyone in PR...

Read the entire article and there's not one "tilting at windmills" pun. The state of journalism...

The billionaire and the tax evading gift shops Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital manages a row of high-profile shops at Piccadilly Circus. So why does his team keeping renting them to students who vanish without paying millions of pounds in taxes?

Corruption at the heart of London's retail district?

A small number of businesses around Piccadilly Circus appear to be "phoenixing" - whereby every time it comes to pay taxes, the owners are replaced, depriving local and national government of millions.

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Much like the number of Pakistan run Indian restaurants

Tea in the microwave? Why gen Z are giving up on kettles to make a brew Two-thirds of UK under-30s have used a microwave to make a cuppa, and one in six say they do it every day …

If you had any doubts about the end of civilization....

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What are the major measures of world stability?

Doomsday Clock (currently at 89s)
Democracy index? (currently 5.17)
Global Peace Index (down 0.56%)

Any other good ones?

Who are these people that really hate dinosaurs? It's like hating Latin or the Peloponnesian wars.

UK pauses trade deal talks with Israel, summons ambassador over new Gaza offensive British foreign minister David Lammy is set to announce the pausing of trade deal negotiations with Israel, the government said on Tuesday, adding that it had also summoned Israel's ambassador over its expansion of military operations in Gaza.

Impressed that the Labour Government has had the balls to stand up and demand Israel starting allowing aid to Gaza.

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Thank God they've picked a new pope ... I don't think I could handle any more of BBC journalists padding desperately over a live feed of a chimney.

Things I didn't expect to find in Southwark Park.

Top tips for Ebayers selling board games. If you're going to use AI for your pictures:
- Don't use a picture of three year old for a game with a 12+ age recommendation (and a smart 12 year old at that).
- Don't shrink the board game to about 1/8th actual size
- Don't charge £100 for a £50 game