Rwanda scheme and the posh boys I dated at uni have so much in common - £££££ spent on them and yet nothing to show for it

correct

Nothing has stood the test of time more than Miles Cyrus The Climb

totally normal behaviour from an employer worth billions

GMB politics team trip to see Nye, tears all round

I like to think I’m a sophisticated intelligent woman and then one afternoon I find out the saying is not, as I have been confidently asserting for years, “there’s only one way to skin a cat”

I took Guardian politics to visit #PortTalbot last month to talk about The Labour Party's plans to invest in our UK steel industry.

The government says no one will be left behind if they lose their job. I will hold them to account every step of the way.

Listen👇

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as usual an excellent piece by Morgan.

Names the discomfort I often have with YIMBY groups where the focus seems to be merely on quantity not quality, and the ambition for the kind of places we can build, and the level of resistance to developer profiteering, is low.

“I’ll be truthful, it’s really scary being here at times. There are constant drones overhead buzzing, we hear explosions, the roof of our buildings shaking.”

After the killing of seven aid workers, one Briton shares what life is like in Gaza right now👇
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sorry to say this is great craic

Learned so much about the opioid crisis from this astonishing book and from Dopesick which I watched straight after. I don’t know that I have ever read such visceral examples of corporate greed and obsession with profit at the expense of the most vulnerable. Highly recommend both

On the 25th Anniversary of the Minimum Wage, let's remember that Labour's crowning achievements have always been in the face of opposition from those saying the sky would fall in if we dared.

25 years ago today Labour introduced the minimum wage. The grey faces opposed it then saying it would kill jobs. It didn’t. It changed lives.

But there is more to do. That is why the next Labour government will start a New Deal for Working People.

It's been 10 years since Isis stormed to power in Iraq and Syria, as the world watched in horror.

As the group claimed responsibility for the barbaric Moscow massacre, I travelled to former Isis territory and met survivors in Iraq - where the shadow of terror still looms large🧵

Just realised, truly for the first time, a) where the Bank of England is and b) that Bank station is called that as a result. Never has an LSE student fallen so far

Absolutely spot on, from Jo Stevens The multi-union plan for Blast Furnace 4 offers a bridge to the future, and combined with Labour’s £3 billion Clean Steel Fund it is a compelling package. Tata Steel and the UK Govt must choose the bridge, not the cliff edge.

Wages no higher in real terms than they were in 2008.

Insecure, low paid work hard wired into the economy.

Household debt spiralling.

Good employers undercut by zero hours cowboys.

Spare me the ‘unintended consequences’ of decent employment laws brigade & their outriders.

No, Rachel Reeves did not say Labour will not go further on Trade Union rights than the last Labour Government.

It's also a nonsense. Labour have been crystal clear that are committed to giving unions the rights they need to organise and bargain for better wages and conditions.

The English, this week:

a proper policy that will probably save many lives, well done team Yvette Cooper