David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 07/10/2026Economic growth requires investment, the entire economic model of the past 40 years has been the rich sucking money away from the wider economy. OF COURSE THERE IS NO GROWTH, THERE IS NO INVESTMENT. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 05/10/2026My entire life politicians have been saying this. This is of course a lie. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 03/10/2026The range of selected punishments I have seen suggested for Man City, no matter how harsh or creative just don't feel as though they are severe enough. The amount of money they have no doubt will ever be big enough, no relegation ever far enough. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 28/09/2026www.theguardian.com/technology/2.... Not just teachers.theguardian.comTeachers at Euan Blair firm report ‘horrendous stress’ after AI used to rate their workExclusive: Instructors at tech training company Multiverse hit out at ‘remorseless’ and ‘unnerving’ monitoring system 001
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 21/09/2026Trump is creating a new world order, but not the one he thinks he is! 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026The cost of living crisis in the UK is the inevitable consequence of 40 years of privatisation. Private capital does one thing and one thing only, extract money. 100
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 15/09/2026They're not slowing AI development because it's dangerous, they don't care about that. They're slowing down because they're running out of other people's money. 010
Reposted by David BambridgeHassinator @hassinator.bsky.social · 13/09/2026a great letter in the times today. perhaps worth sharing in these troubled times. #RNLI #heroes 4059812392
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026How would you like to be held accountable 😂. www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comLabour’s new powers for water customers are a ‘stitch-up’, say campaignersExclusive: Documents reveal water firms have been allowed to advise on how they wish to be held to account 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Andy Burnham needs to condemn these spontaneous 😂 protests. He should come down as hard on those taking part as Keir Stammer did on pensioners supporting Palestine. 051
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 07/09/2026Jesus that Aaron Banks interview on the @thenewsagents.co.uk ... 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 29/08/2026If anyone was running West Ham Nunos job could be in danger... #whufc #westham 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 22/08/202662,500 people will be at the London stadium today and all I can think is what a waste, a waste of potential a waste of opportunity Sullivan and Brady ran West Ham into the ground. Only once he is finally removed will the club begin the long and expensive process of rebuilding. 100
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 20/08/2026I've not seen the channel 4 ADHD documentary yet, but I don't need to, to know it's going to be the worst form of click bate television. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 19/08/2026Why are so many kids seeking an ADHD diagnosis? Maybe because Goves school reforms have made learning at best more difficult and at worst completely inaccessible for a great many. #adhd 001
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 14/08/2026Maybe because there is no plan, no master strategy no single government entity taking a broad overview. I haven't seen any plan as to how we adapt the country so it can continue to function at times of extreme heat. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...theguardian.comHot topic: why is Burnham so reluctant to talk about the climate crisis?Extreme heat is harming wellbeing of ordinary people the PM champions, yet little has been said on the topic 100
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 11/08/2026We desperately need a reset as to how we think about water, for 40 years it's been a business to be exploited, it now needs to be treated as a resource essential to national security. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comMartin Rowson on the drought and Britain’s water companies – cartoonWhile the hot summer and hosepipe bans continue, bosses at many utilities firms are receiving pay rises 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 31/07/2026BP cashing out before net zero catches up with them and they are left holding what will become a valueless asset www.theguardian.com/business/202...theguardian.comBP puts North Sea oil and gas business up for saleMove will end six decades of production in area, as new CEO tries to simplify firm and cut debt 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Wanna fix shit in the UK fix shit like this. www.theguardian.com/uk-news/2026...theguardian.comFamilies to be moved out of billionaire-owned tower after suffering without air conSeveral councils to stop housing tenants in glass-fronted Britannia Point in London, where tenants were earlier told they could not use air con 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 30/07/2026What's worse? A "death tax" or having to sell everything you've worked your whole life for in order to pay care home fees? 010
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 27/07/2026www.bbc.co.uk/news/article... Or to put it another way, don't do anything, but do something.bbc.co.ukKemi Badenoch tells PM not to raise taxes to fund social careIn a letter to the PM, the Conservative leader offers to work with him on adult social care reform. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 22/07/2026Child 1 does not even start at secondary school till September and I'm already in a catch 22 parentpay loop. The shit my parents never had to worry about! 100
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 18/07/2026Does no one in the labour leadership look at Zohran Mamdani and think maybe we could try to do things that would make people want to vote for us. Burnham looks like he's going to be exactly who I feared he would be. The daily mail basically runs the UK government 100
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Getting to the end of year 6 has been a massive struggle. It's like everyone since half term was specifically designed to trigger autistic kids. I feel hollowed out, exhausted and sad and I'm the adult, fuck knows how the child feels. 010
Reposted by David BambridgeRosie (she/her) @airfriedrosie.bsky.social · 15/07/2026Remember Streeting's review into whether young people are being overdiagnosed with ADHD, autism, and mental health issues? Well, the interim report is out, and there's a reason the media are silent on it (spoiler: it proves what a lot of us have been saying all along) 3729491268
Reposted by David BambridgeCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026On my way, Clacton. 579152753460
Reposted by David BambridgeDan Neidle @danneidle.bsky.social · 01/07/2026What if Andy Burnham could raise £15bn – without a tax rise? There's one catch. He'd need to solve the UK’s biggest and least-discussed tax problem. Almost half of all small business corporation tax isn't being paid - and nobody knows why. Thread: 42540271
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 01/07/2026Academy school leaders in England face pay cap to curb ‘banker-style’ salaries www.theguardian.com/education/20... Taking money that should be spent on kids education. Academy's were never about raising standards they were just another way to funnel public money to private profit.theguardian.comAcademy school leaders in England face pay cap to curb ‘banker-style’ salariesNearly 100 academy chief executives earn more than £200,000 a year, and at least one more than £500,000 000
Reposted by David BambridgeRachel Hope Cleves @rachelcleves.bsky.social · 30/06/2026An open letter, to readers, about Charity and Sylvia. I am very pained to feel the need to write this. #queerhistory #pride 1112270718
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026If the two heat waves we had so far this year are not enough to purge that we need to go harder and faster on net zero then I don't know what is. 100
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026England not taking Bowen to the world cup looks even more insane with each passing day 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I'm a big fan of street trees, government should be encouraging councils to plant more. Residents should be asking their local councillor to plant more. As the world gets hotter we're going to need all the help we can get. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 25/06/2026I never ever want to hear from anyone who promoted / campaigned / supported Brexit ever again, 10 years on its done noting for this country, nothing for people. It has been a complete and utter cluster fuck. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 19/06/2026Serious question does the current Department of Education actually believe that SEND exists? Do they think we're making Autism, ADHD etc up. Or are they just so focused on cost that they're willing to completely fuck over an entire generation of kids. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 18/06/2026I think we need to extend the under 16 social media ban to a general social media ban. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 17/06/2026What the fuckety fuck is this shit, the department of education is so unfit for purpose, if Burnham takes over I hope to God he sacks them all. www.theguardian.com/education/20...theguardian.comStudents could be required to pass GCSE English to access university loansExclusive: Ministers consider national threshold in England that could in effect bar thousands from studying 110
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 12/06/2026What the actual fuck dude. Simple solution scrap trident now you can pay for both. 020
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 10/06/2026If Keir Stammer has any kind of spine he would come out and say all UK government communication will be ceasing on X. 131
Reposted by David BambridgeRuss Jones @russincheshire.bsky.social · 10/06/2026You can't claim you're not a publisher when you decide what people see, pay people to create content, and build the AI tools that generate it. That's editorial control. That's publishing. And publishers can be held responsible for what they distribute. Shut down X unless it complies with UK law. 15507155
Reposted by David BambridgeTim Bale @timbale.bsky.social · 09/06/2026Crushingly predictable. I honestly wonder sometimes whether these 'Red Wall MPs' might be the death of Labour.politicshome.comRed Wall Chair Joins Labour MPs Calling For Net Zero RethinkThe chair of the Red Wall caucus of Labour MPs has called on ministers to keep British oil and gas in the energy mix as the government's net zero p... 2640063
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 01/06/2026At some point in the future someone is going to start taking a hard look at academies, their policies, their finances. It's a national scandal waiting to happen. inews.co.uk/inews-lifest...inews.co.ukOur school is now a strict academy – children get detention for talking in the corridorEighty per cent of secondary schools in England are now academies, and critics say too many have zero-tolerance behaviour policies that sap the joy out of learning 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 31/05/2026www.theguardian.com/environment/... well worth a read, aggressive subsidies are the way to go, you won't change people's minds but you will spend things up.theguardian.comThe household battery revolution that could change energy bills … and the worldAustralia is pioneering a revolution in home renewables and battery use, proving what is possible with the right policies 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Everything coming down the road over the next 20 - 25 years is going to be driven by the climate crisis. And aside from Ed Milliband the current governments response is nothing... 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 28/05/2026We should never weaken regulations to allow American companies in, have we not learnt from the past 70 years. www.theguardian.com/commentisfre...theguardian.comHow the plastic bottle cap became a parable for the value of EU regulation | Alberto AlemannoSupporters of deregulation want Europe to be more like the US. But that would serve only American interests, says Alberto Alemanno, a professor of EU law 000
Reposted by David BambridgeGary Stevenson @garyseconomics.bsky.social · 26/05/2026Billionaires paying zero tax is radical. Taxing them more is not. 8295103
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 28/05/2026The Tony Blair interview on the @thenewsagents.co.uk pod was a painful listen every talking point should have come with a paid advertisement warning. 100
Reposted by David BambridgeEd Zitron @edzitron.com · 26/05/2026Today’s free newsletter is about how LLMs are the perfect grift to exploit an economy dominated by do-nothing managers and executives disconnected from any real work, and how the facade is crumbling as companies pay the true cost of AI. www.wheresyoured.at/the-revenge-of-the-business-idiot/wheresyoured.atRevenge of The Business IdiotIf you liked this piece, you should subscribe to my premium newsletter. It’s $70 a year, or $7 a month, and in return you get a weekly newsletter that’s usually anywhere from 5,000 to 18,000 words, in... 201143360
