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 · 01/10/2026All good ideas, but one thing, data centres don't need water for cooling it's just the cheapest method. Planning should reject any plan that includes water for cooling. 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 · 19/09/2026This is not news, the fact this is being run by the BBC is ridiculous. The government really need to get a grip on this kind of propaganda being treated as news. 011
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 17/09/2026Virtually every problem you can think of is due to lack of investment. Public utilities and infrastructure should be run for the benefit of the public not shareholders. 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 · 22/08/2026If we can't have a Minister for Infrastructure we can't have one for Hospitality. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026I lived at home in the 90s whilst at uni, for me it was fine. But I can well understand the importance for a lot of young adults of getting that first taste of freedom. Unfortunately the UK has long since sold its young to pay for the old. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 22/08/2026To begin with we need a proper modern training facility, we need to own the London Stadium. And most of all we need a long term vision one with proper recruitment structures where players are brought because they will improve the team not because they are available. Or cheap. 100
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 · 14/08/2026Farmers know, farmers always know www.theguardian.com/environment/...theguardian.comTougher crops and beaver dams: how UK farmers are tackling droughtHit by heatwaves and low rainfall, food producers are finding novel solutions to help crops and cattle survive 000
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 · 25/07/2026From now on I'm going to shout, millennium bug at anyone who says this. Nothing happened because we put the time and effort into making sure nothing would happen. The same will be true if the net zero transition. Also I remember blackouts. And I'm not that old. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Finally got sent logging details... Login details don't work. FUCK 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 · 18/07/2026Xenophobia has basically been government policy for the last 16 years. 000
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 · 18/07/2026Prime ministers basically all end up being judged on how good their chancellor was. Like Stammer before him Burnham is fucked. 000
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
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 08/07/2026The country we are, is not the country that the political, media monied classes want it to be. 010
Reposted by David BambridgeCount Binface @countbinface.bsky.social · 07/07/2026On my way, Clacton. 579152753460
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 02/07/2026This is of course bull, of course they prepared, it just turned out they were really bad at having power. 030
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 · 27/06/2026And we need to plant street trees, lots and lots of street trees. 000
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026To make existing homes livable in extreme heat events. And to make sure new builds flats and houses are designed to meet the challenges of the 21st century not the 20th. Solar, heat pumps that can both heat and cool. 100
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026To figure out how we grow more in worse conditions when imports inevitably fail. 100
David Bambridge @adayoff.bsky.social · 27/06/2026We need to build a national water grid, to move water from wet areas to dry. 100
