David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 30/09/2026But I thought AI was going to wipe out all these entry-level white-collar jobs? 021
Reposted by David BrindleAsh @queerash.bsky.social · 29/09/2026what if we just get Man City to pay for the National Care Service 231387
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 28/09/2026For 2nd time in recent days I find myself in a town centre where the only shop apparently selling newspapers is a TG Jones (nee WH Smith). In both cases it is closing down. #community #accountabilty #buyapaper 010
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 26/09/2026Liking the cut of your jib @johnmct.bsky.social @financialtimes.com #socialcare 030
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 23/09/2026Driven slightly mad just now by all the ‘thank you for having me’ and ‘well thank you for joining us’ on BBC Radio 4 You & Yours. Stop it! It’s a radio programme not drinks with the neighbours .. 010
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 22/09/2026Fair enough for @thetimes.com to delight in a rival’s, er, discomfort - but did it need to put FOUR reporters on the case? 151
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 10/09/2026Care & support for younger adults is now a £21.3bn UK market, 96% state-funded but 94% delivered by independent providers, according to analysts LaingBuisson. Annual growth 8.6% since Covid. Would tell you more but their report costs £1,650. Link in comments. 130
Reposted by David Brindlemartinbarrow.bsky.social @martinbarrow.bsky.social · 04/09/2026Witherslack, the children’s homes company owned by the Abu Dhabi sovereign wealth fund, now extracts £1 in every £3 from councils to pay its investors. 199
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 02/09/2026So Guardian Jobs is closing. It’s truly the end of an era when Society (Weds), Education (Tues) & Media (Mon) kept @theguardian.com going and job ads funded great journalism - some of it in the supplements themselves. Sad. 1199
Reposted by David BrindleDavid Walker @davidwlkr0.bsky.social · 30/08/2026Activist journalism - funny, disturbing and courageous open.substack.com/pub/londonce...open.substack.comIntimidation, illegality and Mr Whippy: We join London’s ice cream warsLondon Centric enters the ice cream trade • The capital’s soft serve vendors act like they can ignore the law • It turns out they probably can 011
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 06/08/2026Extremely good and a most welcome counter to the erroneous media (also political?) take that this is only about older people 010
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 05/08/2026‘It is a local platform, looking at parking, putting out bins, that’s what councillors do’ - anyone been in touch with the Conservative Councillors’ Association on Kemi Badenoch’s interesting view? 040
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 30/07/2026www.countypress.co.uk/news/2642456...countypress.co.ukFootball 'streaker' removed from beloved model village after complaintsA long-standing 'streaker' has been quietly sent off from the pitch at one of the Isle of Wight’s best-loved attractions. 000
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 30/07/2026Just wait until Linda Snell finds out what David Archer is up to now #TheArchers @thecidershedpod.bsky.social 4141
Reposted by David BrindleAlex Thomas @alexgathomas.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Cross-party talks are fine-and might be part of a process to sort out social care But Burnham can’t sidestep politics Deciding how to spend billions (or not), & who should win or lose, is the essence of politics From @stuarthoddinott.bsky.social www.instituteforgovernment.org.uk/article/comm...instituteforgovernment.org.ukBurnham can’t take the politics out of social care reform | Institute for GovernmentThe new PM will have to prioritise to make progress on social care during this parliament 3198
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 29/07/2026People in social care may be getting a little ahead of themselves, I fear 020
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 29/07/2026Referencing the Mail & Telegraph, Andy Burnham issues plea to media to respect the Big Conversation on the future of social care and give people space & the information to consider all options. He says: “Is that too much to ask?” Touching, eh? 020
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 26/07/2026How depressing www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...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. 231
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Quite exciting to go to bed wondering if there’ll be another 6am policy drop by Burnham that will infuriate Chris Mason 140
Reposted by David BrindleCarole King @carolekingofficial.bsky.social · 23/07/2026Repost @mickydolenz: This month in 1967, @themonkees released “Pleasant Valley Sunday.” Written by the extraordinary Gerry Goffin and Carole King, the song reached No. 3 on the Billboard Hot 100 and No. 11 in the U.K. And somehow, it still feels just as much fun to sing all these years later. 2674967852
Reposted by David BrindleBen Folds @actualbenfolds.bsky.social · 22/07/2026substack.com/@benjaminfol...substack.comMy Testimony Before House/Senate Oversight Hearing July 21, 2026I was honored to be one of four witnesses at yesterday’s Joint Hearing of the Senate Permanent Subcommittee on Investigations and the House Committee on Oversight and Government Reform. 55215
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Oh dear - it’s health AND SOCIAL CARE secretary, Yvette. The PM has been telling us how important it is … 210
Reposted by David BrindleStephen Bush @stephenkb.bsky.social · 20/07/2026A real shame, this. One of the best ministerial appointments of recent times: 1647354
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 19/07/2026Companies like Coca-Cola, Nestlé & Danone paying virtually nothing to extract English spring water for bottling - extraordinary revelation in @theobserveruk.bsky.social 044
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 17/07/2026Wary of pinning too much on one unscripted line in a social media video, but it’s certainly encouraging to hear an incoming prime minister pledge to expend ‘quite a lot of political capital’ on fixing social care 160
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Reform’s excitable Layla Cunningham predictably yellow-carded inside first 15 mins on #bbcradio4 Any Questions. Will she still be on the pitch at full time? 010
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 10/07/2026Hearing the sound of a squadron of drones being fired up by media orgs to patrol the skies above water bosses’ homes www.bbc.co.uk/weather/arti...bbc.co.ukUK weather: Heatwave peaks at 35C as millions under hosepipe bansOn Thursday, temperatures exceeded 34C for the eighth day this year, breaking the previous record of seven days in a calendar year. 030
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 09/07/2026Outstanding journalism from @annaisaac.bsky.social The old Graun can still do it 072
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 08/07/2026After care minister Kinnock and officials were badly wrong-footed by @commonshealth.bsky.social @chelfulhamben.bsky.social on health & care governance changes in London a fortnight ago, you’d have thought sec of state Murray, his perm sec and NHS chief exec would be better prepared today. But no. 142
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 28/06/2026Apparently serious response to @theobserveruk.bsky.social ring-round on policy on dogs in offices. Anything on deep background? 100
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 27/06/2026Thin-skinned & combative. Wasted opportunity to discuss valid concerns about BBC coverage of, and arguably part in, Starmer’s demise. 140
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 24/06/2026‘There will be [older] people on wards right now that are so hot, so unhydrated, and will anybody be taking them water to stay alive today? That’s how bad I think it is’ - Baroness Louise Casey at Commons health & social care cttee on the ‘unloved’ policy of elder care 040
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 22/06/2026Nick Robinson so affronted that Starmer failed to time his resignation to suit the Today programme. Excellent. 170
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 18/06/2026Brave words now … www.theguardian.com/society/2026...theguardian.comPlan to ban ‘private equity sharks’ from social care dropped, Wes Streeting saysExclusive: Ex-minister accuses Labour of ‘overcautiousness’ and says his proposal was cut from manifesto 011
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 16/06/2026Not sure I’m ready for prime minister Burnham at this point www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.ukRussian warship fires warning shots near UK-registered yacht in ChannelBBC News understands the yacht had drifted towards the Admiral Grigorovich, a Russian frigate which has been operating in the Channel. 010
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 15/06/2026Kind of neat that Noddy Holder (80) tops today’s @thetimes.com birthday list and Xi Jinping (73) brings up the rear 030
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 13/06/2026Always a good idea to stay off LinkedIn on honours list day if you are easily triggered 020
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 11/06/2026BBC Verify seeming not to understand percentages and percentage points … “… the planned defence investment plan intends to increase defence spending in 2030 to 2.68% of GDP. That implies an 0.08% increase on the existing 2027 commitment of 2.6% of GDP - around £2.4bn in today’s money.” 020
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 11/06/2026Listening to Hilary Benn striking precisely the right note on Belfast disorder & not for the first time puzzling why he hasn’t risen higher in the Labour pecking order 050
Reposted by David BrindleEdward Luce @edwardluce.bsky.social · 10/06/2026@royalsociety.org I hear you’re blocking people calling on you to cancel Elon Musk’s fellowship. His presence besmirches your name. He’s a danger to British democracy. Reconsider. 231071316
Reposted by David BrindleIsabel Picornell Garcia @picornell.eurosky.social · 08/06/2026Since October 1, 2025, the US has accepted 6,668 refugees. Of those, 6,665 were white South Africans. Three—admitted last November—were from Afghanistan. No other refugees were admitted. 16339
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 29/05/2026Would he have got beyond his second sentence on the Today programme before Robinson or Webb interrupted him? 030
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 27/05/2026I know it’s not as simple as this, but should there really be a crisis in our maternity services? www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...bbc.co.uk'It's not a nice world out there': Birth rates hit a 50-year lowLive births in England and Wales are at their lowest since 1977, while the age of first-time mothers has also risen. 010
Reposted by David BrindleSaba Salman @sabasalman.com · 27/05/2026What have successive governments done to free innocent people from being locked up since the abuse at Winterbourne View inpatient unit was exposed? Not much. Despite evidence, personal testimonies and government-commissioned reports. 15 years. 163