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 331888
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 28/09/2026Seemed a pretty popular idea. No surprise it’s been junked, then. 020
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 · 10/09/2026go.laingbuisson.com/adult-specia...go.laingbuisson.comAdult Specialist Care UK Market Report 8ed - LaingBuissonDiscover key trends, payor shifts, and the complete service landscape in LaingBuisson’s latest Adult Specialist Care UK Market Report. Buy your copy now. 000
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 · 26/08/2026Jaw-dropping both in scale (‘an even greater share of US GDP than railways represented at their 19th century height’) and risk - to us all 010
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 19/08/2026The very idea that this individual should ever be able to regain a driving licence, let alone in four years’ time … 110
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 12/08/2026If we all clatter our colanders perhaps we could summon the spirit of the pandemic 010
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 · 05/08/2026no it’s OK because being a councillor is just about parking and bins, apparently 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 · 30/07/2026He’ll stay at Grey Gables, where Oliver will be obsequious, and forge an unlikely bromance with Burt after he badgers him for a pint or three in The Bull 110
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 · 28/07/2026Will it fall to you to remind us all what Gladstone promised on cap & floor? 100
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 27/07/2026He’s gone too soon on this. Should have known Reform would do the ‘death tax’ thing and Badenoch would have to follow. 100
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 27/07/2026.. also such bad politics to box yourself at this very early stage of things (for fear of being outflanked by Reform?) 100
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. 2674966852
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 23/07/2026are we about to discover who’s been putting peanut butter on his crumpets? 020
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 · 21/07/2026yet the @thetimes.com leader today calls small boats ‘seemingly unstoppable’ 1210
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
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 20/07/2026Would send a great signal if she made her first visit tomorrow to a community health service or social care setting - not a hospital 030
David Brindle @brindled.bsky.social · 20/07/2026also one of the safest pairs of hands as a communicator 061
