Shower at the gym? 🚿
Bulk out dishes with breadcrumbs? 🍞

Asda have some suggestions for their staff on how to cope with the cost of living crisis.

Here’s a thought Asda, maybe you could pay your staff - on time - a decent wage?

Sorry state of Hanley in 14 depressing photos as major clean-up gets underway

#LocalAndProud

Farcical title aside, it’s good to see our local paper still not holding the people to account

We are a long long way past “hanging baskets” & a lick of paint stokesentinel.co.uk/news/stoke-on-…

Here’s the article in full: ft.com/content/46d8bd…

That data was for the UK, but it’s a similar story in the US. The gap between the richest and poorest Millennials is far wider than it was for Boomers. More debt at the bottom, and much more wealth at the top.

In both countries, inequality is overwhelmingly *within* generations,…

And how have the richest millennials got so rich?

Mainly this: enormous wealth transfers from their parents, typically to help with buying their first home.

In the UK, among those who get parental help, the top 10% got *£170,000* towards their house (the average Millennial got…

NEW: my column this week is about the coming vibe shift, from Boomers vs Millennials to huge wealth inequality *between* Millennials.

Current discourse centres on how the average Millennial is worse-off than the average Boomer was, but the richest millennials are loaded 💸🚀

Stoke-on-Trent CC That bit of Glebe street by the GoodsYard would be better permanently pedestrianised.

Consider me whelmed

Another great meet-up last night for PHP Stoke.

Thanks to Smithfield, Stoke-on-Trent for hosting us and Jump24 for sponsoring the night! 💜

Funny how some things get reported as percentages of GDP and some things get reported in billions of pounds.

bernoulli_defect I think a lot of this is legal services and consulting?
FT Alphaville dug into this and hilariously had a line called 'lawyer stuff'

ft.com/content/8d3ed4…

I've begun noticing this in my millennial cohort. The most significant divide may stop being between generations, but between those with family (and therfore property) wealth and those without. (Another fantastic FT graph)

- Opens first page of new book
- Immediately starts crying

Here's a version of the FT chart for the UK: even more dramatic.

Totally heartbreaking. Remember, over ten billion was wasted, much of it with Tory donors, on PPE and we've yet to see even one prosecution. But if you're a cab driver and unlucky... theguardian.com/society/2024/a…

Pls RT: Our residents want to design and build some outdoor furniture out of wooden pallets for the Centre’s courtyard in time for summer.
Do you have any spare pallets you can donate to us for this project? We need approx 40.
If you can help, pls email [email protected]

Guys, the official line is that the ID thing is not actually voter suppression. Kind of giving the game away here, letting the side down.

A secret recording obtained by ITV News has revealed Angela Van Den Bogerd, former Head of Partnerships at the Post Office, was told in January 2015 that the organisation had “materially misled” the courts in prosecuting Carl Page - a sub-postmaster from Staffordshire,…

Inequality in the UK is overwhelmingly *within* generations, not between them. .

Not about old vs young/'privileged boomers', but income and wealth inequality.

(As I've been saying for last decade..)

ft.com/content/46d8bd…

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