6/10 Quango pay shocker: Dev Bank CEO gets £216k vs. Wales’ £32k median. Out-earns First Minister (£153k) & PM (£157k)! Proposal: Slash salaries, tie them to performance, end golden goodbyes. #PayCut #Accountability

Don’t worry UUK we fixed it for you.

More than 1,000 Cardiff University staff warned jobs still at risk with 355 rather than 400 academic roles now earmarked to go as cuts consultation continues UCU Cardiff UCU✊🌱 walesonline.co.uk/news/education…

🚨A MUST WATCH🚨 “Incompetence at the very top of Dundee University” University of Dundee principal Shane O’Neill gets grilled for trying make over 600 staff pay the price for his mismanagement👇

Clive Lewis MP Gary Stevenson Why choose a hard path when an easy one exists. - align taxes and regulations with Switzerland. - create special economic zones to distribute opportunities outside of London. - enforce big foreign tech companies to pay more taxes on their UK operations (no more pretending

Fundamentally important bit of economics. Whatever the benefits of any regulation the cost of employing people to enforce and comply is just that, a cost, to be set against any benefits. Too often see people arguing such job creation is a benefit when it is the exact reverse.

Grim though situation is in Scotland & North East England, Welsh universities are facing cataclysm Cardiff University is being butchered, huge problems at Aber, Bangor, Swansea This'll speed up decline Wales will become a 'left behind' country without unis bbc.co.uk/news/articles/…

Employees of the University of South Wales have expressed dissatisfaction with its leadership in a staff survey ✍️Martin Shipton nation.cymru/news/staff-unh…

A view on the financial challenges facing University of South Wales

‘Being accused of stealing from my company was scariest experience of my life’ Some serious questions to answer by the ⁦Development Bank of Wales⁩ over their role in this sorry saga. thetimes.com/article/461fbc…

The world is run by: - C students - failed employees - and probably people less smart than you. Don't underestimate yourself.

If Cardiff Uni bosses make a real offer and take compulsory redundancies off the table tomorrow this will be down to staff, students, & the wider community forcing them to. Management will still have caused an exodus through VR, & will have decimated this place. Unforgivable.

Welsh entrepreneur hopes to make former Council building into the home of tomorrow's tech giants itv.com/watch/news/wel…

`It was forty years ago today... A few memories of #LiveAid, a day to remember.

✍️ 'I’m a successful entrepreneur. If Labour brings in a wealth tax, I’m out' | Writes Daniel Priestley telegraph.co.uk/news/2025/07/1…

A UK wealth tax sounds simple: "tax the super‑rich, fund public services" But it's not. Our 16,000 word deep‑dive shows revenues are fragile, it puts growth, investment and jobs at risk, and there's no revenue before 2029. Here’s the evidence:

So sick of fighting…we create jobs, HMRC income, we create community, support charities & the High St, yet we are fighting Gov, Councils, treated like bloody criminals at every turn and when you try something new, you’re fighting your neighbours! I give up! Only I don’t! Obvs!

A crisis of leadership’s making and staff pay the price. Lancaster University plans to axe 462 jobs to ‘save money’ while its senior leadership team, paid a combined £2.3 million, faces no cuts. Lancaster UCU lep.co.uk/education/lanc…

British govt should go full Manhattan Project on Oxford-Cambridge arc. 10x both science parks in size, including special ARIA and DSTL zones. Militarise them for national security and for defence tech integration. Grow the cities to 1m population each by 2050 (mostly internal

No, charging VAT on private healthcare is not a re-run of the VAT/education debate. It wouldn't just impact 5% of the population - everyone who sees a private dentist/optician would pay more. And it wouldn't raise £2bn. Plausibly it would lose money. Thread