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BREAKING | The final report from the Grenfell Tower Inquiry has been published. It makes clear - beyond doubt - that an agenda of deregulation cost lives. We send our solidarity and love to the bereaved, survivors and residents. And we echo the calls, of the Fire Brigades Union and

A horrible stat. And very much the intent of universal credit. A set of ideological reforms to shrink the welfare system and get individuals and voluntary organisations to plug the gaps. David Cameron even referred to food banks as part of his idea of "the Big Society".

By our measure, real average weekly earnings now back to 2008 levels (their pre-financial crisis peak). If real wages had instead grown at the pre-crisis rate across these 16 years, they'd now be £293 per week higher. A disastrous period for pay growth.

Average private rents up 17% in space of just two years. They're up 20% in Scotland and London, but big rises across UK. Average rent on a two-bed in London now over £2,000 a month.

Pitchfork best hundred songs of the decade so far has missed off the actual best song (remembering the 2007 Groove Armada single Song 4 Mutya exists and listening to that instead of anything new).

Live in London but all my family in the north west. Used to be kinda affordable to visit for the weekend. Now it's expensive even when booking way in advance and using a day's annual leave to avoid travelling at weekend/during rush hour. Train itself often delayed or cancelled.

“The Gaza war is a mass disabling event, where the casualties are not only those who die but those who survive.” One year on, I wrote about a hidden horror: the plight of disabled Palestinians - and the tens of thousands of civilians maimed by Israel. theguardian.com/commentisfree/…

Get the vibe that the snowman has been reading a lot of the menswear guy’s tweets.

Our sick pay system is broken... And we need decent sick pay for all in the forthcoming Employment Rights Bill. The UK’s statutory sick pay the worst in the OECD - only 18% of the average weekly wage. ❌ Only 54% get full pay ❌ 28% get SSP ❌ 10% get nothing We call for:

"This begs the question: why is pretty much every well-paid employee trusted to get full pay when ill, but low-paid workers aren’t and therefore have to get by on little to nothing when sick?" Brilliant work from Alex Collinson Trades Union Congress #SafeSickPay

The most striking aspect of these findings, beyond the sheer hardship people are enduring, is that inadequate benefits, rather than 'incentivising' people, fundamentally constrain their ability to overcome challenges & improve their circumstances theguardian.com/society/2024/o…

I need Wallace to let people know where he's getting these off-white knitted shirts from.

They’re security tagging the olive oil.

Mostly now doing the usual combo of labour market charts & inane posts on the other site under alexcollinson