The cost of living crisis has significantly impacted on people's mental health. Adults relying on more worrying means of getting by – as well as those in food insecurity – are as much as five-times more likely to be experiencing worse mental health. resolutionfoundation.org/publications/h…

By the way, when Deputy PM Dowden says Sue Gray has chosen not to supply information to a civil service investigation into the circumstances of her departure, I am not sure that's sinister. My understanding is it's because that information will be supplied to Dowden and...

Bank of England: Food prices mean inflation will fall more slowly - BBC News. This is more unearned profits for the banks, with no additional services for mortgage holders. Imagine getting paid for doing nothing! bbc.co.uk/news/business-…

Coronation photo shows King Charles with Prince William and Prince George Can we stop this nonsense? Its embarassing. bbc.co.uk/news/uk-655755…

My Sunday Times piece today is on how high inflation is helping create the biggest stealth tax increase in history and threatening another bout of damaging mortgage rate hikes: Inflation is becoming the ultimate stealth tax thetimes.co.uk/article/50f1a3…

We’ve tried a centralised, state-led approach. We’ve tried a privatised, market-led approach. They’re not working. We need a new approach – empower communities to lead. Find out more about the community paradigm 🔎 newlocal.org.uk/research/commu…

Social care in England is as unfair as US healthcare. I live in hope that, one day, it will be available to everyone who needs it on NHS terms. theguardian.com/society/2023/m…

More obese people will have access to weight-loss jab in attempt to boost employment - The Times and The Sunday Times Please tell me I’m dreaming this labour market initiative. stocks.apple.com/A5TsxPvBwRCG3R…

In Hull yesterday this place was closed.

EXCL: £150,000 grant from Boris Johnson’s flagship levelling up fund awarded to Tory donor Lubov Chernukhin’s entertainment centre- by Rowena Mason & Henry Dyer theguardian.com/politics/2023/…

UK to have one of highest inflation rates in G20 this year, new forecast shows - Sky News. Better than those basket case economies Turkey and Argentina. That’s something. Isn’t this what we call ‘economic mismanagement! stocks.apple.com/APhD3brYQT5GLA…

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📊 #IFSSatStat: Younger generations are far more likely to be privately renting than older generations were at their age. This reflects falling levels of home ownership and social renting among younger generations. Read our report with abrdn Financial Fairness Trust: ifs.org.uk/publications/c…

This farce must stop. People have had enough of a shambolic Tory government and a weak Prime Minister no one voted for. Rishi Sunak must finally find a backbone, call an election, and let the public have their say on 13 years of Tory failure.

So less than 4 weeks after saying "SORRY" 3 of the water companies have already paid their shareholders £670m in dividends and 2 of the industry's fat cat bosses have been paid £4,800,00 in salary and bonuses. Here's what I said at the time. dailymail.co.uk/news/article-1…

FTSE 100 Live: Unemployment at 3.8%; wages accelerate; gilts in focus again - Evening Standard. Do you feel that the UK is racing Over the White Cliffs of Dover? Years of economic mismanagement have come to this. stocks.apple.com/AC16rqJcSQaOs4…

Boris Johnson and ‘entitled’ Tories have damaged UK, says former Eton master | The Independent independent.co.uk/news/uk/politi…

Amsterdam bans cruise ships to limit visitors and curb pollution - BBC News. Great to hear. And the rest espousing sustainable tourism - Venice, for example. stocks.apple.com/AXx632x8ETGO62…

Ulez is more than a political football – it’s a matter of life and death for people like me | Letters theguardian.com/environment/20…

Over the past ten years, the Crown Estate’s management of the seabed is thought to have made the royal family almost £200m in easy money. Problem is, writes Guy Standing, the sea was meant to belong to all of us prospectmagazine.co.uk/world/monarchy…