So we’ve gone from it’s OK to boo them to the biggest flag in the country? That’s an even bigger turnaround than the one on the European Super League.

NEW: people worry when they hear "40% of hospitalisations are fully vaxxed", but this chart shows that's actually good news. The more people you vaccinate, the higher their share of hospitalisations, but the *total* number in hospital is a fraction of what it would otherwise be

🚨🚨🇬🇧🇪🇺💉💊💉💊💉💊🇪🇺🇬🇧🚨🚨 EXC: Staff at UK medical regulator ⁦MHRA⁩ express alarm at plan to slash 300 of 1,200 jobs after #brexit — despite #covid19 triumphs and U.K. gov wanting life sciences at heart of economic recovery. 🤔🤔🤔stay with me/1 ft.com/content/8ef390…

There are only *three* Tory seats where home ownership is below 50%. This is one reason why the government is taxing work, not wealth. newstatesman.com/politics/econo…

I'm in favour of higher wages & better conditions in sectors where they've been rubbish for years, & I hope that's where we end up. But don't let the government convince you this chaos/"transition" was the only way to achieve it. ft.com/content/73fb98…

Analysis from the Guardian shows that the government’s so-called Levelling Up agenda has so far awarded people in Sajid Javid’s already wealthy Bromsgrove constituency nearly £150 per head in funding - while people in hugely deprived Knowsley have received absolutely nothing

Breaking on ⁦Financial Times⁩ website: Boris Johnson’s government is set to postpone plans to give workers in Britain the right to flexible employment - in a move that will prompt a backlash from trade unions and Labour on.ft.com/3NFgQBi

Latest findings in our class attitudes poll! - A quarter of Brits on £100,000+ identify as working class, as do a fifth of Brits on £75,000+ - Half of Brits who own their house outright say they're working class, as do 48% of those with mortgages ... newstatesman.com/society/2022/0…

Really not a fan of all this morally loaded "workers must show pay restraint" rhetoric. It's entirely rational for people facing 10% inflation to try to get a pay rise. Tell them no if you want, but don't tell them they were wrong to even ask.

This shows industries by pay and vacancy growth. Private services all in top right, public services bottom left. Education, public admin especially. Industry surveys now flagging labour costs as key (often #1) driver of rising prices - markets, not militancy, driving a spiral.

This is history: attendance of 87,192. The biggest ever in a football Euro tournament ever, men’s or women’s. #ENG #ENGGER #EURO2022 🦁🏴󠁧󠁢󠁥󠁮󠁧󠁿🇩🇪

NEW: the collapse of emergency healthcare in England may be costing 500 lives every week, a close match for non-Covid excess deaths Let’s look at how we reach that conclusion, by taking a deep-dive into non-Covid excess mortality and its possible causes ft.com/content/f36c5d…

London’s housing crisis is spreading according to SpareRoom data, with a record high 106,000 people looking for rooms, and only 15,000 rooms up for grabs, a record low. The squeeze represents one of the constraints holding back the UK economy. Bloomberg UK bloomberg.com/news/articles/…

Hope everyone enjoyed the recovery. Managing to enter this recession with our economy still smaller than it was pre-pandemic is quite an achievement

Pretty stark picture of Britain’s (relative) decline in The Economist

NEW: 85 people in Arizona suffered severe burns from contact with pavements heated up to 180F (82C). 7 of them died. In total, 257 people had underlying cause of death listed as "exposure to excessive natural heat". This is not a forecast for 50 years time, it’s happening today.

What's changed of course is how long you have to save for

Anti-minimum wage lobbying from hospitality firms is ramping up - warnings of it decimating the sector or having "dire consequences". Which is odd because hospitality isn't shrinking it's fast growing, from 6 to 8% of jobs since the minimum wage was introduced

Exclusive with Chris Smyth More than seven million people will gain rights to claim sick pay, ­maternity pay and protection against unfair ­dismissal from their first day in the job under sweeping new laws unveiled on Thursday They include: * A universal entitlement to sick