Full employment and high pay rises for the low paid: The rise in the minimum wage had had a "significant" impact on the April pay figures, said Andrew Hunter, co-founder of the job search e… (View Post)

NHS employment increases by another 19k in 2023q1: https://www.ons.gov.uk/employmentandlabourmarket/peopleinwork/publicsectorpersonnel/datasets/publicsectoremploymentreferencetable A total increase o… (View Post)

Certainly that would be the rational way of looking at the NHS. But millions of people look at the NHS in a religious rather than a rational way and for them inputs are more important than outputs. (View Post)

Petulance is rarely attractive, neither is is self-pity and neither is self-entitlement. Boris is wallowing in them all. I wonder if he realises how strong his position was and how he ruined it throu… (View Post)

Interesting contrast: Boris brought down over the party stupidity. Trump still going strong despite endless criminality and attempting to overthrown democracy. (View Post)