David Brindle
@brindled
One-time Guardian journo now charity chair and social care commentator
Just wait until Linda Snell finds out what David Archer is up to now #TheArchers @thecidershedpod.bsky.social
People in social care may be getting a little ahead of themselves, I fear
Oh dear - it’s health AND SOCIAL CARE secretary, Yvette. The PM has been telling us how important it is …
Companies like Coca-Cola, Nestlé & Danone paying virtually nothing to extract English spring water for bottling - extraordinary revelation in @theobserveruk.bsky.social
Outstanding journalism from @annaisaac.bsky.social The old Graun can still do it
Apparently serious response to @theobserveruk.bsky.social ring-round on policy on dogs in offices. Anything on deep background?
Thin-skinned & combative. Wasted opportunity to discuss valid concerns about BBC coverage of, and arguably part in, Starmer’s demise.
Kind of neat that Noddy Holder (80) tops today’s @thetimes.com birthday list and Xi Jinping (73) brings up the rear
Any mention of more occupational therapists? Pound for pound the key role if the gov’t is to deliver its shift from hospital to community
Thought my @theobserveruk.bsky.social was chunky - then found its 48-page listing of all last week’s London Marathon finishers’ times. All hail M Liu whoever you are …
Should we be surprised any longer that the BBC website is leading with this opinion piece during an elections campaign?
Quite the obituary - includes the wonderfully euphemistic ‘During the marriage both parties had, to a greater or lesser degree, enjoyed the attentions of the opposite sex’ @thetimes.com
Interviews with rock gods are not what they were … Jethro Tull’s Ian Anderson in @theipaper.com
Congratulations Tony Gallagher - your mission to turn The Times into the Daily Mail is now complete
Sadly and no doubt due to pressure of space @thetimes couldn’t find a more prominent slot for this ad than p34 opposite the obituaries
The unique & irrepressible @clentonf.bsky.social battles through tech problems to tell a @local.gov.uk seminar that social care reform must be all about Place, Power (for the individual) & Possibility