David Brindle
@brindled.bsky.social
📤 2412
📥 350
📝 505
One-time Guardian journo now charity chair and social care commentator
‘Team Kemi or Team Miliband?’ asks Simon Jack on BBC R4 Today re North Sea drilling. It’s matey Boris all over again …
3 days ago
0
2
0
Goodness gracious he was a board member of Homes England for almost five years and its interim chair for 15 months!
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
loading . . .
Reform spokesperson sacked after Grenfell comments
A group representing the bereaved of Grenfell call Simon Dudley's comments
https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/articles/c0mj8v4lk2ko
4 days ago
0
2
0
predicting one heck of a hangover
8 days ago
0
2
1
Thomas Skinner has tweeted at the other place that he was paid £2k to appear on Question Time. Excellent use of licence fee payers’ money.
10 days ago
1
0
0
Scary
@theipaper.com
10 days ago
0
2
0
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
13 days ago
0
1
1
@financialtimes.com
13 days ago
0
1
0
What to believe in today’s
@thetimes.com
??
17 days ago
0
1
0
RIP Tom Georgeson aka Detective Harry Naylor in Between the Lines - still the best TV police drama ever. I shall be taking no questions.
19 days ago
0
9
4
reposted by
David Brindle
Giles Wilkes
23 days ago
"and is this game plan in the room with us now?"
22
181
42
Maximum fine 40 shillings
www.countypress.co.uk/news/2592704...
loading . . .
Woman fined just £2 under Victorian law for 'indecent behaviour' at police station
An abusive woman appeared at the Isle of Wight Magistrate' Court was punished under a law dating back almost 200 years
https://www.countypress.co.uk/news/25927046.abusive-isle-wight-woman-fined-just-2-1847-law/?ref=rss
25 days ago
1
1
2
£1.80 from April
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
reposted by
David Brindle
Kate Jopling
about 1 month ago
A couple of weeks ago we brought together leaders in adult social care to work out if, and how, they could help break the logjam on reform. You can now read me &
@blimeysimon.bsky.social
on what happened
www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-...
loading . . .
Could a more joined-up adult social care sector unlock progress on reform? | The King's Fund
Kate Jopling and Simon Bottery reflect on early steps to bring adult social care leaders together to work towards reform.
https://www.kingsfund.org.uk/insight-and-analysis/blogs/joined-up-adult-social-care-sector-unlock-reform
0
1
1
Some tough messages here for many of us in and around social care. Welcome candour.
add a skeleton here at some point
about 1 month ago
0
2
0
I get that Labour is the main story but if we’re talking humiliation then the Tories losing their deposit surely merits more than one sentence of nine words buried in six pages of news and analysis
about 1 month ago
1
4
2
‘We’re gonna need a harp for that track.’ ‘Just book a session guy.’ ‘OK, boss’ - Warren Zevon, Sentimental Hygiene (1987)
about 1 month ago
0
1
0
‘Only 23 overseas care workers were granted entry in October-December 2025’. Disaster for social care.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
loading . . .
Drop in overseas workers is ‘car crash’ for UK hospitals and care homes, say experts
Care roles hit particularly hard by UK’s lurch to the right on migration, according to analysis of Home Office data
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/feb/26/drop-in-overseas-workers-uk-hospitals-and-care-homes?CMP=share_btn_url
about 1 month ago
0
1
0
reposted by
David Brindle
Robert Hutton
about 1 month ago
Lindsay Hoyle: Master Detective. My SKETCH of Today in The Case Of the Missing Mandelson.
thecritic.co.uk/hoyl...
5
87
25
Median average pay of social care workers now £12.60/hr - still a full £1 below NHS Band 3 health care assistants with two years’ experience. Imperative that planned Fair Pay Agreement for social care addresses pay progression not just starting rate.
@skillsforcare.bsky.social
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
Amol Rajan’s preamble to his interview with Netflix boss Ted Sarandos on R4 Today this morning came in at 2 mins 17 secs - impressive even by his long-winded standards
about 1 month ago
0
1
0
reposted by
David Brindle
Jim Waterson
about 1 month ago
London’s “worst mass eviction in recent history” is underway; hundreds of households across London told to get out of their homes this week by the same landlord, ahead of the renters rights act. The landlord? Billionaire Asif Aziz’s Criterion Capital.
www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-...
loading . . .
Who's the billionaire behind London’s biggest mass eviction?
He's the London philanthropist who says he's committed to solving homelessness. So why is Asif Aziz's Criterion Capital rushing to make hundreds of Londoners homeless in the coming weeks?
https://www.londoncentric.media/p/asif-aziz-mass-eviction-billionaire-landlord-criterion-capital
59
1029
974
Wonder if Yaxley-Lennon knows his US bankrollers laugh at him behind his back. Per Simon Kuper
@ftweekend.com
about 1 month ago
0
1
0
reposted by
David Brindle
Prof Frank McDonough
about 1 month ago
FACT OF THE DAY. 21 February 1946. Aneurin Bevan announced the Labour Government’s proposals for a National Health Service. The service began on 5 July 1948. Its introduction represented one of the greatest social reforms in British History which helped every citizen.
5
212
123
Most confusing to read a letter responding to an article that turns out to be in the same paper. Presumably it ran online earlier?
@thetimes.com
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
David Dimbleby magnificent on royalty here …
www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/...
loading . . .
World at One - Police continue to search Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's former home - BBC Sounds
Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor's former home Royal Lodge is searched by police.
https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m002rf01?partner=uk.co.bbc&origin=share-mobile
about 1 month ago
0
0
0
Ouch. Even before his arrest. Those whom The Times deemed worthier of listing today include model David Gandy,singer Seal and
@bethrigby.bsky.social
about 2 months ago
0
2
0
Healthy life expectancy in UK at lowest levels since official data series began in 2011-13. Grim reading.
www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopula...
loading . . .
Healthy life expectancy, UK - Office for National Statistics
The number of years people are expected to spend in “good” general health in the UK, including subnational areas.
https://www.ons.gov.uk/peoplepopulationandcommunity/healthandsocialcare/healthandlifeexpectancies/bulletins/healthstatelifeexpectanciesuk/between2011to2013and2022to2024
about 2 months ago
0
0
1
Deeply touched to receive personalised special offer and free gift from, er, Pure Cremation. On Ash Wednesday too!
about 2 months ago
1
3
0
reposted by
David Brindle
ESRC Centre for Care
about 2 months ago
We are proud to launch our new interactive report, detailing the impact of the Centre for Care during our first four years and setting out our ambitious roadmap for the future of our centre. Follow this link to learn more:
centreforcare.ac.uk/impact-and-p...
#towardsabetterfutureforcare
0
2
3
Astonishing donation to
@mind.org.uk
www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/mind-re...
loading . . .
Mind receives largest donation in its 80-year history
https://www.civilsociety.co.uk/news/mind-receives-largest--donation-in-its-80-year-history.html
about 2 months ago
0
3
0
In other news … (bottom p11,
@thetimes.com
)
about 2 months ago
1
2
0
👀
2 months ago
1
0
0
reposted by
David Brindle
Hugo Rifkind
2 months ago
Weird and almost universal revisionism today. Even at the time, it was pretty clear that Mandelson wasn't appointed *despite* his dodgy links but *because* of them. Trump's Washington is a dirty swamp. Mandelson was deemed a man able to swim in it. This wasn't a secret. Everybody said it out loud.
72
1451
427
Strategic re-set, you say? A black day for
@washingtonpost.com
and for journalism
2 months ago
1
3
0
Appreciating this attention to detail
@pickardje.bsky.social
@financialtimes.com
2 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
David Brindle
Robert Hutton
2 months ago
You have to admire Peter Mandelson's capacity to deliver surprises.
thecritic.co.uk/pete...
13
252
71
Happy transfer window day to all who celebrate
2 months ago
0
0
0
reposted by
David Brindle
Jim Pickard
2 months ago
and yes she did travel business class with the kids in economy fwiw
6
115
11
reposted by
David Brindle
Jim Pickard
2 months ago
I can also reveal that: Ferguson received flights from the disgraced financier in 2009 for herself and her daughters which were worth over $14,000 at the time, other documents released by the US Department of Justice show.
1
85
15
Grim reading in annual official report on use of Mental Health Act. Out-of-area placements rising even though they should have been ended by 2021.
www.cqc.org.uk/publications...
loading . . .
Monitoring the Mental Health Act - Care Quality Commission
Our annual report on the use of the Mental Health Act looks at how providers are caring for patients and whether patients' rights are being protected.
https://www.cqc.org.uk/publications/monitoring-mental-health-act
2 months ago
0
3
3
Times apology for Trevor Phillips column arguing that Labour’s NEC ‘should simply have made it possible for Burnham to carry a dual mandate’
2 months ago
0
0
0
A privilege to have been able to write this tribute to the remarkable John Knight. What a life.
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
loading . . .
John Knight obituary
Disability campaigner at Leonard Cheshire whose mischievous personality brought a fresh perspective to the charity
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/22/john-knight-obituary
2 months ago
1
2
2
He’s losing the conservatives
3 months ago
0
1
0
reposted by
David Brindle
Robert Hutton
3 months ago
US Speaker Mike Johnson has been sent to win Britain over. But can he hear the words coming out of his own mouth? My SKETCH.
thecritic.co.uk/calm...
14
220
88
‘I’m surprised to notice that Jenrick’s pint is now almost half empty’ - broken Britain, eh?
add a skeleton here at some point
3 months ago
0
1
0
Boris Johnson’s pledge to build 40 new hospitals by 2030 - how it’s going …
3 months ago
0
2
1
Recalling that Nadim Zahawi’s first job in government was 18 months as a wholly unsuited junior minister for children & families. Awful appointment by Theresa May.
3 months ago
0
2
0
Well …
3 months ago
0
1
0
One of the good guys …
www.theguardian.com/society/2026...
loading . . .
Jim Thomas obituary
Other lives: Health and social care consultant with a deep suspicion of rules for the sake of rules
https://www.theguardian.com/society/2026/jan/08/jim-thomas-obituary?CMP=Share_iOSApp_Other
3 months ago
2
3
1
Just one of the many great reasons to join me at the European Social Services Conference in Malta in May
connect.esn-eu.org/public/confe...
3 months ago
0
1
0
Load more
feeds!
log in