The Other Paul
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The Other Paul
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Radio veteran (BBC Radio Bristol, Swansea Sound, LBC/IRN, Capital, 2WS, AP, NPR, Euronews TV), economic migrant (not an expat!), obsessive reader and occasional writer.
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More than 60,000 people have signed a new petition within 24 hours calling for PPE-scandal peer Michelle Mone to be stripped of her peerage and removed from the House of Lords
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Their discriminatory policy against people with Parkinson's comes despite Turkish Airlines being a member of IATA which boasts on its website: "Our commitment is to transform air travel into an inclusive, barrier-free experience for those with special travel needs."
On its website Turkish airlines says:

Passengers who have Parkinson's disease are admitted to the flight with a doctor's report stating that "There is no harm in traveling by plane". The report must include a statement specifying that the passenger can travel accompanied or unaccompanied.
Turkish Airlines appalling discriminatory treatment of passengers with Parkinson's is an outrageous example of prejudiced and unacceptable behaviour. It must be widely called out and strongly pushed back against.

Please repost and share the Facebook link detailing what happened to Mark Mardell.
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My friend Mark Mardell was chucked off his Turkish Airlines flight at the weekend because he had Parkinson’s and his son had asked for assistance for him. (He’s written about it as a public post on Facebook but the link is proving hard to share outside,)
And on a grammar note: shouldn't that be 'Fewer workers'?
Ah, makes sense with those figures applying to a new car purchase. My second-hand high mileage rather rusty VW Beetle cost £150 and I never reached 7,000 miles a year.

Thanks for taking the time to explain the cost breakdown. Breakdown was a word I was very familiar with during the VW's ownership!
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And that's a big problem, which the current administration doesn't seem to be addressing.
Less than half of U.S. workers hold a quality job with predictable schedules, safety & respect, a voice at work, and room for advancement. The Upjohn Institute partnered on a new survey revealing critical gaps in job quality and why they matter.

Read more:
#Jobs #Workforce #econsky #JobQuality
Landmark study shows less than half of U.S. workers have a quality job
www.upjohn.org
The writer of ‘Shared Prosperity in a Fractured World’ says: "We can build a better future if we set aside entrenched habits of thinking and take the lessons of these policies to heart."

Good luck with getting some politicians to change their entrenched and outdated modes of thinking.
Yet another piece arguing that governments need to allow more innovation at the local level in order to tackle complex problems. And, no, I don’t believe that Mayoral Combined Authorities are a remotely adequate response unless they’re combined with fiscal devolution www.ft.com/content/2adc...
We should seek local solutions to our global problems
Worn-out top-down approaches won’t help us build lasting shared prosperity
www.ft.com
Better than £600 p.a. running costs! Really? The Bank of England Inflation Calculator makes that £7,168 in 2025 money. I had to have a car then for work (journalist) and certainly didn't earn enough to be spending that much.

I've not owned a car since 1988 when I moved to New York.
Episodes 3 and 4 are on YouTube posted by
'50's Sleaze, 60's Ease & 70's Cheese From London'
One of my all time favourites, John Mills is great. I've also got the paperback book novelisation.
Inspiration for Eraserhead?
Formidable!
As it happens, ‘Baguette Magique’ is my French pornstar name.
Now this is why I moved to France!
Tempting to apply it to French politicians, but then it would be a bit repetitive - Le Petit Con