couldn't have done it without it!

Then Josh has done a read with a great visual element from Anna zooming in on Newton Aycliffe - where the majority of the town centre is owned by one holding company:

www.theguardian.com/society/ng-i...

That's alongside a piece with @joshhalliday.bsky.social, which combines our analysis of changing high streets with recent @drjennings.bsky.social polling data on people's perception of their local area, and what it might mean for politics

www.theguardian.com/society/2026...

Oh no three people have just seperately got on the overground sat near me and started playing tiktoks I thought I'd escaped honestly shoot me

yeah, have seen it shared widely now which I think is a mistake (and I'm no fan of Matt Goodwin)

I'm not a subscriber but judging by the date I think this was probably about the synagogue attack rather than the city as a whole

I think they'll block him. But if he quits as mayor first does it make it harder for them to do that?

In fact this is *£380k* - around FOUR times an MP’s salary

Yeah I remember it being talked about at the time (Vince Cable maybe proposed one?) but I think they decided it was harder politically

A proper grad tax would maybe have been better

Just realised I didn't answer the question - the increasing debt isn't really the issue because I know there is an eventual cut off - the amount that comes out of my pay, and the knowledge that my rich friends/colleagues don't have it come out of their pay, is frustrating

@bigbeatmanifesto.bsky.social - in this case @seaworrier.bsky.social is correct - I've defi thought about trying to pay it down but I've never had the money to do it - I've got mates who have inherited when their Nan died and have used it to pay theirs off which was interesting

It isn't - but maybe I should write one!

I charted my statements the other month, as someone on the first year of £9k fees I think I hit a point with interest that the debt just doesn't go down despite changing jobs twice with decent pay rises in that time

This looks interesting - I can't access the whole paper unfortunately. I can totally believe that prior perceptions would affect whether people thought an action was more legitimate or not - but does the paper show it affecting what actions people actually saw happen?

Ah yeah, that seems to work! No idea why they can't make the search as functional