As someone who has worked in the NHS for 15 years, I concur.

Depends where you live. Median wage in London is 47.5k. Hard to call a wage below the regional median 'high'. If you live in rural Wales though, 47.5k might well be called high.

That polite protest in full:

Would you mind changing please?

No

Ok then.

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*Jean-Baptiste Lamarck has entered the chat*

Maybe, and here's an idea, if Labour is intent on ushering in a far right government they shouldn't put in place the infrastructure for a surveillance state.

If you call going round putting up flags given to me by a notorious right wing extremist and then asking people to bow to them political, then yes, it's 'political'.

He's also failed to tackle wealth inequality (instead preferring to blame immigration for everyone's woes).

If anyone without children asks my advice about having children I ask one simple but important question. How much do you like side quests?

For what it's worth I've found the work of Lisa-Feldman Barrett super helpful in thinking about how to respond to my children's emotions.

There's also a lot in the gentle parenting movement (and that ilk) that prioritises validation of emotions over all else. There's little space within these frameworks for trying to re-frame or contextualise emotions.

Labour betting the house on economic growth rather than solid principles is looking worse and worse every day.