To understand this government, look at who it bailed out – and the flailing UK sector it didn’t | Gaby Hinsliff

Universities, a key plank of our economy, face a bonfire of jobs. But are they the jobs Starmer wants to be seen to be saving?

It’s hard to get romantic about the death of office jobs.

Nobody waxes lyrical about the glory days of working in payroll, and Bruce Springsteen doesn’t fill stadiums with soaring anthems about middle management headcount. But whether the recipient’s collar is white or blue, getting made redundant is getting made redundant, and it hurts.

Gaby Hinsliff is a Guardian columnist

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