Self-employment accounts for two-thirds of the total quarterly rise in employment while vacancies for employee jobs flat-lined and growth in average weekly regular pay (ie excluding bonuses) dipped a little.
Nationally, the number of jobs remained flat at 134.2 million, with the unemployment rate holding at 5.7percentt.
Uniquely, Fallon has now held all the biggest jobs in Flat racing, riding for Coolmore and Godolphin, as well as Sir Michael Stoute and Sir Henry Cecil when both those Newmarket men were somewhere near their best.
Employment in the finance sector, which includes real estate agencies and accounts for about 8.5 million of the country's 138 million jobs, was flat in August, which could be a sign that the government numbers have not yet captured some of the mortgage-related job cuts now occurring.
Conversely, the greater the danger that workers come to be trapped in dead-end jobs with flat wage profiles, the more effective will low-wage subsidies be relative to unemployment vouchers.
The candidates sparred on a daily basis to distance themselves from NAFTA and the United States' soaring trade deficits, loss of more than 3 million manufacturing jobs and flat median wages that have occurred since it and the World Trade Organization (WTO) took effect.
Crappy jobs, crumbling flats, dull poverty: all hallmarks of the Thatcherite years.
When twentysomethings can't get jobs or flats, insurance is unlikely to be foremost in their minds.
Their jobs, contracts, flats and, ultimately, freedom depends on keeping as far away from these court intrigues as they can.
But I'm not sure the poor will be keen on much more competition for jobs and flats in short supply.
The job, the flat, the relationship: everything looks different when you wake up in the most awful sunshine of your life and your mouth tastes of hair.
