Chaminda Jayanetti
@cjayanetti.bsky.social
Freelance journalist covering British politics and public services - NHS, education, care, housing, disability, benefits. Not a tribalist.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
I like good things and I don't like bad things.
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The really sad thing is that being associated with Liz Truss is now probably more damaging to the Neo-Nazi brand than vice versa.
December 26, 2025 at 9:13 AM
The really sad thing is that being associated with Liz Truss is now probably more damaging to the Neo-Nazi brand than vice versa.
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OK I'm outta here for Christmas, but I'll leave you with this *quiz* on Christmas hit songs, which starts easy(ish) and gets progressively harder, and is really just an excuse to indulge in trivia
Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Xmas music quiz
ONE-POINT QUESTIONS: Which Christmas number one included the line “no end to his talents, no sense of balance”? Who is the only winner of an acting Oscar to land a UK Christmas number one single? Gary...
docs.google.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
OK I'm outta here for Christmas, but I'll leave you with this *quiz* on Christmas hit songs, which starts easy(ish) and gets progressively harder, and is really just an excuse to indulge in trivia
Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Govt backs down on evicting successful asylum seekers in 28 days, reverts to 56 days, following judicial challenges.
Good, because the 28 days limit was mad.
dpglaw.co.uk/home-secreta...
Good, because the 28 days limit was mad.
dpglaw.co.uk/home-secreta...
Home Secretary reaches interim agreement to disapply 28 day move-on period to avert imminent street homelessness following legal challenge brought by DPG clients - DPG Law
DPG clients brought judicial review proceedings challenging the Secretary of State for the Home Department’s decision to pause the 56-day move-on pilot for newly recognised refugees, with the conseque...
dpglaw.co.uk
December 23, 2025 at 9:11 PM
Govt backs down on evicting successful asylum seekers in 28 days, reverts to 56 days, following judicial challenges.
Good, because the 28 days limit was mad.
dpglaw.co.uk/home-secreta...
Good, because the 28 days limit was mad.
dpglaw.co.uk/home-secreta...
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Hard to explain how scared Jewish people are right now
“The IS supporters discussed poisoning children before deciding on a gun and knife attack and "wept with joy" at the thought of killing innocent people.”
www.itv.com/news/granada...
“The IS supporters discussed poisoning children before deciding on a gun and knife attack and "wept with joy" at the thought of killing innocent people.”
www.itv.com/news/granada...
www.itv.com
December 23, 2025 at 3:53 PM
Hard to explain how scared Jewish people are right now
“The IS supporters discussed poisoning children before deciding on a gun and knife attack and "wept with joy" at the thought of killing innocent people.”
www.itv.com/news/granada...
“The IS supporters discussed poisoning children before deciding on a gun and knife attack and "wept with joy" at the thought of killing innocent people.”
www.itv.com/news/granada...
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Today Labour are announcing wide-ranging NHS support for care leavers…
🏥… from free prescriptions, dental and eye care…
👩⚕️👨⚕️… to joined up mental health support, paid internships and guaranteed interviews for jobs in the NHS!
Wes Streeting in the Daily Mirror:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
🏥… from free prescriptions, dental and eye care…
👩⚕️👨⚕️… to joined up mental health support, paid internships and guaranteed interviews for jobs in the NHS!
Wes Streeting in the Daily Mirror:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
December 23, 2025 at 3:07 PM
Today Labour are announcing wide-ranging NHS support for care leavers…
🏥… from free prescriptions, dental and eye care…
👩⚕️👨⚕️… to joined up mental health support, paid internships and guaranteed interviews for jobs in the NHS!
Wes Streeting in the Daily Mirror:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
🏥… from free prescriptions, dental and eye care…
👩⚕️👨⚕️… to joined up mental health support, paid internships and guaranteed interviews for jobs in the NHS!
Wes Streeting in the Daily Mirror:
www.mirror.co.uk/news/politic...
OK I'm outta here for Christmas, but I'll leave you with this *quiz* on Christmas hit songs, which starts easy(ish) and gets progressively harder, and is really just an excuse to indulge in trivia
Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Xmas music quiz
ONE-POINT QUESTIONS: Which Christmas number one included the line “no end to his talents, no sense of balance”? Who is the only winner of an acting Oscar to land a UK Christmas number one single? Gary...
docs.google.com
December 23, 2025 at 12:59 PM
OK I'm outta here for Christmas, but I'll leave you with this *quiz* on Christmas hit songs, which starts easy(ish) and gets progressively harder, and is really just an excuse to indulge in trivia
Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
Anyway here it is, answers are on pages 2-3, Merry Xmas and sayonara! docs.google.com/document/d/1...
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Happy Christmas, all. I wish my (temporarily unpaywalled) final thoughts on the English NHS in 2025 could have been more positive, but reality is what it is. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...
Cowper’s Cut 407: The unbearable triteness of Streeting
“I don’t think anyone’s really covered themselves in glory in this dispute.”
Secretary Of State For Health But Social Care Wes Streeting to the Commons Health Select Committee (about striking phlebot...
www.healthpolicyinsight.com
December 23, 2025 at 11:06 AM
Happy Christmas, all. I wish my (temporarily unpaywalled) final thoughts on the English NHS in 2025 could have been more positive, but reality is what it is. www.healthpolicyinsight.com/cowpers-cut-...
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My position on the debate on "From the River to the Sea" is that it should start with the party that is actually advancing this vision not only through chants but also through genocide and ethnic cleansing - the current Israeli government.
December 23, 2025 at 10:55 AM
My position on the debate on "From the River to the Sea" is that it should start with the party that is actually advancing this vision not only through chants but also through genocide and ethnic cleansing - the current Israeli government.
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Good to see this being prosecuted but scary how quickly this has been normalised
Was in da club on Friday with some friends and one danced with a bloke *who immediately put his arm around her neck to pull her into him* - something I've never seen before
She pushed him away and was fine but still
Was in da club on Friday with some friends and one danced with a bloke *who immediately put his arm around her neck to pull her into him* - something I've never seen before
She pushed him away and was fine but still
Prosecutions for strangulation in England and Wales increase sixfold in three years
CPS says new law marked ‘significant shift in recognising serious nature’ of offence, often linked to domestic abuse and sexual assault
www.theguardian.com
December 23, 2025 at 10:44 AM
Good to see this being prosecuted but scary how quickly this has been normalised
Was in da club on Friday with some friends and one danced with a bloke *who immediately put his arm around her neck to pull her into him* - something I've never seen before
She pushed him away and was fine but still
Was in da club on Friday with some friends and one danced with a bloke *who immediately put his arm around her neck to pull her into him* - something I've never seen before
She pushed him away and was fine but still
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THREAD: While Jews mourn the deadliest antisemitic attack in Australian history, disinformation and justification narratives are spreading on the left, and progressive silence is enabling it.
December 22, 2025 at 10:40 PM
THREAD: While Jews mourn the deadliest antisemitic attack in Australian history, disinformation and justification narratives are spreading on the left, and progressive silence is enabling it.
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bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
Guards began beating him. Beat him until he bled. Knocked his face into the wall, broke all his teeth. No access to outdoors, no contact with relatives.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
Now describing US knowledge of CECOT's torture practices, followed by footage of Trump praising those practices.
December 22, 2025 at 10:53 PM
bari weiss saw this and decided that she had to hide it from the american public
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Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived
December 22, 2025 at 8:08 AM
Spooner's career as a continuity announcer was short-lived
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Nope. Same old wishful thinking from UK politicians on EU links, taking the trade and leave the rest. Not available.
Money, people, alignment, and making a positive case in public in Brussels all required. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Money, people, alignment, and making a positive case in public in Brussels all required. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
December 22, 2025 at 7:14 AM
Nope. Same old wishful thinking from UK politicians on EU links, taking the trade and leave the rest. Not available.
Money, people, alignment, and making a positive case in public in Brussels all required. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Money, people, alignment, and making a positive case in public in Brussels all required. www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
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is that good
December 21, 2025 at 7:29 PM
is that good
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Your occasional reminder that buzzfeed, a corporately owned news outlet, reported credible child rape accusations against Trump, presumably well pored over by lawyers, in 2016, before the first, and LONG before the second time he was elected president of the USA.
December 21, 2025 at 9:14 PM
Your occasional reminder that buzzfeed, a corporately owned news outlet, reported credible child rape accusations against Trump, presumably well pored over by lawyers, in 2016, before the first, and LONG before the second time he was elected president of the USA.
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[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought
December 21, 2025 at 9:20 PM
[preparing to get screamed at] I think I officially don’t need to know if you’re mad that an article is paywalled. Perhaps that can be an Inside Thought
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People are like "Has she always been like this?" and the answer is yes. From 2014: www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...
December 21, 2025 at 8:21 PM
People are like "Has she always been like this?" and the answer is yes. From 2014: www.bbc.com/news/newsbea...
Not surprised Minaj turned out to be a wrong'un. Super-rich people who personally and culturally fetishise elite consumerism and conspicuous consumption? Yeah, they'll back a president for the one percent. They *are* the one percent.
Asked by Erika Kirk what her advice to young men is, Nicki Minaj says, “don’t be like [Gavin] Newscum.”
Nicki then refers to Trump as “our handsome, dashing president.”
She then referred to JD Vance as “an assassin,” and remembered whom she was on stage with.
Erika Kirk then assures her it’s fine
Nicki then refers to Trump as “our handsome, dashing president.”
She then referred to JD Vance as “an assassin,” and remembered whom she was on stage with.
Erika Kirk then assures her it’s fine
December 21, 2025 at 8:39 PM
Not surprised Minaj turned out to be a wrong'un. Super-rich people who personally and culturally fetishise elite consumerism and conspicuous consumption? Yeah, they'll back a president for the one percent. They *are* the one percent.
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Mike Tyson made Mr.Beast show a human emotion for the first time
September 14, 2025 at 10:50 PM
Mike Tyson made Mr.Beast show a human emotion for the first time
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As an Australian, I feel slightly impatient with the narrative that the English could have defeated us in some magical way with better preparation. What if we are just better?
December 21, 2025 at 9:20 AM
As an Australian, I feel slightly impatient with the narrative that the English could have defeated us in some magical way with better preparation. What if we are just better?
presumably in the sense that I want to choke the average LinkedIn poster
LinkedIn is the Pornhub of the mind.
December 21, 2025 at 10:24 AM
presumably in the sense that I want to choke the average LinkedIn poster
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LinkedIn is the Pornhub of the mind.
December 21, 2025 at 10:22 AM
LinkedIn is the Pornhub of the mind.
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Got to analyse @officialcharts.bsky.social this week, as a little treat 🎁
December 21, 2025 at 9:57 AM
Got to analyse @officialcharts.bsky.social this week, as a little treat 🎁
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🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
Death rates rise when NHS cuts back on nursing
Using lower-paid workers to plug the gaps left by a failure to hire registered nurses damages safety, new research has shown
www.thetimes.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:41 AM
🚨 EXCLUSIVE: English hospitals that cut registered nurses saw more deaths while those hiring nurses saw more patients survive. Even when hospitals tried to fill gaps with non-nurses, deaths still went up. Major new study exposes dangerous NHS variation:
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
www.thetimes.com/article/7eed...
Worth bearing in mind that, with the exception of The Times, most of the national media overlooked this in the aftermath of the Budget and fixated on that OBR crap instead
This is a mess I think the govt has unconsciously walked into
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This is a mess I think the govt has unconsciously walked into
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
‘You’re barred!’: Labour’s battle with pubs promises a new year headache
A protest barring MPs from pubs is exposing deeper tensions between politicians and the communities they represent
www.theguardian.com
December 21, 2025 at 8:44 AM
Worth bearing in mind that, with the exception of The Times, most of the national media overlooked this in the aftermath of the Budget and fixated on that OBR crap instead
This is a mess I think the govt has unconsciously walked into
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...
This is a mess I think the govt has unconsciously walked into
www.theguardian.com/news/ng-inte...