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Sky News have been running a piece on the appalling approach to completing fire safety actions within one of the UK’s largest Housing…
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Some thoughts on assurance, culture, and social landlords doing the right thing.
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You merely adopted the park, I was born in it...
"Well, Clarice, have the Iams stopped screaming? The Iams, Clarice? With an I? They're dogfood you see, Clarice.... Oh never mind, Clarice"
November 11, 2025 at 8:24 AM
You merely adopted the park, I was born in it...
If you're wondering how our housing crises are going both the Church of England and Crisis have decided to become landlords in order to meet the needs of renters.
November 11, 2025 at 7:26 AM
If you're wondering how our housing crises are going both the Church of England and Crisis have decided to become landlords in order to meet the needs of renters.
Salford Road, Avon Way, Broad Street, Recycling and Green Waste, increasing food waste soon, rain or slight drizzle, good.
A radio programme like the Shipping Forecast but it’s called Bin Day and it just reads out every single council in the country’s bin schedule
November 11, 2025 at 7:21 AM
Salford Road, Avon Way, Broad Street, Recycling and Green Waste, increasing food waste soon, rain or slight drizzle, good.
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SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
November 10, 2025 at 6:40 PM
SUPERB and angrily unvarnished response, by former BBC chairman, Lord Patten.
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
"I don't think that we should allow ourselves to be bullied into thinking that the BBC is only any good, if it reflects the prejudice of the last person who shouted at it." ~AA
Basically anyone in a decent profession up to landed gentry. Tbh it's such a warped and nonsensical term, often used wilfully incorrectly by right wing press to push a particular position (usually on tax) that it's almost nebulous as a concept. To be clear it's far more than just economic status.
Could someone explain to me what is meant when a British person refers to "the middle class" ? Like, in the US, as I hear it, it basically just means a person who makes a certain amount of money, not too far below and not wildly above the median. Seems like a complex concept when UK writers use it?
November 10, 2025 at 10:33 PM
Basically anyone in a decent profession up to landed gentry. Tbh it's such a warped and nonsensical term, often used wilfully incorrectly by right wing press to push a particular position (usually on tax) that it's almost nebulous as a concept. To be clear it's far more than just economic status.
Today was a good day.
BREAKING: The Supreme Court rejects a call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide.
Supreme Court rejects call to overturn its decision legalizing same-sex marriage nationwide
The Supreme Court has rejected a call to overturn its landmark decision that legalized same-sex marriage nationwide.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:38 PM
Today was a good day.
Some potential good news. Looking forward to the BBC coverage where they say 'actually kids should be in poverty' because, balance.
NEW: Rachel Reeves signals she intends to remove the two-child cap *in full*
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
"I don't think a child should be penalised because they're in a bigger family through no fault of their own," she tells BBC.
November 10, 2025 at 6:16 PM
Some potential good news. Looking forward to the BBC coverage where they say 'actually kids should be in poverty' because, balance.
Trump is such a pathetic cunt.
November 10, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Trump is such a pathetic cunt.
A regular critique from PRS landlords is that orgs. like Shelter do not house anyone and can therefore do one. Seems like Crisis are calling their bluff. On the back of the Church of England doing similar, it marks a significant change in approach.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
Crisis charity to become a landlord in attempt to rectify ‘catastrophic’ housing in UK
Exclusive: Homelessness charity planning to buy properties as it can no longer rely on access to social housing
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November 10, 2025 at 2:47 PM
A regular critique from PRS landlords is that orgs. like Shelter do not house anyone and can therefore do one. Seems like Crisis are calling their bluff. On the back of the Church of England doing similar, it marks a significant change in approach.
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
www.theguardian.com/society/2025...
My house is on plot 13. My house number is not.
Humans: capable of building entire skyscrapers but still afraid to put the scary number on one of the floors
November 10, 2025 at 1:50 PM
My house is on plot 13. My house number is not.
There was about 30mins between my dad telling me mum had collapsed, and her dying. Having had an elderly relative left in her own shit deliriously screaming for their dead husband, and another much younger one having a quiet and dignified death in a hospice 1/
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As a palliative care specialist, I’ve witnessed the human tragedy of our end-of-life care crisis | Rachel Clarke
While the government debates assisted dying, palliative care is an afterthought. And many more people face death without the care and support they need, says Rachel Clarke
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November 10, 2025 at 12:39 PM
There was about 30mins between my dad telling me mum had collapsed, and her dying. Having had an elderly relative left in her own shit deliriously screaming for their dead husband, and another much younger one having a quiet and dignified death in a hospice 1/
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Ed Davey, once again, miles ahead of our Government. Between him and Polanski, I'd be very concerned if I was Labour. Often these two are saying what it should be saying, but for reasons not entirely obvious, it is not.
I’ve written to Keir Starmer, Kemi Badenoch and Nigel Farage urging them to condemn Donald Trump’s attack on the BBC.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
The BBC belongs to Britain, not Trump. We must defend it together.
November 10, 2025 at 11:58 AM
Ed Davey, once again, miles ahead of our Government. Between him and Polanski, I'd be very concerned if I was Labour. Often these two are saying what it should be saying, but for reasons not entirely obvious, it is not.
Our housing crises reinforce eachother, the kneecapping of social housing builds, an inability of private developers to build out at the levels required puts pressure on the PRS - a sector that ballooned after buy to let mortgage reforms - pushing up rents.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
Homelessness figures higher than data suggests, research shows
Official data for England underestimates the scale of the problem, according to research for charity Crisis says.
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November 10, 2025 at 7:10 AM
Our housing crises reinforce eachother, the kneecapping of social housing builds, an inability of private developers to build out at the levels required puts pressure on the PRS - a sector that ballooned after buy to let mortgage reforms - pushing up rents.
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...
I keep forgetting she is.
Losing both the director-general and the very obvious heir apparent as the result of such an orchestrated attack is truly existential stuff for the BBC.
It’s also a *massive* challenge for Lisa Nandy, who has so far failed to impress anyone as culture secretary.
It’s also a *massive* challenge for Lisa Nandy, who has so far failed to impress anyone as culture secretary.
November 9, 2025 at 7:57 PM
I keep forgetting she is.
The problem with being a culture war wanker is that folks are less likely to take your interventions in good faith. Politics is tough. Especially when you make it so.
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Reform's George Finch says school bus letter used as 'political football'
The council leader answered questions on home to school transport in BBC CWR's hot seat on Friday.
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November 9, 2025 at 7:32 AM
The problem with being a culture war wanker is that folks are less likely to take your interventions in good faith. Politics is tough. Especially when you make it so.
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If Farage is looking to rerun the pro Brexit arguments of 2019 then I don't think his campaign is going to go as well as he thinks.
Nigel Farage says Reform would “reduce the size of the bloated state” by seizing Brexit opportunities to deregulate
@jreland.bsky.social points out in @the-independent.com that this creates a dilemma - the more the UK does things differently to the EU, the more work there is for British bureaucrats
@jreland.bsky.social points out in @the-independent.com that this creates a dilemma - the more the UK does things differently to the EU, the more work there is for British bureaucrats
November 8, 2025 at 9:32 AM
If Farage is looking to rerun the pro Brexit arguments of 2019 then I don't think his campaign is going to go as well as he thinks.
Yes, far better to offer no form of hope, or alternative. That will work much better.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
Greens’ ‘undeliverable’ promises will let voters down, says Labour minister
Exclusive: Darren Jones says Labour has to convince young people it is ‘modern party of the future’
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November 8, 2025 at 9:25 AM
Yes, far better to offer no form of hope, or alternative. That will work much better.
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
www.theguardian.com/politics/202...
It was the worst of plans, and the uh...worst of plans.
November 8, 2025 at 7:33 AM
It was the worst of plans, and the uh...worst of plans.
Taps the Ian Hislop demolishing Priti Patel on question time sign.
Support for bringing back the death penalty, by 2024 vote
Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
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Reform: 82%
Con: 67%
Labour: 35%
Lib Dem: 30%
Green: 26%
yougov.co.uk/society/arti...
November 7, 2025 at 12:34 PM
Taps the Ian Hislop demolishing Priti Patel on question time sign.
Can we just do a nation wide version of Goodbye Lenin for these people? Honestly, it is very difficult to feel any sort of sympathy for folks who basically go - I miss Catchphrase, let's be dickheads to those who don't like look like me.
November 7, 2025 at 11:53 AM
Can we just do a nation wide version of Goodbye Lenin for these people? Honestly, it is very difficult to feel any sort of sympathy for folks who basically go - I miss Catchphrase, let's be dickheads to those who don't like look like me.
Honestly, I'm glad you've enjoyed the traitors. But it's the sort of TV that makes my soul shrivel up and die.
November 7, 2025 at 8:43 AM
Honestly, I'm glad you've enjoyed the traitors. But it's the sort of TV that makes my soul shrivel up and die.
Keep coming back to a quote in the differences between China and the US currently (I forget from whom) - both the Chinese Government and Trump administration are bastards. It's just that former are competent.
A fun question. In 5 years time, what looks better? The US’s enormous bet & capex on AI? Or China’s equally enormous bet and capex on renewables?
China has made cheap, clean energy available in huge quantities. The world should take the win econ.st/4oqFszB
Photo: Eyevine
Photo: Eyevine
November 7, 2025 at 7:51 AM
Keep coming back to a quote in the differences between China and the US currently (I forget from whom) - both the Chinese Government and Trump administration are bastards. It's just that former are competent.
Even to someone such as myself - who has studied and worked in housing for over 15yrs - Leasehold law is very complex and difficult to navigate. This sort of behaviour is deeply predatory and utterly unacceptable.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
A London lawyer bought hundreds of Sheffield freeholds. Then the ‘very aggressive’ letters arrived
Exclusive: The Tribune can reveal that Andrew Milne has threatened leaseholders with high court action. It ‘broke my heart’ one woman says
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November 7, 2025 at 7:42 AM
Even to someone such as myself - who has studied and worked in housing for over 15yrs - Leasehold law is very complex and difficult to navigate. This sort of behaviour is deeply predatory and utterly unacceptable.
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
www.sheffieldtribune.co.uk/a-london-law...
This is very good from @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk, and gets to the heart of the turmoil engulfing the Conservatives.
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Closing Time
A new political divide could make the centre-right redundant
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November 7, 2025 at 7:37 AM
This is very good from @joxley.jmoxley.co.uk, and gets to the heart of the turmoil engulfing the Conservatives.
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